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> The distance makes it harder to have a grasp on what work is being done and how well/fast, and what impact.

How so? Tapping techies on the shoulder and asking "what's up with your task?" is a widely disliked management technique. Or you meant something else?

> You can't as easily come in and check-in when you need too, you need to formally setup meetings or reviews.

Good. I am glad there is more tension for you when doing that now. Most meetings are disruptive for the creators so the increased barrier to entry for setting them up is a welcome correction and a reality-check mechanism. You do rely on those people to produce artifacts that lead to the company's bottom line and it is known that creators utilize flow state for their best productivity, thus their time shouldn't be sliced and diced so easily. Bureaucracy is not an universal virtue, let's all acknowledge that.

> And it's not as engaging or easy for you to understand and ask questions in those meetings either.

What do you mean by "engaging"? That you felt an informal bond with your underlings while having status meetings in person? If so, fair enough alright but how is it stopping you having it now during virtual meets?

> Also it's unpleasant to be on Zoom all day long, and since your job is just meetings all day, that's your new reality.

Also good. Should hint you to do less of those then. Find other formats: collaborative editing of documents / spreadsheets, to-do lists, milestone calendars, email + ticket tracker hooks, all of it. There's basically tooling for every need out there and most is leagues cheaper than JIRA. Use managers-only Slack channels or internal forums. There is a plethora of viable alternatives.

> This becomes truer and truer the higher up the chain. [sic] ...

This might sound a bit cold and I apologize if it's taken this way but... that's really not my problem as the techie and the creator. At all. You need my services, I need the pay, we both agreed to the terms, and we are so far both happy with the transaction. If you decide to start changing the deal due to factors I cannot fully appreciate or sympathize with then that new situation now becomes your problem, the VP's problem, the various CxO people's problem.

They do, after all is said and done, get their money's worth out of the employees, no? Why should I be worried that they rented or bought a mega-expensive office somewhere?

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I suppose the gist of what I am saying is: the current full remote work situation highlights problems with the previous process that were always there but were never seriously challenged.

I view that as a good thing. Old processes need refreshing every now and then.

What do you think?
The delicious irony here is that social protocol asks adults in a mandatory remote meeting to not scold other people's children during an already trying moment.
Cant help but feel some level of whatever that german word is for finding misery funny.

Watching devs willingly deal with apple is like watching someone pay for the privilege of being oliver twist.
Enhancing China’s CPU tech even a single generation is in the EU’s interest in exactly 0 alternate universes, along with this one.

As long as the US has the world’s only reserve currency and as long as the EU economy - especially the productive bit in the North - is built on exporting to the all-powerful US consumer, the EU has very little leverage in its affairs with the US.
Chemically it is hard to believe that we can do better than lithium anyway.
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No, because at a retail store the expectation is that if I see a box labeled "amphetamine" it better contain actual amphetamine. Obviously that's not acceptable, so it's not going to happen.

When I buy software, I certainly don't expect to get drugs. When I buy a game called "Surgeon Simulator" I don't expect to receive actual surgeon training any more than I expect to get amphetamine after getting an app called amphetamine.
Just change it to Cocaine. Problem solved!
The author is... well, I don't think interviews are going to go the way he or she thinks.

To wit, reading part 1, the first paragraph boils down to "my manager was on vacation for my start date. I was provided with an onboarding buddy, who warned me that Apple is trigger happy firing folks." Para 2: manager made a likely inappropriate joke about last name. para 3: not really relevant? para 4: project was raw. para 5: onboarding buddy was not super helpful with onboarding. It may well have been the case that onboarding buddy was not an expert on the project, or that OP was hired because of his or her specific expertise on this project. etc.

For better or worse, I don't think going public with this story is going to be viewed as anything but a he said / she said mess. None of which means I think Apple treated him or her well, or that the team wasn't a mess, or anything else.

It may well, however, come up when googling the author's name for quite a long time. That's an additional factor to think through. It may be the best outcome for the author is to leave this behind, seek some therapy to help move on, and get a job at a company that doesn't treat him or her like this.
Agree, it was not as good as it could have been. Not a new book but Sapiens was best book i read in 2020
Sounds like something a lot of people do in normal conversation.
> Nobody questions it, I don't know why.

Money. In our society it pays more in average to be a leader.

