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#3 is... a bunch of paranoid conspiracy theory bullshit.

Let's have a look at the first entry. I'll probably get bored after a few of these, but... whatever.

Charge 1 - Leigh Alexander stands accused of writing an article that GG disagree with, and that many of them inexplicably interpreted as some kind of threat, or something. I don't know. The article was basically about how video games have become mainstream, the concept of a "gamer" demographic is largely meaningless, and developers and publishers need not, and should not, solely target everything at this narrow demographic.

Charge 2 - She is accused of talking to her colleagues, possibly at other publications. She may have engaged in such crimes as discussing her work with others, and building a network of contacts. Y'know... journalism. Because apparently all journalism must be done in a vacuum.

Charge 3 - She is accused to also doing other work, and talking about that other work on her personal social media accounts. Even though there's no evidence that she's done anything wrong as a journalist, she totally could have if she wanted to, and therefore can't be trusted, or something?

At this point, I'm just bored. Most of the rest of the list is basically that Leigh is accused of having professional relationships with people in the games industry. Y'know, like every other games journalist - this whole professional networking thing is kind of how journalists get access to things. Same's true for journalists covering any other entertainment industry. Or politics. Or business. Or...

I mean, repeatedly accusing a journalist of doing her job just seems utterly ridiculous.

What else... There's an accusation of lying, which is included even though the accusation itself says that it was probably misinterpreted. A whole bunch of Twitter B.S. that nobody cares about. Some paranoid ramblings, and a whole bunch of other inconsequential crap that nobody cares about...

So... That's the smoking gun? Really?

> Even though most #GamerGate accounts were proven not to be harassers

Wrong. There was no "proven" anywhere - just that there was a lot of harassment on Twitter that wasn't associated with GG, and a wider study only picked up a small number of GG-associated accounts. Which is something entirely different, despite what GG like to pretend.
Ion Stoica's Big Data Systems research class at Berkeley has a pretty solid reading list to get you started:

http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~istoica/classes/cs294/15/class.h...
IE only reached 95% market share after IE6 had shipped with DOCTYPE switching (i.e., introducing the standards/quirks mode distinction), FWIW.
His response time for resolving Github issues is also remarkable

I usually make a reproduction in the evening and find out by next morning if there's been a fix or if I've been doing something wrong

Has made using Vue in production feel very safe
Let's say the news is about a plane crash. At first it is reported that there are 10 deaths, but a few hours later it's reported that there are 100 deaths, and then 99 deaths. So imagine we are writing an article for a newspaper, or even a Wikipedia article. The reporter or contributors are trying to find out the truth, because their objective is to create "the perfect article". So when the later death toll comes in they will often rewrite the original article to make it correct, but in doing so they hide the original reporting. The reader will see an article that says: Plane crash: 99 dead.

Newspapers don't print feeds, there's no room. But if you have the archive to hand, as a database, then you don't need to make a perfect article. You just need to add updates as they happen.

Event 1: Plane crashes 10 dead
Event 2: 100 dead confirmed
Event 3: Actually 99 dead

This leaves the original events as a record of what was reported at the time, but the reader can also see the update. This is important to readers because while information can be added to articles, it can also be taken out, to try to conform to a narrative. Wikipedia is particularly prone to this kind of selection bias dressed up as fact-checking.
Perhaps you should have gotten a go ahead to do the work. But now that you have done it, demonstrate it to your manager. Present the pros & cons.

Doing so you demonstrate your initiative and abilities.

Then as already suggested, let management do what they are paid to do.

Business is not a social justice exercise, especially not for engineers.
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I mean...we could fire cruise missiles or send bombers right? That would cause even more collateral damage.

How many innocent lives will be lost if we do nothing?

This leak isn't a big deal because everyone knows that waging war like this has collateral damage. So no one is surprised that innocent people get killed in military actions.

I think it would take a lot for people to care about this.
Yes I think it is pretty clear that we do.
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As an American, it confuses the heck out of me, too.

I sometimes think of the "retail ruining of Thanksgiving" as a pretty good argument against libertarianism. That is, if government mandated that stores can't open on Thanksgiving, pretty much EVERYONE benefits: stores don't really WANT to open early, they just want to open before their competitors. A mandated open time prevents the "race to the bottom... of Thanksgiving morning". Similarly, bargain hunters don't want to miss out on Thanksgiving either - they just want to get the best deals.
No problem. Those excerpts were basically designed to be misleading, for the purpose of pushing an agenda (the "GG totally doesn't harass women, you [insert gendered insult towards women here]" angle).

