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Cultural appropriation is one hell of an issue.

I've never seen it defined in a way that doesn't seem ripe for this kind of abuse. Some define it as someone of one culture adopting qualities of another culture wholesale- which begs the question then, what's the difference between that and appreciating another culture?

Others define it as adopting said culture in a disrespectful way. This ends up closer to a mark I could understand and be on board with- but then you get situations like that defined in this article, where so much of the complaints seem to be on another's behalf.

In general, I'm not sure how the concept of cultural appropriation lasts into the future as anything more than a way to steer people away from letting their ignorance walk over another culture's traditions. Considering how quickly sacred cows are slaughtered in modern pop culture, in nearly every technologically-engaged culture on earth, it seems just so difficult to not have the phrase lose what little meaning it might have.

Then again, I know that I'm ignorant on many pieces of this subject, despite dozens of hours reading and trying to educate myself on it. If anything, that in itself is my biggest frustration with identity politics- there's no easy path to learning it or being pointed to the right resources, and yet it seems like my own ignorance hurts others gravely. It's troubling.
Only one will remain at the end?
Twitter could have gone to a royalty basis for API access from fairly early on.

If they required that developers with more than 100 users agree to pay $1:user:year, or %10 percent of gross receipts, whichever is greater, then app developers would have to have some means of making money, and the flowback would be to twitter, while still allowing for experimental apps to continue being developed.

Twitter cut off their nose despite their face here. Or for that matter, twitter itself could charge end users $10-15/year for being able to access their own account via API (anything but twitter's own client), and limit to X queries per day/month (something a real user is unlikely to exceed).. that would help keep the spam bots at bay.
Throwaway acct time!

I'm burnt out but there is no way on earth I would discuss personal problems with my boss, particularly ones that might indicate a potential work performance issue. I'd be handing this person a reason to actively start searching for my replacement. No way. I'm closing in on 40, which severely limits my options in Silicon Valley. I make a fairly decent salary, for a very well known tech company. Not gonna risk that. I've got kids and a mortgage to pay.

Quite frankly, I am shocked at the number of responses encouraging people to do this. It seems very high-risk, low potential reward. Interview when you can escape for a few hours, and if you happen to find a better job that looks like it will be less stress, take it! THEN and only then should you tell anyone.
> Facebook sues people for Face* names.

wow, can they do that? Any instances of past cases? So, does that mean if I create a social network with `Face*` name, they can sue me?
Cultural appropriation is one of those notions I've never quite been able to grasp. Are there notable cases where it causes people real, tangible harm?
People said the same thing about putting their photos on the internet in the early days and now there are massive companies dedicated to it.
Wanting things to be ad free can be a strong response to the overwhelming amount of ads that we are presented with every day. These advertisements program us unconsciously and often to our detriment, so yes it is important for there to be an option to remove all advertising for a price.
Hrm. I'm not looking, but I like reading these things. Regarding "Objective, seriously? It's not 1992 anymore", I've always put an objective on my resume. Typically something short and sweet, like "seeking a senior software engineering position solving challenging systems problems" or whatever. Is that not useful? I wouldn't want someone to read beyond the first couple lines of my resume if they're looking for a web developer or a finance manager.
Instead of manipulating byte code at runtime, wouldn't it make more sense to use an annotation processor to just create a specialized UnsafeArrayList for each input type you need?

With something like JavaPoet, it's fairly easy to do as well. It feels a lot safer than manually creating byte code like that. Let javac do that for you.

EDIT: If you're not familiar with JavaPoet, check it out here: https://corner.squareup.com/2015/01/javapoet.html
Now here's the modernized De Lorean.[1] Stanford's auto shop (yes, they have one) upgraded a DeLorean. They pulled the engine and power train, and put in an electric drive from Renovo, which makes supercars. Then they put in the controls for autonomous operation. Then they programmed it to drift.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WNIDcT0Zdj4
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>You won't see an Iranian leak on WIKILEAKS..and you haven't.

What about this one: "Assorted plans and papers from the Iranian Ammunition Industries Group, 2009" https://wikileaks.org/wiki/Assorted_plans_and_papers_from_th...
I still can't believe Google chose Play as the name of app market.
I think it depends on who you are following... I don't check or even try to keep up with twitter.. I tend to check recents a few times a week.. but every time I see at least something interesting... most of my follows are in tech though.. yeah, there's a lot of random stuff... but there's some gems in there too.

