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Spreadsheets are a great way to introduce coding to someone because the variables are visible - it's not some esoteric concept of memory and pointers, it's just whatever is in cell A3.
I think what they're referring too when they say "One of them is a woman of course." Is pointing out an instance of the glass cliff.

Which it seems to be.
You don't understand the difference btw a research paper and a product launch. A paper is to provide inspiration. In this case, a high ZT p-type crystal may indicate a new mechanism that can be applied to searching / designing new thermoelectric materials. It's not for selling you a working device that can be put in your shopping cart.

(I did research in nano thermoelectrics and published a few papers in this field)
You have to see this from the point of view of a middle-manager whose main concern is his own career and salary. First, it's much easier to manage junior than seniors, more so when you are not an engineer yourself. Also, it's more likely you get a better salary when managing a large team of junior than a small team of senior. Even better, you can become a manager of managers if there is a bunch of juniors to manage. Another problem is that an employee cannot earn more than his boss, and non-tech managers salaries cap at a certain point.
I hope people don’t read this and start taking it seriously. UI frameworks are more important if you are a large company. It encourages consistency, re-use of components and CSS, and helps teams remain true to a design system.

I’ve never had to wait or consider build times using React at a large tech company. Everything hot reloads and the iteration cycles are fast.

It’s not clear what argument the author is putting forward. It comes off as an emotional argument disguised as “I have 20 years experience so do as I say”. No thanks.
He’s definitely not innocent, he has shown both misogyny and terrible leadership, but when you make a press release firing him, while at the same time ignoring all the other problems (people) that is in the company he becomes the scapegoat (a scapegoat doesn’t have to be innocent)
Well don't be rude, say hi, you never know if it's a person on the other end. In that case it's ok to open up about the current events in your dogs' life.
Computers don't have a private life, and applying the word "learning" to what they do is a convenient metaphor.

Computers read, process according to predefined algorithms, and output. A computer "learns" code when it comes over a wire in pieces over a bus, and writes code when it transmits it over a bus to a another device.
It is easy to agree that accessibility is important; it is another thing to make sure new products are accessible to all I am interested to see the response to this open letter. As a blind person myself I know how vital accessibility is in employment. . .
Sorry I'm new to MySQL, in what way did they stab you in the back? Just curious about the analogy!
Blizzard tried the good optics strategy for years now. Ironically companies that emphasize it are the ones sexual harassment seems to happen the most.
And Vicarious Visions has been doing great work for a while, if anyone can turn it around it's probably the two outsiders, but I doubt that they will be given the tools to actually fix this.

We'll see I guess, I know I won't be spending any money on Activision-Blizzard in the foreseeable future, there are more than enough games out there.
What you are observing is the ugly opportunism of this war, and it is a war, between systems that are controlled by powerful people, and systems that are controlled by algorithms.

This is not a new conflict. Democracy was an algorithmic victory until powerful people learned to subvert it. So too was religion, money, laws etc. This is how civilization advances. Cryptocurrency is a pure thing, an algorithmic method of storage, control and distribution of value, that came about because the old ways were failing.

Now the old powers are fighting back. It’s important to realize that this is the only reason that cryptocurrency has any speculative value at all.

If the treasury / federal reserve had seen bitcoin and adopted a protocol for algorithmic control of the money supply, and a safer wallet for dollar holders, then Bitcoin would have zero value, and the Silk Road would never have happened. If they had seen ethereum, and adopted smart contracts to replace the opaque banking and investment industry, then Ethereum would have zero value, and the iron finance rug pull would never have happened.

This is not about revenue; the treasury balance is overflowing. It’s not about keeping us safe; violent crime is nowhere on the agenda. It’s not consumer protection; the SEC refuses to ever go after the many VC-backed mega rug pulls pushed on retail investors as utility tokens. This is simply about power. They’re not afraid of scammers and criminals. They’re afraid of people like you shifting anger from the obvious canards to the bigger picture.

They’re not out to destroy cryptocurrency either. They want to control it so that they can keep siphoning money out out of people trying to mitigate the problems that their own monetary policy caused, just like 401k of the 90s. I say this to point out that you will not get what you want out of this. It will just become a bigger scam on everybody, established and protected by the full force of the law.

I wonder who it is exactly that you think is looking out for you in all of this.
While I guess it's theoretically possible to memorize the positions of all the keys using only a few fingers (so that you're typing purely by touch, without looking), I haven't ever seen that in the field.

