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I've visited an energy efficiency model home in Northern Ontario that was heated by body heat and sunlight. It was called a passive house because there was no active source of heat inside the house. Double 6" walls, so a house within a house, double triple glazing. It used so little energy to stay above freezing that they demonstrated at 40 below the whole place could sustain its temperature using a single candle. Very impressive, I do wonder how in a box that airtight you're going to get rid of moisture and what they did to manage the humidity in the spaces between the three walls.

The big trick that I understood they used was to make smaller vertical boxes and to use reflective foil on the outer wall side to radiate heat back in. I've googled for a bit but I can't find any online reference to this but it certainly looked very interesting and promising.
Thanks! I listened to this story this morning, really made my day. Just incredible to hear someone casually tell how he grew from living in the streets of San Francisco to a millionaire software developer. As I had never heard of Paul Lutus before, every turn of the story was another pleasant surprise.

I really like how you put the interviewee front end center. I have enjoyed the other episodes I have listened so far too, especially with the SQLite developer. Any of the older episodes you can recommend in particular?
Yup, this list also fail at my side, but frankly I've never tried them before either. I think you're right about accepting it as a tool, I figured out what she does perfectly within my needs, and always ask things within that domain.
I sort of agree, estimates ought to be specific. My point is that unless these numbers are off by many orders of magnitude, they already represent failure beyond even the most lenient assumptions of incompetence.

I used to think, well, someone accuses a priest, who knows maybe that's right or not, churches err on the side of innocence without proper evidence, and the rare monsters slip through the net. With more light being shed on this in Poland, I now believe this is not the case. There were now dozens of cases where each individual one ought to bring prosecutions on the ground of organised criminal organisation exploiting children (or at least organised cover-up), with the CC's top hierarchs held responsible. Each individual one, never mind the dozens that made it to the news.

So whether it's really 216,000 children abused, or even just 1% of that, I think this is catastrophic. Unless these numbers are inflated by a factor of 100,000, I'll stick to my opinion.
> Why is experience valued for outside hires of CEOs but not as much for programmers? In other words, a 55-year old programmer would have 35 more years of experience than a 20-year old but that "extra 35 years of programming" doesn't seem to be valued as much as the "extra 35 years of managing" that a 55-year CEO candidate has. Why?

I'll bite – I think it is because instead of licensing and regulating our profession like surgeons, we have opened it up to creativity and inclusion like artists or fashion designers.

As a result, programming job trends are far more similar to fashion or art than medicine. You always want the clothes from the hip new designer, but a few stalwarts (Yves Saint Laurent, Ralph Lauren, etc.) are evergreen and always in demand. They even end up influencing the larger trends of fashion. If you ask Ralph Lauren how things are going, he'll say "I'm 81 and I have no problems finding work!". You might even have individual designers who are discovered at 81 and become a hit. But that is not the condition for the average fashion designer who is 81.

Similarly, you'll hear from plenty of older programmers for whom things have worked out as they get older. My hypothesis is that they are also the ones who have kept up with changing fashions and paradigms.
Remember, this is just france, not a worldwide guesstimate.
Fucking sadly.
I'd say "both".

1st, you need to help them get the RCA on why this question, and what context (that isn't often brought up). Its often that framing the question in context elucidates the actual problem they are working on solving, and they are seeing a misfit in concepts with the solution you've gone over with them. This is one (of many) areas where being a senior (experienced) dev/manager/leader is so critical in developing the less senior folks.

2nd, curation of notes, experiences, techniques is absolutely critical for team capability growth. Capture the problems, explain the use case/back story, explain the problems in explicit detail, explain the thought processes around the solution, and the solution. Cut-n-paste examples help. I did this when I ran my company, and found that it was quite helpful to the team. And they followed the example, and documented their own efforts.

Please don't be snide or dismissive with the less experienced. One of the reasons I see many orgs hire older/senior folks is to provide a calming, thoughtful, intentional influence on other team members.

As others have pointed out here, you need to continuously grow, learn new skills, add new capability. This should be a given. I don't want to bring "lifers" (people who hide in a company, doing only one thing, never interested in developing). I want to bring curious, intelligent people, with capability, and experience. Or if lacking experience, then a strong attitude of wanting to get their hands dirty.

Age doesn't factor into this.
I’m not sure if a pedophile ring is running the Catholic Church, but perhaps the power and authority attracted pedophiles, who rose in power and protected others and this attracted others to join the church.

It’s the same pattern to corrupt any organization.
IMHO management should fix at least one bug per annum. I've suffered way too many management types who fold to business pressures which result in friction to development volition. I feel like if they maintained a small level of experience in dev they wouldn't fold so easy.
There's also dot-http[0] which aims to provide a similar interface to what IntelliJ's requests feature has. I've used it a few times. It's a shame development has died, so hopefully Hurl can take its place.

