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My job is destroying me and I need some advice
For the last 9 months I have been working with two senior developers and a principal team leader and the overall experience is the worst. The work is a nightmare now. I am not sure how to handle the situation and I need some advice.

Pro tip: These are my biased opinions, but I try to give some concrete examples to give you some idea.

One of the senior guys is the “tech lead“. He doesn’t know basics of online services and he acts like he knows what he is doing, which is not the case (he picked SOAP over REST because he likes it, he likes to define things static). He gets offended pretty easily if you question his approach. He has this inspirational driven development skills though. Every day he comes up with a new design. Even he changed the design of the system during the design review we had with stakeholders.

The other senior guy is technically strong, but his social skills are out of whack. His mood oscillates often. In case of a bad mood, he treats you like an idiot. I remember him entering my office, taking a chair, sitting and looking at me as if he is going to interrogate. He never accepts failure. If something is wrong, it is definitely someone else.

Team leader doesn’t have much idea about what we are doing. He is more of a manager than a developer. He randomizes developers with the ideas he heard from others. Anytime there is an open question, he talks about his previous project. However, he doesn’t seem to have full details.

Project/system is not performing well or scaling either (each request payload and response is read/written twice for instance). I have been raising questions about certain decisions (which made the tech lead guy hate me by the way), but team leader doesn’t have enough context and knowledge to deduce the actual problems.

I tried finding another job outside the company (I cannot just leave due to visa requirements), I failed. I am looking for an internal transfer now. However, the frustration and stress is killing me.
In the eyes of the administrator managing the block list (not sure what judicial oversight is planned but going on the UK's approach it will be minimal or non-existent) this would look like a dodgy foreign company and it would simply go on the block list....
There's no free lunch. One of Golang's primary goals is to compile fast (which is admirable!), which it achieves in part by leaving out lots of optimizations. Bringing 6g/8g up to the same level of optimizations as LLVM/GCC will, in all likelihood, slow down its compilation time. I can't speak for where along the line of speed versus code quality Go's developers want to place the compiler in the long run, nor am I saying you can't do better than both GCC and LLVM in compilation speed, but I do think there's a fundamental tradeoff there that no project can eliminate (short of writing in assembler, that is—which is, for all its downsides, an approach that does eliminate the tradeoff).
I'm afraid not. The Daily Mail is an awful rag. One of its nicknames is "The Daily Hate".
"Phone" isn't really a term that makes sense for the future. It's just a somewhat anachronistic bundling of microphone/speaker/digital radio/battery (and the tiny bit of logic needed for that to work together).

It does make sense to carry the things that comprise a "smart phone" (as above, +powerful cpu that can scale down to conserve power, gpu, screen/hud/display, camera(s), low-power local-area digital radio (eg: bluetooth), touchscreen (or drawing surface/digitizer), text-input (keyboard), gps, interface for connecting 4k+ display, possibly direct-attached storage), along with a headset, preferably wireless.

I just don't see why this should all be forced into one unit. I'm not sure how much power miracast would require -- but could it really be more than what the led-lit touch-screen uses? Because surely it'd be easier to have big battery+wlan/miracast/bluetooth/cpu stuffed in your pocket, and a small display+touch+bluetooth device on your wrist, with the option to pull out a phablet-sized hi-res touch-screen with it's own battery, but only miracast+bluetooth (maybe a gpu)?

The "smart stick" (the smarphone less the camera/screen/mic) could probably be made to fit more nicely in a pocket if there was no need for a display.

Shape it like a rod, add a powerful vibrator and the thing would even be dual-use ;-) (seriously, though - if it's intended to be kept in a pocket, a vibrator might make sense, as well as a couple of status leds).

The screen is going to be a bit clunky anyway (unless it folds/rolls up) - so no real issue to add a dedicated battery for it.

Maybe I should file a patent for "smart rod".
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Well, the last I heard was that they received 50M in new finance. However, they also announced job cuts and a major pivot into VR.

Not forgetting also that their chairman and co-founder (R. Ng) left the company.
I like it. It feels nice and the process itself is relaxing. I don't know why you would ask "Still?" as if that would change over time.
> If the machine costs as much as a five star restaurant per meal then why the fuck did the all the restaurants in the world go out of business‽

It's a two-step phase: first acquire a user-base by making the machine extremely cheap and drive all competition out of business, then ramp up prices (relatively slowly ideally).

And of course, if competitors appear you can just locally give away machines.

> Even if a design is propriety that doesn't prevent independent invention.

