The article is unclear but it’s safe to assume he was detained by immigration.
I read a different article that reported he was returning to the U.S. from Japan. So definitely it was immigration authorities.
Readit Newseventhorizon77 commented on Uber Eats Canada Ran Production in a MacBook Air twitter.com/Altimor/statu... · Posted by u/dvrp
I assume someone does, but my friends and family will readily respond with "ack" or "pong".
my reply is usually something like
64 bytes from eventhorizon77: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=31mComing from India, we do not talk like that in our native language. I am guessing it is because we have been repeatedly told that is how americans talk (reinforced by movies and TV shows). Now, I start with just a greeting and jump to the issue.. "Hey P!! Good morning.. I just want to check about issue XXX". It sounds less rude, but does not ask the banal questions.
So it seems we have found a self-referencing loop of assumptions about each others' culture! Interesting.
I have a hard time empathizing with this. I understand the principle, but here's where I come from/my experience:
When many of my coworkers message me on Slack for example, they don't just leave me a message asking for what they want, they say "Hey, how are you", or "How was your weekend", or some other silly thing.
I know they don't care about the answer to my question. Now, instead of being able to asynchronously answer their question, I have to spend my own energy (I'm slightly autistic, so it doesn't come easily to me) coming up with some reply to this, so that they THEN ask what they actually want to know.
> [03 AM] COWORKER: Hey gavinray, how was your weekend?
> [10 AM] gavinray: It was decent, what about yours?
> [11 AM] COWORKER: Good. Hey, about ISSUE-123, do you...
Just ask me for what you want, I know you're only talking to me because you want something.
This can be a cultural thing. In particular, if I understand correctly, in India it is considered rude not to make small talk before jumping into work. (I'm slightly autistic too but it's not completely useless. I ended up taking a trip to India at one point, and such trips are much easier if you've put in the effort to understand the culture, and your coworkers everyday lives.) I would suggest trying not to be so brief. Ask about their family, their commute to work, etc - get to know them a little better.
eventhorizon77 commented on Software component names should be whimsical and cryptic medium.com/@histocrat/sof... · Posted by u/honoredb
OK, I guess I'll have to argue against. Please don't make component names whimsical. Your idea of whimsy and fun is potentially confusing or (worst case) offensive to others. Yes, make them unique and searchable. Yes, make them memorable and pronounceable. Yes, make them SFW.
It would get tiring to have to keep explaining to new team members that our prime number generator is named "optimus" even if it was initially clever.
I don't look forward to convincing my boss we need to pull in "libAnimeBabe" as a dependency even if it's the best parser for a file format we need to import.
Nobody wants to find out a year after all of our marketing material is put together that our software name means "asshole" in another language.
Don't make me have to pronounce an unpronounceable Gaelic word every time I do a presentation on our software stack because you're Irish and just had to name your component that way.
There are lots of ways "whimsical" can backfire unintentionally. Save your creativity for the actual software solution.
Sorry but a prime number generator called "Optimus" is an awesome idea.
I also kind of disagree that an "unpronounceable Gaelic word" is a poor choice. Seems like cultural discrimination. People all over the world write software, not just people who can pronounce English words.
> housing and medicine have shown us are that wholly free markets
Both of these examples are some of the farthest things from free markets. Try to build an apartment complex and run a medical service on the ground floor. Them being so far from free markets is the reason they're so expensive.
I think you have a point about regulatory capture. I would say, however, that in a market with massively unequal wealth distribution, those that control the capital are (1) looking for the best return on investment and (2) know that land value will continue to appreciate as long as population growth is trending up. I think you would need to both fix the massive wealth inequality _and_ the massively corrupt and inefficient zoning laws in order to address the whole problem. If you only fix regulation, the rich can still just buy up all the land and become modern day feudal lords and rent-seekers.
eventhorizon77 commented on Ask HN: Anyone else disillusioned from working in tech · Posted by u/_gfwu
I've been in the industry for over two decades... I am in this post, and I don't like it. :)
When I started, dial-up internet was the best we could do. Our generation hoped that, by wiring up the world with internet connectivity, we would bring people closer together... so that humanity, as a whole, could realize that we have more in common than we have differences. So that facts and knowledge could be shared and humanity could get better at collaborating. To some degree, that has happened. In other ways, technology has worked in more counter-productive ways, accelerating the spread of lies and misinformation as "alternative facts".
Honestly though, as a teenager, I got into computers because I liked video games, and I wanted to learn how to make them. Post-college, I realized that the games industry was abusive, overly competitive, and low-paying... and if I wanted to support myself, I would be better off doing "boring" software. So that's where I ended up.
Even so, it was always my hope that my work in tech would make the world a better place, somehow... even if only indirectly. I preferred working on open source software. I tried to work for companies with decent values, with people who cared about more than just making money.
To some degree, I'm content. I make enough to support my family and put a roof over their heads. Hopefully they can go to college and afford housing. Hopefully climate change and idiocracy won't set them up for failure.
But honestly, I'm not just disillusioned from working in tech. I'm burned out on life. The hopes and dreams of my generation have not been fulfilled. Humanity is not coming together to solve our biggest problems. Instead, we have narcissistic world leaders who continue to divide us, choose war over peace, and impose suffering over equality and human rights. None of the biggest technology companies are moving that needle in the right direction in any meaningful way (at least that I can see).
At this point, I just don't know if there is any tech company I could work at that could possibly make a real difference in the world.
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High school is also a very similar experience for people all over the world, which is not the case for university or work experience. If you are interested in understanding underlying interests, social dynamics and attitudes in a global pool of applications, then you are interested in things which are similar globally even if the connection might not be obvious.
I think you are mistaken about the relevance of high school. For a lot of people, high school was a traumatic and/or violent experience that they would rather forget. Does making high school "suddenly relevant" put up an artificial barrier-to-entry for candidates that were able to overcome bad experiences in high school and move on to something better? What about candidates who say something like "high school was awful and I got out as quickly as I could"? Maybe you have a bias in hiring toward candidates who are good at "making stuff up that sounds good"?
For street crossings with multiple directions and multiple lights, that behavior makes sense. You’re waiting for the next pre-programmed phase that syncs you up with other parts of the crossing. For large roads it might make sense, you don’t want to interrupt the flow of the traffic that is expected to hit a green light down the road at current speed.
But for the lonely crossing light in front of the school building in a small street, why do I have to wait 20 seconds after pushing it, every single time?
Even in a place like California where pedestrians supposedly have the right-of-way, it would encourage more walking if we try not to make it an inconvenience.