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I'm curious if you've ever spent a lot of time using a language that has a solution similar to the proposal, for instance Ruby, or the newer JavaScript versions. All of the theoretical stuff about good syntax design and code highlighting cans of worms rings incredibly hollow to me in the face of how fundamentally nicer this sort of syntax is. It's the first thing I forget Python doesn't have after not using it for awhile, which I then go looking for, and once again find myself surprised at its absence. I also find the "un-Pythonic to have more than one way to do it" argument interesting, as there seem to be three approaches to string formatting in idiomatic use in Python (`.format`, `%`, and string concatenation), whereas in Ruby, the direct interpolation approach is used nearly exclusively.

You do lose type-checking capabilities by giving up format specifiers (which, for instance, Rust checks at compile-time), but Python can't take much advantage of that to begin with.
lidl is the epitome of junk quality for poor people who wait in long lines, and it's the quintessential german supermarket.
A counter-example: Cities are much more diverse and much more liberal than rural areas.
Is the FDA Too Conservative or Too Aggressive?
Read this to find answer:
http://fortune.com/2014/02/12/why-aol-ended-up-spending-mill...

I thought Tim Armstrong(AOL) is evil but Jeff is on another level. At least AOL did not fire the mother.
OK then, you're the 10th riches by most PPP measures [1]

So you still outrank the vast majority of Developed countries, but universal healthcare is too difficult?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_%28PP...
> If she's saving over an hour on each end of her shift, she won't have to get up earlier.

But she will be having to pay a lot more to get to work. Which means she'll have to work more. Which means she'll have to get there earlier, or leave later. Which means that all the time she saved by not taking the bus is now spent at work.

And sure, 2.3 hours with your kids is great. But making sure your kids can have dinner is better.
I think this is only part of the equation. IMO Trump is doing well largely for the same reason Sanders is: both come across as far more genuine than their competition.

Neither may be suited for President. But neither are following the same kiss-some-babies, state-inoffensive-truths, dither-on-the-hard-questions playbook that everybody else has used for decades. And that resonates with people, who are absolutely sick with politics as usual.

Both men are (again, IMO) performing a public service by throwing a wrench into the plans of the establishment parties. But I doubt either one will make it to the general election, because I think the establishment in one party would rather have the establishment in the other party win (and thus retain the status quo) than risk an outsider changing things.
Also, at the same time that she resigned from Amazon, several other editors did as well and returned to more standard publishing jobs.

This was right at the peak of the Amazon/Hachette beef. If you're an editor, it's not a big leap to realize that if you need a new job after Amazon, you're going to be less and less welcome the more time you spend there.

Some of her other projects fit in with the comments you quoted.
And in fact, "coasting" was a normal parameter at that particular job.
> What are companies supposed to do when their employees become mothers?

At the very least, they should do what they are required to do. What they are required to do is something that society has required of them through the government, even if the FMLA is weaker than it should be. Alternatively, they should honor any additional commitments made (publicly and privately) to candidates and employees that go beyond the bare minimum legal requirement.
React is the garage in which your toolboxes are stored.
If you have five years exp. with front end development (inl. js, I hope), picking up ReactJs and AngularJs is pretty trivial. I was able to pick up Angular in about 3 weeks, and React in about the same, though it did take a little while for everything to settle in. Best advice? Take something you wrote WITHOUT those technologies, and refactor it with them.
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Except that the price difference is obscene [1]. A future where we are captive to bottled water purveyors control is indeed scary.

[1] http://www.businessinsider.com/bottled-water-costs-2000x-mor...
I totally understand and sympathize with her viewpoint, even though it differs from my own, because much of this reads like someone who was kicked out of Scientology but still thinks the Church of Scientology is full of brilliant people making the world a better place-- that adoration for how great a company Amazon is, that comes thru in this piece, is the exact same flavor that the company cult works to reinforce, much the way the scientology cult does.

Yes, as someone who has dated a member of the church of scientology, and had a good friend get married there, then divorced when they discovered her husbands great grandfather worked for the IRS, and then re-married in a scientology arranged wedding, and seen the consequent personality changes and manipulations, .... and as someone who worked for Amazon for three years... I feel quite comfortable comparing Amazon to the Church of Scientology.

The funny thing is, this article reminds me of something I didn't notice. Things really were different in the way women were treated. There's definitely a bit of male chauvinism going on, and also women were treated better at amazon, probably because they were seen as more helpless and delicate. They certainly got less abuse in my group than the men did.

This is the lesson to take away-- the really dangerous thing is not just that Amazon is often a hostile and abusive workplace-- you can find that anywhere, and you can find pockets of decency in Amazon as well.

