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> Keep in mind that NZ is less than a tenth the population of the UK and less than a 60th of USAs.

Yes, hence my "per capita" comment. The risk of infection getting into a country is more of a function of how much total traffic it gets rather than the per-capita traffic.

> And those figures are for the country, not a city.

Auckland Airport represents the vast majority of all international traffic into New Zealand, and not just flights.

> The point made that Auckland has a lot of travellers.

Not by absolute number which is what matters most for how easy it is for a virus to find its way in and get established domestically.

> It’s more that the UK and US have done poorly.

This is an important point and I do not belittle it at all. My point isn't to defend the USA and the UK but to point out that the difficulty of NZ's response was enormously easier both absolutely and relatively given the nature of NZ's geography and the fact that the local epidemic had barely started by the lockdowns. NZ has a lot to be proud of in its response, but no reason to be smug.
Any half-decent datepicker library is going to be accessible.

If you absolutely must reinvent the wheel, then yes, you will need to put in a bit of extra effort to make it accessible.
I’m similar - rarely drink and dislike most alcoholic drinks - except that I have found certain flavors I like. Usually it’s sweetened wines, or cider. Also it’s often about pairing - the acidity or tartness sometimes just hits the spot.

Good things to compare to are:

- spicy food

- stinky foods (eg cheese)

- coffee

All of the above are acquired tastes. I could barely eat spicy before, now I love it. Stinky cheese makes we want to vomit, but others enjoy it. I only drink decaf, yet periodically enjoy a black coffee, something which seemed absurd when I was younger.

To me alcohol is just one more flavor option. I wouldn’t want it banned just because other people can’t control themselves.
It's always easy to comment out any column except the first or last. Leading commas make it easy to comment out the last column, trailing commas make it easy to comment out the first.

Personally I don't think that optimization is worth the price. Trailing commas look nicer visually so I prefer them.
Neither are open(), close(), or, indeed, file descriptors.

But they are all in Posix, which is ISO Standard 9945, based on IEEE 1003.1.

Windos has various gestures toward Posix compatibility, which might include _close() and _fsync().

Unix and Posix file system semantics are not among the best achievements of the Unix philosophy or of Posix as a universal system interface, but they have been considered "good enough" by most for a long enough time to make an actually-good replacement increasingly unlikely to take hold.
I've read both a few of the negotiation books (Getting to yes, Getting past no) and Five Dysfunctions and I don't know that I'd recommend them, to be honest.

My beef with Five Dysfunctions is primarily the book recommending MBTI. MBTI has the predictive value of horoscopes, more or less. Really hard to take anything said seriously at that point.

The negotiation-series has some value, and has helped me succeed in some negotiations, but I'd honestly recommend Never split the difference as a substitute. Having read that book instead would probably have saved me more than a few poor outcomes in negotiations.

Finally I'd like to recommend Peopleware - surely one of - if not the definitively - best book I've read for professional purposes.
Why would I have the same strategy during a bear market? How do index funds fare during a bear market? Might the 70 pct cash I have be used for non equity investments, like real estate?

There's something strange about the framing of the passive index fund scenario. Over 20-30 years? I'm not interested in beating that benchmark if I'm interested in increasing my net wealth in the next few years. Downvote away, this is my experience and feeling on the topic, not financial advice to others.
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The 'miracle of Worgl, Austria' would seem to indicate that it might be possible.

https://mises.org/library/free-money-miracle

If you don't like the Mises Institute there are many other descriptions. The Austrian National Bank forced the end of the experiment.
I don’t think anyone would argue with the statement “if you possess an information advantage then you’re better off actively trading”. It’s mostly in the situation where you don’t have an information advantage that passive investing outperforms (on average). The fun part is that everyone _thinks_ they have an information advantage, but fewer really do.
With the curly braces this makes a lot more sense. In SQL it offends my eyes (personal preference) but here it seems more clear.
> Text literals use double-quotes (""), and are syntactic sugar for lists of characters. They have type List<Char>.

Perhaps not the best choice. I believe this is frequently considered a design mistake in Haskell.
This ignorance might be promoted by the coincidence that in 2001 it didn't change. In 1901 it moved from 6th to 7th, and in 2101 it will move from 7th to 8th. A couple of centuries in which it doesn't move is a good time for people to forget that it moves.
We are a managed service meaning you can sign up, download the WireGuard configuration, and forget about it. For a few extra dollars, you get reliability (we use BGP so we can failover to different datacenters), and clean IP addresses that aren't associated with spam or other cloud providers.
This escalated quickly.
Being able to repair and modify my clothes, and even make some items from scratch, is something I consider to be a cornerstone of frugality and self-reliance.

As the very first thing, I make sure to buy clothes that are of good quality and well-constructed, both because they last better and because they will be easier to repair. I like clothes that can move from office wear to casual wear to outdoor/rough wear, as they ages and repairs accumulate.

