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Why should Epic be made to do business with Apple if you can't get a game via the app store of your choosing and it's that important play something else.
I've worked for Google, Goldman Sachs, a few others, and now for a prop market maker.

I'd say I'm at best a regular ole' genius, and I can confirm that you can negotiate quite a lot.

Especially when taking a new job, and especially if you arrange for having multiple offers. Negotiating while already on the job faces quite a lot more headwind.
> the chance of attack is small

Is it? I would be surprised if attacking 1Password wasn’t a priority for governments and hackers. If the encryption used on vaults is ever broken, compromised, or buggy, users are screwed.
I think so - we are offering at 2.5x lower in B2B deals, although beta. Do you, as a consumer, feel ok with 0.16$/ invoice?
>It was totally worth it, though, and I'd do it again! If you're on the fence - please go get your shot(s)!

As another data point, I wouldn't and don't think it was worth it. Being KO for 4 days when the virus is mundane is not a good trade. (Im 25ish). Plus it doesn't provide 100% protection so I can still get it.
Car and crazy things: in Brazil during our last hyperinflation period, people literally bought cars as an investment, because often used car prices were just slightly behind a new car price, while other methods of investment had literally lower returns than that.

A lot of people became car flippers too, bought used cars, repaired them, improved what could be improved, and sold them back, if done right sometimes for amounts that were ludicrously much more than they paid.

Suffice to say, rampant inflation is NOT pretty.
> while a car is definitely not an investment

It depends on the type of car, but certain, usually very expensive, cars still do gain in value over time. This is one of the ways the system starts working for you instead of against you once you are rich (if you are smart about it). When I found out about this, I started to see rich people having garages full of old timers in a different light: it's just a different way of investing money.
Canada. Severely underpaid compared to American counterparts, and cost of living is on par. Many less opportunities as well, primarily focused on financial sector if in Toronto, or contracting/working remote for American company, or being in a satellite FAANG. Start-up scene mostly sucks, and too many meh companies. Only saving grace for Canada right now is Shopify. Hope they don't catch the Canadian tech company curse and die prematurely.
I used to think that quality was about personal traits and state of mind, getting everything right the first time. Over time I've come to realize that quality is iterative. Everything has problems the first time. What separates low and high quality practice in software engineering is the degree to which you follow up on the issues you notice over time.

Will you do it now? If not, will you create a ticket? If that ticket is created, will it be prioritized?

Low quality is simply loss in that pipeline. High quality is simply being engaged enough with the project to constantly be generating these insights, and systematically running them down, until you don't have any more.
"Mathematics: Its Contents, Methods, And Meaning"

https://archive.org/details/MathematicsItsContentsMethodsAnd...
> so getting to know how to do things by yourself is a waste of time?

Potentially. Are you looking to make a prototype, or are you trying to go to prod with mission critical data?

Most people here could trivially roll a prototype grade password manager in pretty limited time. Getting something hardened and reliable is a different story.
The proper way to implement this restriction would be to only accept payments from a list of approved BINs (the first 6 digits of the credit/debit card). These numbers are strictly tied to the bank that's issuing the cards, the list is publicly available, and bypassing it is incredibly difficult. At the very least this control alone would be (very close to) ensuring that the card holder who's paying for the account has a legal right to live/work in the country in question (which is a requirement for opening a bank account in most places).

There are some BINs which you could associate with a territory, but don't provide this level of assurance about the card holder (those "burner" credit card providers for instance), but the list of exceptions is short enough to manage quite easily.

There are already service providers that implement this, f1.tv does for instance. Another peculiar example is India, where they just use phone numbers, because getting a phone number in India requires a KYC process, non-residents are only entitled to temporary services, and it's very hard to maintain your service if you leave the country.
My tongue-in-cheek definition of FAAN(M)G is "does the company have sufficient resources and technical wits to have entire team(s) dedicated to stress-testing and breaking their internal systems proactively to ensure uptime and low latency?" Netflix with Chaos Monkey definitely applies, and Microsoft does as well. Arguably Salesforce would be there too, if not for their meme-worthy historical failure at the low-latency part.
I understand where you are coming from but I think the post you're replying to is more pragmatic.

Let's say Netflix has to chose between two problems to solve: secure distribution for desired content, and ensuring that you can view that content wherever you are.

They likely see the tension between these things - the people who sell them media rights likely insist on tight region controls (or, would charge NF a lot more for "global" rights vs "US" rights.)

If NF messes up securing quality content, they risk losing most of their 75 million users. On the other hand, they risk inconveniencing ... thousands? Tens of thousands? of users while they are traveling.