[0] https://github.com/bayne/dot-http
Older programmers are judged more on their experience, a 55 year old candidate is expected to have 35 or so years of experience, but interviewing for that is tough. Instead, reputation is more important (having a bunch of people vouch for you so you be hired in as a staff/principal IC), but not everyone will have that, actually a lot of people won’t. So the 20 year old is an unknown quantity, they are all potential, a 55 year old candidate has to be the exact opposite (known quantity, not much accommodation for potential), and so…well, I’m sure we can see the problem with that.

And if you change your career late in life, you are even more screwed by these kinds of standards. A 40 or 45 year old can’t just get into the industry via an entry level position. Even if they would have a 20 year career ahead of them.
According to this article https://m.mydrivers.com/newsview/787157.html , 8 drones crashed shortly after the show started (initial investigation pointing to mechanical failure) and the operators initiated emergency descent for the remaining drones afterwards.
Most refer to specific aspects of my experience, some specifically referencing my current role (ie. they've read my LI, which also clearly shows my grad date)... some are spray and pray. Probably 80% of things that come my way are applicable to what I do both in skillset and title (Lead/principal/staff/director roles).

Does it matter? If there is some way that recruiters are filtering based on age, my age is clearly discernable.
And at this point you may as well be running Datomic. I remember the first time looking at Datomic the whole thing felt like it was coming out of left field. A few years later of data modeling conversations like this and you start to see Datomic is really every fix to the relational model taken to the extreme.

It also explains how we got column databases. If the problem with 6th normal form is the underlying storage, then change the underlying storage to optimize for 6NF.

In a way, the very existence of the normal forms can be taken as a sign that something is seriously wrong with the relational algebra given how easy it is to create a data model that will produce rubbish for certain queries.
It's not misleading? Whatsapp doesn't route SMS messages anyways. Just read the article and you'll know what they're talking about, like literally the first sentence.
> TPM won't release the keys without the password.

On the Chinese internets, there are kits exactly for exfiltrating both the PIN, and the key out of TPM chips.

Somebody solders them in, then a few month down the line, the intercepted key is either exfiltrated with the device, or remotely over bluetooth.
You’re not wrong, but there is some evidence that child abuse is common among Protestant churches too, and those are structured quite differently.

https://stopabusecampaign.org/2018/01/08/is-there-more-sexua...

It’s also worth pointing out that child abuse happens in a lot of non-religious settings too. The Catholic Church has a problem, but in no way should we understand child sexual abuse as a uniquely catholic issue.
We do however build our houses very poorly. But yes they are sturdy crap houses.
As a physicist, I try to avoid the snobbery of limiting myself to "higher physics". A wide variety of physical systems are interesting, not just fundamental particle physics. Physics contains multitudes; graphene, giant magnetoresistence, fiber optics, and systems more complex.
> It is this insistence of the church to allow pedophiles continue as priests that absolutely convinces me that there is a very active lobby of pedophiles in the Catholic church / Vatican

Except that in the USA, a single credible accusation against a Catholic priest is treated as proof of guilt since 2003 and the priest is removed (a much lower standard than in the criminal justice system that requires proof beyond reasonable doubt or even civil cases that require a preponderance of evidence).

This review is done by a board of laymen, not priests, and the process was approved by the Vatican which you accuse of having a cabal.

Regarding historical cases where priests were given a second chance, keep in mind this was not limited to the Catholic Church and other institutions had the same behavior. It’s not necessarily evidence of a cabal, just that people back then didn’t understand the danger as much, or didn’t care.
You're not. It completely diminishes the whole point. I have met many younger developers who went through different struggles and are more mature than most 40-years old.

Opposite ageism is also real, this one is a proof of it.
My father (https://bit.ly/3acZAAI), who is a certified CCSP Ethical Hacker and formerly worked @ZScaler/Checkpoint/Palo Alto Networks, would say that there are basically two scenarios: someone like him did it intentionally or someone like him did it by mistake.

Any other scenario of outsiders, code updates, etc - basically misses the point of how modern DNS infrastructure works.
i feel you, but advise you not to underestimate psychological addictiveness.

anecdote: been on a week-long hicking trip with a group of vegetarians and boy did i crave for a steak after that.
Sure, it’s ageism by definition — i.e. discrimination/stereotyping based on age.

But in the current context (of employment), ageism usually refers to discrimination against older people.

