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I think the response to your original comment was more that having the "Ugh, forget it I'll just fix it myself" last resort option could be a crutch for a manager
As far as I'm concerned, this is equivalent to the statement that "refrigerating beer causes the ozone layer to fail".

There was a time that it did, and then we banned CFCs, and now it doesn't.

Shouting at people about CO2 is simply never ever ever going to fix the problem. It needs to be incentivised or it won't happen.
>The job of management isn't hard (I'm doing it).

Where do you work? Sign me up! I have hardly any time to code after weekly sprint-related ceremonies, 1:1's, cycle planning, and architecture and code reviews.

The job of management, like the job of any developer, varies from company to company, and situation to situation. Thankfully, the people side of my job as a manager is easy right now, but only because the people I manage are reasonable people to work with, and well receptive to feedback. It was very difficult last year when I had to work through more delicate relationships between the employee and employer. As always, it comes down to people.

It also sounds like the place you may be managing at may not be challenging enough for you. Perhaps it's time to make a change?
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You're assuming you're getting downvoted due to the asexual aspect of your posts. I don't know whether this applies to other cases, but in this case I'm reasonably sure the reason is different: the existence and behavior of asexual people does not change how overall society works (sadly).

In the very situation the BBC story refers to, it doesn't matter whether you're an asexual musician. The producer/executive/... would still expect sex from you. They don't give a shit, follow their ingrained patterns, and that's the problem.

No part of "Everything is about sex. Except sex, which is about power." is in any way diminishing or erasing asexual people. If anything, it exemplifies the additional plight that being asexual brings, even over other LGBTQ+ preferences. Society expects you to be about sex & that's gonna be a very slow change.
I disagree only in that I worked salaried positions in the trades for some time. While most trades are hourly, there does exist a salaried contingent. The thinking that extra asks from your employer is an intrusion into your life is inherently, entitlement. Solid companies and management will repay that extra effort, in one form or another.
That's new "you have made it when"...they need to change the browser engine for your website.
How do I split the date and time into two elements? (2016)
If its our answer to DARPA then good. I only hope the money will be disbursed in ways similar to the DARPA challenges and not in the usual chronyist way of the UK

There's a shocking number of people high up in UK tech influence circles who got there solely by networking, holding events and being on the peripheries of successful startups
Yeah and it completely erases the existence of clouds too! Why isn't there a bit about clouds?!
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At googles scale you would have shift coverage for that shurly
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Mid teens? My 8 year old can read a book in my office while I get a couple of hours of work in.
Also discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26130320
The power deltas might create more opportunity. But as you (and me) noted, it's everywhere.
What ecosystem - i.e. what ecosystem is there that isn't already paid for by the billions and billions Apple make every year?

Apple have hundreds of billions in cash do you actually believe they're going to put ads in their services?
This is kind of sad actually. IKEA made one of the best Apple trolls (literally) of all time with their "book book":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MOXQo7nURs0

They made it as a parody in the style of an iPhone reveal presentation from Steve Jobs.
1 in 140 million for EuroMillions

1 in 293 million for Powerball

Just because someone wins doesn't mean it will be you
To be fair, I went back and looked at my spreadsheet (I put it together a few years back), and it was more focused on cost-of-living than tax.

Examples: my health insurance for the family is ~$500/month, my electricity and gas bill (combined) peaked at $1200/month, property taxes are ~$1300/month, all rounded to $100.

I fixed the electricity by installing solar and (later) Tesla power walls, but I can’t do much about the other two.

It still works out, monetarily, for me because (and I’m not sure if I was clear on this before), I didn’t make anything like this sort of money in the uk, and didn’t really expect to.
A "reality" TV show that selects for people capable of handling the show through rigorous medical examinations is not going to provide an accurate picture on what the average person can handle.
>as if [bad thing] is something only [group] do?
This is such a nonsense statement and it comes up everytime someone describes someones nationality in correlation with something awful.

Honest question, when you read the line "[...]Chinese that are good at math [...]" do you read that all Chinese people are math-wizards? Because that is not what it says.

What about "[...] black people that are fast runners [...]"?

all 3 examples, including the one that turned on your torch of virtue, describes a sub-set of a group, the primary attribute of said group and nothing more.

If anything the implication that the guy you were replied to is somehow biased and "racist" against the absolute-plague-tier of disproportional scammers coming out of India is based on nothing but your inability to differentiate between "broadspectrum-racism" and "critism of a subset of a group"
It seems you are making category mistake.

Using term hypocritical for corporate law seems error just like it does for using it for animals. Apple is engaging in legal battles and hypocritical is not a legal consideration. Apple is not a an entity you can judge using moral psychology.

