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> If I pay relocation expenses, I require receipts

This might be a deal breaker for me if I was interviewing with someone. It's not that I care about the accountability part, it's more that a ton of relocation costs are unforeseen incidentals, or are private expenses (like first month's rent ... it's not your business what I choose to pay in rent), that should be covered by just paying cash to the new hire. Making them track down receipts for all of it might work out to be more costly, in terms of time lost, than just bearing the taxes, and certainly might involve requiring knowledge of expenses the employee may rightfully prefer to keep private.

Usually, I expect that the company will handle almost all aspects of relocation on their own (e.g. buying plane tickets and hotel rental for housing visit, calling up and hiring the moving company to pack and ship belongings). The part that would be paid as cash would be the cost of rental fees, deposit, and first month's rent, as well as some small amount for incidentals, which should be grossed up.

On the other stuff I guess we just disagree. I don't view sign-on bonus or severance pay as wage pay, even if they are pegged to wage level. For the other stuff, I agree, it's just part of regular income and the employee should bear the tax. But for sign on bonuses and severance, I think it's fair for the employer to bear the tax in light of the purposes of those payments.

Sign on bonuses are very different in this discussion though, since not everyone provides them and the amounts can vary a lot and for low amounts grossing up can matter significantly, while for larger amounts, employees are usually happy to bear the tax cost themselves. I'm not so worried about what an employer's policy is for these.

It would matter to me to negotiate a specific value paid for severance, though, rather than "6 months' salary" which will then have taxes taken out. If an employer was put off by this, it could be a problem, depending on all the other aspects of the job. One way to avoid this is that if secretly what I want is 6 months severance grossed up, then I'll try to negotiate 9 months severance, without mentioning the grossing up part. It's less off-putting to the counterparty, even if it would be nicer if I could just speak plainly.

I'm just speaking from my experience as a candidate in previous roles. I'm sure everyone has different experiences.
Agreed -- it's a weird strategy. "Hey users, look how bad we let Quicken get... Now try our cloud products!"
I love this article. Excellent analysis and insight.

It also references one of my favorite xkcd comics.
Just a guess, but probably the sunk cost fallacy. Lync licensing is not cheap, and once you've put in the time to buy it, provision the ridiculous amounts of hardware necessary to run it, deploy it, push the client to end-users, train up on how to use it, it represents a significant investment.
We've gotten to the point where your history and the oppression your people faced isn't important anymore. What matters is the color of your skin, if your skin tone is darker you receive more institutional oppression. Look at how the black community has turned on Zoe Saldana, who put on makeup and prosthetics to more accurately represent a black historical figure and was torn to shreds because she has internalized racism or some shit.
> There's a part of this that I really don't understand. What's with all the misleading word-usage? Did people of Mexican origin feel unsafe? Their safety was compromised? I don't think so. This is 1984 level of double-speak where words have been redefined to fit the narrative. Feeling unsafe means there is a credible threat of violence. Not feeling offended by people dressing up in your ethnic dress.

Well, I'm not sure a credible threat of violence is really the requirement. Actively stalking someone to take pictures, for instance, doesn't necessarily equal violence but its still a form of applied force in many respects.

However, I think the Russian party is equal and equivalent given there is a Communist party in the US + Russians + the animosity towards Russians (despite the fact they are white) in general in the US. Yet, who the fuck says that is okay yet goes after some kids with a sombrero theme?
Not a compelling argument, imo. Seems like almost every major website is getting hacked, and finance sites are probably a big target.
How long does it take to read this article and then express a hateful opinion about Bowdoin College's administration?

