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It depends entirely on the context. If swears are being used in a way that even remotely touches on other employees or the company's products, then it's a huge morale drag.

Yelling out "Fuck!" because you just stubbed your toe on your desk, or because you've been stuck on a frustrating problem for awhile that you just can't solve, is fine. Saying "Why does team X's product suck so fucking much?" or "Why do you keep making this same fucking mistake?" is a huge problem.

It's not exactly about the swears per se, but about being overly negative / anti-collaborative. The OP post gives off the vibe of someone who prides themselves on being "brutally honest" in their feedback but which in fact really just comes off as being an asshole to most people.
Before Apple blessed us with it's ground breaking technology to restrict the software you are allowed to have on your own device we did just fine getting software on our devices using a file system and the internet.
Respectfully, saying there is "evidence that COVID can destroy asymptomatic people's lung function" makes no sense. I think this safely falls into the FUD category, and it really bothers me when I hear things like this.

I seriously doubt there is evidence of this claim. I don't think we can go around saying it can destroy people's lung function who show no symptoms. If a person's lung function is damaged to the point where we would describe it as 'destroyed', then that person is not asymptomatic. That's a clear symptom.

Maybe I misunderstand, and you are saying folks who start out with no symptoms, then develop damage latter.

Anyway, we can reasonably say that asymptomatic people might still receive minor damage to their lungs, and such damage could be observed on a CT scan or other test later. Irreversible damage? Probably not.

Our bodies are in a constant state of being damaged and repairing themselves. If we went through life with the goal of avoiding any and all damage to our bodies, that would be a terrible way to live.
Thank you. I have put these in a list I'm creating to add to the app. I only recently learned to make iOS apps and SwiftUI is rather still new. Rather I wanted to learn how make apps so I thought might as well make something people can use. I plan on making it much better UI wise along with region-specific DNS lists or some method of sorting them.
Agreed! The fact that you can directly encrypt with RSA has been the source of all kinds of misuse-related issues.
This isn't a webtech thing. Look at Superfund as one of many examples of the conventional wisdom that business winnby cheating. Most theft in USA is wage theft by employers. Corporations are constantly getting caught breaking the law and not getting punished, defrauding customers or polluting the environment. Sports stadiums being built my governments and given away to corporations.
Or because Gorbachev ordered it...
Interesting! As a Scandinavian it's hard to imagine how any government can function effectively and properly without good records. Being able to read up-to-date, high-quality population statistics is wonderful, and also that researchers can get access to various records and link them. And I struggle to see how to expect the government/public services to take care of me, protect me and provide me good services if it didn't know who I am and what threats/problems there are in the society
And yet video rental platforms from Google and Disney (Renting Mulan on Disney Plus cost extra) aren't allowed to bypass Apple, whereas Amazon can.

Even if there was something very specific about Amazon's implementation that allowed them to bypass the rule—at what point is it fair to acknowledge the rule was specially crafted for Amazon? What if the policy had an exemption for "Companies that begin with 'A' and end with 'zon'"?
I don't know enough about this trial to decide yet whether it is ethical or not. But there are in any case some differences to a full trial for a vaccine. This is a trial with young people, for a real vaccine trial you also need to know if it works in older people and the mortality is so much higher then that it would be clearly unethical to perform this trial.
Awesome work! Love the stack.

How does this compare with Supabase?
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https://hbr.org/2018/09/the-social-and-political-costs-of-th...

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2021-02-09/what-people...

Happy to offer much more if requested
The latter; the lender doesn't get to enjoy the appreciation of the underlying collateral. The underlying collateral is simply meant to de-risk an anonymous loan with 0 credit check.
I'm going to pile on here with the others. If you're legitimately a people manager (not a low grade 'team lead'), there is no way, no how, you could have 80% free time.

I've been doing this for some 23 years and had a stint as a proper manager for a year, where I spent about 20% of my time coding, and I was more starved for time than just about any other phase in my career.

I'm currently a principal eng/ arch at a mid-size medical device company, and my principal eng/people manager complement, perhaps one of the strongest devs I've ever encountered (close to a fabled 10x dev), barely has time to code at all. He's just slammed all day every day with general meetings, doing 1-on-1s, presentation prep, working on process improvements, Scrum/product owners for backlog grooming, interfacing with other managers, etc, it just kills his day for anything more than tiny bits of coding here and there, and because he is such a great dev, he does provide meaningful contributions.

