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> So if (as in PG's hypothetical) the developer is worth $80k at a big company, how much would you estimate them to be worth at a company of only 4 people that has a good idea and funding?

My point is that a 4-person company with a good idea and funding doesn't usually remain a 4-person company. Sure, they could be churning out good code at an amazing rate, but is transient state - in order to make money at the levels that the VC-class demands, pointy-haired bosses will be required, and they come with structure, meetings, emails, templates, and other administrata rituals.

edit: I think this is proof enough that VCs don't optimize for individual productivity - nobody who likes having more money does.
She noted that in general you target the criminal activity itself, not the currency used to fund it. But then she further noted that cash was just as big of a problem for them and harder for them to deal with. She said that crypto had the advantage that it at least left a trail, unlike cash. No one said criminal activity is easy. But it's not fair for you to conclude that therefore it's ridiculous because using cash is hard.
being able to reason about expense & cost, being able to appreciate the path the computer has to take, has real value, even if it's not called upon day to day. it's just more pleasant working with people who bother to develop algorithmic insight.
Swedish prosecutor says Russia's GRU hacked Sweden's sports body
The most corrupt countries in the world outlawed profits.

Profit is but one of many ways to compete. You can't eliminate competition by eliminating the ability to profit:

https://fee.org/articles/there-s-no-escaping-competition/
Delivering what exactly? Half the article is how he failed to deliver on a startup and a game...and then failed in interviews too.
Valid UTF16 is already being sporadically enforced.

People who hack JS to store arbitrary data in strings are already fighting a loosing battle, and I see no point to help them.

But my point is that we have moved from the JS as a scripting language which did not allow for arbitrary binary data, to one which did without much though over that.

Half of existing problems with zero click, zero days, and zero browse exploits running in the wild, and Chrome becoming the ActiveX 2.0 is that.

There is really no reason for a web browser to do computing on the web, and thus no need for binary manipulations in Javascript on the web.

I'm not saying to axe it from JS, but JS may limit the the browser use case by a limited set of JS standard.
LineageOS has been great for me, many OTA minor version upgrades and at least 3 major version upgrades have all gone smoothly.

However at some point an update to my bank's app made it refuse to run citing insecure device - it's not rooted so this was a little surprising. I don't know how common that is, no experience with other banks.
The title is a bit misleading. It's kind of negative spin for click bait value.

In the end he found he was happier as a freelancer, basically.

He has high standards, ethically, and he is competent and knows how to get things done and has little tolerance for people's BS. And he knows how to make enough money to keep body and soul together without having to put up with that shit, so that's what he's doing.

I would say he's wildly successful and has found his escape hatch from the rat race and we need more such stories in the world, not less.
This sounds a bit like a technicality. The DNA makes it into the cell nucleus and is used by the cell machinery to make proteins. The changes aren't carried over after cell division, but lots of cells in your body last your whole life (nerves, brain cells, eye cells, important stuff).
Good for her. My phone, my rules. If a smartphone app is how the company wants to operate, that's fine, but they should provide the hardware.
Patriots Pointe! Same! Girl Scouts camping on the Yorktown was one of the high points of my childhood!
That you don't want to learn worthless stuff that is solely for interview theatre?
Getting a CS degree:

Pro - You might get hired by xwdv.

Con - You might get hired by xwdv.

So far the cons seem to outweigh the pro's for me.
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Debtors have to make even on their mortgage, at least, so an increase in prices also drags rental rates up - either because the landlord bought later and has higher costs; or because the increase in prices drives up property tax and thus increases costs on existing properties.

If the market worked, you'd see people building multi-family units everywhere until supply caught up with demand, and then you'd see a huge crater in prices as people who took a bath on real estate speculation were overrun with the resulting supply glut. This doesn't happen, for a host of various reasons. Governments want housing to be simultaneously affordable and an investment, which is impossible. Hence most cities wind up building a sort of shadow immigration system, through rent control, selective property tax moratoriums, and so on. People who have lived in a city all their life enjoy lower rents, subsidized by people who just moved in and have to buy at market rate.
> Additionally, due to the nature of the package manager (and static linking), it's very easy to freeze the churning sections of the ecosystem for your application, use the important dependencies and even patch bugs you're encountering.

