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If there was one book I could read to understand this company's business model and future, what would it be?

I don't just care about engineering, I want to understand the product and business I'd be working on/for on a deeper and broader level.

I like everything about this and everything you're saying fully resonates with me. At the end of the day companies themselves need some sort of pressure on them to at least raise what's currently the "minimum." I know it's not the recruiters fault generally, and definitely a large part of it is the company itself and the incentives they setup that make it cutthroat.

On the line about the book, I would also read it. It's good for me, it's good for them.
So just schools in general, because the teacher has to take care for the whole class and can’t cater to every student.
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Thanks for the correction, I was only going by some half-remembered memory.
1. San Francisco is a city that approximately zero people can afford to buy hosing in.

2. The weather in coastal California is mild compared to the rest of the country

3. The drug laws in California are more liberal (both in theory and in practice) than most of the rest of the country

4. The drug laws in San Francisco are more liberal (both in theory and in practice) than most of the rest of California.

5. It's not just drug laws that were de-facto liberalized in San Francisco, it's most non-violent crimes, including petty theft and shop-lifting.

So if you want to steal lots of low volume items to buy drugs to shoot up and live on the street, this is the city for you. The city hasn't crashed under the weight of this because (due to the approximately in #1) there are enough wealthy people living their and paying taxes to fund a lot of these programs.

There are, of course, lots of other reasons why the bay area has issues (e.g. There are many small cities across nine counties, so any central planning is difficult).

The closest I can think of for Portugal might be "What if Faro, while in the middle of a real-estate boom, significantly liberalized its drug laws and a large fraction of the drug addicts from points west of Austria relocated there"
We give the cards to strangers in restaurants etc. The CVC or date should not be on the card really if it is some sort of safe guard.

The whole credit card setup is quite insane when you think about it.
It sounds like it’s pretty early, I’d give it time if you think you can hang on.

I do think it’s worth recognizing that any big company used to be a tiny company, and the road to “big” was probably long and complex.

The growth process from small to mid-sized, and mid-sized to large, comes with a lot of challenges that you may have never witnessed if you’ve been at smaller places. Some of the high-velocity/low-friction approaches to things you might miss (for good reason) become a nightmare at scale. Some of that friction might actually be healthy.

In that regard it’s a lot like jumping into a codebase that’s been around for many years. If it’s your first time some of the code is going to look just awful, but you don’t know why yet.

- maybe pressures at the time meant that code was the right call back then, but it’s not now

- maybe that code is the right call and you don’t fully understand the problem yet because you’re brand new

- or maybe the code really is just bad!

Either way, you can’t really know until you spend some time with it and gain context about the problem domain and the system’s history.

That said, your perspective as a new hire from a place that moved faster is really valuable. I hope you take some notes about these experiences and let them collect for a few months as you gain more context. A good manager and leadership chain should be interested in what you have to say! The more time you spend there the more you’ll be able to flag the areas that seem the best suited for improvement. That kind of stuff can turn into promotion-level accomplishments really fast if you have the right support.

FWIW I had no patience for big companies early in my career and I’m happy I left for smaller ventures, it just wasn’t what I was looking for whether or not the “friction” was justified. These days the pace and process of larger (but not massive) companies suits me better, and I can see some sound reasoning behind some of the things we do that would look like bureaucracy to someone coming from a startup.

Worst case scenario you’ll find out the BigCo life just isn’t for you, at least for now. It’s sweet you’re getting paid to find out :D
You might just be too early right now. VR headsets just aren't very popular. Personally, I find the hardware atrocious and am waiting for someone like Apple to "do it right". As a late adopter of VR, I may not be your target audience, so take what I say with a grain of salt.

I was surprised you didn't have any videos of interacting with OpenBrush on your home page. Normally, I would have clicked away if I stumbled on that page, but since you posted on HN I searched it up on YouTube.

Do you and your volunteers use Open Brush regularly? If so, toss up some casual live streams on Twitch or other platforms. Post on Twitter and Discord, etc. before you go live, then upload the recording to YouTube for people to watch later.

Part of what makes Blender so damn accessible is the huge number of YouTube tutorials. Virtually every feature of Blender has at least one high quality tutorial video, walking people through every step.
do you think it's reasonable to achieve some level of skill just by self-studying with those videos?

Not the person you replied to: But yes. Definitely yes. I've seen adults, in the course of a couple years, go from a complete beginner to selling works that are interesting and fairly original in style. It took work and practice, of course, and most folks are fairly happy well before that. (this was in facebook groups).

