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At a gameplay level, I'd generally agree. But there are some things that the SimCity series got right that Skylines could have done a lot better with:

certain gameplay aspects
graphics
music
user interface

SimCity (2013), despite some failings in gameplay, still gets a lot of things right.

Now why some people might not care about the things I enumerated above, I do. I've been playing SimCity since the original classic was first released. For me personally, the peak of SimCity was SimCity 2000 or possibly SimCity 4 Rush Hour in gameplay terms, but graphically, SimCity 2013 was the most desirable.

While Skylines certainly has that core gameplay feel to a certain extent that Simcity (2013) was missing, it's clearly not yet the best the developers are capable of. I think the next iteration they release will be the one that many have been waiting for.
Slightly Off Topic - I would presume this is the same everywhere else. Tax only on Accounting Profit?

If so did Amazon ever pay any tax? ( Apart from Sales Tax where it is required) Since they haven't really been making any accounting profits at all.
What's model/view/misandry? I googled it, but no luck.
God is perfectly just.
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That was probably just the writers trying to use an inverted trope:

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/InvertedTrope
i think it's funny seeing analyses of twitter that act like the problem is that the product needs tuning. the problem is they need to make money, and as-is there's basically not much good reason to pay them for advertising over facebook, who offer much better targeting.
Having done one part of undergrad at a "liberal-artsy school" and another part at a larger tech school, I couldn't agree more.

If you were a lecturer at a research-focused institution, in which the quality of your teaching is a minor factor in your "success", and the social norm is mediocre teaching, would you teach at a high level?
I guess I'm thinking mainly of the government loans which require little or no credit, rates in the single digits, 25 years to pay and I'm not really sure much happens after that.
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but as the post notes, it's underutilized in Berkeley's Mathematics Department

> "We explained to you before you accepted the position that the idea of employing a full-time lecturer is controversial in our department."
> In June, the university concluded that Dr. Marcy had engaged in inappropriate behavior with students, including groping them, kissing them and touching or massaging them.

Very gross.
As someone who is not going to berkley, but studying higher level math.

Alexander, if your students are giving you a 6.4-6.5 out of 7, for calc 1a and 1b, you're a beast.
> Each denizen has a family, a career and travels around the city as an autonomous entity fulfilling his day to day errands. The consequences, especially on traffic, is a fascinating thing to comprehend.

I thought this, too, initially.

Thing is, each denizen moves... either once a month or once every couple of months. This has profound consequences for traffic. Sadly, it means that traffic problems that you thought you had licked come roaring back later in the year because -as it turns out- you didn't solve the problem! The traffic causing the problem just disappeared for an extended period of time.

When you combine this with the absolutely essential traffic deletion mechanic, [0] the woefully inadequate freight and train pathing, [2] and non-existent train path control tools, the more I got into the game the less pleased I was with it.

Don't get me wrong, I've seen a lot of SimCity 2013. Cities is far, far, far better than that game. I also fire up Cities from time to time and enjoy wasting a few hours on a small-to-medium-sized city. It's just... given the pedigree of the author, I expected a far better traffic simulator than what they delivered. [3]

[0] There's a mod out there to disable traffic deletion [1]. I used it in a city that had several cargo train stations. The cargo train stations could not absorb returning delivery trucks fast enough to prevent months-long gridlock. It was a disaster.

[1] Traffic deletion is the thing that erases cars, trucks, semis, and trains from the game if they've taken too long to get to their destination.

[2] It's trivial to deadlock trains. The author of the traffic deletion disable mod mentioned that he would never turn off deletion for trains because of how essential that feature was.

[3] Hell, I was completely unprepared for the train wreck (ha!) that was and remains the train navigation system.
If you’re on the lookout for places where your mindset might be fixed, you should be listening for sentences that start like this. Things like “I’ve never been good at CSS” or “I’m not a people person” or “Some programmers are just faster than others.” Anything that starts with “I am …” is a candidate. The word “just” is often present.

Oh my. I've never really been able to quantify this kind of thinking. Fantastic article!
What a great and inspiring letter from someone who is clearly under significant public and private pressure; I'm sure he was repeatedly advised not to go public in any way by friends, enemies and lawyers on both sides.

My favorite part is where he imagines the Math department is "jolly cross".
He means Model View Culture: [1] https://modelviewculture.com/

I think.
The 5-minute rule 20 years later, and how flash memory changes the rules (2007) [pdf]
"To make computer science more attractive to women, we might help young women change how they think about themselves and what’s expected of them. But we might also diversify the images of scientists they see in the media, along with the décor in the classrooms and offices in which they might want to study or work."