On the why it pays more, I’d posit leaders are closer to the money source so get more negotiating power as they have more information.
It is, they just call it something else like Adderall, Evekeo or whatever.
Europe coming up with new drone rules too
It's also for a completely different purpose, but I was answering about the spelling as a direct answer to a question.
The congressional approval rating has been between 10 and 30% for the last 8 years, and over this same time the re-election rates of incumbent congressional reps is 89% or higher. People are largely happy with their own congress members, and vote to reelect them and their own HOA, and they will choose to purchase homes with an HOA, and not disband them.
OpenFF – Automated estimation of physical properties
At my work we always have the camera on unless it’s a large meeting (30+).
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This is a very unfortunate name indeed. BPD is a serious personality disorder that causes a great deal of suffering, not only in those affected by it but especially their families and loved ones.
> More or less the entire French Intellectual establishment argued at that time

Then the question is, how does one become intellectual establishement. Sounds like dissenters were somehow excluded from that nebulous subjective category.
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Oh, no doubt. I just wanted to point out that someone can go through a whole career at Apple without encountering this sort of garbage.
And can you claim to have Sprachgefühl for 900s English and be able to feel the difference between a poetic phrasing an an ordinary phrasing in that language?
That is a common but very shallow take on Steve Jobs management. Yes, there are instances of him being abrasive, but he led some very successful tech development efforts which involved getting people to come together around difficult goals. Remember that for most of his second period of management Apple stock went for around 12-25 a share and it was hard to hire good engineers because it was common knowledge that Apple was doomed.

An example of how direct, involved management clashes with traditional corporate style came up right after Steve Jobs returned. He would walk around the offices, knock on doors and introduce himself, and ask what people were working on. Those who were fully engaged were kind of jealous that others had a chance to talk with the top manager directly in such a way. Oddly enough, most of the long term Apple corporate types reacted very badly to this. They stuttered and could not summarize what they were actually doing. In every case I was aware of these employees left the next day in absolute shock and horror, sharing with everyone just how mean Steve Jobs was. But I was there and observed some of these encounters myself and all he did was drop by, casually introduce himself, and ask about what people were working on. For some and those who stayed at that time that was actually pretty cool hierarchy flattening behavior but for corporate climbers it was an inconceivable breach of protocol.
I think this just shows that prisons often have nicer facades than some schools.
Ritalin is the dominant drug in that regard, and while it is very similar in every respect, it is not amphetamine-the-substance nor, I believe, technically in the class of substances also referred to as amphetamines.

(someone stated that amphetamines are now available in the EU market. But, if so, it's likely that few people will know, mostly because discussions of ADHD have somewhat faded)
"Person does not play video games. Not even casual mobile apps. This is why no transition into FV2 is expected...."

Maybe suggest FV2?
I just played and got 10/10 right although a few were difficult. I don’t think they are all so similar.
Sorry, I misunderstood your original comment. When you said:

> Up, flat, down, flat. Guess what: you've just introduced enormous amounts of aliasing.

I thought you were suggesting that the jagged, stair-step output of a DAC is what causes aliasing, which is a common misconception.

I was trying to point out that stair-step output is just the reconstruction filter of the DAC operating as intended, and that a reconstruction filter is an anti-aliasing filter. In the case of a DAC's sample-and-hold, it's an easy way to select the baseband alias. [1]

I think one reason this thread went off the rails is that there are two anti-aliasing filters in a digital synthesizer. I was initially referring to the hardware anti-aliasing filter at the output of the DAC, which is also called a reconstruction filter or an anti-imaging filter. Everybody else was referring to the digital anti-aliasing filter that you need in order to create a band-limited approximation of an infinite bandwidth ideal signal so that you can actually sample it, because attempting to sample the ideal signal directly is always incorrect.

Given that the article is about the precursor to digital synthesis, I suppose I should have realized that people were going to be more interested in discussing the latter. However, now we're getting to the second reason this thread went off the rails (and the reason I usually regret participating in audiophile threads): Differences in terminology, points of focus, and "Well, Ackchyually" audiophile-grade condescension cause people to read past each other and continue to argue despite largely being in agreement.

If you read my downstream responses (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25601970 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25602267), I hope it's clear that I both understand and agree with the actual argument you wanted to make.

[1] Aside: If you were to insert sinusoids at twice the sampling frequency instead of flats in between each sample, you'd be selecting the alias centered around twice the sampling frequency instead of the one at baseband. This is (roughly) how a mixer works.
I think bredren is oversimplifying a bit but not victim-blaming. Bullies choose their victims and they choose situations where their victims are unlikely to succeed in seeking justice. The article provides a clear example: if an junior manager wants a scapegoat to cover-up a failure, an immigrant on a limited visa is just perfect.
I will bite. What is your recommendation for a network?
It is as simple as making a stern face versus smiling and waiving (which I believe encourages the behavior).
The "Russia" he referenced isn't the general population. It's the political party that's in power, influencing the media and allowing/forbidding things to be associated with it.

Almost all nations actively shape their image, Russia is one of them. (Just as the usa)
U.S. well short of its goal of vaccinating 20M Americans by end of 2020
> My argument is nobody wants this

I'm saying I know at least two people in my immediate family who would want this, so I don't think nobody wants it.