Look at it this way: If you set off to do woodworking and followed tutorials, do you think you would develop woodworking skills enough to work with them? The answer is probably yes. Art is the same way.
I wouldn't call it entropy exactly, but this is also the theory behind Joseph Tainter's _Collapse of Complex Societies_. He proposes that too much governmental overhead through accretion of laws and bureaucracy is the cause (aside from obvious alternatives like being defeated in a war, etc.) of a society's or country's collapse.
I use multiple browsers for this purpose - trying to keep individual windows straight that are all holding [supposedly] grouped tabs sounds like about 20x the mental overhead
Do you actually believe that there is a standardized test that can fully quantify who the next generation of doctors and engineers will be with no human judgement involved?
> How about N ~= 1,000,000,000?

How many gatherings of a billion people have you attended?

Nobody actually has direct relationships with a billion people. That's why there is no need to "solve" the "problem" of how to centrally coordinate a network with a billion nodes. The coordination happens spontaneously as people voluntarily interact with the people they directly know. In economics, this mechanism is called a "free market".
How is that relevant to anything?

This is an art program for (mainly) individual users and predates the metaverse hype by multiple years.

I dislike the metaverse hype as much as you but I love content creation tools. There's no need to use any mention of VR to rag on that.

I also mentioned our usage numbers are very good so your point doesn't even really make sense.
This is a ham-fisted attempt to get attention using controversy, and the arguments are so weak they can't even make me mad.

Computing of any kind (including software development) moves around all the time. Sometimes it's more economical to do something with a bunch of servers over the internet, but less privacy preserving. Then user devices become more capable and it's suddenly possible to do everything you need on device and the platform(s) you're targeting all have enough lowest-common-denominator support to make it feasible. On, and on, and on.

This "article" boils down to a myopic view of the industry that is almost solely supported by the solutions very large development teams have had to come up with to handle their human scaling issues.
How effective are those young gifted programs anyway?
I'm somewhat skeptical of the whole thing, especially in the era of the internet.
But Equity also argues for treating people differently depending on their needs. Eliminating gifted programs so that all students are treated the same seems to me to be far closer to the equality bucket than any equity one.
No almost about it, it's an anti-pattern and I personally would consider it a "worst practice". If you're deploying from an IDE it means you lack visibility, feedback, and automation fundamentals. What I do like is developer ownership and being able to see a change all the way through to production but having a system of record without manual intervention is always preferred.
Because the systems which identify students and enable them to meet the admissions requirements are massively unequal.

I'll give an example. I attended a gifted program starting in 3rd grade. I went to an elementary school for 1st and 2nd grade that was almost entirely white with some asian kids. Part of the mechanism for selecting students for the gifted program was a letter from the student's counselor, teacher, and principal.

My mom noticed that some schools were sending way more kids to the GT program than others. Several schools basically never sent any kids. No surprise, there were more black and hispanic kids at the schools. BUT these schools did not have a lack of students with high SOL scores or grades. It turned out that the process of identifying students and writing letters was letting these kids down. A few years of local activism to adjust the process and suddenly a bunch of kids from these other schools were being admitted to the GT program and succeeding.

Activists recently tried to adjust the admissions criteria for TJHSST, a magnet school in the area, to be a "merit lottery." This says that you set some minimum qualification (minimum GPA and accelerated math coursework) and then select students at random from that pool. This proposal was called racist against south and east asian students and activists were called enemies of excellence by various people like Scott Aaronson.

I was personally identified as having potential for going to TJ at age four. My parents paid a lot of money for me to have tutoring specifically for the admissions test.

In the above example, black and hispanic students with similar qualifications (test scores) are not receiving the same access to accelerated programs.

The point is that the mechanisms by which we define qualifications and select students really really matters and can encode all sorts of inequities.
Our goal is to build something substantially better than VS Code.
For a while, I was taking an anti-coagulant whose packaging could only be opened with a very sharp blade. <sigh>

I suppose a small explosive charge might have worked too but never tried it...
Using the same channel pubdate for all the items with missing ones wouldn't be accurate.

I'm using The Old Reader as an example and all of their missing items have different dates.
Sometimes a website will refuse your password because it’s too long, or doesn’t contain special characters, or does contain special characters,… Then you need to remember the specific password rules for a website.

I used to use your system, but i think that a password manager app is a lot more convenient.
All these people telling you to coast are right for 80% of the population.

If you have great ability, do t squander it. Get another job where you can be more effective. Find your passion and your fortune will likely follow.

