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I would be collaborating in academic research projects half the time and helping in an animal shelter for the other half.
The year of Postgres is every year - or at least three of the last four years. Congratulations to the Postgres community on another great year.
And US presidents have been warm and fuzzy in the White House when ordering killing of thousands of completely innocent people...

So you can stop with the "justice angle" on that one.
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very good news
Employee compensation is tied to profit in the form of RSUs. A decline in profit would substantially decrease the value of those RSUs and thus compensation. You can't just decrease profit in a vacuum and hand that revenue to employees, you have to consider the second-order effects.
See also: all previous iterations of Emacs v. Vim arguments, now with Sublime Text and VS Code codas.
European Arrest Warrant has a strong protective clause and a court that oversees European Justice. (ECHR)
It seems clear to me that these are people who are unwilling to sacrifice some of the money they earn to follow their ideals and principles, so they are trying this instead.

Employees pushing for change from the inside is probably the only thing that could ever make Google change, so this is absolutely a good thing.

If you are an engineer at Google and can't get a job somewhere else, I don't know what to tell you.

Something few people seem to understand about massive companies is that they employ some of the most niche specialists imaginable because they're literally the only business that needs those skills. Working you way up and getting more and more specialized can be very lucrative, but also very limiting in the number of employers who want your skillset. Leaving usually comes with a big step down in terms of money and title. You're essentially dropping back down to where you were before you specialized. It's not hard to imagine a lot of senior engineers at Google might feel a bit trapped there.
There's a difference between calling someone out for something untasteful and actively trying to ruin their careers, marriages and lives over it.
Like I said, if the app is based on the protocol so it's not even possible in that case.

Most countries followed this spec and combatting the virus has more priority in every country in the EU. Not at all handling out fines.

Although France is not implementing the standard protocol. They are very protective of citizens data ( not even a city can access it).

( Source: my work is related to this in Belgium and France)
With regard to police officers, I would say that it's not just the police unions that circle the wagons and protect them. The courts have been extremely reluctant to charge or convict police officers with crimes for acts in the line of duty. Also, there's widespread support for the police in the general public, "blue lives matter", etc. I would suggest that police unions have only been allowed to wield they power they do because there's outside support in the general public for protecting police officers. Even the politicians who are anti-union tend to exempt police unions from their wrath, because those politicians tend to also be "law and order" types.
Discarded turbine blades are basically inert and won't give off any methane so there's really nothing wrong with burying them in a landfill.
I think he didn’t care much about your opinion of him so much as he did about what would happen to him and where he’d end up. Given what was being kept from the American people and what he knew, it’s impossible to call him paranoid or to even pass judgement on his character. He may not have been willing to give his literal life for the sake of blowing the whistle, but there really can be no question that he did give up his life to do so.
What can be done and what will be done are two entirely different concepts, though. What makes you confident that this time it will be different or that this union would be immune from the same issues that occur in other unions?

If we’ve reached the point where the strongest arguments for unionizing is that maybe this time it will somehow be different than other unions, that’s not encouraging.
Yeah, it obviously is. But something that irks me about the comment is that it conflates a well-supported conspiracy theory (Epstein, who was actually charged and convicted) and a crazy illuminati-level one (Big Tech eliminating cash to cancel people, huh?), as if they are equally plausible.
Fairly new language.
This is exactly why I would never join a tech union. Just read their mission statement: this is about enforcing political goals via any power source they can get their hands on. Much like a lot of recent codes of conduct in open source projects.
I have to say, this is a really American view of unions. Here in Europe, I know a lot of people who love their company and are still part of an union.

First of, yeah, you could "just go" if you don't like what the company is offering. But it is not a reality for a lot of people, even in the tech industry. Leaving your job is not that easy.
And it encourage a race to the bottom. With no union to negotiate, the negotiation will always be unbalanced in the favour of the employee since you are negotiating as an individual vs. a organization. Its way, way easier for company to scare you and keep wage low when their is no union to back you up.

Also, union can help you when you have a manager or any higher-up that makes your work life hard. I know a lot of company who try to sweep complain under the rug for one reason or another. But when the union get involved, they just can't, they have to deal with it.