I have worked at small startups where things are a bit better, but I can't recall ever seeing a case where a good manager has more than 1/3 of their time to code. 80% dead time would mean hardly managing at all.
And specifically no-one can tie that billion pounds to the business interests of ministers or their family members...
I bet they are counting on the lock-in factor. It might be worth it to just pay the fee rather than to go through the pain of switching.
Thanks, I wasn't aware of this service, even though I've been a pretty heavy Google services user for (looks it up)...holy crap, almost 17 years now.
Where I want to also see this extending is for the platform that Epic Games has created with the Unreal Engine. Should we be able to load in any skins that we could sell on our own store [- the users could decide to not allow/block them], etc? This would help counter Epic's ability to simply make skins that copy higher detail versions or make them look enough like other mainstream-popular characters, e.g. the skin that by users is called the "John Wick" skin - but it's not called that by Epic, so instead that movie franchise could have created and sold the John Wick skin on all game platforms for users to integrate if they allow [e.g. moving towards the Ready Player One movie].
Medicine

I seriously considered it when I was a teenager, decided to try out some more unorthodox fields instead, eventually wound up in software. Reasons why I would pick medicine - having a more tangible positive impact on the world and better long term job stability.

Unfortunately, there's no realistic way for me to switch at this point considering the fees and having to spend so many years studying full time without any income.
Ignoring your last sentence (which doesn't merit response) to disagree with "the type of job has little to do with [the ability to leave work at work]".

Thought work is fundamentally different from physical labor. Work:life boundaries are so permeable. Any but the most ignorant, junior, "code-monkey" -type developer spends a large portion of their cognitive resources on solving problems (as opposed to strictly sitting at the keyboard writing code like a factory worker). Compartmentalization may well be a personality trait or learned skill, but setting down physical tools in the shop before commuting home is completely different from a software dev's home office and potentially round-the-clock work cycles.
That's still nothing close to a monopoly.
>> No rational person would ditch traditional banking in favor of Bitcoin.

There are people who have made arrangements to receive their payroll disbursements in BTC.

While there are not many of these people and they probably all still maintain some form of traditional bank account, I am curious if you would define these folks as irrational (by your definition)?
Huh, thanks.

So now I'm incredibly curious -- the sore throat I get from memory foam. Is there any way to know whether that's simply a result of the VOC's damaging the cells in my throat directly? Or if it's an allergic reaction happening in that spot?

I have definitely been curious why memory foam would give me a sore throat specifically, when the offgassing is making equal contact with my skin, sinuses, etc.
Martian craters are typically named after towns around the world that have fewer than 100,000 residents to avoid political pressures.
Kernel's operatives aren't syntactic forms. They're first-class expressions which are evaluated at runtime. The behavior is quite different from macros and provides greater abstractive power.

IMO, Kernel is the ideal playground for testing out language designs and features. It's performance limits it from being a practical language for deploying applications.
Meh - eventually things work out for the best of the consumers most of the time - for eg. epic game store just gave a bunch of titles free no strings attached a while ago, EA store used to have free stuff as well.

End of the day you have to have enough value to get people to inconvenience themselves - I'd rather that this value gets shelled out to users as enticement to install some app store than Apple capturing that money simply because their store is the only one allowed to exist on the platform.
Tricky bits? Thanks to GIL, it's just broken and doesn't work.
I didn’t read it as firing old people, but rather firing people for the plain old reason that they’re not doing a good job.
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There’s a real ‘ceci n'est pas une pipe’ treachery-of-images philosophical trap here, of course.

If text’s so darn great, after all, why do you need to draw a picture of it before I can understand it?
I too submitted a request to LI regarding the passing of a colleague. Support handled it the very same day.
Sure, but I the consumer could give a rats ass about how they perceive the value of the app store.
Is Vim immune to copy-paste attack?
How far do you take that line of reasoning? Base64 is text?
What about the case where you're not migrating away, but do need to support multiple clouds for regulatory, failover, customer requirements, etc. reasons? Is there a way to still leverage the first-class features of, say, AWS and GCP without resorting to one of these issues:

- death by abstraction of cloud differences

- teams incompletely reimplementing features on each service

- giving up and going to bare metal

?
That sentence is very poorly written and I also read it wrong the first time, but he’s not advocating to fire old people. He’s saying the “plain old” reason for firing people, “you are not doing a great job.”
This sucks, but who is guilt for this, the giant publishers, why? because AppStores have a big tax , so competition that would lower the tax would solve the problem,

Is same with video streaming, the giants don't want other giants to get a big cut without working hard.

IMO , AppStore competition should be like web hosting, competition is large enough so you have enough choice to buy exactly what you want. Imagine if you want your web page to be visible on Apple stuff you need to pay 30% of your profits to Apple and only if Apple likes your page content.
> Oh, it it's not homoiconic

Is it as homoiconic as it needs to be? It's been a while since I've played with it in any real way, but, as I recall, Forth represents both data and code in exactly the same way: Blobs of data with no associated type information, that you're allowed to fiddle in any way you want, with no guard rails.

