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Opinions like your are what has kept FSF stuck in 1990s obscurity. Enjoy alienating people and remaining irrelevant while everyone else moves on.
Does anyone have a link to a non-paywall version?
I am trying to read one non-fiction book a month. It doesn't sound a lot, but for me it's a stretch while managing work, family, HackerNews etc.

I have noticed that I gained a lot of speed through Kindle's WhisperSync Feature. You buy the book + audiobook as combo. Thus you can listen to the book while walking for example and then re-read important passages. Highly recommended.
My engineer-mind hesitates to state a number until I finalize the BOM and get tooling quotes, etc. At that point, I'll put up the pricing, etc. on the website and mailing list.

But keeping Pockit's cost down is important in order for the concept to gain a wide community of passionate builders, so just know that I've been and am keeping affordability in mind, starting with even the design choices.
I think that's sort of the point. The branch was run by a guy (Michael Scott) that is actually pretty old school and utterly unaware of it.
Does the book include a chapter such as "Chapter Five : Advertise your project on Hacker News in the form of a request for feedback"?

Half-kidding, half-serious. I'm thinking of those books with titles like "How to make lots of money" where the opener is "Chapter One: Write a book about how to make money"

Jokes aside, kudos for writing about your experience and putting it out there for others to benefit from. That's further than many will dare to go.
The term neurotypical doesn't have to be scientific to have meaning. The term is very strongly associated with autism and ASD, and that's the context in which the term was used here. Using an existing, loaded term in reference to a person's behavior, prefixed with a "I'm not diagnosing any conditions," fig leaf is disingenuous.
Keep in mind that I'm referring to personal goals, set for each IC/employee in the company. In theory they should be aligned with company's goals.
This has been submitted to HN quite a few times.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25426662 (Most comments; 11 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25417067 (3 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25546867 (Most recent; 89 days ago)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25543859

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25424852
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Buy a powerwall or equivalent, they are designed for this use case, they tune the battery chemistry, cooling, weight, etc for this use case.

Wearing out a expensive electric car, with a high load, while it's not moving (harder to cool), to save a few pennies per Kwh isn't worth it. Keep in mind that there's power losses just charging and discharging, so you need a pretty big swing to make it worth while.

A powerwall (11kwh) costs $7500 or so installed and is generally enough to "peak shave" by charging when power is cheapest and discharge when it's most expensive. It does lower electric bills, but generally isn't really a good financial decision unless you put a financial benefit of having power when during outages.
Using a controller for someone who has never used a controller for and mentally mapping the act of driving to it is probably more difficult then handing a mouse and keyboard to someone interviewing for a software development job.
Ha, maybe I should give it a try again :) My 6 months period is almost over again.
You can buy a 10MW load bank on alibaba for $40k

https://www.alibaba.com/product-detail/11KV-10MW-Load-Bank-f...

Sometimes power plants have GW size load banks, it's an acre or so of steel wires strung up on poles. All the wires glow red hot when in use. It is quite a sight.
The “Plankalkül” of Konrad Zuse: The first high level programming language
> You can get off an airplane just about anywhere in the world and get an Uber. That’s huge value.

You can get off an airplane just about anywhere and get a taxi at the taxi stand, but that never enabled a global company.

Airports with local unlicensed taxi services generally have advertising in the airport for arrivals. Installing a new app in each city, and putting in payment information is more hassle (especially if payment options aren't geared towards international visitors), but you do it once per trip, just like the in flight entertainment app.
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I agree, and I think these weights are in fact now reported as metric tons, not imperial long tons. The difference is insignificant for purposes of casual conversation.
Game controllers are different beasts altogether. It's always fun watching a hardcore PC gamer struggle with a DualShock (or the asymmetrical weird thing they use on Xbox) for the first time. I know what you mean, but Factorio is really much slower and much easier to pick up than a driving game on a controller. I'm not saying it's a great choice for a one-hour interview, but anyone should be able to do whatever they want in Factorio after a couple of hours.
Not enough bomb :[
I've definitely scraped by this problem on several occasions. Recently I was writing a tool to check outgoing links from my site, to see which sites are offline (it's called notfoundbot). What I found was that many sites have "DDoS Protection" that makes such an effort impossible, other sites whitelist the CuRL headers, others like it when you pretend to be a search engine.

Basically writing some code that tests whether "a website is currently online or offline" is much, much harder than you think, because, yep, the only company that can do that is Google.
Dyson Sphere Program is so good. I haven't played Factorio yet, but I think it has all the same sorts of things that this article described.

When I started playing DSP at first, I was just putting stuff anywhere. Then I realized that there are advantages in trying to make things modular in a way roughly analogous with code. At the same time though, it is very different than code, as the design is spacial, not as abstract as coding. Refactoring code is very different as a result.
> from the top of my head

Charging your electric car battery.

