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Interesting blog post; a far more interesting aspect, for me and my personal career at least, is the companies and interviews where the company did a really poor job and essentially wasted my time and/or pissed me off.

Without naming names, here's a couple of examples:

1) FAANG company: interviewed and received offers at two distinct times, which I rejected. Both offers where missing exactly what I had asked at the beginning of the interview cycle (salary was lower than my current; seniority level wasn't what I expected).

Third cycle of interviews, years later - rejected because they thought I didn't have enough experience in that specific role (been doing it very successfully for 8+ years at that point). Close friends in the industry couldn't believe it.

2) fast-growing startup: first interview with CMO, hoping to get a CTO-like, executive position (not to brag but please trust me that I abundantly had all the necessary skills and experience). Then I get to an interview with a very junior lady. After 30 minutes in the interview, I realize that something is wrong. I ask her if this is intended to be an interview for a job where I would report to her... Someone just fresh out of college, with a couple of years of working experience in a non-relevant field/company. WTF.

3) Three very, very successful YC companies: applying for a job and not even receiving an opportunity to interview, despite the obvious good match between my profile and the job itself.

4) Flew to an interview with company in Silicon Valley (soon to be acquired by FAANG-like), on my own dime, from another state in the US (domestic flight, a couple hundred bucks, took an entire day off for that). The motherf-er who was supposed to interview me didn't even show up, and never apologized.

Please, don't read the above as me being arrogant or have too high an opinion of my skills or my profile (you're still free to think so); these were really situations where it was far too obvious that the company and/or the interviewer didn't have any idea of what they were doing, or did a really poor job at handling the job process.

In fact, I also had my fair share of situations where I was rejected, etc, in which I happily admitted to myself that the company didn't do anything wrong, and that perhaps I wasn't a good match there after all.

I can easily think of a few more situations like the above. These things used to piss me off so much. Now, in hindsight, I see these as ways in which I have learned more about the IT industry, and how appearances often don't match reality. Not at cool startups; not at FAANG-like companies.
Is there information about the share of discords that are gaming and non-gaming related?
Except touch bars have no tactile feedback and can't feel the separate keys.

I like about very low travel time keyboards is that the keys have only two states - pressed or not pressed. With mechanical and other high rise keyboards you have these awkward transitions, where the key activates around halfway through the travel time. So you either stop before the activation point and miss the keystroke, or you overpress the key, bottom out and slow your typing rate dramatically.
SafeInt, a C++ class library to safely manage integer overflows
I'm in the same boat - looking at them both in quick succession, I chose to back nim because the error messages I got from Crystal were unusable.

Now that it is at 1.0, I agree - worth serious reconsideration. That said, it sounds like Nim's concurrency is far more mature than Crystals, and Nim works well on arm etc. So definitely worth another look, but might be a couple more years before I'm able to use it in anger unfortunately.
> Want to work from Montana in 2001? Webex, messengers, version control, DSL internet, everything has been there for decades

I started WFH the moment DSL became available in my area in 2003. Was switching to WFH at every work place over commute became unbearable.
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Also to make sure that the calendar date changes at a time when most people are asleep or otherwise don't care about it.

Without timezones, everybody who isn't lucky enough to live near the new meridian will have the calendar date change at some point in the middle of their waking hours, which is a great recipe for confusion.

It'd also mean that in those places, anything defined on a day level (like holidays) would either have to start and end right in the middle of the solar day, or you'd have to start specifying starting and ending hours, too.

And if a place then starts to define standard starting/ending hours which approximate the former local midnight, you basically end up reintroducing time zones through the back door.
Don't fox now have to publish a disclaimer?
> We take the privacy of our customers’ data and personal information very seriously [...]

And yet, your blog/landing site wants me to opt into sharing my 'personal data' with 20 different 'advertisement partners'. Come on.
Scale matters. Let me quote Taleb:

> I am, at the Fed level, libertarian;
at the state level, Republican;
at the local level, Democrat;
and at the family and friends level, a socialist.

