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> Not picking on Stanford at all, it just seems to be a common theme

Fair to pick on Stanford when they put out releases containing false information. That other institutions also lie isn't an excuse.
My sales is low enough that paying montly fees for lower rates wouldn't make sense. However, I did cross 1k in total sales, so the new pricing benefits me.

And I like that existing creators can opt-out of the new structure:

>Note: If your total Gumroad earnings are more than $10,000 and less than $100,000, the new fee structure may be more expensive for you until you reach that tier. If you prefer to stay on our existing fee structure and opt-out from the new volume discounts click this link. This way, every creator can keep the fee structure friendliest to them!
I think a lot of this is because our profession does not have an accepted universal bar everyone can jump over to be considered ‘qualified’. Every technical interview feels like rolling the dice in proving I am a competent developer. Giving me 50 minutes in a high pressure situation in an environment i am unfamiliar with and people I just meet will never product my best results, and then add to the fact that I could be asked any question, and my ability to answer is it being ranked against other candidates. Maybe someone else _just_ did a similar question in another interview and it’s fresh on his mind. Maybe someone spend their entire career focusing on just this type of problem given in the interview, but the question in the interview is only partly related to the actual job.
Von Neumann’s elephant in single cell genomics
Skype had it's main dev office in Estonia and that was where most of the development work was done, but it was never an Estonian company.
Thanks, that's good to know. Would there be any issue like that with an Oculus SDK?
I wouldn't call this more powerful than pine's rk3399 products. It's a bit less powerful than that. Though I've just started playing with my quartz64.
Very few firms want to hire juniors, while nearly all firms desire senior-level talent.

This manifests inflated job vacancies because so many firms have an evergreen job posting for "Senior Full Stack". Because talent is scarce these roles rarely get filled (hiring managers expect million-dollar candidates to accept $100-200k compensation).

Also, because lots of software requires specific expertise, there are vacancies that can't be filled because of a knowledge gap (novel industries / projects, etc). For example, how could SpaceX possibly fill all their engineering roles? Surely money is not a limiting factor, but rather the limited supply of qualified expert rocket engineers?
Price must also be absurd.
A lot of companies. https://www.levels.fyi/charts.html#
Do you share the viewpoint that parents are inept and children should be raised by the state by trained professionals who have passed a standard set by the government?

Wouldn't that create more a equal playing field where all kids are raised using the same methods? Social economic differences between families would be elimated through this model.

Men/women would not have to raise children. They would have more time to work and more money/time to spend on themselves. This would create a more level playing field allowing women to stay in the workforce allowing for more wage equalization levels between the sexes.

One could say parenting is the greatest public health matter.
Most developers are mediocre, no way around that. And every developer was bad and mediocre before he became better. Companies that don't invest in employees don't really deserve performance anyway. Exception might be start-ups though, developers need to adjust expectations especially around pay.

I have seen enough software projects that certainly didn't fail because the devs lacked ability, there was always another reason and mainly that is leadership not knowing about the problem they try to solve.

A bit of an exception might be more artistic topics like video games. Here marketing and chance play a larger role than management.

Sure, maybe you do cutting edge research, here ability is important again, but that is truly exceptional.

That said, I don't think it is hard to get a job currently.
I use ddg primarily, but I regularly need to use g! to reroute myself to Google when searching for anything that I don’t already have domain-specific knowledge for.

Like if I want to just check syntax for a new programming language, ddg can handle the search just fine, but if I am doing initial research for a problem I don’t understand well, I need Google to get consistently relevant results.
One popular service took this to its logical extreme. They sent me an email with five different star options to click to rate them. Stars 1-4 took me to a private page to offer feedback about what I didn't like about the service. The 5th star took me to their TrustPilot page. I complained to TrustPilot since that's against their TOS. Not sure if anything came of it.
I always wondered why there was no easier way to change profiles in firefox than about:profiles. I am not sure what your solution is though, would you mind going into details ?
Thanks in advance
> For obvious statistical reasons most companies [...] are mediocre

That's assuming companies exist on a one dimensional spectrum. The more prevailing wisdom is that companies will be mediocre or bad at many things, and good at a couple of particular things, and those couple of things are what make the company viable. This is the essence of a "unique selling point".

But to the point: most companies don't need great developers. Nowdays most medium sized businesses employ some tech staff, but IT is not core to their business.
You can use C# instead. And I don't even know what you mean by saying GDScript "isn't a real language".
I'm European so I'm unsure as to how the situation is in the states but here the situation is as follows: it's plenty of "developers" that taught themselves coding trough udemy or similar courses and can effectively code basic stuff in one or two languages. While I'm not trying in any way to devalue their knowledge or expertise in my experience a self taught developer will, on average, produce worse code and will ask for a lower pay. For employers though this doesn't matter because they mostly watch at the finished product and we all know "that guy" that can ship a feature in a week when testing/engineering alone would require two. It follows that there's a market saturation for entry level positions for low-end companies because they don't see the need to hire engineers or people with a degree that ask more while delivering "the same product". In my experience this changes when a company is more professional and there really is a lack of professional software engineers.
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This is an all too common misunderstanding of what an MVP is.