I get their logic here.
Noise in Decision Making
I still play around with BBS's but I have to look stuff up - funny thing about this new post was the external link has an 'visited' property unlike most stuff that comes across my feed because apparently I've landed on this github page a few times in the recent past... useful information!
That is false. He is not arguing, "they don't provide enough benefit to justify inconveniencing people". He is saying they are ineffective, which is an intentional sleight of hand argument that focuses not being effective in blocking the virus from being inhaled while ignoring that they are effective at reducing the velocity of airborne particules when exhaled and distance at which the virus can be transmitted to others. Which, on the aggregate, is effective.

It is grossly dishonest and as a surgeon, he knows this. It's filthy, disgusting political strategy that is killing people to try work a wedge issue for '22.

https://www.paul.senate.gov/news/dr-rand-paul-introduces-leg... is further proof that he is not entering the public debate in good faith and in service of public health. We have not reached herd immunity, and had not at the time he introduced this. As a member of the Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pension as well as Homeland Security and Government Affairs, there is no doubt he had access to to better data on this than the general public.

I would love for him to say "I am a conservative and I'd rather some people die than to even allow the mildest mask laws" so we could have an honest debate. He wants to frame this as an individual freedom question, and wants to deny the deaths/illness that are the consequence because it harms his rhetorical position - or really, his future career in politics. That might raise the idea of an individual's right to not get sick and die as a result of someone else's decisions. We do not allow people to drive intoxicated in the US for this reason, as well as a host of other regulations.
So senior devs are better than 95% of 25 year olds.

Since finding a "best 5%" is almost impossible, because who knows until you hire them and they work there for a while, the best bet is to hire people who are older. Also, for a bone fide best 5%, they are going to work at the cool companies, and never will work at a sewer processing government utility company in their IT department, or work at for a local chain of tire stores with 50 locations and an IT staff of 3 people.

So, one might as well not even worry about the top 5%.
The Colleges lie about the actual utility of their educational services. The also lie about the prospects of an academic career to undergraduates to keep them offering up low cost labor.

The FBI has been caught pushing pseudo-science like being able to identify bullet manufacturers based on isotope distribution. They currently seem to be making up terrorist plots so they can break them up.

The surface Navy isn't ready to fight at sea.

The Federal Reserve has reduced the effective reserve requirements to 0 for large banks.

The FDA has been captured by big pharma

Congress and the Executive have been captured by the donor class.
They seem to know: [0]

But even through basic inspection, almost all Electron apps are always more than 120MB of disk space (After unzipping) and when run it is copied to RAM which is at least another 120MB.

Multiply that with the number of Electron apps you are currently running and you can see that it doesn't scale on the limited resources of your own machine. Especially if the user is primarily using Chrome with tons of tabs open.

[0] https://scl.utah.edu/pdf/mac_mgrs/20200617_mm/20200617_mm_el...
Here's an unpopular opinion: this whole thing about impostor syndrome honestly seems like a thinly veiled humble brag. The narrative seems to be "nobody's perfect, but I am aware that I have imperfections so brownie points for me". IMHO, there's no real correlation between confidence and ability.

There are extremely capable athletes with terrible ego problems and there are people that legitimately fall into death spirals. There are those that talk the talk but don't walk the walk, as well as those that quietly sweat away in their pursuit of mastery.

Lacking confidence in something, judging oneself, etc are just being human. Pretty much everyone goes through that. Sure, some might project confidence in the face of the unknown, but that's just one of many coping mechanisms we have. "Laughing to not cry", screaming in fear when startled by a spider, YOLO, panic lies, etc are other similar mechanisms where we do seemingly illogical things in response to the respective stimulus.

And of course, people are multidimensional and topics/disciplines are multidimensional. You can't possibly be great at everything, but most are certainly capable of getting very good at something (even if that something is being a generalist in software engineering - which is itself a form of specialization in the grand scheme of society). And you might experience impostor syndrome at work but still be one of those people that think they're above average drivers or some such. Or you might experience it and be confident about your looks. Etc.

When you consider that reality isn't a flat 2D grayscale spectrum, it seems fairly normal that one would experience discomfort with their lackings when compared against one of infinite arbitrary scales.
I'm not sure this story is true.
> I find it so strange to punish the diplomat in that case rather than the the parent country, — though I assume it will sour relationships.

It might have a slight negative impact on relations, but the overall relation between the two countries is much bigger, so relatively it makes less of an impact.

In any case, by punishing the individual, they make it harder for the spying country to hire in the future. Especially to hire people with lots of other options.

> Are spies in general treated as prisoners of war, I wonder, or are they simply treated as criminals and punished to the fullest extent for breaking the host country's laws.

Good question. Google has some hits, eg https://ihl-databases.icrc.org/customary-ihl/eng/docs/v2_rul...