I'm actually more inclined to tweet when I find something interesting... partly because looking at my own history works better than browser bookmarks at this point.. and partly because someone else might also find it interesting.
I'm a bit disappointed by the lack of source. Is anyone aware if the findings were published somewhere? There's a lot of hand waving and voodoo magic in psychology, so I try to take this type of article with a grain of salt.
Your analogies don't help at all when it comes time to understand the details of said system, and evaluate whether or not a correct decision was made. When you need to reason about the details about a complex system, all analogies fall apart. The juries need to reason about details in a complex system and comparing Twitter to a "car engine" won't help a lay person understand why Twitter's fictional database layer is deadlocking and why the repair function shouldn't run during a transaction.

>If your car pollutes more than other cars and runs on the blood of innocent consumers, hiding that in the explanation of how a regular car works is not an excuse.

I think the takeaway here, is in the real world cars don't visibly run on the blood of innocent consumers. The means of procurement of gasoline is wrapped up in many different corporations, industries and nation-states which makes it incredibly difficult to ascertain blame.

I could make the argument that your volkswagen runs on the blood of innocent servants in Saudi Arabia. Who is at fault? Mercedes, Chevron, The Royal House of Saudi, A select few in that group, The American Government, or you?
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Oh wow, seriously? I also have to thank you for 10MinuteMail.com! I’ve used it to the point that it’s got a spot in my web browser’s bookmark bar. ;)
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Thank you! Got hit with the subscription message.
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"John R. Schindler ... spent nearly a decade with the super-secret National Security Agency as an intelligence analyst and counterintelligence officer."
Yours is a common misconception, but atheism is absolutely a belief system.

"I don't believe in god" is not the same as "I believe god doesn't exist".

The latter statement is of atheists. As an agnostic, I think agnosticism is the only actual "lack" of a belief system, since I don't hold a belief either way (for/against god's existence).
just quoting: "We are the first company to offer a web based viewer to share complex 3D models of all sizes and platforms."
> In this case, the error was so minor it didn't even affect the meaning of the sentence.

"Loose loose situation" doesn't mean anything. People understood the meaning because they could guess what error had been made, not because the two words are so similar as to be interchangeable.
the rattles had squeaks

That's a great bit of writing right there.
What Gurley is referring to here is actually a level higher up than VCs. He's talking about the people who give VCs their money - Limited Partners or LPs.

LPs are usually very high net worth individuals or funds who invest a portion of what they have in venture funds. VCs are the people who get paid for managing those funds.

If you're responsible for managing the Harvard Endowment Fund (which is larger than the GDP of most nations) you're going to be investing large chunks of capital, and you're going to try and diversify the way you invest it. Say you put 20% into commodities, 30% into real estate, 40% into mutual/hedge funds (the stock market) and 10% into tech via VCs. (Of course, these numbers are complete bogus.)

If the market shifts and all of the sudden you expect really low returns from some parts of the economy, you may shift that money into other parts. So instead of putting 10% into tech you might bump that to 20%.

If that happens across the board VCs will be flush with cash, but unless there's a systemic change in how companies are starting they'll still be responsible for dumping that cash into companies. Remember: if you're a VC it's literally your job to invest the money the LPs give you.

All of the sudden every VC has tons of cash and there aren't enough good companies to invest it in. You might as well invest at really high valuations in the quickly growing companies: It's either that or taking bigger risks on lower quality companies. (Gurley has argued that both of these things are happening, but in this article he's more specifically arguing the former.)

The assertion Gurley makes is that now the market is starting to correct itself a bit. That correction takes place when either the returns are low enough that LPs stop investing as much of their capital in VC or if other investment opportunities heat up and LPs abandon VC to some extent.

Interest rates haven't gone up, so it's not like there's money moving out of VC to make other particularly great investments, but companies aren't being bought very quickly or going public. This means VCs aren't able to give cash money back to the LPs. Therefore the LPs can't reinvest this cash in new companies, and there's still some level of skepticism around whether these companies will return what they're "worth" on paper at the end of the day. If they put less money into VC the companies raising money will have a harder time doing so. Gurley is arguing that this is happening now.

Overall VC is a minuscule part of the overall economy - it's basically a rounding error - but how much money is in VC is very much dependent upon how other parts of the economy are doing.
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There is little that could be said about cultural appropriation that could not also be said about interracial marriage.

It's good that you can't grasp the notion, because it is based in irrational thinking.
Doesn't vnc use a plaintext password limited to 7 chars or something ridiculous?
Appropriation is bullshit, cultures should be allowed to freely copy from and imitate each other without restriction.
No, Unsafe is not blacklisted from JIT afaik. Although be careful that a helper method using Unsafe usually doesn't get inlined.
The problem in this case is the loop. It ranges over a long, and where int loops get a lot of optimisations, long loops don't (yet, they're aware of the issue)
Very good analogy! Actually it isn't even an analogy its more like the hard science.
> really good

> changing it too often for my liking

Does not compute.

