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What's sad is that the US used to be the vanguard of modern civilization: science, technology, policies (making federalism work in a vast country like the US is an amazing achievement), and human wellbeing in general. And now we are debating common sense. Shame on the progressives.
Why intellectual? It seems more political to me (both in the sense of wanting to change policy and wanting to acquire power)
plenty of people also want engineers to make the cheapest possible building
Ren Zhengfei's trip to the U.S. almost three decades ago
Same, but if you're staring at an editor all day it has to look good. Atom did and still looks way better than VScode. VScode looks like a Microsoft product.

You can also customize Atom easier than VsCode. Why even build on web technologies if you don't let your users change things. For instance you have to have an extension to custom load CSS and it's kind of a hassle. Heck even Sublime has an easier interface to change the text editor in real time. You don't really need to do much as it already looks good though.
FWIW the process is about the same in Windows. The only difference is the keyboard shortcut is Windows-Shift-S.
Yes. As the comment you’re replying to said, “Both using Electron does not mean they share a codebase, not in the normal sense of the phrase.” Code is no more a “rewrite of Atom that reuses a big chunk of the original codebase” than Slack is.
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I see you haven’t clicked on a GUI on a server a continent or two away
Many people in the comments seem to confuse what it means to be a co-founder, have ownership of a company, and have control over that company's direction.

- If a founder sets up a company with other people, they are both a founder and a co-founder [source](https://www.startups.com/library/expert-advice/startup-found...). It is inaccurate to say that OP is not a co-founder but rather an employee because they have less equity. It both violates the commonly accepted definition of co-founder AND if true would mean that there's no such thing as a co-founder unless equity were perfectly divided. OP is a co-founder. What it means to be an employee has its own specific meaning, too.

- In the case of startups, ownership is best determined by setting percentage ownership between founders along with a vesting schedule (i.e. when each founder will receive those shares). In OP's case, their co-founder was provided more equity.

- Control of a company, either direct or indirect, is determined by voting shares. These are not always the same as shares, but in the early stages generally are. Unless OP has the same number of voting share by way of dividing board seats equally, we can assume that all share in this company are voting shares. Therefore, co-founder likely has a controlling interest.

Therefore, OP is a co-founder. They do have ownership of the company. They likely do not have control of the company. It would be very helpful to keep this in mind when offering advice on how to approach the situation.

I'm sure there are quite a few gaps in what I've written above, I appreciate any feedback or input!
Yeah, it's very easy to draw conclusions that suit your agenda when you use slippery terms like "similar." A score of 90 and a score of 100 are "similar" in the sense that they're both an A, but one is a bit more impressive. And that's not even getting into the possibility that the author is using an even broader range of test scores, like "students who make all As and Bs on tests." For all you know, he could then be comparing white students making all As (and being accepted into a gifted program) with black students making all Bs (and not being accepted).

Having the raw data matters.
> I figure there's little chance of finding a compromise if I can't even comprehend their viewpoint.

I understand it just fine, but there’s a fundamental disagreement, in that I don’t support racism nor view people in terms of “racial tribes” — while proponents of equity do. That’s the frame they’re working from when they say denying an Asian student a place at Harvard in favor of a less qualified black applicant is “good”: that it’s okay to harm that person because they’re yellow and we need to balance between yellows and blacks — to accomplish their Utopian vision. Collectivism when applied to race inevitably leads to institutional racism.

I don’t believe that’s something we need to “compromise” on: institutional racism was a disaster when we tried it before and modern attempts (eg, Netflix and Disney catering to those views) show that bigotry is widely unpopular and a poor way to run a company.

Sometimes you just have to say “bigotry is wrong and we’re not trying it again — no matter how you dress it up in the language of civil rights or how righteous you feel about being a bigot”.
Okay, gain. Also maybe bit width, and number of channels, and sampling rate, and maybe five other things. It's not "thousands"; there is a limited number of things one can adjust in DACs and ADCs.

>By your apparent definition above, the kernel API doesn't matter

Replacing a standard, portable API with a proprietary one doesn't matter to Linux - but it makes life harder for everyone else.
There are many more definitions of entropy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entropy_(disambiguation)
The "run the whole dev environment in the cloud" part actually sounds pretty nice. 10 seconds to have everything running?? And I assume you can switch between multiple environments you have saved, tied to branches? That's pretty sweet and opens up tons of opportunity for server side build caching to speed things up (don't need to compile the packages you aren't modifying).

