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> Hence why PHP is still the leading language for eCommerce, where fashion gives way to tight margins and hiring talent for a decade long lived piece of software is a major concern.

I don't think the forces that resemble fashion are any less applicable to e-commerce.

> When cost is the driving factor for most decisions, and ROI is a very real and measured metric, convincing someome to rewrite their money making machine to keep up with the latest in tech is a hard sell.

Convincing people to rewrite systems without (and even often with) changing needs that the old system seems to brittle to accommodate is hard everywhere, even when ROI isn't clearly measurable; that's why so much established software in government (as well as other places) still runs on COBOL.

The shifting preferences in development that look like fashion are evident, even in those domains where there is lots of established software that is sticky, in greenfield development.
Yes Jack is right, another massive advantage is that with PJDL devices can arbitrarily transmit data safely, enabling new ways of building things, for example sensors and actuators can communicate directly with each other without a master in the middle.
Practice noticing when you’re falling asleep. That alone can be every bit as helpful.

The key word here being “practice”. I doubt anyone achieves these ecstatic states without it.
Find a remote job with a US company. You will have to compromise your working hours (work at night), but you can go beyond €100k easily. Our company (seed stage startup) has an open position for a remote senior software engineer for €100k+.
Yeah, my closest Target store and major airport is over 2 hours away.

But, yeah, that is worse-case scenario.
Non-mobile link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_in_England
The second paragraph was my interpretation, I wasn't quoting the author.

> but through his incomplete knowledge of history and his assertion that the culture he portrayed was historically accurate was causing harm.

I take it you agree with my original comment then. I didn't discuss in it whether a judgment of Martin was justified or not, merely that it exists. The person I originally replied to asserted that there wasn't.

> He simply noted the deficiencies of GRRM

I agree with this.

> the resulting consequences of such.

On this I disagree. My interpretation from the historical references given in the essay are, as I already said, that Martin was just wrong. Meanwhile, the author jumps into saying that Martin isn't just wrong, but irresponsible. That isn't supported by anything else in the essay other than the author's opinions.

> If you're fine with the predicate but have issue with the conclusion, I would suggest you make a counter to his argument

I have no issue with the conclusion or argument (the argument that the Dothraki have no basis on real cultures, anyway). I disagree with the suggestions made on Martin as a person, and not just because the jump to those have little evidence (or place, in my opinion, which is why the article comes across as preachy) in the article itself.

And I did present an alternate interpretation.

> to lambast his conclusion

I did no such thing.
Agreed. It felt like a 2010 remake to me, even on a rig with all the bells and whistles.

Stunningly beautiful when you went looking for a shot, but otherwise, there wasn't much to invest into. Especially once I realized there wasn't any consequence for the way I completed an objective, the illusion really fell apart.
First, the article is about performance benchmarks and how the M1 is not some magical entity like the Apple hype train has been screaming. Second, the comment I'm replying to is:

>for most use cases the apple's MBA offers much more value and will have slower depreciation.

You can build a fine computer with a $400 CPU and $500 left for the rest. One that will absolutely dominate any laptop over a long time span because laptops cannot dissipate heat forever (it's simple a matter of mass and shape).
>Both of these books examine how 20th century American society replaced a leisure-oriented capital-driven aristocracy with an extremely hard-working well-educated labor-driven meritocracy

On the contrary, this aristocracy is doing extremely well. It is now served by the labor-driven meritocracy you describe. There is intense competition between elite knowledge workers for the privilege to serve modern-day nobles.
Out of curiosity, do you do any journaling/writing? I’ve found that time thinking is great (running, biking) but it’s when I start writing that thoughts/solutions really start solidifying.
Students (or their families) could choose the definition of best they wanted. Some teachers are better at adding value for less intelligent pupils, some better at pushing the more gifted, some best for the hardworking, some best for the ill-motivated ... take your pick. It can even come down to relatively inane factors like one teacher's diction being too difficult for some to follow but fine for others.

Re your 2nd question: bus factor. And the same answer as the first - that you can have different definitions of best depending on the pupil.
Forget the biological connection, I'm sitting here waiting for someone to write a paper about how gradient descent and backprop are basically equivalent to the platonic notion of the dialectic within epistemology.

I wouldn't throw out biological plausibility, especially with the spiking neural network variant of them...
I am asexual by choice due to several instances of violent sexual assault.
This is wild to me. What makes a developer in Europe earn so much less?
New York, California And Pacific Northwest also had summer spikes. Now they are experiencing winter spikes. Any seasonality that may exist naturally is made irrelevant by pandemic fatigue. People simply start ignoring the guidance after a few months. Cases go up until things get ‘scary bad’ and then people stay home again. That is why your suggestion that we all ‘self regulate’ is not a good one. It will just lead to endless, ‘weak’ lockdowns.
I had the same issue and have been quite happy using an old Android phone connected to a dummy Google account with no extra apps.
I would not anticipate that you would see such a dramatic increase in your salary unless you are moving between employers or can bring an offer from a different employer as leverage.

