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I have worked remotely each day for the last 3 years with both programmers and testers at one of the largest IT consulting firms in Ukraine. I have no perspective on the cost of doing so, but I do have some on the team work and quality of outsourcing over there.

Like everywhere else in the world there is a shortage of high quality professionals in Ukraine. And specially now that more and more companies are outsourcing their work over there.

My team has had abysmal programmers & testers come in (who we simply had removed from the team as a result) all the way up to fantasticly professional and capable people. It might take some time, and may cost you above the going rate, but there are certainly gems to be found over there.

The main problem has been the culture. In our experience there is a lot of rigid hierarchy over there, that in the first few years kept team members from speaking their minds.
Junior developers would never speak their minds, and blindly do what their seniors would tell them to do. And similarly, the seniors would never take any input from anyone who wasn't either a senior, pm/po or architect.

And lets not get into the sexism that is deeply rooted in Ukrainian society and culture.

This is all very different from what we are used to here in northen Europe, as each team member is expected to speak their mind completely (put professionally ofc) so as to leave no stone unturned.
Once a decision has been made this way, the team can move onto something actionable as a unified front without unmentioned trepidation arrising later on (or such is the thinking at least).

It has taken us three years of moving people in and out of the teams, figuring out the best composition of what people to have together and where. And even bringing outside contractors in to replace people within the contracting firm we use.

So it is no silver bullet, but it can be done. I do wonder though if all that time and effort, with the cost incurred, would have been better spent simply hiring locally and building the best team we could here.
Isn’t Gab bigger than Pawoo right now?
EteSync 1.0 (released 4+ years ago), was very much inspired by Git, and it indeed suffered from this problem. Each client had to replay the full log, and it only really worked well for lightweight data.
With version 2.0 of the protocol (released end of 2020), we changed it so that items (blobs of data) can be marked as changed and thus you only need to fetch the currently active items, rather than the full operations log. This works much better.
Then it's time for solutions that take it into account instead of fairy tale measures like riding the bike to work.
> paying for proprietary software does not mean any right for changes as such

Sure it can. There are enough cases where the rights of proprietary software are transferred to the client, or the contract includes the right to make changes or get changes made.

That's not at the scale of MS, of course, but that's exactly the kind of qualification missing in OP's statement.
tbh, the problem with options is that you can loose a lot of money that you don't have.

People start to play with strategies without fully grasping how they work, and especially how exposed you are if you sell naked options. It's very easy to fall into the trap of creating an option strategy that even if it has good odds, will require a massive amount of margin.

If this happens to you on a regular retail account, you're going to get crushed.
Astronomers Detect Extended Dark Matter Halo Around Ancient Dwarf Galaxy
There's a key difference though, Starship is intended to carry people. The correct comparison for this isn't landing Falcon 9 boosters, it's landing crew capsules.
From the Wikipedia article -

>> Lack of statutory support in the bills for the MSP is a major point of concern, especially for farmers from Punjab and Haryana, where 65% of wheat (2019) is procured at MSP by the Food Corporation of India and state agencies.[30] The deregulation of the sugar industry in 1998, which paved the way for private establishments, did not result in a significant improvement in farmers' productivity or incomes.

There are other points of contention per the article as well.
I like what you did there.

Indeed, this should come as no surprise, nor make any eyebrows rise: Excessive industrial enterprise cannot but give rise to this outcome. Any hope of averting elevated sea levels has all but vaporised.
> (Single character generics) they are easier to read than MyFancyGenericTypeName.

Disagree. Also this same logic can be applied to every other token (ie this argument suggests we should write minified code).

function head<T> (arr: T[]): T | undefined {
return arr[0]
}

function head<Element> (arr: Element[]): Element | undefined {
return arr[0]
}
No different from Google Tag Manager which is already on every blocklist worth its salt. Putting any non-ad/analytics functionality behind these third parties is a guarantee that your site will be broken on ad blockers.
That pump is so funny.

Here are the Dutch ones:

https://www.gemalen.nl/gemaal_detail.asp?gem_id=264

260 cubic meters per second.

We may have fucked up our COVID-19 response but I sure hope that we have at least some level of preparation for the rising sea level. Though that likely is more of a stay of execution than a permanent solution.
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Nordic user here, love the ability to easily write æøå together with English, as I mix between my native language and English.

Love the tactile feedback, the ability to write without looking at the screen, not being dependant on an aggressive typechecker, having the ability to use the keyboard to scroll, attach shortcuts to keys and much more.

