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Find a great market, understand it in depth, understand what product will be extremely valuable, and a plausible way to get to market. Make some progress building the product and getting customers interested.

Make a nice pitch showing all these things. Make the pitch to 100 people.
Finding the title confusing. How to find great systems design questions || How to find great questions about systems design more understandable.
I'm not sure why this was written and I didn't enjoy reading it. But I'm glad to live in a world that sustains the creation of experimental pieces like this made freely available to all.
Another flaw is that a more complicated language and/or one with leaky abstractions (both complex and simple rules) requires spending more mental bandwidth working around the language's pitfalls caused by complex rules. Examples include C++'s template/metaprogramming and linking rules (complex and leaky), heavy use of C macros (obscure and leaky rules, complex in use), C/C++'s header system and ODR (leaky), or Rust trying to mark most pointers as noalias and breaking programs incompatible with that model (complex and leaky) rather than embracing either referential transparency like functional languages or a "pointers are memory addresses" model like assembly/WASM.
This does seem like a really nice way to do it, but the issue in practice may be that some of those companies are doing layoffs in an attempt to stablize or give them more time to find a way out of their death spiral. As a result, many companies probably wouldn't want to hold an employee event summarizing how f'ed the company is if there is any chance of it turning around
I'm getting the popcorn ready for when a person who was born male asks Google for permission to relocate to a State where this service for females is allowed. The more that companies get involved in politics, the more this turns in to clown world.
It seems like you want these things to happen so you can gloat and say "I told you so"

If instead you were interested in the opposite result - making women's reproductive rights explicitly legal - what you would need to do in a democracy is convince enough people to vote for the laws you want.

To do that you need to understand what the people you disagree with are actually saying and what the actual words are in the laws that you don't like. Not speculation about what you imagine the logical conclusion of their reasoning is, not what you read in a headline or a tweet about what the law says (those are often misleading and sometimes outright lies), but the real words that are in the law.

From that point you can attempt to address the real arguments that the people you disagree with are really making. Addressing fake arguments that you imagined they made does not convince anyone.
The traction has to be able to be turned into money -- a consumer "rate the celebrity" app could have millions of users but not really be investable. But I haven't seen any cases where an investor says, "They have real traction, that can grow at venture scale and at strong economics, but I don't like the founder." It's just extremely uncommon. Usually "dislike of founder" (with all of its biases) comes when you have to put a lot of faith into the company, not where the company has already proven itself. Of course -- investors can simply be wrong about the growth potential or unit economics or sustainability of traction -- but that's different.
Police departments issued armored personnel carriers are more worrisome, just by number.
> As a programmer with a CS degree who has also dabbled in writing, I can tell that writing well is a lot harder than programming.

As an award winning writer with a day job in programming writing bad code is easier than writing bad prose. Most people have been exposed to enough good writing to know it when they see it even if they don't appreciate it.

Most programmers have never seen good code. The only person to consistently aim for well written code is Knuth: https://wiki.c2.com/?TexTheProgram

That he needed to invent a whole new ecosystem to do that in should tell you how far away the average programmer is from getting there.
Difference is the banks are insured. Banks can make bad investments with deposits and do go bankrupt. 2012 had lots of banks going bust when they invested in mortgage backed securities which is ironic because they were the ones originating these bad loans and they had to know they were garbage.
Another way of thinking about it was that things were done with the index registers and addressing modes, that would be represented by pointers in a language like C.
Weaponizing Google's lack of customer service is in fact pretty creative. The "exploit" here is that Google really doesn't care in the slightest about fraudulent DMCA takedowns - it's expensive labor-wise to handle it.

Doing it from your home internet connection, less creative...
The peptide is N-lactoylphenylalanine

So a lot of folks on here are talking about the effects of exercise and stuff like endorphins.

Andrew Huberman sums it up best

1. Dopamine and testosterone are closely linked
2. Effort releases dopamine and testosterone
3. Don't spike dopamine before or after effort, let effort spike dopamine
4. Testosterone makes effort feel good (Testosterone makes you feel good)
5. Winning increases testosterone, in all venues
6. Losing decreases testosterone, in all venues
It's not so they have to deal with entertainment industry lawyers, it's to minimize the labor costs of compliance.
Not anything about Krishna. The Sadratnamala:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sadratnamala

And it was intentional.
The Roman Republic and the Weimar Republic are also two huge examples of democracies regressing to authoritarian regimes.
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I use it every day and it's fine. It may suck for developers, but I don't care if makes your job making webpages harder or not, just do your job. I like the competition from it whether artificial or not.
I’m not a lawyer, so correct me if I am wrong, but wouldn’t challenges to those cases have to come from outside the court for the court to reconsider them?