Finally, employee are stake holder in a company. A lot feel involved and responsible in the company direction and future. You can't just excluded them because they are not shareholder. I mean, you can, but that will lead to a strong feeling of alienation. Union help with that, and I know some people who are part of a union just for this: They love their job and the company they work for, so they want to have a say in where the company is going.
But that's not how they ask. It's usually something like "would you have a problem convicting the defendant of the crime they are accused of if you were convinced beyond all reasonable doubt that they had, in fact, committed said crime?" They don't say "Do you know what jury nullification is?"
Why can't you take issue with both?
In reality the relationship is quite the opposite of this framing, but carry on I suppose.
> Kindly disagree. Compare the old Simpsons seasons with the more modern ones. There is a change in tone in general.

Sure, I agree. FRIENDS is also an example of a pop culture icon which has aged _really_ badly since the 90s. But consider how the demographic make-up of those writers rooms will have changed in the last 20 years too.
I ramped up to 60k IU's per day. No issues thus far. It's been a few years to get to this point. I also take a lot of K2 MK-7, Magnesium, C, Zinc. Well, a bit of everything. AMA.
> Isn't it yet another copy of OCAML

No, closer to ATS maybe?
If a sector unionizes, and then forty years later jobs move away, blaming everything on the unionization does not make a whole lot of sense.
Same for me, but nothing shown on their status page (as of 10:03AM eastern) https://status.slack.com/
The disappearance of Jack Ma only confirms that all big Chinese corporations are an extension of the party. You don't follow the party line, you disappear.
Off topic but why do people make these twitter threads? It is the most uncomfortable way of reading more than 140 tokens. any other platform is better.
See my response to Uberphallus above.
Problem is, isn't the rent in Detroit and Pittsburg actually pretty high? Esp given the downsides.
Agree, but perhaps OP is bemoaning that some of the more tame stuff (like the Britney Spears bit) is being vilified. I mean, when you talk about "corners of the internet that are anything but sanitized" we all know how low and demeaning that can be.

I worry that this trend is polarizing — forcing us to two extremes.
Fostering a culture that values stability and reliability
Given the amount of incompetent talent I've seen promoted without a union because they cozy up to management I have a really hard time believing the picture would be any worse with them.

Meritocracy is orthogonal to unionization, I think, though I doubt there's an employer in the world that doesn't believe that their decisions are entirely meritocratic.

The argument "[institution]* tends to towards corruption therefore we shouldn't have [institution]" is a logical fallacy in all cases, since all human institutions tend towards corruption but we still need them.

* replace [institution] with government, government department, police, corporations, unions, etc. and the fallacy remains the same.
That will happen. The how of it will be made clear either way. Or not. There my not be a basis for high solidarity too.

You simply asked a great question and I let you know where the answer is found and sketched a piece of it for you.

That's all.
Thirty seconds is not instantaneous and is much slower than typing a password. The only server that shows mail the instant it's sent is the one I run for my personal use, which is a bad solution for most.
https://twitter.com/JoshuaRozenberg/status/13460308521369067... "this is a sitting of Westminster Magistrates’ Court. It is not a trial. The losing side may appeal against the DJ’s ruling."

Later in the same thread it says they have 14 days to do so and already announced they will.
> But containerization and CI/CD?

It is. For a very small startup, with not outside funding, everything that is not DIRECTLY related with A) Getting a paying customer. B) Launching, is a complete waste of time.

Please note this is not the only game in town (if you are Boston Dynamics by all means take all the time in the world to make those robots awesome) but if you are Yet Another Small Saas company for the love of god, launch, launch, launch.This is the game you chose to play.I dont care if your control version system are different folders and your backup are floppy disks, just launch and see if you can get people giving money to you for your product.
Maybe there are even capable embedded implementations even before Microsoft implements all supported features like ACLs in their OS.
Most of the clojure libraries i found were suffering from bit rot. Looks like the community is shrinking.
I've been going 60K IU's for a long time, no issues thus far. I had to ramp up to that. Doing that all at once can cause headaches or blurry vision.
Honestly this might be a good thing, it seems to show that ad networks don't have or at least don't provide your actual purchase history to the ad space buyers because given that info they probably wouldn't be spamming someone who just bought a $thing with ads for $thing_but_from_us. As annoying as it is it's probably better than the alternative of ubiquitous access to your purchase history.
Yes, noticed slow message sending and then now slack will not open on desktop. On web it shows

"Server Error

It seems like there’s a problem connecting to our servers, and we’re investigating the issue.