I eschewed advice like the others give, and I didn’t have to work after 35. Yes I got lucky but I also worked hard and failed and got back up and found a place to succeed.

Big companies are mostly for drones.
I am very hopeful for this project. I feel like this article perfectly sums up how I feel like software should be and how it should feel to use and also life in general. Software should be a tool to use and enjoy, not something that optimizes to take more of our time.

Optimization has crept into our lives too much. Optimization of decision making that sucks the fun out of everything and makes activities inaccessible to anyone but those who want to optimize for it seems to be the predominant way of thinking. "How to optimize your YouTube channel for view, pick this $1000 bicycle wheel in order to optimize your efficiency by 1%.." I could go on forever. I joined the waitlist and I am excited to see what comes out of this project.
I had to look up Chewy it's a modern day version of the 2000 era Pets.com, which was a hillarious disaster with silly superbowl commercials.
There had been at least one attempt to fork and revive Atom since, as the post mentions, Atom hasn’t seen feature additions in many years.

The problem, as I understand it, is that Atom’s relationship with electron makes it very difficult to work on the core of the editor. Namely, while VS Code is downstream from Electron, and can get feature benefits just by updating their Electron version, Atom is upstream from Electron, and new Electron features needed to be more manually integrated.
> with nothing to show for my time

If you haven't learned a ton of stuff during this process you've been doing it wrong. That experience should be invaluable to your future career prospects.
When I've done it in the past, I've just attached the current timestamp of when the item's checked as the pubdate

It might be wrong, but it's usually pretty dang close to right (presuming the RSS feed isn't brand-new to the reader)
Ask HN: What data do you need in a market analysis?
Hi all.

I am creating a tool for analyzing European markets. We collect data on the economic activity of 23M businesses, analyze it and help small businesses and startups find the market with the highest ROI.

Here (https://tinyurl.com/27ckalss) and here (https://tinyurl.com/26ncepnn) you can see a list of the datasets.

I'd really like feedback from the community in the form of answers to three questions.

Do you understand what we are doing?
Is the data we are collecting enough for you?
What data (missing from the list) do you need to make a decision about entering a new market?

I would really appreciate a few minutes of your time. Thank you.
It's always the same meme article. Oh there's all these jobs but the young people are just so lazy and entitled and unskilled and rebellious.
We're pure Rust and hopefully faster. But yeah, plenty of competition in the space!
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Gifted children are rare enough that they can be dealt with one at a time. I see no need for special programs. In contrast handicapped children may require special attention.

OTOH I have seen students unwilling to attend a particular school b/c it has a reputation for behavioral problems and also low testing scores. So best spend money on improving education for all.

I would like to see more usage of an old tradition: better students helping others during class. This promotes cameraderie and provides different perspectives for both parties. It always helps to "stand in another man's shoes" and see the world from that new perspective.
In my experience you are nominated to take an IQ-ish test and let in based on that score. I assume they mean test scores on regular coursework?
During that while, what stops you from reading a book, working on a consulting project on the side (thanks, WFH), learn some new skill? Life is more than serving your boss in the office.
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As a software engineer at Dawson Andrews, you'll be responsible for developing high-quality solutions. You'll work as part of a team and report to a Project or Delivery Manager. It's a fast-paced environment, so it is important for you to make sound, reasoned decisions. As a key role within the team, you will also work closely with clients on a regular basis to agree on technical designs (functional and non-functional), advising clients and managers on estimated effort, technical implications of user stories and user journeys.

You will continuously share knowledge and mentor the team around you. You'll do this whilst learning about new technologies and approaches, with room to learn, develop and grow.

Essential Requirements:

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You'll be working across the stack, so a good facility with modern frontend development (Vue.js/React, ES6, modern CSS techniques like flexbox, etc.) is essential as well as database technologies such as MySQL and/or Postgres.
- Proficient in designing, building, testing and maintaining modern applications.
- Experience in applying best practices and patterns in relation to coding, security, testing, scalability and performance.
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- Experience with technical estimation, planning and user story creation.

Desirable Requirements:

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One could replace the first Ruby script by a Ruby one-liner too:

ruby -e "puts File.read('/tmp/com.txt').scan(/^[^.]+/).uniq"

Personally I almost never use any of the standard Unix tools like `awk` etc. since an equivalent Ruby script is almost always shorter and easier to write. (There are exceptions of course; and in really simple cases the standard tools will obviously still win.)

