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If I could upvote this 1000 times I would.

The process of enterprises procuring SaaS products has incentives that defy the common senses of a hacker.

For example, if you priced the exact same product at $200 vs $20,000 ACV, most enterprises wouldn't consider the $200 price-point because they would have a really hard time justifying the cost of their security & procurement team's time.

SAML SSO mostly exists on a plans page as an excuse for why the enterprise product costs 10-100x more than the base product.

As a founder, you'll feel some guilt about that initially, but it goes away after you've explained for the one-thousandth time that the question, "What anti-virus software is installed on your organizations Windows workstations" on the vendors security questionnaire is irrelevant because you run your company on a fleet of macOS and Linux workstations. They'll ignore you and move on to the next question, "what firewall configurations do you run on your physical office's network".
There is a good chunk research indicating that when employees share governance, it has a mild positive effect on productivity & firm survival: https://voxeu.org/article/worker-representation-worker-welfa...

There are many short term pressures on executives and finance people. Sharing power with the people their decisions affect leads to better outcomes for the business than when they use their power over workers for short term gain.
Don't hitch yourself irrevocably to their SaaS. Make sure that, if your app becomes successful, you can swap out for Maplibre (the open-source fork of Mapbox GL) and an alternative provider such as Thunderforest, Geofabrik, Stadia or Maptiler. Mapbox have a lot going for them, but your app's success shouldn't be dependent on one company's tariff.
Great pitch, might add a few of his articles to my list.

I'm a fan of Gwern too, but who is SSC? Haven't heard of this one.
This is the naive blindness.

There is acres of christian art and media that simply doesn't register for the populace. People scroll by Jude Law as the Young Pope on Netflix and ignore the methodist Christian substructure of star wars. People can be told via memes that ObiWan is like space jesus and it's like water off a duck's back.

Christianity doesn't oppress people, they can't even identify it, when it is infront of the open eyes. People naturally don't even know what it is, that they reject. Can't describe what a priest would even say.

Bibles in the marriot is a charity and mormons are debatably not christian at all. Joseph smith was not jesus, sorry.

But make no mistake we all know what pride is, what lgbtq people want legislated and exactly how it's going to affect us. Our choice be damned.
What did amazon do wrong here?
cooperatives:

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consumers%27_co-operative
If only one organisation did that, it would be that organisation's fault. When every organisation using Jira does that, it's Jira's fault.

Why does everyone standardize on a company-wide workflow that the developers can't change with a bunch of stupid mandatory fields? Because that's what Jira nudges you to do. Workflow editing is for managers only, fields are mandatory by default...
At that point what are you actually optimizing? If someone wanted to visit your site they would
I find Jira isn't a tracker, it's a tracker construction kit.

You can make it be pretty much anything you want - except, you know, fast.
Snarky responses in interview processes like quoting an hourly rate might seem attractive but I urge you to avoid them. The best case is probably that it immediately ends the process but you get a moment's satisfaction. However you could easily be seen as unprofessional and that damage to your reputation could come back to bite you later when you're applying for something you really do want. If someone is asking too much just turn them down politely and move on. No need to burn bridges.

However asking to see some examples of their real code/documentation is a legitimate request IMHO and something I did in my later interviews when I was working as an employee. I'd usually bring it up at a second interview when we knew both sides were serious and they asked if there was anything I'd like to know more about. Nowhere ever thought it was an unreasonable request in my experience and some took it as a good sign that I was sincerely interested. Probably the majority of places actually did find something I could look at, though some refused and usually cited something like confidentiality or trade secrets. Of course the ones who showed me good code were more likely to get me to work for them than the ones who refused or showed me bad code.
I think you missed the point of my reply.

Vitalik sitting on non-private flights doesn't meaningfully add to pollution, the flight was already happening. The fuel was already earmarked for burning.

"This person boarded a lot of flights that were going to pollute anyways" is a strange take. Sure he did it a lot, but if an individual contributes no measurable impact by sitting on a plane, then boarding 300+ flights pollutes roughly the same as boarding 0, since those 300+ flights happen anyway.

If you want to argue about market forces, do that. But as a sibling comment said, blaming a consumer here is strange.
there is a critical place that this is not consistent with the cheapies that the better ones get right: there are 4 ways to measure with a caliper - between the front jaws, outside the back jaws, the plunger on the bottom, and the ledge on the back/top. On cheap calipers these almost never match. On good ones they do. Buying the really bad ones from HF or similar doesn't necessarily produce inaccurate readings, but it means none of those 4 measures can be reliably compared.
You can go to raves in nyc without owning NFTs too.
There are occupancy requirements. One person cannot rent a 2-bedroom, for example.
> The point is to crank up the pain, a lot. NIMBY-ism can be very local since not every parcel of land is being developed at the same time, but the beauty of LVT is that land value doesn't vary much in a local immediate area, so it hits everyone the same. The idea is that if everyone is hurting, they will seek relief as a group by overall relaxing restrictions that would better allow them to meet their tax burden.

