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> “He treated you so differently!” he said. “His whole tone changed!”

Depending on what was meant by "tone", this could be due to very deeply-ingrained learned sociolinguistic customs. I don't mean that justifies it, but it could be very subconscious, is not specific to "tech", and seems much less offensive than some of the other examples.

To whatever extent men adopt a different tone when talking to women, it would probably take quite a lot of conscious concentration to control, and generations to eradicate (possibly never, if they can be picked up again by watching our contemporary media.) So, I guess it's something to keep an eye on and fix where you can, but not so simple as eliminating stuff like "They only let you work here ’cause you’re hot."

Edit: tl/dr: If "tone" meant treating her like an idiot/non-technical, bad. If it meant different pitch of voice and body language, not good per se but not that bad either.

P.S. Actually, maintaining gender-based differences might be desirable. Women probably don't want to be treated exactly like "one of the guys", right? Modifying your message and presentation based on your audience is a part of effective communication. If it's offending your audience, change that, but maybe it's not a bad starting position.
I enjoyed the post, but I'd like to play contrarian a bit more.

I see way to many developers with absolutely no sense of urgency. I'm not talking about beating the drums of a death march, but at least envisioning the finish line, instead of riding along for the process.

The bottom line is that when we're getting paid to write software, we're doing it for an end-goal and not for the sake of agile/scrum.
The problem is that we still don't have the tools or language to specify software projects with the same degree of precision that other engineering disciplines do. Give me a spec as complete as precise and as a blueprint for a building or a bridge and I can give you a pretty good estimate.

What I get instead is a stack of vaguely worded "user stories" and, if I'm lucky, some wireframes that will invariable wind up looking nothing like the final design.
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This only works if you know the particular youtube video the phrase appears in.

Scraping the content would be more useful, but I'm guessing that gets shut down quick.
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I guess there's really no estimation to be done at all then, right? Are they expecting any?
It is hard to fathom the grotesque nature of people. It used to be one could count on a certain amount of civility and comportment. Modern society has lost some of its inhibitions and people in general have become old adolescents where their most puerile and despicable behavior is reinforced in popular media as well as niche interest providers.

Yes, I defended photography on another part of this thread, as I think it's important to understand its place in society, but that was not an excuse for grovelers and oglers.

It's a sad statement on modern society we have descended so low. At least previously we (as a society) put on a mask of modicum, that mask has vanished greatly. Now, we don't care much about hiding our inhibitions our most base instincts.

Shaming people doesn't hurt (the cause), but it does not help either. I think there is something bigger at play. Moral compass is something so-called conservatives like to toss around, but I do think we have failed the younger generations in ensuring they have a robust understanding of morality --yes, one, while shifting, we should have some basic understanding of injury, remorse and to quote a long dead chief counsel for the army "decency".
Think of them like AWS instances, with a partner being an XL and an associate being an M. Big firms can spin up a lot at once to hammer the other side with legal paperwork, but it starts costing you quite a lot per month. Sometimes there are jobs you really need an XL for for maximum concentrated firepower (like negotiating in person, where someone even slightly better can be worth millions/hr in outcome), but oftentimes a M can be a better fit for the task (paperwork, legal motions, almost everything else).
From a talk by Caitie McCaffrey of Twitter, at the Strange Loop conference.

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H0i_bXKwujQ

Slides: https://speakerdeck.com/caitiem20/building-scalable-stateful...
You are right that you need to input the particular video for now, but we are expanding to include multi-video search (constantly indexing in the background). Right now the use case is particularly nice for finding phrases in long videos (look for Donald Trump saying random stuff {wall, tremendous, many many, women}, it is pretty comical - e.g. http://www.lexika.io/?s=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatc...).
We do two things simultaneously. If there is no closed caption, then the video is submitted to our API to be processed (which takes longer on longer videos - a link shows up on the page to let you know the future URL). If there is a CC, then we parse that right away (which gives ok search results) but still submit to our API for processing, so later the search results will purely be from our indexing.
Surely New Zealand is an easier hop for those things?
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EDIT#2: IT'S BECAUSE POWERFUL MEN KNOW THAT REAL POWER IS ABOUT CONTROLLING ACCESS TO PUSSY. (ESPECIALLY ATTRACTIVE PUSSY.) MOST OF YOU DUMB CUCKS DON'T REALIZE THAT, AND I'VE BEEN SHADOWBANNED FOR SAYING IT, BUT IT'S SO TRUE THAT IT HURTS THE BALLS TO CONSIDER.
Stateful: you have one web server!