So it seems like there's no reason you couldn't write some words for manipulating code every bit as easily as you could write some words for manipulating any other data.

Lisp gives you a lot more out of the box, of course. But Lisp gives you a lot more of everything out of the box.
Yeah what the hell is this person talking about? How do they think software was installed prior to Steam?
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Yup. Not factoring in 1.5 hours a day for my commute and honestly another 30 minutes for dressing myself for commuting and office life has been so incredible. At least half of that time is now sleep time. The other is book reading time. Both help my mental health a lot.
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There absolutely is a "normal" amount of vacancies because it takes time for a house to sell, for someone to move out and then someone else to move in, for a new lease to be signed, etc. It's exactly the same dynamic with employment; there is a "normal" amount of a unemployment (a low single digit number) that is impossible to improve past, simply because it takes time to find a job. Housing is no different.

Also, most of the homeless are unhoused because they either can't afford a home or they have mental illness/drug addiction issues that makes them incapable of earning money in order to be able to afford a house. It doesn't matter if housing is vacant if you don't have the means to pay the rent, or if they won't even consider you for a lease anyway because you don't have a reliable source of income.
Thank you for that. I wasn’t aware they went into their production pipeline on this course. I will definitely be checking it out!
Why does Facebook want to know what you had for breakfast and mad that Apple is wanting to limit their access to data and share that they are collecting that information?
We used to download almost every program on their own website until just a couple of years ago. It'll be fine.
No, I’m not agreeing at all. The author is asserting that you should always be in the start-up situation of not having incremental work where your ultimate impact on customers comes through long chained sequences of tiny tweaks or accumulated effects.

It’s perfectly fine (good even) to work in a large company where your value add is not immediately clarified and is just part of a large agglomerated process. Most net benefit to consumers occurs this way.

It’s also fine if you want to work in the start-up manner, but it’s not “better” or “more correct” or anything.

The author is taking it to a deeply unreasonable extreme that shows more about the author’s arrogance than about any sincere or earnest desire to help customers.
That doesn't scale because physical infrastructure can't be "copied" as easily. It's better to fix what failed (everything from "use winterized oil for wind turbines" to "insulate above ground pipes" to "better granularity on local power grids" to "better insulation for homes" to "don't have steam turbines at nuclear power plants in the outside air").

Basically TX doesn't required electricity generators to cold-proof their assets so they fail. That's the low regulation low cost route.
I agree that code needs to be maintained, but I would say that Common Lisp code has a tendency to bitrot a lot slower than other languages because implementations of Common Lisp don’t break code.

So there’s definitely a valid maintenance point of code needs to continue to be extended (though I’ve had no trouble finding or training Common Lisp programmers), but Common Lisp code simply doesn’t stop working on the timespan of years.
I know this isn't the first time this happens, but it's a curious thing when a large US company has to resort to using the EU court system to resolve their beef with another US company.
Better late than never, I guess.
I'm confused by your statement. Why should those companies give 30% to Apple? Also, many already do.
I agree. Not sure he meant that. People are much more important than roles. If you have someone who is good but in a role that is not needed anymore, you'll find another role for them. Esp in big tech.
That's nothing - in 1985 I saw a demo for an orbital 5 megawatt laser.
The executive can't do much damage if it doesn't have any money to work with.
He didn't say he wanted to fire old people, "plain old - you are not doing a great job" is just a colloquialism and can be replaced with the word "standard reason" or something similar.

This is probably how he got in trouble for some of the HR things he mentioned, where he says a word and people take it like you did and report him.
> What if consumers like it like that: one sandbox curated by Apple?

if they like it, they can keep using it.

EDIT: apparently suggesting people to keep using something they like deserves downvotes :)
We have truly entered the state capitalist era. (Collectively funded research is great, secrecy about it isn't.)
Like many cities that have expensive areas (and Boston/Cambridge certainly do), it's often fairly easy to get to suburbs--some of which have downtown areas--that aren't Midwest cheap but are fairly affordable. I live quite a bit further out but I'm still able to drive in for an evening or take commuter rail in for a day.

I think the fact that it's hard to get out of the expensive areas in the Bay Area in a reasonable amount of time gives a lot of people a false impression of the situation with other expensive cities.
Feel free. Just be aware, those aren't the most profitable companies in the world, (i.e. FAANGM) and at some point, you might want to work out why that is.
> dangerous enough to bend the rules of clinical trials to find a vaccine faster

Bending ethics regulations because of emergencies is a really dangerous precedent, and a bell I'd rather leave unrung.

