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Author is saying that early decisions made by an un-diverse Twitter staff led to the company's problems today (as it's having hard time growing [partly] because it has an abuse problem [I guess towards women]).

Does it not occur to him that having a more diverse team might have led to other bad decisions being made which would mean that company would have never even got off the ground?

His logic strikes me as someone looking at a floundering NBA team and saying 'Well, if you just replaced a few players with women, you might have had a much better chance of winning the playoffs'.

In other words - if more diverse teams led to better results, wouldn't there be a bunch of examples for this? As it stands, the best companies in SV are all terribly undiverse.
"Dozens" is at least 24.
Zuckeberg funded Iridium done right. That will show that pesky India with it's "net neutrality"
You're looking in the wrong places. If you want to meet people with interesting niche hobbies, meet them in the niche. If you like rock climbing, go to a climbing gym. If you like building hardware, go to TechShop or Maker Faire. If you're into martial arts, there are some great Krav Maga gyms in the Bay Area. Or you could always hang out with the people in your company - no comparing yourself based on where you work for there, because you all work for the same place.

The networking scene is for networking, so of course it's filled with careerists. The coffeeshop scene is largely the same (though occasionally you meet one of the local students), since "let's grab coffee" is Silicon Valley shorthand for "I would like to assess your usefulness to my future career goals."

But there are many other scenes in the Bay Area. My wife ran the local Peace Corps alumni chapter for a while, so I end up hanging out with a lot of very interesting do-gooder international development types. I still get together for pizza with a bunch of my old Googler friends, even though I left almost 2 years ago. There are plenty of very authentic startup founder types around too, ones who aren't in it for a quick buck but because it's what they do and have been doing for 15-20 years now.
Having actual tangible wealth is not necessary. One can opt to join the army and fund college via the GI Bill, for instance.

And generally, opportunity cost tends not to be super high when you don't have skills or an education.
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Running a CA is a major pain, adds auditing and other requirements that are ongoing pain, and prior to the past year or so Facebook did not issue enough certificates to make the cost worthwhile. Doing this right means adding a lot of logging and access control around a few parts of the infra stack that would manage this, so why not pay someone else to deal with the paperwork and bother? All FB certs are on the CT logs as a matter of policy, so that there are no loopholes in our current statement that if a Facebook cert is not on the CT logs you should not consider it valid; we will accept the loss of secrecy (and people launching new stuff hate it but have learned to adjust) if the end result is making it harder for someone to slide a dodgy cert into the chain.
Yea! And where's Carlos? I want to go surfing or maybe have a beer w/ that guy. Carlos, I hope you're there for my first Burning Man experience.
nope. they also want everyone to know.

its the difference between buying a packet of your favorite snacks and telling all your friends what your favorite snack is..

you probably expect them to like the same snack.
I am an American working in a Chinese tech company, and I was also curious to know where you get this sense of being willing to spend more. Most of the Netflix/Spotify/Dropbox/Hulu equivalents are far cheaper and have far more extensive free options than in the West. Some companies certainly make bank on online games here though!

Aside from that, I agree on the market being young and having different possibilities here than in the west, and also with people being good adopters of technology.
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That may have been the original intent a thousand years ago, but now with its sophistication, it's become a highly-available crutch to the poor and middle class, putting downward pressure on wages and allowing banks and creditors to get a piece of every dollar someone spends.

Not to mention, if you don't "play the game" and you abstain from using credit, you're still subject to the cost of credit, as merchants have to charge more for their products to cover the cost of credit processing (which is exorbitantly high).
"...opportunities to make a huge impact"

Hopefully, not a literal impact :)
Progress demands not one tear his soul asunder! As the sweat of a man can be stretched far, so too can the Company above increase their efforts of hiring.
The graph for facebook looks almost identical.
Completely unplayable on a Pi2. When it didn't do the hardware bootup after 5 minutes, I gave up.

Maybe the ODroid could make it happen but the Pi2 simply cannot.
What are you interested in specifically?
I'll bite.

Hi! This is the Real World Fairy! If you think the real world perfectly conforms to the efficient market hypothesis, that violates obvious facts! There's a lot more to say because economics is complicated! The end!
I'm happy to let somebody else do the spending.
Amazing to see IF & Ketogenic entering the mainstream.

I was on the verge of metabolic syndrome, with a 38 inch waist, high triglycerides and high cholesterol. http://go.DanielOdio.com/health In 10 months of IF I've lost 60 pounds. http://go.DanielOdio.com/fasting

I've also experimented with Ketosis for four months http://go.DanielOdio.com/ketosis and now with "Blue Zones" http://go.DanielOdio.com/guide

Love seeing so much of this gaining a broader audience.
So basically the usual unfounded claims that "diversity" automagically leads to better results with no data to back it?