Bug fixes are rarely back-ported, and if one wants to use new features, it is all too common to force an upgrade onto an partially incompatible version. And it is an open secret that most software users to not like that. They do not like change because they pay most of the cost.

The right way to do this is to have instead long-term backwards-compatible, ultra-stable APIs, and do development on these. And one cannot say that this isn't possible - this is precisely what the Linux kernel does.
How so exactly?
If we say "no more profit after 5x" then buildings will constantly be torn down and rebuilt or otherwise "re-constructed" to reset the clock. Renting property has its own ongoing risks as any landlord will tell you, and we reward risk with (potential) profit.

Many buildings are "luxury" in that they cost 15% more to build but then ask for 50% higher rent. It's not hard to find buildings that were once "luxury" but are now kinda gross since the veneer has peeled off. But there's not enough competition in housing to force the rent lower.

What gets people fed up is the seemingly universal constant of rents raising 10% every year despite no additional investment.
Put your life on the line for the community, comrade! And sign away your right to legal recourse should you die as a result. You're on your own! You owe the community your life, and the community owes you nothing!
What you will find is that the vaccine-hesitant are perfectly happy to take the word of authorities who say "this vaccine is unsafe" and only have trouble accepting the word of authorities who say "this vaccine is safe".
> Being a self taught software developer who has been programming since I was 12, I had no idea how to reverse a binary tree.

I fail to see the link between the premise and conclusion here.

I'm also largely self taught and been programming since childhood. And although I also did go to a university to study math, most of what know about algorithms is from self-learning to satisfy own curiosity, not from attending university courses. University gave me a chance to participate in ACM ICPC and paid for my flights a few times, for that I'm grateful - I was able to land a FAANG job right out of school thanks to my success at it. But they did not teach me algorithms and competitive programming, that was all self study.
Given that we can expect a rising degree of risk adversity and narrowmindedness as the tech industry ages into something resembling other major industries, it would probably be a good idea for the readers to take xwdv's advice even if they disagree with the ethos behind it.
This is a common problem among ex-founders. Founders, almost by their nature, will take unconventional paths to get where they are. Many are highly talented and fast learners and can be great employees. But to medium and large companies which have trained their processes to find conventional and stable people, these founders look like red flags. It's a shame because typically the self-starter high ownership type of person that companies love and think are hard to find are the exact traits these founders have.

For founders, the reality is that part of their skillset is not transferrable into a more structured company. Working with bureaucracy, interviews, communication, working with large groups of people, high amounts of structure, planning, and risk mitigation are not skills that overlap with starting a company and going from 0 to 1. If you're a founder type who wants to take a break and work at a more established company, you should be prepared to make this transition. All is not lost though - if you plan to start another company someday, be a sponge for how a larger company works - it will pay dividends later when you need to create this yourself.
It contains unmoderated user-generated content, of course some users will post absolutely any kinds of content including porn. There's even official pornhub server.
I'm fine if we disagree on this. I go back and forth myself. Ultimately, I believe we're applying too much hindsight to Gates middle years. The anti trust suits were well founded. Someday we'll demonize the Google guys and Zuck and everyone else in adtech. That's good. They played the game, won, we didn't like the outcome, so we change the game. That doesn't make them evil either, it makes them products of a system we asked for and supported and along the way they brought immense value. What became evil in all these cases was not the people, necessarily.

What gets me is people who so vehemently hate that they talk about killing the person, not the business.
Agreed. Employers usually want to understand your capacity to learn (as well as many other things). Going to university formally demonstrates this but obscure interview questions attempt to test for this too. You can learn them all, just try.
How Much Are My Employee Stock Options Worth??
It is easy to end up in this hole. If you have graduated years ago or are approaching 30 and don't have an established brand with 9-5 schedule on your CV, you will be approached with caution. It's very demotivating to deal with rejection and arbitrary and daft questions.

Regardless, I was interested in the Author's switch to digital nomad lifestyle - was it easier than interviews? Why? where did you go? etc. I'd love to hear more, and whether the author is enjoying it more than whatever FAANG job he was applying for.
US FDA vaccine strength Phase III clinical trials appear to have a minimum of 30,000 participants in the typical 50/50 experiment/control distribution, whereas e.g. Novavax's U.K. based Phase III trial was half that. AZ's US Phase III trial was delayed at least a month because of a possible correlated adverse event and per "reliable rumor" a lack of candor from AZ (in general both AZ and Oxford have done about the worst in the West in testing and communications, not counting Sputnik V). They now have their US efficacy data but have not yet made an application for an Emergency Use Authorization from the FDA no doubt due to not yet having safety data from half their subjects who got the vaccine, which was the gate for the mRNA vaccine applications. None of the other vaccines have had EUA applications, although we should see one from Novavax pretty soon.