As I've gotten older, I've started appreciating dress shirts, sports jackets and higher-waisted pants, for their comfort and practicality. What Neil from RMC on YouTube usually wears is a good example of what I've grown to like. A great benefit is that this is appropriate office wear, and can be dressed down as casual as you like.

Even clothes that are beyond repair can be used as patches to repair other items. I also maintain a decent supply of buttons and zippers, harvested from completely broken or worn out clothes. You never know when you'll need a button or other spare part.
I know what you mean but this notion of buy and holding index was perhaps a mirage. It’s all theoretical and cynical side of me thinks it was “invented” as a way to appropriate pension and retirement funds into Wall Street machination.
The most important part:

Finding a customer category that regularly spends money on the kind of software you're intending to build can make it signficantly easier to actually sell them software.

Go to Capterra or G2 and read what actual paying customers say about your competitors and other SaaS products. It's eye-opening.
Congrats, the ad networks that track you and your Google search history will never forget this. Or did you use "incognito mode" and think you're safe somehow?
The Vanguard 500 Index Fund (VFINX) has existed since 1976.

Kenneth French (the "French" in the Fama-French asset pricing model) provides market data going back to 1972 [1] and can be used to reconstruct index fund performance.

Citadel doesn't have individual clients, and if you're not a billionaire I don't see how you'd gain access to their hedge fund.

[1] https://mba.tuck.dartmouth.edu/pages/faculty/ken.french/data...
I see two issues there

1) confirmation bias. Many people have blind faith in the market and while trends are semi-reliable. There are plenty of instances that buck all trends and can take out even the most seasoned day traders accounts if the overrely.

2) a lot of times these are pump and dumb schemes, even by large hedge funds on small companies that are generally overvalued by the time the “opportunity” hits those reading the standard info sources.

So as someone simply managing my own account. A solid strategy is to avoid day trade and only place buys on something you are good to be long on and have faith in. These are big ones like Microsoft or apple or Costco.

I still invest in companies I’m very knowledgeable on but I don’t take risks on nonsense. And worst case I’m long in some stock for a while But I don’t have to monitor it to the minute nor do I have to really coughing up fees for managed funds at a massive scale.

Sure I miss plenty of plays, especially intra-day or intra-week but I also don’t lose anything on those.
Metabase sounds like a great tool for building clean analytic schemas then. You still need to design those schemas though.
Even worst: a lot of the best devs out there are completely invisible.

They get offers long before they even decide to switch jobs. They simply never had a LinkedIn account to begin with. It's a friend that calls them to tell them about the new project they are about to hire for.

Companies can either spend more on recruiting fees, or more on better devs that will try to get their friends hired...
Why isn't it "quite right?" I spelled out 3 scenarios that can play out and obviously will given the structure and incentives. Where do you disagree?
FICO has multiple scoring models https://www.myfico.com/credit-education/credit-scores/fico-s... and the majority of scores used by lenders are these scores.

The scores you see when you log into those institutions is whatever is written into the contract with whichever bureau they pay to provide consumer credit monitoring. For Mint, Amex, CapitalOne and others it is a VantageScore 3 score provided by TransUnion. I thought I had previously seen a warning on a site that provided VantageScore 3 scores that they were just for educational purposes, but currently I’m just seeing disclosures similar to the one you quoted above. So yes you are right there are other scoring algorithms, but I believe FICO is still the one used by most lenders. Even if large financial institutions don’t generate their own scores they still have a copy of your credit report to use to make more detailed decisions. That is how you can have an incredibly high credit score and have a bank or a car dealership tell you that you don’t have enough lines of credit to qualify for the loan you want.
I like your system.

I dont think theres any one perfect foolproof system but yours is closer to the "more good than bad" end.

I agree having their potential coworkers interview them is tricky and prone to traps. There are upsides to it, but downsides too -- depends on those individuals. For an applicant, one is very much walking thru a minefield where just one misstep or "thumbs down" can blow it up, and if that happens one's time gets wasted, and both sides can miss out. Its fine to result in "legit" rejections, but an ideal system tries to minimize the chance of bogus ones.

its tricky
> its disasters like [ as executable

Why is that a disaster? What problem has it caused you that wouldn't have happened if it wasn't an executable?

[[ is a non-executable version of [. Does that solve your problem?
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Sure, gratification is important, but what really drives both gratification and everything else is feedback.

When you have less simultaneous work you get done faster, which means you make decisions based on less old information.

Imagine trying to... I don't know, play soccer where your body movements have a five-second delay. It'll feel awful because by the time you decide to move your body you know it's going to be too late for any detailed knowledge so you'll have to make do with some very primitive heuristics like "flail in the direction of the ball and hope to get lucky".