If the author genuinely believes that, why doesn't he/she start a "diverse" Twitter-clone and show everyone how much better they'll be doing?
Seattle is ugly and garbage. It rains 100% of the year and there is never sunlight. It's full of homeless heroin addicts and has a super huge crime level. Stay very very far away.
But the Vimes theory was being offered to explain socioeconomic inequality within a society and depends on the "poor" options being more expensive per unit, while the microfinance successes happen mainly via investment of from richer countries into poorer ones, where they have lower prices per unit. (i.e. a dollar buys a lot more stuff in the third world).

IOW, to the extent that microfinance has successes, it's in situations that have the opposite dynamic of the Vimes example and do not count as an implication of the theory.
It's better to ditch 10 minutes of homework than force 3 hours on children.

If we are chosing between two buckets, "homework for elementary" and "no homework for elementary", the second is much much safer, especially in the age of helicopter parents.
I almost don't want to say this because I'd hate to discourage anyone from going back to school, but school isn't necessary or sufficient for having or gaining an education. Nowadays especially.
I have three people I point to for how different the experience can be.

One friend was living on disability (about $570/month) and food stamps (about $140/month), in a group home. His one "luxury" was he'd buy GI-Joe figurines every month, for about $20. At one point he asked me to take him to the store because he wasn't going to be able to walk the 10+ blocks that day. As he was shopping, I realized he had something like 30 pounds of meat in his cart and almost nothing else. I told him to put half of it back and add a bag of potatoes, and that whenever he wanted to cook meat, cook half as much as he normally would and replace the rest with potatoes. It was life-changing for him -- he was able to eat every day, and had enough money left over to start buying things like toilet paper in bulk. I've since lost track of him, and I'm sure he's still poor, but he's a more secure grade of poor than he had been.

Another friend was a divorced mom, recently remarried to a disabled man. She's unable to handle a full-time job, but works a few days a week as a substitute teacher. Between disability, child support, and work she makes maybe $1500 a month. She's always bought in bulk, usually splitting orders with her parents and siblings who live in the same complex. The only real escape from poverty she has is to recover from psychological trauma to the point that she can work full time.

Third is a young couple, both just turned 20, and their son is 3 years old. He's had adequate work for a while, but hides financial information from her, they both have expensive phones they use for things my old prepaid Moto X can do for a lot lower price, and they both have a tendency to eat fast food even though he works at a grocery store that has a good selection and good prices. The two things that have kept them from disaster for the past year: I let them live in my basement for a token amount of rent that I stopped collecting after a few months, and his grandparents have helped them pay off a couple of surprise expenses. She recently found work, and with two incomes they're able to afford their own place fairly comfortably, but for a while there it looked like they were going to get into a bad cycle like the one detailed in the article.
Carmack is a rare breed - true engineer. Not in the sense of having a degree, but in Isamabard Kingdom Brunell ability to solve problems.
Third that. There's nothing good about Seattle. Stay out. It's a small stupid city don't know why anyone comes here ever. Stop coming here. Except for PAX, you can come then.

Actually no, too many people at PAX too, stay away. Sasquash will eat you.
I do CrossFit and IF.

CrossFit on fast days is easy.

Doing it the day after a fast day is hard.

I write more about it at http://go.DanielOdio.com/health
Yeah, this is "serverless" in the same way a shared php+apache hosting account is serverless. It's just using servers and services that someone else manages.
I get where you're coming from. I also had a similar initial reaction. However, as I read through the subsequent discussion, it began to read as though the commenter was really not grokking the problem—and, more importantly, what to do to fix it. I thought it was very impressive that none of the GH participants reacted like some of the HN commenters here. Instead, they showed a great deal of patience and restraint in fully explaining the technical details, offering actionable solutions, and keeping everything very civil and supportive. Then the same guy who sounded like he was possibly being a jerk came back and sounded totally different because he seemed to actually know what to do to fix his project. Maybe the CP commenter read this HN thread and reacted to it, but I'll admit HN is the last place I'd think of finding one of my GH issues discussed.

Perhaps I'm just being too charitable. Either way, the project rather rapidly seemed to come to the right conclusion and jump on board fixing their problem.

On a related note, I feel like this issue could be turned into a great teachable moment for OSS projects; one agH could use as a tech blog and guides for how to be a good citizen and avoid things that can make your project get rate-limited without you knowing.
Facing east, the prices are great because we don't pay our taxes (apparently)!
More like delaying the inevitable...
Yup, no doubt. There are lots of good areas for tech that aren't elitist like this, but compensation wise I don't think any can touch the top 3 (Seattle, NYC, SFO). That's just what I've heard ¯\_(ツ)_/¯, I don't claim to know much.
Ignoring the time investment for a moment: That is not a bad approach in my experience. Iterating allows you to learn from the versions before and guide your improvements. As long as the first version is at least good enough to do the job AND good enough to be improved upon (often the harder part) it is absolutely fine.
You're probably not going to do this with googolplex sized numbers, though.
I'm looking at getting a similar setup for myself this summer. I hear "that's cheating" or similar from others, in which case my response is: Do you ever use a calculator? Why not work out everything with pencil and paper (or better yet, in your head)?