In general, it probably depends on lots of factors.
The non Google Play stores are severely nerfed though - they for example can't auto-update apps installed from them, like Google Play can.

So if you install something say from Fdroid and want to have it up to date (say a Firefox rebuild), you have to periodically open the Fdroid app, check if there are any updates for the app and manually install them if there are some.

Also I don't think you can currently hide Google Play if its installed, again giving it an unfair advantage.
I like the Art of Noise song inspired by Max.

Paranoimia - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6epzmRZk6UU

Max is played by https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Frewer
You make a very good point. People dramatically underestimate how much more you need to make in the Bay Area to have the same quality of life as living in low cost of living areas.
You raise a valid point, and certainly then this product is not right for me due to their pricing and the features I’m paying for but never using (like Android and Ubuntu support).

It comes down to what value it provides to me for what I need it to do, which is store and retrieve passwords for me, and sync via wlan. That’s it. Why should I continually pay for Android, Ubuntu or Windows development when I don’t use their app on either of these platforms?

And additionally, as a consumer it’s not my responsibility to find a way for a company to fund its product. Saying “development goes on even without you upgrading, so you have to pay a subscription to support that” is kind of a weird argument, isn’t it. Imagine if you had to pay a subscription for using a car because next year a new model will require development and therefore you need to pay for it.
Iran-Iraq War vibes, tfw lose 100k men only for status quo antebellum.
if i get drafted i am deserting to Russia ASAP.
>Then again Mario went around killing turtles. Maybe Bowser was the tragic hero there.

Wait until you find out about the bricks...
Leaked voting machine BIOS passwords may implicate Q-friendly county clerk
So in the end what's important is if you're good enough for _yourself_
Your first two statements are contradictory. A car "has a shot of" (I assume this means a non 0 probability) of paying you more than you paid for it. You then admit there is a non 0 probability but say it "is definitely not an investment".

If you replace "has a shot of" with "is expected to" then I agree with what you are saying. That being said, decisions aren't made in a vacuum and payoff not strictly tied to the underlying asset. So, a bike to deliver newspapers, a backhoe to dig for treasures, or a laptop with Adobe Creative Suite could all be considered investments.

Your last point is essentially the concept of utility. More abstractly, you are investing in your children by spending money now to raise them with good values in hopes that it brings them more utility later.
I didn't realize something like this existed, thanks for sharing.

What's a bot affected post look like?
I work as a contractor with milestone bonuses - my free (or unpaid) time is quite literally potential income that I'm forfeiting in order to have that lesire or recreation.

Being able to quantify it in some manner gives me better perspective on whether or not the enjoyment I derive from those leisure activites are "worth it". It helps that a lot of my leisure activities are things like woodworking landscaping, carpentry, etc - so I always have the option of working instead and paying someone else to bring about the end result I'm seeking.
> It’s become so mainstream to incorrectly use the word “invest”

There are literally multiple definitions of “invest” in any dictionary. This essay is annoying.
To clarify, “retire by 40” is definitely not a component of /r/financialindependence.

The subreddit is about building a life you want and living below your means until that life is sustainable independent from employment. There is no specific age involved, and everyone’s means and goals are unique.
Sure. If you're buying "a thing" because you expect it to go up in value, you're indeed making an investment. Can be in cars, wine, whatever. Sure, your intention may not pan out, but you're in it for the money.

On the other hand, most people who buy cars to use as transport for X years and expect to either drive them into the ground or sell back at a fraction of value, aren't investing.
Do you think the "clueless middle managers" the OP alludes to view themselves as such? Or are they too protecting their teams so they can get real work done?

We all see ourselves as the rare exception, the one bucking the status quo and doing things differently.
I'm pretty sure an imposter can have the imposter syndrome about how good his imposter skills are.
Good work boots are an investment, as are good tools, assuming you use them for decades.

A house is a deteriorating pile of lumber that requires periodic maintenance and also incurs a lot of taxes.

Anything else called an investment, or when I'm told what I deserve... is a big red flag.
This specialized protocol thing sounds like ASP.Net web forms all over again. Loved it for developing but performance usually s**ed balls
Out of the Crisis was simultaneously one of the best books I've read on the topic of systems, longterm versus short-term thinking, and quality, and one of the most depressing. A very worthwhile book to get and read through, though not in one sitting. It's worth pondering on what he writes and considering how (or if) it applies to your organization as you go through it.
I don't play fortnite, but I get the sense it's closer to the vibe of Snowcrash's metaverse. Interoperability and freedom to create is cool, but stuff like Roblox doesn't strike me as a connected experience. Making games interoperable won't fit the bill unless it's about you, as the player, in the game; as opposed to you playing a character in the game. That's hard to do, because most games benefit enormously from having a structure and plot and characters. Even competitive FPS games to some extent.

