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This really buries the lede! Only two mentions that this only applies to Kindle Unlimited, and not until the seventh paragraph.
What do the different colors mean in the first two charts? Am I missing something?
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>I also do something I call "walking the floor"

Also known as drive-by management. Why not schedule some time instead?
> I assisted in hiring a technical person at a previous job over a decade ago, and after finding no one with the skills we wound up just hiring the most enthusiastic person, and they wound up over achieving.

It is good to hire for attitude. You can always teach new team members new skills but it is next to impossible to change their attitudes.

> After harassing HR at my company,

Ah, yes. HR. Could they be part of the problem.
> In addition, don't just give up. Keep talking and helping out.

Motivation is the responsibility of the employee. As a manager, if your performance is faltering and it's because you're not motivated, I will tell you clearly my perspective, and ask if that is the case. However it's on you take corrective action. I will do everything I can to help you, but it's your responsibility, and not fair to the other team members who are motivated if

1. I am focusing my energy dealing with issues caused by your lack of motivation.

2. They're working extra to ensure success when a team member is unmotivated.
Agreed with that. In a world where you can't statically enforce that tests are deterministic, you absolutely must be diligent. However, it still happens.

An example of "innocent intermittence" recently came up at my current employer: there was a test that invoked a web service twice, verifying idempotence. It then asserted the responses were identical. This worked almost all of the time, but when the two service invocations straddled a minute boundary, then some output text that included a rendered timestamp (rounded to the minute), which would cause the test to fail.

It's extremely hard to get an engineering organization to just inherently know not to call, say, datetime.now() in their code, especially when the tests pass most of the time.
I've never used my real name on Facebook. I suspect most people have at least one fake name account.
> If we're talking about Americans,

Oops, sorry, I forgot. I'm in Canada.

I guess it is inhumane to fire people in the US, then.
Even if you are in an "At-Will" employment state, it's not as simple to fire an employee. You have to have HR involved, and prepare enough documentation to satisfy the need to terminate someone.

In smaller orgs with no HR, it's probably easier, but larger companies have a specific process.

Though to your point, I would not consider myself someones manager unless I had the option to hire, fire, or promote them.
Large good codes were always known to exist, the crux from when Shannon published his work (I believe) was to actually get good codes that are computationally viable (else you could even use Shannon's random code). LDPC codes were rediscovered only because decoding became viable due increased computational power (w.r.t the 60's) and, crucially, discovery of iterative decoding for them (belief propagation etc).
This link is the talk slides. There’s also a paper, which is probably a bit more useful if you aren’t listening to a presenter. http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~sd601/papers/semirings.pdf
WebGL has pretty good browser support - most recently Safari on iOS 8. http://caniuse.com/#feat=webgl
FWIW, my career took a turn for much better when I started working at a place that had regular 1 on 1's.
Good riddance. It is a hateful, bullying, propaganda pile.
Because only one of those generates them profit and thus keeps them existing.
Union, tenure, or simply no from upper management. Sometimes people deliver the result but they may behave in a way that shows they are not motivated. That is a hard thing to use to fire someone.
Ha, this is kind of the opposite of the ebay issue. I can totally see selling at a store for that reason. I even donate a lot of stuff I'm sure I could sell since it's just easier (and of course someone benefits). But as a buyer, it's going to be much easier to look around online, and most likely cheaper too, buying privately, than trying to buy from a B&M store.
Or some employees don't feel comfortable bringing it up.
The main issue I have with regular expressions is that the current syntax mixes "code" and "data".

I.e. it's very easy to write something like /https?:\/\/www.foo.com/ (e.g. you want to whitelist your own domain for some action) and forget that this also matches wwwxfoo.com which could be owned by anyone (it's also a common mistake to forget the anchors, in this case evil.com/?https://www.foo.com might also match).

It is pretty easy to come up with a better syntax, but it's going to be hard to convince everyone to use it. As someone else commented on this thread, the current way of doing things is pretty entrenched.
In my experience what you say rings true; the job descriptions are such that its hard for a single person to hit all the reqs and if the company is underpaying, it's going to be hard filling that position.

With regard to internal hires, yes, the jobs are posted to meet some HR criteria and are merely a formality and thus get filled quickly.

But.... This is in tech which accounts for a minute part of all jobs opps, so what applies to tech may not necessarily apply to non tech jobs.
Some ideas: train volunteers to do the digitization work; aggressively invest then rent out the digitization infrastructure to industry once backlog is cleared; sponsor competitions inviting open source solutions for LoC IT problems.
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Good list, but what this hits on is managing down, and not much on how to manage up, or manage across.