A bad MVP is a bunch of features thrown together badly in the hopes that parts of it will match market demand and that the market is willing to look past the quality problems. What follows after moderate success with this approach is a long journey to try to build back in some of the quality that was avoided at the start. The end is predictable: sprawling, mediocre software. With some luck it makes money. Often it does not.

A good MVP delivers a single, deliberately chosen feature to a well-researched segment of the market. This single feature has excellent quality characteristics and blows any competition out of the water. On that success follows continued incremental, high-speed development, always with quality as a primary driver.

But it takes discipline. In order to economically deliver quality, you must do the research, and you must be willing to deliver in really small, very well chosen increments.

And that is hard. That takes excellent developers. It's easier to just throw something together and hope to get lucky.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/markmurphy/2019/03/21/all-that-... (just as a reference for that last point)
> The Constitution constrains what the Government can do.

Yes, thanks for the reminder. That’s why this isn’t the gov doing and instead is the left via their means of control. That’s why there’s pending FOIA requests for this very thing.

> Also your analogy is flawed. Facebook doesn’t do what you suggest today (“only allow in those who talk like me”).

Only if you take it quite literally. Otherwise are you saying they don’t censor anybody that doesn’t reiterate the same thing the left is saying?
For me a source of some frustration is redirects and subdomains, which I need to visit manually with network switched off in order to add to the right container. This will help a lot for that issue!
I have a Boox Note Air--it runs Android, and can do cool stuff to apps to make them work better on e-ink (mostly tweaking the contrast).

It's still kind of slow in practice, like all e-ink. Page turns will take longer than a tablet or of course a book.

It comes with a stylus, but the only note-taking app that works well with it is the built-in one, which is not great though at least it can sync your notes off the device. But standard Android apps that support pen input are unusable.

If you want to read PDFs on an e-ink screen, I think this is probably the best option. You need a much larger screen than Kindles have of course, and the Android ecosystem has some ok apps for PDFs and comics (the Boox has a decent PDF reader but I'd suggest using a different app that syncs).

When it comes down to it, though, I've never really been happy with e-ink. Tablets are just so much faster and more versatile, and for reading in the sun and so forth I'd rather just take a book.
boot/ethernet/wifi will work with 5.15. At least linux-next from a few days ago boots and has working ethernet, here where I sit. :)
I think the thing is there are a certain core number of critical things a business has to do where if they are continually messed up it’ll go out of business eg payrolls, strategy around capital expenditure etc. The issue might be that even small business involved in e-commerce mean cross over with these areas. For example storing sensitive data is dangerous. PHI/PII is digital toxic waste. Like with real toxic waste do you want trained experienced professionals or inexperienced charlatans.
Very clever use case
China’s Tencent goes on a European shopping spree
A team of well managed mediocre members will be less of a headache and ultimately more value to a company than a team of rockstars.

Besides all that, mediocre literally means average. You (collective) should be fine with average and stop overloading terms making general life more difficult than it needs to be.
I have worked at home, or as a high-travel person, for almost 20 years. It started when I hung my own shingle out after the dot-com crash, and then continued into two small firms.

The first one folded in 2007, but I've been with the second one since then (so, 14 years this month). Both firms had geographically diverse teams, and neither have any office space anywhere.

Until about 10 years ago, I did a lot of client-facing travel. Then, all of a sudden (seemingly), that stopped. In retrospect I think it was because in-person visits for our work (implementation of our project management system with large-scale customers) really does not need it. What you need is time with us so we can help you configure, and train you, and troubleshoot with you, etc -- and that works GREAT over GoToMeeting (or WebEx or whatever you prefer).

If you want us on site, you're paying for WAY more hours, plus you're paying for flights, hotels, meals, rental cars, etc. AND if we have to go to you, we can't do other work for other customers while we're in your office, which makes US less efficient, so the telepresence approach is a big win on both sides.

*We have never ever ever turns on cameras* as part of this work. This was true before COVID, because they were not a value-add at all. This is especially true during COVID when so many are working with home-grade internet packages with really crappy upload speeds. The video sabotages the audio and screensharing, and brings nothing useful in return, at least for us.