My current phone is a KEY2 and my previous was a Blackberry Z10. My primary use is private usage but text heavy and somewhat work related (via BlackBerry Hub although the android Hub+ app doesn't beat the bb10 gesture experience) but I do also use it for various app stuff (not games). It fits all my needs.

Imo. The touch keyboard interface simply doesn't beat having a physical keyboard. when that's said, having the touchscreen is still nice because games and apps are optimized for such handling but for text I'll keep looking forward to the next BlackBerry with keyboard (a new one is presumably being announced in q1 this year).
As someone who actually lives in the area in the satellite image shown in the article, this worries me. What worries me even more is that a few days ago on a local news website there was an article of a group warning the local government about rising sea levels, but most of the reactions were of climate denial. Saying that sea levels have been rising for centuries, but are not accelerating, that the island Tuvalu is growing[1] as some sort of proof that sea levels aren't rising.

I wonder how these people figure how the icecaps can melt without raising the sea level. It's become very fashionable to be 'skeptic' these days.

[1] which is actually sediment and reef growth, rising sea levels are still a large threat to the island https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-12-19/fact-check-is-the-isl...
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You seem to have no Help / Support options that I can find.

The Lost Password does not seem to be working for my account.
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Do you only use index finger to operate it? Or can it be operated with 2-3 fingers given its shape? I mean the ball.
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You can. Grainger is selling a good selection now, and they are a very old and respected distributor. I trust their supply chain, and you can get N95s from them for 2-4 dollars each depending on exactly what model and brand you want.
> Amazon is a cheap target for young idealists

Maybe its a target because is a behemoth of a target.

Amazon is so big US states were competing in a bezos d*k sucking competition to have their hq built in their state.

A company famous for paying zero taxes and its biggest slice of workforce are being optimised like a computer program to squeeze every last $ they can produce at the expense of the workforce.

So if amazon is a bad target what else should be then? Or maybe everything is fine and the invisible hand is going to fix all of the problems?
> Its beneficial for farmers but not middle men, and unfortunately there is a huge propaganda to push back on it. The protests were highly unethical in a time where there is covid and congregating in such groups puts the whole country at risk.

It is decidedly not beneficial for farmers with small land holdings, and most farmers in India are such farmers. The new laws remove legal protection when companies fail to honour farming contracts; the only option now is to approach the Sub-Divisional Magistrates for arbitration, a class of government official that is known primarily for being corrupt. The new laws also remove stockholding limits for private companies (except in the event of an official famine, etc). Incidentally new private godowns came up everywhere months before the laws were passed, almost as if these companies could predict the future.

If you want to talk about unethical acts, the laws were steamrolled through parliament. It was beyond farcical. Have a look: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5s4quyO2W0

And propaganda? The Centre spent a fortune on propaganda justifying the new laws. It even showed pictures of "farmers" said to be in support of the new laws who now claim their pictures were used without their consent. Far from being in favour of the bills, they are part of the protests against them. Here: https://www.indiatoday.in/india/story/protesting-farmer-film...

The Centre claims the laws will give farmers the opportunity to shop around for a better price. The reality is that most Indian farmers are in debt, and can barely afford to transport their produce to the nearest wholesale markets. They can't afford multiple trips. They can't afford to go to a neighbouring state. They have no storage facilities. Their goods are highly perishable. They have to take the price traders will offer, and collusion among traders is extremely common. This is the kind of fortune farmers can expect to make selling to private traders: https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/bareilly/angry-farm...

All those farmers who are protesting are not doing it out of ideological opposition to the Modi government. They have mostly refused to allow any political party to become part of the protests. They are protesting because they are aware that these laws will result in the government phasing out existing government-run wholesale markets, and then it will be curtains for them.

Edit: now the Government has barricaded in the protestors, cut off their water and food, cut off their Internet and barred any journalists from meeting them.
Well, Ethereum. Cardano is doing the contending.

ZCash’s parent company, Electric Coin Co., has also been the source of a lot of innovation. For example, the L2 “Optimism” scaling solution that looks very promising for Ethereum uses zk rollups which is the direct result of zksnarks research deployed in ZCash.
It wasn't theology at all. It's just that he was equipped with a less rigorous analogue of the Raychaudhuri equation and an intuition about the focusing theorems one could extract from it. In short: a universe with reasonable distributions of matter in it (galaxies) would collapse to a point eventually. Since the Earth was billions of years old (with improved estimates growing in age), the universe must be older still, yet it had not collapsed. Either there was a lot less matter in the universe than there appeared (and again, better observations kept finding more "nebulae" and then galaxies) or something acted against the tendency to collapse. A simple scalar multiplier on the metric tensor was a straightforward and simple way to proxy for the latter. "Static" in this context simply meant "non-collapsing over billions of years", with the value depending on the averaged matter-density.