What he meant is that while communism works in a family because the incentives are aligned, it doesn't work at society level.
The context was how good Safari is for end users when it comes to resource use, not how good Safari is for developers when it comes to developing for it. These two aren't very related and developers tend to view things HEAVILY biased through their own experience as developers (which is why Electron is so popular).
If you do a 'shards install --ignore-crystal-version', it should mostly work. There aren't many breaking changes from v0.36.1.
That might be and I am not judging you for this perspective. From a company handling my data I however expect them to be professional wherever they articulate themselves about a serious problem.
I remember using a company-mandated pension website which required a very long password with a comprehensive selection of complexity requirements. To log in, the password had to be entered twice, but they had disabled the ability to use a password manager to populate them (I forget the exact mechanism). To me this is the worst of all worlds. If you put people off using your website, you are less likely to have breaches - security through misery.

I wrote to them pointing out the issue and apparently it was put on their backlog for the following year. I think I received an update about it a couple of years later.
Ikea France on trial for snooping on staff and customers
Welcome to German federalism, everbody is doing what he wants. Were I live, it is three weeks.

Regarding delivery schedules, one core function of supply chain management is following up with suppliers on these. And coordinate that with everyone else, e.g. vaccination centers. Blindly relying on whatever the supplier says, in AZs case months ago, doesn't work.
PlantUML is still the best tool I know: https://plantuml.com/. And you can easily add the diagram source file to a git repository.
Any evidence they have been misleading in their responses to direct questions about their samples would be a start.

And you are making a claim about them lying, this comes unavoidably from saying that the VIW is the origin of SARS-CoV-2 as the VIW themselves are publicly claiming they have nothing closer than RaTG13.
The p-value of a physics experiment isn't the probability of the result coming from thin air but rather than the probability of a result as or more extreme under the assumption of the null hypothesis (i.e. the effect we are looking for doesn't exist). The rub is that the design of the experiment and thus the hypothesis test is all dependent on various subjective factors, especially the people designing the experiment themselves.

I'm not statistician however so presumably I'm just as wrong
Following your logic, Argentina should be a much wealthier country...
I wrote this on 2020-01-24 (when that speculation was fairly new), and wonder why that sort of simple statistical argument has rarely been made explicit:

It certainly is an interesting coincidence that the only lab in China that can deal with it happens to be in Wuhan. The question is, how big of a coincidence.
If the disease hit a random person randomly uniformly anywhere in China, the probability that it would have happened in Wuhan is a bit less than 1% (as there are about 10+m people in Wuhan, and 1400+m people in China).

If you think it might have struck randomly any city above a million people in China uniformly, it’s also roundabout 1% (as there are about 100 of those).

So this is by no means proof that something fishy happened, but it is significant enough to warrant investigation.

If you assume that this could only have happened in a city with, say, more than 5m people, Wuhan is one of about 15 to 20 of those (so we're just above the "usual" 5% significance threshold).

Still, an independent investigation of that lab seems warranted. Of course it’s China, so unlikely to happen...

(I must say that I think the comment has stood the test of time, so far.)
It's actually not what she said and its not what this motion alleges. This is a clickbait title and should be removed.
Good explanation of sigmas here: https://news.mit.edu/2012/explained-sigma-0209

I’m thinking it would be more accurate (by being less precise) for BBC to describe the 1:1000 possibility as just coincidence rather than “statistical” coincidence.
- Ask to shadow a couple of the team at various levels and be a rubber duck

- Go get coffee or in a covid world do a couple of one to one calls with some of your team and LISTEN don't TALK

- Don't make a load of suggestions straight away, it would hurt the feelings of an engineer that wrote that code. Everybody has some code they are not proud of

- Look at the sprint backlog and see if you can do some quick wins. However, double check they are still valid and need to be fixed

- Be a rubber duck on some code reviews

- Skip a report and see if you can talk to your bosses boss or in a startup maybe ask to speak to a founder for no more than 15 minutes
Actually, it is famously said that what made napoleon a fabulous field marshall was his extensive reading and learning of historical battles.

This gave him an extraordinary ability to contrast live battle situations with a huge library of learned historical situations, helping him to make decisions on battle plans.
Yep, the contract between the EU and AZ explicitly states that the UK shall be treated for most purposes (manufacturing site and so on) as an EU member. The UK is not included in the EU orders so.
Tesla is a company that is doing okay. I can comfortably say that it will exist in 40 years but I don't think that it will actually ever justify its current valuation. What is probably going to happen in 10 years is that investors wake up and sell their overpriced shares until the P/E is at 50 or something.
California Proposition 13 is about how limited the state government can charge on property tax (one percent)?and how much the appraisal can go up year after year.