If you are not satisfied with your compensation, it might not hurt to do a little window shopping.
The overwhelming majority of us are "forced" to sell something for a living. Why make such a distinction between selling body pics versus manual labor?
I am a victim of multiple instances of violent sexual assault.

Should I get off the internet now?
What's always been striking to me is seeing the pervasive humanistic, liberal attitude at a place like Princeton. People there must somehow deal with the dissonance of being the best example of entrenched privilege, absurd wealth, sophistication, luxury, comfort. Yet anytime I've been there it's all about the virtues of egalitarianism, inclusivity, etc. A jarring juxtaposition of rhetoric/reality.

> they often justify their entitlement as something they deserve after years/decades of not 'living life enough.'

Possibly, although I suspect it's more an ego phenomenon. Where they're all aware they've hit the jackpot in global relative terms, but they see this as some type of weird manifest destiny and duty where they're now tasked with using their privilege to be elite agents of good in the world.
You can have a separate version of Firefox that is commercial and complies, and still have open source Firefox. Chromium is open source, but Google Chrome is proprietary.
It's interesting to hear because I've been assuming this is obviously why people don't like people taking drugs. That it will drive kids away from productive stuff like studying because the joy of achieving something like academic or athletic success can't keep up with the bliss that drugs provide.

Why else? Perhaps you mean that drugs physically harm you, like you will become a methhead or crackhead with your teeth falling out etc? But that requires really sliding down the deep end...

Perhaps I was raised differently. As a kid, my parents told me upfront that drugs are awesome and people do them because they are really enjoyable not because junkies are evil mutant monsters who like to destroy their lives, and that the awesomeness is the danger in them, that they are empty enjoyment without deeper achievements etc.

This was in contrast to school finger wagging lectures, which just said that drugs are baaad and you must learn to say NO or you will destroy your health and life and drugs are poison and terrible and will eat your flesh (slides showing the effects of krokodil, and shady people in alleyways). Which just confused me because why such a big deal about poison that destroys your life? Why would anyone do this if it's so straightforwardly bad?
So much saffron!

Just so I have more to add than that observation, I recommend anyone who's interested in the Middle English in these recipes to check out this episode of The History of English Podcast looking at a 14th-century cookbook:

https://historyofenglishpodcast.com/2019/12/19/episode-132-f...
> AMD has made a surprisingly quick move from the bargain basement laptops

I specifically called out niche as not a negative term for this reason. I didn’t mean to imply bargain basement, but more that high end processors like this would only be included on a few models. Things like gaming or developer focused machines vs something built for a wider audience (like the current M1 machines are).

> So I'm comparing laptops available in Nov (although people I know couldn't get theirs till Dec) to laptops I expect to be available in Feb, but that's speculative of course.

I walked into an Apple store in November and walked out (in under 3min I might add) and had an M1 13” MBP. I think them taking my temperature at the door took almost as long as checkout. Having closely followed CES announcements over the years, I respectfully disagree that there will be laptops in February available for delivery/pickup using the processor just announced the month before, but there is a slim chance so I won’t bet against it. Much more likely to be May/June/July based on past experience.
Sure, but a "Senior" developer can earn 150k in Chicago (and that is without going into finance, double it if you go that route). Not sure how exactly to compare cost of living, but I suspect Chicago is "cheaper" than Berlin in most metrics.
The author seems to consider “large margin” and “significantly better” to be around 25%. Not sure most people would agree with that. Also, can you imagine what would happen if the m1 was overclocked and actively cooled?
As an old timer trying to get back up to speed with the new stuff... I keep coming up with the answer that Lazarus/Free Pascal is a perfectly valid, powerful, and quite unfashionable tool for just getting things done.

Unfortunately, nobody is going to hire a Pascal programmer, no matter how productive. Serverless, here I come.
No idea if it’s a problem anywhere else, but then I didn’t know it was a problem in the US either. I just don’t like it when people assume everyone on the internet is an American.
https://www.levels.fyi/Salaries/Software-Engineer/Germany/
Seems like some US based companies offer quiet high salaries in Germany as well.
I feel like they would lose a lot of funding if they branch out Firefox's Non-Profit into its own thing because most people care more about Firefox than the kinds of things the EFF is already doing.
Instagram Terms of Use (2018 vs. 2020)
Sorry to nit, but aren’t the podcasts distractions?
And tangentially: I listen the the ambient album Weightless by Marconi Union when I want to think but also drown out outside noise.
I have a friend who's 30 and will do 100k in web dev in full remote very soon. Works if you know how to market yourself mostly
Ask HN: How do you deal with stress during coding tests for a job?
Hi! I was wondering if anyone has any advice on dealing with stress during coding tests for entry-level software engineering jobs. I have done a few of these before and have so far failed every single time.