Usually when someone says "touch typing" they refer to the standard "home row" approach, using all fingers. I could have made that more explicit.
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That's not true. The major dollar stores have significantly lower operating margins than comparable local groceries.
In the same sense that Apple is not at fault for allowing its hardware to connect the assailant and victim.

I'm aware that we don't consider manufacturers to be culpable for the actions taken with their hardware, and that there's a case to be made that Uber's service is "closer" to the illegal act and thus more responsible.

But that case actually needs to be made. Whether it's Apple or Uber, there are expectations that the company needs to fulfill, and doing so in good-faith means it's beyond silly to assign culpability for every downstream effect of their product.
We need to stop placing so many restrictions on companies, for the good of the economy!
Who benefits from the artificial womb? The bearing of the child is much less of a disincentive than other factors like money, space and the ultra competitive school system we have in many Asian regions.
> I see UBI as a very elegant solution to this problem.

Or you know, proper min wages and benefits: paid vacations, paid sick days, paid parental leaves, &c.

Not treating people like cattle is a good starting point
> We are not making this decision completely willingly, it is more just happening and it is out of the governments control. To me this means it is risky, and can we pull out of it? How do we pull out of this shrinkage?

Isn't all this equally true of population growth as well as shrinkage?
Eh, doesn't all modern air conditioner just do heat exchanging? no need to actually blow the air out - but yes you still need a pipe for the heat exchanging medium
Sad to see France under Nazi control again.
"BUT if you're in charge you're responsible."

Right next door to this post is another where the ebay CEO escaped responsibility for his employees' harassment of an e-commerce news letter publisher.
It is 3400 Terrabytes of Data per day for 2 Billion users.
Or 1241 Petabyte, 1.241 Exabyte per year.

No wonder why HDD maker are happy.
It's a billion-dollar anti-pattern that's been sanitized as "conversational commerce". Several large orgs have Intercom, Drift or other popups infesting their site....by choice!
Have to plug in this again:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9kbcGfX35M
Maybe I am jaded, but what I have seen is that whenever companies do something bad, the bad press will at most cause a flash crash. It takes a short amount of time for the stock to go back up and the business to be back to usual. There was no long-term consequence for United Airlines causing a doctor to be beaten and dragged out of their airplane covered in his own blood. People were saying Volkswagen is done after their emissions scandal, but they are now doing better than ever. AirBnB will get bad press, but history shows that they just have to keep quiet and wait it out for a couple of weeks, maybe a couple of months, before the news cycle moves on and they get back to normal.
Not having to sign an NDA? As you say the $1000 is just what he is missing from insurance, not a cent more. They essentially expect him to sign an NDA for free.
Can't disagree. Spreadsheets are incredibly powerful tools and the barrier to entry is very low.

The only situation I can think of where you should discourage their use is in those situations where you know for sure in advance that the application is going to outgrow the spreadsheet very soon and/or immediately. If you are building a new microservice that will serve a million customers per day, don't make the mockup in a spreadsheet.
Article raises some valid points but how do you catch the point where the spreadsheet gets out of control? Maybe MS could build in a warning system and then suggest some potential solutions.

Minor quibble: it's an Apple III in the ad, not an Apple ][ as the post says. I remember running Visicalc on my Apple ][ but it wasn't until Excel appeared that I realized how seductive spreadsheets can be.
Make no mistake: I will not be stopped. Not by you, or the Confederates, or the Protoss, or anyone! I will rule this company or see it burnt to ashes around me.
A car with no suspension has one less moving part and is considerably less comfortable.

(I'm slightly surprised that HN isn't amenable to the hydraulic control theory of the economy, and the relatively simple maths behind central bank control of rates which has been hugely successful at driving down inflation)
> 150 million after tax = 75 million

That's utterly ridiculous, you haven't even accounted for 401k and IRA deductions. /s

Jokes apart, why would you spend $37.5m/year? At that level of wealth and compensation, I'm sure there are super-low-interest, tax-deductible loans available for most of one's spending.
No labor shortage. It's a wage shortage. I'm certain if the pay went up, there would be applicants.
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Why is the land no longer farmed? Could it be there isn't enough topsoil left to be fertile? Could it be that there are new crops of McMansions and ever further commutes as the core of our cities is abandoned?
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If you're saying it is only a little worse in the short term, I agree. But it is still worse at its primary purpose. And in exchange for what exactly? Making it easier on a few programmers to not write a few bugs?