Apple uses "corporate messaging" toward consumers that has ethical content. It may be mistaken as morality, but it's just how a company's management talks to people. It is a marketing message strategy.
Fifty Shades of Grey is one of the best selling books of all time. Almost all the women your age have read it or seen the film. You should too.
> Epic demands Apple do thing = bad for Apple (good for Epic) no way

Epic demands Apple do a thing = bad for Apple, bad for customers (good for Epic)

> Apple demand Facebook do thing = Good for Apple (bad for FB) yes way

Apple demands Facebook do a thing = Good for Apple, good for customers (bad for Facebook)

As a customer in these equations, I'm siding with Apple.

> That's the very definition of "competition" something Apple has avoided for over a decade at this point

Why do I have to use Epic's game store for Fortnite? Why can't I create my own skins with paint and sell them for whatever I want?
I’ve always said this to our CTO. If we were going to use AWS, we should go all in. Once we stopped trying too hard to avoid lock in, we stopped halfassing our architecture.
> We have it AMAZINGLY WELL being in tech, and we have luxuries that are unique to tech and bewildering to folks in other fields.

This all fucking day. The worst part of this industry is the entitlement and straight up lack of gratitude for your position. It's taken for granted.
I don't understand why submodules are so bad. They are a feature where maybe 60% is implemented, and then just abandoned.

Mercurial has subrepos, which are the EXACT same feature, but they are actually fully implemented, they work, and they don't make you shoot yourself in the foot constantly. They are mostly a joy to use.
you can't compare C# AOT solutions with what D or any other native language has to offer

C# as a language is not working great in AOT environment due the managed and runtime features of the language

that is the reason they are unable to strip more stuff from the executable, it's a mess

so having AOT compilation doesn't mean it's automatically good, when it's bad experience, you have to say it outloud or nothing will improve

everyone can add AOT compilation as bullet points just to pretend the language is capable, because it's obviously not, prove me wrong if you can, but i doubt you can, i have tested, and results are not good, at all
I'm an engineering manager and find it hard to relate to this. With 1:1s, ops reviews, planning, retros, design reviews, support syncs, etc., I have ~6-10 hours of meetings per day - then for non-meeting work I'm writing roadmaps, interviewing, managing escalations, doing project management, status reports, etc. How do you have 80% of your time free as a manager after this? I think that makes sense to code if you have that time, but my experience is that having that much time available as a manager would be an outlier.
There’s always one who takes any comment and has to act like that gatekeeper.

You don’t own suffering. You’re not it’s gatekeeper. It’s not for you to decide if one person’s proposed situation doesn’t take into account the situation of one of millions of versions of suffering.

This sounds like you never played “would you rather” as a child. If comments like this leave you disgusted, you would reconsider reading public forums.
Same thing was happening to me - LinkedIn has a solid deceased policy. I submitted a request with a link to a public obituary, and less than 24hrs later their page was gone. Bittersweet, I’ll miss seeing them pop up now and then, but also won’t feel like they are being disrespected by inaccurate online updates and notifications.

https://www.linkedin.com/help/linkedin/answer/2842/deceased-...
How does that work with shifting sunrises? Do you just get up at 5 in the morning in the summer and 9 in the winter?
Yes they do. I have a few doctor friends, like for any customer facing job they cannot just show up an hour late. But they have a lot of control on their schedule and they do schedule it around their yoga classes, prayer schedule, kids stuff etc.
As a Swiss, I never got the insistence on the square thingie... A lot of Swiss flags that people fly on their poles aren't a square either, and nobody cares. Actually, I'd prefer it if it weren't square, it always gives me this odd-one-out impression in lists of flags
Candy Crush Saga is in the list of Top Free Games on the App Store. So was Fortnite, up until Epic decided they were tired of paying the Apple Tax.

Apple isn't defending users from games with manipulative business models, and in fact is actively profiting from them. This lawsuit is about Apple's ability to profit from them.
OP here.

I agree with you: if you know your deployment is, and always shall be, on e.g. AWS, you essentially lose out on great integration if you try to be cloud agnostic.

However, as in the introduction:

"Whether motivated by the need for a multi-cloud strategy, expenditure minimization, legislative or regulatory demands, or simply to get closer to end users, many organizations find themselves migrating from one cloud to another."

I work with many customers that migrate away from the big US providers because GDPR and the "Schrems II" ruling makes it legally questionable to continue to use these services for certain data processing.

Or ones that have been bitten hard by cloud outages, causing them to fail to deliver service to their customers. Getting a tiny rebate on your cloud bill that month does not begin to cover the lost reputation due to downtime.
This isn't about the people who exchange sex for opportunity, it's about the people who exchange opportunity for sex.
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A vanity address is only human-meaningful up to a certain point in the string. Not really memorizable.
A modest change, considering that M1 has almost doubled.
What if consumers like it like that: one sandbox curated by Apple?
Yea, this seems like a 'scissor' issue where you're going to see the two ends being "I want a project where I care about it and I want to make an impact and personal sacrifices are worth it to make that impact" and "I will never truly be passionate about this, this is an economic transaction where I exchange life for money, and I'm going to try to get the best deal I can."