No. I don't expect liberal arts and women's studies departments, and the home decorating industry to adapt a more masculine culture. I don't see CS and the tech industry as this uber masculine frat bro jock culture anyways. This is ridiculous. Let people make their own choices instead of dictating how people should act constantly.
Those are the changes in beta one, not sure if it's complete but it will give you an idea:

https://www.elastic.co/blog/elasticsearch-2.0.0.beta1-coming...
No, he's saying the other departments (engineering and physical science) who are supposed to be "served" by the math dept. are "jolly cross" at the mathematicians for shirking their duties. This situation is by no means limited to Berkeley. UCSB did an excellent job but other universities I have worked at I have heard exactly the same complaints.
> technology like this is almost certainly going to be
part of a post-singularity world

That's some magical thinking, right there.
I'm well aware of the current position of economists on rent control.

That said, if there was no rent control in SF, then slowly, over time, all low income folks would be forced to leave the city. That is likely an undesirable outcome for SF voters.
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So—first, empathy, I don't get video games at all.

Second—this strikes me as fairly standard cultural shock. It's one thing to find yourself immersed in a culture, it's quite another to find that you have to immerse yourself in that culture to reach your teammates. This is an experience I have not encountered before; people have surprised me with the lengths they go to ensure a healthy diversity in company culture so that everyone feels like they have an opening to communicate. Why would you NOT want to get to know your teammate? If they have different interests, it's an opportunity, not a problem.

That said.... sometimes you need to be the person to push for the cultural diversity, and unfortunately, that's not going to be easy for most people regardless of sex or industry. I would even imagine non-tech companies actually have a much worse case of this where EVERYONE feels alienated from their coworkers based on my personal experiences.

It's complicated. But monocultures are certainly terrible teamwork oriented groups of people—I think we can all agree with that.
The nigger brain cannot understand a NIST random number. A-->B-->C.

Dumb-ass nigger! God is perfectly just.
Still it seems to be a better Duma than the one Russia has today.

Modern Duma is young too, but really degenerate: voting unanimously, no opposition parties due to very high barrier to entry (by both not registering new parties and 7% elective barrier) and general monopolization of power in Russia. Rules now change before every new elections.
I've never actually used the official app; Twidere works far better in every way.
I hope they can work it out. It would be a shame to lose someone who loves teaching and who students appreciate. My 1A prof at Cal said openly (and with a dash of humor) that he was being forced to lecture and would rather do his research but that he periodically had to teach a class. I wonder if that was the accepted culture in the department and Coward broke a bit against the status quo.
This is great. The internet needs more sites like this. Kudos to archive.org for preserving it and @tintinnabula for sharing it here.

A propos of music and shopping, I offer:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walt_Disney_and_the_1964_World...

With the timeless "Music to Buy Toasters By".

One of my favorite internet moments was tracking down an mp3 to the old Disneyland Peoplemover attraction.
> Have you ever heard the term 'caveat emptor'?

Which is exactly why these borrowers should default. The risk of default is priced into the interest rate. Tough love time for lenders.
Unpopular opinion, but I think he's being overly dramatic.

"My Fall 2013 Math 1A students were tracked into the next course in the sequence, Math 1B, and it was found that their average grade in Math 1B was 0.17 grade points higher than that of those students who took Math 1A with another instructor."

0.17. Not even a whole point.

Student evaluations don't really count since those are highly subjective. Students tend to hastily mark whatever they want on them because they want to get the evaluations over with as soon as possible. If a professor is somewhat amicable and invests a moderate level of effort into his/her teaching, then it's not hard to score at least a 6 on average on these evaluations (as students would mark either 6 or 7 in such a case).

Anyway, his performance as a lecturer is irrelevant to his argument. There are three criteria that junior faculty are assessed against in order to become tenured at UC Berkeley (or, otherwise, dismissed): teaching quality, reputation and research. Funny how he left out the last bit. He hasn't published anything since 2013.

And the university is probably firing him to hire another professor at a cheaper salary in order to save money, contrary to his belief that the university is firing him because of disagreements with his teaching philosophy. Universities tend to do this to professors who don't have much research potential and don't teach specialized, upper division courses. The UC system is crippled financially, so departments are more inclined to carry out dismissals of non-tenured professors who don't publish much and who solely teach lower division courses. Non-tenured professors can be fired at will. That's just another day in the life of academia.

