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Sort of, but if the software engineer had never had access to CS material and worked in a company where practices were based in CS so they naturally picked it up. These are villagers that build small homes without machinery and very basic tools, and haven’t learned from experts.
Yes life is cheap there, people get sick, injured and die for preventable reasons all the time. Life expectancy is 10 - 15 years less than in developed countries as a result. The west I think mixes up politics with their world view which makes them think everything is equal somehow, it’s then surprising when they see such foolishness that leads to such suffering first hand.
It’s Indonesia, engineer doesn’t really mean what we think in the west. It’s more that someone is passionate about something, not that they have a civil engineering degree and are building to some code. There are engineers like we’d think in Indonesia of course, but they’re unlikely to work on a western lady’s pet project and are going to be a lot more expensive.
I’ve been told by Indonesians their style is to dive head first into the water, then check for rocks. Yes safety is a big issue there and causes a huge amount of needless suffering.
They look nice, but I can’t help question how safe they really are, they’re more like giant baskets woven together by artists as opposed to calcuated engineering by engineers.
This was a pain for me too, despite having nearly 60 employees they were all new to the problem domain which left me and my co-founder still wearing way too many hats.
We need a new type of object that isn’t just a clever pattern that can be reused but understands how to adapt to the program it’s in, a smart object. I was hoping that’s what this company was doing with AI but I guess not.
This issue isn’t about economics of course, but what I don’t quite understand is why the right feels like it’s an injustice to change the playing field, like it’s cutting in line, or will put the laws of nature into chaos if someone gets more than their fair share for the work they did. I really don’t follow...
This may not be part of the spec per se but you can invalidate them by distributing a bloom filter with revoked tokens and validation times, services just need to poll the service at the granularity needed. This makes scaling still much simpler than one big session store.
What’s it like to program for it? Do you need to manage the distribution and utilization per node your self like a normal HPC farm? Or is it more like a single computer like a Cray?
I feel like services like Primephonic and Idago feel more like I’m offline in a classical music library, no flashy graphics and random pop songs with similar names don’t get returned in search results.
That makes sense, I think I still think of an object reaching space as it can then stay there, vs just a peekaboo. :)
Cool project, but I always find it amusing when the word “suborbital” is used since it’s sort of a fancy way to say normal or not space. Reminds me this Feynman story:
Or his questioning of space shuttle engineers: ''They kept referring to the problem by some complicated name - a 'pressure-induced vorticity oscillatory wa-wa,' or something. I said, 'Oh, you mean a whistle!' 'Yes,' they said; 'it exhibits the characteristics of a whistle.' ''
http://movies2.nytimes.com/books/97/09/21/reviews/feynman-do...
I like NYT’s articles, but have been hesitant to actually subscribe due to issues like this, and other stories where they make it hard to unsubscribe, require you call them etc.
Wow, he’s selling the cheats for nearly $300, that’s not exactly a kid with a lemonade stand.
They used to not even offer a demo, and on the phone they were pretty glib about paying for a year to try it out. The fatal flaw was that since it’s not part of an HRMS system it’s not integrated into the whole employee lifecycle, so other solutions made more sense. We went with BambooHR which also has ATS along with everything else you need and was pretty cheap.
I found whipping through the grammatical logic trees in German, and exceptions, were like the grammatical equivalent of composing a Fuge, or writing a Lisp function on the spot. Eventually the elegant form of the language can be see after struggling with the details. Arthur Schnitzler’s short stories helped me see a soring elegance in the language that wasn’t obvious to me for a while after becoming fluent.
Not a day goes by when I don’t encounter a major bug in some software in the most common workflow e.g. iPhone unlock screen fails to show up, payment of a Kaiser bill fails and says to try later, shutdown my windows computer never completes, website chat for CA FTB says I’m entering invalid characters when talking to an agent and I can’t explain my issue as a result, can’t download my tickets from Ticketmaster since it thinks my iPad is a desktop and I need a mobile device etc. I feel like I expend more enginery troubleshooting these issues then doing what I need to do with most software.
I feel like we need the Second Software Crisis movement to address the bug riddled software were still making, it’s as though we’re just acclimated to bugs everywhere as being expected. Perhaps in 2100 they’ll look back on this time in software as we do on the early automotive industry today.
Here’s a picture comparing the amount of space required for cars:
https://www.bicycles.net.au/2012/09/cycling-promotion-fund-r...
I’ve called the IRS recently due to them losing my filings, hard to get a person on the phone, even their advocates told me everyone struggles with it, the robot hangs up on you, when you do get someone they have no idea what to do an transfer you around, some agents just make things up, contradict policies they just told you. I ended up physically going to their office to drop off the paper work to get an official receipt they received my filing for when they lose it again. Next step is contacting my local congresswomen’s office for help. My experience at least with something very simple.
I doubt many in the Chinese government could explain rationals for the One China policy any more.
Agreed on news being nearly worthless, 99% of articles are filler and could just be summarized in a couple of sentences if not the title. In fact the title of most articles tells you everything.
Likewise, I’ve dropped mine pretty hard a half dozen times by picking it up from the dust bin which subsequently detaches.
No society has collapsed due to their sociopaths feeling un-incentivized, but they have when there are huge disparities in income that cause suffering. So I can’t see how dividing the revenue of companies up so that you don’t cause your entire society to collapse and no one has anything should be rocket science is my point. Obviously their leaders should have but they didn’t.
It’s dumbfounding how something so obviously fair about how we treat people as a society becomes controversial... a trillion dollar company’s employees shouldn’t have a hard time getting food and need government assistance. Period.
Tesla was founded in 2003, that’s a long time for all these companies to have been sitting on the side line. Subaru is still in no rush.
Was just using it to find where Sgr A* was in the sky a few minutes ago, I love how big the database is. Thank you!
DW also has a good documentary exploring how past societies collapsed due to climate changes, and how only Japan was able to change course when they realized they had broken their environment.
Agreed 100%, this is all that matters I’d go as far to say. It’s also is a key lesson in the disposable code shift that serverless is enabling as well.