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> The open Supreme Court seat, for instance, is entirely a substantive issue

It's important, but the "issue" is also entirely because of political grandstanding, not sensible policy making. It is also one which the presidential candidates really have no control over -- either they will get to appoint a new justice, or they won't.

> But what is there to debate in 30 second soundbytes

Nothing, which points to the problem: the 30 second soundbites themselves. So you have to ask, is that responsible journalism, or linkbait, using bumper sticker slogans to grab on to flighty eyeballs? Maybe the problem boils down to human nature, and our willingness to exploit it.

> What's missing is substantive debate on our principles.

Precisely. But I'll go out on a limb here and say that, in terms of historical precedent, the principles (or "issues," to put a less moralistic bent on it) we do have to debate are fairly shallow. More on that below.

> people are looking for is trust that the official will break their way

Indeed -- but a vote for trust is a vote for personality. Most people don't really listen to the specific details of policy positions -- they respond to whoever resonates with them on a personal level. Why is Hillary Clinton so popular with African-Americans? She is a master of identity politics. To say nothing of Donald Trump and his connection with blue-collar America. Ted Cruz and evangelicals, and so forth.

In some way, the fact we're left with "trusting" our politicians is the crux of voter apathy. Most of the "issues" on the debate stage have little to no impact on the day-to-day lives of most Americans. Immigration, for example, is an important topic... for everybody not in the country. If you're already here, it's just a vote for who you think should be allowed into the club. Likewise for foreign policy, abortion, gay marriage, and so on... in most cases, it is people making decisions about other people (usually the majority for the minority), rather than a visible, tangible, deeply divisible national issue. In many ways, that's a blessing -- politics in America is a lot less fraught than even 50 years ago.
I came away with the impression that HubSpot's management was purposely divorced from reality, and so it is hard to take them at face value that she was unable to perform her job. The issue appears that she was too costly to the company due to biological reasons(1. being old and 2. being a woman). The other issue from the article was that there didn't seem to be an objective way of measuring performance so "graduations" become rather arbitrary, and when they are arbitrary with the appearance of objective, there isn't any reason not to cut out the more "costly Employees"

This is the argument you seem to be missing in the article and
maybe just too young to understand.
I think part of the reason is working class employees traditionally have comparatively poor employment conditions[1] and Amazon has many more working class employees than Google does, because Amazon operates warehouses and call centres.

Nobody's getting heatstroke in Google's fulfilment centres, because they don't exist.

[1] http://www.collegehumor.com/post/7035742/office-job-vs-retai...
At least a hammer and chisel would have better performance than Eclipse...
Just to add to the fact, GNU already created an open source neural network platform. (https://www.gnu.org/software/gneuralnetwork/)
Definitely, once you've been around the block a few times you realize that it's the same everywhere.

Eventually, you just find the biggest pay cheque you can, and do the routine of putting on your coconut headphones, sit down at your tiki desk and chair and sip your mochas in peace as you wait for the morning calisthenics meeting to begin, wondering what exactly the difference between waterfall, agile, tdd, etc actually is because all you've ever seen anywhere is tiki driven development.
You don't build the laptops or phones they are selling with a few technicians in a workshop.

They're assembled to some definition of "49%" - where all the major design and component fabrication is done - and then glued together in Afghanistan.
Nice, I haven't seen that one (I was at Churchill, which doesn't have a decent sundial AFAIK, despite Frank King being a Fellow ("Chairman of the British Sundial Society" apparently - he did the Queens' recalibration as well as that Selwyn dial).

Magdalene has a interesting modern dial too.
Isn't 'substitute' implicit? I don't see the point.
Busses will never catch on in the US until we do something about our homeless and mental health issues.
Totally pointless. I like truck drivers driving trucks . Not out of work angry and with nothing to do . Ohh and on a sid driverless trucks sound a lot like a train . Why not just use freight trains ?
No rotary either!
Unfortunately our language doesn’t have great words for concisely and precisely describing three-dimensional rotations, precession, etc. in plain words. (We can be precise by using diagrams or mathematical notation, or writing an extended paragraph of explanation.)

Of course if we define the rotational axis to be the “north pole”, then it doesn’t make sense for it to be moving east, or even south: by definition whatever direction it points is always north.

What they seem to mean is, if we predict the pole’s future path over the surface of the planet, previously it was moving toward Canada, and now it’s moving toward England. Relative to the N–S–E–W coordinate frame we use today, if we keep that coordinate frame static, the modified path of the pole is to the “east” of its original path.
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Sometimes that's true, sometimes it's just an uptick of submissions for the same url (multiple submissions count as upvotes) because it's popped up somewhere else such as reddit.
Lin-Manuel Miranda Talks 'Hamilton': Once a 'Ridiculous' Pitch, Now a Revolution
I worked in tech for a while and nothing he says sounds implausible or strange. Most jobs in tech are bad, all the perks are there just to confuse young suckers about who's taking advantage of who, and the libertarian streak of tech worker is carefully cultivated to make us weaker as a category.