Of course, several years ago after I decided to get in shape, I tried cycle commuting and really enjoyed it (about 15 miles each way). But I could only pull it off about once a week or so (in order to make good time, it left me mostly worthless at work all day). Coming up, after I move in a month I'll be about 23 miles from work. Adding a hub motor will allow me to not only make the commute in just over an hour, but it will leave me less exhausted (I plan on still putting in some human power, but I won't have to over do it). The good thing though, is by adding electric power to a bicycle, it will get me on it much more often so I'll end up getting even more exercise than without power.
That's true that anyone with a repo is essentially a customer, paying or not. But CocoaPods is really a bad actor in this in that they're not just hosting source code up their for development purposes. They're using it like a CDN, and bless Github for not find a reason to boot them, but I'm sure they've got a bunch of legal ways to do it in their terms of service. I'd argue that CocoaPods is really breaking the spirit of what GH is trying to provide.
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Where I grew up, it was policy to unconditionally promote everyone through the 4th grade, and after that to start holding back failing kids.

For late elementary and junior high, I don't remember whether or not homework was a large enough part of the grade to fail you if you took a 0 on all of it. In high school, I think homework was a small portion... something like 10-20% of the grade. So you could blow off homework if you aced everything else. You had to get at least a 70 average to pass (we didn't do D grades), so if homework was 20% then you had to get at least an 88 average on everything else in order to pass the class. And I think I have vague memories of homework being 30% in some of my high school classes, which means you'd have to perfectly ace everything if you wanted to take a 0 on all your homework.

And there could be consequences for extracurriculars if you were taking low grades in your classes. I remember that in junior high, you could only go to the school dances if you had at least in 80 in all your classes, and in high school, if you were failing even one class you couldn't participate in any school sports.
To me, that comment shows precisely that someone isn't really understanding the problem in full. It feels to me to be a deflection—of responsibility, sure, but also of admitting one doesn't understand what's really going on, and how one is at fault.

Given how rapidly the same commenter changed gears, it strikes me as plausible there was an "ohhhhh eureka" moment, and suddenly the guy got it. His followup comments began dealing with the problem after a couple other GH participants explained further what was happening and why (as well as some actionable steps to take to correct the problem for good).

But perhaps I'm being too charitable.
As someone who's taken introductory course on neural networks I have a few questions as to what your app/product does. Though I don't quite understand the need for this. Neural networks are actually fairly easy to write, and for the most part code bases exist for different architectures. What is hard, in my opinion, is picking the right architecture and parameters, cost function, etc.
Other people have brought this up but in a kind of hand-wavy way.

https://www.lawfareblog.com/how-destroy-pandoras-iphone
I think you're reading into this based on how the rest of the world operates. Most techies in Silicon Valley wear company schwag because it's free. My wardrobe consists of (or has consisted of, my wife made me throw a bunch of the older stuff out) T-shirts from Amherst, Brandeis, and Olin; a TellApart T-shirt; a Medallia T-shirt; a Microsoft T-shirt; a Foliage Software Systems T-shirt; at least 6 Google T-shirts; 2 Google hoodies; and then a bunch of unbranded stuff I got as gifts. I don't think I've ever bought a T-shirt with my own money.
Sure. If you know that you don't know what's going on. I walked away with the impression that the guy didn't actually know that.
Probably a bad bet. Blue Origin intends to build an orbital launcher, and they will almost certainly end up launching military satellites, including those which directly aid combat operations. That might be too much across the line for some people.
Lol, Atlanta vs Seattle thread is not one I thought to encounter today. Good read!
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It seems like rust bundles it's own version of llvm. Are patches from the rust community making it in slowly? Or are there some fundamental differences?

Does Swift do something similar, or does it work with stock llvm?
same place as silk road.
Sure, but 'habit forming' is a lower bar to cross than either.
I don't think that's the colloquial definition of "dozens"

> plural dozens or dozen
1
: a group of 12
2
: an indefinitely large number <dozens of times>
Interesting, that second point. Wonder how it is done. Via some background process that keeps monitoring asset dirs for new files, or does the user have to run a tool for that whenever they add new assets.
That's a distinction without a difference. Presumably Apple has done signed custom installs on the ~70 other iPhones they've brute-forced under warrant, because signed firmware has existed on iOS since (IIRC) the iPhone 3G.

