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In the era of wiki/scihub/libgen, the whole tutoring industry is worthless. They are just making easy money taking advantage of information asymmetry. Generally, easy money will not be allowed in China.

Edited: I'm talking specifically about Chinese tutoring industry. One comment below gives a very detailed description, which perfectly explains why I think it's worthless. We are all in the process of a revolution initiated by wiki/scihub/libgen. Whether agree with me or not, you are welcome.
In New Zealand, the local EFTPOS network is basically a home-grown network that the major NZ banks established in the 1980s's and have continued operating on a shoe-string budget ever since. For the most part merchants only have to pay a low fixed cost to access the network, whereas customers usually don't pay a fee (as most banks either bundle free EFTPOS transactions in a fixed monthly fee package or even offer it for free entirely for certain account products).

Visa/Mastercard on the other hand has Merchants paying 1-3% of all transactions as well as customers paying an annual fee (usually around $25 or so for standard non-reward cards but can go up to hundreds of dollars for higher end cards) for many card products (so a tidy profit from the merchants as well as some annual top-up from the customers).

From a typical New Zealand merchant's perspective it doesn't always make sense to offer Visa/Mastercard if they can decide to only accept EFTPOS cards (which almost everyone in New Zealand has) and keep the 1-3% that they would otherwise lose to Visa/Mastercard.

Visa/Mastercard offer more modern benefits (e.g. Paywave) which is not offered by EFTPOS which I suspect is partly due to the fact New Zealand's EFTPOS network does not generate much of its own income (just the small fees merchants pay to access the network I believe) so they just continue with the minimum amount of investment.

Personally I have an zero-fee American Express card that earns Air New Zealand Airpoints. As a fallback at merchants that don't accept Amex, I have a Wise (ex TransferWise) Mastercard on my phone (for NFC payments) as well as a physical Kiwibank Visa card. When none of these are accepted I fall back on to my EFTPOS card which is more or less on par with cash in New Zealand. I estimate around 50% of my expenses are on Amex, 10% on Visa/Mastercard and the balance through EFTPOS with the occasional cash for markets and the like.
I read about this online, but it seems to be mainly a US only feature. Credit cards in my country have very very little benefits of using them apart from the usual feature of paying a lot and paying it back later. There is very little incentive to get one. Our banks are probably more risk-averse or don't want to bother with partnering with airlines, insurances, etc for points.

The principle is also using the bank's money, not your money. So you make a purchase and now you owe the bank. Unless I am very strapped for money or there is an incentive program, I see little use in using one.
I had the same experience.

An iteration in a positive direction for me was switching to NotePlan.

Every day I get a fresh sheet of paper and I write my todo list as needed. If I want to bring in tasks from previous days, I can go find them and move them to today. My todos are intermingled with my notes for the day, saved links, and my journal.

This way, my list doesn't grow and grow if I don't tend to it, yet I also never lose todo items.

I can also make ad hoc todo lists on project pages, for instances.

I suppose it's quite similar to just using a notebook, except there's a view where you can see all of your todos.
Ah, another of those threads, ok lets set the years straight.

Yes, inline namespaces were only introduced in C++11, about 10 years ago, now lets dive into article.

"Learning that you can use unions in C for grouping things into namespaces"

Grouping into namespaces, so when did C++ get said feature?

ANSI/ISO C++89 released to the world in September 1998, which makes around 23 years, or 24 years if we consider the release of C++ compilers already supporting it the year before, like Borland C++.

This C hack definitly does touch old code, as it requires the code to be written to take advantage of the technique and is also touched again, when changes to the structs are required.

And naturally recompilation.

With inline namespaces, assumign recompilation you can naturally also change which set of identifiers and type aliases are visibile by default.
Once someone gains access, it is very hard to discern (without a human manually looking into it) who the legitimate customer is. This is in the domain of customer service and can not be done automatically.
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Which is better depends on what you want to achieve. In this case, the whole point is to make git easier to use as a tool. Carrying over ideas we already know are confusing would therefore be wrong in my opinion.
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At this point I'm pretty sure FAANG hiring is just a random walk. Every now again someone happens to have looked at all the questions they ask recently for that particular interview cycle (or avoid the trap ones like that) and that person gets hired (and then put on the ad targeting team or whatever).
This is awesome! Thank you for pointing out some cool finance-related companies that use lisp.
There are sports/games (don't know the exact difference here) where there's no advantage for a certain sex. Think chess, darts, biljarts, curling, ...
However even there, there's typically a separate competition for women.
The only relevant argument is: Is there a market for category X ?
Lay gravel down on the ground, then build a highway on top of that.

