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The scary part of journalism is when it’s about activism vs. the truth. Activists can lie if the truth isn’t important.

Lying for ratings, though, is also very bad.

Activists lying for both activist causes and ratings is extremely bad.

And so does growing massive amounts of pot and mining bitcoin.

Will these things stop? Probably not.

Not lucky- just deceptive. Deception is what scammers do, and they do it because it’s guaranteed to make money, not because they hope to get lucky.

I’m not advocating this. Doing this was wrong, and it’s not some black hat exploit. It was a scam; pretending to be someone to make money off of an unwitting victim.

The argument made is seemingly harmless, but historically has been proven incompatible with morality.

For example, one could argue those that are poor or uneducated are that way because of nature, their IQ, their race or ethnicity, but we know this to be false and immoral.

I use junk drawers, which scale to available drawers, after which you buy more storage or a larger house.

If your boss is in your house using your shitbowl.

Sharding is not really scaling for many, and I think despite your good intentions you may be misleading others. I’m glad you like the setup but people flocking to SQLite scares me.

It’s a prediction based on its continued meteoric rise and given its net worth.

It’s a great idea, but your company is going to be a serious target. You not only will have the ability to control authN, but you’ll own authR also if you’re managing users and groups. You’ll also own all the conference rooms, printers, servers, etc., since you’ll be hosting Active Directory for the Windows folk... at least that’s how I’d understand user management for auth.

Easy is not the word I’d use. Lucrative maybe. Not easy.

> Linux is fragmented

It’s actually quite an astute observation. I read recently that there are over 600 Linux distros and only about 500 are actively maintained.

> Web developers who use Google Analytics are stupid.

The adjective is wrong, but it’s also fair to say that there are free solutions for analytics, and some may go straight to using GA when they don’t need to.

I worked at a company where we interviewed frequently in teams of two.

The pairs were chosen mostly at random from the large development team, except that at least one would be more experienced with the company, typically.

The first team of two would get to know the person.

The second team would do a technical interview.

If the candidate did well by getting four thumbs-ups, they would often be invited to have lunch with members of the team they could be joining. Unless lunch went horribly, they would then meet with a director for the final interview.

Eventually the lunch part was skipped, but it was a helpful way to expose potential culture or tech fit problems that were missed earlier.

This process worked really well, with the exception of the candidate often having to explain some part of their background three times.

I’ve never been part of an interview since that I liked as much, and we didn’t wear out.

> Instead of trying to avoid it or wishing for comfort, we can instead relish that we're in uncertain territory and feel those brief twinges of fear and doubt.[1]

Generally true, but it also sounds like you’ve not made big mistakes.

Big mistakes often involve slight twinges of fear and doubt also.

[1]- http://themediocreprogrammer.com/build/html/the_mediocre_pro...

Thanks! The PDF didn’t have one.

Is FreeBSD still used to as great of an extent in US Government / Military / Intelligence as it used to be?

There seemed to be some talk of Linux I noticed in past years, and I’ve been thinking about trying to out again, but I’d feel better if I knew that it was still well-used.

Needs an index.

I just read the GitHub repo mentioned in the article and it looks like gibberish to me.

Pandas to me are still big lazy black and white bears eating bamboo, until someone can point me to something more intelligible.

Did you read the paper?

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2009.14383.pdf

I made the mistake of continually thinking my problem was those who led, then realizing it was me, then losing most of my self-confidence.

I recommend not doing what I did. If it’s a bad fit, get out. It’s damaging.

Is Basecamp really the example to aspire to? Being the developer of Rails and ActiveRecord and fostering and milking that would be the software equivalent of Peter Frampton, and I mean that in the most positive way.

I think we know that we’re not all going platinum. This article was about just “working on the song(s)” for the enjoyment of it, whatever that may involve, or that’s the way I took it.

In addition to an IM client, it was a character in HGTTG by Douglas Adams.

He may have lost his bet, but maybe he came close.

2020 was the closest I’ve come to feeling that society was collapsing.

Would you have if it weren’t supported by Microsoft?

It could be about budget. It could also be perceived incompetence.

If students don’t seem to be getting benefit from education by professors who focus solely on mathematics, then that problem needs to be understood.

This is the second time this has happened according to the tweet, and the professors have been unable to defend themselves both times.

Maybe someone should offer to assist in improvement of the program. It’s probably a fine place to work if they want to stay there this much.

> virologyst

Is this an actual spelling in some dialect of English?

It looks interesting. In medicine, when I see “gy” I’m thinking gynolocologist.

It’s impressive what you say, but I would hire someone that would need to google to develop something if they were to code it quickly enough and to code it well.

Like the US winning the revolutionary war with guerrilla warfare tactics that native americans used against them when trying to defend themselves.

Teaching it CTEs, subqueries, generic column identifiers (1,2,3), unions, left outer join, like, regexp, JSON, array, array_agg, concat, coelesce, trunc, etc. would be fun.

But something else humans can do is look at the data to construct patterns as another way to extract data. To some degree it requires some (bad) inductive reasoning approaches like “I’ll assume maybe most or all data in this column has this format.” “Oops, it didn’t, so let’s tweak it to look like this, to cover it sometimes also being empty string or null.”

PDFs are fine but their time will come to an end for one big reason: they were invented to reproduce defined-size paper forms.

This is why I didn’t get really excited about WebRTC when I looked into it before.

And the problem isn’t with WebRTC, it’s with the current infrastructure of the net that prevents some clients from just communicating directly without some element of centralization. And some of it’s our own fault.

A cynical way of looking at it might be that WebRTC is being allowed because it helps scale the web while still being dependent on a central weak link of control.

But it is what it is.