Nothing to do with density, although there are numerous county and local laws on density zoning (which is not Prop 13)

Of course, it has been 1973 when this happened and I think only twice has the state government tried to changed it by “stealthily titled” proposition and failed.
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You're afraid of cheese?
I would like to see an easy way to integrate Matrix to existing communities, and i think that is the niche they should be targetting, not standalone matrix servers that come and go.

The federated login thing is really not something that web services should be doing, it should be provided by the browser or some public system.

I currently use mattermost as discord backup/replacement
> You look at a multi-day Slack discussion with big architects and PMs without any progress...

This. Written communication makes it obvious that some people have nothing meaningful to say it have trouble with reading comprehension.
how do you handle encryption? can you add it before storing it to AWS or do you trust your unencrypted data to amazon?
>Where does such suicidal bravery come from?

If that is something you're interested in, you would probably enjoy reading Ernst Jünger's Storm of Steel.
Make sure to read the 1929 version. I believe there is only one english translation, by Basil Creighton.

All the other editions available in the market are subsequent edits the author made, each one with a more pacifist tone, as the author got older.
Can a smoking gun really be circumstantial?
Often I remind myself that interviews are a two-way street - companies forget this, to their detriment. You are there to impress them, but they are also there to impress you - do you want to spend the next few years with them?

Companies who forget this by putting obstacles in the way - e.g. several, progressively more absurd, interview cycles, arbitrary whiteboard examinations and so on simply put off the most qualified and experienced.

Worst interview question I ever had? 'What is your opinion of the actor Kevin Bacon?'. What, are we in primary school? I thanked them for their time and ended the interview early.
Matrix won't run forever (they're also burning through cash right now), and neither will Discord.

All these platforms are only "better" than IRC because they're giving investor money away to kids.

By the time the VC money is gone, we'll all be back on IRC. And all the effort spent on integrations with platforms that used predatory pricing to destroy competition, could instead have been spent on open protocols.
The meme of "not enough people want to take AZ" needs to die. It's not backed by any reality on the ground, if you have the stuff its not difficult to find people to take it.
What sort of rich person rents a house, except whilst between selling old and new?

Properly rich people do. The people for whom buying and leasing and renting a house is the background noise that the staff works out.

If a properly rich person wants to be able to live in London and Tokyo and Paris and New York and a bunch of other places, where they will just turn up depending on how they feel and what's going on in town that week, buying and leasing and renting are just noise (although being properly rich, it's usually not the kind of renting where an individual landlord is posted a cheque each month). If they want a new place somewhere, they get shown some and they just buy one. Or lease it. Rent it for six months. Whatever. Six figures for six months? Pocket change, talk to the staff. Often leasing or renting is easier and more convenient than buying. These are fairly inconsequential sums of money for these people; just whatever's easiest, the staff will handle it.

I did some work for a Russian feller in the global top 500 richest a while ago. He took us all to lunch. Drove a smart car (of the garage full of luxury cars, it was the one he liked to drive most - it was just the most convenient for him; if I was an economist, I might estimate the price he put on his personal convenience was six figures an hour, at which point buying a house somewhere is the more convenient option compared to having to get a floor in a hotel on arrival) and clipped a pillar driving out of his Swiss estate. Money for him below the level of tens of millions was just not something he bothered about. Rent? Own? For something like a luxury apartment in New York (not that he can travel to New York anymore, I understand) it would be like me spending time deciding whether to rent or own a movie.

What sort of rich person rents a house, except whilst between selling old and new?

These people you mention who only own one house because they can't afford more than one at a time; these are not the properly rich of whom I speak. Many properly rich people are unobtrusive and inconspicuous.

I have met people who find it incredible (even unbelievable) that rich people own houses that sit empty for long periods and that these rich people don't rent them out. These are rich people; they don't think like poor people. Not everything is a money-making investment, and if they decided to get into real-estate they don't mix the houses they live in with it.
So the petunias are safe?
Knowing how these sorts of regulations work, there's probably considerable scope for speeding things up by parallelising. That's apparently how the MHRA went faster. Usually the regulator would demand a complete pack of information in specific formats, etc, so you have to wait for all the components to be ready before submission (which may well cost money, I'm not sure, but for corporate approvals like that it often does).

