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I absolutely agree - and if it was upto me, they would be gone already - but when the manager is also one of those 'do as little as I can' types of people, they don't really want to open that particular can of worms.
Dallas is pretty fine. For a few years, I lived within a 10-15 minute drive to my office on a $60k salary. Inner-ring suburb and not downtown, but most of the offices here are in the inner-ring suburbs.

(and if that sounds low, don't worry: I now make much more and work for a company that doesn't even have offices in my time zone)
I was unfamiliar with the term JBOD, thanks for the laugh!

Unfortunately as a remote employee I find it harder to accomplish. I used to commute by bike 2-3 times a week, 11 miles each way, but now it has to be an intentional effort to leave the home which seems to be harder for me.
Putin being deposed is the optimistic scenario, but I don't see it as the most likely one. He's pretty insulated from external attack, and he has internal dissent pretty locked down at this point. Hitler wasn't finished until the allies were rolling into Berlin. He fought off coup attempts well after it was clear the war was lost. Putin isn't going to be under nearly the same level of external pressure. Honestly I expect it's most likely the world is stuck with him until aging and/or disease make him unable to rule. Hope I'm wrong, of course.
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Not that I’m advocating for location based comp for remote workers—I think it’s a complex issue and don’t feel especially confident leaning either way—but assessing cost of living based on location is more of an assessment of potential cost not actual. It would be more analogous to include the price of available goods/services, not which ones are consumed. The idea behind cost of living comp adjustments is to compensate relative to the value of money, not relative to how one uses that value.
While both scenarios are terrifying, I don't agree that the failing state is scarier. Nuclear weapons take a lot organizational skill and competence to maintain and deploy, which gets much harder for a failing state to muster. Plus we've been through this before with the Soviet Union where a disturbing number of nukes went unaccounted for, but none managed to get deployed by terrorists.

By contrast, a functioning dictatorship means a single madman can pretty much decide to destroy humanity at any point.
personally i always thought the greater invasion was so that he had something to deal away to get the sanctions lifted.
Because there is a plethora of reasons given that you can choose from.

Denazification of the jewish russian speaking president.

Lawrow: Ukraine wants to aquire nukes and russia must prevent this. Propably trolling.

Half hearted false flags operations: Bombed car where the suspect was arrested the day before. Bombed out building with months old trees in it....

The aforementioned NATO ambitions of ukraine. ukraine was denied membership 14 years ago and things look even more impossible now with the territorial conflict about the crimea. Paradoxically russia is making ukraines medium term NATO membership more likely by solving the crimea conflict.

Russia wants to unite all Rus and everything else is just a smokescreen. Putin has given some rather 19th century speeches to that effect and there was this article that was published and then quickly taken down in some state owned newspaper (i think) https://thefrontierpost.com/the-new-world-order/
Pretty scary stuff.
To you, the bar to be able to claim "we love open-source" is to have every single thing you make be open-source? Just like loving the color pink means every single thing you own should be pink? Does loving chocolate mean every single meal you prepare should have chocolate?

I mean, it's valid, if you're consistent. I don't think it's the way anyone else uses the word, but that is one way to define it.
> We've proven that the big tech companies can go fully remote and not completely crash and burn, that's about it.

Most big tech companies are public. Record earnings and stock prices throughout the pandemic prove more than just not crashing and burning.
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All of those are definitely 20th century weapons.
How many times is this gonna get reposted as some sort of gotcha? He's right, and having to deal with juniors or large teams with varying competence isn't unique to Google. I've met many devs who praise Java for how simple it is to parse through for people of all experience levels (once you get used to the verbosity). In fact, two of Java's founding principles was that it had to be simple and familiar. Yet I don't see anyone pretending that's a bad thing.

Go has the same goals, just a different approach. Java is too verbose, Go takes the simplicity approach too far sometimes. Neither are perfect but they're definitely useful and worth considering for many projects. The fact that it was made with juniors in mind is a plus.
It shouldn't. Paying local market rates makes sense when your customers and business operate locally.

Google's revenues, however, are not limited based on employee location and I sure as hell don't see why pay should be.
Strongly suggest a co-working space nearby if that’s the situation at home. It would suck to have to pay for something that other folks don’t have to pay for, but if that’s the reality you find yourself in…

Obviously upgrading to a place with a dedicated office would probably be comparable, but that makes some assumptions on my part that might not be accurate or reasonable.
Very relatable. I've started to put more of my tech related side projects on the back burner and got into working on restoring / upgrading a old truck I got at the beginning of the pandemic.
> Why not "mainly remote but be in the office when it makes sense to be in the office"?