Is VS Code actually required, or is there some way you can edit source code locally then push to codespaces to actually run it?
Just make it keyboard centic. I don't want to touch the mouse.
I feel like it's not ridiculous to want to have the single biggest part of your life be for something.
more like different schools, the difference reflecting the sociodemographics of the reflected areas rather than racial IQ differences.
I modified my comment; indeed the hype was somewhat unrelated, but I think the reason it didn't catch on was the poor experience of current headsets.
> Gifted programs are "unacceptably white".

You are only scratching the surface here. Some places had a hard time "proving" their gifted programs were "too white" so they started using the term "white and white-adjacent" to include Asian kids as well (often from impoverished background but that's another issue) in these stats [0].

> I don't see why race has anything to do with it.

Buckle up. The SF school district is trying to include a lot more racial content at school [1]. Now even math is considered racist [2]. I wish I was making this up.

[0] https://www.asian-dawn.com/2020/11/17/school-district-catego...

[1] https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/heatherknight/article/Sa...

[2] https://equitablemath.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/11...
The problem is that a SSN was designed to be secret, and then everyone decided to use them as a UUID for people, which are generally not secret.

The solution is to split them. Give everyone some kind of citizen ID number that isn't private, but is unique. Then give everyone some kind of auth mechanism that identifies a person when combined with their ID number.

What we currently do is using SSN as the identifier, with DOB as the auth mechanism. That's terrible because the SSN is supposed to be secret, and DOB is basically public knowledge at this point.

They also can't be easily re-issued, which is it's own problem.

There are obvious and substantial differences between SSN and some of the newer cryptography-based ID cards other countries are using.
They can make both. One for the standard and the other for their own. Or engineer their new port and ship an adapter/extra cable.
This is a great comment. I urge OP to take this on board

Look at the lifers at BigCo, and how they roll with it. They choose their battles carefully, they don't fight the system. They are good colleagues, and they are paid well for their long service. They also go home on time!
You used 'many' in your second part, which is the same 'not only'.
School is, gifted programs are not.
I specifically don't agree as a poor white person that I have it harder than a poor black person of identical qualifications nor do I see any affirmative action policies as applied anywhere changing this even if they became pervasive.
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I’ve always quipped that the idea that the highest property taxes fund the poorest areas, and vice-versa. While not feasible, the current situation is absurd.
How did you calculate? With 20 cents/KWh

45×24×30×0.2/1000=2.6$/month
It's also great when you copy some text from Outlook and it pastes it into discord as an image of the text. I believe it has been fixed now but that was happening to me for a while.
The bloat VSCode has over Atom kills it for me.
So you have to be in gifted to have a successful life?
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> I had to pass essentially an IQ test to get placed into those classes.

IQ tests are notoriously and historically pretty racist.

They can be useful in certain contexts but they aren't very good as an academic gatekeeper or a measure of individual intelligence.
There is no intelligence test I know of that can perfectly control for advantages and disadvantages in education / home life.

Not everyone is as well-positioned as you might have been to excel at an IQ test. And to the extent that someone is disadvantaged, their race may indeed be an indirect cause.
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> Black students are 66% less likely to be identified as gifted compared to white students _with similar test scores_. Black, Latinx, and Native American students are far less likely to attend a school that even offers a gifted program.

Emphasis mine. The likely thing going on is something subconscious or unintentionally discriminatory, or somehow related to the home family life.
This isn't FUD - it's just the facts. It's quite common for police to decline to get involved, especially in lessor cases. The example you gave is of a particular type of serious situation. They are likely to get involved, but the outcome is still uncertain (plenty of people killed in their own home due to a call to police by a neighbor thinking they're a burglar). You don't have to be in fear. You just need to understand that the police won't always help you and there are other approaches one can take if they don't help you.
If they have the right to their experiences, I have right to provide my opinion on their experiences. And let's be honest, if their way of life makes it worse for the rest of the world, it's perfectly okay to publicly shame even.
> raising the difficulty of every class to what the most advanced student is capable

The alternate view is that we should very much do this as a meaningful challenge to K-12 math teachers. People throughout the Western world, at all levels of underlying aptitude (whatever might be meant by that), manage to learn their basic intro to algebra in junior high. It's not rocket surgery, FFS!
I take your point. But I think the people that helped him avoid prosecution are mostly right out in the open. Several very highly paid attorneys, including Alan Dershowitz, who was lobbying his contacts behind the scenes (it seems he may have had personal motivation to help his client get a lenient sentence). And then we have Alexander Acosta, the US Attorney who has claimed he persued a lenient sentence because some "higher ups" in government told him to. Which seems about as flimsy as an excuse gets unless/until he reveals who these "higher ups" were.
You failed your marketing/growth part. You have a minority stake if vested. Your cofounder doesn’t want to work with you anymore and starts something else.

You had a free shot at your idea. It failed. Better luck next time.