The lesson to learn is-- and this is leaking out about Amazon over and over-- that Amazon is a cult.

Her comment about the PIP being obviously a way to move out out-- shows that the actions (the PIP) have the opposite intended purpose to what they are supposed to. If an employee messes up (eg: goes thru a divorce and their work suffers) then they should be helped to improve.

That PIP is obvious code for "we're giving this person the ax and we're only keeping them around to cover our asses legally" shows that the company is manipulative and deceitful. -- If a firing was legitimate, they wouldn't need to lie with the PIP. If PIPs were used for their intended purpose, people wouldn't know that it was time to resign.

This kind of mantra heavy, "culture" heavy, ideological heavy, deceitful attitudes from a company are, in my experience, clear signs the company is very much like a cult.

I saw it in Scientology, at Amazon and at another company I worked for (also terrible)... but none of this existed at the other 20+ companies I've worked for in my career.
That was such a failure. They baited people in with the promise of a good selection of products at a low price when they had actually a pitiful selection and jacked up prices.

Half of the shelves were actually empty.
Clothes were of extremely low quality.

They just did not do anything right.
> "If a businessman makes a mistake, he suffers the consequences. If a bureaucrat makes a mistake, you suffer the consequences." - Ayn Rand.

There is some truth in this. It is the almost-exact flip side of this: If a businessman does something right, he reaps the gains. If a bureaucrat does something right, you reap the gains.

... which doesn't sound so bad, now does it?

Neither is exactly correct. If the senior management of a large company make a big mistake, they aren't the only ones who lose: some employees may lose their jobs, the company may be less effective in providing customers with useful products or services, etc. And, conversely, if they do something very right, their employees may get bonuses or pay rises and their customers may get useful things to buy. And even government bureaucrats are likely to do better for themselves when they make good decisions than when they make bad ones.

But it's a reasonable approximation. On the whole and on average, businessmen are in business to benefit themselves, and fortunately it turns out that when you have lots of people doing that it brings benefits to everyone. On the whole and on average, government bureaucrats are in their jobs to benefit The People.

And, surprise surprise, if you focus only on the downside then you see businessmen hurting themselves and bureaucrats hurting The People. But it cuts both ways.
I'm pretty sure the point of the article was about women and Amazon, not "about a (painful and harsh) health insurance screw-up".

The health insurance "screw up" only occurred because she was on maternity leave. As a man, this isn't necessarily my area of expertise, but I'm pretty sure only women can go on maternity leave.

That's not to say this couldn't also happen to a new father on paternity leave... but paternity leave barely exists in the US to begin with.
original: http://webpolicy.org/2015/08/25/att-hotspots-now-with-advert...
I totally disagree, obviously. :)

At least in this situation, you have a mechanism to opt out if you pick up a VPN and disrupt traffic injection.

Your only solution with companies like google & facebook is not to play.

I agree that it is disappointing that the laymen isn't going to be able to disrupt this traffic injection. We are already so deeply into a privacy dystopia that I think think you're focusing on the wrong fight. Some of the most successful companies have more users than customers. They are using TLS to avoid MITM attacks between the client & their infrastructure, but then harvesting data & injecting traffic till the cows come home.

Arguing for other mechanisms to disrupt carrier traffic injection is in essence an argument for defending the privacy invasive business cases of google & facebook.
Nothing. Except Thunderbird+Enigmail is not something that is going to appeal to the masses. Web-based mail came along and all of a sudden it didn't matter where you were in the world, you could log in and check your email from any computer.

Encryption means nothing unless both parties are using using it (obviously), and if it's only a few users who are encrypting emails using Thunderbird+Enigmail then there's that "why are you encrypting, you must have something to hide" and so the theory goes that you are more likely to catch the eye of big brother who then keeps a closer eye on you... if everyone is encrypting everything then we are all on the same footing.

Unfortunately things need to be made easy for the masses to adopt, like the way iMessages works, which is seemless. I don't want to worry about which pgp server upload my key, or having to go to 10 different places to revoke my key.

BUT, I don't trust any web-based encryption either since it's liable to be tampered with: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hushmail

Thunderbird+Enigmail is the safer way to go in general (and is actually what i use also).
A lot of them do. And the white majority doesn't find the discussion around that point unreasonable. Like I said, you're just out of touch.
>There are certain categories of web applications and pages which do not benefit at all from React (or other semi-related technologies like Angular), and it's folly to pretend that they do.