About two minutes would you say?
+1. This is my life
Isn't Gradle based on and using Maven (under the hood) ?
It's not visibility, it's focus (at least on desktop). If you don't click a messenger box, it will display the message but not acknowledge it as read (on the desktop client, on mobile it works based on whether the message is displayed while the app is open).
Some side channels travel over networks. Timing, for instance.
To depend on compiler flags, I do this:

## compiler_flags file keeps a copy of the compile flags
$(builddir)/compiler_flags: force
mkdir -p $(builddir)
echo '$(CPPFLAGS) $(CFLAGS)' | cmp -s - $@ || echo '$(CPPFLAGS) $(CFLAGS)' > $@

##rebuild all objects if compile flags change
$(LIBOBJECTS) $(RTLLIBOBJECTS) $(OPTLIBOBJECTS) $(TESTOBJECTS) $(builddir)/init_qt_workdir: $(builddir)/compiler_flags

I"m pretty happy with the results.
Imagine there's a vending machine, and a group of young people learn that if you it hit in a certain way, a soda pops out... so they stand around hitting that vending machine...popping out sodas...

'Offendedness' is that way you punch that machine.
I was just writing a Rakefile and have a good time of it. I like using make but rake gives me more functionality.
"I see the role of government as necessary, especially in a free market system."

So it's not especially necessary in a command economy?
Really, yours is the only comment that should be made on the article (and most of the article itself shouldn't have been written either, since the author didn't seem to care to find a Mexican to interview). The only thing relevant in any PC incident is what actual people from the possibly-offended group actually think and feel. It behooves the rest of us to just shut the hell up.
How does it compare to Quicken, and can it still download transactions?
Someone needs to put some mature, level-headed adults in charge of these schools. There needs to be someone to remind students when they're being unreasonable and foolish, and then put a stop to it if needed.
WebRTC is a great tool and I expect to see more examples like this that will drive how we think about collaborative business tools over the next 5 years.
Why is it assumed all people from Mexico are "people of color"?
Mexico has amazing diversity much like the USA.
One could not call "USA a people of color" without downplaying all those who are not.
Additionally, there is no "hispanic race" which everyone wants to use. It is very difficult being latino and having fair skin. Spanish is a European Language. Let's not forget that.
I guess I'm just used to all those Japanese articles about their growing single working culture. Those usually focus on how both sexes are giving up relationships in favor of their careers.
Hernando has always held that he didn't make something massively different. All he did was bring together technologies and experience to an area that had a huge gap between entry level users and experts.

He has always gone by the quote: "If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants" (from Isaac Newton). He fully recognizes that none of the work he did would be possible without the amazing work done by people before him.

So, all I have to say is: Thank you! Without people like you, the state of electronics and education in technology wouldn't be where it is today.

BTW, the Javelin Stamp, and it's predecessors, were all incredible feats of engineering and science. As well as the Propeller!
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Meh, liberal arts college does stupid stuff, has stupid faculty. I wonder if Mr. Ripley will add it to the next edition of his book.
Now that you mention it, I can't think of very many languages that define a language-standard persistent encoding of a continuation on a closure. One that I can think of is Erlang.

Here's the relevant section of the Erlang "External Term Format encoding" spec: http://erlang.org/doc/apps/erts/erl_ext_dist.html#id95269

Said spec is nominally "about" the wire protocol Erlang nodes use to communicate with one another in a distributed system. But the ETF format defined there is much more general, and is used all over the place (e.g. when persisting values in Erlang's DETS tables to disk.) It's what you get when you call Erlang's global term_to_binary/1 function.