The basic tactic is to try to sound reasonable, to mask the seething rage and hostility that lies beneath.
Pseudoscience gone wrong. Again.
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Some of the best boogie boarding I have ever done was at Seecliff Beach in Santa Cruz county the day after Thanksgiving.*

* I was wearing an O'Neill a wetsuit, which you can buy at REI.
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Shouldn't you try and sell it to them? It sounds like your software is worth at least 3 million dollars a year.
Obviously, I don't know the details of the situation, but here's my 2 cents.

You're saying that your program is already as effective as your team in the majority of cases. I've done my fair share of automation, and very often people underestimate the amount of work required to bring a script to the level of an human (which is normal! You're the person who wrote the script after all). Your script is most likely going to be 30% to 50% as productive as a normal person, at least in the beginning.

Another thing to keep in mind is that there's a lot of work that can't be automated. These people may have domain-specific knowledge that you don't have. Very often domain experts take decisions which look like guesses but aren't.

What I would do in your place would be to redesign your program to be a tool to supplement humans. You could sell it as such to your higher-ups, and help some of those people keep their jobs.

Also note that it's somewhat unlikely to have a massive lay-off happen. Most people will get reaffected to another role or a slightly different mission. Managers don't like shrinking headcount.

Finally, don't forget to take credit for this. You've been toiling on this for months after all, on your own. You deserve credit for it.
Historically, extra efficiency does not mean less work, but rather more work.

For example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox

What you should do is talk to sales and let them know your company can now handle far more business than before, at lower cost.
>That doesn't make very much sense to me. It's not as if the "new dollars" are worth $1.02, while the "old dollars" are worth $1.00.

It's very much like that, actually, except it's more like the new dollars are worth $1.00 and the old ones are now worth $0.98. The important factor is time. Suppose we live on an island and have a currency we'll call a "foo". There are 100 foos in circulation. Tax collection isn't what it should be, so the president of the island borrows ten foos from the central bank (which, like the fed, just updates the computer to create them) and uses them to pay the presidential guard.

When he spends those ten extra foos, the president is getting the current purchasing power of the foo. It will take some time for the value of each foo to adjust down to take into account there are now 110 foos instead of just 100. Two weeks from now everything priced in foos will have risen 10%, but since the economy didn't "know" about the extra foos the president was able to spend them at full value.

>The first-order effect is: banks are owed an amount of money denominated in nominal terms, and inflation will decrease the value of those debts.

That's true, but the bank isn't going to loan you money without taking inflation into account. That's why loan interest rates go up when inflation goes up.

Also, the bank is borrowing the money they're loaning to you, and after they make the loan they're going to sell it off to a GSE or market investors. So someone else is ultimately holding the bag if there's inflation.

>And even if this theory was true, inflation has been historically low (and below central-bank targets) for quite a few years, so whoever is pushing for higher inflation isn't very good at it.

Well, yes. The problem is two-fold. The first part is in a fractional reserve system the money supply depends on qualified candidates willing to borrow. In the midst of a recession there just aren't as many of them - people without jobs aren't buying houses, and businesses aren't expanding. So less new money is created.

The second part is loan defaults destroy money. If you get enough defaults you're going to get deflation.

It's not like the banks didn't get their money's worth, though, as the government used every trick in the book to add money to the economy. At one point in time the government was borrowing forty cents of every dollar it spent, and the Fed was injecting more directly though QE.
Precisely. Comes from games theory: if the other guy is thought to be irrational, it really backs you into a bit of a corner, playing it as safe as possible.

Nixon had bombers flying to the edge of Soviet airspace, 24/7, all fully loaded, all to make the Russians think he was insanely aggressive.
We find it's always better to fire people on a Friday. Studies have statistically shown that there's less chance of an incident if you do it at the end of the week.
That canal has been the dreams of explorers and governments over and over since Pizarro. I think the US at one point had interest developing a canal but work in Panama was seen as easier of the two isthmuses.

I think this will be a double edged sword for the locals. It has the potential to pull the country from the bottom of the barrel and catapult it into a relatively richer country, like Panama, if the government does not squander its money --given their history, the odds seem stacked against them.