That's like saying there are certain programs in which functions do not provide any benefit at all. It's folly to pretend that they do.
And having users isn't necessary to appear viable?
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> React is only the V (arguably a bit of C)

Yes, but beef I have with the cool kids I've worked with are they throw out the entire app: MVC, Server, etc. so they can use this magical V - then completely rewrite and wing the rest of the app "Oh it's, um, 'Flux Architecture'"
String to Hex Converter
Your example isn't very compelling, but for longer strings with more complex formatting, I'd say .format() is pretty compelling. I find that in general

'{x} blah blah blah {y}'.format(x=x, y=y)

is more readable than

'%s blah blah blah %s' % (x, y)

even if the former is a bit longer.

On top of that, there's a whole bunch of stuff you can do with .format() that just isn't possible with %.
@rmxt It's not whether it's reasonable or not. Thats what people think and what they want. Those people vote too.
It was an article about what happened to the author with her maternity leave.

The relevance is that if you screw with maternity leave then you make your work environment toxic for anyone that gets pregnant, which only affects your female employees, and then usually well before they get anywhere near upper management.

For a general retailer, this is not a good plan.
Even when using Unity and Unreal the ramp up time is still significant since we all use different source control, bug tracking and project management software. We also build large complicated systems on top of the game engine which come with their own terminology and best practises. Then there's the different back end and external APIs and libraries. I agree the situation is better now and getting better.
This story doesn't surprise me at all. My 7 month pregnant wife is currently going through the exact same experience at Google. As soon as she notified her manager of her pregnancy, a week later they are trying to get rid of her. Made her pick between PIP or 2 months severance. Before she could make her decision, luckily, her doctor put her on leave because of a higher risk pregnancy (twins), she was entitled to short term disability but the company that handles Googles disability is a complete mess to deal with. It seems like make it super difficult to make use of these 'perks' so you just give up and don't bother. Anyway, long story short its the same everywhere. Im sure Larry and Jeff had good intentions when they started their companies but now that it's in the hands of middle management it's no different than any other big corp.
On what grounds could she have sued?
Was discussed yesterday[0] with the original blog post.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10119348
I don't think it's even a tradeoff: in countries like Italy, health care costs less, as a percentage of GDP, than in the US. In a startup like the one I worked at there, with about 30 people, there were 0 people in the company who had anything to do with health care stuff, because it's not the company that deals with it. That's a net win.

Of course, there are other things that are not so good for businesses in various European countries, but I'd chalk up the health care system as a win for small companies and entrepreneurs.
This perspective is so interesting to me. You say the version using `.format` is "as simple as possible", but the interpolated version seems clearly simpler to me, because it eliminates the redundancy in the placeholders. What's the disconnect here?
I agree

Insurances should not be priced 'bottom to top', the basic coverage should cover the more needed and costly procedures then start adding more 'optional' coverage with increased payments.
good points, thanks for the contribution!
The Wal-Mart in Munich, Germany introduced me to the concept of "hot dog relish" (must have been ~10 years ago) which I had never heard of before. So if not for other reasons, for getting ingredients for sandwiches and stuff I mourn their parting :)
It's essentially a contract that says you will be employed during the period of a given person's maternity leave, however long that may be. When they return to work, your contract expires. Here (UK) there are provisions in employment law that allow you to be dismissed because the person you're covering for has returned. Some details:
http://www.personneltoday.com/hr/arranging-cover-maternity-l...
This reminds me of Tesco trying to crack the US. No language barrier, and spent ages studying US shopping habits but gave up in the end. Supermarkets are hard.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-13190124
The slightly bigger picture: People become less liberal when they are aware of the existence of other people Not Like Them with whom they're sharing a country, but become more liberal when they actually interact with those people.

(This is conjecture, but it seems awfully plausible and explains both the observations here.)
Yes, one of the big lessons of the corporate world is that almost anything you hear from HR, even in good companies, is a lie. OR at least, some sort of spin. Even when they are saying good things, they don't really know, they're just making stuff up, or exaggerating. It's like they are trained to live in this fantasy world and pitch that to the employees.
> a piece that is essentially about a (painful and harsh) health insurance screw-up

Did you miss the second half of the article where her team taken from her and she was placed on a PIP when she returned from maternity leave?
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I don't see why that would matter very much. The valuation so early is going to be highly subjective in any case. If you are willing to consider such an offer, then the two relevant things to consider are 1) what fraction of the company are you being offered, and 2) what is your estimate of the likelihood of this company becoming successful.

If you are sure they are going to fail, then the equity you are getting is worthless, and why bother? If you think they have a reasonable chance of success, then all that really matters is how much of the company you own.
Good point. Though, I don't have such a binary.
Incentive Pay and Gender Compensation Gaps for Top Executives
I did not say that universal healthcare was too difficult.
"Not a lot of room" in this case is basically zero.