The part about the micro-managing harasser and treatment of women, staff and lecturers is definitely worrisome, though. But we need to be careful about believing in these implications absolutely because of Coward's state of mind at the moment. He has already blown the quality of his teaching out of proportion.
Have a Berkeley math degree. Two observations. Student ratings are whack. I had a professor I thought was really good but had an average rating. I had one fellow student state that he hated the professor. I am pretty sure the professor did nothing to him that deserved that hatred. People don't like it when they don't do as well as they expect. Second, it appears that the math department hires based on research because I had a newly minted professor who was just plain indecipherable.
For legal reasons I doubt they can reply at all.
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Thank you and a great post.

Icanhackit suggested that these present traits are "extrovert" in nature, however there are traits that are feminine that are extrovert as well - communication, team-building, etc.

My wife who is an extrovert and holds a position of corporate importance half-jests about putting a poster in her office that says "I am your manager, not your mom".

Here is an article (well shared by now) that suggests that boards with women members may be good for the business, exactly because they provide a good counter-point to "masculine" traits of aggression and risk-seeking behaviour.

http://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2015/04/01/the-effect-o...
> Tread lightly.

As long as you dispassionately and sensibly point out the injustice being done in the name of justice, what is the problem? The biggest issue now seems to be men not speaking up against their detractors.

On the lighter side:

"Women are constantly patting themselves on the back for how difficult their lives are and no one corrects them because they want to fuck 'em." – Bill Burr https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QoJrMaFlxOk
This^^^^^ is very solid advice from @greenyoda.
One of the difficulties with reducing student loans (in volume) is that fewer people will then have access to education.

Besides rent control, one option could be for the Fed to cut debt issuance slightly and to explicitly fund school-owned student housing. This would cut out the greedy landlords without having an especially negative impact on local economies-- the schools would still pay to maintain the properties. Doesn't help private schools much, but a lot of for-profit private schools are abusing student loan availability too.
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I agree. He really knows how to substantiate his grievances with choice words and data.
I don't know any of the players involved in this drama but the letter was so damning that I could not help but look up profiles of Stark, Ogus, Christ, and Evans just to get a picture of their faces.

Politically, this was an excellent play - with his popularity among students, the Math department (and in particular, named faculty) will have a really tough time getting students in their classes.

I don't know the full story and obviously his perspective is biased, but all the same, I pity the fool who has to battle his wits.
Why is musical chairs with a finite resource a problem? We do this with most finite things right, oil, gas, water, food, etc? The supply is usually slightly less than needed, pegging prices such that it's available (not free) at a profitable rate. The problem here seems like people feel entitled toward something they cannot afford and will sue in light of their inability to pay.
Indeed. It actually puts UC Berkeley in a pretty horrible position by going public like this. It does not look good for employers to have the same kind of public litany of complaints against an employee.

Some things stand out from a quick skim of the personnel file/included complaint. Among these: he did not practically assign homework or have regular quizzes. This was noted as not being consistent with department norms. It actually _is_ of value to have consistency between multiple sections of introductory classes and as preparation for follow on classes in the same sequences (e.g Calc 1, 2 3 having similar structures in class organization) he seems to have disagreed philosophically with his boss (department chair) on this front. There are some other parts of the files posted that suggest he apparently did not work well with his graduate student instructors (teaching assistants). In my mind those are big enough reasons to let someone go.

He might be a great instructor. It might be a huge mistake for them to let him go, but it certainly doesn't seem like the only available explanations are completely specious or wrongly-motivated reasons. Also missing from submitted link is some info in the complaint that this was attempted to be worked out with a new incoming department chair, as evidenced by this being posted it seems like that didn't work out.
> Why not help both men and women? Why does one need to be first?

I'm not arguing that we should or should not help some group. I just think that if every instance of disparate impact is assumed to be solely due to discrimination, then we also need to start treating homelessness and the prison-industrial complex as gendered issues disproportionately affecting men.

> The APA has found that men are more likely to become substance abusers, which is linked to homelessness and conviction rates.

One could (tongue firmly in cheek) argue that this is due to implicit anti-male biases in society.
There are a lot of links in the parent's comment. But check out http://slatestarcodex.com/2015/04/08/no-clarity-around-growt...

I just read it, and highly recommend it. If you're interested in someone putting forth a very thoughtful critique of growth mindset you will find it there.

P.S. He's also a great writer. Reading him reminds me of reading Kalzumeus. Just a treat :)
yeah, quite unfortunate
As a former CAL student, I am saddened to read about this.

I didn't have to take Math 1A or any math course for that matter, but I did have to take an AC course per University requirements. I wasn't looking forward to it.

I ended up taking the Southern Border with Professor Shaiken. That was by far one of the most educational and interesting courses I had taken at CAL.