In my experience, I've found managing a team fairly easy--I just think about all the things my great managers did, and try to emulate them.

Managing up, and managing other teams however, has been a real learning experience.
Isn't that just management at a higher level? You can have a great direct manager, but you are still at the mercy of his/her managers, and the re-orgs, mission shifts, and everything else. I guess this is why big companies often prefer employees who are motivated by things other than the work they do (like by the paycheck, as you mention). Problem is, you can't really be very innovative with that.
Might one say it's a constructive proof of the non-existence of a finite group of primes?
I don't think most people have multiple Facebook accounts.
"It’s terribly difficult to manage unmotivated people. Make your job easier and don’t."

I want to add to this by saying, it's terribly difficult to keep yourself motivated in a team with unmotivated people. I left my last job because all the team cared about was money, job security and doing their 9-5.
At my current place, we could fire half the staff and the company wouldn't miss a beat. Sadly, there is no management, leadership or clear direction. We are self managed and so it's very easy to spot the handful of proactive staff because they usually end up picking up all the tasks which eventually causes burnouts and reduced motivation etc...
I've tried to motivate my team mates but how do you motivate someone who's comfortable and secure in their 9-5 and don't really care to achieve any more than mediocre? Nobody gets fired and everyone's on pretty good pay for the job they do.

So I really do agree with this point. Find people who are not satisfied with the status quo. You can't change everyone, in fact, you can't change anyone. All a manager can do is hope to keep these people accountable if they do not hold themselves responsible.
Hey,

Its a tricky time of day to be asking. Fortunately at least one person is up. ;)

First off there are considerable reasons why this might be happening, and a few ways to deal with it. But its going to be a lot of hard work. Rather than speculating, what Im going to suggest is that you take advantage of any programs at school and talk to a therapist or counsellor that is familiar with these types of issues.

Outside of that, prepare to roll up your sleeves. The mind and body are like an elastic and youre going to have to stretch it a little. You may have been protecting yourself from criticism for a little too long. Avoiding anything too difficult; too easy to fail at. Unfortunately this isnt the best way to grow. Try and be open to criticism, by understanding that its an opinion. Its feedback. Sometimes it helps you get better, and does not rob you of any accomplishment or success, no matter how sleight.

Try things that are difficult and fail. This is sometimes the best way to learn.

Find a mentor or someone you look up to and ask for guidance. You might feel awkward at first, but most people will be flattered. This is a more "safe" way to learn from experience.

Please remember to be kind to yourself during this process. Its easy to have negative self-talk. Be aware when this happens and try and steer your narrative to something that acknowledges your progress; do not rely on comparisons.
I actually have no issue with this.
Absolutely. There are many other ways people end up unmotivated, but the most common I've seen has to do with things that are within the realm of their manager - possibly with escalation to someone higher up.

I've encountered only five managers who fully exemplify this, but they had an outsize role in keeping good people who others might not have been able to keep, keeping them productive (at least enough of the time to satisfy their work commitments while they dealt with other issues), and attracting more good people (because of word of mouth from the existing good people). It seems the key here was to have the conversations when they were needed. The advice here "Make your job easier and don’t." doesn't correlate with these great managers at all. At least two of them to my knowledge have given reports the advice (and assistance) to find opportunities elsewhere.
I thought it was trying to implement markdown by italicizing half my sentence when I put * in. Markdown was what popped into my mind when I saw that behavior. It would be nice if I could find a way of escaping them without having to insert spaces where I don't want spaces.
If I had better knowledge of military history, maybe. But I find it extremely unlikely that there has never been a situation where somebody knew some secret about their enemy that encouraged them into a concession instead of resistance. I mean, it happens in legal situations every day.
I also look forward to 1 on 1s. In fact, I have to be the one to schedule and ask for them. It's a good way to build a communication channel that allows constructive feedback. Communication is always good.
Strongly agreed, and I'd add another benefit that I've found to be even more important: nearly everything that comes back when you search for "WebGL" will be relevant. That's entirely different from the situation when you look for OpenGL information: old OpenGL is very different from newer OpenGL which is pretty similar—though not entirely—to OpenGL ES 2.x (which is quite different from OpenGL ES 1.x), etc.
>I worked as a 'clean up' consultant in Europe for a couple of years - going to clients that had failing projects and were desperate to bring in a developer to get the project back on track. My job was 75% calming the client down and making them feel loved and 25% programming.

