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The best part of the Skylab story was that the Shire of Esperance fined NASA $400 for littering, and it took them 30 years to actually pay the fine

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Just a heads up that screen readers will tend to read sentences like that as "I think you meant MATHEMATICAL BOLD SMALL B MATHEMATICAL BOLD SMALL O MATHEMATICAL BOLD SMALL L MATHEMATICAL BOLD SMALL D comma MATHEMATICAL ITALIC SMALL I MATHEMATICAL ITALIC SMALL T MATHEMATICAL ITALIC SMALL A MATHEMATICAL ITALIC SMALL L MATHEMATICAL ITALIC SMALL I MATHEMATICAL ITALIC SMALL C and U N D E R L I N E" and so on which can be extremely unpleasant
Pitfall II was the first video game I ever owned. Good times.

The impact games had on my generation should not be underestimated. I am sure for many if not most people who got interested in computer programming, games were the entry way. For me, it's certainly true. Ever since my dad brought home a used Commodore 64, I wanted to learn how to program it. The C64 User Manual got read over and over again until it almost fell apart.

And in a way, the simple times back then made this not only possible but also almost a necessity. Pre-internet, you didn't have access to millions of games. So if you wanted to do something with that great machine, learning how to write your own game (which, coincidentally, I never mastered) seemed like the only logical thing. And it was entirely possible: flip the on/off switch and two seconds later, you're greated by a BASIC prompt. Have fun!

(Of course, later on people started to figure out how to circumvent copy protection and it was very common for some kids to share floppy disks with cracked games on the school yard. Copying a disk, however, required special tools and would take quite long because you'd only have one disk drive but the computer did not have enough memory to fit all the contents into memory. So you would have to go back and forth between the source and the target disk a few times. This took up 10, 15 minutes if memory serves right. And you could never be sure if the copy would actually work, for some reason. You'd have to try different copying tools to find one that did the job right.)

The closest to that feeling today is probably coding JavaScript, but the experience is entirely different. It's actually much better today, in that the chances are much lower for you to get stuck - there's infinity free programming resources, plus platforms like StackOverflow where you can find answers to common questions, or even try to ask some questions of your own (good luck, newbie).

But I still look back fondly to the endless hours that I spend in my room in front of a bulky but tiny monitor, staring at these 16 colors, having big dreams of fantastic games and learning by just figuring things out.

And every now and then, when things got too frustrating, you could always put in the old cassette tape and load up Pitfall II again to give yourself a break.

SHIFT + RUN/STOP
I'm a layman too, so to be honest, it might not be productive for us to argue about these things. If the government issues $2 trillion dollars in bonds to fund the stimulus, that dries up the liquidity for businesses. Businesses that otherwise would have been fine weathering the pandemic with a private loan may be unable to receive one. As a result, they would have to furlough or lay off more employees, which further reduces lender confidence and sends us into a spiral that results in another Great Depression. Obviously, this is largely speculative, but my point is that in this case, QE went hand in hand with the stimulus.

> what people overlooked was that the ~500B that went to businesses was leveraged up to 6x

That was the money allocated to this program. How much of it actually went to them? I couldn't find anything super up to date, but the Federal Reserve only bought $10 billion in corporate bonds compared to the $750 billion capacity [1], and businesses only borrowed $3.7 billion of $600 billion capacity of the Main Street Lending Program.

Also, why is it that subsidized debt gets treated like it's a handout when a business takes it, but when it comes to student loans, it's treated as a liability?

[1] https://apnews.com/article/warren-buffett-corporate-bonds-fi...

[2] https://www.investopedia.com/main-street-lending-program-480...
Still a strange wording. Firefighters are civilians.
On OSS projects, I think that we need to find a more robust model than what we have in most cases.

To me, the most successful and efficient models when it comes to building open, capable, stable and friendly software (all those four) seems to be delegating all the work to a team of a few but very experienced developers. I'm thinking Blender, GIMP, Csound, Ardour, many video codecs, etc. It also seems all these projects have in common highly technical fields (3D, audio or video), which implies a far steeper learning curves than your average github project. Maybe we could even infer that one solution to drive contributions up is to make it less easy and less ostensibly accessible. I personally pay for Blender because I want them to improve some features.
Plus I'm not sure if getting pull requests from random strangers all the time is a good way to take a software in the serious direction -- I'd wager reducing complexity by lowering the amount of people involved and the extensive need for communication is what keeps the core dev team focused, fast and flexible.
Anyway, my 2 cents.
Yeah, OP seems to be self promoting their project with a misleading association to Telegram official
As an intern at a startup I got an all expense trip to California and a higher salary than some of the mid level game dev positions I saw today. Game dev is a ripoff
Babel is one of the most popular and widely-used tools in the history of web development. Why should its developers and maintainers not make at least as much money as entry-level Silicon Valley developers?
> Would it be better or worse than a second-hand modern car at the same price?