For example, the main U.S. federal law on age discrimination:

https://www.eeoc.gov/age-discrimination

> * It is not illegal for an employer or other covered entity to favor an older worker over a younger one, even if both workers are age 40 or older.*
> You won't find all of those in a 25 year old developer.

What makes you think that?

It's absolutely possible for a 25-year-old to be a more experienced, more technically competent, and more mature than a 40-year-old.

Some 40-year-olds have 20x 1 year of experience, compared to some 25-year-old's 5 years of experience.

If you think you're inherently better as a 40-year-old developer than all 25-year-old developers then I think you're deeply mistaken.
A maintenance window doesn't necessarily have to mean downtime either, it could just mean time you can make changes where people are on hand to fix it if things go wrong.

To extend your analogy, it might be a terrible idea to start doing maintenance on a single line track that sees high usage in a holiday season just before those holidays where everyone wants to get away or get home as do your staff. So you might implement what is usually called a change freeze.

On the other hand you might have a different time where demand is low. Shutting down the line if it comes to that will annoy some people but not as many. So you plan your maintenance then and have people ready in case things go wrong.
I would expect so, they dropped 32-bit x86 support.
See also:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Mail_2000

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hashcash
Hundreds of dipshits taking goofy selfies and you post a fact check that talks about 3 people charged with weapons outside the capital grounds and a single person on the capital grounds that had a holstered weapon. Also someone using a flag pole to gain entry.

Let’s agree that at least a thousand people breached the capitol. So at least 99.96% of the crowed were angry pitchfork waving villagers and .04% were some dorky Van Helsing wannabes.

In what world does that constitute a threat to topple to most powerful country ever to exist on this earth? It’s not.
Looks like something we could actually use for some API smoke tests. I'll bookmark it, thank you!
> I remember laying on the floor in front of the class

Is there a nuance to this I’m missing? If my professor suddenly decided to lie down in front of the class I would not casualy amble up and ask a question, I’d be more likely to call an ambulance or burst out laughing.
Isn’t that technically illegal?
as long as that job keeps you up-to-date with the current state of the art?

That is of course the crux. If you're the person that knows how the old stuff works (because you where there when it was the new hotness), you risk being responsible for the old stuff, while the new guy they just hired gets to work on the greenfield Rust project they just started. Had a friend of the family who spent his entire career at a Fortune 500 company. Started programming their back office mainframe systems in the 80s and spent the rest of his career working on those same systems. He knew those systems back to front and was revered as the local mainframe guru. 2002 he lost his job when the company decided to retire that old system and move on to something else. He could not get hired anywhere and ended up having to take a job a petrol station for while.
I've always been interested in psilocybin, but am afraid to take them without some kind of guide. Where can I find someone like that. I haven't read the book, but in Michael Pollan's talks, he mentions "underground" guides for people going on a trip.
Joe Paterno did not molest kids. You are referring to Jerry Sandusky, the former assistant coach.
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Treating them as some kind of business organisation is a very cynical view of the Catholic Church. Worse still is beleiving that only flawed individuals would be interested in such profession. History is testament to how many men and women of strong character have sacrificed their whole life for their religion while contributing to their community.
I'd think that just once it would be fun to troll those people.

"So tell me about the kind of work you've done with Python..."
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> I see this as quite separate from lay Catholics, who somehow aren't outraged by all this, but I guess more due to cognitive deficits than actual acceptance.

Survivorship bias. Most of the Catholics who are outraged about this probably stopped being Catholic. Those who are publicly outraged and still believe are probably in the minority.
At what point does questioning of authority figures become "pathological"? Who decides where that line is drawn?
For anyone in the US, if I have your bank account number, I can steal your money. I strongly advise you not to share your account number with me or anyone else. I have to commit fraud in order to steal your money, making it a crime, but stealing's a crime in the first place, so that's not going to deter thieves.
Yeah, it is, but honestly what am I gonna do about it? :/ I suppose I could've reported them to... somebody? Sue them for a job I didn't even really want?

In retrospect I probably should've left a bad review on Glassdoor explaining what happened, but it was so long ago I just sorta forgot about it.
Is there any hope for me? I'm just now finishing a post-bacc at 35.... :(
Even if they're taking the spray-and-pray approach, it certainly doesn't look like they'd be filtering for age. To compare, I'm 43, not even a tech lead and I've received more recruiter contacts over last couple of years than the 20 years before. Many of them were even somewhat relevant to my work experience.
I once had a password with a " in it and I could never log in. It took me ages to discover that was because of the " and their "protection". This was for a large company that really ought to know better.

