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Negotiating in this situation is very easy:

- Make what you want claer. "I really like the sound of your company and your team. The only thing that is stopping me is that the offer is far lower than I would like. I was hoping for $x/year in total compensation". If you have base, bonus, stock expectations mention that

- Make it clear you are able to negotiate if you are ("I can go down to $y/year if I have a clear growth path to $x/year") and that you are not going to negotiate if not ("That is the minimum I am willing to accept")

- Be prepared to walk politely. "Thank you for the interview. I enjoyed meeting the team. Ultimately, I talked to many good teams and had to choose one." You can optionally mention which one you're going to go with and mention that you are open to talking in a couple of years.

Remember that this is an iterated game. If you failed to negotiate this time, you may succeed a different time. A lot of people on the Internet have poor social skills and will advise you to do certain things. Here are some common pitfalls that you can fall into:

- People will tell you to be vindictive. "Actually, this is so low it's disrespectful. Never talk to me again"

- People will tell you to sell yourself. "I have done X, Y, and Z. I deserve $x". That part is over. It won't matter here.

- People will you to rub it in their face. "Actually, I got a better offer from A so now you know what I'm worth".

Comp negotiations are very easy and directness will benefit you. A pre-existing offer raises your BATNA. You're in good shape. Remember that you always have to be prepared to choose the BATNA or it is not a BATNA.
What the heck made you throw such a condescending accusation? I can really find nothing in the OP's comment that would justify such a reaction..
I agree, but I can't exactly build a reactor, a SARS variant, or the holocene.
> Letting/making devs own the services they deploy/develop is not the full picture, nor is it a real goal, but still it sums up the problem and solution space concisely.

What I'm trying to explain is, that I don't believe that this is a realistic expectation, because owning a service in production includes aspects of the stack that are not related to development, like networking, storage, and various non-dependency security-related concerns. When you task a platform team with building an easy-to-use abstraction for developers, those abstractions will inevitably leak. When they leak, one of two things happens: either the developers page the platform engineers, in which case you're back to shared ownership and the need to coordinate the concerns and responsibilities of multiple teams, or the developers are expected to fix the leak themselves, in which case, most of the time, the developers will find themselves out of their depth, most likely doing something inefficient at best or flat out wrong at worst.
And the German system is a bit silly, too.

The Einwegpfand was supposed (I guess?) to make Einwegflaschen go away and promote Mehrwegflaschen.

As far as I can tell, retail outlets just got good at crushing Einwegflaschen. An investment in capability that benefitted basically no one.
Not to be contrarian, but it seems like the shame around poverty is just as strong as it ever was. Or else why are all these stories and anecdotes on the form "My parents collected cans but I made a career and I don't collect cans" or "I used to collect cans but then I got some kind of break through my hard work and now I don't collect cans anymore". It's a lot like depression: "I used to be depressed but then I worked out/bootstrapped myself/whatever and now I'm not depressed anymore."

So. Are there any people on HN currently collecting cans?
FWIW, I did that for years quite successfully in an organisation with about 80 engineers! At that scale, it works, in my experience, not worse than an org with lots of managers - they're gonna do infighting amongst each other at a certain size anyway :P
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Yeah, returns in stores is what's done in Norway as well and while varying over time return rates have regularly been around 95%.

It's structured as a tax on single-use containers that retailers can buy themselves free from based on the proportion they can demonstrate returns for, coupled with a shared recycling scheme they can join.

In practice it means you can return containers wherever you can buy them, and most larger grocery stores have machines to handle returns. (In fact, the largest manufacturer of "reverse vending machines" for bottles is Norwegian TOMRA).

Recycling rates in places without bottle returns in stores basically shows that just having recycling centres or even curb-side recycling from home is woefully insufficient if you're serious about dealing with plastic waste.
The employer can just give you an executable and say you must install it. The executable would show you an EULA and require you to accept it.
> [0] There are dozens of tools on my list for this, mostly around application and container management.

Could you share that list? I've had precisely the opposite problem with container management - whenever I have to use Windows, I find container management so unwieldy. And what do you mean by "application management"?
> We already work in a profession that has issues with gatekeeping - I think we should avoid exacerbating that.

Why? Law and Medicine are gatekept fields, the minimum bar is essential for providing such sensitive services. With all the security issues - never mind accessibility - I think that professional software development should be gatekept.

Hobbist software development - where many of us started - should of course have welcoming arms to new members. I wonder how the Law and Medicine fields would cope with hobbist communities.
Xamarin is not a Microsoft own tech per se, well actually it is since they bought it, however their crossplatform teams have always been about C++ and JavaScript (C++ rulez at WinDev, no matter what).