You have to do stuff as yourself/your avatar. MMOs are close, but you never feel like you escape the world of the MMO. Fortnite has some purely social stuff like concerts and I feel like that's closer to the mark.

Epic released a very high quality character creator called MetaHuman recently. It's a great free resource to devs. But if they really want this to be a metaverse kind of thing they should be opening up unreal service apis to let players take their character models and port them into games. That would be a big step in the right direction.
You might be surprised at how many companies are running 10+ year old technologies that were designed around the constraints of the 10+ year old systems that they replaced. If that's your thing, you can build a pretty strong career around being the person to keep that system humming along.
Aren't diplomats essentially mutually beneficial spies? They're all working at a higher level than our day to day politics.

The Anna Saccoolas debacle between the US and UK is evidence of it, and for Anna and the US it was good.

No such luck for Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, who the same UK government threw under the bus. Because our PM falsely implicated her as a spy in his prior role as foreign minister.

My point being - they will make the game work for themselves. The 'good' people are responsible for more evil than criminality can invent. The 'good' people are obsessed with evil.

So why are you spying and defending...
> what is interesting about the building next to you

So, it'll tell me that it has a Zappos™, a Coke™ Vending machine, a Jamba Juice™, and a Wells Fargo™ ATM, with an average retailer Yelp™ score of 4.2?
Excellent comment. I’m now 70 and well-to-do. But I was a fool to go into private enterprise with all its interpersonal dishonesty. Government jobs at the national labs had superior NPV’s— the pensions are absurdly expensive taxes on struggling workers when carried out to the 85-year typical lifespans of workers. There were layoffs, true. But I understand the psychology and passivity of persons who managed to get themselves laid off.
IIRC, the FAA in the United States has a mandate to reduce accidents https://www.faa.gov/data_research/accident_incident/ They seem to be good at their job. So regulations which got in SpaceX's way would tend to be ones which reduce the chances of aircraft falling out of the sky or exploding and killing the crew and passengers and possibly airport crew.

More importantly, the rhetoric in that opinion piece can be used interchangably to argue against any kind of regulation or worker protection.
It wasn't intended to be an insinuation, it was an honest question about how something like that would be detected or protected against.

A sibling thread linked to an upvote tracker, which is the kind of thing I was curious about.
This is mostly good, but it forces Apple/Google to hand over your email address (or other means of communication) to anyone you download an app from so they can spam you.

The bill says they don’t have to allow spam, but specially allows “legitimate business offers, such as pricing terms and product or service offerings”… which is spam unless one explicitly opts-in to it.

I don’t appreciate the double-talk. This part of the bill is user hostile and should be deleted.
I agree with your last point. I do think that the term investment applies even when you're investing to gain something (utility) rather than $.

I do agree that if you're buying a car because you think it will be a collectible, or you will use it to drive Uber and make more money, it's an investment.

My point is that most people who buy cars do NOT buy then with a plan to make money off of them, but still casually refer to investing in an asset, which isn't appropriate.
And you’re out at 50, replaced by a 22-year-old.
What's the point of keeping open bugs if you never fix them? It's not a cost free decision.
As a Brit living in the middle East for most of the year, I resolved these issues by setting up Home Assistant in my house on UK with the wireguard add-on and upping my bandwidth so my local download speed matches the UK upload speed.

This allows me to use all UK services perfectly. Including iPlayer.

Good thing about wireguard is I can use it with my android TV also, making UK media consumption a breeze.
Yes, this is the conclusion I came to. I assume Netflix was limiting me the same way they would someone on a VPN.

The Linode IP worked for 99% of my home traffic, but I tended to get captchas occasionally and some sites didn’t work at all or said they didn’t work over VPN. It was just bad enough that I wasn’t willing to keep it set up that way.
Anyone aware of an English language mariner’s handbook that details essential knowledge for life at sea? It doesn’t need to be of unique historical heritage. A close reference for the topper of thing I am looking for is “Mountaineering: Freedom of the Hills” which details a tremendous amount of practical knowledge and associated skills, necessary equipment to be begin and be safe(r) mountaineering.

Edit: Excellent suggestions. Thank you both!
> Maestral uses the public Dropbox API which, unlike the official client, does not support transferring only those parts of a file which changed ("binary diff"). Maestral may therefore use more bandwidth that the official client.
Only if you are selling low-code / no-code tools and get a lot of enterprise clients locked in on your tools.

Most tend to be too limited and do not last, but some like spreadsheets and visual databases are staple business software.