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> they are the ones that everyone knows,

Man, how things change. I remember times when most developers would derisively laugh off Python's indentation.

Back in 2006, Python jobs were so few and far between, you'd struggle to get paid to work with it. 10 years later, "everybody" works with it, so apparently you struggle to get paid a decent amount.

Why can't I ever find a niche I like and paying well? :(
We're casual at work, but when I get home I still always change as soon as possible. However you do it, I think you attach an identity to what you're wearing.
> Also never knew about the motion sensor.

That's a nice thing about Apple, you find interesting awesome stuff that increases subjective value of a product for a customer.

iPhone 6 being water-proof was not in the ads. Was really cool to find out mine survived being in the sea for couple of minutes when I forgot to put it out of the pocket. (Don't risk it though, there are plenty of youtube videos if you want to see it for yourself :)
What's interesting about this argument is, if its true, it's an example of a simple conjecture that is true but unprovable. But not like Godel sentences, which can be proved under different axioms, or proved to be unprovable. This would be completely unprovable. And not because of some logical paradox, but simply because there is no mathematical reason for it to be false, it's just a coincidence.

There are also probably many conjectures like this. Freeman Dyson constructed one, that no digits of powers of two, reversed, make a power of 5. The reasoning being that the digits grow big quickly, and the base 10 representation is basically random and uncorelared with it.

I think other conjectures about digits of numbers are similar. E.g. Mathematicians have found it impossible to prove that any numbers are normal, or even if pi contains infinite 5's, and many similar properties. These things may only be probabilistically true.
What on earth are you doing to your charger to need a new one every six months? I'm three MacBooks in (heavy daily use for both work and personal) and in each case the charger has lasted as long as I've had the MacBook (years).
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Those investments are usually a very small proportion of their wealth and very much the opposite of savings.
> I think they shouldn't have complained about something that everyone was following

> they weren’t going to complain. That is, “until I noticed one of the workers always wore flat shoes that were made from a fabric other than leather, or running shoes, even though both of these things were contrary to the dress code.”

The interns were told that was a medical exemption… after they were mass-fired, but not when they initially inquired about the possibility of relaxed dress code:

> I spoke with my manager about being allowed some leeway under the dress code and was told this was not possible, despite the other person being allowed to do it.

> They could have been lectured on professional behavior instead and I'm sure most of them would have understood.

I don't understand how sending queries/proposals up the chain is unprofessional behaviour. Ignoring the dress code and coming in not following it would be unprofessional behaviour.

They asked informally, they got shut down (rather than answered), they went with a more formal query, they were fired.

That's sounds nothing like "interns are guests" but it sounds a lot like Corporate America's reaction to union noises.
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Socialiasm has a toxic brand these days, so people have re-labelled it as "income inequality".
> Protesting something like this is a good signal of their attitude/perspective.

Why? They saw something they didn’t like and wrote a letter suggesting an alternative. I see that as a very good attitude.
I can see why, as everything seems to be going the way of the content mill these days. Much like the direction Yahoo followed, I consider it a "People Magazine" effect.

Both ESPN's site and MLB's own have pushed the sport into the background, and oftentimes the cover pages don't even discuss game results, but rather stories of some personal angle, or whatever is most inflammatory: this guy punched that one, that guy's making a million dollars a year long after his retirement (despite the team getting the benefit of what is essentially a payment plan), etc. Make 'em laugh or make 'em mad.

The players are dressing up in costumes, or even posing naked for magazines (at least a couple of times now). The game becomes more of a vehicle, a means to a different end. Eyeballs and advertising. Of course that's why all that money's there to begin with...
What notebook computer is as durable and has as good a keyboard / touchpad / display?

The keyboard and touchpad in particular is why I can't leave. It's ergonomic.
Not when there's no demand for the results of that investment they don't. They just pile it into existing capital assets instead (ever wondered why SF/NYC property is so expensive?).
? There are gobs of cities. Many of them are being abandoned.
Who buy most fridges?

A billionaire or a thousand millionaires.

A society where the rich has most of the money can't grow and then in the end everyone gets poorer.

It is a big problem IF the gap becomes too big at the expense of the poorest. I.e. the rich get richer but the poor doesn't get richer relative to the poor.

It is not a big problem if there is some undefined balance between the different income groups as this will keep the economy going.