If these were the only bugs that ever got written, I might buy it. But we all know that's not the case. Adopting a less correct timekeeping system will reduce the total number of bugs written by 0.000000001%. That is putting the cart firmly before the horse. Computers are here to serve people, not the other way around. Whenever we find ourselves making systems worse due to engineer convenience, we should think real hard about why we get paid the big bucks.
Which gold standard? Bretton woods wasn’t it (only state actors could redeem). Literally the history of boom and busts are from the excesses of money printing.
I know, what you state above isn't new either. Well to me at least. Not to mention how whey continue to dump money and capital in these new "competitors".
The number of boom / bust periods in the 1800s (gold standard) are more frequent and more disruptive than the modern fiat system
Today's system is more complex but is way less 'erratic'.
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So basically he interviewed a Romulan.
Those points are not true
1. People in Ukraine were literally eating each other. Where in Russia was it happening? In Moscow? No. St Petersburg? No. Novgorod? No.
2. Not a starvation politic you say? Everyone knew about the famine, soldiers were expropriating grain from weak and hungry people, the communists saw it with their own eyes, and still proceeded. It was an explicit punishment for not fully supporting Soviet Government.
3. The grain was in fact exported during the famine, this fact is undisputable as there are records in the countries that were buying that grain. There are no records of BUYING grain by the USSR at that period.

And the last point you make is completely ridiculous: "well, it wasn't happening for 10 years, so it's just an innocent mistake" - it was happening for 2 years and 3.5 million people died in Ukraine. How about that for a mistake? If 1000 died and they stopped it, I would agree. Or maybe 10000. Ok, 100,000 hungry deaths you cannot ignore, but 3.5 million people?! It was intentional and it was a genocide of Ukrainians.
> It’s not clear which asset class is safest to protect against inflation […]

The Rational Reminder podcast looking into this and basically concluded that there is no hedge:

* https://rationalreminder.ca/podcast/150

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_f0dns9fHFs

The best you can probably do is have some debt which will worth less and less over time as its nominal value stays the same whereas you get cost of living (CoL) increases with your salary so have more money in really terms to pay it off.

Other than that equities have (generally, but not always) had good enough nominal returns so that you get a real return increase in your investments.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/17/technology/apple-china-ce...:

> Two decades ago, as Apple’s operations chief, Mr. Cook spearheaded the company’s entrance into China, a move that helped make Apple the most valuable company in the world and made him the heir apparent to Steve Jobs. Apple now assembles nearly all of its products and earns a fifth of its revenue in the China region. But just as Mr. Cook figured out how to make China work for Apple, China is making Apple work for the Chinese government....

> No Plan B

> In 2014, Apple hired Doug Guthrie, the departing dean of the George Washington University business school, to help the company navigate China, a country he had spent decades studying.

> One of his first research projects was Apple’s Chinese supply chain, which involved millions of workers, thousands of plants and hundreds of suppliers. The Chinese government made that operation possible by spending billions of dollars to pave roads, recruit workers, and construct factories, power plants and employee housing.

> Mr. Guthrie concluded that no other country could offer the scale, skills, infrastructure and government assistance that Apple required. Chinese workers assemble nearly every iPhone, iPad and Mac. Apple brings in $55 billion a year from the region, far more than any other American company makes in China.

> “This business model only really fits and works in China,” Mr. Guthrie said in an interview. “But then you’re married to China.”
Obscure / unexpected behaviour in production, MySQL caused little data disasters at every company where we used it
Please don't post in the flamewar style or cross into personal attack. We're trying to avoid that kind of stuff here.

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This is actually part of what I'm talking about. The sweet high-paying tech jobs went to a group of people that can comfortably afford to live without marrying off. They date around because they can. I know, because I got that sweet job in 2008 just at the start of the tech wave and I dated around quite a bit and the pressure to get married for financial reasons wasn't there and the social pressure to get married for its own sake wasn't either. This isn't how it looked like in the 1950s or earlier. Most people didn't date 100 different women or wait until they were 35 to start a home with someone. It's partially financial and partially societal.

At the other end of the spectrum the increasing gap between rich and poor pushed a lot of men completely out of the dating pool because they can no longer afford basic housing for themselves, so even if they would be willing to commit they don't have options.
It sounds like the managers of the Illinois pension fund have a spending problem rather than a funding problem.
Airgaped? Really? Everytime a build happens someone physically moves a Thu drive or some other media too from the build server?

Airgap means not networked, even internally. Not just "blocked" from internet.
> They're not obligated to give you anything they don't want to. They don't have to listen to you, or FSF, or anyone else about what they consider, arbitrarily, an "absolute disgrace". You use it or you don't use it. Simple as that.