I do think it can add value, especially when done right, especially considering the context of 2005 when it was added and when these sort of things were horrendously common. These days, I probably wouldn't bother so much, although it would depend on the context. If I were to allow random people to host WordPress or some such I'd probably add something like this, even today. Not because WordPress is bad, but because you never know what random plugins people are going to install, and the quality of that is a lot more ... variable ... than WordPress itself, and your users having their entire database leaked/dropped/overwritten also sucks for everyone.
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So does keeping up with all the latest hotness when you already know it won’t fix your organizational problems.

Hell, I’m only 33 and when asked today what I currently want to learn, had to seriously consider that I didn’t want to learn anything new in particular.
Nations that are almost fully vaccinated are having to lock back down because the vaccine is useless in stopping transmission.
Is the online course market not over saturated with LinkedIn Learning, Pluralsight etc
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Lets assume somebody messed up their BGP config. Does anybody know if they use Juniper? Why they would not do the changes via "the commit confirmed" option?

The idea is you do something, you messed up and are locked out, the system will revert to previous config after a few minutes by itself. The story of people physically accessing
systems only makes sense, if this was a hack...

===============

Commit Confirmed

"Suppose that despite all your efforts to insure your new configuration is correct before you commit it, something is overlooked and when you commit, you are locked out of the router."

"Rather than just a simple commit, you can make the candidate configuration active with a commit confirmed command. With this command, the router waits 10 minutes for a second commit. If it does not receive that confirming command within those 10 minutes, the router automatically does a rollback and commit so that the previous configuration becomes active again."

https://www.networkworld.com/article/2345600/managing-a-juno...

"Committing a Configuration"

https://www.juniper.net/documentation/us/en/software/junos/c...

===============
It's crazy to me that people can have this viewpoint. Facebook has built a product that lots of people use because other services can't/won't match it.

Then it goes down because things happen.

And you want to break down and regulate the innovator? I don't understand how that could be the answer. If there's a surefire way to turn a useful service into one that never improves again, this is it.
That indeed echos my experience here in the UK. I've worked with some fantastic senior programmers and learnt a lot from them, they were treated with prestige by HR (and therefore I'd assume recruiters, although I have no data for that)
my apologies then!
Getting closer to 50 here and finding value in looking after my health. Quit all alcohol nearly a year ago, kept my lifting steady and am now getting close to setting some life long PBs for strength. (Barbell Prescription, garage gym).

This has really helped ground me and keep my focus in tumultuous times.

I feel like my tech and ability to see the bigger picture is only getting better. And I still maintain the same child like joy of tech that I had when I opened my Vic 20 not too far away from 40 years ago.

Never stop learning, indeed!
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The opposite in fact. All costs should decline over time.
Haha, after having the same train of thought, I debated just taking the degree off entirely...
It's true that tax filing companies lobby to prevent improvements to the tax filing system in the US, but this is also aided by political parties that argue against things like taxation in the first place, which is why there is no bipartisan support to address this issue.

Keeping taxes hard to pay is an important carrot in keeping the public mad about having to pay them in the first place. It's governance through dark patterns.
It does when you consider EVs and fossil fuel plants efficiency. It's less CO2 emissions to use electric vehicles. Combustion engines even nowadays I only get around 30% efficiency. That's not close to what a power plant gets
There have been research developments that show that viruses can create/attach to biofilms just like bacteria, which allows the virus to survive treatment and can explain the intermittent resurgence.

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/02/100205115946.h...

https://www.immunology.org/public-information/bitesized-immu...
Yep - France doesn't even represent 1% of the worldwide population ...
You post this all the time. You did 27 years at one single company, as you point out so proudly and often. After a stint like that, anyone would be unhireable. It isn't your age, as so many others on this chain have pointed out. You didn't build your CV to be attractive to new employers at all, and when eventually that became relevant again, you were out of luck.

I read your posts whenever I see them, it's obvious you're quite bright. I really don't understand how you don't see this.
I guess that's the point? No solid evidence of ivermectin efficacy existed before the government launched a national-wide web form that prescribed it for anyone with Covid symptoms, or before major health insurers started testing on patients without their families consent, or people rushing to the pharmacy and clearing out their stock of those medicine.
This. The entire reason the acquisition was allowed was that it would remain independent. They lied about it so there's no need to honor that purchase. Divest immediately.
I think the (sometimes justified) fear is that an older programmer may have stopped learning X years prior, and gotten stuck in old practices. It's probably really easy to fall into a groove and say "it worked back then, and it still does". This attitude may be detrimental in a workplace that strives to innovate and wishes to test new technologies.
Fairly certain that the name and logo are both derived from the "little Hiawatha" comics.[1] It seems they never really took off in the states, but they're fairly common in the weekly Donald Duck cartoons, at in the Netherlands when I was young.

[1]: http://www.toonopedia.com/hiawatha.htm