I too would like to see the University's side, but I am inclined to believe they can't respond for legal reasons, and if they could their response would be far more vanilla then Prof. Coward's side.
The confounding factor here is that many voters don't want to increase the quantity of housing, especially not near them.
Certainly in the 80s -- War Games, Tron, Weird Science, et al.
Writing this under a pseudonymous account because making even good-faith arguments that deviate slightly from the orthodoxy regarding "diversity" is a dangerous game on the internet.

"Assuming you have access to a first world education"

Have you been to any large company in silicon valley? Say, Google? If you did, you might find that a very large proportion of employees are not from US/Europe.. places you might consider providing a "first world education".

Assuming so many variables that actively stop people from succeeding

There's a huge world out there with huge amount of disparity in access to food, water, shelter, health care etc. A middle class upbringing in say, India or Nigeria or China can lack even the basic necessities easily available in even the poorest cities in the US. Something like a public library say, or consistent access to electricity, water even.

The original blogpost is making the point that despite those conditions, thousands upon thousands of people from places like India, China, Vietnam, Nigeria, Peru, Chile, Pakistan manage to come to silicon valley and find work. I'm one such immigrant myself. I didn't find the culture hostile to me. As long as I was willing to work hard, prove myself technically capable to carry out the job at hand, I was welcomed at the highest levels of the industry.

To accuse a culture this accepting, this welcoming even of "having a diversity problem" because it doesn't have the requisite proportion of women or black people is ignoring how the industry stands in comparison to the rest of the American society.

Does it have more or less diversity at the highest levels compared to say, Medicine, Finance, Law, Marketing etc.? Other industries where high educational and professional achievement is handsomely rewarded? Take the top 10 thousand highest paid professionals in each of these industries and compare them to the same group in Tech. I'll guarantee you the tech industry will have less homogeneity. You'll see far more non-white-men in high positions in tech than you would in any other high paying industry. It doesn't mean the industry has achieved diversity nirvana. It just means that the increasing attacks on the industry are opportunistic and knee-jerk reactions to the growing influence of silicon valley on the rest of the society.
Not always. I have seen cases where the most productive/well liked person on the team has got fired cause they made the wrong people look bad.

Did that turn out bad for the team? Not really. Life goes on. And sometimes its just a good learning experience for both parties.
By my reading of the essay, he was hired as teaching faculty, so he is not being judged on his research or reputation within the research community.
> natural order of things is not Good, it's just the default.

Ok. But human beings are horribly short sighted. Something that may appear beneficial in the short term and on a small scale. but may turn out to be horrible in the long term and on a larger scale.

We have eliminated some diseases. But we have also created new, much horrible and powerful ones. We have discovered antibiotics, but that have also created disease causing agents that are resistant to them.

When ever we change something fundamental, that has resulted in the creation of much bigger evil. I think this is because we don't have capability to see the whole picture. We look at a small portion of it and think. "hey, we can make it better". But ends up messing up the bigger picture making it grotesque. So my point is, this is not an easy decision that should be made so lightly.
Right on :) I feel like there's a weak parallel to be made between F/L/O software and sewing (and other DIY repair/customization).
There is still a moral duty of care towards non-sophisticated investors. You can make an argument that an investor that buys a company knowing all the risks and who is able to rationally evaluate the risk is responsible for their actions, but many investors are not able to determine the risks involved.
Classic Sayre's Law:

"Academic politics is the most vicious and bitter form of politics, because the stakes are so low."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sayre's_law
Once you have a dependency you can have circular dependencies.

Then the question becomes whether an architecture obscures or exacerbates them, and also how it deals with them. The systemd object model does not fare well, as discussed.

(Also compare a system like s6-rc or serel where dependency graphs are compiled from manifests and consistency checked before being applied. The graph is persistent configuration and not an ephemeral artifact.)

And once you rely on the init systems to establish ordering rather than having everything just start up in a deterministic order in simple single-threaded script, you can have race conditions where things happen to work on one machine but not another.

Systems having ordering dependencies does not inherently affect their determinism, the startup discipline (sequential v. parallel) primarily does, and then there are different ways to tackle parallelism. systemd's execution model and transactional object system exacerbate non-determinism in ordering results.

I don't understand why I would want separate daemons for collection and rotation, at least for dmsg, kmsg, and syslog. logrotate always had a bunch of race conditions; it was never a great design.

They're not separate daemons.

My real criticism of systemd is that they made no effort at portability outside of Linux (and I don't buy their arguments about why it's too hard.)

That's a horrible criticism of systemd. Any cursory examination of systemd will quickly reveal the task is next to insurmountable without doing what amounts to a full reimplementation.
Beyond that, the state is who sends a sheriff to evict someone from a house when they don't pay rent to a landlord.
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Ban advertisement and there goes Google.