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Is this seriously what constitutes an article premise these days for the smithsonian?

Will you open this up to include other roles besides SDEs? Like AWS/Azure/GCP technical sales / SA / cloud engineer roles? Or even tech support roles?

I thought this one is particularly interesting:

http://www.starling-software.com/employment/programmer-compe...

> Uses Big O notation to denote levels, which is a fun shibboleth. Skills are broken out to Computer Science, Software Engineering, Programming, Experience, and Knowledge. This one has a long record on Hacker News but is a good map of things that we can work on.

I'm fairly impressed with the level of detail here, and the fact that they use big O notation to designate the categories is quite clever.

For those who were unaware, Jamf is an enterprise management company that offers Apple device management. This is an interesting time for them to IPO, as Apple just acquired one of their competitors a week ago..

Dupe. This is being discussed on the front page: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23693407

That cost is nearly double it's original price 3y ago, and looking at the recent channel additions -- I'm not sure the users will be convinced it's worth the extra cost. I wish someone would have a selection like:

$5 - one channel

$7 - two channels

$10 - five channels

$20 - fifteen channels (you pick)

$50 - 40 channels (we pick)

$50 + $15 - 40 channels (the $50 package), plus <package B>

> NovaChat is a paid app with a monthly fee of $10 (price may go up after beta period)

Wow $10/mo?! Pidgin was the multi-network chat tool, and was free! I'd understand $10 one-time, but not per month. And the price may go up? No thanks

Yes. Here's what AWS' page says

> deliver significant cost savings over other general-purpose instances for scale-out applications such as web servers, containerized microservices, data/log processing, and other workloads that can run on smaller cores and fit within the available memory footprint.

> provide up to 40% better price performance over comparable current generation x86-based instances1 for a wide variety of workloads,

From what I read, it's not terribly hard to tell your compiler to compile for a particular instruction set, you just need to do it. Cost savings and better performance are great incentives, as well as Apple moving their Mac platform to it will drive more market share for developers to take the time to recompile.

Edit: Forgot to add the source of those quotes: https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/graviton/

> One problem is that most Apple IDs are tied to an iCloud email address. So most accounts created via Sign in with Apple will use an iCloud email address. But many of those iCloud email addresses are unused and unchecked, because a customer’s “real” email account is their Gmail, Yahoo, or Hotmail account.

Wow, this is a really good point. I just checked and yup -- my AppleID is directly linked to my icloud email, and I've never once checked my icloud email account. I wonder what's in there. Meh, too lazy to go check it

The truth is they cannot afford homes in the cities they'd prefer to live in. This is supply & demand, and local city councils are artificially restricting the supply while demand is high, which only increases supply, and interest rates are at their lowest, which also increases demand. It's a simple econ math model.

Millennials need to move to suburbs and other towns which have more affordable living. Just because they want to live in city X doesn't mean they deserve it.

I'm surprised that makes the jump from employment/labor law to speech/politics policies.

Strawman: If I were a politician campaigning and were to say something like, "Veterans do not deserve benefits and I don't think we should fund veteran benefits" or "Veterans do not deserve our blind respect", am I now discriminating and will get banned from the platform?

For someone who has mostly sat on the sidelines of these debates, the coordination is really disturbing. Who is pulling the strings here?

I also read yesterday's post from the same author, but neither article is really a mental model (despite that being the subject of the entire blog), and they aren't particularly informative enough to be on the frontpage for the blog's first two posts?

If you upvoted this one, what am I missing that you liked about it?

> I often recommend proxy integration

Could you go further into what this is? Do you mean the API Gateway proxy integration? Is there a code sample somewhere

TBH, the satirical tone makes your reply difficult to read and weakens your argument, if any. I'm really not sure what you're position even is - you could have just said, "history is cyclical" or "nothing has changed"

> "Most firms only last about 10 years" is selection bias because most firms don't even last 10 years.

How is that selection bias?

> Meanwhile you're ignoring my point -- it isn't a question of how many companies are destroyed, it's a question of destroying even more of them. Some evidence that maintaining a stable company is hard is not an argument for making it even harder.

Sure. I'm not proposing we should make it harder

There's a decent write-up about the legal issues around blocking the satirical website called Dowry Calculator, written here: https://internetfreedom.in/delhi-hc-issues-notice-to-the-gov...

> What an awful idea; people go to work for the social connection.

Heh, I disagree. I work remote and I go to work to do work and get a paycheck. The office has only helped to whiteboard or do some interviews, but other than that I avoid it

> Though when it comes to a buyer, hard to tell how they'll be able to get to a fair valuation given the fairytale numbers they have in their books.

I always pictured the court auctioning off assets in a firesale to the highest bidder. Is that not how it works?

Ya, after reading the page I would think the developers agree. They even wrote "Deta is building a cloud for the developers with less build bells and whistles". Sounds like a simpler version of Heroku? But why not use Heroku?

They also make it sound like the problem they're solving is that YAML is hard... but it's really not

> Starbucks, founded 1971, fifty years old next year. Caterpillar Inc., founded 1925. Ford, 1903. 3M, 1902. Kroger, 1883. Campbell Soup, 1869. Pfizer, 1849. Proctor & Gamble, 1837. Colgate-Palmolive, 1806.

Choosing a handful of successful winners in comparison to "most firms only last about 10 years" is a selection bias.

All of the original members of the DOW Jones industrial average have declared bankruptcy or been absorbed into other companies -- except General Electric! Oh wait, they were just removed from the index

It's not that surprising to me -- Apple was selling this 5y old device about ~16 months ago, so they should still be supporting it

Good point! I just went back and checked that specific site, and they are definitely doing something odd. I retract my previous judgement

I'm using Firefox and just tried to save a webp image and it tried to save as a web page. [initially, I said no.. see edit below]

Edit: Looks like it was that specific website and they are doing something odd, so I retract my initial judgement.

This article isn't worth the time. TL;DR: A lot of digital ink was spilt about a digital Maginot line, but skimps out on spilling ink for the solution

> The solution to this problem requires collective responsibility among military, intelligence, law enforcement, researchers, educators, and platforms. Creating a new and functional defensive framework requires cooperation.

So the solution is that we must work together, starting with the military? Is there something actionable here?

> It’s time to prioritize frameworks for multi-stakeholder threat information sharing and oversight. The government has the ability to create meaningful deterrence, to make it an unquestionably bad idea to interfere in American democracy and manipulate American citizens.

What deterrence are you proposing? The kinetic kind?

> It can revamp national defense doctrine to properly contextualize the threat of modern information operations, and create a whole-of-government approach that’s robust regardless of any new adversary, platform, or technology that emerges. And it can communicate threat intelligence to tech companies.

And that's it? Reading the content from think tanks at least put out something more substantial.

> I'm surprised we didn't get any performance numbers.

The fact that all the demoes were on their top-of-line most-expensive machines fell very weird to me. "Look at this amazing performance" would be great if the demo was on a Macbook Air.

What changed to enable this?

I was told a decade ago by my professor that chip makers were facing an issue with electrons jumping across these tiny circuits, and couldn't go much smaller. I'm continuously surprised.

A better statement would be "until Facebook does X" instead of "at least until deadline". Clever use of language is not lost on their marketing/PR/legal teams

The additional iOS privacy protections (camera & mic use, and Safari tracking sounds great). The developer self-reporting of data use is great, but can we trust self-reporting? What's to dis-incentivize the developers from lying?