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One, most US companies don't own their buildings - they lease for the tax advantages. It comes down to capital expenditures vs operational expenditures. They're happy to reduce OpEx, but it's not like it's a billion dollar windfall.

Two, satellite offices often aren't any more convenient for commuters, and often don't save as much money as you expect. You have to duplicate infrastructure in more locations. My son worked in Manhattan. His coworkers lived in Connecticut and Long Island; travelling to Brooklyn or New Jersey wasn't substantially easier for them. Even commuting between adjacent boroughs can be a pain if mass transit is oriented around getting people from the suburbs to the city core.

Apple?

Or do you argue Apple doesn't count because they're not in the business computing space, or that they're essentially a consumer products company that also makes personal computers?

Managers often have little discretion for unusual pay increases. The budget process, "fairness", and company culture inhibit raises. For anything out of the ordinary, you either need to get a promotion, be indispensable (or have a really strong negotiating position), or leave.

In the short term, there may be other factors you can use to offset that. Informal time off, working conditions, work-paid travel to conferences, etc. They don't increase your salary (which means they're not taxable!), but they can increase your quality of life. Managers often have more ability to affect these things, or get budget to implement them, than they have in raising salaries. In my company, vacation and sick pay are ordained across the board. Even the C level is limited to (admittedly generous) standard levels. That's offset by giving managers broad discretion to grant informal time away - if the work is getting done, take a Friday.

PS - We're being shafted harder than most people know. The Consumer Price Index, the official measure of inflation, was selected to downplay the actual rate of inflation. The official CPI inflation rate is 8% at the moment. If CPI were calculated the same was as in 1980, it would be 15% (http://www.shadowstats.com/alternate_data/inflation-charts). "Additionally, over the past 30 years, the government has changed the way it calculates inflation more than 20 times. These ‘methodological improvements’ to the CPI are said to give a more accurate measure of consumer prices. However, these changes could also be a convenient way to include or exclude certain products that give favorably low results, but there’s no way to know, given the lack of transparency." (https://www.forbes.com/sites/perianneboring/2014/02/03/if-yo...).

You're being offered smoke and promises. I would not let the current offer affect my behavior in any way. They are asking you to assume the risk for the company's benefit. It does NOT even boil down to how much you trust the current CEO or how much they need you to make the sale. What happens if the CEO resigns when a sale goes through? Worst case, they sell the company and lay you off. Oops, no retention bonus, thanks for working through the sale.

This is not legal advice, but if it were me I'd want more guarantees. If you want a retention or exit bonus, ask for an immediate pay increase, or deferred pay, or that it be unconditional.

Would you be ok if they reneged? If you believe in the company and want to continue working there, treat the bonus as fairy gold and keep working. If you expect to leave anyway, ditto.

You may wish to look into Synergy (https://symless.com/synergy/features). It allows you to use a single keyboard and mouse across multiple computers. Each computer retains its' own displays, so it may not meet your needs. When I used it I had Windows and Linux desktops side by side, and focus followed the mouse across the displays.

You're asking about a technology solution to a legal problem. Depending on the agreement between you and your employer, even a separate account may not be sufficient.

Understand that first, then determine how to best implement it.

I grew up as a military brat. Joining the military was more of the same, in a different dialect - AF Blue instead of Navy Blue. After commissioning I served in an R&D environment that was mostly civilian & contractor. I had the least military job in the least military command of the least military service. The technologies I shepherded that were cutting edge at the time are now flying in the F-22 and F-35.

No, because the problem is within essentially every state. There is a conservative exurbs/rural vs liberal cities divide. Studies have observed the effect in other countries as well. It appears cities select for a set of personality traits.

That's why conservatives often believe pushing governance down to the lowest (most local) level possible. (Except when we want to use a higher level to make others do what we think best, but that's not an exclusively conservative behavior).

> one of the 25 schools that claims to be a top 10 cs/engineering school

Hey, I went to one of those! Definitely going to steal that.

I also agree that a varying percentage of graduates from any reputable school are top notch. Many go to State U or State Tech because it's what they can afford, their friends went there, it's within driving distance of their home, or they like Big10 football.

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Texas should pass a law declaring unborn children are legally Uyghurs, and thereby render them invisible to Apple.

We should start calling these "Yet Another Satoshi Nakamoto Expose" (YASNE) posts. A great rabbit hole to fall down.

Coming up next... "Unsolved Nerd Mysteries".

I heard the same thing in the 90's, when moving IT jobs to the three I's (India, Israel, Ireland) was all the rage. I figured out which parts of the job were hardest to move, and got good at those. Fortunately, defects in quality and responsiveness killed many of those initiatives.

Focus on the parts of the job that aren't easy to automate. For example, AI may become good at writing code, but not at figuring out what code to write. Get good at Architecture and Requirements, and understanding the business you support.

Another root cause in our environment is alluded to in the article. With the rise of test frameworks, devs seem to test to prove the API is correct, not to find problems.

Another symptom of this is that when the QA/Staging function went away, load testing became perfunctory. Many of the performance problems we see should have been caught in QA. Devs are anxious to ship and get on to the next sprint, leaving app support and operations on the hook.

This happens weekly.

Developer: Host XYZ is very busy.

Sysadmin: Yes, Yes it is. The top 10 processes are your Java App.

Developer: Fix it.

Sysadmin: ???? You can request a larger virtual machine, you can try these options to the JVM, or you can fix your code.

Developer: Can you do it?