Actually I think it was more of a strategic move to "own" mono runtime and provide a starting point for Visual Studio for Mac (which is anyway being rebuilt).

The fact that Xamarin is now trying to be Swing for .NET 7, and still failing on Linux (if the community wants they should build it), and on macOS (using Catalyst instead of proper Cocoa APIs), doesn't seem it is getting that much love overall.

Specially now apparently we should all be using Blazor either directly on the browser, via Electron or WebWidgers as per their own marketing.

In the end it boils down that there are many UI teams, each of them trying to make a point of still being relevant to managment while fighting for resources.
Haskell comes to mind?
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yes, but that's an option you need to select. Normal people aren't going to even try searching for an option like that. Also it was 8 years ago, so I don't know if that was an option back then and in any case that would slowdown the footage as well.
No. This is almost the opposite of a market-based system. Aluminium cans are artificially made available only at tens or hundreds of times their cost to produce.
Here in Norway a half litre or smaller container has a deposit of 2 kr, bigger containers are 3 kr (22 and 33 US cent respectively).

But it isn't the size of the deposit that drives the return rate (95% or more here in Norway) it is the ease of doing it.

Here all shops that sell such goods are required to accept the containers in return even if they were not purchased in that shop and even if they are of a different brand.

So every supermarket has a reverse vending machine [1] where you deposit the bottles and cans and get a receipt that you can exchange for money or goods at the till.

[1] Usually from Tomra: https://www.tomra.com/en/collection/reverse-vending/deposit-...
I think the primary difference is while C# evolves, old language features don’t just get removed. Old code samples will still work even if they aren’t “modern” or optimal solutions anymore.

For contrast, Swift will drop support for features that can render old code samples useless. I’ve written code fails to compile with an error literally saying what I am trying to do was removed from the language in version X. Things like that can be aggravating for a newbie like me to deal with.
Not quite every other virus. We eliminated a few handful of diseases.

(And of course, lots and lots of viruses were eliminated naturally. Just by natural selection and competition. There are even some hints that coronaviruses are replacing influenca.)
> it would increase the attractiveness of fraud where the same bottle is sold in multiple jurisdictions with different deposit rates.

Doesn't matter which way you slice it, it doesn't pay. The exception is if you can ship it on Mothers's Day.
Android is even more so, because Android Java isn't Java, and there are lots of issues with stuff that just gets dumped into some github repo from Google where we are supposed to learn from sample code and that is it.
There's a documentary on the lives and times of can collectors who daringly ride hills on shopping carts
Carts of Darkness (2008): https://youtube.com/watch?v=zi-f_J6hV-g&feature=emb_title
There's nothing in the issue about it being "hijacked", the cert that is being presented by the CDN is not accepted by browsers, since it doesn't have the jsdelivr host listed as a SAN. It's just broken, at the CDN.
enlightenment comes seldom and without thanks, unfortunately.
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One big problem with Youtube and podcasts is that they are often interspersed with useless fillers, neither entertaining nor helpful for "retaining information". The excessive signposting in videos is especially ridiculous: spending more time on listing "what I'm going to talk about today" than actually talking about those things.

3X speed is usually just neutralizing the carelessly long scripts. A better way is not to give in to the habitual prattling, but a table of contents with clickable timestamps. Many thoughtful Youtubers are already doing it.
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Yeah, I've noticed that with text I'm going to make more pauses thinking about what I just read (especially printed text for some reason). Video is the worst, while audio only in the middle. Maybe because of clunky controls ?
More like 20+ given the NeXT heritage.
Heh, buying software for personal use? Maybe I'm too Russian to understand that. We pirate everything for personal use. Only companies pay for licenses. And allegedly, Adobe and such were fine with that, up until shareholders decided they need to monetize more aggressively to "grow".
I guess it is a purely didactic project to learn about RSA and related maths in Python?
This is pretty cool, thanks.
They would soon get used to it. People are hardly going to give up drinking sugary soft drinks because of high deposit values.

They might be reluctant but if there is no other way to get that sugary hit they will do it and eventually it will be just how things are done.
My friends and I have not had issues receiving US stock options either. Carta can assist with this to a degree. NSOs though, not eligible for ISOs.

Admittedly, we're based in Australia, and there are Australia-US tax treaties that make the whole arrangement a bit simpler.
If you're diehard enough, you can restrict network access yourself with Linux's various native tools for that
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> Which KDE technical issues are preventing its adoption? I'm running KDE full for a long time and encountered no issues.

Some of them are linked by pxc post above mine.