Stateless: you grow to require tens of servers or more, horizontal scalability is much cheaper than vertical, look to software solutions to help slow expenses, move to NoSQL clustered DBs like Riak, Casandra, Hadoop, etc. 1-2 engineers can still run the whole show, cloud services, SaaS and PaaS are employed.

Stateful: you run thousands of servers, having since brought many services back in-house. Many if not most are your own metal, with dedicated staff. Looking to slow power bills and space requirements, you look once again at software solutions.

If you stay at the same growing company long enough, what's old will be new again.
I'm probably younger than you and not married so this might be a silly question, but do you still have a social life with moving so much? Also the Airstream looks so cool, like your trailing a space ship from 1955.
Do you have an agreement with Google? I'm guessing this is against their TOS, especially considering they're doing a lot of work in this area themselves.
I've found that using past data is very helpful. Look at your past projects, compare your initial estimates to the actual outcome when the project was finished. After a dozen or so projects, you should be able to formulate a percentage buffer to help you get closer on future estimates. Continually make this assessment and eventually you will find that you are getting much closer to accurate budgets/timelines.
That's what I think the end game will be. Either this or some later standard will catch on worldwide for consumer electronics, and at that point it'll be a lot cheaper to standardize the higher-wattage.
Does this apply to e-Estonians as well?
>Using its app, Fixed customers could snap a photo of their parking ticket using their phone’s camera, and then Fixed would check against a variety of common errors before writing a customized letter to the city on the user’s behalf. The app also cleverly tapped into Google Street View to check to see if the city had the proper signage in place in the area a ticket was received.

They should open source that so it can just be a web app, entirely possible it could still be really useful.
They always ask. They're basically just asking you to draw the Gantt chart for them, so they can then ride your shoulder and bug you for each piece as it gets done.
>where sidewalks are empty and cars travel at easily twice your maximum speed, then the streets are not safe for biking.

the streets are safe, the law explicitly requires 3 feet lateral separation or no pass. Choosing to endanger people on sidewalk just because not enough balls to ride on the street is kind of low.
God, I am sick of this sterotype, everywhere I seem to turn people fall back on that classic tech sterotype about everyone being a thuggish 6'4" homosexual MMA fighter with an attitude like Pepé Le Pew.
I guess I'll be the geek who brings Tolkien into this, but for the curious: even the Elvish word for mom is basically a phonetic equivalent to "mommy." (I'll leave it to someone more enterprising to give us the Klingon word.)
The city doesn't have a money problem. The city has a political will problem.
If I have any past projects that are good indications of my current work, it means I'm stuck doing the same things over and over again.
I can't even remember a parking ticket I got that wasn't my fault.
You might be interested in http://www.augur.net/. Although, I believe it uses its own native token, rather than being built directly on top of bitcoin or ethereum.
The Emacs key combinations overlap with the standard Windows shortcuts in ways that make it hard (for me) to switch back and forth between Emacs and Office. Vi key combinations seem to occupy a completely different part of my brain.
My favorite thing about Fixed was that they paid my ticket and I didn't have to worry about it.

Most tickets I got, I deserved. Okay, all the tickets. But I constantly put off paying them since it was such a hassle. It was nice to have Fixed just pay them for me.
Huh? The R&D was paid off as soon as it completed. Money from completed projects funds R&D in the present; it doesn't retroactively fund R&D in the past.
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I am going to presume, for ARM to win any market share, they will have to offer a competitive advantage. ( Correct me if I am wrong )

So where does ARM's Server Chip actually offer an Advantage?

Price - The CPU is only part of the Server's Cost. When you look at the whole picture, The Memory, I/O Controller & SSD, Network, will all cost the same. The higher price of the memory and SSD / HDD, the lower total cost % of the CPU.
And once you lowered to a certain percentage, you want an incredibly cheap, Atom Server CPU is available for less then $50.

Performance - Even in the chance that any ARM's Server CPU market manage to make a competitive CPU core against Xeon, which in itself is an incredible achievement, they will have to also compete against Intel's world class ECC Memory Controller, Network Controller, and I/O controller. All three are the main reason AMD CPU didn't offer any competition even when they are much cheaper.

Power - This is similar to Price, once you factor in the memory and I/O, CPU's role is relatively small. And the power / energy usage scenario on a server much flavor Intel's rather then ARM.