It might not be any good, and informed purchasers might not want it after trying it, but I think people want the concept.
That sounds more like a Lamarckian metaphor than Darwinian one.
I think the climate benefit is overstated. Trees take a long time to grow and we need to cut co2 now. Presumably you need to be planting substantially more trees than are felled to improve co2 in an acceptable time scale.
> One answer to all these propositions is that the valuable stuff is still there

I don't understand the popularity of this argument. Whilst someone might (theoretically) have written the Great American Novel in his or her basement unbeknownst to pretty much anyone, a lot of art is fairly resource intensive and thus you can say with extremely high confidence that's its not being produced and the fault lies not with people not looking hard enough. Same with research and journalism.
Well I just meant that the roll call of names that signed the petition is fairly extraordinary:

Louis Aragon, Michel Foucault, Jean-Paul Sartre, Jacques Derrida, Louis Althusser, Roland Barthes, Simone de Beauvoir, Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari, Michel Leiris, Alain Robbe-Grillet, Philippe Sollers, Jacques Rancière, Jean-François Lyotard, Francis Ponge, Bernard Besret
glad subjects like you are getting filtered by themselves
I did not say scold. Also, this is prior to COVID.
The ACLU now supports the 1A and the 2A SEPARATELY, but is opposed to having both simultaneously at one event.

https://www.vox.com/2017/8/20/16167870/aclu-hate-speech-nazi...
Aww, I had grown to like that style of architecture while I was living abroad (in Holland, not England, but there was a lot of similarly built structures out in the suburbs where I lived)

It doesn't age particularly well, though
especially bc she/he mentions SREs...
Half year hyperlinks – a network of 100k+ links from ~100 newsletters in 2020
> Genuine question here: what's the better way?

You tell them what the job is like, what is expected of them, and what the best way to work with you is, then you you ask if that's what they want, and how much it's going to take to get them in the door. That's it.

I wouldn't ask an accountant what the Corrodium 3 Deduction is; I'd tell them I need them to file my taxes, that I need them to own the process and chase whoever they need (even if that's me).

> I think at the core of the problem is that most companies are extremely risk adverse in their hiring and would gladly miss a Jeff Dean type of super-performer in order to reduce their number of bad hires.

I think you're probably right, but if someone lies to you and says they can do a job that they clearly can't, you should fire them.

This should be unusual because getting a new job can be stressful, and nobody wants to put themselves into a job they can't do, so it's rare that you even have to consider this -- but it does happen, and unless you're a sociopath, it's going to make you shy about ever having to go through it again, because you're not going to want to fire anybody. It sucks for you, and it sucks for them, and it sucks for the team who see the revolving door, but nobody benefits from the wrong fit in the long run, so you just need to suck it up and do it.

So be firm, and if it turns out you're firing a lot of people straight in the door, look inwards: you're probably not being honest with them (or perhaps yourself) what the job actually is. Figuring that out instead of some new programming puzzle to torture grads with is going to pay dividends.
I'd be very worried about a paid assignment conflicting with clauses in my current contract.
Better app that's open source: https://keepingyouawake.app/
We're now seeing hookless carbon rims that top out at 75psi. The industry has unfortunately taken this trend by the reins and will be shoving substandard wheels down everyone's throat in the name of profit.
So, You’ve OK’d Shrooms and Defunded the Police. Now What?
Perhaps it's a case of cargo culting. His confrontational, often personally insulting behaviors were retained, but not his ability to bring people together.
So OP created a product very similar to Caffeine, with an edgier name and now it's becoming an issue. Where I think you chose the name just to help get into a similar space as Caffeine in the first place.
I have so many questions, I am intrigued! Why are you doing this? Are you reviewing whole books in this fashion, as in the whole text? How long does that take? Do you read those books first? Are you reviewing in order of the order the text was written in? How much time do you spend reviewing?
The best thing to do is to let Apple remove the app. Do not rebrand it. Do not try to restore it. Eventually Apple will realize that their platform is worthless if they have no developers making apps for them.
> easily accessible formats

Anyone want to guess the ratio of CSV/XML/JSON we'll get out of this?
That is not an idea though. It is a fact.

Why try to hide a fact?
PlusAI drove a truck across the country without intervention.

https://plus.ai/Plus-ai-Completes-First-Cross-Country-Commer...