Please check our Status page for updates."

and on the slack status page it's all green

EDIT: interestingly, the help pages are all down for me as well https://slack.com/help/articles/205138367-Troubleshoot-conne...
Malicious links can have warning pages instead of redirects, malicious url shorteners can change URLs after they were promoted.
Relatively common in the UK but fairly formal; can be substituted for 'fulfill' pretty much everywhere it's used

"You have satisfied the requirements of a degree and have been granted the award of BSc Physics"
(Unofficial) Slack Status
Unless they're self hosting, this might even be a super easy thing to add. With AWS and many other cloud providers this is either the default or a simple checkbox.
On the off chance that someone physically steals the server?
Note that despite their public claims, it seems that non-North American (that is, European, Australian, Asian, African and South American) Google employees aren't allowed to join this union.

So this lowers the pool by quite a bit.
It's not a shrewd business move! Companies should pay well and treat their employees well, both because it's good for business and because it's the right thing to do. The adversarial model of employment where passionate employees fight against penny-pinching bosses is neither natural nor inevitable, and I think everyone who can avoid it should do so.
A company is nothing without leadership. A company is nothing without the initial investors. A company is nothing without the it's initial idea.

It takes a lot of people in different roles and a lot of different resources (be it people, money, opportunity) to make a company work.

While there are successful employee-owned companies after, many companies today would not exist if you didn't have the motivation there for certain people. Do you think Tesla and SpaceX would exist if Elon had to give ownership to everyone else? You're not going to see certain kinds of risk-taking by employee-run groups, and that risk-taking tens to require people with top-down responsibility and vision to make them happen.
> Unions are intended for industries where a worker doesn't have a marketplace of options as there is a single or just a few employers (e.g. Hollywood, teachers, coal mining towns, hospital staff, etc.)

Unions serve a purpose of being able to collectively bargain, regardles off how many "options" there are.

Employers and corporations always have bargaining power and are basically collective establishments themselves. Individuals rarely have any negotiating power for better conditions, wages, treatment, etc...
Espionage is 100% a political offence, yet...

A lot of things are political in nature.

But extraditions are mostly issues of diplomacy, not justice.
There are not more boomers than other demographics. Why would you say this?
Totally down for me.
Yes, and Twitter confirms that a ton of people are seeing this.
I was part of a group that inherited a really buggy service platform, maybe a dozen services, 3 generations of most services still around, no logging, nothing. The previous team had kept some foreign engineers on-call and never taken shifts - and there were daily pages, absurd processes to "fix" things, etc.

In about two weeks of putting engineers on call for their own services, most of the major problems were fixed.

It's easy to write buggy software when you aren't the one who gets called at 2am to fix it. Once you start being responsible for your software, the urge to take shortcuts really evaporates. On the other hand, a team that is not responsible for their output will always cut corners - it's just the way it goes.
As long as you can trigger a block comment you can add as much as you want, for example:

/**/-->/*
console.log('Hello World!');
console.log('You can add as much as you want');
--> */
The problem with removable drives is that no one came up with a better filesystem than FAT32 that could be implemented easily by everyone. All the *NIX filesystems embedded permissions that were useless on non-POSIX systems and caused issues on POSIX ones when you actually moved a drive from one computer to another. So MS extended FAT again and kept it under its IP hat, as was their wont[0] at the time.

[0] Non-native english speakers may be confused by this: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/as%20is%20someone...
Interesting. I've always liked "sign up", "sign in", and "sign out", because they were older and more widely used before computing. "Sign up" was used to refer to subscribing, for example, to a magazine. "Sign in" and "sign out" were what they said for the guestbook at a hotel.
I have an MSEE, worked in a test house during school, and currently work on a very physically real machine with a title of “engineer”; not that any of that is relevant.

Are you agreeing with my point? Not everyone who calls themself something is that thing. Assange is certainly not a journalist.
Years ago, my friend was part of a small movement to unionize a certain universally hated company that rhymes with Omfast.

They thought it would be a home run given all of the nonsense that goes on there. As it turns out, selling people on the idea of unionizing is much harder than it sounds. People weren’t even necessarily afraid of the company, they just didn’t want to be in a union.

They, too, gathered a small number of people at first, but the effort fizzled out when the initial enthusiasm didn’t spread beyond those few idealistic people.

In a company the size of Google, it wouldn’t be hard to find 230 people who would claim to be unionizing, but it doesn’t mean much when you’re talking about a tiny fraction of employees.
> because essentially these licenses say "your contribution is OSS today, but it might end up resulting as unintended free labor that helps build a commercial product of which you won't be part of".

