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Can confirm! We work closely with them at Datum

I didn't look closely at the project, but why take the extra step of base64? I do this all the time with tar by itself and it's wire-proof enough to work fine.

I spend noticeably less time on youtube than I used to because they keep shoving shorts in my face. I'm a premium subscriber, I click "fewer shorts," nothing changes. Maybe I should be thankful?

Substitute hover chairs for automobiles and we're already living in it. As a walker and cyclist in your average midsize US city, I often feel like the scene where WALL-E is pursuing EVE through the spaceship narrowly escaping collision.

I personally know of one ongoing effort whose founders think it's very much still viable. Well done uncovering and acting on it back in the day, Ron. Too bad about the outcome. I'm grateful you spent the time to write these stories. Thank you as well for being a public champion of lisp, for which I owe a great deal of my own undeserved success.

the $10M Virgin acquisition

I think he wrote that he didn't make anything from that. He held onto the equity because he (unfortunately) thought Virgin would turn it into a success.

For over a decade, my dopamine (from work) came from a very predictable place: shipping new things. As a manager, those direct rewards will simply disappear, leaving you feeling unfulfilled for weeks (months in my case).

Your job as a manager is still to ship things -- only now it's to ship more than you ever could alone. You get the privilege and responsibility to steward the skills of two or more engineers and shape the entire part of a business. The dopamine is harder won and often more rewarding. Management is difficult and exhausting but it's anything but unfulfilling. Let's not start new managers off telling them what they can't do but what they can do.

Ironically, as a manager of software engineers you should still be very engaged with the team's code. How else will you understand your capacity and understand what gaps you need to fill? Run the test suite, review designs, read PRs, ask questions, give praise for attention to detail. You will keep the bar high on the team and advocate for their work more effectively within the organization.

It's long, but well worth an hour of your time. He even states in the comments that he set out two years ago to make a positive video about AVs:

    What was most surprising to me was that when I began researching this video (two years ago!) it was going to be about some of the technical challenges that would need to be overcome in order to make self-driving cars a reality, but the conclusion was going to be that ultimately, AVs would be a good thing.

    By the time I was done researching this topic I was absolutely horrified of our future self-driving dystopia.

The future he illustrates seems mostly plausible, except that it depends on all of the technology functioning flawlessly. I have a hard time believing that streets full of high-speed AVs functioning in perfect synchrony is likely.

However, that doesn't change my general agreement with the conclusions he draws in that video and the rest of his channel.

I don't understand your distinction between syntax and semantics. If the semantics are complex, wouldn't that mean the syntax is thus complex?

Read the first couple of posts and found them very insightful. Thank you for leaving them public.

I was about to give up on a career in software development when I found Clojure in 2007.

Rich, I'll always be grateful to you for creating a language and community that got to the root of so many problems our industry still faces today. I'm confident it will continue to change the world as it has my own life.

It's unfortunate and ironic that Agile's legacy now apparently includes burn-out, when it specifically was designed to prevent it:

"Agile processes promote sustainable development. The sponsors, developers, and users should be able to maintain a constant pace indefinitely."

https://agilemanifesto.org/principles.html

Just carry them, or use a small cart. When the grocery store is small and it's a convenient walk across the neighborhood it's actually a pleasant experience that you can do several times a week.

If all you want is bare metal on the most interconnected backbone, try Equinix https://deploy.equinix.com/metal/.

We're not as cheap as Hetzner or OVH, but we're just as global as public cloud and will match or beat the latency.

You underestimate the cognitive burden of resolving syntactic ambiguity with non-lisp languages. So many problems disappear with s-expressions that when I return to a language with a "human" syntax I feel bad that I have to work harder.

Love my Garmin Instinct. It's just enough of a GPS smartwatch. Super durable, waterproof, great battery life, modest price.

I think it may indeed be an illusion. Paris, for example, was extremely planned.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haussmann%27s_renovation_of_Pa...

