master-litty

I remember when I couldn't change my status from "Away" for some reason. On my computer it would always show me as "Online," but to everyone else I had been away for 300+ days.

Not trying to be overly cynical, but I don't know how true that is. It's still possible this was lifted without the creator's consent.

It's such a sensitive political subject, I can't help but wonder if a third party app that fails to report outages properly could get in trouble.

>Recruitment refers to the overall process of attracting, shortlisting, selecting and appointing suitable candidates for jobs (either permanent or temporary) within an organization.

It appears this is indeed what your organization is, based on your own words: "we'll be able to represent you and get you that interview quicker."

Are you avoiding the recruitment buzzword, or are you truly something different? I'm having a hard time telling it apart.

>we work closely

How closely? What do you do?

>We don't charge candidates for this service.

So you're a recruiting company that targets layoffs? Why would I use a service like this over, for example, Triplebyte, which also accommodates the same scenario? From both perspectives -- The company and the candidate.

>Given our extremely technical backgrounds

How extremely? In what way?

>based strongly on technical experience,

What technical experience?

>past projects,

What past projects?

>and future interests.

What future interests?

And it's polite. There's nothing wrong with keeping these thoughts to yourself. With rare exception, it certainly doesn't harm anyone.

But when a person leaves this world, they take all their good and all their bad with them -- I think it's acceptable to acknowledge what we are left with. To some, the striking acknowledgement is that we are one harasser less.

The conversation will naturally steer towards the good if it outweighs the bad. Perhaps I'm being too insensitive; Those are my thoughts for the moment, anyway.

It does often have that surface-level message: Good people will always prevail, evil is a necessary part of the status quo, etc. But that's always part of the joke.

I don't think anyone leaves South Park episodes thinking "wow that is so true" and having introspective thoughts about our country. It's more like "what the fuck did I just watch" and "that's about right," dismissive of the average American lifestyle or unhappy with the problems we often face.

I'll keep that in mind though. Interesting perspective.

My circle of friends is a pretty wide net and only one coworker knows about the Boeing nonsense, and he admitted it was because of Hacker News.

While these cameras do catch blatant red light runners, they also trigger tickets for safe, benign, and legal behavior. It penalizes the human experience way too much and it's caused overwhelming frustration.

There's often a line that you can't cross during a red light. If your vehicle even slightly tip toes over it, even if you're not impeding a crosswalk or the intersection in any way whatsoever, you get a ticket in the mail.

Lots of people are surprised when they get a ticket for resting their front tires on this line, as it is normally permitted behavior. It does not put anyone in danger and it is reasonably interpreted as not entering the intersection. It's not as though they're fighting the law. In that way it does create "new" rules.

Sometimes you have no idea where that trigger line is because it isn't labelled. Sometimes you do know but the camera is poorly calibrated, and the line becomes invisible once more. Sometimes you go up to the same line you always do every weekday on the way to work, but today it decided to issue you a ticket.

Sometimes you're taking a legal right turn on red but have to stop midway through the turn because a person decided to start walking across the street randomly. The camera might get confused and trigger a ticket, for an action you took to obey another right-of-way law.

Sometimes you're taking a left turn on a solid green light with no arrow. You have an opening and begin to take it, but someone else runs a red light, almost t-boning you in the process. You stop very suddenly to avoid the accident. They rightfully get a ticket. But your green light turns yellow and you quickly try to make it before it's red. You don't, and so you also get a ticket for someone else's wrongdoings.

Imagine the same scenario except you didn't stop in time. Your car gets smashed and you face death in the eye. An ambulance arrives just in time and takes you to the hospital. Your job doesn't offer health insurance and you're barely living paycheck to paycheck, but thankfully the car insurance is going to cover some of your hospital bills. You're still left with a final bill that amounts to your yearly income. A couple weeks later you call someone at the hospital to haggle it down, as the internet suggested you could try to do with some success, but they won't budge. You agree to a long-term payment plan with the hospital. It cuts deep into your finances and you have to make some sacrifices. You decide to start working a second job instead of selling things off.

Meanwhile there's a letter waiting in your mailbox. A traffic camera caught a picture of your accident and an automated system mailed it to you. It's quite a graphic picture of the incident in black and white. It claims you ran a red light. You've been fined $300. Attached is a brochure about being a safe driver, which touches on the consequences of running a red light. You could kill someone and change your life forever! The website on the ticket has all kinds of information about the camera system on the front page, claiming how accurate it is and how safe it will keep people. You get a popup about a randomly selected survey asking how you like the website. You can't seem to dismiss it on any page you go to.