Depends on the space utilization. The company paying for real estate that "might" be used isn't very efficient. If they have a temporary work area system, it's different. Then they can down scale their real estate footprint and accommodate ad hoc visitors, by reservation, or the occasional "group meeting". But if they're dedicating space to someone who isn't there, it's a bit of a waste.

My last company called this "hoteling".
It seems like Europe announced the plane transfer without enough consultation from the countries who would actually have the planes needed. At least, that's the impression I've gotten from how fast most of them denied any MIG loan to Ukraine after the initial announcement was made
That is an interesting question. Theoretically it should work - it's all just data - assuming you could implement relational querying efficiently in JavaScript itself
BTW, for those who haven't read it, one of the most chilling books on war is "The Last Days of Hitler" (https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/L/bo362699...) which is a carefully researched (if imperfect) chronicle of ... well, the last days of hitler. With US and Russia approaching Berlin on two sides, and no hope whatsoever, Hitler commanded over a near-impenetrable bunker and refused to surrender. By the end, the US retreated and lets Russia do the last work, and german units fought westward to surrender to the US.

The other enlightening book is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stalingrad_(Beevor_book) which shows just how truly absurd the war between Germany and Russia was and how megalomaniacal the leaders of those countries were.
Is it really that different from companies registering all of their trucks in Indiana because they have the cheapest commercial insurance?
you know why. Only hire in blue cities so that socialist authoritarian (so called democrat) party can keep control of tech companies that gather data on everybody for the party.
https://thefrontierpost.com/the-new-world-order/
Why are you so certain that Putin will order nuclear armageddon?
dang: Why is comment from E2EEd dead? Do you have any evidence at all that the comment contains falsehoods?
> The majority of routers for React, and other SPA frameworks, do this out of the box. This has been a solved problem for half a decade at least. A website has to go out of its way to mess this up.

They might not mess up history when using a standard routing library, but I've seen plenty of devs forget to add unique titles to different pages which is frustrating for a user with multiple tabs going.

On SO the accepted answer for react-router looks like "create a custom Page component with title as a prop"[0]. At work I just ask folks to use react-helmet.

[0] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/52447828/is-there-a-way-...
I'm not sure, but I got the sense that Hubbers is being used to mean their employees.
GDB will gladly show you all the threads' stacks.

Couldn't tell you about shaders. Haven't needed hot code reload.
Yes. Apparently there are very few languages in which a complete edition of Goethe's opus is available, and Chinese is one of them. Thanks to Xi Jinping.
I have gone through a fair bit of your comment history and I find that you are much like me.

I disagree with your comments on this though...

I'd appreciate it if you would expand on what you feel is actual 'choice'
A lot of tech industry jobs are also outside of big cities. (As are Google jobs in the Bay Area; the BA is just something of an outlier in that fairly conventional suburbia is still priced higher than just about anyplace else in the country.)
See this gist and the code comments [0] - basically you just need to know the magic flags to pass to ffmpeg, transcoding the file with all the right settings.

[0] https://gist.github.com/ingramchen/e2af352bf8b40bb88890fba4f...
... but so is location.
How is DataTable an example of that? It’’s a class that’s usually used to hold the contents of a relational database table, nothing to do with UI.
As someone with chinese friends and family. It is a weird situation.

Some are sad about the situation.

Others are sickingly delighted.

No amount of discussion will help.

The ones who are happy with China and positive toward the Russian action. They are also the first to complain if they perceive any slight or racism towards them. They do not seem to understand that their attitude is causing more skepticism and problems of trust in the western world. Any future disagreement with the west will be explained away as western aggression and that this was the US's plan all along.
"3 days a week" is untenable because it requires that you live within an 8-hour drive of your office.

If they want to make a mandatory mix of remote and non-remote work, it should be like oil rigs, where you go to the office to work and live on campus for two consecutive months out of the year, and then you go home for the rest of the year.

Requiring that you be chained to a single metro area for the entire duration of your employment is objectively inferior to a situation where you can live wherever in the world you want (except I guess for countries that have sanctions) and you can even just get rid of your home and spend each week working out of a different city and just have to give 2 months of your life to the company.
It sounds to me like you're still living in a world like the one right after the 2016 election where Democrats were all echo-chambering themselves that Trump is anti-Semitic. Party smears, versus reality.
I love it, but now I'm stuck playing with the cube hologram thing on the intro page.
Minor shout out, but, Titanfall: Assault was the most engaging, enjoyable mobile game I've ever experienced. Incredibly involved game with simple rules, minimal interaction. Probably my favorite realtime game ever, anywhere.