BTW, heating/cooling my house is half my energy bill. Time shifting that could easily cut that by a third. All I need to make that work is variable rates. But with fixed 24/7 rates, nobody has any incentive to do that.
Without knowing what industry you are talking about it's hard to engage in any meaningful dialog.

It clearly doesn't matter what percentage of the input cost is energy to whether the plant is profitable. So long as that percentage is non-zero there will always be an energy cost at which the total cost to produce is higher than the market price to sell (ask any industry in Texas).

Clearly there are other factors too, in your example it seems like labour costs are very high or perhaps contractual demands on output mean down time is unacceptable.
If you look at Uber financial reports, you’ll see that they earn profit on rides, and their losses are due to their attempts at expansion in other segments.

Uber used to subsidize rides a lot, and it still does in some foreign markets where it is trying to get a foothold, but this is not really happening in US anymore.
Mostly finances, economics, mathematics and law. Looking into self teaching a JD track (currently a Math undergrad at UIUC so ill probably follow the JD curriculum here) but I need to pass the Bar, which requires having a proper JD from an accredited university.
Yeah, encampments of people and areas strewn with needles are a little more to deal with than the occasional homeless person or group. My city had its share of homeless and drug, and we'd find the occasional needle, but it was part of the fabric of the area, not its definition.
I doubt jobs for urban planners ask what cities you design in your free time. I doubt jobs for lawyers ask what cases you've argued in your free time. Why do we ask what software you've built in your free time for software engineering interviews?
Doing the "right thing" is also hard. Paying a fine instead of a bribe could mean waiting 10 days for your license to be returned.

Our traffic laws are also very inconsistent here so it's very easy to make mistakes abroad:

Like Honduras requires two traffic triangles, but others only one. Nicaragua prohibits changing lanes in roundabouts, but it is allowed elsewhere. El Salvador enforces speed where there are no speed limit signs while Guatemala enforces them where there are many signs. And so on.
I didn't really follow the Amazon tech talks while I was there, so I'm not really sure. I also didn't even realize the significance of who I was talking to when I approached him. All I knew was that when I searched for clojure code in the repos, his was the first name that popped up. I dropped by his desk unannounced and we talked for like an hour and he walked me through setting up an environment there on the spot.

I'm pretty sure he was the one that pitched drone delivery to Bezos, and he had worked on it the entire time I was there. As far as clojure goes, I have no clue why he seemed to stop using it, although I have my suspicions. I think common lisp was probably a better fit for what he was doing, and he seemed to be quite the expert with it, although I think I recall him talking fondly of Scala and F# as well.
An alphabet (or syllabary, abjad, abugida) has a small set of symbols that can express anything, which means that it could be used by people who did something other than read and write for a living. Probably no accident that the first to catch on, and the root of possibly all others, was spread by Phoenician traders.
I read all the time—fiction and nonfiction.

Currently reading nonfiction: Stewart Brand’s Whole Earth Catalog.

Currently reading fiction: The Lord of the Rings trilogy by JRR Tolkien.

Finished Tolstoy’s War and Peace in 2020 (pandemic silver lining). Life changing book.
"When people tell you who they are, listen."

We choose to disassociate open source from anything to do with RMS and FSF.
That's the result of the crawling, and it preventing competition. Google would much prefer that people complain about the details while ignoring the root cause.
I think England has a much longer history of habitation, and so it's understandable that deforestation is more extensive (thousands of years vs. hundreds). Here's an article I like about that process in England:
https://aeon.co/essays/who-chopped-down-britains-ancient-for...

There are a lot of parallels in the US process of deforestation, except as you say on a much different scale. The US has lost ~75% of its virgin forests just since 1600.
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It dates from 1945, his Wiki page is also highly interesting to check, also the one for Kinrad Zuse as it seems he also may have developed a computer on his own (some people claim it to be the "first" computer). His designs were clearly advanced for his time and rarely being recognized or credited due historical reasons.
If the shared cache ever became significant enough to matter it would be devastated by marketers, scammers and other abusers. Google employs the groomers that make their index at least tolerable, if still clearly imperfect. Without that cadre of well compensated expertise to win the arms race against such abusers the scheme is not feasible.

I suppose this could be crowdsourced if I didn't know about politics and how any attempt at delegating the responsibility for blessing sites and their indexes would become a controversy. Google takes lots of heat about its behavior already, but Google is a private entity and can indulge its private prerogatives for the most part. Without that independence this couldn't function.
> Is it? Because most of Wales is mountainous

It's hard to me to say right now mountainousness of these two countries compare (but looking at the map, looks like Scotland has more and higher mountains https://maps-for-free.com/).

