devingoldfish

> You should validate that the request is signed correctly

I agree with you here, but wondering what you see the benefit of per-app PKI is, versus signing all webhooks with the same cert. Is it to prevent having to do a key rotation that would impact every webhook consumer?

> Hasn't this pandemic pretty well proved that when people aren't at the office they want a little more space?

Yea, and they want a pool and a free pony too. Given that people can't all get the housing they want, how do we solve for the housing problems we've run headlong into? Building more housing is absolutely a meaningful way to attack the problem, and zoning reform is a part of that.

> Do people actually want to live in highrises in megacities? Or do they just do it so they can land a decent job?

Of course jobs are the driver here, but that means that incidentally, yes they do want to live in high-rises in megacities. There's no real sign of large cities releasing their hold on productivity and good paying jobs, the current remote work in a pandemic thing not withstanding.

> The zoning reform people only ever look at one side of that equation.

As someone who has faced the SF Bay Area housing crisis over the last ten years, I'd be fine with people moving out. But it's not a realistic solution, given that the good jobs are still here. Not to mention, there's not much we can do to reverse the economic incentives that bring people to places like San Francisco, but there is something we can do about local zoning rules. So it's entirely rational that people focus on building housing in these cities rather than trying to convince people not to move here in the first place.

Hey man, as someone who also formerly worked in a different industry, thank you for raising this question. The longer I'm in software development (six years now) the more confident I am that all the varying rationalizations for this stuff are complete BS.

Please keep raising these questions so that those of us who don't believe in bizarre guru-based project management approaches can have a home in this industry.

The claim that "we get our money from our customers" is, on its face, wrong. Of course we're paid by the company, not the customer. The simple truth this article misses is that your wage is simply the price of your labor, and it is the firm that is paying it. The "value you add for customers" (however that might be measured) really doesn't come into the picture. The job market is competitive, and the amount your company pays you is primarily determined by how much they would have to pay someone else to do the same job.

Just took another look and the data in the article is seasonally adjusted.

From the article: the worst two-month stretch of job losses since the Great Recession.

Came here to say the Technics 1200 turntable. Everything you need in a turntable and nothing you don't: pitch adjustment, 45rpm adapter, 33/45rpm speed buttons, and a light. The few controls it has are all intuitive and the quality of the manufacturing is obvious the moment you use it. I've had mine for 16 years and the only thing I've ever needed to replace is the needle.

From the article: "New high-end cars are among the most sophisticated machines on the planet, containing 100 million or more lines of code."

Does anyone know where this number comes from and if its realistic? It's hard for me to imagine unless you're counting all the LOC from Microsoft Windows: Car Edition or something.

Ah so in your view, why was the order flow of retail brokerages worth hundreds of millions of dollars per year to these HFT firms?

Michael Lewis is not the only person accusing HFT firms of front-running trades. Joseph Stiglitz, a nobel laureate in economics, has made similar accusations. Does he too just not understand the market?

The book explains that one company was running their own fiber optic cable between Chicago and New York to shave a handful of milliseconds off the latency. HFT firms also built their trading desks as close as possible to where the fiber terminated in New Jersey. This isn't the speed of your mom's google query, they were literally running up against latency caused by the speed that light travels down a cable.

Good catch, thanks for pointing it out.

> is it their responsibility to make sure he gets a sufficient amount of sleep?

No, its their responsibility to foster a workplace that doesn't lead people to die from overwork. Everybody else already does this.

> ...some courts in the SF area to make you pay the ticket before you can contest it (read this somewhere, not sure 100% on truthfulness of it)

Yea, that's false.

> If everyone called it in, there would be a lot of unhappy people holding paper instead of metal.

This actually isn't true. All the physical ETFs claiming to be holding physical gold do actually hold gold for each individual share (in fact thats the only way shares can be created!). It can get confusing because people short it which can make it seem like there are more shares outstanding than there really are. But there is actual physical gold for every true outstanding share of the ETF.

Otherwise, great summary.

This whole comment comes off as a sociopathic and mildly paranoid screed. The idea that software is an extremely anti-intellectual industry is remarkably out of touch. The numbers you throw around (95+ percent of all people, "cognitive 1-percenters") are pure hokum and your prescriptive advice is comical ("take mid-afternoon naps in a place your co-workers won't find you" -- what'd you have in mind, the broom closet?)

I'm surprised to see this comment at the top, it's hardly related to the article and reads like a tangential rant from a self-aggrandizing loner.

For those interested in more about the algorithm, one of the guys who created Shazam released a whitepaper on it. http://www.ee.columbia.edu/~dpwe/papers/Wang03-shazam.pdf

Presumably share volume, though I'm not sure what the multiplier is (my guess would be 1000x).