As objectively as I could assess myself (more information below), all the evidence (both subjective and objective) points to a case of stress-induced degradation in performance, and I don't really know how to deal with it.

I'm honestly not trying to find an excuse to make myself feel better for failing. Thank you very much for any help in advance, and I wish you all a merry Christmas and a happy New Year!

## Additional information

I have considered that it's simply because I am not skilled enough, but I don't think that's the case because I always have the problems saved, and when I reattempt the problems immediately after the test:

* I seem to be able to think through the problems much more clearly.

* I can come up with more edge cases that I didn't during the actual test.

* I notice, in comparison, in the actual attempt I would be fussing over too much how variables are named (and often end up naming them worse); whether or not my code was clean (and end up writing super ugly code); and whether or not time and space complexity are optimal (an end up forgetting all about the data strictures and algorithms I know and produce a wrong solution).

* I can often come up with a substantially better (and correct) solution both in terms of time complexity and space complexity.

* I can usually solve each problem within 15 minutes (including time spent on writing the code and testing). Whereas in the actual test I would often spend at least 30 minutes on a simple problem, and then end up writing a brute-force algorithm that's still wrong because I'm running out of time.

* I'm pretty sure the uneasy feeling I had during the actual test was stress/anxiety, not least because I regular do coding challenges and can solve much harder problems
Because unfortunately it sneaks it way onto shit like HN, and then I get a bunch of pissed off people telling me stop being such a pussy about it or ‘get off the internet’ when it’s because I AM A VICTIM OF VIOLENT SEXUAL ASSAULT.
> The technology isn't exclusive to Apple, but they are the only company which pushes it, even if it sometimes means quite odd display resolutions.

Apple's focus and commitment can be a pain to users who want something different, but overall it's a huge strategic advantage.

Software developers are building their apps for M1 because they know beyond a shadow of a doubt that Apple isn't going to keep Intel around any longer than they have to, whereas Microsoft had and will continue to have a hard time persuading anyone to adopt ARM Windows because the opposite is true.
London, not Berlin, but a better comparison than USA:

I know several London Engineers in the £80k-£120k bracket. I know as many Engineers at other companies in the £40-£60k range. I don't know any in between.

Whats the difference? Not much in terms of 'years experience', but I know two things: throwing a poorly specified problem at any of the first group will get me a solution; at the second will probably not. Everyone in a company pretty much gets comped at the same category. There is no 50->100k Engineering path besides switching
>They often do it under the guise of support - while still admitting that they will not actually be able to provide support for models that are effectively not in their support database (because they only include the models they rent)!

Because I purchased a (supported) cable modem from a third party, my ISP won't provide services which are supposed to be included in my service.

Their systems don't "recognize" my cable modem as existing on their network, so services that should be provided through my link are denied, claiming that my devices "aren't on the network."

It's a huge scam. We need real competition in internet service providers.
Sure but you don’t have to live in SF to make 100K in software. 100K+ is not at all uncommon for a developer with 10 years experience in a low cost of living area.
This high end system draws ~35W idle: Intel Core i9-10900K @ 5,0 GHz, AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT (16 GB), Asus ROG Maximus XII Hero Wi-Fi, 2× 16 GB G Skill Trident Z Royal 3 600 MHz 16-16-16-36, Samsung 970 Evo M.2 1 TB, Samsung 860 Evo 1 TB, Seasonic Prime Ultra Titanium, 1 000 W.

Picture in Swedish, from graphics card review comparing average power draw for the entire system for various GPUs, idle and while benchmarking in Metro Exodus, numbers rounded to nearest multiple of 5: https://cdn.sweclockers.com/artikel/diagram/22452?key=2c6f21...

If the direct picture link doesn't work, it's under "Effektmätning" here: https://www.sweclockers.com/test/30908-amd-radeon-rx-6900-xt...
1) It's too expensive in the UK to smoke 100% cannabis joints - because it's illegal. 2) Alternative cannabis delivery systems such as edibles and vaping are unavailable in the UK - because it's illegal. 3) In my experience people smoke significantly fewer cannabis cigarettes each day than tobacco alone, but availability, price, stigma etc. means they reach for the government approved, medically proved to be more harmful packet of 20 - because it's illegal. I could go on but I suspect the horse is already dead on this post.
I call it "moving meditation" -- Hiking, biking, walking, running and martial arts (for me).

