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I'm torn. In my heart, I absolutely did not want Amazon here due to how it would obliterate any shred of culture we have left, decimate anyone who didn't work in tech, and paralyze the city's traffic completely.

On the other hand, as a developer and a home owner, it would have been amazing for my pocket book.

Except with property you have the utility value of having a place that keeps rain off of your head and with the S&P you have the utility value of.. getting to be obsessive about numbers on a screen every moment of every day. Whether that difference is worth the extra points is an individual call.

Oh, I have an idea. It involves crazy glue, 4 pallets of waffle cones, and a pitchfork, but nobody writes an article when I spew nonsense.

I suppose you didn't read the article, but if you did, his idea really has nothing to do with building a tunnel.

Oh god. Of course he does.

Stay out of this Musk. There's lives at stake here and nobody needs your brainworm riddled opinions.

Do you not think that once in 30 years one the ~50 rich, seemingly very intelligent people that live on that street didn't step out onto it and think, "Hey.. this is a nice private street we have here. The property taxes on it must be killer. Hmm.. I wonder who pays those.. maybe I'll bring it up at the next HOA meeting."

Why do I get the feeling that the same people defending the residents of this street wouldn't bat an eye at condemning a poor person whose electricity gets shut off because the bill was sent to their former address and they simply forgot abou tit?

Better than being a broke duck.

Well, for at least a single year. I mean.. Work twice as hard for one year, and get paid close to what I can reasonably expect to make in 20.. yea, seems like a no brainer.

I actually don't think this is particularly heinous as long as they are completely transparent and open about it. Hell, if they wanted to be even more above board, they should provide a slider that allows you to allocate a percentage of CPU usage you are dedicating at a given time.

Now, whether it'll be worth it is the real question. But I'm hopeful. If we can find an alternative to obtrusive, obnoxious ads I'm all for it.

I enjoy them. It strikes me as extremely odd that the main complaint against open floor plans is that they kill productivity. This is such a complaint that there's people up and down this post moaning in agony as if it were literal torture that they're unable to be as productive as possible. Personally, I don't think that a company is entitled to me working at 100% productivity constantly, because I value my sanity too much. Yet, here are people begging, pleading for their employer to make them be able to produce more for their corporate overlord.

M'eh. I work at the efficiency that is comfortable for me. Occasionally I chat with my coworkers about stupid shit to keep my mind loose and give it a break. If I absolutely need to be in the zone for a couple hours, I put on headphones, find a private room, or work from home. I'm completely ok with open floor plans.

About the only things that would draw me to a private office job is, first, the prestige of having your own office, and second, the sense of ownership of space. I imagine it to be very comforting to go into work and have one little 8'x10' space which is "yours". If we're being honest, I think these two things are actually what the anti-open office people want. They just use productivity as a way of masking it and making it appear better to their employers.

This. I had a problem where I needed to scrape roughly 20,000 html documents daily, which is normally a pretty slow task. You have to open the file, load it into memory, parse the DOM, and then run all of your selection methods. Sequentially, it took about 60 minutes daily. Multithreading slowed it down because it was CPU bound. Multiprocessing allowed me to run 12 processes across 8 cores. That took the total processing time down to about 4 minutes or so. And I was able to write the code in a day. Writing something similar in Java or C++ would have taken me a week.

Python is insanely fast at data processing and analysis because it has very fast libraries.

As a matter of fact, don't know if you've heard, but data processing it kind of like.. Python's thing...

Its not bigotry. Its demography. Bigotry would be me, upon hearing someone is a welder, asking them why they voted for Trump. Demography is the realization that welders work nationwide, multitudes in rural areas, multitudes in traditionally conservative industries such as oil and gas, and therefore a person is much more likely to find people who share political culture than in an industry that is clustered in major coastal cities.

I don't think I implied that at all. If you felt that way, you might be revealing your own cognitive biases. I don't think any form of labor is morally superior to anything else, mainly because I disagree with the whole concept of the labor system in general, but I disgress.

My point was that you can't denigrate people asking to share their opinion peacefully and without verbal assault, ie a "safe space", while simultaneously complaining that your viewpoints aren't allowed to be shared peacefully and without verbal assault.

Which, btw, I believe is a load of bull. I've been party to multitudes of political conversations in the workplace and a negligibly tiny percentage of them have I seen actually get out of control. You may feel that your viewpoints aren't aligned with the culture, but that's my entire point. You have no reasonable expectation to force the culture to do anything, leading back to my point of I wouldn't go to to work at, say, an oil rig with the expectation of my political culture aligning with theirs.