The only glimmer of hope is that personally I'm noticing my peers and friends working all over the Bay Area are starting to notice. Maybe in a few years we'll do something about it.
I read it that way, too. Why does it matter that the guy is writing a book? Why does it matter that the article is marketing for the book? Is it true? Sounds like it is.

I read your comment after the edits were applied, and I still thought it was one of those sneaky sorts of "homeopathic ad hominem" attacks where you don't make the attack directly, but instead allude to the "questions" that invoke the attack when considered by the reader.
There was a time (late 90s) when GCC would optimize conditionals in an asymmetric way. Somebody will hopefully correct me, but I think the advice was to make conditionals usually be true, for best performance. Since most coders would never hear about this asymmetry (though that's just my impression) it was a bizarre case of favoring one branch of a conditional over another for purely historical (machine code) reasons.
I can believe it. I typed all of my notes for the last three years of college, yet it was re-writing those typed notes by hand that helped soak in that knowledge. It's very easy to type mindlessly.
You know how Klingons are always talking about honor? But they're the ones that do all the crazy things that are decidedly less than honorable?

That's what Americans do with the free market.
He really understood his role well. Unfortunately, this is pretty rare now.
Isn't Github a standard closed-source service? I don't see how the article would apply. It's close to the opposite; migration from git host to git host is easy and open-source.
S Korea implemented whats called Green Belt decades ago. Basically large swaths of land where you basically cannot build anything. They were not designated such because of some specific species or such. They just wanted to ensure there is some unpaved land. Great planning looking back.
Gantt charts helped me and a group of subcontractors compete against some huge corporate teams. It's legit to complain about a lack of gantt charts.
What's outlandish about what he writes? Take ONE sentence that sounds incredible and paste it as reply.
coining another term 'denialism'. i'm certain that will go far towards the author's implied goal of helping foster critical thinking in her audience. sarcasm aside, you have a new nomenclature of dogma.

blablablalbla..'science''....denialism.

CAUSE ITS' THE SCIENTIFIC HONEST TO DARWIN TRUTH YO!.

this is how science becomes like religion. a new dogma that cannot be questioned, replete with it's own pseudo-scientific jargon, and thus, is genuinely anti-scientific in scope and world view.

...........the irony.
> Maybe the US just had more planned instead of grown areas?

You don't know the half of it.

Suburban sprawl was national policy during the Cold War. The idea was to spread out the population to reduce the damage a nuclear weapon could do.

They did it on purpose.
To provide an outside US perspective, it's not that easy to fire someone in Germany, the UK or Australia. Once you're past the probation period, you'd probably have to get one or multiple sorts of negative reviews and written warnings from HR or your superiors before being let go, otherwise you'd have ground to sue for unfair dismissal. That, or you'd be given a redundancy package.
I believe are saying is that its moving (more) towards the eastern hemisphere (actually, only slightly east of London) than it was previously (when it was heading towards canada)
Out of four full-time jobs I've had in my career, I have had a performance review (three, actually--every six months!) at one of them. That was the one with a NASDAQ ticker. The gong-show "unicorn" startup, the technically impressive startup that was acquired to bolster a bigco's portfolio, and the medical startup where I managed three people and reported to the CEO. No performance reviews. Couldn't even pin down a manager to have a status update sometimes. (At one in particular my manager basically avoided talking to me until it was time to try to rip me a new one. Fun times.)

This happens a lot--and it being gross and a real bad way to manage doesn't really change that it happens a lot.
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Absolutely, accessibility is very much linked to money. But usability of an education that's provided to you is, too.

For example, time spent working. I recall every vacation, every weekend and at least 1-2 mon-fri days or nights working, to help pay my dad's bills, pay for college, or just pay for things my parents couldn't help me out with even though I lived with them as an 18 yo, like medical insurance. There was never any downtime for me where I had a full weekend off, or a spring break to wind down after a few months of school. Barely any time was available to simply relax, have fun, remove stress or hell have time for my 'identity project'. Being ill for a day and missing a day of school work would mess everything up because I couldn't skip work, and I had no time spare in a given week as a buffer to 'catch up' up on stuff. It's a constant level of stress, which affects your studies, too. I was actually one of the lucky ones who lived in a nice neighbourhood where the median person had 5x our household income with free state subsidised education, it was great. But even then, I couldn't make full use of it like I could've if we had more disposable income. There are a lot of indirect factors, work was just one of them.
> and a nap room with a hammock and soothing palm tree murals on the wall

This sounds like a great place to work. Outside of the phony hyper-positive posturing by management.
Forget mindfulness, stop trying to find yourself and start faking it
I suspect the sprawl would have been massively curtailed and our lives would be much more harmonious.