How did you get into this if you don't mind me asking? Before I started programming (and went back to school), I worked in customer service/technical support for several years where 90% of my job was calming people down. I've also done plenty of contract work, so I think I'd be pretty good at what you described.
Join a large company, join a startup, or be a founder?
my guess is that it uses an eeprom chip... fair easy to extract the adaptation data, but to interpret the data and emulate the original programming of the aibo you would need to do a lot of reverse engineering...

sony of course could open source aibo, and we could load it on an arduino and build better aibos...
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That strongly strongly strongly depends on the team and contributors.

I'd agree at my startup employers. I would not agree about several teams I worked with at Apple, to pick on a corporate example. Teams built from the ashes of an acquired startup at Apple, again, I'd be more inclined to agree. You can't support a broad conclusion like that anecdotally, because I can counterexample it anecdotally, implying there's more to it.

It really depends on the ICs in question. Startups are far more selective about their ICs because one person has a very big impact. With the exception of Google and a couple others, large-cap corporate throws IC quantity at problems and distinguished, autonomous, "rockstar" (sigh) ICs are far more rare. You need the cat herders there.
As a recent graduate for whom it took a year and a half and a move to a different country to find another job, I think I've developed job searcher's PTSD. Applied to lots of jobs I was very excited about, only to get degraded during interviews or not hearing back at all. I wouldn't dream of asking for a lateral move as that might make my boss think I don't like my current job, and as they can fire my with 48 hrs notice, which would cost me my week visa, I can't take any chances.
I dont think so. Just like when you contact the feds to report something, they know who you are but you re sin anonymous to the person you're reporting.

And in any event, like it or not, anyone with tos can pretty much establish whatever tos they want within the bounds of the law. But again, I don't see a discrepancy.

On the other hand, as others will say, treat everything you say and do on fb as if it's broadcast and permanent.
Thank you so much for the comments, since I come from finance and the Bitcoin/Ethereum community I evidently bypassed some concepts that need to be explained.

>After reading the deck I have no idea what exactly do you do.

This is unacceptable and I'm definitely going to add information about investment plans vs smart investment plans.

>Wealthfront and Betterment provide a service similar to what I think you plan to do except I understand how they work: they take my money and invest it in stock or bonds based on my risk profile.

It is exactly that + a trust service that will do what you instruct in case the user dies or some other specific event. But with AI smart contracts on the blockchain.

Once you create the SIP (smart investment plan) it is incorruptible and resilient in the network. I will ad info about that!

>My advice: make it clear how exactly are plan to grow $N dollars I give you into $N + $M dollars.

Excellent, this is amazing advice. Will add a slide with this.

>...fake money like Bitcoin...

It's not a new coin. Ethereum is rather a distributed blockchain network like Bitcoin, but built for smart programs. Developers can build decentralized apps (dapps) and the logic resides in the network. Consequently you can build decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs), smart contracts, and other distributed stuff that is resilient and may replace some traditional services.

Thx so much again! Will alert you here when I improve the deck.

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You can, but in Haskell you can enlist the compiler's help to prove that everything is completely airtight.

This property continues to hold, even as the application and the tests are modified by developers who do not even fully know what sort of effects they should otherwise be concerned with.

For instance, most programming platforms give you pretty ready access to a pseudo-random number generator. This is great until some well-intentioned new hire checks in code someplace that uses it to instrument something 1 out of 1000 runs.

We can't have this problem in Haskell and we don't have to spend any ongoing code review hours on it. It's gone.
TJ totally inspired me to write this, and I use a ton of his code. I most definitely credit commander.js, it's awesome. In a nutshell, this app lets you do what Commander can do, except in a live application, which you can connect to remotely. Hope that clarifies.
> What's changed over the past fifteen years is that the internet has dramatically decreased the cost of identify in an open job listing and sending in an application. The stack of resumes you need to read through in order to start scheduling interviews has just gotten longer. The easier you make it to apply for jobs, the slower the hiring process becomes.

The above explanation of why it now takes employers
longer to fill open jobs isn't convincing. Perhaps it
would make sense if you received:

(a) 10,000 resumes for a single opening (but that
doesn't happen)

(b) 50 resumes from 50 different Nobel laureates and
you were torn trying to decide which one is best
(but that doesn't happen either)

My experience is that if you got 5 resumes pre-Internet,
you'd get 50 post-Internet. But the additional screening
is negligible. I found that I can immediately reject 45
of the 50 resumes after looking at them for a minute
each because so many of the resumes are unqualified.

You might say that that is 45 minutes lost, but
even a single interview will take longer than that.
It's insignificant to the overall hiring process.

Maybe what really happens is that in large HR-driven
companies, the HR department forces the hiring manager
to interview many more incompetent or unqualified people
because they got so many resumes to choose from.
This could offer the final blow to the paper book market:

Since they way to monetize ebooks will be totally different than paper books, this means they'll need to be written in a totally different way.