So where does it offer a advantage? When you want a small baremetal server that is cheap, but in the world where VM is a common place, there is no reason why you cant have a small instance of it running on a much larger CPU.
And even Intel admit it, none of their Server Customers, ( Read NONE ) wanted the Atom as they thought. It turns out everyone wanted Xeon-D, you pay a little premium for HUGE amount of flexibility. Intel wanted the Atom to disrupt itself rather then ARM, and it turns out it was the Xeon-D that did that.
I am curious how one goes about verifying that these "trustless transactions of arbitrary (turing-complete!) complexity" will have the behavior that you expect (as a participant) or intend (as an author) for them to have, and that they are proof from subversion by a malicious counter- or third party. After all, this is not exactly a solved problem anywhere else Turing-complete complexity is employed, and it would seem to nullify the point of trustlessness if you are relying on someone else's word on this matter.
You should hit reply on the actual comment you're replying to :)
That would kind of be anti-Volkswagening, in that Volkswagen cars had more power than they would have, had they not cheated on emissions standards.
"... We choose to go to the Moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard; because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one we intend to win..." -JFK

We used to see difficulties like that as a challenge we could overcome, instead of running away in fear of risk.
YouTube is a huge domain - the potential for audio indexing could bring vast improvements to search relevancy. What other audio domains are you experimenting with?
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At the end of the day, this is an issue of terminology. You can say "service X requires service Y to start" or you can say "once service Y has started, start service X." In both cases you can draw a dependency graph with an edge going from Y to X.
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That's easy. If you live in Philly, it's hard to remember one you did deserve. (No, I'm not joking.)
I think that's a good sign. A sign we're not only shifting from car-primacy but also to welcoming other modes of transportation.

Sidewalk, personally, I think they should be reserved for pedestrians primarily, with few exceptions (hand trucks, strollers, wagons, wheelbarrows, etc.)
My friend plays a lot of competitive poker. He'll show up after months of being off the grid muttering about being in the middle of a $50,000 downswing, and disappear once he's mentally refreshed enough to make another minor fortune.
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Thanks. As a developer, that is useful to know.
Strange. IT workers are generally at-will employees, but football coaches don't seem to be. What's up?
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> "I invariably put it off until I’ve mooched a pair of contacts from everyone I know."

Am I the only one trying to ponder this without success?
On a small task, everything is small. The percent error can be totally gross (not precise at all) and not have a meaningful impact overall. A large error on small is just a multiplier of small. It's all small.

When you decompose a larger task into smaller ones, that's all still true for each of the smaller ones, right?

But you must remember to add the errors! And that is precisely why overall confidence may not likely improve with decomposition vs. an aggregate, or coarse, high level estimate of the whole thing.

And this is true for more than software. Why?

New tasks can be broken down into two coarse buckets: done before and novel.

Novel things really are novel! It's important to recognize this case and qualify it. Progress might look like:

week 1 - 10 percent done,
week 2 - 10 percent done,
week 3 - 15 percent done,
week 4 - 50 percent done! Yes!,
week 5 - 5 percent done... everybody take a drink,
week 6 - 40 percent done,

etc...

Because it's novel, there are new dynamics in play, and even the best planning may not account for, and actually usually does not account for, things that just come up and that must be dealt with.

For the done before case, it's better as a lot is known, but there are still many factors out of the team control. Updates, changes, regressions, unfound bugs, all contribute to variance. The more the organization completely owns, the less this may be true, but it's always somewhat true.

The pragmatic person might classify everything as having some percentage of novel, and break it down into known novel and unknown, "it just hit us!" type novel and go from there and likely be better off when having to manage expectations.

Another way to think of this, depending on it being software or something else, is production vs "R&D" and the research and development part just isn't cog / production like. Time and materials estimates, if they are even given, must be considered accordingly.

If they are not, expectations do not match realities, and now there is a management and potentially a funding problem in addition to the primary problem needing a solution.
Surely they must have been checking these errors manually, so open sourcing wouldn't really do anything other than getting the map location - which I think you could find yourself.
High-level employees often have contracts with specific severance terms, even at tech companies. For example, Carly Fiorina got around $40 million in compensation when she was fired from HP.

But lower-level employees, at least without a union, typically lack the leverage to negotiate much of anything as far as employment security or severance terms go.
how does this compare to mumble?
Regarding the dropping out, I think it is (at least partially) due to a lack of positive reinforcement. Imagine two students, one male and one female, who were both good science students in high school and decide to take CS 101. They both get a 70% on the first test. The male student will (implicitly or explicitly) be told "shake it off, you'll do better on the next one" while the female student will be told "well you tried, maybe CS isn't your thing". I used to see this a lot in engineering classes, the male students took the failures as a fluke and the female students thought it meant they should do something else.
Well, there are also a lot of real costs over and above salary. Benefits, office space, computers, telephone, utilities, toilet paper, expenses of all sorts, really.
I don't think building on your past successes and mistakes and using the raw data to improve your future endeavors should be considered stuck doing the same thing over and over again. Surely there will be some overlap of knowledge with each project you take on... Or do you only go for projects with completely foreign problems to anything you've ever worked on before?
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The drivers alone probably cost more than $1/mile, then you have gas and maintenance. FedEx had $45B revenue with $2B net income, not exactly huge margins.

