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There have been attempts to define physical units (Firefox used to have a unit called mozmm which tried to be one physical millimetre), but eventual consensus is that (a) you can’t actually figure this out, because screens don’t tell you their exact physical sizes; (b) if it’s not accurate, there are exactly zero genuine use cases for it; and (c) even if it was accurate, it would still almost never be correct to use it. Remember that you don’t know the viewing distance, either—letters being 5mm high is all very well twenty centimetres away, but at four metres it’s utterly illegible.
The bread and butter of any financial company is risk management. That includes foreseeing a pandemic as well as modelling the possibility of sudden stock volatility at 3am.

If you don't envision such a clearly possible scenario as a bank , or a broker (your mortgage payment suddenly going to be x10 is not such a clearly possible scenario) you severely fucked up in your chosen field of business, period.
> they agressively undercut competitors (to attempt to force them out of the market) so much

That they provide excellent value to consumers. Indeed the recent pandemic would have been much worse without them.

> What a ridiculous narrative you're trying to push.

Maybe try understanding others’ perspectives instead of ridiculing them.
That wasn't the average user and not even the average computer geek. Most browsed webrings.
Do you also think every site should come with a built in screen reader? Accessibiliy should be about enabling everyone to use the website - using additional tools if needed - not to dumb it down to the lowest common denominator. If zoom / min font size breaks things complain about that, otherwise don't force giant fonts on everyone else.
Then you can no longer rotate, unless you make it rotate when you push some additional button. The 3DConnexion devices have 6 degrees of freedom without pushing any additional buttons. That being said I have a SpaceNavigator and I don’t use it, it’s just sitting in a drawer and I use my regular mouse and keyboard even in Blender.
I guess that means many coastal resorts will be empty soon and property prices in those coastal resort areas will be plummeting.

Wonder when banks will stop granting mortgages for coastal properties.
I think we should not discount "Prime's insanely fast shipping". That is an amalgamation of several innovations and has truly changed the world.

Of course, all this if Amazon has actually invented that and I am not just misinformed.
To be fair, there’s still an opportunity cost, and most people also need student loans.
I saw him give a live talk at Boring Conference a few years ago and the way his beard quivers in person is really quite something. Extremely hard to not warm to the man immediately.
> I don't see why workers shouldn't take their opportunity to engage in tough negotiations with Amazon themselves.

Because collective bargaining results in a net decrease in value because of moral hazards, perverse incentives, and agent-principal problems.
or...
Just use the metrics outlined in the accelerate book, which have been fairly well studied and have quite a lot of quantifiable evidence to back them up.

E.g.

Deployment frequency

Lead time for changes

MTTR

Change failure rate

A quick google reveals a fair amount of existing material :

https://leadingagileteams.com/2020/04/07/forget-dumb-product...
Cool, I'll try that out later on.

If you have the time, extracting a large sample would be nice. Real-world usage is always more interesting than academic examples. Something that takes around 2 minutes feels like a sweet-spot for optimization as well, long enough to matter but not long enough to be annoying to experiment with.
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First:

Forget I<Whatever>. It breaks sorting and it is allows people to avoid thinking if the interface is necessary or not.

Second:

I'm not one of the hardliners wrt avoiding mocking, but if every class needs to have a corresponding mock then I'd suggest taking a step back because that shouldn't be necessary, and often in such cases I think one will also find lots of low value or even no-value tests.

I'll not judge you based on a comment on an internet forum, but I think the above is a good heuristic.

(With TypeScript and Java closures or anonymous types is also an option and something exist in C# as well.)
I've long been interested in that particular project; but as you say it is just that little bit too expensive.

So instead of spending the money I've been spending my time, making something similar (but much much simpler). I'm having fun, even with just a clock, Z80, and EEPROM. My next step will be handle I/O with a keyboard and LCD, hopefully by the end of the month.
> Many of these sites are statically laid out

Which they shouldn't be.
All of that to transform developers and "software engineers" into stupid micro-managed monkeys, just good to write code.

The worse is the product owner. Sadly the management world did profite of the hype of scrum to add this bullshit job but just a reminder:.
It goes against the original concepts of Agile!

In the original Agile the product owner is the customer, and the goal was to have the devs in direct contact with the customer.
It is not supposed to be an employee, with some management level, that tell you what and in which orders things have to be done, because he or she knows better...

Now, the devs are more than even isolated from the customer by bullshit jobs in between. This is very sad...
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My understanding is the part of OpenJDK Zing is based on is entirely owned by Oracle, so they can give Azul a license for it.

Oracle could not do that for all of OpenJDK today unless OpenJDL has a super weird CLA that signs away ownership of the code because they do not own all of the code.
Second that. When I started exploring, I felt most ergonomic stuff had some drawbacks. A thumb mouse / trackball mouse is really imprecise even after long time use, compared to a standard mouse. A vertical mouse is still just a mouse, which takes time (and elbow pain) to move the hand to and from the keyboard.