Nope. If I'm hurting from my tax burden, I don't want to remove restrictions on development which will make my land more valuable (unless I've decided to move). On the contrary, there's nothing I'd love more than a zoning restriction which not only stops my neighbour building an apartment block overlooking my property but also reduces my taxes as my dwelling no longer sits on land which can be considered prime real estate for building apartments on.

(As an aside, talking about 'cranking up the pain a lot' on people who are guilty of the crime of enjoying a house they bought in an area which is nice as a benefit to the system is a large part of the reason that Georgism has never really got anywhere)

> This already happens. Those who want to NIMBY against new development will do so in any shape or form it takes, and it's not clear that the current paradigm is really effectively addressing this either.

But as I said in the part you reply to, LVT explicitly creates new incentives to NIMBY: people that do not find the noise of a mass transit system bothersome will find the tax increases bothersome (unless they're personally big users of the system). That's more people opposing the development than before. Indeed it creates incentives to NIMBY against stuff almost universally considered good because the further away the excellent public school is, the less tax you pay. This doesn't mean facilities will be built in deprived areas, it means people will seek to block them being built in good areas.
A "solution" to NIMBYism which creates more NIMBYism is no kind of solution at all
I talked to people from Nigeria, Kenya, Argentinia, and China.

They aren't a small percentage of the population and told me they had demand for decentralized technology.
That has nothing to do with centralization, and everything to do with the fact that it's hard to run a website with 0 computer skills, which crypto doesn't improve on in any way.
It is ironic that software development has been one of the most politically active activities in existence, and yet somehow imagined as apolitical.
While they don’t focus on the same equipment, Hardware Unboxed scratches that data-dense itch for monitors, processors and other components.
This is exactly the same as when Emperor Palpatine begged "help me, I'm too weak". We all know what happened next after he received help.
Love Ventoy. Been using for a while now. Makes it very easy to boot a number of ISOs via simple USB drive. My go-to boot tool when doing system rescues.
It may seem odd, but I experienced this. I'm starting a new job in a few weeks and, while my path was definitely eased due to an internal referral, I got the job really easily, which makes me a little nervous, due to either the hiring situation or expectations.
Yes! Shocks me at how overly complicated people can decide that hosting a few videos is these days.
Losing face has nothing to do with quality or thoughtful design.

Japanese products were synonymous with low quality cheap stuff in the 50s and 60s, and nowadays they still make tons of crap, but those just don't make it out of the country for obvious reasons.

I've been to Japan several times, and they have tons of useless low quality crap on sale in every corner.
When I researched appliances, nobody could decide on the best fridge other than suggestions that were 4x the price (or even more).

But dishwashers it was almost unanimous, Bosch is best.

I couldn't afford new ones, so I found good deals on second hand 500 series ones and they're both still going fine for myself and my rental suite (only a year and a half so far though).

Crazy quiet too, I suggest people opt for the one that shines a light on the floor cause otherwise you can't hear it running (or finish).

There's also a fancier model that projects a timer.
First absolute density isn’t relevant in my example as a single property could hold 10,000 garden style apartments or 1,000 single family homes etc.

Anyway, it’s not that property taxes are 1:1 with population, however it does broadly correlate with density. A farmer next to a subdivision is a more extreme version of the same thing that only represents which farmer happened to sell their land. Meanwhile a farm is less value per acre than a housing development. Just as high rises represent more value per acre than garden style apartments and garden style apartments beat single family homes.

Land value taxes on the other hand ignore all such differences by design. The farmer pays the same amount per acre as the subdivision next door. LVT can capture increases in value as regions develops, but those increase don’t line up with political borders.
Nice, they have reinvented virtual memory and paging to disk.
or "Meta re-invents swap disk"
For people whose main work happens in browsers and have strict security requirements (in the sense that the corporation doesn't want you to have any piece of the information you worked on in your personal laptop).

There are a few scenarios like this (law firms, accounting firms and trading firms).
Gamedev here. Each engine and each game will have vastly different asset pipelines, you can't just copy something across and it just works. Models, textures, shaders, animations, etc usually go through several stages of internal tools before making it into the game. Of course, games with user generated content will make tools available to create things for that particular game, but you can take that and use it somewhere else.