That's what too much WIP is. Limiting it is starting to move and react in real time to changes.
I honestly hate interview tests like this because you never want a developer to do this in their day to day job. Code needs to be clear and simple to be maintainable, so anywhere a developer has done work in their head and just put in a magic number (eg const foo = 763; // I did the math in my head) you would always reject that in a PR and ask them to show where the number came from.

If anything being asked to do mental arthimatic in an interview should be a red flag that the company has a code base that could be full of horrible undocumented nonsense.
If you are unsatisfied with tmux and familiar with vi, something worth considering is using abduco and the built-in terminal emulator of vim. It will you give windows, tabs and mouse integration for free,
it's just missing a couple of bindings to spawn terminals like:

map <silent><C-w>- :split +term<CR>
map <silent><C-w>\| :vsplit +term<CR>
map <silent><C-w>t :tabnew +term<CR>

and the rest you already know.
The push (vs pull) / broadcasting nature seems different to me.

Previously, more interaction was personal and ephemeral. If I said something to someone on the street, maybe the 5 closest people heard me.

In a small town, word would probably get around in ~2 weeks of social interactions, if it was scandalous enough.

Now, on the majority of social media platforms, if you reply to me then all of my friends + all of your friends immediately see the reply. Both the broadcasting and immediacy seem relatively novel.
Flip it on all axis, I guess :)

But, sure. Let's say I know that you (index fun) are obligated to buy stock X tomorrow and over all foreseeable future. I am gonna hoard those shares at no risk and sell them to you at a VERY VERY painful price, since you have no room to say "that's too expensive, no thanks"
Depends on the underlying implementation of `List<T>`. It should be fine as long as it's not a linked list.
Yes, but a bit of no.

Yes, if the market is overall rising, then active trading should enjoy that overall rise just like buy and hold does.

But then why active trade? Because you think you can do better than passive. That part - the "doing better" part - is zero sum. In fact it's negative sum, because of transaction costs.
> I call them on Whatsapp, but their Android phone is sleeping so they don't receive the call notif on Whatsapp

Is Android really that terrible?
I think term "Kanban" is misused so often, that nobody understands what is really means.

Totally agree with your point, especially funny how author rediscovers that "Limiting work-in-progress is the tool every manager and leader needs to have in their tool belt. This is the one super power that over time will allow moving faster to the desired goal".

Why do literature review.
You'll note that, while 'there are many restrictions,' there is no outright federal ban on tobacco advertising--were it possible, why not do it?

I also wonder if there's more to tobacco advertising then meets the eye: unlike alcohol manufacturers, Big Tobacco doesn't seem interested in challenging current restrictions to selling their product. And if they aren't interested, that says more about Big Tobacco than the First Amendment. But it's hard for me to say as I'm no expert on the tobacco industry.
Some options:

- Audiobooks, while:
- Exercising
- Commuting
- Performing mundane everyday tasks. My favorite is doing the dishes and throwing out the trash.
- If your organisation values continuous learning, dedicate 30 minutes each workday for reading. It will pay off for the organisation, but not all organisations comprehend that, unfortunately.
- Dedicate 30 minutes outside your workday for reading, if you think you can derive enough value from it to be worth it. This requires some personal evaluation, and is the last option on the list for good reason - it is easily the least good option in my opinion.
I just abhor the fact that teachers never gave students the intuition to approach problems and solve them. Not that I blame them - but my eyes watered when a visiting lecturer derived formulas we'd used in High school and told to memorize as absolute truths without knowing why. You finally get to appreciate mathematics as a discipline and a tool.
If enough retailers work in concert they start to resemble HF's.

>> if enough gamblers stick to one ticker, they can break the market

HF's, I assume, has had this power all along and they probably tried more than once to break the market.

So, what's the difference then, between internet hive minds and HFs and why should one take more blame than the other when it comes to "breaking things"?
who said i haven't the tar.gz on a usb stick ready to deploy? :D
You're essentially arguing for a bimodal distribution which does, in fact, seem to exist to at least some degree in some professions, including law.
Usually when I've been offered this arrangement (which I like because it reduces the risk on my side, too), the pay has been on the higher side for the contracting part, to cover the reduced benefits/security.
The purpose of cloth/lower quality masks, is to reduce, not eliminate spread. When breathing in, air is drawn around the edges. Thus, if the virus is airborne around you, you'll breath it in.

If you have the virus, and are exhaling, the goal is to stop large droplets of moisture, which carry further, from exiting the mask. They are larger, hence, they get blocked and absorbed by the mask.

Further, when breathing out, air is slowed, and also again passes around the edge of the mask. This reduces the spread, and is also why '6 feet' is recommended as a distance to keep from people.

Again, this isn't about protecting you, but protecting others if you're infected, spreading, and per-symptomatic.