But anyway that's okay -- This is obviously all a misunderstanding, and with all the free time and money you have, you can go see a lawyer that will help you fight it. Maybe you can even contest it without a lawyer, you read on the internet. You think there might be an FAQ on the system's own website but you can't read it without taking the survey. It's really hard to type with the cast but you try. You write a short essay with some very poorly spelled words about how you don't like their website very much. You later learn there is no FAQ.

You start imagining what life would be like if you had tons of money in this situation. You conclude you'd probably just pay the ticket and not waste your time fighting a wrongly issued ticket.

When you use Bash, you benefit from an entire ecosystem that also uses it. That same ecosystem is not motivated to drastically change the shell, and therefore it remains stable and predictable.

Bash typically isn't like Python or JavaScript, where certain features are introduced at a particular version and you have to constantly check for them, or not use them outright, or maintain which binary you have installed at all times. One Bash binary typically contains the same feature set as another binary.

Bash isn't the friendliest thing to work with syntactically, but it's friendlier than the alternatives in maintability and reliability.

Despite all this, on the flip side, there still are a lot of people invested in alternatives, and some have gained plenty of traction. zsh is a great example.

I suspect many people are uncomfortable holding a compromised device like that. The unpredictability of a toaster helping to take down Wikipedia is wild and potentially seen as a sign of chaos, especially for less technical users.

Who knows what else this crazy toaster will do next? Will it do the same thing again?

We don't need to be priced by the bandwidth, we just need better accessibility to metering. Something my mother could look at and say "huh, the toaster's sent 8gb of data today..."

It's a headline-worthy story itself. "Investor X doesn't want you to be safe, just wants your money"

Take it with a grain of salt. That was added to manufacture anger.

In geography, we would learn what's on the map, not how the map was created and the different projections a map can have.

Because of this weird system, I feel the Mercator projection would be most relevant in... A geometry course? And as silly as it is, that was indeed my initial reaction to your comment, which made me laugh.

So map projections are in limbo between course subjects. I think that's why the Mercator projection is basically meme status -- That blind spot in education hits us all by surprise, it seems dead obvious, and so it tickles the funny bone.

1. New engineers, and it's certainly valid. The net pros and cons of your abilities are equivalent to those coming straight out of college. You must set yourself apart from the competition by putting more time into your work or increasing the quality of your talent.

2. Experienced engineers who work for companies that devalue personal growth, and that is valid too. Our most challenging daily work will usually come from employers -- If that work isn't mentally stimulating, you're not learning anything, and nothing is being meaningfully done to separate you from those college level entries.

3. Experienced engineers who work in fields with a lower barrier to entry, and it seems valid to me. If your company's projects are more resilient to the mistakes novices will make, or there are less mistakes to make because it's easier to understand, it's difficult to increase the quality of your talent in a competitive way.

4. Experienced engineers who knowingly have poor talent quality, and it's valid. It's challenging for some people to critically think, to navigate the abstract nature of engineering, and to learn those deeper concepts that typically separate experts from novices -- And that is surely difficult to overcome.

5. Experienced engineers who believe they have poor talent quality but are indeed quite talented in meaningful ways, and it's invalid. It's imposter syndrome and it's absolutely rampant in our industry.

6. Experienced engineers with good talent quality but poor interpersonal skills, and its validity depends on your interpersonal growth. If you're not great at negotiating or you intensely value validation, you're certainly at risk to being taken advantage of, and not necessarily with malice on the company's part.

There is definitely a shortage of engineers with high talent quality in fields that require it. Many people believe weekly hours are the only competitive aspect of our industry and it simply isn't true in many cases.

While we will almost indefinitely feel pressure to stay busy, talented engineers have far more leverage to push back than they realize. Great engineers are hard to come by and many companies will work hard not to lose them.

Since then I've noticed HN has an aggressively negative opinion on Google's general affairs, and most of it makes sense on the surface. It almost feels like I dodged a bullet.

But comments like these shine a completely different perspective. The OP's story is extremely frustrating but it doesn't seem to stem from a lack of care, in your eyes.

If someone were really motivated to solve problems in that area, do you really feel they would be given the time to explore it? I get the impression these sort of projects would be underprioritized.

My hot take: I've always interpreted it as "street cred" thing. Getting a job at Google is difficult, for example, and wearing a t-shirt from your Google days could show intellectual pride.

https://www.cnn.com/2019/08/09/tech/white-house-social-media...

In that article, CNN reports on the draft order:

>According to the summary seen by CNN

CNN hasn't even seen the draft apparently. They've only seen a summary of it and they dare make all these extrapolations.

This seems deceitful. I'm not impressed.

A good reminder to be critical about what you hear.

Autism isn't inherently bad, it's just different. There's no duty beyond screenings and providing the knowledge.

The job was in SF but they operated all over the US.

Source: Me, after paying hundreds of dollars because the "signal was lost" for over a month, billed at the daily max rate, while their emails about it went to spam.