A rollermouse, though. Don't have to move my wrists at all. It's fairly precise after just a day of getting used to it. It got a scroll-wheel, 5 buttons for right-click or whatever. I'm a huge fan.
> One big takeaway, AWS is CRUSHING GCP on the financial side.

Or, Google is investing more to compete? AWS is financially stable now because of its investments in initial years. GCP revenue growth does seem promising.
> seductive venture and it's mostly just gambling that you can hedge slightly with some smart info

I think part of it is the populist meme that professional investors don't really know what they're doing and accidentally make money hand-over-fist. Yes, it has been shown that free stock tips are on average no better than monkeys throwing darts, and most hedge funds under-preform the S&P 500 in risk-adjusted returns.

It was an eye-opening experience when I asked a good friend of mine who was a portfolio manager if he beat the S&P 500 on a risk-adjusted basis. His reply was "I hope that's not how I'm being evaluated". He went on to explain that he was attempting to maximize expected returns while remaining uncorrelated to the market... so that an investment basket containing a bunch of ETFs plus investments in his portfolio maximize risk-adjusted returns. (See portfolio optimization and (post-)modern portfolio theory as to why maximized risk-adjusted return isn't just a basket of 100% the highest risk-adjusted-return asset.)
If we are taking this seriously, then surely wearing some swimming goggles would have more benefit, considering that you can be infected through your eyes.
Yes and no.
A Comp Sci./Eng. degree is pretty much guaranteed to get you a decently paying job.
My ROI has been > 20x.
Learning a 3-5 yr curriculum on your own is a surefire way to get you demotivated and/or depressed.
Really bad post. Read anything from nassim taleb or take a course on probability.
If anyone is looking for a simple way to speedup TS compilation for a big project, we use incremental compilation [1]. It does work pretty well, with some caveats when changing between refactoring branches ;)

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isn't the point to reduce severity... in icu with ventilator vs little cough? if viral load annihilated the immune response would be light and less damage to organs.
I always find it surprising that things we take for granted today needed to be standardized. Like I can't even imagine computers not using a 8 bit byte.
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Really? You should start a blog.
You say that the world being deterministic somehow makes “we should be nice to each other” an inescapable conclusion… but really, it's just a framing that lets you escape the existing divisive rhetoric. If it became widespread, we'd get new rhetoric.
This is grossly oversimplified. You can have good sleep and have tech in the bedroom.

I've enjoyed not having to buy an alarm clock for many, many years. A phone allows me to change the noise I wake up to and set multiple alarms at random intervals. I now rarely sleep through the alarms - no more hoping that the alarm clock had a good noise and no more suddenly finding out I no longer wake to it (and yes, I sleep through them: They'd wake up others in the house. Yes, this is even with good sleep hygiene.)

Music comes from tech, too. This is especially helpful to cover up small noises in my house or the apartments around me: The small noises disturb me more when falling asleep than a radio/television going on. (The same has been true of studying: A quiet library is an experience of interruption. So. Many. Noises.)

I've lived more than one place where my tech had to be in my bedroom if I wanted any sort of privacy while using it.

Much better to be diligent about using it. It sucks that the poster seemed to be doing this, and I understand their complaint. It seems to me that it is a software oversight, but like they said, "disturb" is the norm, so we probably won't get real relief until standards change.
Yea seriously. Just turn off you phone and get a 80s era alarm clock.
The alarm doesn't work if the phone is off.
> they sound great

... and you cant measure it is at the heart of all audiophoolery. Either it reproduces source material as close to 1:1, or it distorts it tricking your psychoacoustic system to perceive a positive difference, for example by making the sound louder (wins every single blind test).
Or an increase in underwater and diving tourism. I imagine if Venice went completely underwater, the amount of tourism dollars actually might increase.
But people generally had the good manners not to call in the middle of the night, unless it was an emergency.
Only if you allow it. The UK has managed to keep four main supermarkets competing in the UK and this has resulted in low food prices.
I doubt a lot of people would even get the vaccine, if it would be offered in my country. There is a deep mistrust towards the Russian government. And I think this goes for Russians themselves as well. Which is a shame because Russian science is quite good, despite their own government.
Early on I tried to figure out what the correct precautions were and then decided that everything practical until further notice is the proper response.

A point is what about next time? Who knows what works for Covid19 might be worthless for the next pandemic.
A while ago I spent a week turning a humongous interface with all fields optional into a discriminated union of smaller ones, falling back to an "any" dictionary.