On the other hand, this would be major disruption of "indigenous" lives with the big mighty foreigners coming in (in this case the imperialists, no longer gringos or Euros, but Chinese. But, that's probably not the biggest concern (mega projects are often multinational) I think the biggest issue is disruption of the local flora and fauna specially introduction of seawater as well as stowaway species into their lakes and streams. However, given their poverty, I can hardly find fault with trying for prosperity whichever way they can get it.

Interesting to see that MacAfee's travel guide[1] would be pretty relevant for anyone going down there.

[1]http://www.whoismcafee.com/the-travel-guide/
"It's a matter of infrastructure, people need to sleep near where they work/buy/participate in the local economy."

I agree very strongly with this. The question is how we best make that happen (more). I think helping more local communities have more places to work/buy/participate is going to be a bigger win than building more housing in the places the jobs already are.

People commute to San Francisco from Tracy. From Sacramento. Moving those people from Tracy to San Francisco cuts their commute. It also means the demands of those people are now more expressed in San Francisco and less in Tracy. That means fewer jobs available in Tracy and more jobs available in San Francisco; that means more demand for housing in San Francisco.
Very thought provoking. It seems like a good argument in favour of entrepreneurship and risk taking.

But I'm not sure that I agree with Taleb's glorification of Front Office banking roles in sales & trading. Like any sufficiently highly paid corporate employee, traders are compensated mainly through company shares which vest over a long period of time. These days a trader's bonus can even be clawed back, many years after being awarded. Rumour is that Wall St traders are often caught up in a culture of excess where bosses pressure them to spend/live extravagantly and become completely dependent on annual cash bonuses. For all the supposed risk taking tolerance bravado, traders are merely risking the firm's capital and not their own. In some ways it is similar to the expat role - just as some executives are chosen to be expats, some bank employees are chosen as traders and given enormous amounts of the firm's capital to bet with. No one can say what to look for in hiring a good trader, there is no consistent basis for selection, there are no academic or professional credentials for traders, the bank executives can choose to shutdown a particular trading desk on a whim, the worst fear of a trader is to lose this coveted position, and most people do not last very long as traders as their luck runs out eventually at the poker table. If an expat executive is like a diplomat fearfully being assigned from one foreign posting to the next, then I think a trader is like a gambler-slave sent to gamble with his master's money in the casino and he is in constant fear of the dire consequences that await if and when he loses too great a sum or fails to win large sums frequently. Trading jobs are usually a better deal for the employee than most comparable jobs, but it is still an employee job and it attracts exactly the kind of people who go to business school and actively seek low risk careers and dependence on a paycheque written by a prestigious employer.
Well, in that case this needs to change, because it is just not correct and offends both "Indian" Indians and native americans.
Give the software to those 80 people and let them chill out until management finds out. But seriously, if your software does what you say it does, I would setup a SaaS and try to sell it to insurance companies.
A fundamental reason is that with current hardware and software large quantum mechanical systems are hard to simulate.

So we can't just through a computer at it, to try out all possibilities.
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Confused: correcting mistakes is 'selection bias'? How is incorrect early reporting, news at all? The act of reporting isn't the news; its the thing that actually happened.
"With a cleaner, your possessions are in the hands of someone who might have plenty of incentive to steal your stuff and sell it. "

Did we read the same post?
That is all way besides the point, seeing as I was describing my family's political philosophy as something that is not evil, not offering it up as something right or wrong. Yeesh.
I've heard from people from countries like this where someone involved in say a vehicular manslaughter incident/DWI, can make the incident "go away" with a bit of money. I don't mean going thru courts or civil judgements, I mean, simply making the case go away altogether.
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Sounds legally fraught if you've already developed it using anything vaguely resembling company time, property or data.

You could always go to your boss and tell him you've had an idea and that you'll need two years on an increased salary plus two assistants to implement it, though. Then spend six man-years implementing what you've already done.
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Isn't supposed to be released on Friday?
No EPUB version?
I'm sorry, but she doesn't have to spend her productive years cooking and watching TV. She can perfectly write, read, blog, or stay in India at her oracle job, among a myriad of alternatives.

I'm not defending the H1B system, which sucks, but you always can find a better way.
I call bullshit on the "potentially cost 80 people their jobs". For any "old-school insurance company", I'm confident there's a hell of a lot higher standard for firing 80 people than some program "at least as effective as our analyst team in a majority of cases" according to some IT guy.
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RapGenius has that, it's called genius.com/beta and it's cool.
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Are they really a co-op any more, or has the organization been co-opted by executives?