In the absence of further guidance and given the EU's hostility to them so far, AZ may be waiting to ensure it has all its ducks in a row before submitting.

In the UK the regulator was willing to do partial processing of applications in parallel with the project being executed, which isn't normal and poses obvious complexities, but can speed things up when latency is what matters most. If the EMA hasn't indicated any willingness to do that, and it's not the first time they've come up with this "we're waiting for submission" business, then it may be causing artificial delays.
I spent most of 2020 working from home, for the first time in 16 years of working. I surprised myself by finding that I don't really like working from home.

I have a decent home office setup: dedicated room, nice chair, big monitor, but I still don't get as much done as going to a different physical place that's dedicated to work.

I think what I hated was not the office, but the open office, which is truly awful. I started a new job and now I have an office to go. I'm currently sharing with a couple people (who are rarely there) and soon will have a dedicated private office. It's a world of difference.

I think most people who hate the office really hate: open offices, long commutes, being required to be there for specific times. If you could get rid of those most people probably wouldn't mind and might even prefer the office.
It's strange because people making this defence basically have to say their supporters are all idiots for listening to them and believing them, and it's unusual for politicians to say that out loud.
This really grinds my gears, we purposefully moved away from "beauty quark" as it was a bit too whimsical (at the expense of descriptiveness), now science communicators keep using it as it seems to capture the imagination of non-sci readers. So please, as an informed individual, replace "beauty quark" with "bottom quark" every time you see it in this piece.
Are there any primary sources for this?
There have been plenty of surveys and other evidence showing that millions of Trump supporters did and still do believe those claims. Do all these people have to be proved unreasonable?
your browser extension sounds so sick (heard about it 20 minutes ago on the Crystal post) - any chance you'd make it available, or are you concerned some villain would use it to perform title based post manipulation?
Haiku is a modern successor to the BeOS. It is backwards compatible, but future-looking as well. I'm optimistically expecting that it will be an option alongside Linux as a production alternative OS for users, one day.
As others have pointed out, your specific example is usually covered by the legal system and a strawman in this case - Epstein's friends were middle-aged or old men (Minsky himself was in his seventies when he visited the island), so it's a totally different situation.

The concept of statutory rape recognises the difference between informed and uninformed consent. Children can be coerced or persuaded to consent to things they don't understand, and that are not in their best interests; that's why such laws exist.
The former music video shows the holy grail for an AI (Don't have to pay for models, or at least not that kind of model)
Yeah the alpha star team didn’t really emphasise it. It’s APMs were human like in count, but they had basically 0 wasted actions, they were all meaningful. Lots of APM are used by repeat keys or mass clicking.
It's worth remembering the UK bought 3x as many doses per capita than the EU (of AZ), and its domestic manufacturing capacity anyway has to serve a much smaller population. The luck in large part is the Ox/AZ was successful and fast, and the UK had placed a very large order for it.
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>Forgive me for giving a slight chuckle that, as a cynic and (somewhat) libertarian, and simply as someone who's been around a while.

True, it's far for perfect. But what you're suggesting is simply delusional.

>It's a lot easier because of the nature of government. I assume you're in tech - is the better system the one where you do less or the one where allocate resources because one system got too many so you add more to another to balance them out?

It's not a technical issue. There's just no way that's going through parliament and Subsidy of mass transit is happening right now.

>This is not true. Even if we take NIMBYism as a perjorative, there's plenty of it about and yet things still get built. There are even NIMBYs in China[0][1]. Are you really going to claim that things don't get built quickly there?

I don't see how that proves your point, China is basically the opposite of what you want. If someone doesn't want to sell the government simply sends thugs/the police to deal with them.

>When you talk about getting things done via government and steamrollering over the property rights of people, I tend to think of China's government but I could take where I'm from as an example.

The difference is that China is not a democracy and does not have separation of powers. Yes, our democracies are far from perfect but it's the best thing we have to protect the poor from the rich. Doing away with it is just going to give the rich even more power over the poor.