There's also the issue that Qt apps can only be written in C++, a language that many don't want anything to do with. In comparison, GTK has bindings for a variety of languages including Rust.
> Having a “devops” team would feel like having a team called “agile team” or something - you do “devops”, you can’t build it.

Too late. The industry has chosen to deviate the word.

For years as a sysadmin I was arguing people that devops is a methodology and not a function. Now I have the Sr Devops Engineer title. I know I am still just a sys and platform engineer who's job is to facilitate life of developers but hey the industry insist on calling me devops, I have other fights more important than fixing my title and team name.

I just tend to think that 20y ago people were relaying memes about sysadmins being motherfuckers who just randomly denied everything to clueless developers while the devops term emphases more the collaboration side. I hope the devs I work with are happy working with me, I sure have a good relationship with them. If that is being what the industry now choose to call a devops, I am a devops.
If you took that literally it would be impossible to learn cryptography.
Feel free to plug in population numbers into an exponential growth function and watch the medical system get overwhelmed. This isn't about it collapsing - once a few thousand people have died preventable deaths and a bunch of medical staff quits because of PTSD, we'll stabilize. But at least in the ethical framework dominant in my cultural sphere, that's not really an acceptable path.
The first two are probably possible if legally dubious.
Do they use a different bar code on bottles sold in Germany to those sold by the same producer in bordering countries? That's something American producers generally don't do for different states (yet?) - they use the same label and write the relevant deposit amount for every state on the bottle.
Being prepared for such an increase necessary means having that much capacity unused for the rest of the time. The private sector sure as hell isn't going to do it and the public sector is beholden to the general population, which won't stand for "inefficient spending". What politician would dare run on a platform of "we'll build 50% more hospital capacity and hire 50% more doctors, then have them sit idle just in case a global pandemic hits". Two years ago, they would've gotten laughed out of the room.
It's not a model, it's an observation.

There is no clear evidence as of yet to suggest hospitalization or mortality rates of Omicron among our kind of population.

We'll have a better idea in a few weeks.
> Apparently your opinion is that I should be dismissed out of hand as a "fundamentalist".

I don't know, do you hold the position that abstract freedom is valuable, regardless of the real-world consequences? In any case, I think giving you an option to change your mind is not a dismissal. :-)

I don't think anything is valuable in itself, without a real-world context. The story of Midas' gold illustrates that.

And when we think about the practical context, we find that lots of freedoms (for starters, the ones in EU Charter of Fundamental Rights) are actually valuable in most circumstances. But that doesn't mean we can generalize it to freedom to do anything is valuable in all contexts, which I think is a logical consequence of attributing value to freedom in the abstract.
News on the subject is far different from reality. I am very familiar with the area of the Tenderloin bounded by GG Ave, Leavenworth, Eddy, and Larkin. I spent some time nearly every day there, some during the day, some at past midnight, some early in the morning.

The truth is that:

- They were/are running the gentrification project quite well during the daytime. The area around La Cocina gets cleaned up and shifts everyone away. Sometimes you have police

- Starting a couple of months ago, the police have moved the night folks to the area between Market and McAllister near where they meet. The night folks have started recongregating but there are police vehicles past midnight which are stationed with flashing lights

The Tenderloin has been under extra-supervision for a couple of months now. I'm not sure what triggered it. Perhaps the LV hits, but I think it was before that. Hard to tell, but it's not the TL you remember from 6 months ago or from a year ago.

This is the truth as it is on the street. But you don't have to believe me. Take your car right now and drive every street I mentioned. See for yourself.
Because usually, we have less than that hospitalized, and capital efficiency demands elimination of redundant capacity. In the US shareholder value of private hospitals, in my homecountry of Germany, political pressure to remove "inefficiencies" from the system.
The cost of food is suppressed, because our elites, leaders and politicians know what happens when that too is subjected to inflation as well, and that is revolution. Meanwhile, as far as I can see, the frog-boiling of regular people has been steady at least since the 60's. Back then the cost of a nice apartment was about one or two years pay. Today it's easily 10 years pay, and so the former middle class opt out of having children because all value property is too high for them to afford. Meanwhile the only promise our elites are willing to give us, is that we'll own nothing and be happy. Well, we'll see about that. Because what's happening now is that they are now unable to keep inflation from also seeping into everyday products. Gas and power is already buckling here in Europe, and I suspect food prices will be next. Unless they can control it, then social unrest is sure to follow.
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I assumed this was about making money just selling the cans to a metal trader, not claiming the redemption cost from the stores.
Not just that, but after 2 years of pandemic you start having very few new people to infect effectively.
Optimizing a system for increased efficiency comes with a corresponding increase in fragility.