It doesn't prevent independent invention, but the reinventor would most likely need investors (who'd get no ROI as the current monopoly can drive down profits to 0 or close for everybody) and intact kneecaps. So the reinventor has two choices really:

* ask for a payout to not disclose their reinvention (and pray the monopoly holder won't take the "kneecaps" option instead)

* open up the reinvented design and spread it far and wide, completely destroying the market in the process
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No, that's a fairly accurate description of the paper. I won't repeat the list, but if you take a look at it the hatred of women, minorities etc really shines through. And a bizarre fanatical interest in house prices and which social group is affecting them.
Netflix are at least on record as saying that they want content to be global. However, they are also on record as saying that in principle using a vpn to access US Netflix is piracy (but that they don't think it is important). I am however curious what happens when some copyright troll decides to subpoena them for their records on who might be connecting from known vpns.
I have recent blades from DSC (the mid tier 4 blade type) and Harry's and do not find the Harry's any sharper. Harry's hinge also has less range / more resistance (which can be good or bad depending on technique).
You have a beard, and you carry DE blades on board, detailing how you hide them from TSA scanners on a public forum? Had any "longer chats" with TSA in an airport windowless room yet?
I bought an Ubuntu phone, not realizing that whatsapp wasn't available. Its a struggle getting people to switch.
Currently supercomputers are used to do these things, because you can't do them on a mobile phone or desktop.

The "supercomputer in your pocket" discussion is somewhat disingenuous - an iPhone6 from 2014 wouldn't even have made the top 10 in 1993 over 20 years earlier. A million-fold increase in transistor density and it still wouldn't rank as a supercomputer.

There are a lot of fascinating things you can do with more computing power, but it's not really clear that doing so on a power- and heat-constrained mobile device brings a competitive advantage in a highly-connected environment.
Leave the company now. Go back to your home country. Find a job there. Participate very actively in the local startup ecosystem. Start a company.
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Then again WAP was crap NTT had the right idea 15 years ago -- just use a (more) sane subset of standard html for the "mobile" web.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I-mode
or "benefits scroungers"
Well, that sort of scaremongering was part of the PR aspect of the whole thing. Back then (I've been out of the scene for a decade and a half now, I don't know if it's still as bad) the amount of money you could sell your 'company' (read: two guys in a basement) for, was directly correlated to the scariness of the stories you could get into the press.
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> Perhaps a more appropriate question is not so much if anyone is building a smartphone (from a hardware definition) ...

The baseband is a huge security hole. The provider in large part owns the device, regardless of what software it's running.

> ... so much as is anyone building an operating system which runs on commonly available smartphone devices which does not employ these tactics?

I can live with Linux ;)
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Trusting something from Romania feels to me like it's only one or two steps up from Nigeria.

I hope that prejudice is outdated.

I'm pretty sure it was justified at some time.
The next X-prize should be for the best implementation of a smartphone OS/GUI where the "smartphone" has no I/O whatsoever except for the touchscreen and a charging/debug port.

If that couldn't crank up our creativity, nothing could.
CFL's turn on instantly unless they are in freezing weather. If yours don't then get better ones - walmart has really good ones.

The mercury vapor in CFLs is not very dangerous, it's elemental mercury which is not especially toxic, you need continuous exposure over a long time for it to cause any problems. One CFL is not going to do anything bad. How many CFLs do you break anyway? I've never broken a hot one, only a cold one that fell of the shelf, and cold ones don't release any mercury at all.

Buying an LED is an easier sell these days since the price has gone down, and the brightness has gone up, but I hope you did not avoid CFLs before now - that would have been very shortsighted.
> What ecological pessimists forget is that so far scientists have always been able to stay ahead of resource scarcity. They have always found better, less toxic replacements for what we’ve lost.

Wrong. Very wrong. Humanity has been living over carrying capacity since the beginning of time. We always produce more offspring than what the environment/society can sustain. It is only recently (last 50 years?) and in a very limited area (first-world) that we are living below carrying capacity (of that region). The world as a whole is very much living above carrying capacity.

And no, it does not matter that we are "wasting food" in the first world. For all intent and purposes, that food is not available to the rest of the world.

Until we are able to first feed and then procreate, keeping the demographic curve well behind the food production curve, we are doomed. But that will never happen: as soon as scarcity is not an issue, we tend to reproduce like rabbits.