FYI to those unfamiliar with Aldi: their (grocery) stores are fairly small, run in a seriously minimalistic manner. Products are usually presented either on their shipping palettes, and/or still in volume cases - customer does some of the unpacking. Most products are "made for Aldi" or otherwise sourced from bottom-price manufacturers. Variety is nearly nonexistent. Typically (at least in every store I've seen in USA) there are only two employees at any time - one acting clerk, other stocking/cleaning. Credit cards are not accepted; before debit cards, it was cash only. Aldi seemed the last store to use barcode scanners, clerks having literally memorized the codes for every product in the store and could process checkout nearly as fast (sometimes faster) than barcode scanning. Stores are very clean & simple.

You'd be hard-pressed to beat that cost-cutting business model.
Lavaboom shutting down
suspect it would go better with a bit of NLP or training of the brain to stop them from doing whatever they did in the first place that programmed those cells wrong. :)
What part of the constitution would it be contrary to?
This isn't a bad point, but anecdotally, after using interpolated strings for many years, I've never come across this problem a single time.
I thought that the idea of rainwater capture was to prevent the water from going to "waste" as runoff. That is, the water that hits the roof of your house ends up in a torrent in the downspouts, which runs into the streets and the sewer system. Whereas the water that hits your yard has more of a chance to sink into the water table.
What are companies supposed to do when their employees become mothers?

Offer a nice, lengthy maternity/paternity leave policy and give the new parents plenty of time to adjust to their new lives, and then make sure their jobs are still available to them (barring some crazy circumstance) when they return.

OTOH, for a parent returning from leave, I don't think it's necessarily the case that you should expect everything to be as it was, when you return. The company, and the world, don't just go "on pause" while you're out. The business has to continue to adjust and adapt the reality it operates in, so if your direct reports have been moved, your project cancelled, shuffled, re-budgeted, your responsibilities re-distributed, etc., then I think you just have to accept that. But the company obviously should make an effort to get you back into a productive position as soon as possible.

I feel like society through the government should either pay this bill or be willing to accept what a company does in its financial interest.

Having a baby is a choice, unlike cancer (excepting rape cases or whatever). How about people just don't have babies unless they are able to handle the financial implications of doing so? Why should somebody else be on the hook to pay because you decided to have a baby?
Get a lawyer.
fat chance in hell. as soon as uber makes money by raising prices, paying drivers less or both, many others will jump in, quickly destroying the returns on investment.

I see uber as a giant bulldozer that is paving the way for future competitors. Once they realize there's no way to keep people locked in unless they form a cartel like the traditional taxi industry, investors will panick.

An Uber cartel is the least possible outcome because they do not own the roads, the car, the people. Do I ride the bike to work or hitch a ride? Do I use Uber or just take a taxi that's parked right across my building? Do I use Lyft or Uber if Lyft is offering cheaper ride? Is there any noticeable difference or do I even care, I just want to go from A to B and pay the least amount of money.

This is the endgame for Uber: enable future competitors to reap the returns on it's investment because they are focused on monopoly in an industry that won't make it possible.
Users =! Ongoing revenue stream.

Snapchat. Twitter. And to a lesser extent, Uber if they're unable to reach profitability once its determined they'll have to recategorized drivers as employees.

Stupid money can make quite a few bad decisions before it catches up, even worse if it effects public policy in the process.
Yep. You certainly won't hear me advocate that, but I believe that people are doing it.
I'm pretty sure it's exactly like an honorary electrician's license, assuming you had to become an accomplished electrician to receive it :)
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Wouldn't there be a pretty direct correlation between an attempted punishment and the pregnancy announcement? Like if there were no previous problems, isn't this pretty clear discrimination?
Remember UK rail system. Used to be publicly owned, privatized and now a disaster.
spent way too much time on medievia
I look forward to seeing how you apply gongkai to manufacturing. Knowledge sharing has facilitated the explosive growth in web entrepreneurship; surely something similar is possible in other industries, like 3D printing metal.
I agree: one thread pool for all tasks (I'm personally a fan of Intel's Threading Building Blocks, so...)

However, if you only target, say, 4 cores and you have 4 subsystems (physics, AI, rendering and gameplay lets say) and all four constantly use the CPU (ie you don't have too much downtime) then the extra complexity and overhead (moving data between cores, shared data, locking) may not be worth it over just pinning each subsystem to its own core.
I don't disagree with you, I am just providing the general reasoning for these things.
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As a person that argues with their english SO about this, you hit the nail on the head.
Yes but a self insured company should also buy catastrophic reinsurance that covers high claims cases.
This is where passion for the work is a mark for quality. A person who loves what they are doing works long hours from the start and is never done because they always can make it better.