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I know this is a popular belief but it’s actually the exact opposite…

The reason PayPal holds funds is that a consumer is allowed to reverse a bank and credit card transaction for a few months after the transaction happened. This ability exists to protect consumers from fraudsters, scammers and bad businesses (ones that don’t provide service etc.) which is much more common than people realize.

With crypto, the ability to reverse a transaction disappears and with that the ability to protect consumers. Now who do you think will thrive in a world where a consumer has no protection? Scammers, bad businesses and criminals..
Location: Seattle Area
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: Prefer local/remote.

Technologies:
- Game Programming & related (C#, Unity 3d, Python, JSON, Couchbase, Django, etc...)
- Embedded Programming (C++, C, VxWorks, etc...)
- Cloud (AWS)

Résumé/CV: Email me and I'll give pdf/docx.
Email: cole , 2021 & brown , dev

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cole-brown/
GitHub: https://github.com/cole-brown
- Have more "portfolio" code not on GitHub if interested.

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I'm a Game Programmer. My current task is to port an MMO video game from a traditional colo server achitecture to a cloud architecture. I'm also in charge of: maintaining the colo version and its ~50 servers; planning technical features for upcoming milestones; writing code for the game or the website(s). I'm the 'jack of all trades' - but my boss likes my ability to jump on emergencies or new unknown things and get done whatever needs doing.

Before games, I was an Embedded Programmer. I made hardware easier to access for the rest of the programmers. I mainly did OS abstractions; the hardware abstraction layer; and I2C/SPI drivers on custom hardware.

I've figured out hardware bugs, 'magic blue smoke' bugs, 'this is too old to have documentation anymore' bugs...

About Me:

I 'd like interesting problems to figure out.

I'm interested in leaving video game development for a better work/life balance, career future, and salary.

I've got a decent sized Python 3 project on GitHub and am learning Rust in my free-ish time.
BG has always been very clever, but historically that has meant clever at benefiting BG at our expense. PR finesse notwithstanding, I don't expect that has changed.
England has a thousand year old hereditary monarchy. The whole gist of it is that blood line makes someone fit to rule over everyone else. Everything else seems like pissing in the ocean.
You have not heard those, they absolutely do sound more precise than cheap studio monitors. I think they may actually be flat with both bass and treble all the way down, but then they just don't sound like loudspeakers at all.
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Oh thank god, applying geometry nodes in 2.93 ACTUALLY creates the geometry now, before you had to do something else (I forget what) to get real geometry after doing all your nodes. Now that they at least appear to be far more fully baked than 2.92 I will need to get back to messing with blender and, more specifically, creating larger scenes taking advantage of geometry nodes.
The article was from October of 2020 so it's more likely the article influenced a talk given last week than vice versa.
Here in Australia, every company I have worked at (non-FAANG) as a Software Engineer has had a kitchen, stocked with food under a "Grab what you want, when you want it" policy.

Is it really that uncommon in the US outside of FAANG companies?
294 comment thread from earlier today: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27369910
Sure it's work. But is it really more work than developing an entire new system from scratch? Because that is incredibly labor intensive, if not one of the most expensive endeavors in IT you can undertake imho. It's easy to think IT will create the perfect system that has no support issues but TBH there will probably be just as many.
You've never had a boss for whom you held your tongue despite knowing they were wrong because the negative consequences of you speaking outweighed the positives? Never had a significant other who was unreasonable about a particular subject and you chose to just go along with them for the good of your relationship? If so I envy you.
Just had this conversation with my parents today. They asked why is working from home so wonderful?

The number one reason I had was, because everyone can just be them, it's a lot different than in the office.

The job can and should be a lot more inclusive and diverse when you're working in your own space -- home office, cafe, etc. You find what works for you, without having to worry about messing with someone else's flow in the next cubicle or being interrupted in your own flow by someone that always needs to escape their own work. Someone that wants to do something distracting can, without annoying others, everything is on your own terms, even if you have to take care of other family members.

With audio only you're just another human, not to be judged on appearance or malformation or what have you; which opens barriers that are presented in the office all the time, hell, it might even scare your interviewers from giving you the job in the first place! Either people can be cruel or incessantly think you're helpless.

I've noticed over the last year, those colleagues that are more introverted sometimes have a better go of presenting how they think online. When sharing their screens they're able to show more of their presentation skills, a lot more chances to present in a way they've developed overtime. And not more opportunities, it's probably the first opportunity they've had to shine than if it they were in an office; it doesn't happen.