Harmonious? Do you not have neighbors?

It's impossible to have a moment's peace in even a suburban environment. Between cars driving around with absurdly powerful subwoofers making their presence literally felt for a quarter-mile everywhere they go, loud truck engines and mufflers made purposefully loud, incessant backup beepers even in the middle of the night, neighbors with no respect for other people, cheaply built apartments, dogs barking...the list goes on and on. Surely ancient Rome was noisy, but they didn't have machines, and they didn't have people roaming around operating devices whose sole purpose is to make enough noise to be heard inside people's homes for hundreds of meters in every direction.

It only takes a small percentage of the population doing things like this to make everyone else miserable. And good luck legislating against it when powerful lobbies operate on behalf of companies whose existence depends on the legality of operating said equipment without restriction.

People weren't meant to be crammed together and stacked on top of each other. People need room. And if people want room, who are you to say they shouldn't be able to have it?
In the book "States of Crisis and Post-Capitalist Scenarios".
Or did investigate it, and decided it would be the perfect fodder for the book.
I'm not much older than that, but the average maturity of 28 year olds is not great. Putting lives in the hands of people that should still be learning the ropes is reckless and cruel.

Young managers (and I used to be one too) are the worst part of the startup culture, people with no training, inclination or predisposition for people management making others unproductive and ruining careers.

As a sector we should think hard about how we're handling ourselves because there will be nothing left a few years from now if we don't start working for the long run.
While I believe that I see where you are coming from, I cannot reconcile the concept that some ideas are not up for debate with liberalism.

Also this is not a talk about his taboo views on race, they are hoping to prevent him from speaking on functional programming. In a way, they are hoping to exclude him from the marketplace of all ideas because of a single idea.
I'm not sure it makes a lot of sense for there to be a canonical implementation of Datalog. It's kind of like asking if there's a canonical implementation of SQL.
Isn't value range inference for eliminating overflow / out-of-bounds checks, and LCM (/PRE) for hoisting checks out of loops pretty standard in any optimizing compiler nowadays?
The system: [1] The Nelson-Oppen decision procedure: [2]

There's a subset of of arithmetic and logic that's completely decidable.
It includes addition, subtraction, multiplication by constants, "if", the theory of arrays, a similar theory of structures, and the Boolean operators (on bools, not integers.) This is enough for most subscript and overflow checks. Complete solvers exist for this subset. If you try to prove all constraints that need run-time checks with this approach, you can eliminate maybe 80-90% of run time checks as unnecessary.

Some checks cannot be eliminated, but can be hoisted out of loops. This means making one check before entering the loop, rather than one on each iteration. FOR statements usually can be optimized in this way. That's almost a no-brainer in modern compilers. The "Go" compiler does this. Heavier machinery is needed for more complex loops.

[1] http://www.animats.com/papers/verifier/verifiermanual.pdf

[2] http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~joshuad/NelsonOppen.pdf
How much are you giving to charity right now?
"I moved to npm scripts once I asked the question 'how do i make a multi-process build script in make ?' and all the neck-beards in uni had no answer"

make --jobs=2
I wonder the same thing. Last time there was a post about him here a couple weeks ago there were current and former HubSpot employees all over it.

Apart from that, it is a shady company for sure though. It was less than a year ago that top executives were implicated by the fbi in trying to hack and extort Lyons during the lead up to the book. I think only one or two of the implicated executives ended up leaving the company as a result. Was their departures enough to fix the culture there?
>I'd like to know the context, because that sounds like a "ask a stupid question, get a stupid answer" situation.

Agreed. The situation where you have to do an ultra-specific job or starve from lack of employment doesn't really exist. Jobs manage to appear and disappear over time without a death toll of millions.
I find companies that do the whole "we're a family, we're changing the world!" thing to be worse than your standard corporate gig that is more up front about you just being a cog in the machine. At least those companies are more honest about it, the other kind come off as fake and insincere.

Companies do not care about you. At all. You are nothing but a business asset to them. They may value your work, but they do not act in your best interest - they're going to try and pay you the least amount they can to have you work there.

This isn't actually a bad thing. Chances are, you don't really care about your company either, so it's kind of fair.

It's good to keep in mind - you are your own business, and you need to make decisions that are best for you.
It seems to me that the author was generalizing from one specific experience he had, plus some anecdotal experiences he has gathered from others, to impugn the entire start-up community.

There may be some validity to what he says; I'm inclined to agree that there's disproportionate age-ism and sexism and probably several other kinds of -ism's in the start-up community, perhaps because their founders tend to be younger and less well versed in mainstream corporate behavior which in recent decades has been moving away from discrimination.