I'be kept an eye on Nexon games since but this is still tops.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titanfall:_Assault
indieHD: https://indiehd.com/

I'm not affiliated, but I've known it for a while. It was known as IndieTorrent back then.

(also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30534759)
I think people need to look at the multiplier FAANG companies provide salary / bonus / RSU wise. My experience is that these companies pay a significant market premium, but expect total control over your life for that margin.

Everyone else I suspect is going to adapt to this work. There are people who want to work in a office. People who don't. We will need to find ways to make both successful.
Can you survive your fellow citizens trying to murder you to take your things?

I’m not concerned with the bombs themselves, but more so the total collapse of civil authority in the event of a total nuclear exchange between say, the US and Russia. There are a lot of small arms in the US.
Record earnings and stock prices are not necessarily due to remote work. They could be despite it.
Coffee shops don't grow at the speed software does because they are limited by the physical world.

There aren't many "startup industrial companies"
I've long thought that the athletes should be stripped of nationality from opening to closing ceremonies, and just compete as earthlings. But without the draw of nationalism such an Olympics may wither away.
Why did you hate it? An excuse to take a walk in Bay Area weather in the middle of the day doesn't seem that bad to me.
My company is going hybrid in the spring (2 days in office, 3 days WFH), which I think is a good approach. There is definitely something to be gained from face to face time with co-workers. There is also something to be said of the improved productivity of working at home and not dealing with a long commute or random distractions.
this will be my new goto example for why VC is a cancer for businesses that can and should be cash positive almost immediately and could instead just choose to be "run well at a reasonable growth rate" instead of betting everything on number 17.
Are you afraid of loot boxes in your music that you have to pay for with micro tokens? :)
> Are they the most influential country?

I believe they are in terms of economy, supply chain, economic future growth.

> China isn't the largest economy yet.

Personally I think this is done deal and just a matter of time, like global warming, its not complete, but clearly on the path.
Hard to draw that conclusion when everyone was forced to go remote… they weren’t competing with non-remote companies.
laughs in New York City at getting lost in stairwells of the original 111 8th Ave building or Chelsea market building, and soon (not) going between Chelsea and Hudson Square.
If someone is truly in favor of comp reform and thinks that everyone at the company should get paid based on their value rather than where they are located, are they going to be okay with accepting a salary adjustment that is ~50% of the way between Silicon Valley and India wages?
And it's not fraud for an employer to arbitrarily control pay based on someones location? Is their revenue similarly confined by that employees contributions because of location?
Microsoft is doing something similar where you can choose hybrid work or fully remote. Personally, I think, with hybrid work, fully remote workers will go back to being second class citizens at those companies if most people choose to go back to the office (even part time).
Last time this happened in Swedish airspace was in January 2019.
> Russia does not need allies to defeat the Ukrainian army. Given enough time, they will win

Conversely, they don't need as much time, given adequate allies.
Have you guys tried your local public libraries? Most of them include perks to extra resources. It is pretty nice.
Without compiler extensions galore, no C is not that powerful. Until C11, you couldn't even control alignment without hacky union workarounds that weren't great. You simply can't model exotic integer types in C like you can in LLVM IR. You can't disable struct padding without a GNU extension. The variance and portability of libc is pretty annoying too; you'd be surprised how many GNUisms you thought were in the spec. But worst of all, C's integer behavior is extremely unintuitive and basically force you to use case every operand and every binOp result to ensure desired behavior in all cases. You totally could transpile to C, but you'll basically have to master the C spec & its edge cases, write everything out in single-static-assignment form with explicit casts everywhere, avoid most of libc, use at least C11, accept some shortcomings, and avoid using most C language constructs and basically write assembly in C. Either do all that, or you'll inherit some of the quirks and shortcomings of C (and have your C compiler misinterpret your code). And even then, it probably won't optimize that well. Please, just output LLVM IR or something.
Fair enough, that’s a bummer of a situation. I was alternatively wondering if it was some kind of contracted work.
Being in a "quagmire of hypocrisy and contradiction" has never been a problem for large corporations (or even small companies) in my entire career.

Never once have I pointed out an obviously ridiculous contradiction in practices "but won't this actually hurt our customers?" and had the response be anything near "oh no! you're right, better fix that!"

Remote work is a great example: long before pandemic most C-level execs and other important personal were almost never in the office, always attend meeting remotely (sometimes even just by phone), and yet love to talk about how work can't happen without everyone being in the office. Trust me if you can manage the entire company from your Florida vacation home, I'm sure we can get these models deployed to production from my home office.
Amazon will close its 4-star, pop up and bookstore locations on various dates and *notify customers via signage*.