Later he and de Sitter discovered that the multiplier could be set to zero (and consequently omitted from the field equations) while allowing an arbitrarily long -- eternal, even -- expansion of a hot big bang universe, even for arbitrarily large average matter-densities.

It wasn't until decades after his death that better observations demanded the return of the small positive cosmological constant. This time it wasn't to prevent total collapse, but rather to account for the gravitational drag of early galaxy clusters on each other not slowing the Einstein-de Sitter expansion (and even later speeding the expansion up).

The cosmological constant term was always a free parameter. It's just that there was no point in writing it down if it was measured as zero.
The option of riding a bike to work is 100% realistic when you live in a flat/planar area. Indeed, in many cities and towns in the world this is extremely popular.

Of course, it's not an easy transformation from car-oriented urban planning.
Effects of Covid-19 pandemic on primary care mental illness and self-harm
Hmm. I could argue that technically there're sometimes contracts with investors, but that's not about public trading; they probably just didn't understand where the obligation comes from.
> It seems to me the democracy experiment in India can collapse some time in the near future.

As an indian, I am still optimistic. As these farm protests shows, our democracy still has life despite a government that has scant regard for it.

Despite the hiccups in the past (dismissing of an elected communist government in a state and a short emergency that suspended elections and most democratic rights), democracy has thrived till the last 6 years.

What this government has done is exposed all the huge shortcomings in our democratic institutions that has allowed it to control and dominate it, thus weakening our democracy. As long as we don't allow the current party in power to totally subjugate our democracy (like Hitler did with Germany), we can still repair our democracy.

(As the right-wing in power in US and India showed, democracy in the US is more resilient than India's because the democratic institutions of the US were stronger. This is where India needs to focus. Also note that one of the propaganda of the party in power is to show that democracy is totally dysfunctional in India, because that is the only way they can find support to change the constitution to "fix" it.)
I agree the initial behavior was understandable given the uncertainty. What’s less understandable is how slowly we’ve adjusted to better information…
> It makes the variable name become an integral part of any code snippet that a reader feels compelled to memorize the specific names used

And single character variable names don't require memorisation? raises eyebrow
The article mentions a server in Japan that has a million users. Assume they each follow 15 users, half on their own instance, half elsewhere, and that off-instance followees are followed by an average of three users. If it used RSS, that server would issue 2.5m HTTP GET requests every few minutes in order to update the feeds, even the feeds where nothing has changed. Of course it could/would use per-feed adaptive fetch frequency and use HTTP if-modified-since, but all that's only damage limitation.

This happens because RSS network activity is mostly O(users × time), not O(activity).
> Instead of measuring some approximation of engineering output, software teams should measure actual, observable metrics that directly correlate to effectiveness.

I prefer to measure value created and partially tie it to compensation, directly and indirectly.

For a dev team for a trading platform, we had an index of income created by product, approved by team and stakeholders, that affected total compensation paid to team.

This is a specific example. The general principle is let tech teams make decisions and compensate them for value created, at least partially.

Otherwise, when you don't want to share your money, "measurement of productivity / effectiveness" comes in. Because when you measure money, people ask, "why am I not getting more when I make you more"? But if you're not measuring money, why do a business?
It's hard to compare apples to apples here because AWS leverages infrastructure Amazon already had to keep around for seasonal surges to its core business. I do not believe that Google has excess capacity for seasonal demand.
Phones have a silent-mode switch. This is a solved problem.
Back in the early days 94/95 people quite often used to type single word domains just to see what was out there.

This is back when you could fire up mosaic and read the what's new on the internet today :-)
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how do you set an initial orientation of the cursor? how does it know, where's "up" cursor direction?
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The key question is how do you quantify earnings/savings? In the example:

Future efforts to build widgets will take less time to build -> How to quantify ?
Vulnerability exposure that could have lead to disaster -> How to quantify ?

What you are saying is nice and clean on paper but simply impossible in practice.
> (c) I'll be dead, and more likely than not my kids will be too, 80 years from now.

This argument sounds sort of frivolous, but it is actually quite strong.

If the climate was radically different 100 years ago, how many people would care, or even know?
Diaspora did use OStatus back in the early 2010s, at the height of its popularity, and it's easy to find the code in their git repository [1][2][3]. It never interoperated, of course, because it was borderline impossible to do it. Some of the OStatus code is still there after almost 10 years.