As others have said, I have had the misfortune of working on a project that used the FB API and relying on a feature that just inexplicably stopped working right around the time we were supposed to go live.

I was already personally uninterested in FB when this happened, but it gave me concrete belief of two very simple realisations:

- Tying your success to the whims of a third party company's developers is going to end in tears

- A motto like "Move fast and break stuff" is just an attempt to re-brand their fucking terrible development practices in a way that junior developers will treat as a positive thing.
Of course not. "Harm" doesn't come into it, it is always about manufactured outrage and the money that can be generated from such manufactured outrage.
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I'm pretty sure the concept of appropriation is the end result of signalling games. As racism waned in popularity, racists were forced to conceal their racism with euphemisms and dog whistles[1]. Non-racists eventually figured this out and increased the sensitivity of their racism detectors. Racists concealed their racism even more. Repeat.

Eventually you get to today. Almost nobody is racist, but everyone's on a hair trigger when it comes to racist language or behavior. And otherwise sane and good people get angry about white people wearing kimonos. The process is described much better by this blog post: http://blog.jaibot.com/outcast-arms-race/

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dog-whistle_politics

Edit: When I say "racist", I mean consciously so. We're all prone to unconscious biases, and it's good that we try to discover and correct for them. But the signalling game I'm talking about? That happens with beliefs that people are themselves aware of.
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Depends on what you consider tangible harm. It came close recently in this instance:

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-10-20/australian-couple-mobb...
I was actually having a discussion about this recently with a friend and honestly I'm never sure where the line is and how to clearly define it. I imagine it's dependent on the cultural tradition and context of what that tradition is.

The most clear example of cultural appropriation that most people agree is inappropriate is headdresses. Many cultures view the headdress as a sign of respect but it's been used as a for musical festivals across the United States. So I think that is cited as the most common cultural appropriation.

Where the lines draw would be something like a Kimono, where if you wear it and use it then are you paying homage or respect if you use it correctly within the culture? Can't you innovate and improve it?

The example that I was using that was I thought was odd was Yoga. It's originally a very long tradition in India with a complicated history but it's usually considered a religious and spiritual experience. In the West many view it only for the physical and health benefits though and do not consider the spiritual parts of it. The question is that appropriation?
Which is exactly what one should expect from a 16th century pope.
Perhaps I'm being a little cynical, but the author of this post comes across slightly offensive. Like a millennial trying to tell an older generation they're doing it wrong. was a discussion before on this board about hiring practices, and considerable support for the practice of double-blind hiring. I think the key to fixing the recruiting and hiring practices of today, is to remove the emotion from it, and make it less about hiring someone you'd want to have a beer with, and More about the best person for the position.
Comparing to Facebook seems like comparing apples to oranges. The article is about selling physical goods and services for less than it costs to produce them, which is different than allowing people to access a service that you don't yet know how you're going to pay for.

A better analogy might be companies that manufacture video game consoles, where they almost always sell at a loss when a new console is first released, with the hope to make profit in the long term - but there you're locked in to some extent, as you pointed out.
Sort of. It's a long story, but I got transferred into his department. I was happy in my other department and unhappy in his. So in that regard, it was not a favor. But since the transfer was effectively irreversible, it wound up being a favor in that I could move on and find something better.

The other major downside was the stress of being unemployed and having to find a new gig. But it all worked out in the end, so there's that.

Next time, I'll keep it to myself until I find another job.
The whole affair was pretty hilarious. Of course the way Germany has internalized the WWII atrocities is totally unhealthy and will backlash brutally soon. And Israel is moving to the right with blazing speed - so we are up for interesting times.
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> or if you're less keen on making money, "economics".

Economics is about modelling behaviour (be it macro or micro), it has nothing to do with making money.
It's arguable that just about any sort of clothing has (or has had) some significance for some culture.
If financial institutions can commit complex theft on a massive scale without prosecution then the economy will fail.
What value does money have if theft occurs on that scale regularly? Why invest in industry when it's more profitable to invest in theft?
If you research the names listed in the byline, 2 are businessmen, one is a legislator, and the other is a corporate attorney.

Those people wouldn't be biased AT ALL /sarcasm

So much hand-waivy unsound logic too.

this blog post showed that blacks and Hispanics
were no more likely to use payday loans than whites
who were experiencing the same financial problems

Yeah, okay, the comparison should be demographic overall, meaning black/hispanic vs white, not "white people experiencing financial problems". Suggesting that they all have "financial problems" in common doesn't wipe away the racial issues.
"Everyone ... does it."