Erlang's ETF could probably be most closely compared to Python's "pickle" format. (Though, sadly, you can't pickle a lexical closure in Python.)
Actually, the meat of the article is that people too seldom admit when they don't truly know the answer to a question.
I agree, but is it then just the open source of it that drove Arduino over say, the Basic Stamp 1 by Parallax? I believe it was very accessible, affordable, and even the smallest Arduinos today are not much smaller albeit with more chips on them. I was using the Parallax Basic Stamp 1 in 1994, 10 years before he even wrote his thesis. It had a BASIC interpreter on ROM, PBasic, 5V regulator, EEPROM, oscillator, and 16 i/o pins (GPIO nowadays). It wasn't called the Stamp for its size for nothing!
I was controlling Christmas Window displays - pneumatics solenoids, motors with relays, and lighting and smoke machines. I used relatively-new capacitive switches on the windows facing the street in NYC, that children could touch and make a Xmas Nutcracker bite and raise a bell in his arm for the Saks and Lord & Taylor Christmas windows. This is why I was not pulled into the whole Arduino thing; I essentially already had it without going all techy and banging bits on self-assembled circuit. All I needed were some interface resistors or relays for the high voltage stuff beyond the output pins 150mA limit. The BS1 had a nice text editor, and you could leave the BS1 connected while programming and re-write the program to see the affect immediately. If anything, no genius needed for Arduino; the tech and very exact model, although, commerical was already there, so indeed history is written and some truths lost in time or washed away.
He highlights commands he takes credit for terming like 'digitalWrite'. These all had similar counterparts in PBasic back then (you could define ledA PIN 2, then just write HIGH ledA or TOGGLE ledA)that are in my opinion no more difficult.
I was on the Processing forums when they first started, ECHO in NYC, at the time. I am grateful for the internet in bringing these to my doorstep, but sometimes hype, or fashion wins over true technical marvels, and we give accolades to imitation or mediocrity. The true geniuses usually don't seek fame, fortune at first, but only thirst to discover. As I get older I smile when somebody thinks they invented something. The knowledge to build a catapult was "re-discovered" at least twice in history due to communications and wars. Nowadays, the internet ensures you should be able to dig up some precursors to your efforts, and not reinvent something that existed only 10 years before your university education.
What baffled me most as an child during the "Satanism Panic" was what the grownups thought the danger was. Regardless of whether there were really people worshipping the devil, and regardless of whether such people believed what they were doing, did the panicked adults believe it?

Did they worry that someone was going to perform dark rituals so well that they actually summoned the devil?
For c and c++, I've recently starting using meson.

It's a breath of fresh air compared to some other build tools, and the config files are both expressive and concise.
Yikes, I still use Maven. I don't like being left behind in the dust. Is there any compelling reason to prefer Gradle? What mistakes did Maven make that gradle avoided? One thing I am hesitant about is the I don't need my build tool to be a turing complete language.
I just curious with this article specifically because its about the idea of the classic heterosexual relationship, which is inherently about men and women. It just seemed it was missing 1/2 of the story.
Slack is just a web app wrapped up on the desktop
That party is down the road a piece in Brunswick, where the locals are hanging out in a gravel pit, unironically drinking PBR, lighting shit on fire, and shooting at beer bottles, in the time-honored Mainer tradition.
I have to admit the factoring threw me for a bit. The last time I had to do something like this was over 20(!) years ago.

Although it was gratifying to have the solution drift into mind after a while. What is sad is that I'm acutely aware that I no longer think as quickly as I did in my 20s.
Relevant web comic: http://www.smbc-comics.com/?id=3540
> satisfying than wondering whether university power structures could be rethought in order to be more democratic

University power structures shouldn't be entirely democratic. The students need to be clearly subordinate to their teachers.

I think what's happening here is that, through fear of student power or laziness, the administration is using its power to appease the overreacting students rather than control and moderate their overreaction.
When I ran an old-school D&D (1st edition) game a few years ago, I incentivised the players (come in at 2nd level, full hit points and a simple magic item) to "roll straight" (that is, 3d6 for each stat, in order on the character sheet, and play the resulting character) and all but one did so. It made for a very fun game (one of the highlights---the paladin backstabs a (obviously evil) NPC and with the cleric's help, sets fire to a carnival; both are arrested while the thief and magic user help bail them out).
I fail to see how that is relevant.
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We live in a liberal society, and neither a particular group nor "the rest of us" should be expected to "shut the hell up."
Did I say anything about banning anything? I am not advocating banning or not banning anything. I just don't get why wearing sombreros is in any way amusing or interesting or funny. It does seem somewhat unnecessary. The context of why people typically used to wear sombreros is because they used to think looking like a Mexican ( or a crude caricature of a Mexican ) was funny.
Can you please GNU me yr 186 lines of bytes. I am curious.
Ant maybe, but Maven is hardly obsolete. Most every Java project I run into uses Maven or Gradle, with Maven being more common.
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I know this has been talked to death, but there's an aspect I haven't seen addressed.