So this means most authors will choose one or the other, and most likely they'll choose to write only ebooks, because there's more money there.
Maybe he was a quick study?
We keep hearing this argument, usually from print authors who are struggling to remain relevant. Really, Wikipedia is in good shape, having reached the point where there are articles on most things of significance.

Let's take a look at the last 10 new articles on Wikipedia right now:

EDULITE Institute
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New York Declaration on Forests
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Some of those subject might be worth an article, but it's not like Wikipedia really needs an article on any of those subjects. Most of the important stuff was covered in the first 500K articles.

Of course Wikipedia is hard to edit from a phone. Small screen devices are for mostly-output applications. Writing anything longer than a text message is hard on a phone. Editing documents is hard on a phone. Writing a footnoted paper on a phone or tablet is painful, even though you can now run Microsoft Word on Android devices. Does anyone on HN program from a phone except in dire emergencies? Writers use keyboards. Readers use tablets and phones.

Wikipedia's bureaucracy is somewhat complex, but it beats having some group of "moderators" with unquestionable authority. Editing Wikipedia has become daunting mostly because it's now expected that almost everything be cited. That's a good thing, because it prevents blog-type blithering. But many people aren't used to that, especially if they never went to a reasonably tough high school or college.
It's not just the managers. I've worked with great managers who were truly available, but due how busy I perceived everyone to be, I never felt comfortable interrupting things for what I deemed weren't critical issues.

Since we did have regular 1 on 1 meetings, I knew I had a dedicated block of time coming up to hash things out.
I think these issues are normal for most people starting out. Just accept that there will be many challenges. With diligence and time, you will be able to conquer them all. Keep pushing yourself and eventually the hard stuff won't be hard anymore.

Accept that you will mistakes, and that it's okay to do so. Correct them and learn from them. Keep working and keep getting better. Your biggest competition is yourself in the past.
Among "worst qualities of management I've ever experienced," drive-by is in the top 5. Even satirized in Office Space.

Come to think of it, "far too many direct reports" is on the same list...
Relying on documentation a lot is NOT a bad thing. Your problem solving abilities are important but one could make the argument that your ability to look up how to solve a problem is just as important. I can't count the number of times I've heard developers (including myself) say "Most of my job is just Googling how to solve something...".

When I was in college, once of my classmates only used documentation as an absolute last resort claiming that he didn't want to rely on it in college since he wouldn't be able to rely on it in the 'real world'. Not only was he slow and a pain to work with, but he couldn't have been farther from the truth. Google isn't going anywhere, and if anything its more accessible in the workplace than in a college setting where at times you're forced to write syntax correct code on paper in some unrealistic testing environment.

In short, embrace the documentation :)
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I think you are missing out on the key paragraph here:

>Of course, the precondition to this even working is that Anna knows fluent German – sadly something like the The Everything Learning German Book won’t do. She would have to at the very least start studying German in high school in the 9th grade, then go through immersion before matriculating, which requires a bit of foresight for any 14 year old.
Depression in the workforce causes reduced productivity and substantial amounts of money on a national level. The CDC estimations that it causes 200 million lost workdays each year which costs employers between $17 to $44 billion alone. It's in an organization's interest to have healthy employees; both mentally and physically.
But plenty of time to leave comments on HN.
VMWare. It takes advantage of the fact that VMWare links guest VMs to the host's printers by default and takes advantage of that link. The patch from VMWare even applied to VMWare Fusion even though there hasn't been anything published on getting this to work in OSX.
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I look at managing difficult situations as a challenge, but I have to be certain that I believe this is the right thing for the person, team, and ultimately company--not just a way to prove how awesome of a leader I am.

I didn't get the sense the author was advocating just dumping someone on the grounds they have a lack of motivation, but rather understand that we have the ability to terminate someone and that is sometimes the best course for everyone involved--including the person who is struggling with performance.
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You have to hook up your credit card and pay for things as they're ordered and before they're delivered.

So the only real risk is the someone uses a stolen credit card when they first sign up.

Between some sensible prudence on Magic's part (limit transaction size for new users) and the banks' own fraud detection systems, the risk seems quite manageable.
The article critique Facebook on free speech grounds, and yet when people on the political right bring up free speech, they are direct to this [0] cartoon. So which is it? Are big companies going to be bound be free speech requirements that allow right wing free speech, or are we going to define a new notion of freedom that includes the right to be transgender but excludes the right to express right wing opinions.

[0] https://xkcd.com/1357/