J&J or rather Janssen's production capabilities are mostly in the EU, we in the US have been getting doses made in the Netherlands with fill and finish (bottling) in the US. Unfortunately Emergency BioSolutions, a company who's competence is all political, not production, got the initial subcontract to make Janssen doses in the US, and predictably has done a horrible job. To make a long story short their Baltimore factory has not received FDA approval and just plain shouldn't without a complete top to bottom housecleaning, everything from firing every person in it to actually keeping the equipment and rooms etc. clean and free of mold and bacteria (yes, it's that bad). Merck though has recently agreed to make doses.

So we've run out of "banked" pre-authorization supplies of Janssen doses, and are not getting a whole lot from the Netherlands. Moderna and Pfizer appear to be in much better shape because they're not depending on delicate cell cultures to make their vaccines, production is much simpler except for the microfluidics that mix the lipids and mRNA. Biologically the most complicated thing is making DNA using E. Coli, that's much easier to do correctly than cell cultures, especially in bulk.

As for total doses administered in the US, see https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#vaccinations As of yesterday only 6.9 million of Janssen out of 190 million total.

And you're right about the efficacy, Janssen's objective from the beginning was to develop the single most effective one dose vaccine, which they've achieved, although they're trying two doses eight weeks apart in a separate US based Phase III trial.
You can never know anything for sure. This is why science, medicine and drug approvals are all about probabilities and calculated risks. If everyone suddenly dropped dead 10 years after taking a drug that was approved in 2015 there is no way we could know that right now. But we know it's very, very unlikely, so we accept that risk.

With vaccines we know from decades of experience that severe side effects tend to occur very shortly (days or maybe weeks) after the injection. So this is why vaccine trials observe participants for weeks or months, not years, before concluding that the vaccine is safe. Of course this doesn't guarantee that the Covid vaccine don't happen to be an exception. But if that was the approach we took then we would never be able to approve anything, and never get the benefits we know for sure it brings.
> That's 100% illegal on this side of the pond at least

Interestingly enough the app is built by a company in the UK.
If your employer required this, would you comply?

[Edited from Would Google and Facebook employees comply]
If you were to compare it to a homeowner, tech debt for the average startup is more like someone deciding to build their own house with neither relevant skills, planning permission nor expert advice and desperately trying to keep the whole thing from collapsing into the foundation while simultaneously building balconies and extensions on every floor (think of the worst episodes of that Grand Designs TV show).
There should be a reason for it. I learn things because I need them for my job or I find them interesting, hopefully with some overlap. There's a lot of things to learn in life, and it's rather pointless to learn things for an interview process if it doesn't reflect upon the actual job requirements.

Also, it's not like people know nothing. A good interview process learns both what the candidate does and does not know, how what they know could be useful, and how capable the candidate is in filling a knowledge gap if there actually is one between what they know and what is actually needed for the job. That is of course in addition to learning whether they're nice to be around or not.
It’s certainly possible something similar can happen to me. Part of this is mitigated, I think, by the fact that the overall volatility is reduced. That’s one of the pitfalls I’ve seen in contrast to the growth plays not based on intrinsic value. I think it’s the main reason the risk-adjusted returns are better but time will tell. Black swan events always seem obvious only in hindsight.
> Moving away from this can also put people at a disadvantage because it makes it harder to know how to prepare for interviews.

This just proves that you can memorize a cheat sheet. What good is having interviews if they are so predictable that the applicant basically just repeats himself over and over again? That isn't an interview. That is gatekeeping. "Do you know the secret handshake?"

I don't know the entire multiplication table by heart, but I know how to multiply. But that's not what interviewers are testing for. They basically want to see you rattle off a chart from memory as though that's a non-arbitrary universal indicator of capability.
Pausing this one vaccine type to collect data and determine appropriate actions to mitigate this side effect is reasonable.