And that's just the technical side, design and art would be horrified if you have no control on what can be added to a game.
As it is to have your private keys for your Bitcoin. Just like you can "hide" those things, you can hide your private keys (arguably in more creative ways, too).
> All of the alleged 'efficiency' gains you hear Georgists claim really mean 'middle class homeowners forced to sell their single family home to developers due to crushing tax increases'.

Not if it's paired with a citizen's dividend or other form of UBI, which is what most Georgists (myself included) advocate. The idea is that if you're occupying your equal share of land value, then at a 100% LVT rate the tax you pay should be equal to what you're getting back in dividends + public services.

LVT+UBI therefore represents a tax savings for everyone except the wealthiest of land owners.
You don't need to handle authorisation.

OAuth or one of many services e.g. Auth0, AWS Cognito, Okta can provide a managed service for you.

This isn't a problem Web3 is uniquely solving.
It has been [27] years since the tech industry started looking for a good solution to spam and fraud. Although my sister just freaked out over a phone call from someone claiming to be a tax collector, so it's not just the Internet with this problem.
It isn't like San Diego is much cheaper. Especially the further west you want to be. A lot of this has to do with the short term industry, which SD just voted to substantially limit. Next year should be interesting for the property market when they roll out the implementation.
If one party doesn't have a lawyer look over legal contracts they are signing and the other party does, all they are doing is putting themselves at a disadvantage in a business relationship.

I see why that is advantageous for companies that get to employ workers at a disadvantage. I don't understand why it would be good for workers.
Of course there is. We may feel strongly that an illusion is real, but that doesn't make it any less an illusion. The computer from my example would react very strongly to pain, and certainly it would believe that pain has a unique and distinct quality to it making it different from any other sensation, but that doesn't mean that that quality exists in some special metaphysical way. It is just a mind examining the abstractions which make up its own senses and going, "wow, these are indeed abstract."
People hate exercise so much they prefer expensive diets.

If you don't burn the calories you eat, no matter how few they may be, you will never lose weight.
This argument is a classic template for enthusiasts when faced with skeptical push back. Comparing your pet-technology with the nascent version of something that went on to be incredibly successful is a very common fallacy that doesn't help your argument.
Could be, but your conclusion does not match the study quoted in the article. Even in the bay area the cost savings for high density units are substantial.
I attempted to sidestep all of that by not discussing consciousness, the brain, or neurons in my follow-up at all. But instead, some hypothetical mathematical problem. I don't know, let's say the existence of a polygon of N sides that can tile an infinite plane as a completely made up problem. Someone generates a computer program that for any given N, can generate some complex shape polygon that can tile the infinite plane. Probably a bad example, but whatever.

Even though you don't understand the program, don't know how it works, etc, you know that the solution to the problem is one that's computable, because you can see that a solution can be provided by something that is limited by computability. You might be totally incredulous that the problem could be solved by computation alone, but all you need is a single counter example.
Instagram is important to me for keeping up with family because all my cousins post stories of their kids on there, so it's how I keep up with them and what their kids are up to. Same with a bunch of my friends. It's replaced Facebook which replaced family mailing lists and newsletters. It's also how they keep up with what I'm doing.

Also a bunch of my younger ex-coworkers and I are only connected on Instagram, and even some of my business contacts. I literally just got an investment lead via Instagram.
Sort of... The gist of what you say is true... One potentially has a world-wide audience. However, it's not always the case. If an Indian comedian tells awful ethnic jokes about Americans or Brazilians, do you think any one of us will get wind of it? Same with Chinese making jokes about just about anyone else in the world --the likelihood anyone in the rest of the world will find out, is very slim. There is the slightest possibility where someone with a foot in both worlds would be offended plus feel that they need to bring it to light.
Smartphones make loads of things possible that weren't possible before. They are extremely portable, have excellent displays for text, can connect to mobile data networks and contain an array of sensors that benefit from mobility.
We already have this with prop 13, let’s not take it any further, it’s already insane enough.
I've used one at SEGA, and they are creepy.

The more you pee, the more the cute weather girl skirt will lift. Your pee is supposed to be like "wind" during a storm.
Disclosure: the above poster is the co-founder of an NFT-based gaming project.
>If it's my app, I'll use my logo.

You might own the app's code but if the user paid for the app, they're entitled to not wanting their screen to become some billboard to The Current Thing™. Buy a few billboards and airtime if you feel you should shove your political beliefs and opinions down everyone's throat. With this behavior, you're the representation of everything wrong with corporate political activism and the tech industry at large: You're the app's developer, and for some reason you think you know more than the user.
It has all to do with centralization and crypto certainly helps by providing a way of decentralization that doesn't require everyone to run infra in their home.
based on term and employment conditions (ex: onsight for years) they run the real risk of retroactively being classified as an employee. The only way to avoid this is to hire a consultant who comes from another company... where they're typically an employee, so someone else solves the problem.
I find his semi-rare discussions of 2000s tech nostalgic.