And before you begin, I'm not saying anything against people who work on rigs. I am saying that there is evidence that it overall is a right leaning culture.

I grew up in small(ish) town Texas with those exact viewpoints. I wouldn't say that my viewpoint was exactly ostracized, but it was definitely "odd" and Other. I never really suffered any physical intimidation for my viewpoints, but that's probably because I'm a giant ogre that people tend not to feel like they can mess with. But I did have my fair share of heated arguments when refusing to pray before a football game or counter-protest the abortion protestors, etc.

Not to Godwin it or anything, but...

Wasn't the passivity and meekness of the opposition the exact reason fascists were able to rise relatively easily in the intrawar period?

Personally, I think the concept that there aren't ideas worth throwing a punch over is equally as repugnant as saying you should punch anyone you disagree with.

Yes, I was mostly being flippant there. I've known several welders and iron workers and they tend to mostly be apolitical and when they have opinions they're a fair mix of both left and right.

But welders is what came to mind first when I was thinking of "stereotypically right wing jobs". Whoops.

The isolation aspect is.. problematic, yes. But I'm much more worried about the cheating aspect. Its a fairly routine occurance that if we're interviewing an East Asian, they'll contact current Asians working in our department and ask for the answers to the interview questions, with absolutely no shame.

You seem to conflate your economic systems with your political systems. I recommend some independent study in political economy.

I've worked at a couple of places where they've hired one key "influencer" manager who then proceeded to recruit half of their old team. It can be good or bad depending on the quality of the team. When its bad, its particularly toxic. Favoritism and cliqueness run rampant. Unqualified people are promoted ahead of qualified people. Eventually, it leads to heavy employee churn.

Its risky. Perhaps if it was a whole team, who didn't need to integrate any existing employees, it could work.

Its a fairly common thing in restaurants, at least in the South, to hang outside clear plastic bags half full of water from any sort of awning or overhang, especially around dumpsters.

Supposedly it confuses flies and they'll leave the area alone. I've never seen any evidence of this.

There was very little discussion of the most authoritarian aspect of most children's lives, school. Absolute, unbridled authority that gets to dictate all of the circumstances of your physical being 35 hours a week for 12 years, with no recourse and no challenge possible. If you choose to not attend it, they send another authoritarian system to track you down, ie the police.

Its a place where you have to ask permission to use the restroom, for goodness sake. And this doesn't even get into the academic authoritarianism of school.

Every time I start to fall into the conceit that I'm an exceptionally good developer, I look at things like kernels or low level hardware programming and eat a big ol' slice of humble pie.

Lyft?

Having grown up in a rural flyover state, I just need to point out the rank hypocrisy.

The prevailing ideology there is that the government should stay out of the way and let the market decide the best course of action. Except when the market decides that rural areas don't bring much value in the modern, information based economy. Then they expect the government to intervene to save them.

No, thank you. You don't get to have your cake and eat it too.

The world would be better served by Apple getting out of the hardware business and just selling OSX, allowing it to run on any x86 architecture without all of the Hackintosh bull.

I don't understand who these people are that are spending a 50% premium on components that are two to three years old. I use a MBP regularly, but only because my work buys them.

Why are we constantly pushing for larger and larger open worlds? When I was a kid, the idea of such a gigantic open world where I could spend endless hours exploring would have been amazing. However, now, as an adult with responsibilities, when I usually play video games its for 30 or 45 minutes once or twice a week when I have just a bit of down time. Gigantic open worlds have become a hinderance to me rather than a feature, because it means I will never fully be able to explore all of it.

I know that my experience doesn't reflect every gamer's experience, and many people do have the time and energy for them, but I also know quite a few people in this "prime", aging game demographic that are turned off by these large games and tend to focus on smaller, more compact experiences. I wouldn't be so upset if it weren't for the fact that the games that seem to get the most attention and development effort are these giant ones, with small experience games generally an afterthought or published as indie.

How about a custom sensor class that never timesout and you define its poke method to listen for data and processes it? Granted, you'll have to make sure you allocate enough workers for that..

To add to that, you can create a DAG class that's really just a wrapper that executes your R script and waits for its return code.

We're currently in a PoC phase of implementing Airflow and testing it out versus Luigi. So far, what I've liked, is that Airflow seems to be much more extensible and modular than Luigi. Getting Luigi to play nicely with our particular set of constraints was painful, and subclassing the Task was also tricky because it was way more opinionated about the structure of the class. Airflow seems way less so. There also seems to be way more right out of the gate in terms of built in task types. And the UI looks nicer.

We haven't made our final determination yet, but Airflow at the current moment feels better.