I walked past the Amazon Book Store in San Diego this past weekend and there was a handwritten sign saying something along the lines of "closed due to system outage".

Remember thinking at the time that it was odd, but makes way more sense now.
It doesn't matter how many engineers there are as long as the teams are colocated. Yes you will need to have zoom meetings with other teams but interaction within the team can be almost fully in person.
Yeah, last time I looked at rents in my hometown, the cheapest options there were comparable to the cheapest options in San Francisco. They're probably a bit ahead of the curve; most the empty land around is either federal or LADWP, so there's limited room for new development, but it's a major shot up from pre-pandemic prices where renting a full house was cheaper than an SF bedroom.
100% agree, my point is that every time this particular topic comes up, people pull out their pitchforks as if it was a shady bait-and-switch by Intel. However they said from Day 1 that these CPU did not support AVX-512 so it's not surprising that faced with uncooperative partners they decided to just fuse it off.
I'm as excited as the next HNer about technology and the future, but a couple things just irk me about this

> "Advances in microelectronics have enabled the use of miniaturized computers for autonomous intelligence at the size of a dust particle..."

Calling it "intelligence" is just tiring at this point...

Then

"> While these lab-level demonstrations show the future of ubiquitous computing, dust-sized computers will only become a new class of computing platforms if they are available anywhere anytime, relying on energy-autonomous operation."

It's the "anywhere" that bothers me... do we really want a virtually infinite number of electronic devices around us? How do we dispose of these things? Recycle? Make them biodegradable? And then you throw batteries into the mix? Am I supposed to be breathing in Zinc and Germanium in 20 years?
> I have had coworkers literally disappear for days at a time, miss meetings for weeks at a time, constantly miss deadlines etc

As a manager why cant you call out this behaviour when you see people slacking off?
That is an extremely poor way to view the work output of a SWE. I sincerely hope that is not how you actually determined productivity for your team.
> There's no half way with remote work.

I’m sorry you’ve only been in toxic environments, but you really think “we are in office t-th” is impossible?
That's terrible (specifically, for the people driving to the office over 17 with their reduced paychecks). What a slap in the face.
They can undo previous transactions / blocks, but it takes a lot of work (the older the block the more work it takes). For recent transactions (last block) it may be practical, that's why 6 confirmations are advised for high value transfers.
germane to this thread for historical context:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30523203
Having (from a US civilian POV) sought to comprehend Soviet (and now Russian) military capability from afar since the early 1980's, it has long been my perception that (due to the political system in place there and the resultant poor economy) only 5-10% of Russian/Soviet military units nominally in existence have sufficient morale, training, and full provisioning with modern equipment to engage in successful offensive operations. In other words, that 5-10% of their units are lavished with the best people, training and weapons, and the remaining units make do with sub-par everything (at best).

Is the above an inaccurate perception?
If Russia manages to occupy Ukraine through repressions then wouldn't this invite Chechnya 2.0, but with 30x the people? Can the Russian state even survive something like that?
> We've proven that the big tech companies can go fully remote and not completely crash and burn, that's about it.

Agreed. We've proven that big tech companies can continue to be productive for up to two years going remote.

I suspect that that doesn't generalize very well to being completely remote over the long term. It works well when you already have a bunch of personal relationships between teammates that were established while the company was in-person. And it works well for experienced people that have ramped up. But I think it's probably quite a bit harder for people to be productive when they are new to the company, less experienced, and don't have that existing foundation to build on.

I think it's a solvable problem for companies that want to prioritize remote work, but I definitely don't think "managed to get through the past two years" means "it's a piece of cake".
last google office I visited around 2017 sucked ass. Food was no longer cafeteria style. It was a salad cart and a window where you could order a sandwich. Desks were five feet wide ikea type desks that were crammed in to a large open space with no partitions.
97% of statistics cited on HN are made up on the spot.
bandcamp took VC.

bandcamp, as a business that just does a thing very well and fairly, is never going to become as big as Google or Facebook.

so, founder/VC/board now require it to be bought out for a huge multiple of revenue and be stripped for parts.
You and I are referring to completely different scores. It is true that a candidate needs to have scored a minimum percentage of around 50-60% in their high-school/intermediate board exams (so 10th/12th standard) to be allowed to sit in the selection examination.

The cutoffs I'm talking about are dependent on overall performance of all candidates. In the link I have shared this cutoff is 18% (89/480) for reserved category students. There are more details in the article about the cutoff for reserved category students being 60% of that of general category ones. There is further elaboration on how many students have to drop off because of their poor performance. These vacant seats are rarely filled.