Contributions to non-copyleft OSS licenses _are_ actual contributions to the open source community as a whole.

There's nothing preventing your GPL'd project from being used to make a commercial product that you are not a part of either. You're talking about enforcing perpetual conditions on the future of the product/license for your free labor. This is the reason why projects like MAME have contributor agreements now.

Even if through some process the license changes in the future, your contributions were still to an open source license and that version of the code will remain open forever.

I haven't seen anyone discouraged from contributing to OSS-licensed projects that are not GPL unless they are an extreme ideologue. I myself generally prefer to license my work with something like MIT or Apache (read: the ISC license, generally) and that choice is absolutely fine.
Disclaimer: I am building a product to address the same need for getting started with SaaS products as a kit, including Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD and more: https://saasstarterkit.app/

I strongly agree with this. Investing into a quick setup for CI/CD in the beginning of a project pays of really quickly. Every time someone comes up with a "simpler" suggestion to deploy things, I find it always tricky and not-so-simple because of the following questions:
- which machine do I deploy my code to? should I use an existing VM or should I get a new one?
- what dependencies do I need to have on the machine? do I install them manually for each project?
- how do I deploy multiple projects on this machine? what if the dependencies conflict?
- how do I get the code to the instance? Should I use SCP, or Git, or some other method?
- once the code is in the machine, how do I start it? how do I ensure it is running?
- how do I securely expose it to the internet?
- how do I serve multiple projects from the same instance?

Obviously, each of these questions have answers and they can be solved, potentially "simply" for some; but for myself, I found these to be way harder to deal with then a few lines of Kubernetes configuration. I use Docker for packaging the application, I build everything on GitLab CI, and just deploy to the same Kubernetes cluster for all of my projects. With this setup, I still use a single instance and have very low stable costs, and I can deploy 10+ projects on the same cluster since they have small load for now. Everything is standardized, and I can get to live in minutes even for a new project.

I believe the idea that these tools overcomplicate things need to ba taken on a case-by-case basis. For some, it works; for others, it won't, just like any other custom script or "simple" solution.
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Same for me. Getting a high proportion of 503 Service Unavailable responses.
yeah, but when you say guilty or not guilty you don't have to explain why.
visual rejuv? Maybe they've got it wrong again
Slack is also not working for me
Couldn't agree more. I wouldn't work at Google for a few extra bucks, because I know the price of these few extra bucks is payed by society as a whole.

If you're a talented professional at Google, and want to make a positive impact in the world, join a company that cares about making a positive impact in the world.
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Yes, drown somewhere in the text, and apparently not important enough to mention in the TL;DR.
yes, was wondering about this too
The silent downvotes I'm getting are part of the example.
I suppose the contra seemed a bit hollow, as the bit you quoted has an implicit “in the company” attached based on the context of the post. It was less that your statement was strictly false and more “Well yes, but that isn’t really addressing the actual topic”.
To truly advocate a position here, first the LCD must be reasoned for, which is, "my grandmother", or "cool and always drunk uncle", or "xyz frat bro/sorority sis"
I’ve actually had a pleasant chat with the developer of Nio regarding working together, but we ended up deciding it’s better to work on separate projects.

Nio is still in very early stages; the developer plans to refactor most of the app and couldn’t commit to a specific timeline or direction for it. On top of that, my vision for a client includes spinning up a (privacy-focused) business and later expanding to web, Android, and PCs.
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Slow for me
It's working fine for me. But for some team mates slack is unusable. Seems that not affect everyone.
OTP, with extra steps :D
> ... but traditionally unions also protect the members against outsiders looking to take their jobs.

Hit the nail on the head. I’ve always heard horror stories about the police union advocating for literal murderers so those murderers can get another job where they can murder again.

But then I joined my first startup and had to install another access point by simply running a 15 ft Ethernet cable through the paneled ceiling. A 15-30 minute job, tops.

But the building had an exclusive contract with a unionized cabling company and I could get my startup evicted if I attempted the job myself. Instead, we had to pay this cabling company $4k and wait 2 weeks for them to come onsite.

I’m sure there are good unions out there. But unions people have encounters with pretty much are all rotten.
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Are there any music curating channels on YT or elsewhere that can filter through that mess? I guess the challenge there is keeping the curator honest and not 'sponsored'