The difference would be so huge that I'm not convinced this question isn't rhetorical.

Features that were high end or cutting edge in 1990 (progressive power steering, power windows, air conditioning, power adjustable seats, traction control, cruise control, airbags) are ubiquitous on all but the very cheapest cars nowadays. Features that we take for granted (Bluetooth integration / in-dash maps, automatic headlights, non-awful automatic transmissions, non-awful stereos) didn't even exist in 1990. Certainly from a safety perspective, probably from a luxury and convenience perspective, and possibly even from a performance perspective, a $9000 second-hand car is better than any car from 1990.
I think it depends a lot on your target audience.

Engineers (at least in my locality in California) tend to prefer direct, casual language and to a great degree even have a grudge against overuse of formal language and formalities. We love things that speak to us in our day to day language.

I suppose if you're pitching a product to lawyers, then sure, bring on the notwithstanding hitherto aforementioned gibberish and I'm sure they'll feel right at home thereinafter. :)
This is just an example of how time-based currency can help resolve disputes in chat.
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$11,000 per month? Hang on, what are the average salaries of devs these days?
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Does it have to be a large site for some reason?

I am sure there are hundreds of (likely paid) walled gardens for kids out there where a bunch of them even comes with proper moderation.
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Its just an anecdote from my personal experience, but perhaps it shows how little an resume influences the decision if you get a job or not:

About 7 years ago i was unemployed and a little depressed because every single application for a job i wrote got rejected... at one saturday night i returned from some good time with a few friends and perhaps a few beer (..and whisky, and whatever else) too much and had the "wise" idea to check a few job websites. I found an offer for a sysop job and wrote the (obviously) most drunken and horrible application ever... at monday morning i got a call, the next friday i signed the contract.

Morale of the story: The boss got curious if i really was just an drunk idiot and invited me to see for himself.

I still work at this company and i am reasonable happy here.

But... perhaps this is something which will work only with smaller companies.
> Can we stop calling programmers Engineers?

I still find this sentiment hurtful after all these years. It comes across as demeaning of my credentials and my work.

Let's start with my degree. My master's degree reads "Informatics Engineer", a title that was approved at the national level by the EU country where I graduated. That alone should be sufficient in my opinion.

Degrees don't matter? What about people? When the exact work I do is performed by "true Engineers" then does that make it true enfineering? Most of my co-workers are Electronics Engineers and while they perform the same tasks I do, I have yet to see anybody question their worth.

Or perhaps my colleagues may be true Engineers, but the work they are doing is mere programming, as evidenced by a simple programmer like me doing it.

Maybe it's the processes we follow that matter. True engineering work involves design, documentation and review processes, after all. Well, the processes we follow come directly from EE best practices because that's the nature of the work we do (computer architecture). Software engineering also has its own similar design processes tailored to their needs. Not significantly different, I must say.

Maybe it's not the accreditation, the people or the processes. Perhaps the demarcation between engineering and programming is in the systems we design. They must be designs worthy of being patented, systems so important that people's lives are at risk if they malfunction.

I have a dozen patents -- none of them in software. I have worked on safety critical systems where death and dismemberment were expected consequences of malfunction.

What else, then?
Let's drill down on that for a while. I'll circle back with you next week.
as a man, how insecure does one have to be to take offense at a book that celebrates the achievement of a woman, and to question the accuracy of it without having actually read it?
It gets you less clicks
Yes, this is a bot, but the time-based currency works for all Telegram users, regardless of the chat. This is not self-promotion: Telegram bots api is open for everyone.
FWIW, I just don't support HTML email and only for a small handful of services and senders do I ever get burned. If my email client did a pass over the HTML and gave me all the text followed by all the links that would be sufficient (right now I sometimes simulate that by opening up the raw MIME and grabbing what I need). Like, do we live in a world where this even matters? How is your life being made worse by people using these features? E-mail was explicitly designed in a way to support emails that have both HTML and non-HTML, and for people like us--"worst case"--the HTML can be stripped to text and it is fine.
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Are people submitting resumes in Word files? Looking back at my experience with Word and its "consistency" in formatting that seems like a suboptimal idea, misspelled words or not.
Hm, a solution. They privatize it, and then companies will say to their webdevs, we don't want to pay extra for a profit of some capitalist, write the website without it.

So each webdev will end up with their own half-baked solution. Tragedy of the lack of commons!