Archaeology will be preserved underneath for future generations to find when they have a better solution for what to do with the vehicular traffic.
If Google is asking about them on an interview they must be important.
Is that the amount of cash circulating right now ?
That is terrifying...
Honestly, I understand the whole send the tech test first. Having wasted time on talking to people who clearly weren't able to do the job I would rather waste their time than mines. For me, it's when I talk to their developers and it's clear they know I know what I'm talking about and they then try to tech test me. At that point, no. I just impressed the hell out of some of the people you consider to be your best and you think I can't code? Nah.

The tech test seems often like it's cargo cult. It's on Joel's list so everyone thinks it is a must do. Instead of realising that the entire point of the tech test was to make sure people could actually code. With some of the original tech tests being do FizzBuzz or do something really simple in a short amount of time. Not, build me a production ready toy project using techincal DDD aspects.
I'm not disagreeing with her opinion or negating her experiences, it's not my place. That said, classical (3h+) isn't the only form of chess, and it could be something that is personal to her and not representative of female players as a monolith.
I still use an RSS reader <https://sumi.news>.

It's not Google Reader, but it's a clean interface for reading RSS, Twitter, and newsletters. And there's a view of the latest post from each feed, so I don't get lost in the firehose and miss out on updates from people who post less frequently.
> What ever happened to working somewhere because you believe in what you're building and the people you're around bring you joy?

Sounds like capitalist propaganda, unless you work at some sort of co-op which is employee owned or something, ordinary rank-and-file employees are compensated with absolute pennies in terms of equity.
The main problem with some of these things is that:

1) you're expected to spend 3 or 4 hours on some HackerRank test before you've even spoken to anyone. Some of these tests (outside HackerRank) can actually be projects that take a day or more to get right. The issue is that at this point I don't know if the attitude is "hey, this seems like it might be a good hire, let's check if he can actually code" or if it's "let's send anyone this test and discard anyone who doesn't pass". I suspect that in a lot of cases it's the latter. I'm not opposed to investing time, but it quickly becomes unmanageable if everyone just asks you to pass their several-hour tests just to be considered for application. There is very little time investment from the company, and it feels almost like a dDoS attack on my time.

and 2), that a lot of these tests are asking you to solve some hard problem that you will rarely face in real life and where people have quite literally won Turing awards for finding solutions to them. Many previous discussions about this on HN in the past.

I don't think it's even all that much more effective at actually weeding out bad programmers than a simple test. We used to ask people to write a CSV address book importer with some very basic requirements; nothing fancy, you could do it in 30 minutes. It worked well enough, and a lot of the results we got back were horrible.
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Every alternative route in that area goes through a significant archaeological site. You are resigned to either disturbing something somewhere or going very deep under it.

The campaigners have only really delayed an equally unpalatable decision somewhere else.
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Quite honestly, I am torn. The best jobs I had so far involved multiple interviews (Amazon with a total of 6 one hour interviews and my current employer with 7, the jury is still out on my current job one month in), the worst involved either one or two interviews or multiple, but very easy and yet unpleasant ones. Scripted questions suck, Amazon in my case was good, as there was only on scripted logical question and the rest was STAR-style leadership principles centered questions.

Multiple rounds give you more opportunities to ask questions to multiple people and get a better idea of the company. They can also be a pain in the ass.
This happens where I am at in the US. Our family and friends pass children's items and clothes around. The same clothing item may have left and returned to us multiple times.
If that were true then the entire education industry globally is a scam which i simply can't believe.

Have you never had a great lecturer who can deliver information in a way which makes more sense to you then just reading it off a website?
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The whole area for miles around is littered with significant archaeology.
There is no need to "respect" the process, but just to be more thoughtful:

> What's not in a Linux inode?
> My answer was: Lots of things...dinosaurs, the moon...

You can answer that you want more clarification, or even answer that "we can google this".

The "dinosaurs" thing might make the interviewer feel that you are being unprofessional since the interview is to test one's ability to perform in a professional environment. You don't help your colleagues by answering in this way when asked similar questions in work...
Google interviewers must hate Einstein. He said, "Never memorize something that you can look up."
This generalized pronouncement may be a bit premature. A lot of people do not work well doing self study. A lot of people need to ask specific, difficult to anticipate questions before understanding a topic. A lot of people lack the self discipline to study without the accountability of another person. There are a lot of reasons to hire a personal tutor beyond using them as a living breathing codex.
> Well, if the greenhouse effect is real and our planet cooks itself, then pretty sure humanity as a whole is exposed to the downsides.