If you're talking about building a team, having people with similar goals is always important. This guy wants a team with the "we're gonna change the world" view. You're not going to do well on a team like that if you're just looking to maximize the salary/effort ratio.

I think one of the reason people get annoyed at stuff like this is that a lot of people been sold a "we're gonna change the world" vision that turns out to just be some recruiter or manager's excitement and end up parsing TPS reports for below average salary. True change the world opportunities rarely come via a recruiter or job board.
31% in Europe, much more in some markets (54% in Sweden):

https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/mobile/europe

https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/mobile/sweden
> Renewables don't exist in a vacuum

Yes they do, like all energy sources there's a physical limit on how far you can transmit it, all power generators live in a regional bubble.

There's a reason all that excess hydro energy in Sichaun province goes into negative prices multiple times a year and can't be bought elsewhere in the country or even exported to other countries, it's simply too far away.
Does Apple pay tax on that 30% to the EU for sales in the EU?
Every tech company I’ve worked at expected me to bring my laptop home every night “just in case we need you to jump in”

FANG companies also typically pay your cellphone bill, again because they expect to be able to page and call you at any time.
Am almost 53, and after 33 years in the field, I encountered a lot of ageism (at least in hiring) in the Bay Area, so I moved back to the Midwest and worked a gig for a year, then budget cuts axed the newly expanded team. As one Bay area firm said in their rejection letter )the last straw that got me to pack up:)

"You're great technically, but you're not a good cultural fit"

(Yes, I was current at the time. I know node and frontend, did two decades of JS, SQL, cloud, Java, C, rails, PHP, Perl)

Well fuck me then, because all I've done is worked in coding forever. I've managed teams but like coding much more.

I tried getting remote work, had some 20-30 interviews before COVID hit, but no gig. Haven't tried much since and that's my own fault.

So it's been two years since I worked in software. Am not working at the moment. Wouldn't say I'm happier
Cheers! I figure this is the real Information Revolution, eh? :)

> PS: I will also take a look at the Bateson books.

Also, "Introduction to Cybernetics" by W. Ross Ashby is a good, uh, introduction to Cybernetics. :)

http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/ASHBBOOK.html

http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/books/IntroCyb.pdf
Hell, my credit card company reverts to sending me paper statements if I haven't viewed their web bug in a long enough time. Doesn't matter that I use this advanced tool called a calendar to download the statement every month from their website.

So my reward for protecting my electronic privacy is to have my privacy violated through the USPS.
> speaking as someone who has played the game for an embarrassing number of hours

I enjoyed reading that line - made me chuckle :) Would you mind sharing what it is that keeps bringing you back to play?

I'm a grey beard programmer, husband, father, and vanilla Linux kinda guy - and I've seen Factorio being mentioned on this forum quite a bit over the years. The chatter here today has once again piqued my interest to say the least.

I was once an avid gamer in my youth, but these days I have little free time - so if I were to pick up a game, it would have to be the sort of experience that I can play for a few minutes here and there (and / or immerse myself in for several hours at a time when the opportunity arises). It would also need to run smoothly on Linux, and be relatively easy on computing resources.

I tried Minecraft for a bit - and it ticked most of the above boxes - but I didn't much enjoy the interface and lack of "systems" if that makes sense. I love building things, but I also just enjoy sitting back and watching systems work. I prefer top-down planning / building games like the Sim City of old but that got boring pretty quickly.

Anyhow I think I oughta just install Factorio and check it out - but I'm deeply curious what it is that keeps bringing you back for more.
This is absolutely hilarious and made me laugh really hard for some reason. Thanks. I'm using this term forever.
Yeah, I hope they at least keep the content alive since they put a lot of effort into keeping up with interior decorating trends. I would absolutely subscribe to a magazine assembled by their group of editors.
Marketing anxiety via social proofing has a long history, much older than computers. Beauty products, cleaning supplies, child safety gear, etc.

Why limit the condemnation to virtual goods?
In my view, it's a mistake. Apples disinvestment in AI is why I typically pick the flagship Google phone over the iPhone nowadays.
Depends all on the implementation. DARPA seems to (have) work(ed) fine
> Any time you have an industry where the number of people who want to do the work vastly outstrips demand and where there are gatekeepers, you are going to get a culture of abuse.

You've perfectly described capitalism where every capitalist state consciously constrains the number of available jobs, maintaining a stable unemployment % among the populace.

Once they've done that, people are always fighting each other and compromising their dignity and morals - some to get ahead, some to simply stay afloat and have a family.
I have massive support for government funded research but I think this is a terrible idea.