I hear you cry, but that's irrational! Precisely, but so is not caring about the commons and letting them die.

I am not under an illusion that under capitalism, people cannot pass the buck (responsibility for maintenance) away too.
I'm a hiring manager and I always read cover letters. For me, they are your opportunity to clarify some things in your resume and point how relevant they are to the position you're applying for. This is actually a win for the candidate, as they don't need to modify their resume for each employer (which is more work).

E.g. "Although you use Angular 11 in your stack, I believe my 5 years of experience with Angular.js and 3 years of experience with React will allow me to ramp up quickly." or "Having worked developing CRM systems for 5 years at company XYZ, I believe I would be of great value for this project."

While I wouldn't disqualify a candidate for not having a cover letter, I would wonder why they wouldn't use this tool that increases their chances of getting hired.
Baseline ES6 been supported for many years now.

There are very few things a transpiler will do for you today. Some critical langauge features are completely impossible to substitite, or emulate. Given this, what's the point?

The few non-critical features can be more reliably polyfilled manually than relying on transpiler which will mangle the rest of your code which has nothing to do with that function, and with 50/50 chance to introduce own problems.
Yup, productionalizing a comprehensive CPI is a boring, thankless and expensive (household surveys, not just webscraping!) undertaking. Which is why we pay a big government department to do it for us.

The sceptical but honest truth-seeker would discover, after months of labour that the official quality-adjusted BLS numbers are reasonably sane, maybe understated by a few tens of pct-points, and the hedonic adjustments will add about 0.5 to 1%, which is probably a reasonable estimate of overall quality improvements. That truth is so mundane that your months of labour will barely net you a Medium blogpost. Or you take a shortcut, just add 1.5 to 2%-points to the BLS numbers and sell it in a newsletter, like shadowstats...
From what I've seen from average user, they tend to struggle pasting text with the same font into their email reply, struggle to quote parts of the message or email hyperlinks in usable manner.
This bot doesn't have any relations with official Telegram. This topic is kind of an advertisement that misleads people.
$121k is not a lot of money for someone writing compilers. And I would seriously doubt that you could just take your average developer and expect them to be able to contribute to a project like Babel in an equally productive way.
> But their choices affect me

If you and your family get vaccinated, how do their choices affect you?
Because not all things are written with Celcius temperatures. It is easier to push a button than to look up the conversion.
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Divorces are ridiculously expensive. That was the major culprit for my generation. Only one peer of mine has actually retired before 50 (that I know of), and he stayed married. Everyone else ended up splitting up, which wiped all their savings. Or they went another path.

I followed the other path - total mental breakdown, severe depression followed by "non-retirement" - working freelance, as a co-founder and in interesting jobs while travelling. Turns out that being a well-paid employee for years and years isn't something I can actually do without getting depressed about it.
I meant the M1, which is a market leader in terms of performance per watt in the same performance class.
In Germany they showed the whole shift of an covid nurse on tv. They really should show something similar in every country. Gives you a lot of perspective.
I don't know why you're getting down voted as it's a common misconception.

Sole distributorship means your company is the only one in a particular territory that the *manufacturer* will sell to directly - usually in exchange for KPIs around marketing, distribution and maybe service in addition to sales.

Anyone else can buy it in an outside territory - for example from another distributor or even from the manufacturer itself (strange things are known to happen when people's incentives are tied to sales targets) and sell it in your territory. While this is often called "grey channel" or "parallel imports", this is perfectly legal if the importer pays customs duty etc and invariably seems to happen if there is significant price differentiation between territories.

The way to combat grey channel is to price right across territories in a way that it's not worth anyone's while to do parallel imports.
Yes, it's all very stressful to consider from our modern cushy full-screen 32-bit 8-megapixel triple-buffered world. :)

That said, a tiny nit: televisions don't have light guns, they have electron guns. The light is created by the phosphor layer on the inside of the tube. Chances are you know this from the rest of the comment, of course.
> I'm getting my 2nd shot this week, but both mRNA and modified adenovirus vaccines have never been used for mass vaccinations before. The history of medicine is litered with interventions that were seen as totally safe and wonderful and lead to terrible consequences after some time. Push towards massive adoption of an intervention sets off my alarm bells.

These events sadly happen and there will always be unknown unknowns, not only, but also because of human hubris. However, it seems you are overestimating the prevalence of such events and extrapolating that to the current situation. If you take a birds-eye view on medical progress over the last 50-100 years says, it's just incredible.

> All that said, personally, it seems the unknown long term risks of vaccination outweigh the more or less known risks of covid both on an individual level (I don't want to get it) and a community level (I'd rather like community spread to stop, so I can go back to being a hermit by choice); but if community spread wasn't happening near me, I would be happier not trying new medicine within a year of development.