I tried storing the db in a shared Syncthing directory, but I had to make sure I only had one copy of Emacs running on any given machine. I of course couldn't do that so I would get conflicts with the db file and have to manually clean it up. Did I miss something?

Me too! I'm looking for a Rails developer, for a different team. This role is focused on our product licensing. All the great things Kellen mentioned about the company. Fully distributed. Slight preference for EU, but not required.

I'm the team lead and direct hiring manager, especially wanting to talk to women, POC, or any other underrepresented folks. You don't need to be an expert or have lots of years of experience. If you have enough web development background that you feel like in a safe environment with supportive coaching you could really excel, this could be a great opportunity. Let's talk!

drew+hn[at]elastic.co

I'm sure this isn't the case for every doctor, but what I've observed is that scale seems to be killing everything. When you have 10 minutes with a patient, have no long-term relationship, ship them off to a specialist that has even less context of their overall health, and ultimately just prescribe them meds to treat a symptom, that person does not get healthier. Over thousands of patients that starts to challenge any sense of moral obligation you originally had when entering the field. Then you become disillusioned and burn out.

The irony is the part about everyone becoming less healthy. That creates more demand for medical services. Rinse, repeat. We truly have the worst system imaginable in the US. It evolved over time. It's nobody's fault. It's everybody's fault. It needs to be burned down and rebuilt. It seemed like we had a chance with the ACA but it was pretty clear early on that it wouldn't fix the root causes and it hasn't.

Not sure if the comments were supposed to be connected, but just to be clear, Elastic NV (ESTC) did a traditional IPO. Spotify was the first to do this direct IPO and Slack would be the second.

They wouldn't raise any cash from this kind of IPO. Your point, however, is valid.

Amazon.com Inc. AMZN -4.12% is fighting a barrage of seller scams on its website, including firing several employees suspected of having helped supply independent merchants with inside information, according to people familiar with the company’s effort.

Amazon was investigating suspected data leaks and bribes of its employees, The Wall Street Journal reported in September. Since then, the company has dismissed several workers in the U.S. and India for allegedly inappropriately accessing internal data that was being misused by disreputable merchants, these people said.

Amazon in recent weeks also has deleted thousands of suspect reviews, restricted sellers’ access to customer data on its website and stifled some techniques that trick the site into surfacing products higher in search results, according to the people.

...Sellers also are buying Amazon wholesaler accounts on the black market to gain access to volumes of product listings, people familiar with the practice said. These accounts on Amazon’s Vendor Central system are designed to enable wholesalers to edit product listings to ensure they are marketed accurately. But some sellers misuse these accounts to alter rivals’ product pages, such as by changing photos to unrelated items, these people said.

...Some Chinese firms are selling wholesale vendor accounts for roughly $15,000, or renting them for up to $1,500 a month, the people familiar with the matter said.

...Amazon has increased efforts to scrub the site of potentially suspicious reviews, according to sellers. In recent months, some product listings lost thousands of reviews in a day, a number that can take years to build. Some of the reviews were legitimate and erased inadvertently, according to the sellers and a person familiar with the matter.

Married with children. Google Calendar and Todoist.

I've noticed this as well. Running a home together with a partner, especially with children in the picture, is an organizational challenge not unlike any other. It involves a lot of listening, acting, planning, budgeting, and keeping calm in the face of (neverending) problems. When I show up to work, it's more of the same.

How can we believe you?

Ah, makes sense, you still need the ability to handle the rerouted traffic.

Why is it not more trivial to auto-route around those kinds of events?

I use them at work and home (no choice). From a technical perspective, Comcast is usually rock-solid for me. Sure it's expensive, and an absolute joke that I have to call every year to keep the discounts and a TV plan that I don't use, but I'll give credit where they have actually done a good job. I'd much rather a stable service that's a bit of a pain on the billing side than a terrible service that has a nice website.

Most stuff has worked today. GitHub hasn't. IPv6 has been hit-or-miss as well.