The problem we have today is mostly that the rich gets much richer, the poor doesn't really get much better and the middle class is dissepearing which erodes the prospect of any society to grow.
Some of it is the "emperor has no clothes effect".

Hillary Clinton had to vote for the 2nd Iraq War because she wanted to appear tough. Yet, the Bush administration did not show one shred of evidence to back up it's claims of WMD and in the end the few "non experts" who questioned this turned out to be right.

Where were the experts before the 2008 crash? Or in the 1990's stock market bubble, etc?
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This is a red-herring, when people no longer have the ability to fund their local communities in this country, they also lose their agency. Look at Flint, MI; Due to their tax revenue (or lack thereof) the state government put a crony in charge; who proceeded to poison the water supply and destroy the lives of hundreds of children (brain damage).

The plutocrats of our country do not have the right to drain the wealth of the "under-class" so they can redistribute it to another underclass in another country... which will of course conveniently help their economic interests at the same time.
gotta love a Snowcrash reference!!
Only if those companies can sell their stuff.

And the majority of customers are not other rich people.

It the middle/working class are getting a smaller share of the pie, then the market shrinks compared to what it could be with a more uniform distribution -- and everybody suffers.
That doesn't negate the parent's point, of course.
Is there possibly more to this story? As it stands it looks like the interns made a polite request and fired for it. I understand the "intern is a guest" argument, but he/she is also a future employee playing that part and would like to be treated as such. If any polite request is countered by firing I can't imagine that will be a good place to work.
>regulation exempting "computer professionals" broadly from overtime pay in 2003.

I am aware, I am also aware the "computer professional" is narrowly defined and simply because you work with a computer does not make you a "computer professional" I am aware of several companies that do not classify their employees properly

>> Workers should do it ourselves.

Workers should by refusing to work those jobs, I myself am Salaried Non-Exempt. I personally disagree with the concept of unions, and find they are often worse over the long term
I hadn't heard of "staingate" but I just took my mbp in for the same problem, though not nearly as bad as some of the pictures on the site. Just a bit around the top.
Careful. We also doubted the Brexit would win and the chavs used that to fuck us over.
I can buy that many marketers and instructors lead students to believe coding feels easier than it "really" does.

I find it hard to believe that the word "simply" is a giveaway. But I could be convinced. I can't remember coming across the word simply to often in tutorials.
If you fight inequality you also fight "absolute poverty", and in a way (increased working opportunities, better wages, larger economy) that's better, and more respectful, for the absolute poor than charity.
nix formatting suggests that the asterisk in nix needs to be escaped. Apparently on HN that requires putting a space after the * though, so you end up with * nix.
Proto SJWs.
>free people aren't equal. equal people aren't free.

Citation needed.
My first couple jobs required dress pants, a long sleeve button down shirt, and a tie. Back then "casual friday" was a real thing, you could wear a polo and khakis. These days unless you're an attorney or in finance, nobody wears a suit.

I work at a place that has a dress code that harks back to the early 90s. After spending my 20's griping about dress codes, I actually enjoy it for the same reason: it's a physical reminder of my work identity vs my non-work identity.

I'm curious - how would you be more productive in casual wear? As an engineer, my main gripe was that I often worked in a lab and my tie and slacks would get snagged on the edges of the computer racks. Mostly that was an issue with ruining clothing. At the time, I remember the woman who worked full time running the lab was granted an exception to the dress code for that reason - she was constantly snagging clothing and ruining things from having to crawl around on the floor running cables and things, so they let her wear jeans and more generally rugged clothing.
Yeah I'm pretty shocked this is high as it is. I'm skeptical, especially with the "a female veteran who lost her leg."

Almost like the "and that boy was Albert Einstein."
They counted the slaves. Whether they counted them appropriately is another matter.
They based their anger on a stupid assumption and didn't bother to get clarification before going full steam ahead. This wasn't a protest, it was an angry mob.
I have a similar situation, and agree. I actually keep Linux installed on a separate partition on my 2015 Retina MBP. I shrink the OS X partition as much as possible, and install grub on the EFI system partition, alongside OS X. When in OS X, I use VMWare (with an EFI-based VM) to boot the Linux partition and slowly over time I'm working on getting the thing to run Linux smoothly as a Desktop alternative to OS X. This involves some weirdness. For example I had to recompile my kernel yesterday with some patches just to get suspend/resume working in Linux due to hardware changes introduced circa 11,4. This is an example of the challenges Linux/other free software OSes face which companies like Apple don't on the Desktop -- a tight coupling between OS development and hardware design. It's actually quite remarkable how far Linux has come in spite of this.
Management might actually need people who will ask questions or challenge certain kinds of group thinking at some point. You never know what the future might bring.
>The what you use thing is a fun one, I subconsciously equate people using Thinkpads as proper engineers over anything else including Mac books.