We don't need to bend the rules when things get bad, we need to have better rules. Subtle but massive difference
I recognize the fact that the argument is exactly the same as for not opening up the appstore in the first place. But the importance and scope of it is less if the store is open.

Now you can chose to buy en expensive device (or you did in the past and can't de-apple due to lock-in) or not. In the future you could chose not to buy photoshop because of their insistence on their app store dependency.

I think having a more granular choice is good. Like I said, that UX hit, imo, is less important than the monopolistic behavior displayed now:

The apple "tax" (including the rules around links to donation pages and similar nonsense). Curation that cannot be overridden by end-users. Unpredictable policy changes for developers. 1st party appropriation of successful independent applications. Unfair competing (think browser javascript engines).

I think bad UX is less important than those things listed above, that's the argument.
I've got a system where a visitor to a web page can request to have product information emailed to them. That is the only way anyone would ever get an email from this system, and I don't even store the email address so I couldn't spam them if I wanted to. And yet, I still get a number of spam complaints every day.

I don't get it.
I've seen people go from Engineer to Manager, skipping over, for want of better phrasing, the senior engineering ranks. In both cases it went poorly and a founders child was involved, indirectly at first and then later directly.
Are iBooks DRM-Free now? That's exciting, do you know when that happened?
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S3, SQS, RDS, etc. are some damn nice primitives and also have analogues across all the clouds. The headcount to run their open source equivalents to the same SLAs is not free either.
How do tracking pixels handle a mailbox setting that doesn't load images by default?
"As far as I can tell this isn't a legal requirement - shareholders have no obligation to disclose their position, ..."

Very much seems like this should be remedied, it's part of integrity for people to know if you have a financial motivation behind what you say - at least if you want a society that has integrity and not as easily open to manipulation; it's ultimately why advertising is bad, the people didn't deserve to get the attention they've getting - and why in part Tesla has done so well - they created a good enough product to get word of mouth and receive the attention they deserve (for the good and bad) to receive.
I'd be fine with this project, just without the FoI exception and under a government that didn't constantly break FoI laws and that didn't have endless examples of giving contracts corruptly to incompetent friends and donors.
"Most theft in USA is wage theft by employers"

This is something I hear repeated ad infinitum on the net, but has a calculation ever been done the other way? That is, workers stealing from employers by deliberately clocking out early/late, or by goofing off on HN while on the clock. I would hazard a guess that this number is an order of magnitude greater than seedy business owners short changing their staff.
Don't tell the trial about your lack of sanity, insane people can not give informed consent. Seriously though, thanks for taking a risk to help out the human race.
With two comments quoting the same example, you seem really hell-bent on driving this point home. Ok, I'll bite. How often do you get those 11pm requests that will otherwise get rerouted to someone else unless you respond before 8am? Daily? Weekly? Monthly? A few times per year?

Context matters, because believe it or not, most professionals occasionally go the extra mile no matter what industry they are in. I recently dropped off a motorcycle for a repair, and the young guy working at that shop stayed an hour late to get my business. When something breaks in my house, I have hundreds of people jumping at the bit to come to fix it at any given time, before or after work, weekday or weekend.

Nothing is ever perfect in life, but your criticism of your experience as a software engineer would come across as a lot more empathetic if you started off by acknowledging that you made an excellent career choice to start with, and that this allows you unprecedented career mobility, including the option of easily quitting your job should you have the rare misfortune of having landed at any of the few bad apples that do not reward you for your stress with oodles of money that you wouldn't be able to make anywhere else with that amount of effort and work experience.

Not to mention that if stress and money are not your thing, go and work as a software engineer at an old school Fortune 500 company. I promise to you that nobody will ever ask you to do anything at 11pm there, and you'll still get paid well.
It's like that saying about debt.

When a browser renders your 500 mau site badly it's your problem.

When a browser renders your 50,000,000 mau site badly it's the browser's problem.
Wow, this is terrible. Either fix the bugs, introduce non-standard behavior for all sites, or expect these big players to fix their own problems.
You can do a hybrid approach with the hot metal burn chamber for wood gas and earthen materials to slowly radiate the heat. This is called a rocket mass heater. The exhaust temperature is usually below 100C and often smokeless (a complete burn). Using a fan to extract heat from the final vertical stack (pipe around the exhaust with air running by) can give you an exhaust temperature of around 40C. Here's a quick 3 minute video that explains the concept; there's other YouTube videos that go into greater details if you wish to research this topic more. https://youtu.be/fwCz8Ris79g