No, it's not. The discussion that we're having is over whether this is permissible or not, and the lobbying that groups such as the FSF are doing is in support of a different set of rules to be enforced.

None of this is simple.
> At least you cant change inflation on a whim there [...]

You can't change inflation on a whim right now either or put another way a government can get rid of a blockchain based system just as easily.
Sorry to offend.

Most of the damage oil companies are making is legal. At the moment fracking is legal but IMHO it’s very damaging. Undersea oil drilling is legal but there are many accidents. Shipping oil is legal but there are a lot of accidents that cause massive environmental problems.

Ransomeware is never legal and organized crime is not legal in the West. They should not have a voice at all and should be treated like the criminal organizations they are.
Big time! The USA could use a lot more maintainers. People who want to see beautiful, well built, and carefully taken care of cities and streets. People who make sure the power is humming and pipes are clean. Unfortunately the political situation is more of a "Keep building shitty car dependent walled garden suburbs that no one can afford, except investors. Keep that up until the house of cards collapses under the weight of our poorly maintained and expensive infrastructure."
Dang, what software engineers hate spreadsheets? I've never worked anywhere that didn't use them for project planning and other such stuff.
Funny that our ideas of aliens run a similar trajectory to our own technology.

Pre-flight, some were convinced that Martians were building canals or Mars, right as canals were being built to facilitate shipping, the prominent technology of the day.

Now, some are convinced that aliens are sending small crafts and probes to study our planet, right as we’re sending small crafts and probes to study other planets.

And before modern technology, mythological creatures were human-like or animal-like, which was the pinnacle of intelligence in our pre-tech world.
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The whole site is an advertisement for Stripe, so they wouldn't close it down to visitors and prospective Stripe subscribers.
No UBI is supposed to make people harder to hire, which is why employers are complaining the unimployment benefits are too generous.
It's the interface: a grid of editable cells is incredibly easy to use and as almost as information-dense as possible.

It's interesting to see non-excel/google sheets products use the same interface to good effect. Examples don't come to mind but I'm sure there are some.
I recall they said it would be such a profoundly revolutionary device cities would be designed around it lol
It's a relevant question because Tesla knowingly sold demonstratively unsafe technology to customer and the tax payer will ultimately have to pay for all the damage it's going to cost long term(and in fact already does).

People like you who really love Tesla for some reason seem to be willingly ignorant of that fact. As others have mentioned before even DIY batteries were recommending other battery technologies for precisely these reasons.

Tesla either really didn't know, which would be massively incompetent, which I don't believe or willfully misled buyers into buying for this purpose unsafe products.

If this was the first time this happened(Tesla marketing unsafe products as safe until they got caught) you could brush it away as honest mistake, but since it's not, it's safe to say they just wanted to quickly market an unsafe product.

It's not a cynical question by the way, but a sarcastic one. No idea why you decided to take it so personal though. There is a slight chance, that Tesla actually replaces this with something less dangerous, which would be the right thing to do, but that's unlikely to happen, since people like you in government believe that when the scammer scams you, the scammer isn't to blame, but it's the customer that should foot the bill.

Given that this didn't happen in the USA, there's also the off-chance, that someone in that country actually holds Tesla responsible for what happened.
My experience with being "the person who wants others to switch to the non default option" is that you need to be willing to do all the work: set up, helping people get started, technical support every day of the year, if something breaks because of (in this case) a Mattermost change take the blame, apologize for features that are missing or working differently than in the default option, live with the slight condescension of other who now have to make "all this effort" to install one extra app etc.

So either nemosaltat is incredibly lucky with his family, or he is an extremely patient person. Kudos either way.
I’m sorry could expound on the idea that the whole history of book and bust isn’t because of excess money printing?

That doesn’t sound right.
A broken hydraulic if that. Interest rates have been pushed down and stayed down over the decades.
They do in fact verify server side that everything is where it should be. But it doesn't stop people because ultimately the inputs of a high level player in Trackmania are nearly indistinguishable from inputs of a bot playing the track.

CS:GO faces the same issue where inputs by high level players are indistinguishable from cheating.

Speedrunning tends to have similar issues, where people perform tricks that are so close to TAS inputs that it can take years to spot an issue. Or in case of Dream, it takes an entire statistics paper to explain why they cheated. In those cases it's even worse because you cannot do server side validation on video data.

Being against anti-cheat is effectively being against competitive gaming or speedrunning.
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