I think it's a shame that Ruby never really got popular as a general purpose scripting language, since it has that nice property that it's often as short as Perl while still being readable.
It’s a great read. Thanks.
I had to look around for the source of this, and I can't find the "with similar test scores" part in the Vanderbuilt site article on the Vanderbuilt study this is based on.
It says 66% less likely, but the "similar test scores" part isn't in the same paragraph.
I really dislike that it is so difficult to find the source of these statements in modern media, as the news articles I read didn't even cite the study, I had to go googling for it.

What I found: https://news.vanderbilt.edu/2016/01/18/teachers-race-affects...

and of course the link to the gov data source in that article is broken: http://https//nces.ed.gov/ecls/

Edit: I see where they pulled the line from. Misleading at best as the "tests" they are talking about are not gifted assessment tests, but rather standardized testing which I don't think is that great of an indicator. I was in the gifted program during middle school, and that was predicated by a few admittance tests, one of them being IQ.
But the crimes had already happened - is this about pre-crime ?
They continued for 4+ years. That's not lying, that's time passing.
Not even close to true. Going into a trade is a great way to get into a comfortable middle class life. And in those trades, you'll commonly find people who did horrible in school, and thought they were idiots because of it.
Thank you for these super helpful comments.

This is correct, my co-founder isn't pulling out all of the existing code, he wants to have a "product" at the center of the staffing agency, and is planning to re-use some stuff. He would not be open to resigning, and I think because he wrote the code there is a level of ownership he feels, regardless of the value being limited (or 0 - as many have noted).
And then also click the provided link, which leads to a summary of the report, claiming that "this is unlikely to reflect teacher prejudice, but availability of 'gifted programs' in predominantly black schools".

In which case, the solution is "fund more gifted programs in schools that lack them", not "defund existing gifted programs".

Which is kinda what the article's author started to argue but never quite got there in the end.
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You are being overly pedantic and arguing for the sake of arguing. The rhetorical language you are using "might make more sense" and "easily verify" is demeaning and insulting and doesn't add to the discussion.

311 is the first course of the major and is also by the sample of folks in the reddit discussion also the hardest, covering the most advanced material in the shortest amount of time. It is a weeder course for the major. The 100 level classes are open to everyone.
I have never heard that something like that would exist in Europe.

Personally it's somewhat unlikely that I would have encountered it, because I pay in the currency of the seller whenever possible and let my bank do the conversion to EUR (their rates seem generally better what I have seen elsewhere).

Consumer organizations generally advise not to accept those conversions offered at the seller end. But the reason being the rate, I have never heard the reason to avoid an overseas billing fee. That sounds like an American/Australian/who else "invention".
Any chance of collaboration with https://lapce.dev/ ?
Unfortunately, I think that's what I'm going to have to do.
So you're implying that the conclusion of "unacceptable whiteness" is self-evident by simple examination of these two points... or what?

Perhaps "unacceptably lacking in Black students" is a less divisive way to say this, unless the decisiveness were intended and surely that's not the case.
Facebook whistleblower says she is blocked from testifying in Indian parliament
I realize it's just a blog post and not a scientific paper, but the author didn't even cite a source for that statistic. My gut reaction is that it's probably incredibly misleading if not outright false.
Music groups tend to have the same issues; it's rare to find a band like U2 that equally shares credit regardless of who is doing what, which normally builds resentment when one or more members are seen as sole contributors (or 'stars').

It's also equally rare to find a group where each member can split off and form their own successful group (e.g., The Beatles, Genesis). The 'right' answer is that's it's usually somewhere in between. Freddie Mercury and Mick Jagger failed at solo careers because they didn't have their friends to tell them that their music stunk. Of course Top 40 has been broken into a formula that primarily benefits music companies, but that's different story.

In the same way, you and your business partner may have relied on each other to achieve a whole that is more than the proverbial sum of the parts. Your partner's new venture may fail without someone such as yourself, since it really is a common blunder by technical people to underestimate the value of sales and other soft skills, and your venture may fail without strong technical backing.

As usual, you can throw money at the problem to see what works, but in my experience when people 'grow up' organically as opposed to in a lab, the resulting bonds are much stronger.

All of that said, my former business partner surreptitiously formed another company and lost interest in our shared venture, which ultimately killed what was a great niche product. I consider myself a fairly average coder, but he was brilliant, and although I could have bought him out and maintained and expanded the codebase, it wasn't fun anymore, so we sold to another company and went our separate ways. Regardless, I had fun and learned a ton along the way, and that's part of the journey.
When they were eight?