People who have more resources under their control to secure food and shelter in the event of major catastrophe will fair better than those who don't not… some with quick thinking in the event of major catastrophe will fair better than those who just run around screaming and panicking… etc.

> If you know there are cracks in the dam, you do something about it. If a hurricane is coming, you sound an alert. Tragic outcomes can be bounded and limited by human function.

Some people knowing that a specific spot is more prone to hurricanes than others can choose not to live there… they will fair better than others who did not know, or did not chose to move away with the knowledge they had and staying put in the face of tail risk of losing their life was deemed worth it…

If you think it is the individuals role to place the burdens off society on it's sholders above all else, I'm afraid we're never going to share the same perspective esp when comes to intricate matters of the eurodollar system…
Masturbation will only impair your productivity if you're doing it at the time when you should be working.

Masturbation should not have a negative impact on your life. If it does, you're doing it wrong.

People who have problems with masturbation usually have a past life where they have been subjected to 'guilt trips' by manipulative people, mainly by people who have told them that "Sex is dirty".
Or the case where you work google which goes down and then you can't possibly duckduckgo it, that'd be too humiliating.
It is so interesting to see the CCP try to navigate the dichotomy between state planning and free markets. Trying to make diametrically opposed systems play together. I would even be rooting for them if it wasn't for the complete disregard for human life, personal liberties and all the fucking genocide...
I assume you’re in the US given $ amounts. Outside the US credit cards are far less developed. A few offer some kind of points or perhaps promotional cash back for some period of time but there’s nothing like the level of competition between cards in the US.
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They enable what exactly? It's a useful tool and should definitely be activated in some use cases.

We might argue about whether it should come turned on by default or not, but as far as I remember the default setting is not a strict but a moderate protection level anyway.
I read the abstract and was a bit lost, I guess.

I took from it that this was a novel "locality" approach that was different than CRDT'S.

This is far from my area of expertise, so I guess 'approachable' is relative? Was hoping that (in the fine tradition of HN) someone who knows a lot more about this stuff could chime in.

I'd really like to learn some of this for a number of projects I'm working on, and I'm not sure where the best place to direct my focus is. ShareJS is OT based, iirc, and but quill js has some basic support for it too. CRDTs are a bit voodoo to me. This is something else?

Sorry if it's a remedial question, would appreciate any advice or insight.
I missed it too, thanks for coming back to explain.
That is part of what i'm trying to accomplish in https://prot.ai Reduce friction with scheduling and recurrence.
By using cloud apps, calendar aware, an operate by difference. So the calendar negotiates for you when is a good time.
If wikis were enough, the information asymmetry would not exist unless these people were unaware of wikis and other sources of information like textbooks, which I find unlikely.
> To get things done, you have to decide on the one or few things you should be working on at a point in time. A todo list doesn't help with that.

If you have 100 things to do, certainly a list helps you at least not forget most of them, before you even start work.

I don't know what David Allen recommends, but if everyone is left with the impression he recommends TODO lists and he doesn't, it might be because the alternative is hazy and vaporous and poorly defined.

I scanned your answer for that alternative and it wasn't there, either.

Consider grocery shopping. You have 20 products to buy. Does a shopping list help? Uhm, heck yes. Otherwise you'd need to go to the store 10 times and not one time.

Well shopping lists, are just a TODO list in the context of a grocery store.

Issue reports on GitHub and other bugtracking systems are TODO lists in the context of software development.

Medical checklists enumerate all required steps in carrying out procedures. That's a TODO list in the context of medical practice.

I can go on forever. So, clearly, the statement "TODO lists don't work" is false. It contradicts reality. And the supposed alternative is apparently unmentionable. Odd.

Maybe we should clarify what is meant by "it works" or "doesn't work", because in general it only means "it's effective for certain uses" and it is effective for certain uses. No, a TODO list won't necessarily motivate you, unless your lack of motivation is specifically due to confusion what you're supposed to do. But I'm very suspicious that any similar "mechanical" alternative would work either.