If you really think you’ll make it work, make the guy an offer for the company, and continue.
Oh you must have seen my accounting department's 'transaction register' which is a...

checks latest

64mb spreadsheet that amounts to one gigantic, ever slower pivot table.
>There’s 0 value in comparing police to tech workers.

It's a little more nuanced than that. The point was that a union doesn't necessarily need to please the company/agency, so contractual language around project completion, etc, may not be needed. Company pleasing language/rules/etc in a union contract would only be there because the union didn't have leverage for it not to be.
Based on? From their quarterly reports, they seem to be headed in the opposite direction (up).
I am lucky to remember this much 25 years later. That, and miles and miles of sunflowers between Budapest and Szeged.
> Having a blog at [firstname][lastname].[TLD] where you express anything personal, especially if that includes political views or thoughts on cultural events is probably not a good idea in this day and age.

I see a number of people express this opinion that surprises me; I'd love to know the demographics/background/media consumption of people who would/wouldn't agree with it.
Forgive me if this seems all too simple to me. The solution is very clearly stop doing that then.

There's a lot of value in having a gifted track in schooling. Throwing that away because it is currently inaccurate at identifying students that are best suited to it is a stupid idea. Make it accurate at identifying the students that are best suited to it instead.
As far as I know, Apple requires iCloud password and PIN entry on an Apple hardware device being paired to iCloud to access Keychain data, and tends to block Apple devices by hardware ID when they’re associated with bulk login attacks. The attacker surface for phishers is exorbitantly expensive, since they’d need to have a shipping container full of iPhones to even begin harvesting credentials, assuming that they could convince users to turn over their iCloud password (which half of my friends don’t even know).

This is how vendor lock-in allows protections against phishing that a naive data export would bypass. No one has yet suggested how this level of protection can be offered to end users without lock-in, across many such posts and threads, for many years now. I remain hopeful that there’s another way, but I’m not going to demand Apple do insecure exports at the expense of users in the meantime.
This is correct,
Obsidian uses CM6 on all platforms.

A CM5 based editor is still available as "Legacy Editor" in the settings on desktop, to support older plugins.

Mobile was always using a CM6 editor, while desktop only got CM6 some time after that.
Which is probably the source of the confusion.
Yes, some trades pay way more, have more available jobs, and have better working conditions (work hours, etc) than PhDs in a variety of sciences.
Yes, that's probably true, but ... as somebody who actually put a button on the front page of Amazon.com (back in 2010-ish, I wrote the presentation code for an MP3 sample player for album recommendations) it was actually pretty low friction. Write code, test it locally, deploy it as an A/B test, test was not negative - ship it. The only people I had to talk to were translators for internationalization.

There was a team that was responsible for cohesive look-and-feel across the gateway (front page), but mostly they trusted us to do our thing.

The principle of a team completely owning their little bit of territory within a page on the Amazon site was a very good one, IMO, and helped cut down on what could have been a bureaucratic nightmare. Of course it had its downsides: some teams didn't pay as much attention to presentation or browser compatibility or interoperability in a range of scenarios as others did; and by its very nature, this team organisation led to pages which were divided into not-particularly-cohesive slices, each its own little fiefdom.

Still, there are some BigCorps which do at least pay attention to optimising processes, even if it's only in a particular direction. (Shipping stuff at Amazon was easy. Want to talk at an open source conference or ship open source software? ...ooh, we'd better talk to the lawyers.)
This is my experience in defense as well. After my proposal for a talk at a software conference was accepted, I found out that the estimated date for getting the required content review from Corporate Communications, Legal, and InfoSec was several weeks later than the conference itself. In practice, though, a thoughtful VP up the management chain recognized that this was a problem and fast-tracked it.
I am honestly not sure why do people minify javascript in electron apps.

It doesn’t really bring any advantage? You need to package whole Chrome with your app, the few MB you save with minification does not matter??

But people here can enlighten me.
I think a new intervention should be demonstrated to be an improvement before current interventions be cut.
Agreed that purely generating shareholder profit is not worthwhile. It does suck to be forced to spend a lot of time doing something both painful and meaningless tho. Something psychological there
whats new about it? why is this post here? Beautiful Soup has been around for a long long time.
In California a large percentage is state income tax not property taxes.
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| Thinking of a recruiter as a teacher doesn't seem accurate to me

That's a comedic throwaway line you shouldn't take too seriously. The joke is about me being the kind of dork who asks for more homework.

| They should not be expected to understand the company well

I fully don't expect the recruiter to be the one who determines the answer to that question. All they have to do is ask someone higher up though.
Look at the graphics depicting "60 year olds" on the top of the article.

Then realise that Tom Cruise in Maverick is 60 years old.