So that excuses it, right? When a bunch of people that don't matter do it, you're right, I don't give a shit. When it's our Secretary of State, one with access to all kinds of Top Secret material, I do however very much give a shit. If national security regulations don't apply to our top leadership, then what the fuck do we have them for?

The reason those laws are there is exactly for people like top leadership, because you and I aren't going to run across top secret documents in our day to day... UNLESS some asshat does something stupid like this.

Scope of damage is an important concept when it comes to government versus private sector. Scope of damage for private sector is a "Sony" - possibly implosion of the company, but it generally stops there. Government however is the safety of every citizen in the affected country.

HUGE differences on the damage scale.
Yes, it's a jumble of PostScript fragments, base64-encoded images and PDF metadata. Everything that's needed to reconstruct the original PDF, but in a form that's safe to edit in a text editor.
Jose Saramago, a Nobel Prize winner for fiction, wrote a brilliant and surreal book based around this elephant and mahout. I highly recommend it: http://www.amazon.com/The-Elephants-Journey-Jos%C3%A9-Sarama...
livecycle is only really used for interactive forms and it's not part of the pdf spec.
Think of it this way:

1) Your resume is sitting somewhere that it will be mixed with web devs and finance managers. Or...

2) Your resume is given to people who are hiring senior system software engineers.

Try to make sure #2 happens, which you should be doing anyways. And once that happens, the objective doesn't really matter much anyways.
The problem here is that the buying public doesn't give two hoots about how Amazon employees are treated. They just want cheap goods that are delivered quickly. So there isn't a need to rebut the NYT for them as there's no gain.

What has been harmed by the NYT article is Amazon's ability to recruit. And what Mr Carney did makes it even harder. Why would you willing join a company that then goes all Scientology on you if you dare speak against it?

He's preaching to the kool aid drinkers when he should have been working on the ones that weren't sure if they should join.

This is PR 101.
Hey man, we should meet up. I am actually in bangladesh.
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It seems like all of the things you are doing are the standard stupid suggestions on what to do when you're burned out but you're not addressing the real cause. I'm not 100% sure but I think that burnout is caused when there is a mismatch between work and reward (not just monetary, but general personal and social fulfillment).

Are you working on a huge, elaborate and edpansive project with lofty goals that have maybe been scuttled by tptbs for no good reason, leaving your hard work pointless? Are you bashing your head against failure that is beyond your control for some reason? I think these are the sorts of things that truly cause burnout, not overwork per se, but overwork coupled with a mismatch with expected reward, especially if it's repetitive. Then you're training your brain to be allergic to work, because hard work is negatively rewarded.

Paradoxically, the platitudinous prescriptions that many give (get fresh air, exercise, etc) can be counterproductive because you reinforce non-work things that give you the dopamine response of success in predictable, comforting bursts.

Another approach I suggest is work modestly to strenuously hard on small things with guaranteed or near guaranteed success that will also be fulfilling in some way. Maybe the results will be immediately obvious because you are building a small tool that helps your coworkers. Social validation and support for your efforts will also help.

I could be wrong about the mechanism of burnout, but if what I describe hits a nerve, I hope you will try to shake out of it with a mind to the mechanism of your burnout. This strategy has really helped me get out of funks in biochemistry (where failure is frequent), and I've helped many colleagues too.
Marketer of 10+ years here, you'll learn 100x more by doing marketing than any course. If you have a side project or could volunteer yourself to help out a business you'd have the best chance of really learning. When interviewing for hires you see people who have done work vs read about it. The later is the more interesting. Practical experience will really aid your transition more than courses.

I made the transition from a technical analyst background this way. Back in the day I was fairly handy with Excel/Access/VBA type work. I was working in a large company and hit up some marketers and asked if I could build tools/reports to monitor and improve ad spend in my spare time. This helped them optimise a bunch and they got a new headcount and gave me a permanent role. If you have a similar option it would be easier than trying to convince a new company to take a chance on you.

Also what do you mean by technical marketing role? This could mean a bunch of things. If doing courses or practical experience you should decide what marketing field you want to go into to focus on. People from ouside the profession don't typically realise the level of diversity in skills/role. If your not sure let me know what your trying to get out of this move and I'll try and offer some advice.
This appears to be the source of the main study in the article. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0160289615...
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You can use the youtube app on your phone, or the browser on your laptop, or the youtube app on your tv. So it isn't content that can only be consumed in the app on your phone.
This can be seen as the incumbents uniting to keep out a disruptive technology that threatens to devalue their huge investment in skills.