In my opinion, I feel like those that are people-people will always get ahead in an office setting versus those that think a bit differently, look a bit differently, dress or act a bit differently, and this makes it a more level playing field for the latter.
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The article was from October 2020 so this looks more like someone being facetious.
I remember the day it happened, a lot of people were suggesting that Glenn Beck's far right rhetoric encouraged the person to do what they did, so Glenn Beck spent his entire 5PM tv block saying that he had nothing to do with far right terrorism.
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The wealthy elite are all full on communists when it’s time to pander to liberals in front of a camera, but when it comes to a balance sheet, they exercise the greed that non-gullible people expect.
Why is it that I would need to prove that?

Do the laws of physics somehow not apply to nuclear reactors and planes until someone has crashed into one?
In USA.
> Since you asked: For me personally, it depends [if I would buy stuff made by slaves]

The absolute state of Hacker News.
Then they also have to give you a free gym, to work those meals back off.
This rings true. The fact that people enjoy corporate offices and make friends there beggars belief. I always though that's where people with personality disorders ended up. Sociopathic (and usually incompetent) management, petty office politics of the lowest order and a focus on anything but the actual work meant that the only way I could tolerate it was a few months at a time, and as a contractor. Then they at least mostly left you out of it.

I'm sure every place is different, and there are happy offices with cool people (I had no such luck), but unless you're cut out for this particular flavor of social pathology, it's living hell.
An "explicit function" is something like y = √(x³ + 1), where you have a formula like √(x³ + 1) that tells you how to compute a value of the function for any given value of the independent variable. An "implicit function" is the function implicitly defined by an equation like y² - x³ = 1; you don't have a formula. In this case, it actually defines a relation, because for any value of x there are two values of y. You could sort of reasonably claim that by sticking "y =" before a formula, you are defining an implicit function, just a boring degenerate one, but we conventionally reserve the term "implicit function" for things that we can't handle in the explicit-function fashion.

It's called "implicit differentiation" because we're differentiating the implicit-function representation—instead of just taking the derivative of one formula to find the answer, we take the derivatives of the formulas on both sides of the equation. (We know this is safe: if a = b, then we can substitute them for each other in any context, for example da/dx = db/dx.) Or, equivalently, we subtract them from each other, take the derivative of the resulting expression, and set it to 0.
I'm not at Google, but while my office was open I didn't stock much breakfast food. The breakfast food at my job was better than I usually bought, so I didn't need to buy it.
Regardless of whether its outlook was positive or negative, I thought Lord of the Flies was too plot-driven and heavy handed with ridiculous character motivations (or lack thereof).

Anyway, would be really cool to see a film of this story; I'm disappointed it hasn't been made yet!
They're mostly just talking about their own experience, but it starts off with sweeping generalizations and doesn't address that other individuals might be different. Its the argumentation equivalent of a lie by omission.
BI has become a go to for semi-factual insidery tech gossip/hit pieces. 80-90% of what they post is bullshit.
Maybe that’s a touch too specific. But Igor me, it’s a lot easier to strike up a rapport on a walk to get coffee than scheduling a 30 min quarantini, a word I have grown to detest
Does Dropbox no longer serve food?
If you need to stay away from the GC because of some practical reason, you can always write C/C++/Rust. You implied that this is a frequent situation when it isn't. Your example of "anything with a UI" was quite a bad one.

Most projects are better off written in a GC language because the productivity benefits outweigh the performance costs.
In my experience probability of getting a useful answer, especially for a question about a specific library, is much higher on Github Discussions.
Solar and wind are intermittent. We also need green sources of energy that are constant or available on demand.
So are LWRs. With MSRs one doesn't get a runaway nuclear reaction like it happened at Chernobyl and no hydrogen explosions (it doesn't use water as a coolant) like it happened at Fukushima. Also the fuel doesn't ignite in contact with water, like in sodium cooled reactors. The reactor vessel doesnt need to be pressurized, which is a huge safety advantage. Fortunately there are no also issues with spent fuel pools? One thing to watch out for is that the molten salt tank doesn't rupture or leak. Flourine based molten salts are quite corrosive.
I recently got turned down from a team lead role at AWS and the only feedback i got was that I seemed technically strong and understood performance management in theory but had not performance managed enough members of my team. The problem i have with this is that IMHO if I'm performance managing someone it's more than likely mine or the organisations failing; we've hired or promoted someone into the wrong role, or we've created an environment for failure or something had drastically changed in the individuals life. Fortunately for me these have not really happened to any great extent but that was unfortunate for my AWS interview.

I've a suspicion that I rubbed the group lead the wrong as I asked him a couple of times, non confrontationally and from a place of genuine interest, what he did to set the direction of the group and he didn't really have any answer, still not sure what he actually does.
Book recommendations are especially high points for me. Thank you GP.
Last I checked, everybody in London is kicked out of the pub at some stupid hour like 9pm and they have to go to restaurants to keep drinking.
>These ransomware attacks are so devastating in no small part due to decisions Microsoft made many years ago.