This piece says "and in disregard of the rules imposed on distribution by the copyright holders." Others say something similar.

How many of those articles in SciHub are not covered by copyright? For example, if the author is a US government employee, then there is no copyright. I've seen many articles with a footnote that says it isn't covered by copyright because of that, though I can't tell if it's even 1%.

There are also articles which are just the schedule for an upcoming meeting. (This is especially true in the older literature.) These aren't covered under copyright because there is no creative input.

I don't think it's enough to be really significant, but it does make me wonder what the reaction would be to a no-copyright-applies version of Sci-Hub.

It would still be in "disregard of the rules imposed on distribution by the" distributor, but at least it would help tease out which complaints are due to copyright infringement and which are due to breaking a distribution agreement.
Are you using hardware accelerated encoding on iOS?
I know that options exist, but uh... I mean Wine doesn't count?

It's more the absurd claim that Win32 as an API hasn't made good nods towards backwards compatibility. It has.
I think D is closer to Scala than Rust is. D's metaprogramming is quite a bit more advanced than Rust and it has opt-in garbage collection. The type system isn't advanced like Rust, let alone Scala, but it mostly gets the job done. It's like C and Scala had a remarkably pleasant child.
what do you think of this reputation engine?

github.com/neyer/respect
> So go start your own!

Unfortunately most of us aren't billionaires.

"The press is free, for anyone that owns one."
It was certainly meant to be a reply to "why would you attribute an increase to the leader" and meant mostly to amplify the point.

I haven't even said the worst of my analysis. If I make an NPV calculation assuming the 5-year average interest rates will be 1%, IBM is currently far overvalued, essentially 100%, mostly because of too much debt compared to assets. In a firesale, IBM wouldn't fetch half it's market cap.

You can tell by the short interest in IBM that I'm not the only one who thinks so.

In fact, that's the only real quality I would ascribe to Ms. Rometty : investors in IBM should be panicking, and they're not. Since she's the main point of contact between the board and the company, she probably should get some credit for that. But in a way it's the worst kind of compliment : she has been able to push something that's either a lie or mindless optimism on a lot of investors.
The problem I faced was scrolling lags. I've heard it got much better with 6.3/6.4 release. Otherwise, it was pretty cool that you can see how data flows through your functions by just hovering mouse over identifiers, or see the coverage.
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I didn't say we are expected to, I said it behooves us to.

Anyone who argues about the PC-ness of some action related to group X without actually asking anyone from group X about it is doing nothing but talking out of their ass. (How could they do otherwise, without the cultural knowledge that comes only from being part of group X?) If they wish not to look like an uninformed idiot, it behooves them to shut up until they know what an actual person from group X thinks. Anything else is pretentious.
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The author is the cofounder and CEO of Coinbase. It seems like an important article.
>This seems to hint at the problem. You (the left) conflate freedom and equality

Actually it's because most people are ignorant. AKA we can be manipulated to believe things against our interest.
Science on reasoning:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYmi0DLzBdQ

"Intended as an internal document. Good reading to understand the nature of rich democracies and the fact that the common people are not allowed to play a role."

Crisis of democracy

http://trilateral.org/download/doc/crisis_of_democracy.pdf

http://www.amazon.com/Crisis-Democracy-Governability-Democra...

Democracy Inc.

http://www.amazon.com/Democracy-Incorporated-Managed-Inverte...

Testing theories of representative government

https://scholar.princeton.edu/sites/default/files/mgilens/fi...

Overthrowing other peoples governments

http://williamblum.org/essays/read/overthrowing-other-people...