Obviously there is more to package deliver than just the raw cost of getting a package from a local sorting center to the end of a rural driveway.

At the moment, a lot of the cheap rural shipping is being subsidized by the USPS.
It allows you to build incentive structures that are not centrally controlled. There is no server to raid. This comes at the cost of enormous scaling issues. However,it looks like it will be able to handle a market with about $500 million in volume per year - at this point I hope the advantages of prediction markets will be clear enough that centralized markets will be made legal. Centralized markets are vastly preferable in most respects.
They gave two simplistic answers from the same perspective, and I think you have to share their perspective to think there's a difference between them. And neither actually answered the question, which was "On the question of bankers’ pay, and whether the government should do something to limit how much they get" -- it's clearly a question about where and when and why government interference in economic matters is appropriate, and whether or not this situation warrants it -- an ethical/philosophical question not simply an economic one.

Though I may be misunderstanding since I don't know the Oxford process very well -- from the way you're describing it, correct me if I'm wrong, applicants to Oxford are already very specialized and the question would be asked in a very specific economics-only context, in which case they've already filtered out anyone with a different perspective and the question is entirely appropriate.
Same here. One time I received a parking ticket in addition to an expired registration ticket on one day and then another expired registration ticket a couple days later.

When I went to the police station to pay, I politely mentioned that I hadn't time to pay my registration fee yet in the allotted "fix it" time and they were totally fine to waive the second ticket.

That said, Santa Barbara has also made their fair share of mistakes like ticketing entire zones of the city on Labor Day a few years ago when people assumed street sweeping wouldn't be happening. After issuing a few hundred tickets in a couple hours, they ended up halting ticketing and canceling all of the tickets. [1] Though people should have phoned into the city to ask about the closures, it was nice of the city to waive them.

[1] http://www.independent.com/news/2011/sep/06/street-sweep-sna...
It would make more sense to have a Nobel prize in mathematics than in economic science.
Most arts require, to an extent, some prior knowledge. It is not so much that there are distinctions but that previous study and understanding is required to make the most of any art (including "pop" or "lowbrow").

A guest in my house this week is a big fan of very simple techno. I'm obsessively listening to and playing through Franck's Prelude, Chorale and Fugue after hearing Stephen Hough play parts of it at a masterclass a month ago which gave me a new understanding of and hunger for the piece. I do so with headphones because I know the sound bothers my guest. What little techno I have heard from his computer bothers ME a little because of the absolute paucity of content (I say this as someone who brought a Daft Punk track to an analysis class as a joke which turned into a 1h30 discussion on the only three elements we were able to isolate).

My taste has evolved from over 25 years of investing in understanding (classical) music, probably well over the 10,000 hours mark. He hasn't invested the hours (decades) so he doesn't appreciate the art, much or at all. And that's fine - he appreciates other things in life, in which he has invested time, and in which I understand very little. The content of the Franck is complex and high dimensional (if that makes sense) and requires that previous body of knowledge and experience to appreciate; in fact, as someone who has never played on an organ, I am probably lacking a fair amount of experience to make the most of Franck.

With that body of knowledge, you are able to judge and appreciate the piece according to objective standards. Without, you get the second graders and the tasting meal (and they did like the wagyu!). Untrained listeners will react to some of the harmonies. Take the famous hand jump chords [1]. A "man in the street" might appreciate the familiar chord progression. A pianist will react immediately to the genius of that hand jump that forces you to isolate the "melody" (and perhaps shaping the arpeggiated chord that ends up "naturally" leading to it) due to the physics of getting to that last note. I took a friend to that masterclass and he was as bored as I was fascinated.

From A Mathematician's Apology: "Mr. J. M. Lomas put this point more picturesquely when we were passing the Nelson column in Trafalgar Square. If I had a statue on a column in London, would I prefer the column to be so high that the statue was invisible, or low enough for the features to be recognizable? I would choose the first alternative, Dr. Snow, presumably, the second." [2]

That being said I think there is value in "man on the street" reviews. As such a man in the case of many fields, I would like to know how others reacted as a proxy for my own reaction. There is a place for Yelp, and for Michelin. One is wealthier for reading both.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dq67nsDLucI&t=5m32s
[2] http://www.amazon.com/Mathematicians-Apology-Canto-Classics/...
It's SoS in Klingon.

I wonder what this tells us about Klingon physiology? After reading the article, the words for 'mother' and 'father' actually seem like interesting pieces of information to learn about any newly discovered race of aliens.
The potential for use finding gifs is enormous.
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