I don't see how a "glorified telemarketer" working on a desktop that watches him is a typical start-up tech worker, though. It sounds like tough and thankless work and I hope people get the message in the VC funding community that the way to build a high value company is not to treat people really badly and thus create this kind of bad press. At least, I hope it's not the way you create a good return on investment! Otherwise we're all in trouble.

I'm curious as to whether the comments about Amazon are broadly valid. Have not worked there myself, but have interviewed over the phone in the past (very negative experience). Yet, as a customer, I admire Amazon and consider them one of America's great companies. Could they really have gotten to this point by treating their rank-and-file like a disposable commodity? Could Apple?
That sucks. It's absurdly short-sighted to skimp on giving feedback to employees.
The animations are nice, but it wouldn't hurt to step up the level of detail: there's no mention of ECU, MAF sensor, lambda sensors, injector pulse duration, throttle body, crankshaft sensor, flywheel, turbocharging, connection to accelerator pedal, etc..

But the most annoying detail is showing a distributor on a fuel injected engine. Come on, this isn't 1986, at least show us a dual coil pack wasted spark system.
Agreed, a startup has many tradeoffs. For instance, we want to attract key players/talent that we can barely afford. I've been a large contributor to my startup culture over the past 3 years, and while we created an envious work environment, we can only keep the right people that fit the need of the moment. Work hard + play hard really applies to our company and yes it creates some hard times. We live with a constant executive + management pressure to run a lean company and generate profits in our niche market. To me, this is only a mark of respect to the investors that were crazy enough in the first place to believe in our project.
I think that it's hard to understand that chaos unless you've been part of an early startup yourself. I can also understand that 25 years in journalism is a hard fit, it totally goes against the entrepreneurship skills you might need to survive and appreciate the ride in a startup.
It's a shame they didn't minimally push the boat out for sexual equality by offering "adam" as a male alternative. Amy is (arguably) a stereotypically girly name and given that what's being offloaded here is administrative work, I think it looks bad to make it a female responsibility.
Can someone tell me why in the first paragraph age was brought up? The author initiates the argument by bringing up the age of the manager, as if there was an age requirement. If you are going to make a compelling argument, it's probably best that you don't begin by belittling others.
Montreal is planning to implement a BRT line by 2018 on one of the major north-south routes (Pie IX):

https://www.amt.qc.ca/en/news/projects/pie-ix-bus-rapid-tran...
I was hoping this would be a story about native react-style rendering within the browser engine itself, something I've been waiting for since virtual DOMs first started becoming popular.
RMS may think he is the definition of what is open source and what isn't, that doesn't mean he is or can't be wrong.
They're 'vulnerable' because they choose to believe that all opposite makes them unsafe.

Call me when they don't let "Death to capitalists" radical communists speak, and then we'll talk about excluding people who are pro-slavery.
I have a hard time thinking of people making 6 figure salaries as being an instance of capital exploiting labor. Part of why the average length of employment is only around a year is probably that employees are choosing to go elsewhere for higher pay because the demand for good engineers is so high.
>Why not just use freight trains ?

How many kilometers road are there in there world versus kilometers rail?
A great, troubled man. It saddened me that I was the only person in the theater when the recent movie came out. As crazy as he was, I still think he deserves our respect.
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Race does not impact perfomance, but there's a correlation between race and education, for example (because ages of institutial discrimination, of course). Do you think people should take this correlation into consideration when talking about others?
That sentence struck you as outlandish? It's completely true, and while I've never been to HubSpot it doesn't sound even very unusual for 'hip tech office': http://www.hubspot.com/company-news/home-sweet-home-hubspot-...
I don't think insurance is the main motivation here. Getting rid of the human element has a certain appeal to it from a management point of view though.
People need room. And if people want room, who are you to say they shouldn't be able to have it?

I'm not saying people shouldn't be able to have room. I just don't want to subsidize it.
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> This is a dubious claim

There were other factors as well like car culture and white flight. Until the last decade living in cities was something anyone wealthy enough avoided because of the high crime rates.
I agree, as it happens! Even at the company where I was managing people, I had regular sit-downs with my guys (and I was intentionally not really "a manager", I was primus inter pares and I made sure that showed). Never had one going upwards, even when we got reorg'd under the guy who thought Six Sigma was a good idea. ;)
This is actually why a lot of people are using HTTPS.
I've lived here for 35 years. I've ridden the "dinner train" that would run from Renton to Bothell on those tracks. I've seen trains running on it carrying airplane parts to Boeing. A freight rail bed is much more solid than a light rail bed needs to be.

The right-of-way is still there, and no eminent domain confiscations would be needed. The Burke-Gilman Trail is not part of it.

You can still see the tracks (corridor) on Google maps.
why don't they just quit?