If that is the case there needs to be some motivated and deep pockets out there to craft up a law that is designed to challenge those norms, then it needs to get passed in some legislative body and signed into law within a state. The law will need to read in such a way that would motivate an aggressive attack from a party with deep pockets and get it all the way up to the SCOTUS where it might get picked up or might not.

I honestly think that those issues simply do not have the same levels of passion behind them that abortion did. The general populace just doesn’t care enough to make them worth the effort. Abortion beyond the first trimester of pregnancy had significant opposition across the political spectrum and that opposition grew week over week beyond that first trimester. Birth control, gay marriage, sexual privacy…they simply do not evoke the same levels of passion beyond a few fringe ultra religious right-wing groups.
There is a lot WA can do to ramp down other uses, particularly crypto mining. Hopefully those will fall off as crypto values collapse.
Most expensive spice comes from the great maker, Shai-Hulud.
I thought they've been the endeavor to new useful day to day features but somehow they're not putting a clipboard manager yet even when Windows now has a native one.
Put everyone on the equivalent of a month to month lease
I've seen that often when I say how I'm feeling, like actually feeling, and the other person does as well, it can help me feel more connected to them and as a result maybe less connected to the belief/idea/preference I held before the conversation. Not always, sometimes I still feel very adamant about a position and yet I tend to open a bit to their humanity.
A lot of the developers who rail against it are in the advertising industry and those who want to push notifications to you as well as run their garbage javascript in the background.
Yet this is common. I have been asked this twice at a FAANG and FAANG league company
> I did it just to shut her up

...I assume you weren't surprised when she decided to change her status to your "old" girlfriend.
Suddenly relevant.
I appreciate your expertise and openness to discussion.

How much of the business/industry cost is HR/wages, would you say? If the industry is already automated, further attempts to automate would not lead to great cost reduction. It seems like a higher ROI approach would be increasing the efficiency of the existing automated processes.
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I did exactly this with Fidelity's customer service, and I was impressed to see that the text message I received did NOT say "don't share this with anyone", like their normal login messages do. Instead, it said "give this code to the customer service representative". I was so pleasantly surprised I actually had to commend them on it.
Main reason is that imports into Russia were banned long before Russian exports were.

The West does not depend on income from anything they export to Russia. Russian economy is small and poor, they don't buy much of anything and no one is going to go out of business, no country would suffer significant economic consequences even if all exports to Russia are banned outright, and this is more or less what happened.

Russian exports are another story, some nations by their stupidity (and well-targeted bribes), got too dependent on Russian energy. It takes more effort and time to ban them.
And now we're in a place where imports into Russia are banned and exports, not so much, resulting in logical appreciation of Russian currency due to simple law of supply and demand.

It doesn't mean they are happy. Money is of little use if you can't buy much with them. USD in Russia is almost like a Soviet rouble now: feels nice in the pocket, but most things you'd want to buy with it, are no longer on stores' shelves.

Appreciation of currency serves an additional purpose of driving Russian non-raw-material exporters out of business making then uncompetitive because their rouble costs translate into too many dollars now.
This is extremely exciting work.
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Liberal democracy appears to be a metastable equilibrium that requires active management to resist authoritarian perturbations. The Roman Republic didn't have universal suffrage, but lasted almost 500 years, before gradually and then suddenly descending into authoritarian rule.
Corporations are owned by and run by people. Actual humans make those decisions.
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While the article goes into history and detail, here are a couple of analogies that may help explain what this thing is:

• The convention of specifying phone numbers using words, e.g. 1-800-FLOWERS (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoneword): this is the mapping

0 ↔ (space?)
1 ↔ ??
2 ↔ abc
3 ↔ def
…
9 ↔ wxyz

Roughly, the Kaṭapayādi system is simply a different mapping between digits and letters.

• So a closer analogy may be, if the conventional English alphabet happened to list vowels (aeiouy, say) and consonants separately, then a mapping something like

b c d f g h j k l m n p q r s t v w x z
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0

(so there are two choices for each digit, e.g. 2 can be represented by either 'c' or 'p'), with the decoding convention that we ignore vowels, and consonants that are immediately followed (in the same word) by another consonant. Then, to specify a sequence of digits like "314159265", we could write down below each digit the two possibilities for it:

3 1 4 1 5 9 2 6 5
d b f b g l c h g
q n r n s x p t s

…and use these letters to make words. So something like "dine rob soul cottage" would stand for DNRBSLCTG = 314159265, as would "dumb funny sex parties" (= DBFNSXPTS = 314159265) or whatever. Then we could write rhyming poems or memorable prose, to memorize the digits (and transmit them accurately in an oral tradition).

With the English alphabet the above mapping would be hard to remember, but the alphabet in Sanskrit happens to be organized in a more orderly way, so it's easier to remember the mapping. (And the name helps: ka ṭa pa ya are simply the beginning (ādi) letters of each chunk mapping to 1234567890, the way our mapping above could be called the "B-N" mapping.)