We are very much a virus.
The Outlook mail app on iOS is much better than the default iPhone mail app. I know quite a few folks who are non-MS in every other way, but use Outlook on their iPhones.
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The less new JS code we write the better for humanity... :)

Why don't you try TypeScript? Can be easily integrated with the existing JS codebase.
What exactly defines a 'gamergater'? Unless he actively harassed someone or acted in a way incredibly unbecoming a highly respected BSD neckbeard relic, I don't see why it should have any bearing on his commits.
I am not convinced by the "JOIN" argument, but other points could make sense.
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Unlike in the official version, different branches of the London Overground Network are now in different colours, although annoyingly the original east london line is nither called that nor orange. The Northern Line is also split into the the Northern line and the Edgeware Line

Some handy interchanges are highlighted and the correct geographical relationship between some stations is shown. Also stations close to each other where the ticketing system allows passengers to make interchanges are grouped together, like Euston and Euston Square.
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I've always wanted an on-body cluster ;)

But how come heads-up displays have never come to market in a serious way? I'm not counting Glass, by the way, given the focus on sharing rather than using.
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Seriously? "Microsoft is dead" again? Hasn't he learned from the last time he said that? :)
This is a very good idea, I tried it some time ago but was too early. There are people working on this privately. You do mean phones connected in a data center don't you?
I'm not disagreeing with you with this description of the Daily Mail.

But it is irrelevant to the work DeepMind is doing
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Best advice so far on this thread. Luckily my facial hair is very slow growing. I would only shave about once ever 3 weeks. My wife suggested that I plug my hair out, like she does with the hair on her legs. The pain is a bit too much for me.
So what? Since when thinking, that Kotaku and Polygon are harmful to gaming, has become a bad thing?

And how does that impact the QUALITY of his/her code?

What you are doing there, dear Randi, is by definition "harassment".
The "overpopulation until the end" myth is completely debunked by the demographic curves of many different developed countries (Germany, Italy, Russia, Japan to name some). I think the common assumption is that the population of nations as they develop taper off eventually.
You are right, it is a pity that you are downvoted.

Right now, you maybe put your favorite game on the SSD, not the whole steam library - and that is what gamers often recommend themselves. FPS don't get influenced by the HDD, only loading times, and those are normally not too high. Many new games have only two loading times: loading the game and then loading the save. Afterwards, everything is streamed, and a proper HDD is fast enough for that. And that is what the people responding to your comment here miss completely.

Using a SSD is for many games a waste.
I've used the JVM and actors on top of it for real-time bidding, which is normally a soft real-time job because you usually have contracts in which you have to promise to reply to requests in 100 or 200 ms maximum, including the network roundtrip, otherwise you'll be taken off the grid. Our system was replying to over 33,000 of such requests per second on only a couple of instances hosted on AWS.

The garbage collector was a problem and as usually it required us to profile and pay attention to memory access patterns, plus a lot of tuning of that garbage collector. But truth be told, we were also much sloppier than what people do in the financial industry. For example we did use Scala, functional programming and immutable data-structures, which ca bring with it significant overhead, since the profile of persistent collections does not match the assumptions of current generational garbage collectors. But on the JVM you also have options not available on other platforms. The G1 GC is pretty advanced and at scale the commercial Azul Zing promises a pauseless GC and has been used successfully in the financial industry.

I also used Erlang and in my experience the JVM can achieve much lower latency and better throughput. Where Erlang systems tend to shine is in being more resilient and adaptable.
I did not see the movie. But without rivers the mountains would still be a better option then ground level land: cooler and rainy because of the height.
Yes. I do mean that. What struck me from the talk was the cpu in the iphone 6 was about 25x more powerful than the pentium 100 in 1995.
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>And of course, if competitors appear you can just locally give away machines.

And then face anti-trust suits by the government

Disaster averted again by 20th century economic policies!
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There is a nice article in LifeHacker that may come in handy for the problem here : http://lifehacker.com/the-best-browser-extensions-that-prote...

I personnaly went with Disconnect (https://disconnect.me/ - https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/disconnect/jeoacaf... ) but the LifeHacker post is a must read imho.
What is the relevance of a person's tweets to the operation of an open source project? What could have been said that's so wrong?
There is no need for ad hominem.
Funny how their strategy seems to be based on annoying ads and locking people to their service

About shaving: after I got an electrical one I never looked back
Most Portuguese universities had Prolog on their CS degrees in the 90's.

Also most companies HR departments will ignore CVs without an EE or CS degree from those same universities.
He isn't a "GG" at all. Harper's just being her usual nasty self and throwing her considerable weight around. If anyone's hurting anyone's rep it's that clown.
@xmj posted the whole (private) IRC discussion online.
Here's the link:
https://archive.is/9KGyX#selection-9.6580-9.6583

I don't like to post private conversations, but this has been reported in other communities and it is an important piece of the puzzle to crearly understand the situation.

This has to be discussed, because I think we need to fix the gender gap, but this kind of "fundamentalism" is not healthy. This doesn't seem to be the right path, but maybe I could be wrong.
Smartphones and security don't really go hand-in-hand anyway.