This is true for almost all types of malware these days, especially when it comes to privilege separation/escalation attacks. All of your observations about segmentation/AD are true here.

As for ransomware specifically, a lot can be done to stop most ransomware, especially small-time stuff. Unlike most malware ransomware is intentionally loud, and performs the same generic actions of enumerating and encrypting files, which makes detecting and stopping most samples with heuristics much more effective than a lot of people would admit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3pH13DxClag

A lot has happened with ransomware in the past five years, but a lot really hasn't - this stuff still works, and would have an effect against the big RaaS strains that people are talking about today.
That's never been my experience.
This is a solved problem:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/wingdi/nf...

(If you still manage to get the ordering wrong even when you're forced to write the name of this macro... then programming is probably not for you.)

Edit: I just noticed the return type is "void". This error is entirely due to the destruction of MSDN; my copy of WIN32.HLP has the correct definition.
The font used by the Biden campaign and presidency was inspired by watch typography.

https://www.typography.com/fonts/decimal/design-notes
Huh...sounds interesting..
Thanks for the heads up :-)
I can only speak for software engineering: Hiring is extremely difficult and time intensive.

I have a ~10% hire rate in over 500 industry interviews conducted. These were at large tech companies so they included 5+ people spending 3+ hours each.

It’s not worth the time to fabricate head count to begin hiring, then fire a qualified person. We assume Amazon is cutthroat and grades on delivery. Imagine doing this sham while doing your normal job.
It seems that possibly now is a chance to data breach thanks to their fab expansion plan to overseas.
Yes. And yet you don't see drunken cockheaddery at the same rate you do here. This is entirely my point.
Not sure about this one specifically, but these microneedle array vaccines seem to use a slightly different mechanism to elicit an immune response (they stimulate Langerhans cells, which are dendritic cells in the skin). Hard to say if that would make side effects worse or better or have no effect -- this trial was in mice so it's not like the researchers could ask -- but it's probably different enough a system that people's experiences with the injectable vaccines probably aren't especially predictive either way.
Yes, though I'd already left to start my own company, but we don't have a cafeteria either.
Most of the bigger companies have their own cafeterias and kitchens to produce everything in house. They usually contract it out to companies like Bon Appetit who completely manage the logistics and operations.
Whatever you think of the man, “From the Desk of Donald Trump” is a terrible name, the Resolute was always squeaky clean and devoid of anything
Fair enough. But in Arizona, it's not like you're just turn off the AC completely and let the house bake in the 115 noonday heat. Maybe you bump your thermostat from 76 to 90 from 9-3 (gotta give it time to cool back down before you get home). That cuts your power usage in half for six hours of the day, 22 days a month. At most that might save you $120 during the hot summer months.
I doubt they're that literal... but I could be wrong.
Location: Seattle, WA
Remote: Yes and preferred
Willing to relocate: No

Hey, Jared here. I am an engineer who has a lot of experience working with Azure and the requisite Microsoft technologies. If you want to get to the cloud or have someone who can help you in the cloud I am your guy. I have worn a lot of hats from Tester to DevOps so I am truly comfortable as a full stack engineer. Right now I am obsessed with mastering Kubernetes and learning distributed systems.

I currently work as a (very recently promoted) Team Lead for a small team of engineers who work frontline support tickets and implement internal tools to help a small SaaS company manage its products. I've worked with most Azure technologies and C# is my best language.

I am truly at my best where I am up against a new problem I have no idea to solve, but I will figure it out.

Email: jaredlutteke@gmail.com

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jaredlutteke/

Resume: https://drive.google.com/file/d/10vDhXAk-pcsfhnGEXNzt6p3jdCP...

No third party recruiters, no Amazon, no Facebook.
I think it will all come down to one plucky and very clever outsider who stumbled into the situation by accident. Oh yeah, and the girl who needs rescued from the system against which she has rebelled.
An an Amazon employee I can say this absolutely happens, and not only that, some managers really think they are upholding the Amazon bar by pipping people out early. "He didn't meet the bar" is something ive heard multiple times after someone was only a month on the job. Not only that, teammates often dont help eachother, old systems are extremely complex. There is very little sympathy, and massive data collection about employees and their productivity.
Windows application whitelisting in this context means your own list based on either paths or hashes of executables. https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/tutorials/create-an-applica...

But you're right that it wouldn't help with the solarwind situation. Once installed and given privileges, a trusted app can do whatever it wants.
There also is a similar story of such in my country. There was this guy who wrote a short and it was included in the national textbook. The guy's son (or grandson, I can't recount exactly) was assigned to analyse that short and the author, out of curiosity, made the kid submitted his analysis instead. The teacher even went as far as commenting "You don't understand the author's intention at all". Which really make us think how absurd literary education can really go.
old.reddit.com it's the only way to browse Reddit. Not sure for how long, but it's there. That way you don't have to deal with any of the new nonsense that has become Reddit.
To be clear, I'm not saying that employers should force employees to work in an office so they can spend time with their friends.