But Wales population density is three times as low as in Wales.

So even if mountain availability would be the same (which I claim it is not), then hydro power capacity is three times lower in Wales.

> Still confused about why the population distribution is important

Distribution is not important, density is.

> per-capita is ultimately meaningless unless both declare independence and sever that grid connection

If it was meaningless, we would not discuss the BBC article in the first place.

> it'd be damn hard to find one that has geography that prevents any hydro capacity

Well, technically one can build hydro power plant virtually everywhere where there are rivers, but in many places (with only few mountains) building hydro power plants is prohibitively expensive and leads to too much land wasted for water storage.
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Any particular platform can declare it to be defined, by fiat. "With our compiler, all zeroed raw storage treated as pointers are null."

Anywhere that they technically could, you can treat it as if they actually had so declared, and just didn't publicize it enough.
Sadly, the candidates I trust to spend federal money wisely get trounced in every election.
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Which translation of War and Peace?
I am re-reading Plato's dialogues again. Are they fiction or nonfiction? I'm not sure either category fits. Regardless, they are entertaining and fulfilling to read.
At least one book a week. Probably 80% fiction and 20% non-fiction.
Html into pdf? What's the problem with pandoc?
> The unspoken side is that most companies simply measure your importance by how many people are under you, so everyone tries to hire as many people as they can get budget for, and build their empire.

If we're throwing around conventional aphorisms, one could just as easily argue that most companies simply optimize for maximizing profits by minimizing labor costs, and therefore have an incentive to eliminate redundant labor. Heaven knows that Uber's primary goal for the next few years is profitability. Why, then, wouldn't Uber just get rid of all of these paper TPS report empires? Should be simple enough, right?

The reality is that it's a lot more complicated. I think GP's comment about armchair quarterbacking is an important one, and I think this comment as a good example of that. A fun joke I've heard is that the mark of a senior engineer is how often they say "Well, It Depends™". It mostly alludes to the general tendency to avoid simple explanations of complex systems the more senior one gets.I think the same applies in the context of organization building.

There was a good comment a while ago from a former Uber engineer that broke down just why the Uber app is so big: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25376346

If you take that, and try to imagine that it's not just engineers, it's also Product Managers, Designers that feed into the raw R&D; and the fact that Uber actually operates in multiple business lines (Eats, Rides, Freight, Bikeshare, Transit) and then the operationalization of all of those features, including customer support, biz ops, product marketing, etc. And then wrap all that up into the core organizational infrastructure necessary to support all that: FP&A, HR, etc. It all adds up! And that's just the current businesses we see, you also have portions of all of that feeding into the numerous exploratory efforts they probably have underway into new business lines.
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From a system design perspective, it's kind of nuts that the entire planet has only one single canal connecting two major bodies of water, and it's in a country with a, shall we say, precarious government. Surely such a single point of failure is a massive risk. Granted, geography doesn't leave us many choices, but could we at least build another, parallel canal to it?
It’s interesting that this article seems to only touch on sex and intimacy as a whole, but never asked the question if a down syndrome person could be gay or lesbian. Possibly because that might touch off uncomfortable questions about sexual preference being inherent or learned.
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I generally read 3ish scifi books a week.
I have never understood why having a 1-bit DAC in a CD player was something to brag about.
Um, what? F22 program cost about $334 million per aircraft and is roughly $60k per hour of flight.

F-35 is a comparative bargain at $95 million and $35k/hour.
I read in waves - I'll get the itch occasionally and knock out one or two novels in a few days each then ease back into a much slower pace.

Almost exclusively fiction. I like the Harry Dresden novels, and lots of older science fiction and horror.

Reading on a Kindle really improves the experience vs on a LCD/OLED screen.
It's a form of direct taxation. In most of these countries officials literally officially get paid $50 a month as their salary. But their position allows them to directly "tax" people in the ways being described here. Their boss and their bosses boss will probably be in on it and be receiving a cut.
"Take a relevant MOOC course" actually seems like the perfect sort of thing to put in a 90-day (or whatever) work plan. It communicates to your manager that you want to spend some time on professional development and your manager may even that, if you like, they're happy to pay for a course somewhere.

In general, I sort of like having a somewhat informal workplan like that. And it's perfectly fine if, over the course of the quarter unplanned projects come in, you just document that. It's useful documentation, not much work, and you should probably have at least a vague mental plan anyway.
It's a great tool for junior developers. If someone hasn't had a dev job before, then a personal project -- even something simple like a twitter bot -- is almost a requirement in my eyes. IME, it is a strong signal for capability at that skill level.

