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I completely agree with you!

It boggles my mind how much people will tend to treat negotiations, amongst so many other things, as zero-sum games. If that were true, anyone who claims this should please explain to all the people who entered into negotiated agreements and found mutual benefit how they are actually being screwed by the counterparty.

For those who believe negotiation is zero-sum, I will say to you: if you notice agreements around you tend to turn sour because a party in it feels like they got screwed, take note of the common element.

This includes salary and employment negotiation. Unless you are in a one company town, or otherwise have skills and talents that are transferable to nowhere than your present employer, you most likely have alternatives to explore. Even if this is the case, there are alternatives, although they will not be anywhere near as easy to achieve.

Even then, it is not every employer that will decide the best way to profits is to screw their employees, and hope they feel hopeless. This is but one way to affect the bottom-line, and often not a very effective one. People will be more productive when they don't feel like they are being shafted. Not just in salary, but in: career development; personal sanity; and, if they care and have an interest in such a thing, in the net outcome of the organization.

So, I absolutely agree with you. Do not stand for people who feel like they need to "win" because you'll invariably screw them back. They may ultimately add up to a great big loss for everyone involved.
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While I'm with you and won't be buying one for reasons beyond the 3.5mm jack (but that would be a deal breaker if I was on the fence), I'll be more surprised if the removal of that feature stops scores of people lining up to get the latest phone (along with a new set of over-priced headphones).

At the end of the day, it's "give up the 3.5mm jack" or "don't get the latest iPhone" and I'll wager that they'll have no problem generating lines filled with people that just have to have the iPhone 7 because...Apple! Apple has a near-religious following. I got a kick out of a friend of mine who upgraded on release when they ditched the 30-pin connector. He'd recently purchased an alarm clock, an add-on for his home stereo and had already owned several other 30-pin reliant bits. They were on eBay the following week. Out of the non-techies I know that purchased the iPhone 6, none of them could tell what, specifically, they were getting over their existing iPhone 5S (that's a grand-anecdotal-total of 3 folks, though).

If there is resistance on this release due to there not being enough compelling features, that resistance will eventually give way. Many people are so wired in to Apple's products that lock-in will win. Maybe they'll wait until the 8. But eventually Apple will be making money on sales of ear buds with Apple-only connections and will benefit from yet another component that locks them into their platform. And the folks who spend $200 on supposedly high-end ear phones[0] will now feel even more compelled to stick with Apple's product line.

I'm biased and this is a little overly cynical. I've never owned an iPhone and the two Apple devices I've ever owned: an iPad that belongs to my wife and an iMac that I use as a display (target display mode) because, at the time, it was a little less than a comparable "screen only" device with similar specifications (and it was physically prettier, to boot). I've not logged into it, directly, in two years and don't really get the appeal of OSX.

[0] I've never understood this. I have a pair of 25 year old studio headphones (AKG, 1/4" jack, big, over-the-ear with a very long cord). I needed them due to equipment and was sicked that they ran 10 times the price of a pair of solid headphones, but I was amazed by the quality they produced. I didn't want to buy these, but after 25 years of heavy use (and the manufacturer still makes the model I purchased), I can't say I feel bad about the price. The Beats/Bose headphones? I can't tell the difference between them and a pair of $30 active noise cancelling headphones I purchased from Big Lots. Granted, I can't plug my AKGs into a phone even with an adapter -- they're too quiet.
I think the best way to understand the decline of meaning and subtlety is to see something that has it rather than try to talk about what doesn't.

I have recently realized that this is one of the things I pay attention to the most when it comes to deciding.

Two great such examples of shows with meaningful, but often terse, yet still subtle and even duplicitous would be Peaky Blinders and Marco Polo.

Here is a great example scene from Peaky Blinders:

https://youtu.be/MzYrtG7dCg0
Don't disagree with a gift limit, but the travel note probably deserves clarification. If we're not living to experience things (including the world around us), what are we living for?
Really, the vast majority of what I use my computer for, Linux is a better OS than Windows ever was. But even on Mac (which I never use) I'm generally OK as long as I can install a decent web browser.

For the average computer user, Windows is not really necessary, and equivalent software exists on other platforms. For professional users this probably isn't true, and it'll depend on what their businesses choose to deploy, and how cross-platform that software is.