However, I am encouraged by the fact that people paid many thousands of dollars in the '80's and 90's to purchase PC's. They were much harder to use, much less powerful, and yet because these PC's represented either a competitive advantage or a novelty, the price was paid. No Internet, but a heckuva lot more control and trust than now.

If a similar value proposition pops up again, somehow de-commodifying or replacing the standard PC design (smartphone or otherwise), I suspect we'll see a similar willingness to pay a premium.
I cared to point out the fallacy of the post.
This is called "freedom of speech".
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You mean Goubault-style homotopy stuff. I don't this this is very categorical, e.g. [2] produces a single category, so I wouldn't call this an example of categorical structure.
The Gunawardena paper [1] doesn't exhibit categorical structure either.
On the contrary, this nasty little twat deserves every ad hominem that goes her way. She's an online bully and nothing more. Five minutes on her twitter will show that to you. She's a cancer (and a pathetic beggar as well.)

Edit: Ahh, this parody of a human being has turned up below, after yet again engaging in defamation, harassment and abuse by spamming her twitter about how the guy is a "creepy abuser and rape apologist" for retweeting a tweet. Retweeting someone isn't "harassing other women off the internet" you dribbling mess. No wonder you're a fucking laughing stock.

And I don't use twitter, but nice bubble you're living in there. High again, I take it? Hell, why am I even asking the junkie.
I would rather you not repost things that were said in confidence. But if the above is true, I think it's up to them to explain / put the conversation into context.

Simply slapping down evidence on the table really isn't helpful when parties can't explain their side.
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We have the slightly the same problem in the United States. We can talk about it, but we don't have a way to end life medically when that time comes, with the exception of Oregon, and one other state? I can't blame it all on politicians.

In American, it seems like many of us think modern medicine will cure most disease, or we fall victim to rhetoric like "death squads".

The reality is when that time comes, and modern medicine gives gives up; we are sent home to die. Oh yes, a bureaucratic nonprofit steps in and finally the aganoizing patient is given opioids, and benzodiazepines. The problem is the Palliative Care is hit, or miss. The doctor never seems to come around and read adjust medication levels, and the nurses--well they try.

My father died of liver cancer. He had a tumor the size of a football in his abdomen(by the way, he had a tumor for at least 15 years. I don't know when it turned cancerous, but all professionals overlooked the bulge in his upper right quadrant. Not one professional palpated his abdomen--I guess they don't do that anymore? And he had good insurance?

Well, finally one doctor promised to save his life, but reneged after further review, the hospital then sent him home. He was miserable all summer. The medications never quite took away the pain. It didn't help that the Hospice doctors weren't increasing dosages.(I looked at the dose of morphine, and I was tempted to buy smack off the streets, but he was just too conservative to break the law. My greedy, manipulative sister played around with his medication so she could talk him into giving her more wealth.(She is already extremely wealthy). The nurses, when told, looked the other way. My retched sister told the nurses, 'I want him to spend quality time with his grandkids'. My father couldn't stand kids, and barely put up with his own.

My father gradually went from 190 lbs to 65 lbs, and was beyond miserably for weeks. His last words to me were, "Son when will it end?"

He went into a semi coma and eventually died. He was blue. He would wake up from bad dreams and scream. He was in hell!

Sorry to unload, but we need to know just how terrible death can be. There's nothing sacred, natural, or peaceful about it. We need a passionate way to end life when that day comes.

I don't go a day without thinking about my father's agony. My father was a mean, nasty person, but they pain he went through was so disturbing; I can't get the horrid ordeal out of my life. It's been nine years, and I'm still not over it.

Maybe, this is not the time to talk about this problem? I got sidetracked by a comment before me--sorry.
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I have, my management hasn't. In theory it's no problem but if you miss the meetings you are basically screwed.
You might be overstating the "safer language" aspect. As another commenter suggests, they are using Go as little more than glue to the C or C++ kernel and libraries that run the important bits. And these searches should instill a bit of fear in your heart when running Docker:

https://github.com/docker/docker/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=uns...

https://github.com/docker/docker/search?type=Code&utf8=%E2%9...

Docker has such prodigious and repeated use of "unsafe" that it makes one wonder what, if anything, using Go has bought them in terms of safety or reliability? It seems like virtually every interface used in the Docker source code relies on unsafe casts to pointers, and I hesitate to say I am not sure how well the Go garbage collector meshes with casting pointers and providing them to the kernel and other libraries.

Something like Rust's native ability to ensure a pointer provided to external code lives long enough would be very useful.
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She isn't autistic. Some quack diagnosed her with "Aspergers" and she latched on to it because there's a connotation that people with aspergers are usually intelligent.

She appears to just be an angry narcissist.