I dont listen to music in headphones often at all - Especially when running or biking - I like the calm silence of just me and my thoughts.
I think that SO needs to implement a concept I call "epochs", where all the questions are archived every 3 years and removed from normal search. In the current epoch, questions that have already been asked in previous epochs are welcome and encouraged so as to give precedence to answers that are up to date.

Either that, or they need a way to nominate answers to no longer be relevant or current.

The current state of SO would have confused the hell out of me when I was a beginner. It seems like 90% of answers are outdated in some respect.
Supply and demand I would venture.
Yes!! This is where our modern society has gotten off track in thinking emotions such as fear are “bad”. That’s like saying skin is bad. It’s simply there to protect you. Unlike skin, sometimes our emotions try a little too hard to protect us but we can practice noticing that and in doing so the mind begins to learn better what should and should not be feared.
I have the same question about Canada.
Understanding Java Optional
Good Lord. So the algorithm was let loose on letters of recommendation, and gave points for words like "excellent" and less points for words like "good". It sounds like a superb tool to penalize students from countries where they detest hype.

And then they have the front to ask how many BIPOCs lost a spot in the CS PhD program at Austin. I'm sick to the gills of the BIPOC crap, when it's more likely that that algorithm affected Germans and Russians.
I do have a beef with this too. I bought a perk called throwing knives and... there are no “throwing” knives! You throw your regular knife and you can’t pick it up again. You lose the knife.
I think Japan does that. NTT provide physical connection, but you also need a separated contract with ISP. The problem is that everything just become more complex and two side blaming each other when something go wrong.
Changing One Sentence led to 2.5x more Reviews
But there was evidence afterwards of both atrocities, from multiple sources.

And some things about the Holocaust turned out to be myths, for example that the Nazis regularly made soap out of the body fat of their Jewish victims, and similarly regularly made lampshades out of their skin. It sounds plausible, because the Nazis engaged in so many horrific acts that why not this, but this alone doesn't make it true (and it turns out, historians today don't think this was true -- not a regular practice, anyway).

In order to criticize a dictatorship you don't need to uncritically believe everything bad said about them. Some of it will be false. Always be wary of particularly outrageous claims.
Very cool! Sorry for the novice question but I checked the docs and FAQ and didn’t see an answer:

Can you explain a bit the dynamics of streaming from your own server? How does bandwidth / broadcast work? Do you need enough upstream bandwidth to support (Stream bitrate * # of clients)? Or is there a broadcast protocol that takes advantage of a CDN? My understanding of the commercial services is that their value isn’t just in providing a server, but it’s the huge amount of bandwidth required to support N simultaneous high bitrate streams. But maybe I have a misunderstanding.

Thanks!
> Porn always reminds me of other classical debates that have no end like guns and abortion. The camps of folks in the middle who are cognitively capable of making a difference can't because the outsized voices on either side of them are screaming for either total freedom or total shutdown.

Conservatives and progressives/liberals have completely different world views:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_Politics_(book)

There may be some underlying biological differences, that then get reinforced culturally (the old nature/nurture debate):

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biology_and_political_orientat...

* https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/03/the-yuc...

* https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/conservative-and-...

* https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3092984/

Political polarization hasn't helped in trying to find a middle path between these views in recent years/decades:

* https://www.pewresearch.org/topics/political-polarization/

* https://carnegieendowment.org/2019/10/01/how-to-understand-g...

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_polarization

Especially in the US, where it seems the Right has moved further over than the Left:

* https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2014/06/yes-pol...
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Um, not really, with the Sinclair machines, the UK had more computers per capita than anywhere else at the time. They were very very limited, and ultimately the bet on ubiquity over capability didn’t pay off, but pretty much every kid I knew had one.

I was a docker’s brat in a run-down Northern city, we didn’t have much, growing up, but my parents bought me the zx81 components kit (£49) and a second-hand black&white TV (£20) for Xmas when I was 11, and that year at school, computers were the thing. Like, everyone had one.
I'm a mid-level engineer as well. I'd say only a few lucky people make €100k in Europe, and most of these people are not working for EU companies. If you are aiming for >80k this continent is a dead-end at the moment, I live in an average EU country and my salary is ridiculously low, 80k puts you in C-level territory.
Supply and demand mostly. The EU means companies have access to vast pools of talent across the whole bloc and beyond. There are not as many huge purely tech companies like FAANG here.
> I can stream hundreds of videos around every conceivable topic, in 4K60 resolution, on-demand.

There are tons of entirely legal topics for which this statement is simply not true. Censorship is rampant on the modern web.

Of course, one is free to self-host, but there are special bandwidth deals for the 4K60 platforms that allow them to stream to millions of users, something you won't be permitted to do from the internet connection you have presently.