Something close that there's a (recent) tradition of in English is "pilish": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pilish where the lengths of the words encode the digits, as in "how I wish I could remember pi" (=3141592). (See "Cadaeic Cadenza" and "Not a Wake": http://cadaeic.net/cadintro.htm )
Yes that’s right. This is the verse-

गोपीभाग्यमधुव्रात-शृङ्गिशोदधिसन्धिग॥
खलजीवितखाताव गलहालारसंधर॥

Beautiful
"Please stop mansplaining to me"
Talking about cruelty, people can understand you if they can relate to you and think "shit, this is tough, I would have to do the same in their place".

You probably don't want to give away the exact financials (runway/funding/expenses/customer numbers), but you can still be specific without that. Like "We hired you because we wanted to deliver X in Y months. We took the risk to be the first on the market, but it didn't work out. With the departure of the XYZ customer, we simply don't have enough cash to keep paying the salaries.". Make sure it reads more as a personal email than a soulless press-release with "given the worrying situation", "on our journey" and other BS phrases.

Bear in mind that people will inevitably question "why I got laid off why John from team B did not". If you want to reduce this stress, find a good formal explanation (like we are forced to close feature X because we lost customer Y, and hence are laying off the folks that worked on it).

Otherwise, good references, decent severance. Canceling some externally observable verifiable bonus for yourself could somewhat reduce the tension. You could forfeit that annual board meeting in Hawaii, but buy a hell lot of goodwill from people that worked with you (and that will still be in your network) by being public about that. It could pay off nicely some years from now.
High demand raises the price
I really like his analogy of using Word2Vec to build a galaxy of words.
the standard Pythonic if approach+composition using kwargs seems to be more superior than Java-like zoo with classes, subclasses, interfaces, etc.

that's the beauty of python, add one line and you add new feature/behavior, comment out one line and you disable a feature.
all code is on one screen and I dont have to scroll or navigate class hierarchy to understand code author's "design".

when I work in large Java repo, I need to read a thousand pages of doc just to understand what each class is doing and how they work together in a 1000+ class call stack.

Adapters, Bridges, AbstractBeanFactories, and other stuff still causes me nightmares
This is overlay simplistic.

There are many reasons why people might have their cameras off, the main one that comes to mind is that it generally overly impacts women where there is a general (stupid) societal expectation that they have to look 'a certain way' (makeup , hair done etc). Having cameras off can mitigate this.

I personally like cameras on, but it isn't good for everyone, and is not a clear cut decision by any means.
A fetus not a child, but concluding that it deserves no protection isn’t a foregone conclusion.

I mean people who injure a pregnant woman and it results in fetal death are criminally charged. So in that case we do consider it worthy of protection under the law.
> Abortions aren't contagious, are you serious?

I never said they were. But if you're going to make an argument about bodily autonomy then how you can you be OK with forcing people getting a medical treatment they do not want?

Vaccination protects you from the disease. Vaccinating a 3rd party does not, we've been over this already.

The COVID vaccine was in fact experimental and it only received an "Emergency Use Authorization" by the FDA. How about you check some basic facts before you respond?
No one forces your or your company to use apple products.
I’m not sure what you think is incorrect about the first assertion. I’m simplifying and using the trimester terminology because people are familiar with it and a lot of the polling is based on that terminology. The Casey standard is viability, which is close to the end of the second trimester.

As to the country laws, you’re ignoring my qualifier about “elective” abortions. Abortions based on health exceptions aren’t elective abortions. Roe requires elective abortions up to viability. Thus, the laws in Norway, Denmark, and Sweden wouldn’t be upheld under Roe. Also, you’re misleadingly suggesting that Denmark has some sort of permissive loophole for “socioeconomic conditions.” It’s actually a pretty standard that requires unanimous approval from a local abortion committee. Many applications are rejected: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/2024321/. The rate of second trimester abortions in Denmark is much lower than the US.

You’re also being imprecise about the definition of trimester. A pregnancy is actually 40 weeks long, and depending on source the first trimester is 12 or 13 weeks long: https://www.ucsfhealth.org/conditions/pregnancy/trimesters. Regardless, “first trimester” is a developmental milestone. It’s the point at which a fetus has all its internal organs and looks lot like a baby: https://3dultrasoundatlas.com/13-weeks.

All but 3 European countries draw the line at 12-14 weeks: https://www.statista.com/statistics/1268439/legal-abortion-t.... They’re all aiming at this “end of first trimester” milestone. Note that the Mississippi law at issue in this case was even longer 15 weeks.

Also, your second to last paragraph misrepresents my point completely. I didn’t say that US states are passing laws similar to European countries. I said that Roe, which requires elective abortion until viability, bans the roughly first trimester line that most of the first world has drawn. The only EU abortion laws that would be acceptable under Roe would be the UK’s and the Netherlands’.