FYI, in most non-US countries ... this isn't a debate. It's just accepted. For example in Canada, politicians of all stripes, left/right/whatever, agree on such basic concepts.

We also didn't have weird things with public servants lying about basic mask protocols.

I'll put this another way.

If you're spreading, and wear no mask? Being a few feet from someone, and talking, isn't going to just get the virus in their mouth. Inhaled. It gets it in their eyes, on their face, their clothes, the list goes on and on.

Masks are about reducing that kind of spread!

Do they help you? A little bit, sure. But thaw's not the point. The point is to protect others!

The cynic in me thinks "What an American attitude. It's all about me, screw protecting others!"
Since the antenna can't be used for anything other than receiving starlink service, it isn't really logical not to consider the cost as "$500 + $100/month forever"
Sorry, it’s not difficult or forbidden to remember user identity in your own app. It’s about sharing that identity between apps.

And by the way, there is absolutely nothing stopping Apple from reporting your app was installed on January 1st, 1970.
I'd prefer Apple to fix horrible notifications on iOS. Since they broke VoIP background notifications, developers have no way to reliably perform silent delivery of information to device.

For example in a chat app that syncs with desktop you can deliver incoming messages, showing them as alerts, but you can't deliver your own, because you MUST show alert on every push notification. Another use case is removing notifications: once you message on another device, you want to remove notification on iOS as well. With current notifications it is extremely problematic.

(Remaining background notifications in iOS work like shit - and please, do not start discussion that 'it is not needed' - It is BADLY needed, just ask anyone who has developer experience with this wreck)
API 28 is released in 2018, 2 versions behind the latest.

It's a sad state of software development that we so quickly drop support for older hardware, it contributes massively to e-waste, although Android manufacturers shoulder a lot of the blame for not supporting OS upgrades.

Context: Put out a (hopefully) final release for API 16 last month. It'll mean that 15,000 people can no longer update the app. From analytics, we still have users on Android 1.5 (API 3)
Their Github avatar is wearing a facemask, which presumably means it was changed at some point in 2020...
Wtf that has to do with working with women? Asking as woman whose e experience definitely is not that people must be philosophizing to be able to work with me. Nor comfortable with open ended questions.

In fact, plenty of women themselves would fail this test.

There is also nothing about your hiring that would not be biased. This sort of "let's chat and see how we feel about it" is the most biased way of inteviewing - it tends to produce hires that are from similar background, preferences and personality as interviewer.
We had to move our kids to learning in bars because they couldn’t keep schools open.
> I think it is fair to say that no matter how much we go back and forth on this, we are never going to agree.
The gulf between what you perceive and what I saw is far too great a chasm to cross.
If we carried on, it'd probably get heated or it'd end up being a massive wasted effort.
I've been through this rodeo too many times before. I spend the effort to go find objective sources that prove the claims I make only to be met with shifting goal posts and denialism.

I feel the same. That song and dance gets old. My goal wasn't to come to an agreement, but to introduce a different perspective in a largely one-sided discussion.

> For example the link literally describing the PB getting declared a terrorist organization. We're just hand waving that one away are we?

It's kind of downstream from this discussion, no? That designation is contingent on the facts that we were directly debating.

> In order to preserve my own sanity and respect the sanctity of hackernews' no flamewars policy I'm just going to tell you that I disagree and wish you a peaceful day.

Thank you, you too. I know we aren't able to reconcile, but I do appreciate engaging with the other side on a more civil forum.
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Most skills tend to look something like this, where dedication and repetition lead to proficiency. Could be piano, chess, video games, programming...

What are some skills like this that are high-leverage--skills that help with lots of other skills?
spoiler: it won't. There's going to be outperformers, just like if you have 1000 people flipping coins, you're going to find a few with an uncanny ability to get consecutive tails/heads after several flips. That doesn't mean they're any good at it though.
Reinertsen's Principles is an amazing book. The way he combines lean, network engineering and all the rest to create an actually meaningful and coherent picture of product development is genius.
It really feels like we’re experiencing a rebirth of puritanism.

Yes, alcohol is worse for your health than no alcohol. That’s almost certainly true even for “moderate” drinkers. People do it for pleasure. A “case against alcohol” that doesn’t address this very real benefit is unlikely to have any impact, except with people who have decided that pleasure itself is suspect at best.
In the case of ETL you should only be referencing those tables a few times because you are integrating them into friendly analytic models. In that case you probably have a lot of columns to wrangle and complex transformation logic. In those cases I prefer to use no alias at all to avoid the scrolling around to get context, even when table names are very long.
I’ve read five dysfunctions and can’t say I remember anything about personality types (MBTI). To me it was about persistence honesty and pragmatism. Loved it.
have you heard of gab? he listened when they said "if you don't like Twitter, make your own". now he can't do things like use banks, etc...