I'm waiting for the rest of the economy to realize this. Several of our customer parties are in organizations that have decided YOU MUST TURN ON YOUR CAMERA or whatever, and we occasionally get questions about our refusal. As vendors, though, we're in a position to just say no.
And why not? Video games are fully antialiased. Why shouldn't I demand at least the same care and attention to technical detail in my productive tools?
I’ve noticed it’s much harder to walk in my city and generate ideas because there are spontaneous loud sounds and random visuals compared to when I lived more rurally. I’m not sure if there is a way I can reduce this … dark sunglasses and noise-cancelling headphones maybe, but that seems distracting in its own way and potentially dangerous.
Any advice for someone trying to get back into web based software engineering? I’ve spent the past 5 years implementing off the shelf solutions that enterprises use. Lots of API work, light web dev with some AngularJS but mostly scripting using JavaScript. I wouldn’t be able to pass a whiteboard interview.

My salary is above $100k and I could probably find a job doing what I’m doing for $150k or higher. My next choice is do IT consulting or try to find a management position but I don’t want to be tied to a vendors platform. Plenty of people have made entire careers on the backs of vendors like Oracle and others but I don’t want to be a crusty old dev keeping things alive until I retire.
I hadn't seen a reference to StumbleUpon in a long time. That brings me back. In college, I could spend an unlimited amount of time clicking the "Stumble" button. I finally kicked my habit by giving it up for Lent.
There's (at least) a third category:

Small, not tech heavy companies like simple webshops, small crowdfunding platforms, etc will need someone, ANYONE, to keep working on their giant stack of legacy PHP/Rails/whatever code. The business does not support hiring very senior people and the founders are not technical at all so they don't recognize the troubles inherent in hiring a full team of juniors.After a few years the business may fold, but at that point the junior devs have gained some experience and move onwards and upwards. The attitude of "We refuse to train the future employees of our competitors.", while not un-true, fails when you can't even hire seniors.
> Front line recruiters tend to be non-technical, and can't pattern match for good candidates outside of very narrow criteria. (ex: They won't know that a person with strong C# skills will likely be just fine with Java.)

Sounds like a problem with the job description, rather than the recruiters.

Sometimes you really do want an expert in a narrow domain, using a specific framework/language. Other times you don't. This needs to be communicated to the recruiters.

Engineers love to lay the blame on the recruiters. In my experience, the recruiters are usually just a mirror for what the hiring managers are asking for. If the hiring managers do a poor job of defining the role, then how do you expect a recruiter to find good candidates for that role?

If Java and/or C# experience works, communicate that to the recruiter. Don't just assume they will know. Even as an engineer, if someone asked me to find a Java candidate, I would find a Java candidate. I would not make assumptions about what other experience would fulfill the requirements.

As far as filtering being the problem, I highly doubt it. Most of the complaints I hear from people are about the interview process. I know a few engineers that can't get hired, and it's not because of a lack of interviews. They just can't pass the interviews.
When I was trying to get my first internship it took me 160 applications to get 1 interview, before that I applied every year for ~20 internships at the big names and never got 1 interview. Similarly for my senior year I applied to full time and internship positions it took me ~145 applications to get 2 interviews for internships (I would be interning after I graduate). I did the resume prep, went to the career fairs to talk to recruiters and get feedback, went to hackathons to add to my resume, I don't feel that it really did anything. I even tried cover letters as some people on HN suggested to me.

The process seems completely random and based more on pedigree than on anything else. If you have a signal like an Ivy League school, an older friend in the industry who can refer you, or a FANG on your resume those seem to be the only ways to be picked from the sea of resumes.
There's some video on the pine twitter.

https://twitter.com/LukaszErecinsk1/status/14308835069477150...
To go in line with firms not wanting to hire juniors, I think generally firms do not want to invest heavily in employee training or education. I would, for example, happily make a shift from CRUD webdev and distributed networking to hardware and embedded and more lower level type work, but I doubt a firm would hire me near my current level and train me up.
Me? I have no idea. I was just trying to catch and diffuse what seemed like a miscommunication between two people.

Actually selecting and proposing an axiom set is way outside my knowledge-base. My limited understanding is that the Axiom of Choice, in ZFC leads to Banach-Tarski, and if it’s removed Tarski doesn’t hold, but I don’t have nearly enough information to say if that’s worth exploring removing it.
Most games, and specifically games that want to sell in China, do disclose the odds of any specific item being gotten by random chance.
How is the web browser experience on the ReMarkable? It kinda sucks on the Kindle and forces me to consider an iPad to make up for open access.
> What’s more likely, is Apple’s notoriously unreliable implementation of SMB causing the problem (and that’s the only option now that AFP support on Mac is dead)

How is AFP support on Mac dead? I’m doing Time Machine backups to synology via AFP
because expectations are not clear. Most of the companies do not know what they expect from the employee in the advertisement or in the interviews. it's just confusion on both sides.
Because a person's worth is directly tied to how much value they can produce for their company's shareholders.