My team was really happy with the result, but I'm afraid that if layoffs happen, I'll be on the shortlist.
I was playing with vttest today. Odd terminal emulator features.

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I vouch for this approach 100%. You could set your clock to the 4am sweat panics that would always wake me up with my head spinning from minor problems that I couldn't put away.

I try my hardest to do one hour's vigorous walking a day when I can, audiobooked and podcasted to the max. When it's raining cats and dogs I'm doing some yoga (I'm using my free trial of apple fitness but there are loads of similar programmes) and it really helps me. It's 100 times more effective than self-medicating.

I still wake sometimes but less often and when I do, I'll get out of bed for 10 mins (cooling down seems to help) and, daft though it sounds, repeat to myself that I'm in control of what I feel.

Anxiety is absolutely horrible and I think you've got to experience it to realise how awful it can be.
Thanks for this explanation. I've got a few devices happily yay'ing for a couple years now and hadn't realized the background.

I don't mean to dismiss the tension or that jonathon has made an unfair stand, but I am not sure I understand how the schism is warranted. Any software that combines outside funding with donations has a risk of this right? Unless I'm missing something it may just be a personal falling out.
A laptop or phone 'casting' to a wide screen TV.
Even though I agree options is generally a losing game, it does serve a purpose. You can actually even hedge your risk with options -- there are many usages, just because SOME people use it as a casino, it doesn't mean it is.

A lot of hedging companies do to raw materials, oil etc follows a similar pattern.

The author doesn't mention anytime that, he seems clueless, just use it to play like casino and complain about the losses.
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Great work! It makes me wonder if a few things could be possible:

1. Make the surface of the ball a multitouch trackpad surface so you could pinch zoom in and out and two finger scroll up and down, all on the ball itself. Make it only work when the ball is not pressed on hard enough to move.

2. Make the ball slightly squeezable, which registers as a click. That way you could roll it around on your desk or on the base. This honestly would also be a great kids computer toy so they don't have to get their hands near the device itself.

3. Add electromagnets inside on all sides and place the ball on a magnetic trackpad or base. When squeezed it would turn on the downward-facing electromagnet in the ball to make it harder to move, so you could engage in finer detail work.

Probably a materials challenge to do any of these but it would be really cool to see these new input frontiers explored.
Yeah, but if you called after 9pm you had to have a damn good reason or you’d get a lecture about “what hour it is”.
"As Amazon became large, we decided to use our scale and scope to lead on important social issues".

A bold claim for a company widely known to exploit and underpay workers in distribution warehouses.
For track and trace at least, it relies on the Google and Apple contact tracing APIs.
> Leaving aside the fact that is perfectly possible for a union to negotiate performance-based pay and/or bonuses, I would be interested to think what you think a fair productivity:pay ratio would be for a worker in an Amazon fulfillment centre. Currently, I understand employees are held to such high productivity targets as a matter of course that many of them are afraid to take bathroom breaks in case their productivity dips and they end up getting fired.

You know I heard those stories before I went to amazon, and while I wasn’t happy with the work conditions, it certainly wasn’t like that. So I’m not saying the stories are false. But I’m not convinced they are representative either, they certainly weren’t representative of my experience.

I’ll answer your question with a question, how do you measure productivity? What percentage of productivity is contributed by labor, and what percentage by capital? We’re going to need this number if we are to answer your question anyway.

> This seems to be a valid fear - I couldn't find anything for Alabama, but in Baltimore, Amazon fire around 10% of their workforce annually for failing to meet performance targets.

That seems reasonable. I think Jack Welch had a similar policy.

> This question doesn't make a lot of sense to me. Why are you asking this?

Gp said he/she were on the same team and have the same interests. If one has the same interests why does one have separate bank accounts?
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I propose we don't add this to Unicode.
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> you will have to PAY from your PAYCHECK

that’s insulting, why CAPITALIZE words in such SHORT sentences? Do they really THINK their employees are SO dumb that they can’t even read a FULL sentence?
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The transitions between states in the Svelte example are also completely uncontrolled and there is no guaranteed flow from state A => B => C. That is completely fine in many cases, most cases I would say. The problem is when you encounter a scenario where predetermined flow and guaranteed state transitions matter and you're trying to cobble it together. Robot and XState aren't React libraries, they're just Javascript libraries. Not every solution needs them but to dismiss the idea as overengineering or React specific because you can assign to variables in Svelte is missing the point.
My hobby is trying to numerically simulate a nuclear weapon explosion, with hydrodynamics and reactivity calculations. I truly don't care if this succeeds. :)
Exactly. So the employee negotiates the highest wage that he can, and the employer negotiates the lowest wage that he can, and they arrive at an acceptable wage.
The US is composed of a heap of immigrants that migrated to the US and to a point intermingled culturally to come up with a new country / culture.