This is a low probability event, and the appropriate mitigation may be to do nothing; but there may be some common factor for these patients that might indicate use of a different vaccine or maybe informing people of symptoms of blood clots and what to do if they see symptoms.

The real risk here is eroding confidence in government health sources in general, and vaccines in specific. There were certainly unknown risks before, but now there is a known risk which deserves some study.
Or, you know... die. Like 3M+ people have worldwide already.
> choosing not to work for fools is not opting out of social signaling.

That depends entirely on how you choose to define "fools".
No, not really. There are plenty of people who did not get a CS degree, for a variety of reasons, who can still be competent and help your company.

If someone has a legit work history in our industry, but no CS degree, and their resume otherwise makes them look like a good fit, you should interview them. At worst they are terrible and you waste a few hours of your time.
Different people have different understanding of self-worth and dignity.
I’m basically the same demographic, but I really question the author’s judgment if the things he misses most about San Francisco is “In-n-Out and Mexican food.”

I travel to SF from Austin every year. What about the comfortable weather and giant healthy outdoor playscape, actual history and continued diversity and interesting things despite people like him, I could go on and on, it’s beautiful.

He didn’t need to go on a vacation, he needed to look outside his damn window. Maybe it was joke and he misses these things as well. If not, what a dolt.
This is just another classic example of how rules are different for poor and rich people. Big bank deposits a million dollars into a person's bank account. Person takes the money that is in their account and spends it. Person did something illegal? Hmm?
Does it have a higher expected value?

If you land the job, you have a guaranteed, pre-specified income. Probably a high one, depending on the company.

The massive risk of failure with launching a product should dramatically lower the expected value. Especially since most products, even if successful, won't pay as well as the corporate job.
Rust is for Professionals
Apparently there were studies on adenovirus 5 vector vaccines against HIV in 2007. The vaccine was not successful, but I cannot find any data on long-term adverse effects.
I think the allies would be immobilized with fear? The same way Russia annexed Crimea and nothing happened except stern finger wagging from allies. Little Donnie Dipshit tried to push China around and they laughed in his face. I'm pretty sure that emboldened them.
When people live miles from supermarkets and offices and public transport is not a viable option, which is actually the case for most people outside large cities (and even for some large cities), we are not going to be able to nudge people away from cars, this is simply not realistic.
It's not realistic either to suggest that we can just rebuild everything so that cars aren't needed. We can try to build so that car are less needed but that's a very slow process.

The only realistic option is to have affordable EVs ASAP that fit all needs because people aren't giving up cars. With the current policy schedule we have about 10 years for this to happen.

Of course, EVs have their own issues, both environmentally and in term of impact on electricity grids, so this is not that simple, either.
Maybe they want to lower it to 12+? If not, this change makes no sense. Aren't youtube & reddit clients also able to access nsfw content from within iOS apps?
My Taiwanese friends seem to have the same attitude. I think it's a combination of either naivety or fatalism. The PLAN is clearly making a massive investment in amphibious warfare vessels. The odds of a cross-straight invasion are certainly not 100%, but they are definitely not low enough to discount.

This post from Tanner Greer is a good deep dive of the political attitude towards the issue within Taiwan: https://scholars-stage.blogspot.com/2020/09/why-i-fear-for-t....
I can see your point, but I disagree with the "CAN software interface is typically simpler"-- in my experience, there is often a significantly larger API surface with CAN than with I2C on microcontrollers, and you are forced to deal with it because otherwise NOTHING works; examples are bit timing configuration, parameters for behavior when messages are not acknowledged, picking the right frame format, etc.

While with I2C, chances are much better that your microcontroller manufacturer just provides you with a HAL_I2C_Mem_Write function, and you just use defaults everywhere, without understanding or caring, and things just work™.

But all this probably depends a lot on specific platform...
Why is it relevant? So far nobody forces me to take birth control and threatens for exclude me from the society if I refuse to do so (UK wants to require vaccine passports to go to cinema, for example). Nobody paints me as stupid anti-vaxxer if I just say I don't want to take BC pills. Nobody tells me that I won't be able to travel unless I agree to take BC.
> I spent 90% of my time preparing for CS questions

As always, to me this sounds like a real waste of time. I'd rather be working on a real project (working for people who value work on real projects), not practicing for an interview.

But that's me.