Put differently, you’re correct that there’s a big gap between Ohio or Texas at 6 weeks, and the 12-14 weeks in France or Germany. But it’s also true that there’s a big difference between those countries, and the 22-24 weeks mandated by Roe. Roe draw the line at a place that makes even the French and Norwegians uncomfortable.

The point about “90% of abortions being in the first trimester” doesn’t carry the water you think it does. That’s over 60,000 abortions annually at a stage of development that most developed countries have decided is advanced enough that the fetus should be protected.
That's why people in higher position can wield violence secretly while avoiding violence from average people.

Laws need to be bad enough violence may feel better.
> in a small corner of one country with little technology presence

I wouldn’t be so sure about that. Acxiom is headquartered in Conway, AR: https://www.acxiom.com/about-us/locations/

They’re a very well-established datamining company. In fact, they’re the first ones I recall hearing about, like twenty years ago.
That perpetual motion machine is one of my top fears as well - and sadly perhaps part of their calculus.

I work in D politics and don't think TX will be Dem anytime within the next few cycles. But the trend is there; especially if young people move in.

GA is closer IMHO.

FL is slipping away and illustrates this compounding effect that the GOP has engineered.

Florida's GOP SCO-FL (?) just allowed a really gerrymandered CD map put out by DeSantis, a break with norms.

The map is clearly undemocratic IMHO. 20 of 28 are now pretty safe R. That's very lopsided for the perennial swing state. Even trending +3% R, it should be a toss up.

State and local level is the same story, often worse.

More than people moving away, stopping immigration of young people has a big affect. That's big reason my state of Colorado has turned from purple to fairly solid blue.

Attacking women, queer people, non-religious people, POC, makes the state unwelcoming and even dangerous.

Being a bully gives them more power, which allows them to create more levers and enshrine more advantages to this power.

They have set themselves up to rule a divided states of America where they maintain extreme authoritarian power against the absolute majority.

You're also right in that global warming doesn't give a damn.

Sadly again their blocking of even sensible actions is just another example of what should be a minority party by #s literally killing people who have little power over this situation.
Emacs, for instance, has this amazing kill-ring feature for decades - around 40 years. It is not a modern concept. I wouldn’t be surprised if Apple had this too someday, but removed for better ux.
Imho people always say crisis times.
I have not seen research that the number of deals has decreased
Do you think busing was for the culture - and not - giving access to better-funded schools?
Great to see you here! Thanks for sharing your insights.
Assuming the reason for the food scarcity is a lack of space. It could also be a lack of funds for efficient farming machines. Or a lack of labor. I wouldn’t assume food scarcity is caused by lack of space in most places experiencing it.
Somewhat amusing that one of the justices suggested reconsidering all of the "big" cases of the past but omitted Loving v Virginia for some odd reason.

"In future cases, we should reconsider all of this court’s substantive due process precedents, including Griswold, Lawrence, and Obergefell" [1]

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jun/24/clarence-thoma...
It's not important to me that your job is easier. I'm a dev and I deal with hard shit 5 days out of the week. My users don't give fk about that, they only care that my product works on their phone.
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The article compares multiple different programming mechanisms for implementing a solution to a single problem. But, we can not really draw many general conclusions based on a single example problem.

For some problems inheritance is better, for others composition, or traits, or if-statements.

If we are to compare 5 different programming approaches, I think we should compare them all for solving at least 5 different problems. Of course we need to start somewhere so this article is a great start.
> The Republicans fought tooth and nail against even simple mask mandates

Yes, it was also hilarious to see Democrat politicians vacationing in Florida maskless while their constituents had to follow illogical mask rules back home. Heck, in some cases they don't even pretend to care about these rules themselves (see MET gala and the countless of "parties" these politicians went to maskless).

> now want to legislate what happens in a woman's uterus in the name of "protecting life"? What a joke.

The supreme court did not ban abortion, so your argument is moot here.
I'm personally OK with abortion in the early stages. But I'd argue that there's a line where a woman's "bodily autonomy" ends and a prenate's bodily autonomy begins where abortion becomes more than the equivalent of removing an appendix.
It was only unpopular because the 6502 was built by the same engineers and came out relatively soon after at a much lower price point.

In fact, the 6501 (architecturally the same as a 6502) was pin compatible with the 6800 and was discontinued after a lawsuit.

I actually preferred aspects of the 6800 series, particularly the addressing options.
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Be cautious doing this. Many people can’t easily take a 20% pay cut. Your best people might instead choose to leave. Others may be bitter about it. Since they’re sticking around it can drag down morale. This is only possibly viable if there’s a clear plan back to 100%. There’s a reason it’s not commonly done.
If you want to get really technical, except as punishment for a crime.

As best I can tell it would be entirely legal for the US government to sell someone sentenced to life in prison to a private party.
I don't trust anything with CC domain :{