Yes sir, very Atomic. I miss that era.
Most of my testing was just allocating an ARM machine on Equinix Metal as I didn't have much ARM hardware to test or qualify on. I've also gotten the bootloader and menu to work with an RPI4 but loading operating systems on one was a bit more challenging given reduced memory on the hardware.
> If the items are worth real money, you can sue Blizzard or other players for events which unfairly make you lose an item, or affect the value of the items you hold.

This isn't true at all, because Magic (the card game) already has a vibrant secondary market with no legal problems. They nerf/buff cards all the time.

People like you are just pushing back so vehemently because it's popular to hate on crypto and NFTs right now. Rightfully so, even, as there's tons of scams out there, but that doesn't mean the idea and technology is interesting or useful.
How long do you think it takes to recoup an extra half million dollars in energy savings?
Perhaps on you. I’ve never encountered someone where a 5 minute technical discussion told me less than a full day of interview would.
I replaced our legacy PXE boot environment with Netboot, and it made a huge difference. The performance speed from tftp to http is night and day. Plus, you can compile a custom boot image to provide the exact boot environment you need.
Just because a business has practices you do not agree with, does not mean the people working there are all bad. I'm not sure why that is hard to understand.

A lot of folks around here hate on Amazon, but would happily hire Devs that worked there, in fact many will pay a premium to do so.

Oo when its amazon abusing employees, thats ok, and we rush to hire their ex-employees, but if the employer was in crypto thats not OK and we ostracize these workers? seems pretty hypocritical if you ask me.
It's the years you've worked.

> I have many side-projects, personal projects, apps in between, and skill/time wise I can easily bump my YoE.

No. And you know this too since you're only counting the years you've worked.

Some years (within your own career or compared to someone else) being more intense/valuable than others tells you that YOE isn't the most reliable metric. But it doesn't mean that you should change how you measure time.
In the US, there's probably a pretty significant delta between top SV big tech salaries and a lot of the rest. Of course, those companies probably exclude a lot of competent developers and other companies can offer other opportunities besides just salary that big tech can't (more interesting projects, less of a hiring gauntlet, smaller scale, etc.) But if someone is willing to and can get through the hiring gauntlet--and really cares about the comp--it's hard to compete.
It may seem counterintuitive at first but renovating old buildings - especially non residential ones - for occupancy is often more expensive than building new.

There are many reasons; new stuff is usually built on cheaper land, old buildings have lots of issues that make updating them very labor intensive.

It's why most malls can't be easily converted into housing, and usually need to just be torn down completely, often just reusing foundations.
This article has basic misreading errors.

It assumes that everything the Wirecutter says about the IKEA filters and non IKEA filters is a reflection of the difference between HEPA filters and non HEPA filters. But the wirecutter article does not imply that. It mentions the IKEA filter is not a true-HEPA filter and mentions other stuff about the IKEA filter which may or may not have derived from the true-HEPA claim.

However, it’s likely true because the IKEA spokesperson they spoke to confirmed this and said it was a deliberate design decision.

I also want to point out that this article makes a big deal of having found something on the IKEA website about its filtering capacity, but seems to miss the fairly obvious point that in the line it highlights, IKEA never states that it’s filters meet the E12 standard. It only states that it’s tested against that standard.
For evil, I think.
What does EEE mean?
Look for digital signage displays and be prepared to pay double the price.
But what happened to Orkut ?
Why the relaunch instead of just growing slowly ?
The precise opposite would happen.
Ok, so it's just textures, not new game objects, models, or animations? That's even more like the sad NFT monkey images than before!

You can't put those CS:GO skins into Skyrim. It would probably be easier, like I said, to move it to another source engine game with the same art style and the exact same models, but that's it.
I dunno… big eye that can see all over the world through palantirs
I don’t understand the Android argument - these are mainly meant for browsers right?
Yes virtue signalling serves society by identifying attention seekers.
would you like a take-home or would you like a whiteboard session?

"Not if you'd like me to work for you, no." -- An actually senior developer in this market
NFTs can come with programmable contracts, so there was some thought that this could be used to manage royalties. For example, resell the art for a profit, and the original artist gets a cut.

But... instead of that, it was just pure speculation, with nobody really wanting any of the art. And none of it ever came with that contract to give original artists money anyway. So even the smidge of a good idea in there never got done.