Health systems in many places are optimized for efficiency, and on top of that were at or over capacity even pre-pandemic.

I find it shameful that this is still not addressed properly and publicly. If enough resources had been spent on addressing this issue, and doing everything we can to overprovision capacity (double healthcare worker compensation could be one part of that, for example), we should be able to handle this by now.

If, under normal condition, healthcare workers had a lot of slack, facilities were underused, and pay was higher, the situation wouldn’t be so grave. (wasn’t there an Ask HN thread the other day where many self-reported reviving cushy pay for only doing 2-8h of actual work in a given week, and others responding with how that’s all good?)
But video controls are tremendously worse than just being able to focus your eyes at any specific portion of the page in an instant ?
...and the samples being included also made sure that mods sounded more or less the same no matter where you played them, whereas MIDI files (the alternative at the time) sounded wildly different depending on the capabilities of the sound card.
I agree with this, though it depends on what you're learning and what you already know.

For example, I do not care for videos about code. I'm experienced in that domain and I want to get right into the meat of things: scroll to the appropriate paragraph, see the example I'm looking for, and move one.

I could see why a beginner would need a slower pace with more "filler" explanation and background information. Videos are a nice format for this, because they allow one to just sit back like we did at school and take in the information.

But that's only considering programming. Other domains are better suited to videos. For example, visual arts in general: painting, photography, filmmaking... I couldn't imagine explaining a picture with words only, or a human interaction with pictures only. Perhaps when I have more experience, but for now, I like videos.
> This virus won't just go away in a few months, we'll have to live with it, just like Humans have done with every other virus since forever.

This statement mean different things to different people. Do we live with AIDS with or without condoms ? Do we live with Covid with or without masks and vaccines and other prophylactic measures ?
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For me it's the exact opposite. Documentation - especially auto-generated one - immediately makes me feel lost. I don't know where to start and when I just read it by itself my brain shuts off within minutes. The only way I can use documentation is by using it as reference alongside a project I'm working on, that's why examples are one of the most important factors for me.

But I also have to say - better no examples than misleading, outdated ones. And please for dog's sake don't link to a site that requires registering an account to read nothing more than "further example" code snippets that turn out to be the same outdated examples with different variable names.
At the start, hospitalisations tracked cases by about 2 weeks and ICU another week later. In the UK this is still the case through October, but cases were fairly flat (there were a couple of brief "waves" which peaked in cases about 2 weeks before hospitalisations). About 1 in 40 cases resulted in hospitalisation. Everyone who wanted a vaccine had had both well in advance of those figures.

In the last week daily cases have increased 50%. If this remains with the 1 in 40 case:hospitalisation ratio, then between Christmas and New Year we'll be looking at 2,000 new hospitalisations a day.

This time last year the ratio was 1 in 13 case->hospitalisations, so clearly things are far better.

However if cases are doubling every 4-5 days - with cases 4 days ago being abeing about 100k/day, in a few days time this will be 250k/day, and by christmas 700k a day. Before New Year it will naturally plataeu at 1.5m a day (because that's 1 in 6 of the population getting it in a week, and there just aren't enough uninfected people for it to go around.)

That seems to be the strategy the country is going for.

It's too late to stop it reaching 160k/day, which would be 4k hospitalisations a day - the peak of last year - based on October's admittance rates, and there's very little sign of attempts stop it going further, meaning we could be looking at 8k attempted hospitalisations come new year.

The main hope is that Omicron, combined with boosters (which already have a >80% uptake in over 60s) will reduce that 1:40 ratio
I'm impressed more by the comments than the article itself. Some people insist they make progress and listen 3x, but nobody showed any practical measurements of own skills.

A personal example: I used to listen to a famous linguist, and everything seemed nice and clear, but then I decided to go in details on one particular question (I think accentuantion), and opened his book. It was like if you showed your programming code to a farmer: incomprehensible stream of linguistic terms. My complacency was shattered in 1 minute.

There's some scientific evidence as well:

1. Lectures are proved to be a bad way to learn things. https://www.science.org/content/article/lectures-arent-just-...

2. A nice experiment showing that if you enjoy a lesson, it usually means you make no progress, meanwhile hard practice actually does make you progress: https://www.pnas.org/content/116/39/19251

I suppose, those who insist they learn something, do make progress at memorizing trivia, but not at practical skills or any systematic understanding.

This kind of knowledge feels firm only until it's tested by practical task or by serious questioning.
The math a bit tougher than that. The volume of soda bottles is different now than in 1980. And most bottles aren’t glass, but plastic. Even the glass ones use different glass and cans use different amounts of aluminum. I agree that deposit values haven’t kept pace, but there are more variables at play.