Ask yourself the question, does Tom Cruise look like the guy on that chair?
In NYC they also flatten all Asians into one group and say the “gifted” programs aren't diverse enough because a high percentage are Asian. As if implying Chinese, Japanese, Vietnamese, Korean, etc. all have the same life experience, cultures, advantages, disadvantages…

Also you nailed it on the property tax point. Often overlooked as the biggest issue with education. A similar sized home in a good school district can be 2 or 3x as expensive as one in a mediocre school district.

Edit: when talking about property tax, I am referring to most suburbs, not NYC.

Seems like a lot of people are posting evidence that the property tax point is correlated with better schools but the funding difference is made up for by the stare and federal government. Interesting.
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This assumes being gifted is something innate and simply needs to be brought out. I don’t think that’s the case.
I come from a background of C and C++ on the Atmel Mega and XMega controllers. I tried using Micropython on ESP32 to control some small OLED displays which had an 8 bit bus with a 6800 style interface. It was too slow.

I would still like to use micropython, but I need to figure out how to write certain pieces like the display lib in C.
The US never had (internally) a problem with nazis

You're probably aware that America had a substantial minority of Nazis around the outbreak of WWII (https://youtu.be/NC1MNGFHR58). Once the US entered the war, the government definitely (and unsurprisingly) considered the threat of Nazi-sympathizers a real problem.
FEX is the open source equivalent: https://github.com/FEX-Emu/FEX
Your position at a job dealing with friction is much more common than the opposite case. If you're interested in learning and growing, here are some opportunities you may find in your new role:

1) Cultivate an attitude of optimism and gratitude despite the challenges, perhaps through a study of Stoicism and a cultivation of patience via a study of Buddhism. Gain more pain tolerance. Learn to not care so much about the outcomes, and care more about your own presence and the excellence of your contribution. Learn to care more about other people, rather than just getting the job done. Learn to have more fun, while also "digging the digital ditch". Being calm and steady despite feeling uncomfortable is an invaluable life skill essential to growth and doing big things.

2) Learn to politic. Recommended reading (and there is a lot) would be How to Win Friends and Influence People, as well as Robert Greene's The 48 Laws of Power. Navigating people and political systems is also an invaluable life skill and essential to growth and going big things.

3) Develop your life outside of work more fully. Consider getting more involved in helping your family, your friends, and your community. Volunteer opportunities abound. Perhaps they need a speedy hacker like you to help them with some part of their tech?

4) Study the challenges of BigCo for startup opportunities. Lots of startups are created by people who ran into a big challenge at a big co, then broke out on their own to solve the problem, then were able to grow by selling back to their previous employers to solve the problems with tech.
One of my favorite musicians. I was not aware of this backstory, but I'm glad it happened :)

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Lightspeed is still an issue. I've done remote development and it sucks. Even with gigabit connections, ~150ms latency can kill you.

Maybe you can keep the editor local, and have it hide the latency for you, but debugging?

With anything over a few ms latency remote debugging is impossible (or at least extremely annoying). Step over? Wait a few seconds to a minute until the debugger issues one call to get each variable in scope and all the other goodies.

Debuggers assume local environments, we would need new tooling that's latency aware to handle this, in every major language and platform.

I don't see this being good enough for serious dev work in a long time. It will work for some niches though, specially if you're close enough to the datacenter hosting your infrastructure.

In a sense, a local git repo with an IDE, and a cloud unit/integration testing pipeline is as close as we get now, but every once in a while, you need to run at least a little bit locally to be productive.
How does shoving a student into a gifted program they aren't otherwise qualified for solely due to their race actually help anything?
to further this along, often i code without internet and just have VMs on my laptop. I think assuming internet is everywhere for development is wrong.
> Again anecdotally, the medical field seems to only have two kinds of people, the extraordinarily competent and dedicated, and people who don't give a whiff of a shit.

The former will however cover for the latter. Same thing with police unions. That's why it's so hard to prove malpractice.
So simple! We just need to stop looking at color and all inequality will go away! I wonder why nobody's thought of that before.
I've been at big companies and really small startups. I've tended to alternate between them.

My Big Company experience was they broke us up into smallish teams (6-20 people), which made us work more like a small company in many respects. There was a lot of process, but it was actually a good discipline to have. (Its always startling when I started in academia the "code repo" was CVS and not hardly used..)

My big company code was more thoroughly reviewed and frankly better.. I learned a lot from those reviews and being given the time to design before coding. Having to do it all at a small company you learn a lot too. Big companies actually measured productivity, and had a processes.. Much less input into what we were going to do.

Though it wasn't all great: I was put on the "Morale Committee" because morale was low. This didn't help my Morale, but we did get the company to do some ice-cream socials.