Tesla needs to up its game.
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Apple’s own command line tool which does the same is called caffeinate.
Yeah I agree, I would like to see some percentage be lottery based. I think you should still need to write a proposal, but if the proposal isn't selected then it goes in the lottery pool. There are two reasons to still write the proposal: helps organize the researcher's thoughts and shows the researcher is serious.
Which I found that very amusing, because Germany is suffering from really bad and expensive cable/copper internet all over the place.
> The same organizing principles of command and control developed for "modern" prisons were applied to the "modern" school as well

You don't know much about prisons seems to me. As in, once one know just a little how it functions, the above sounds either extraordinary stupid.
Ungoogled link: https://biblioklept.org/2013/06/08/huxley-vs-orwell-the-webc...
I am like your friend... basically tabs are a "working memory" that you don't want to store permanently in bookmarks. each window or sets of windows is typically a different topic that is being research on with a bunch of middle clicks to open tabs. I have so many open that I wrote a small webext for it that shows a page of all your tabs that you can click on to navigate to that tab with a click. just a nicer interface to see all the windows open and all the tabs. https://github.com/fiveNinePlusR/tabist
The biggest problem companies face in adapting to remote work is failure to embrace async. The rest is details.
> No one wants a cookie cutter community center.

The specific point of the parent comment is that they do want a cookie cutter school. Saying "no one wants that" isn't really a substantial counter argument.

I suppose the problem with them all being so similar would be if you spent every day visiting a different one, you would tire of them all being them same. But no one does that - you spend many years in a single one, without much awareness of others. In the end it's important that it's effective to spend long periods in, and its uniqueness is basically irrelevant to the people that actually use it.
The focus is perhaps in proportion to how children are. You can make them confident by making their wishes come true (“I want a piece of candy”, ok here you go); developing substance and judgement is a profound Socratic experience that gives every would be parent figure a run for their money (or, well, children)

All to say your comment is spot-on.
I don't have a dog in the fight since I'm no longer a Mac user and, when I was, I didn't use the app.

But, when I read the name, it didn't register as offensive to me. Amphetamines are a class of drugs and there are both legal and illegal ones...it doesn't immediately equate in my mind to crystal meth. But it does immediately equate to "keeps you awake", which seems appropriate.

It also seems a bit unfair after 6 years and 500k downloads. Had Apple made an issue of it originally, the author might have built all the goodwill and ratings with some other, more acceptable name.

The internet is a pretty big place to have to launch a product. Picking a name that suggests a purpose seems like a big win to me and coming up with a string of words that won't offend someone is a pretty big challenge these days.
At a company that has secrecy and "jobsian" leadership at its core, it's not difficult to believe that this kind of stuff happens.

The question that's more important: is it common, and is it an accepted tradeoff in the company culture.

To those that are expressing disbelief that this happened: even if half of it is made up, its still unacceptable. The reason to not ignore this is that one day, this superteam of arsehole might be in your life.
I've always assumed, no. If you use their laptops in clamshell mode without the AC on in the summer connected to a monitor, it'll start throttling and slowing down to a crawl. The only solution is to turn on the AC or disconnect from an external monitor.
> I have no doubts brilliant European engineers are going to work on the hard problems of shipping a next gen chip process and design... In America!

Exactly. The salaries in EU are pitiful.
A more meaningful comparison would be bathroom privileges.

In prison you can pretty much poop or get a drink of water whenever you want. In school you need special permission, and hope the teacher wasn't in a bad mood or that 3 other kids hadn't needed to pee in the last half hour, meeting some mental quota the teacher has for the appropriate # of people that should have to use the toilet during a given period of time.

Seriously, it seemed like a revolutionary concept when I hit college and realized "Hold on, I can just get up & go?." Or that (absent computer labs) I could bring a cup of coffee or bottle of soda with me to class, and that common etiquette even allowed for a bit of food if it wasn't noisy to eat or have a powerful smell.
The fact that people grudgingly sign a contract does not mean all the terms of the contract are fair. People sign away their right to sue or join a class action lawsuit as a prerequisite to buying goods or services from companies all the time, but I still believe it is unfair. People grudgingly sign work contracts with strong non-compete, non-disclosure, and IP assignment clauses, but I think those clauses are unfair.
And given the purpose of a school, building it cheaply is very utilitarian as it allows you to build schools faster. I would rather have the institution be more effective than more pleasing to look at.
Nope. Not any more. they've had some cases of the more contagious UK strain and have gone into a 2nd lockdown, as of 26th Dec. Essential travel only and no more than 5km from home.

https://www.rte.ie/news/2020/1231/1187117-garda-level-5-visi...
Sometimes when I see people showing off these vast and intricate minecraft structures, Sims games, animal crossing towns, etc I wonder what social toll it took to get there. There's a lot of applauding people throwing healthier aspects of their lives away for game addiction on places like reddit or facebook. The story of the addict ignoring his kids, jobs, health, etc almost never gets out. It did briefly for WoW when "warcraft wives" made a fuss, but that died out, I imagine who no small PR effort from Blizzard, and now game addiction is rarely talked about, which is odd, considering so many mobile games are pretty much casinos.
Agree that applies for the majority of people, but for others it's purely a status competition beyond what they currently have which they've decided to engage in.
The amount of people complaining about the name while this being the top comment is absurd.