Government should absolutely have to justify how it allocates funds and which projects are taken on. This is a transparent attempt at avoiding the need to justify what is done with public money.

> Removing a platform for people that say, in hindsight, ‘it was obvious that was going to fail’ is a step in the right direction.

It really isn't. Covering failures up only makes the problem worse. Anything that does eventually leak will be blown much further out of proportion than if it has been clearly stated that it will probably fail from the start, but the benefits should it succeed outweigh the risks.

You would do even better to build a culture tolerant of failure. But the emergence of that culture depends on improving people's standard of living.

That this secret spending is coming from the same party that just months ago insisted there was no money to continue feeding children during a pandemic and who are also mired in corruption scandals regarding nepotism in government contracts just makes the idea look even more grotesque. Trying to do it during a pandemic you've just majorly fucked up the handling of makes it even less endearing.

Incidentally I happen to be in the middle of reading "The Dark Forest" by Liu Cixin. A core element of the book is how humanity is affected when standard of living is reduced and basic needs are unmet in order to meet technological research goals that will curtail an "undefeatable" foe. It generally leads to discontent towards the projects that are supposed to "save" them.

If the goal was to prevent the outsourcing of R&D then the government would be much better off taking a greater stake in universities and making sure both parties are compensated more from companies who go on to exploit that research.
Wish they would apply this rule in England - caporalato is running via driver agencies such as "Driver Hire UK' (driverhire.co.uk) who contract workers under zero-hours rules and take a slice from the workers, with little obligation. the workers are somehow classed as employees under UK HMRC and are provided with an annual P60 document (employee document), yet have zero identity of being an employee - no sick pay, no vacation leave, no annual leave, no fixed hours, no contract, no set hourly or per job pay, no pension, no state pension, nothing which would normally make a holder of the P60 document exempt and protected from.
A few limited connections are not sufficient to fully take advantage of all areas of the country where there may be extra capacity. It wouldn't solve the problem, but would have helped. Oklahoma for example has been able to stop rolling blackouts. Texas is still deep in this.
Should it be different for similar games that aren’t free (gratis) then? Should I be required by law to be able to load third-party items in Call of Duty?
> That is ironic because this entire web site consists of what appears to be like-minded people constantly patting each other on the back because they're so awesome

I didn’t used to be that way and there are still plenty of folk on here who aren’t just posting to sound clever. So I don’t think it’s fair to cast the same judgement for the entire active member base.

But in terms of your general point, I do agree the signal to noise ratio has gotten a lot worse over the years. Unfortunately that’s just part of the natural evolution of communication platforms. Happens to every message board, IRC channel, Facebook group and so on and so forth.
You are talking about books in general right?
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> how did you work out that the amount apple gets paid (30%) is the "correct" amount? The only way to find out is via competition.

The "correct" amount is the amount that everybody is happy to pay. If Epic doesn't want to pay 30%, then 30% is too high for them. That's OK -- nobody is forcing them to pay it.

The competition you're describing isn't the cost of running the app store; it's the cost of maintaining the entire Apple ecosystem, including iOS, new iPhone hardware, etc.

> Adding an extra option can't possibly hurt you.

Yes it can, and I just explained how. But let me try to spell it out.

1. New iOS "app store" starts up, but only charges 0.1%. This is possible because they don't write the OS or any of the infrastructure; they're a simple indexer

2. Everyone moves over to this app store because the fees are cheaper.

3. Apple's revenue drops precipitously

4. In order to maintain the OS, Apple either a) raises the prices of iPhones b) starts selling my information c) invests less in the iPhone and iOS.

All three of those possibilities hurt me; so yes, a new app store does hurt me.
That's a cop-out of an answer, and one that makes people less inclined to believe in the entire story.
I agree, that was the intent. The article talks about gay sexual favors.

However, the distinction is that people with tangible experience with sexual abuse perceive this differently. And unfortunately, women have disproportionate experience with sexual abuse.
There are many kerosene heaters safe for indoor use.
I find this legalistic perspective horrifying. It's as if you think every aspect of the relationship between you and your employer has to be written down as part of a contract and endlessly scrutinized.

For me, and I expect for most humans, the ideal employer-employee relationship is much more tacit. It's like being part of a sports team. There are bounds of duty and privilege that are mutual, acceptable to all parties, and do not have to be written down.

If everything was written down, it would make work intolerable. Every action would have to be catalogued, defined, and priced. In an effort to create a "better workplace," you would be destroying the things that makes work tolerable.
North Dakota lawmakers vote down bill that threatened Apples and Googles revenue
I love this tool. There is a feature I use a lot: you can write multi-step queries, select part of them and hit F5 to execute just that part. I haven't really dug into the CLI yet, but I imagine this to be less convenient there.