Agree with you. From what we know today it seems that the unknown long term risks of the vaccines are a subset of the unknown long term risks of Covid.
Any unsolicited marketing is spam, unsubscribe link or not.
To be fair, they are saying you shouldn't use buzzwords in a resume, not everywhere. I agree with you that the phrase 'gets you hired' is a lot stronger though.
They will have to if near 100% vaccinations rates are your standard. This isn’t our problem ultimately, we don’t bleach the whole world because the boy in the bubble exists. Risks must be factored.

Also, the number of folks who are vaccinated and have needed intensive hospitalization has been found to be approximately zero.
not at all just FAANG. the US tech scene is just that competitive. most decent Series A-B startups in the US can easily pay six figures. fwiw i got 150k at netlify, about 1.5 years after graduating from bootcamp. of course, i have had an atypical career, but i dont think i have an atypical salary story.
This is not an advertisement. I would never consider someone talking about a Discord bot to be talking about an official bot released from Discord. It is incredibly common for users to write bots on these platforms.
> Unless I was flush with cash, I probably wouldn't donate from company funds if I were an entrepreneur.

I am a solo entrepreneur with a self-funded business and I set aside a percentage of revenue to be paid in developer sponsorships, through Github sponsors, Clojurists Together, and directly. I sort the libraries that my code uses by "indispensability" and fund the top 8 or so. It's not much, but if everybody did this, the ecosystem would be healthy.

I'm happy to see that at least the Clojure community is very mature and this approach is rather common.

It is in my best interest and it does make sense: I rely on those libraries, I want them to be maintained. And if they get abandoned, I will bear the very significant cost of rewrites.
Country of origin is not a race. You can’t just call everything racism because the numbers are different.
I'm sorry for your loss.

Do you know how people are vetted for this? I am guessing they go through a course, and are required to redo them ever so often
I don't know, I'm not going to risk expensive PC hardware and waste time trying to find out.
Their Exynos are infamous for being slower, running hotter and using more power than equivalent Snapdragon and even Kirin (and of course, Apple SoCs).

But I doubt that shows in light usage like scrolling or opening an app, that's more likely their (lack of) software optimization.
You've claimed that there's no equilibrium several times, but as far as I can tell, you haven't explained it even once. Do you have a citation? Or do you have some model in which football fails to satisfy the criteria?
I have experienced it both as part of IT emergency response, as well as when cooking with (a very small subset) other people.

As long as everyone is "on the same wavelength" (I am sorry, I cannot quantify that better), it is basically effortless. You need someone to chop onions, and a few minutes later, they're just there. You sense that someone needs a filleting knife (they're just about to place a fish on a cutting board, or something similar that signals "this is the next tool needed") and you're close to it, so you make sure it is there for them (handle first, of course).

It is a very similar feeling to a well-integrated infantry unit making an entry into a presumed-hostile building, minus all the adrenaline.
Incinerating the food probably generates more useful energy than eating it and turning a hand crank.
I find the comments here fascinating. So the lead developer was paid $11k a month, and somehow many start calling this a problem. Apparently, if you work on OSS you should be working for something slightly above the poverty line. People are comparing it to other salaries, but seem to forget that this salary likely does not include any other benefits (health insurance, stock options ...). I mean he is the lead developer for a "product" that is used by millions of people, what would a person like that earn in industry? Significantly above that salary, even in most of Europe.

If we want to create a sustainable OSS infrastructure, we definitely want that developers make a good living from it. But it seems the dominant notion is that developers should donate their time/money and live close to the poverty line, so that companies can rake in billions in profits, without paying for the tools they use.
a cybersecurity company to which you pay an annual retainer will just pay the attackers instead.

Communication will be done by lawyers and subject to strong confidentiality protection, no one will ever know.

Basically, exactly how it happens with kidnappings today.
But it absolutely doesn't, that is the point. There is no register level documentation or documentation for the instruction set the chips use. There is no pertinent architecture documentation at all. Having a list of performance counters does not equal documentation.
We don't know how much it costs but we advertise it as $35.
>I won't be coming back to check on this thread, partly in case some joker posts my karma here..

Sounds like you need a simple script that grabs your current karma from the HN API, and then cleans that number (±10?) from HN pages for you, so you can browse the site without fear of being trolled

Unfortunately, you won't see this suggestion :)
Perhaps so, but this example is definitely flagged as incorrect grammar.
I had exactly the same reaction to the first dose, except I had muscle pain in the vaccinated arm for 3 days.

Everyone says the second dose is worse although.