It did look that way to me too in the nineties/early 00s, but not so sure anymore. I equate them more with "Microsoft shops" now.

I mean in most programming conferences, from web to functional, most alpha devs/presenters have Macbooks, and I'd say those are proper engineers. Heck, even Torvalds used a G5, an iBook (back in the day) and a couple of Macbook Airs for his computing (running Linux) -- though recently he got a Chromebook.
That is not a causal chain that Trump has campaigned on.
> didn't bother to get clarification before going full steam ahead

According to the original report they tried to and were shut down:

> I spoke with my manager about being allowed some leeway under the dress code and was told this was not possible, despite the other person being allowed to do it. I soon found out that many of the other interns felt the same way, and the ones who asked their managers about it were told the same thing as me.

They were told it was a medical exemption after having been summarily fired.

> This wasn't a protest, it was an angry mob.

Are you off your rocker? They wrote a fucking proposal they didn't try to put management to the torch.
Yes, but «distorts the hue, lightness, and chroma relationships between colors as perceived by a large statistical sample of humans with typical color vision» (or perhaps easier, «... as computed using the CIE standard observer and a well-defined color appearance model») is not subjective.

Most people care whether the colours look good to them, not how close it is to some standard they probably don't know about. Almost everyone buying monitors in a store are going to be strongly basing their decisions on the brightness and vividness of the colours.

What most “matters to the majority of users” is that their images look like what they expect.

...and that is subjective.

Regardless, if 241,0,0 looks identical to 255,0,0 on a monitor with 24-bit colour, that's just not right at all.
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> populist

They don't have to be populist! Just effective demagogues, whether or not they really have the people's interests at heart.
Are you not concerned with the rich buying out governments?
> I know a lot of employees or freelancers making a lot more working for companies in Malaga or companies elsewhere;

I talked about the rule - undoubtedly there are exceptions. I once interviewed for a senior position for a prominent Malaga company, and they offered me less than my first job ever here in Barcelona.

> Most programmers would find it more of a problem to learn new stuff all the time.

One could argue that London/SF programmers do exactly that - and are compensated accordingly!

We are in the technology business - by definition those who don't keep up are left behind. Maybe not drastically, but gradually and without you noticing.
Takes a couple days for habitat for humanity folks to build one. They have a lot of people, but very little skill and poor tools. A single person could feasibly build a house in a few months.
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This is a wry comment, but it's not actually making a claim about the issue the parent and grandparent post are discussing – whether Revolution-era inequality was very low.
Angry mobs don't write letters.
And also that the highest court should be in the UK, often overlooked but main reason for many (sovereignty).

The ones you mentioned were irrelevant to me and a lot of people I know.

I watched in dismay a few years ago at the prospect of Financial Transaction Tax (FTT), it was delayed as a result of this referendum - it would practically a disaster for the City of London and nothing the UK could do to stop it, despite parliament having control of the law.
You only have to open a history book and find any bloody revolution, then flip back a few pages to see what lead up to it to find the answer to your question.
This is basically an article reporting on an advice column, so it's pretty light on details. Given that the incident was framed as a protest, I'd say that there was likely more to it than simply writing a letter. It could be that the letter took a disrespectful tone, or it could be that they backed up the letter with some kind of protest action. Or maybe the employer is just a douchey company. You can't really tell.

Personally I can't imagine a story like this even occurring in 1986. The whole idea of mass protest over something trivial is a very 21st century concept.
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Seriously, not needed, just look around. In the context here, "equal" refers to economic accomplishment not legal standing. But of course the left likes to equivocate this term.
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Not that much. I'm more concerned that the government is buyable by anyone. It should be defanged and disempowered, so it is not worth buying.
A polite request is asking their respective managers about the dress code and whether it can be relaxed. Creating a petition, circling it among the entire intern group, and essentially demanding change at a place that was generous enough to hire them for a learning experience is not a polite request.