Mastodon also used OStatus before ActivityPub existed too, and this is why I'm mentioning OStatus/ActivityStreams: [4][5]

ActivityPub was an evolution of ActivityStreams/OStatus, and was started by the same people that wrote StatusNet/Identi.ca/GnuSocial and did the OStatus work in the late 2000s. It's a small group.

[1] https://github.com/diaspora/diaspora/blob/e100032244fec9de9c...

[2] https://github.com/diaspora/diaspora/blob/e100032244fec9de9c...

[3] https://github.com/diaspora/diaspora/blob/e100032244fec9de9c...

[4] https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/blob/8d93f0ca563322764...

[5] https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/blob/8d93f0ca563322764...
Isn't it obvious? If you have two products, one that is unstable and ugly, but neat under the hood and one that is stable and pretty, but runs an outdated kernel, which would end-users choose?
> Frankly I've found the vast majority of "experienced engineers" aren't actually any better at their jobs than fresh grads.

Then you don't know what you're looking at.

It's true that there's title inflation in software these days, but if you talk to any software engineer with 20+ years of experience, you will notice the difference.

The hallmark of a junior engineer is deploying Java applications to production in 4 GB VMs. Seen this all over SV. Or not knowing what EXPLAIN is. I could go on with examples of inexperienced engineers who crippled their company's ability to service their paying clients.
I remember (: being used by left-handed in the late '90s, but maybe it was just the people I knew that used it for that reason.
What fictional planet do you live on where Florida handled Covid wrong? The state is doing better than Florida and New York who are still locked down and are moving out of those state to Flordia.
I couldn’t read the article because it has an ad blocker blocker and I don’t have an ad blocker blocker blocker.

Ah well.
How does this compare to Segment?
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Outdated documentation is worse than no documentation.

It doesn't matter which framework was used to write it.
Eh, depends on context, for bash scripts that might be just fine. You need to have some styling information go along with it anyways, so instead of having some dedicated markup language and then having an output library that converts that to whatever your output uses, you could just declare those ansi escape codes your "markup language" and should you ever need to output it to something else, say a web page, I'm sure there's code around that does the conversion. But I guess to make it more readable you might want to put those commonly used sequences into some variables so you can do

echo "${esc_red}ERROR${esc_reset}: All messed up"
JavaScript One-Liners
College is worthless - buy GME!
"Stop finishing Projects"

I tried to convince people it was a good idea to have a general purpose bytecode VM as part of web browsers in 1994 - quite glad I was ignored by my employer as they would probably have patended the idea!
Honestly for little stuff like that I'd rather go straight to the source from aliexpress than bother with Amazon as the middleman
Its a thing in all US high schools - so for US searchers it would be very obvious

Back in the 70's in the UK one of our American teachers mentioned then in our general studies class when we where doing America one term - she refused to show us her entry :-)
The full title is "Effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on primary care-recorded mental illness and self-harm episodes in the UK: a population-based cohort study".

The results are complex: fewer people than expected are being diagnosed with depression and anxiety; fewer people are presenting with self harm; and first prescriptions for some psychotropic meds was lower than expected. That might be because people in the UK feel GPs are not available and are not making appointments to see GPs.
If you want to see more of his poetry, quite a lot was published in the Spectator magazine: https://www.spectator.co.uk/writer/clive-james

Sunset Hails a Rising

Dying by inches, I can hear the sound

Of all the fine words for the flow of things

The poets and philosophers have used

To mark the path into the killing ground.
there is a difference being waken up by the thing you choose to be on-call for and being waken up in the middle of the night by a random application because fuck you that's why
It’s a smaller scale but when the cliffs in Pacifica,CA eroded enough to put some apartments at risk that’s exactly what they did. Tenants found new homes inland and the buildings were torn down before they fell into the ocean.
I think the source of randomness is the imperfect reproduction of feedback loops (at each layer), so basically I think randomness is just interaction of great complexity we cannot comprehend - it is a direct opposite of consistency. In my view there is just one "physical" world - the reality and all interactions happen inside this one frame. Consciousness is one of the layers, it uses a consistent but highly expressive API, that makes it possible to reach the level of predictive power we enjoy. Society might be considered a higher level, building on APIs of consciousness humans. If we were to use "trivial" self-made APIs, could we create a software that would match our level of predictive power? (see also the other comment I wrote)
Coloring names with escape codes sounds like a John Carmack feature
Update:

https://github.com/keyle/mdtimesheet