The Anglo-Saxons were a people made out of immigrants from Germanic Europe that migrated to what is now England and mingled with indigenous British groups, tracing back to the 5th century. It's often used to refer to the language spoken in England and eastern Scotland until the mid-12th century, also called Old English. The culture and language were pretty much defunct after the Norman Conquest.

Something I found out / realized not that long ago: the Norman Conquest wasn't actually vikings, but French from Normandy. Mind you, vikings from Denmark and Norway were also a thing around the same time.
Use a seperate device (e.g. old iPod Touch) for alarm clock and music player.

Then keep the phone somewhere you can't hear it at all.
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I'm an old fart that is a programmer that now has a fancy "architect" title.

I think I can distill that 30 years into the following:

1. Nouns are more important then Verbs. (that's what DDD is about)

2. Everything is events (if your Nouns aren't doing anything, there's nothing to be done. When they do something, that's an event).

3. A Noun's state is the sum of all the events that occurred and the way the Noun responded to them.

All the rest, microservices, network partitions, RDBMS vs NoSQL, containers, etc etc is irrelevant to the business. If you don't get those 3 points right, then you don't deliver the business value and you've failed.

Architects are about translating the business into those Nouns and Verbs and explaining them back to the business and to the developers that are building the automated bit of that business.
Cuneiform went through a long evolution. In its early history, it did not relate to syllables, but to concepts, and was much similar to how the Chinese characters and the Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs work. At some point though, some characters became used to represent syllables, and many more specific characters ceased to be used. The Ancient Egyptian writing system had a similar evolution.

Not even the CCP could replace the usage of logographic characters for the Chinese languages, but the Chinese writing system inspired several other writing systems: Hiragana, Katakana and Zhuyin/Bopomofo are all derived from it. There are also several other logographic writing systems inspired by Chinese characters, for example the Tangut script.
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Germany is pathetic and spineless for letting the EU-China deal go through. Never again never meant shit, it was just virtue signaling, a lie, a fraud. Because it is happening again and Germany is using the same old spineless appeasement tactic that was taken with Nazi Germany.

If you are a German citizen you really need to ask yourself how you can change your voting behaviour to ensure that the people who made the EU-China deal happen never have political power again.

If good people stand by and do nothing while genocide is happening, they are not good people because good people don't tolerate genocide.

And the pipeline deals that Germany have with Russia is also messed up. Western Europe has to find a backbone and soon, and stand up to totalitarian regimes and dictators. If Europe fails to be a bulwark against this scourge then it will consume Europe also.

EDIT: Just to be clear, I don't suggest the west should invade china or it's proxies, or start wars, or start proxy wars. But is not making deals with a genocidal state that much to ask? Is maybe sanctions too much to ask for? Is clear an unequivocal support for Taiwan with mutual defence pacts too much to ask for?
I wondering if thats the default behaviour of users too. That they do prefer to reply to emails at 2 am.
It's anecdotal, but in one engineering team I talked about having culture of not sending emails after work hours. But consensus was that they have no problem with it, and some insisted that they are any way working late in nigt.
So, will-fully or forced, users are maybe performing this behaviour !
What advice would you have for us solo founders in terms of maintaining healthy relations with our first employees?

I won't ask what Jeff did wrong for obvious reasons, but what did he do really well?

I loved your other comment on here about living a fulfilled life. Thanks for sharing.
I wanted to work for Amazon then I read "The Everything Store..." and how brutal this guy is even to his loyal people. How he treated initial people who supported him. Amazon is part of the club- I don't want to work companies. Facebook, Google, Reddit, Twitter, LinkedIn, Tesla, SpaceX and adding more
One example of a very new drug; do you have any others? Any studies on its efficacy and side effects?
Except that's pci-e 3.0 unlike the cards from broadcom and intel.
Apologies if this question is a bit in the nose, but why did you leave?
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I don’t see the correlation
I personnally appreciate someone making the rounds around all the stakeholders, booking meetings for me, finding who do I need to talk to to get a domain-specific answer, reporting to stakeholders on the progress, and more generally navigating the organization on my behalf. This stuff is just too time consuming to tackle on top of a development role, especially in a larger org.

note: we are a product organization, not consultants.
My father had a different dictionary if the reason was not damn good, like some one in medical emergency.
MDR-7506 are more or less indestructible (and their naked structure means they are very easy to repair). That's why they were used in sound studios, mainly as sound monitors for artists.

They behave a bit like Yamaha NS10 monitors in that anything that sounds good in them, will sound good anywhere.
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> This is not a useful list in any meaningful way - it's not for developers, it's for a subset of web developers.

Isn't the majority of development classed as web development these days?
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Is this only an internal refactoring or the first step towards the Google Graveyard (https://killedbygoogle.com/)?