And if someone mediocre ends up being able to do the job, the company's management may face the fact that they're just a bunch of lame yuppies spending their life in the office to make someone else richer, not changing the world/making the world a better place/any other bullshit eaten from the trashcan of ideology (sniffff).
I’ve been working on an IDE for music composition http://ngrid.io. Launching soon.
You can create a shortcut which will launch with the profile of choice: https://support.mozilla.org/bm/questions/1171685
A bot downvotes the first post I make in every thread and has ever since I criticized the moderator Dang.
The (not last) version of Lightroom that I use store and organize all the pictures in an accessible directory. The only issue I had when I started using Lightroom was with the import method, I had not selected the "Copy" method and realized that after I deleted the originals. Now I always double check. I would also advise to use multiple Lightroom catalogs, Lightroom makes it easy. Also I don't think Lightroom is the source of the issue here. Anyway that's why it's important to always have at least 2 backup solutions with one being offline.
You may want to read the book Lean Software Development: An Agile Toolkit, it describes waste in the same manner and offers principles to help reduce it.
> being the best is the only thing that matters you literally shouldn't even try if your IQ is too low

Being the best version of yourself. If your IQ is too low, the first step is to improve it. Hard work.
clearly the left media is trying to develop a vanguard of hardcore urban communists with calm minds, good cardiovascular health, and detailed knowledge of the local geography.

quite sinister if you think about it
total... or mean? it's an intensive property (something that was "taught" to me many years ago, in school).
If you care about security through compartmentalization that much, you should try Qubes OS. It allows to use different VPNs for different VMs with a pretty good UI.
I'm speculating a bit here, but I think it could guard against side-channel attacks against the kernel.

e.g. if you had a sidechannel that leaks data from the kernel, the kernel can't disclose data that it can't actually read.
I’ve just interviewed at 4 places. None had technical recruiters; I was contacted and went through the process with the hiring manager.

Same nonsense though; here’s some random leetcode problem; sure our company hasn’t made anything novel or proven itself in the market but we Googled how to do a tech interview and this is what we found.

Getting a job is hard because people are lazy. They’re just regurgitating what popular companies are doing, whether it’s good for them or not.
Correct Statement: Nice to see someone pretending to do something to curb video game companies slipping gambling into their all-ages games.

This is another big announcement, followed by temporary raids with nice photos, while the reality of gaming in china will slip back to what it always was. A home for the homeless, friends for the friendless, fake hope for the hopeless. Big announcements in bejing change nothing - unless the boss visits and only then for the time of the visit and on the surface.

China is a more complex society behind what the propaganda claims it to be. Why was stalins propaganda questioned and ccp propaganda is just accepted as fact?
https://explained-from-first-principles.com/email/
> Sizing is pretty quantified.

Sort of, but it's all fake if you don't have the right QC strictness at manufacture. People like to joke about "fake size numbers" and "S/M/L" and "different style cuts", but forget about that and focus on waist and inseam measurements for a moment.

Men's pants have been labeled with waist and inseam measurements in inches forever, and, differences person to person and brand to brand entirely aside, the same brand of pants in the same style in the same color with the same size label on the same day can have different actual waist circumferences by more than half an inch so that one pair will fit _you_ and another won't fit _you_ because their assembly tolerance is higher than your fit tolerance.
And then you have to deal with people who don't have earbuds with them.

Distributing headsets is a lot more reliable
There's a global one ongoing.

Basically phosphorus that has accumulated over a long time is flushed to the seas in a hundred years.
I tried using one of those homepage chat features for a prospective vendor exactly once. I asked "Does your platform support <xyz system>?" Turns out the person on the other end of the chat had nothing to do with the company and all they could do was collect my email address/phone number and file a ticket for the company to answer. Um... no thanks.
The presentation linked in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28355136 says the BART car width is 3.2m, which seems to be the typical North American passenger car width [1]. The BART cars certainly look wide, but that's because they're not very tall.

This is wider than most metro trains (especially 19th century systems), but BART isn't a metro system anyway.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loading_gauge#Standard_loading...
are you referring to the historic pre-classical period prior to 0 BIM (Before ImageNet)
It’s a similar thing to incels. Many companies and bosses are kind of like incels. You’re a regular guy that’s probably not that interesting, rich, smart, or attractive, but you believe you deserve a chance with any girl.

Get over yourselves.
You can think of tags as folders. The big different being an object (e.g. file) can be in multiple "folders" (tags) at the same time if you do that. But it would probably mean you don't have nested folders.