I interned at four separate companies when I was younger. I would have never even conceived the idea of doing something like this. Besides the fact that it's three months (seriously, they couldn't wear dress clothes for three months?), a company is not a democracy. I think this might be a side effect of my generation being told they can change anything they want in the world just by signing a petition.
> Given that the incident was framed as a protest

The yahoo repost/clickbait framed it as a protest with no evidence I can see, the original source does not frame it as a protest: http://www.askamanager.org/2016/06/i-was-fired-from-my-inter...
According to the article they didn't even disobey the dress code, or cause any real commotion. They just sent a letter just asking for a rule to be changed slightly for practical reasons.

Is it really ethical to fire an entire group of people for merely questioning a rule? Is this really evidence they are "entitled" as comments here are saying? Perhaps the letter was worded very rudely?
So, you would just fire people because they wanted to wear more comfortable shoes, and they sent a letter about it? There are places where shoes/clothing really matters, like a mechanics shop (with their overalls), a construction site (the steel reinforcement of the tip of the shoe), a woodworking shop, where baggy clothing could lead to injury - but that's definitely not the case in the article. These control freaks really annoy me, and I feel lucky to work in IT, most of the places I worked so far would allow you to wear short pants, or whatever.
Why doesn't anyone sell good hardware other than apple?
>protect jobs that are unsustainable or wanted protection from competition

A) Everybody wants protection from competition. Where do you think profits come from? There's no shame in wanting protection, especially not as the social safety net is hollowed out. If they were not subjected to austerian measures / offshoring in the heartlands the "remain" vote probably would have won.

B) The same economists who are absolutely certain that these people's jobs are unsustainable are the same economists who pushed for offshoring and were completely blindsided by the financial crisis in 2008. The experts thing rang true because economists have no credibility left any more.

In fact, the only economist I know of who actually saw 2008 coming wanted brexit (though not for economic reasons).
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Gbps is not created equal. Traffic with many small packets takes a lot more resources compared to traffic with fewer but bigger. Netflix packages would be as big as they come.
"One group you won't believe outearns white men."
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Sea releases steam, which is much worse problem than carbon dioxide and methane combined, when you count atmosphere concentration to the calculation.
You aren't counting the work that went into creating bricks, tiles and two-by-fours. You have to start from trees, clay and marble.
That is the title though. We don't normally change titles when they are correct.
Individual polite requests would likely have been denied without the firing. However, the group participated in collective action, which many employers simply cannot tolerate, whether it's about dress codes, compensation, working conditions, or anything else.
I don't understand why there is so much focus on income inequality. Income inequality doesn't matter. It's not the problem; it's only a symptom of the real problem which is wealth inequality.

If you work REALLY HARD in an area which takes 20 years to master and after doing so you end up earning $200K per year, then you probably deserve it. It is hard getting to such point; you have to constantly plan your career, educate yourself and put yourself through a lot of emotional/psychological trauma for a very long time to get that stage.

On the other hand, if you inherited $6 million worth of company stocks from your parents and you earn $200K in dividends each year from those shares and you don't work at all, then you probably don't deserve that income.

... And somewhere in between these two extremes, there are entrepreneurs; who work really hard and take huge risks to create a successful company (and often fail), but when they do succeed, they tend to get disproportional payouts.
I think that part of modern work culture is not separating work and non-work identities. I only have this much waking hours a day, it's not enoigh time to maintain two separate identities anyway.
> It was compiler-dependent.

Reminds me of a bug i was wrangling in GTK, now hopefully long gone, that only showed up if the lib was compiled with a certain level of optimization set in GCC.
This is great! I just picked up the famous algorithms textbook (CLRS) and have been reading through (I'm just past the introduction and am moving in to chapters 1 - 3 (basing my schedule on the readings in this course)

I figure if I follow along in the videos it'll be a great compliment with the two of them enhancing each other.

Now if only I could find the "algorithms certificate" to go with it, maybe I could use this and my 15 years programming experience towards a master's program enrollment. (Along with a calculus and linear algebra)
I like your approach. It's funny, I never thought about it that way, I never even considered visualizing it. I always looked at it from the perspective of pure number theory.
Very cool, and no doubt useful in certain situations. Alternatively you can just create a separate commit and then squash it in interactive rebase, which gives a little more control and visual confirmation that you're adding your change to the commit you want rather than accidentally doing it to some other unrelated commit.