In any case, the legal question has nothing to do with encryption. It's an incidental detail.
Many truly incredible things were built at some cost in human lives. I recently watched a documentary which said large tunneling projects expected to lose one man per X miles dug, a few decades ago.

I'm not saying you should be willing to die for your work. But historically someone always seems to be. Not least of all in the space business.
Remarkably satisfying treatise. Thank you very much.
Halfway through the game and it's difficult to say who's winning. AlphaGo has definitely improved during the winter.
There are demonstrable elements to twitter's decline that can be arguably connected to a lack of diversity in leadership. That's a tangible step above your purely speculative "well a diverse team might've done worse."
Sony and Nintendo have much more influence in the consoles and game developers than MS.

Nintendo was the company that introduced the concepts of gated development on the aftermath of 1983`s crash.

Also why not bash NVidia given CUDA or their influential part in DX designs, to the point their cards are almost a mirror of the API?

Google so praised for Vulkan, pushes its own computing API instead of OpenCL.

Intel spends more resources in their DX drivers and their OpenGL support is still pretty shitty. One just needs to delve into the OpenGL developer forums. They were quite known in the games industry for having the driver lie about supported hardware features.

Or by announcing at GDCE 2009 their new graphic analysers tools, with DX only support. To my question what about OpenGL I was given the email of some random dude at Intel.

Yet, only MS gets the bashing.
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I get where you are coming from, vi and vim being rooted in low bandwidth light interfaces. However, I think a lot of vi/vim users would like a more fully featured IDE that had the power of vi/vim in terms of usability.
But what if they respond with a snack I've never heard of and interest me so with its description that I've just found my NEW favorite snack.

Additionally what if they inform me about my snack with information that means I can't morally choose it anymore, or that it's dangerous to my health? I now have the opportunity to switch my viewpoint, or reduce the weight that it has in my criteria.

It begins the discussion if you as the person starting the thread are interested in having it and not just looking to be agreed with. I, whether I'm in the minority or not, am always looking to start the dialog. Being agreed with is boring.
Perhaps this is a dumb question, but if it fell by 25% and the prediction was it falling by 15%, do they mean to imply those who made that month's prediction weren't aware of the particulars of Lunar New Year?
So just to be clear, this particle is not predicted by the standard model? I'm no physicist, but that seems like a huge deal.
You might need to rebase your assumptions. Big banking, big governments, big everything is big and use a lot of Java I guess.

Android adds to the top of that.
The most fundamental tool of the trade is a profiler. The tool which is used in reality to find performance problems, unlike BigO, which is used in theory to find performance problems. Does BigO help? Sure. Is it the silver bullet people seem to think it is? No.
Yes you're right but in my world I'm in total control.
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> "gives the bare essentials and nothing else"

Rust is that thing exactly.
The blue card [0] is one route into Europe that is easiest to get for most working in tech, especially if you have a degree. It is also a quick route to getting a permanent settlement or citizenship.

By the way, Berlin or Cologne has a great startup / hacker scene, and they are very friendly.

The beer and wurst is also excellent.

[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Card_(European_Union)
That explain how that happen, but not the speed. Even if we know the trait that bacteria will gain to overcome antibiotics, we still have no idea how to predict even with an error of an order of magnitude how fast that can happen. Models based on random mutations (that typically assume no memory of past performance) show way too slow evolution.
> The fact that two separate detectors spotted it at almost exactly the same energies gives some hope, but anomalous signals such as this often show up in experiments only to later vanish back into the noisy background.

Yes, it would be, if it's not background noise.
Don't you want to try Cygwin? You'll get as close to Unix on Windows as possible. pip will definitely work.
Thank you for everything you do at Github and with Homebrew.
There's two aspects to Siri. First is speech recognition, second is the actual AI.

Apple's speech recognition is very good. I use it as speech-to-text all the time in iMessage. I save a lot of time by speaking rather than by typing. It's more than 95% accurate for that purpose.

The Siri AI is very hit-or-miss. Sure it's great for finding out the latest football score. But if it winds up only being 50% responsive in general (and that's what it was for me), then it's not worth the trouble.

Once a person gives up on Siri, then it could take years before they make the effort to use it again. That's probably the current situation for a lot of people. That's where I'm at.

Edit: forgot to mention that i use a staccato voice for the voice recognition. Short pauses between words. It drives my kids crazy hearing it when they're in the same room, but it really improves the hit rate.
I wonder if this market will be one that favors the first mover or the second mover. People always talk about the first mover advantage but the second mover is often the one with lasting success.
Or just take a Calcium/Magnesium 2:1 (try 500/250mg daily) supplement with vitamin D. Better ratio, no anti-histamin. Vitamin D helps the body utilize the minerals.

My better half had serious acid reflux, but no longer use prescription meds since taking these daily.