I'm simply saying that those people who have developed friendships with the people they work with likely don't view "going to work" as a painful, soul-sucking task they have to perform simply to achieve a paycheck.

It is, in fact, possible to simultaneously realize that you're in a transactional business relationship with an employer who is compensating you for services, and that those around you are also in that same relationship, and to use that as a common ground upon which a friendship can be built that makes the transactional relationship less painful.

I also believe there are some people who do, genuinely, enjoy the work they do. The general point I'm trying to make throughout this thread is that it'd be great if folks realized that there is a diversity to opinions about work much in the same way as there is diversity to every other thing in life and it's simply not a binary choice between "work is wonderful and I want to spend my life at the office" and "work is awful and I can't stand commuting, sharing space with coworkers, paying egregious rent, etc." As with most things in life, the reality is most people live somewhere in the middle of that gradient. Acknowledging that is helpful if we want to make progress towards optimal, inclusive solutions.
The Cronophage makes me think of the Eponymous Langoliers Novella from Stephen King's "Four past Midnight". I wonder if he saw this clock and gained some inspiration from it? The "inspirations" section of the Wikipedia page only cites alleged plagiarism of unrelated IPs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Past_Midnight
Where do you get 40h from? Assuming living in a place that has long hot humid summers and cold winters, thereby needing AC for most of the year, that number should be closer to 100~200.

I live quite frugally otherwise (balking at other numbers in this thread) and $150 per month in climate cost increase for the daytimes sounds perfectly normal to me. During the hot summers I spent twice that when living in an apartment in the big city.

Also consider most people rent and have little ability to impact insulation and efficiency in their homes.
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I will always prefer WFH for a critically important reason no one else seems willing to mention. I get to use my own bathroom. Sitting in a stall next to someone noisy is my daily hell. The worst is if the seat is still warm. I think may have actually avoided using a public restroom for 15 straight months.
Wyoming Gov. Mark Gordon introduces a new nuclear power project that will be built at the site of one of the state's retired coal power plants.

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> 45 minutes means an hour and a half of your life every day that you don't get paid for and have to just throw away. (not only that but spending it doing one of the more dangerous things you can do in the US: driving.)

I've never found commuting to be "thrown away", but I've never commuted by car. I can read, listen to a podcast, or just people watch on the train. Or when biking/walking to work, I get some exercise. Seems to me the problem isn't commuting, but car commuting.
its definitely common. Really short stints on a resume damage careers
Similarly, Washington’s Grant County recently signed a deal with NuScale Power for the development of small modular reactors in central Washington.

https://www.kuow.org/stories/more-nuclear-energy-could-be-co...
This is just the drawn-out version of "no, u"
I haven't worked there since before the pandemic, but that's my understanding.
The reason why the entire world is in this mess in the first place. They can’t even move on from their own past let alone their own hidden skeletons.

The United Kingdom and its monarchy will never change and as with all other European monarchs, they will eventually be abolished anyway.
I've mostly consulted and worked with companies based outside of Korea, so I can't speak to onsite experience personally.

If you're wondering about work-life balance, in which Korea has a poor track record in general, it's going to vary wildly based on the team. The best is to try to get recruited from outside of Korea if you're looking to join a larger company. The startup scene is vibrant, too.

It's hard to give general advice without knowing your motivations, but feel free to drop me an email and I'll be happy to offer any advice :)
Not sure whether they used pupil size as a ratio of the eye size or other size normalizations. But the article states that pupil sizes shrink with age and only after controlling for age did the size correlate with task performance.
God people enjoy their wife/husband and kids.......... THE HORROR. Way to gate keep people's preferences. I don't lie to my coworkers when I say I want to be home by 7 to put my child to bed. You are delusional if you think that is abnormal.

Also people can work wherever the frack (had to change to not offend the SF crowd) they please. You are correlating high dedication with high output which absolutely not the case quantitatively speaking.

Gatekeep harder please...

(lol flagged for a naughty word, sorry it hurt the tendies)
Managers generally overrule other's opinions by giving promise of personally "coaching" the new hire to make them meet the bar. In most cases such people are put on a plan, ironically called "Coaching Plan" itself, and thereafter fired. URA quota is an open secret at Amazon, and some employee appreciate the practice of hire to fire, as it saves their own employment. That in turn ensures that objection to bad hire, who is going to be "coached" is non existent.
> There is basically no way to say to the browser - I am "X" and my friends are "Y" and "Z", they should have permissions to do things that I don't allow "A", "B", and "C" to do.

Isn't that CORS? That sounds like CORS.