Members can vote for board members, but only after they have been approved by the "Nominating and Governance Committee". Executive pay is also not disclosed.

REI used to offer a lifetime guarantee on every product they sold. Sadly, this was abused by many people which I believe left no other option than to limit it. This used to make up for paying full retail for everything. Backcountry.com soon followed suite by reducing their warranty accordingly.

As a climber, I've noticed their selection in that department has dwindled quite dramatically over the years.

Maybe these things aren't practical in today's world. For me, they are slowly transitioning from an amazing store I would plug every chance I got, to just another retailer.

If you're ever in Canada, be sure to check out MEC. They still have a lifetime guarantee and their house brand is top-notch and of exceptional value.
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Tried with Firefox for Android 41 and it is quite accurate.

Note: in China, so sometimes HTTPS actually fails to establish
During a period of my life I played World of Warcraft. I eventually got banned for botting. After initially feeling anger, I felt free. Who wants to play a game so boring that a robot could do it? The 80 people are probably intelligent and reliable people. They will find something more challenging and rewarding.
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> These people may have domain-specific knowledge that you don't have.

Indeed. They implicitly apply domain-specific knowledge during the execution of the tasks that you observed.

It's great that your tool is as effective as the team in the majority of cases, but the flesh-and-blood are better in the minority cases - and that might be enough to prevent your script from being able to replace them.

The minority of cases might actually outweigh the majority of cases.

For example - your script might be able to reduce expenses by 80 * 50,000 = $4M/year, but that's not very good if a single mistake on one of the minority cases will cost the company $10M.

That being said, it seems quite likely that your script could at least be integrated into their workflow - which is great, and ought to get you big kudos.
Perhaps. There's still a long way to go though, since you need a stable AST builder or qquote mechanism, among other things.

And HIR isn't nearly enough for clippy to work on stable.
Maybe, but maybe lots of solutions like this already exist! Tweets, genius for annotations, facebook, youtube... I agree certain backers might care more about having an article published in x ways, but I think they are overestimating their usefulness and things like tweet embeds, youtube embeds, or using phantom js to render custom twitter cards with text PLUS the full length article do the same job more or less.
I've always heard good things about Vue from its users. I have to compare all Javascript frameworks to React, because to me React feels like the first framework that got it "right." The API of React is surprisingly thin. Looking at Vue templates, the syntax seems quite alien, halfway between Django and Angular:

<th v-for="key in columns" @click="sortBy(key)" :class="{active: sortKey == key}">

And the API seems to needlessly separate HTML and Javascript, with some strange (to a newcomer) API calls:

Vue.component('demo-grid', { // moving away from JS classes
template: '#grid-template', // Why separate view code from view code?
replace: true, // what is this?

Has anyone heavily used React and Vue and have an argument for what this thicker API affords?
I've just checked my history and the sites I thought I have not visited do not show (2/14). Maybe 85%?
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Speaking as a hiring manager I always look for achievements like this when parsing a resume or interviewing a candidate. The best candidates always have a few standout achievements that really grab your attention.

If you had to summarise your time at your current employer to just a few dot points this one will immediately get noticed:
- In my own time I developed a system that helped semi-automate the work of 80 analysts. Overall cost savings in year one were X and time to delivery reduced to Y.

You could also look to launch a business around what you have built but it sounds like it may be too small of a niche to just drop into any business without extensive customisation.
I listened to a guy from Toastmasters once, and at the start of the speech he said, "Will you please pull me up if I say 'um' or 'ah' at any point?" And he didn't, over the course of an hour or so. The trick, apparently, is to speak deliberately and know what you're going to say before you say it.
Definitely, on all of these points.

To vorador: You could be overestimating what the software can do, and underestimating what it can do in a more augmentative role. Whether it helps the company at the expense of these workers -- or whether it helps everyone way more -- is all about how you position this software, and how people actually use it.

I'd talk to these users more, and be gradual with deployment. Find ways that they can use what they know along with what you have built in order to push the envelope on productivity or even explore unforeseen opportunity. I'd also slow this down and be more deliberate in how you approach and communicate the situation.

If you're not careful, you might be the one who gets fired first.
You should deploy it; you are more likely to gain a valuable lesson in humility than cost 80 people their jobs.