Most higher-level devs don't build personal projects. I've worked with plenty of ridiculously capable people who work 9-5 and go home to their family. If anything, diligently keeping set hours is probably a stronger signal for a good senior candidate than personal projects are. A good senior candidate should be doing the thing they want to do already (thus, no need for side projects), or be capable of getting everything they need done for their job in 8 hours or less.
The Netflix model makes a ton of sense, but doesn't apply to most other companies, bc Netflix is a unique case. They pay top of market, all cash. They have massive name recognition and obvious longevity. Probably most uniquely - they only hire senior people who have a track record of experience they can look at.

When you're a startup that nobody's heard of, half your engineers are going to be junior, and half your comp is stock options that will probably never be liquid, the offer doesn't make any sense. Are you just going to give offers to 20 random new college grads and coding bootcamp alums planning on firing the 50-75% that don't cut it? Good luck ever getting junior people to accept offers again. Do you think someone with 10+ years of experience is going to take a pay cut to take the job with a random startup with a decent chance of getting let go if the manager isn't feeling it after a few weeks?

With 15 years of experience and a family to provide for, there's no world where I'd consider that type of hiring/firing culture for anything other than a proven brand name with top of market comp, environment, and coworkers. Did an interview loop w/ Netflix a couple years ago, seems like an amazing place to work, ultimately went a different direction for non-culture related reasons.
Right, I thought about suggesting a macro for C/C++ but I don't know enough about their macro systems to know for sure that it would work
Ex-Amazon SDE here: SOA is good, team boundaries are good, tiny microservices are bad, distibuted monolith is really bad.

> performance/flexibility/scaling of microservices

Tiny microservices tend to perform and scale poorly due to their granularity.
I don't understand that. The crawling access is mostly the same as it ever was. Google's SERP pages are not. A mutually beneficial search engine that respects it's sources would still crawl the same. Google used to be that.

The core problem is incentives: http://infolab.stanford.edu/~backrub/google.html "we believe the issue of advertising causes enough mixed incentives that it is crucial to have a competitive search engine that is transparent and in the academic realm."
Combining characters are their own unicode codepoint, so they count towards length. The beauty of this approach is that its simple and objective.

If you had a list of 5 Dom Element objects, and one Dom Attr object, the length of that list is 6. Its nonsensical to say "The Attr object modifies an Element object, so its not really in the list".
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You have created a website. My own and I tried to do some maintenance to make it fast and get rid of codes that reduce the speed

But I get all these modifications I have also found There are still problems. Can someone help me to identify the cause of the problem?

I don’t know if this is the right place, but I want to learn by myself. Thank you

This is the website link

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This might sound stupid, but could you store N-1 entries, and then store a pointer to the next hash as the Nth entry? So you dynamically add fixed tables as you run out of space?

Yes, I realize the lookup would get complicated.
> The OO solution here is to make state 'private'. It supposedly doesn't really matter than you're all editing the same documents at the same time, because they're behind getters and setters

This just isn't true in the slightest sense. Honestly, where does this kind of anti-OOP trope come from?
I struggle to read fiction, even as a kid. Not sure why that is, but I feel my imagination allows me to have enough interest in real life that I don't need to escape via a fiction book. Non fiction books on programming or maths, or something that's practical and interesting (eg how to tie knots), keep me pretty captivated.
I think the point is not "your boss should be able to do your job better than you can", but "in a pinch, your boss would be able to step in and fill your role if needed".

Even in the case you gave, a good CEO might be able to do that. When you are at the C level, whatever the role is, you're probably going to mostly have to be good at stakeholder management, strategic thinking, listening to your peers and the people working under you and taking good decisions based on the inputs available. A good CEO should be able to step in and apply those skills outside of their domain of expertise, even if they are not going to be the best CFO/CTO in the world.
Google doesn’t give anyone access to said cache. I mean one crawler with a shared api among competitors. So exactly the same as the public cache, but run my a private company and accessed for a small fee
Power to gas needs a source of carbon to produce methane. No, the carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is not a good candidate for this, since it's at very low concentration. Theoretically one could use biomass, but thats a very inefficient method of carbon collection.

Also, exist prototype power to gas facilities are ~50% efficient, just for the power-to-gas step. Even with a 66% efficient combined cycle gas turbine, which is the best we have, net efficiency is ~33%.
There have been no events within my lifetime to support this theory.
Mostly science fiction here.

I'd be interested in seeing other people's reading lists if they are tracking them some how, so I'll try sharing mine in hope others do the same.

https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/75821997-george-antoni...
It's a lot easier to violate that when it's just an import and a call away. I will concede that if the system is well designed and developers follow the patterns set it doesn't matter if it's a microservice based architecture or not.