Gamification works because it draws you into its own world. Posting comments, like mine and most of them, is low effort. Playing a game with colorful characters doing cute things is low effort. Checking for new tweets is low effort. All those are low effort things. This is why it's easy to be motivated by a system that gamifies those low effort actions.

I really doubt any game would motivate you to do an actual 9 to 5 job for years.
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Online Education industry is a scam in India - high fees ($500-$1500 range) along with low wage mediocre teachers!
It's about habits and what's your goal. I use Habinator https://habinator.com to remind myself where I want to end up. Working pretty well after a year...
> The whole "jigsaw identification" thing is gish galloping. His supporters have made up a nonsense talking point to defend him.

I'm not going to continue this as it's not going anywhere. But as you're so adamant that he wasn't charged with jigsaw identification, and that it's only something his supporters claim (even though it's literally in the document you posted), you might want to take it upon yourself to reach out to the following publications and ask them to correct the record:

* The Guardian: "Ex-diplomat found in contempt of court over ‘jigsaw identification’" [1]

* BBC: "the retired diplomat breached the order and published pieces of information on his blog which, if pieced together like a jigsaw, could lead readers to establish the identities of the women" [2]

* The Independent: "Former diplomat hands himself in at police station to begin sentence over ‘jigsaw ID’ of Salmond accusers" [3]

* Daily Mail: "Lady Dorrian said Murray deliberately risked what is known as 'jigsaw identification'." [4]

* Scottish Legal News: "He published information on his blog which enabled jigsaw identification of the women in the case." [5]

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2021/aug/01/alex-salmon...

[2] https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-58018127

[3] https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/craig-murray...

[4] https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9849607/Britains-ex...

[5] https://www.scottishlegal.com/article/craig-murray-to-be-jai...
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We shall see who's the last man standing after the upcoming civil war.
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You could even add some markup to add formatting and boom ! You can display the page using a lot less bandwidth.

Joke aside, you are 100% right.
Markets are nowhere free since they are always defined narrowly by state and international laws. What china doesn't allow is capitalism but handling a state-planned market doesnt seem to be that hard.
Usually a language is not only a language, it is tools, paradigms, frameworks, libraries, conventions and many other bits and pieces one needs to know. So while there is some commonalities it usually takes time to get to a certain level of productivity, which is sometimes required sooner rather than later.
It's called 'A captive market'.
Building pyramids isn't simply piling rocks on top of one another.

There's mathematics, surveying, architectural design, measuring, logistics, labour organisation, planning, transport, engineering, and a whole mess of related skills. If not kept in practice, they are lost (you're focusing strongly on the "brain-drain" element at the expense of "skills retention" and "skills development bits).

Too: once you've got those capabilities, there are numerous other abilities which derive from them. Large structures means civil engineering, construction, grain storage facilities, and quite probably some degree of metalworking and related crafts, again, which can prove useful in either foreign or civil war.

Take some time to think through possiblities, consequences, options, risks, and opportunities here.
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I don't think this was scripted; it's a typical sign of bad interviewers when they think that

1) they are smart

2) therefore if you're smart you have the same way of thinking

3) also you have the same knowledge (and gaps!) about irrelevant details

Therefore instead of checking your knowledge they check whether you're like them.

It's just amateurish.
i didn't say anything to the contrary. of course it can be disabled. but am i going to allow it to be disabled for some of my employees if my customers start demanding that i use this feature while i develop their software? probably not until there is a lawsuit that clarifies which need takes precedence.
I've heard we have no idea how to recycle li-ion batteries, so the whole electric car thing is rather tenuous.
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What sector are you in? According to linkedin and glassdoor senior engineers in Melbourne earn between 110k-160k. 250k is very high.
I love the design of the Aptera.

But these days, I want to see them actually shipping real product to real consumers.

Until then, it’s a nice design with a nice pipe dream.
I generally agree with you that much of git's conceptual complexity is irreducible if you want to retain git's power. But there's plenty of examples of poor-quality and inconsistent porcelain that provide no extra power. Indeed, these "UI smells" mostly offer no benefit at all.

Note that we're specifically discussing the theoretical reason for git's usability woes. The costs of actually fixing them in git aren't trivial, of course.
> [...] there’s little obvious gain from downplaying it

Of course there is. It is to display competency for domestic audiences. A lot of autocracies didn't have a problem with COVID officially. I agree that it is a bad measurement though.
I think this is not a bad question...
I have, but the chance of getting that when you pay for an education is low enough for it to be an anomaly in my experience.