My benefits package pays for a pair of glasses every year, and my prescription doesn't change much. One year I get a "free" pair of progressive bifocals (with an upcharge of $100-200), the next a "free" pair of prescription sunglasses ($100-200 upcharge) or computer monovision glasses (really free).

So I budget $100-200 from my HSA per year for glasses, and have spares at home, the office, and in the car. When they're 5-6 years old, I donate them to a charity that redistributes them.

Not "tiny" I guess, but surprising luxury for $16/month.

and MIPS, as a server architecture. In 1998, MIPS Technologies left SGI. Without a major systems house using it, MIPS was left to chase embedded markets. The R10000 had been used by SGI, Tandem, Pyramid, and NEC for high-end servers.

HP concluded PA-RISC (and all RISC, really) had reached a plateau. Wikipedia explains it well:

In 1989, HP determined that the Reduced Instruction Set Computing (RISC) architectures were approaching the processing limit at one instruction per cycle. HP researchers investigated a new architecture, later named Explicitly Parallel Instruction Computing (EPIC), that allows the processor to execute multiple instructions in each clock cycle. EPIC implements a form of very long instruction word (VLIW) architecture, in which a single instruction word contains multiple instructions. With EPIC, the compiler determines in advance which instructions can be executed at the same time, so the microprocessor simply executes the instructions and does not need elaborate mechanisms to determine which instructions to execute in parallel.[5] The goal of this approach is twofold: to enable deeper inspection of the code at compile time to identify additional opportunities for parallel execution, and to simplify the processor design and reduce energy consumption by eliminating the need for runtime scheduling circuitry.

HP believed that it was no longer cost-effective for individual enterprise systems companies such as itself to develop proprietary microprocessors, so it partnered with Intel in 1994 to develop the IA-64 architecture, derived from EPIC. Intel was willing to undertake the very large development effort on IA-64 in the expectation that the resulting microprocessor would be used by the majority of enterprise systems manufacturers. HP and Intel initiated a large joint development effort with a goal of delivering the first product, Merced, in 1998.[5]

(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Itanium)

There were two competing schools of thought in the late '70s and early '80s.

One said that computer hardware should have hardware support for high level languages. That school led to the VAX, iAPX432, and 80X86. The other school said that computer hardware should be simple so that it could go faster, and that the compiler should be smart enough to map high level languages to simple hardware.

Intel was firmly in the first camp. It flirted with the second repeatedly: see the late '80s i860/i960. Itanium was the biggest bet placed: it was a RISC-like architecture with the added complexity of multiple dispatch encoded in it's Very Long Instruction Word architecture. The compiler could rearrange instruction order to keep hardware busy, AND (to some extent) instruction contents.

Itanium seemed like a reasonable bet, and Intel (and HP) had the clout to convince others. It was a factor in the decline of the Alpha and MIPS server market, and even Sun hedged its bets by porting Solaris.

Not sure the government needs to be involved at all. Purdue has an income-based repayment program. It's not a loan - technically it's an income sharing agreement. A sophomore, junior, or senior receives an amount, say $10,000, and agrees to repay 4% of gross salary for 100 months after graduation.

Colleges have already adapted - they've widened the net, looking for rich parents globally. They admit more foreign students, who pay full rate. That's particularly controversial for public schools because of taxpayer funding.

On problem is that many of the government interventions on "making college cheaper" had the reverse effect. Loans and grants made students price insensitive (and financial aid disguised the true price). Couple that with the fact that universities compete for students by spending money - nicer facilities, more programs, more administrators/support personnel.

It will be interesting to see how the experiments by Purdue and Texas pan out. Both have initiatives in "affordable" degrees, and both have enough of a brand to be attractive alternatives.

Graduation, employment, and starting salary are factored into the US News ratings for law schools. Law schools responded by offering graduates who could not find jobs "fellowships" to move them into the "employed" category.

What you measure is what you will get.

If they did a cost/benefit calculus, they wouldn't be on that path (or that field, most likely). I have to remind myself that most people don't think like I do. There's a confirmation bias, where I'm surrounded by people who do - build mental models, analyzed them, then play what-if. My goal is to understand; for others, it's to experience, or to connect socially.

Two Possibilities: they work for a non-profit or government entity (school district, social services organization, etc), or they work less than full time. About 85% of speech pathologists are women, who tend to prioritize other factors (work-life balance, family care, etc) over raw earnings (https://www.zippia.com/speech-language-pathologist-jobs/demo...).

According to ZipRecruiter, the national average is about $98K. The NY state average is $101,491 (https://www.ziprecruiter.com/Salaries/What-Is-the-Average-Sp...).

"there was a bug that forced a reboot when the keyboard was plugged in while the system was running."

That's not a bug, it's a feature! -- Sun

God, we fought with them about that. Even if it was a reasonable feature on a Sun 3 workstation, why put it on a high end server?

Using "wc -l" or "sort | uniq -c | sort" to count and classify things.

Count processes and threads by user on Linux:

# ps -Teo euser=,comm= | sort | uniq -c | sort -nr

The first joke oneliner I learned, circa 1980:

1: gotta light?

No match.

Quickly followed by:

2: Could you beat up superman?

No match.

Oh, the days when csh was cool and not retro.

"Now yeah, I stayed at the architecture contract for a long time, and that was contrary to my beliefs too. I had no business doing defense contracting in any form. But that was a boring, actuarial, technical evil; the biometrics stuff would've been a constant in-my-face reminder of the wrongness."

He had a price to tolerate a lesser encroachment on his beliefs. Sounds like there's two dimensions to explore: what price, and what personal compromise you're willing to accept.