Protectionism for the rich and big business by state intervention, radical market interference.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHj2GaPuEhY#t=349

Energy subsidies

https://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/survey/so/2015/NEW07021...

Intereference in other states when the rich/corporations dont get their way

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mxp_wgFWQo&feature=youtu.be...

Manufacturing consent (book)

http://www.amazon.com/Manufacturing-Consent-Political-Econom...

Manufacturing consent(vids):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KwU56Rv0OXM

https://vimeo.com/39566117
This is really interesting, but I feel like Erlang is a counter example. Not sure if that's a good comparison, so I decided to ask and risk sounding stupid.
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This reminds me of an incident where a fraternity and a sorority at my alma mater were crucified for holding a Cinco de Mayo party, named Phiesta, when the organizations had the letter phi in their names.

Idiocy.
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And if that cargo was going over land with trucks or trains, we would see a huge uptick in pollution compared to how much ships can haul compared to their consumption.

In fact I recently saw an article [1] talking about the Soo Locks in the Great Lakes and how devastating it would be if they shut down because there would be no way that much cargo is getting sent over land by trucks or trains. So much that the US government is afraid the national economy would crash if these "no one has ever heard of them" locks stopped for any amount of time.

Sure ships burn nasty shit and spew a ton of pollutants, but compared to other forms of transportation, they's so vastly superior in almost every way.

[1] http://www.freep.com/story/news/politics/2016/03/03/us-michi...
I like how simplistic this is. Btw, I am one of the makers of: https://codepad.remoteinterview.io

We used Firepad[1] (which is based on Firebase) to sync data.

[1] https://github.com/firebase/firepad
Slim article. Doesn't address the title question.

My 2 cents: these AI robots with pretty faces are just an extension of the 1800's fortune-teller vending machines with the recorded voice and hand that waves over a crystal ball, then dispenses a paper fortune. More moving parts now; even some parts that remember previous interactions and change what it'll say in the future. But no different in kind.
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Those who would argue with you would simply describe racial group X as privileged and racial group Y as oppressed and in need of protection, thereby "justifying" the hypocrisy.
Does that math stack up? Because ships produce something like 20% of the world's air pollution. And there are around 6000 seagoing ships total. That's a lot of cargo; but that's a lot of pollution too.
You can be be found in contempt of court for not providing information that you have not been proven to possess. One guy spent 14 years in prison without being charged or convicted of a crime, and never had any input from a jury: http://abcnews.go.com/2020/story?id=8101209

Additionally, you really have zero constitutional protections in the US if you're a member of the armed forces.
We're working on making pushing from GitLab to schedulers simpler in https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/3286
> If you join a bunch of the freelance marketplaces it's really not hard

Hmm I've always heard the exact opposite. I haven't seen a freelance type of marketplace that isn't a huge race to the bottom. Whenever I've done consulting it's always been through contacts that I know; I've never found a way to actually make decent money through other means.
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I never said that hormones were the only influence, in fact I agree that genetics is also important.

Regarding behavior, and specifically the SDN, consider, for example:

The volume of a sexually dimorphic nucleus in the ovine medial preoptic area/anterior hypothalamus varies with sexual partner preference. Endocrinology. 2004

"In addition to a sex difference, we found that the volume of the oSDN was two times greater in female-oriented rams than in male-oriented rams."

Wired on steroids: sexual differentiation of the brain and its role in the expression of sexual partner preferences. Front Endocrinol (Lausanne). 2011

"Development of female-directed partner preference in the male is dependent on exposure of the developing brain to gonadal steroids synthesized during critical periods of sexual differentiation of the central nervous system"

The development of male-oriented behavior in rams. Front Neuroendocrinol. 2011

"Although our understanding of the biological determinants and underlying neural substrates of sexual attraction and mate selection are far from complete, compelling evidence is discussed that supports the idea that neural substrates regulating sexual partner preferences are organized during prenatal development"