I currently work for a datacenter that officially support Windows and Mac, and allows employees to run Linux unofficially and self-support. While the community that arose from this is quite frankly awesome, it's been a troubling journey, and I still have some convenience features that I learned to live without. Windows, for all its faults, has tighter integration with all of our company's tools, and living without the un-managed company images and easy updates is unproductive for most of our staff that aren't linux/mac enthusiasts. The choice is there though, and I'm grateful for that.
Cherry picking BvS and Mad Max to prove a point seems like something I'd have done when I was in the 5th grade.
I was painting with a broad brush, and for that I apologize. It was a swift - perhaps too pointed - response to an exasperated whine from someone with an expectation of luxury when none was necessary, or deserved. "Why isn't there someone else to clean this up for me?" just wreaks of entitlement. Japan has its share of problems, but their culture teaches the importance and value of clean common spaces, and the individual citizen's part in keeping them that way, from childhood. [1]

1. http://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2015/04/04/396621542/without-...

In India, dung is used as fuel, sometimes out of necessity, sometimes ritualistically.[2]

2. http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/Indias-Newest-Inter...

Politics in india pits ethnic group against ethnic group, caste against caste, in order to keep power and accomplish as little as possible. The economy is improving, but it appears to be stratifying, with radical divergence between the lifestyles of the richest and poorest. The wealthy are able to live in bubbles of luxury private development, blissfully unaware of the suffering just outside the gates. [3]

3. http://ideas.ted.com/skyscrapers-but-no-sewage-system-meet-a...

I'm bringing a lot of baggage, coming from a country where labor isn't cheap and the population isn't over a billion, but there is something to the value of human life here that I thought was universal. Maybe the expectations flip around when there are so many people that it would be cruel not to offer more garbage pickup jobs.

That smells a bit like a broken window fallacy though.
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That link's about power supplies, where there actually is a significant difference in component quality. A lightning to microusb adapter doesn't involve voltage shifting or anything else that's super problematic. About all the lightning connector does is introduce lock-in.
Why in God's name are reputable news outlets repeating the completely unverified rumor that it was a Russian hack of the DNC? It seems insane to me!

The NYT had an article about "How should Obama retaliate for the hack of the DNC?" That is not just putting the cart before the horse, thats dragging out the cart when there is not even evidence indicating a horse is there!
Would it be possible that he googled you, or you googled him after the meeting, that one of you searched for the others' LinkedIn or other similar sites (or on FB itself), and that the Facebook cookies/trackers connected the two of you?

Disclaimer: I am not connected to the tech world professionally; I'm just a bystander.

Step 1. Read Data and Goliath by Bruce Schneier.
Step 2. Delete your Facebook account.
Uber's claim of reducing DUIs is false
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If you're a location-independent entrepreneur, please share where you choose to live and why.
Assuming the Russians are to blame for the DNC hacks, the mistake is thinking the US will respond in kind or openly. Russia faces more economic and security challenges now than perhaps at any time since WWII and US pressure can be applied in many ways. Whose to say the Panama Papers were not a CIA operation aimed at exposing Russian and Chinese money laundering? Either way, Chinese hacking appears to be a far more serious threat as the OPM hack illustrates.
"Exploding" job offers used to target people on their 1st or 2nd jobs with little or no experience in how the hiring process works is borderline unethical.
It's just VISA on top of Bitcoin, essentially. The difference being that the protocol is open, so anyone can join.
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Just curious, why the throw away account?
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it's brian who acknowledged you. rob only wrote the code.

exegesis is a nice word to have in one's vocabulary. brian is a good exegesist (or is that exegesisticist?)
If they're all <a> then you're back to square one.

JSON solves this with indentation, pretty printing, and using paired symbols that most conpetent editors can automatically balance. This solves the homogeneous case too.

Incidentally, XML can benefit from the first two, and many editors balance tags, so you can get the same thing there.
Coke and Pepsi may be similar, but they are not the same product made in the same factory.

Who are they getting to do these blind tests? Coke, Pepsi, and RC cola have distinct flavors -- the generics do too, although I don't have enough experience to identify them. Cans, bottles, and fountains don't taste the same either. Branding and affinity certainly influence which vendor is preferred, but the drinks are not the same.
The Sieve of Eratosthenes
I'm imagining a new test for artificial intelligence measuring a system's capability for narcissism – the true metric of real consciousness.
Oh please. It's not like we Americans don't hack other countries.
Warner Bros goes after Google and Reddit in piracy battle
> [...] redeem them for a share of the audience on Twitter.

I don't understand what you mean by this. Can you clarify?
Computing power trends towards infinity, while computing price trends towards zero ;)
Note that Amazon rolled out a second revision of the Dash button that is 4x more energy efficient: "I measured the new Dash Button’s energy usage to be 4.3±2.2 J per activation and the original Button’s energy usage to be 16.4±0.1 J per activation." Source: https://mpetroff.net/2016/07/new-amazon-dash-button-teardown...

Although the Dash is still much over-engineered: for every activation it has to establish (I believe) an HTTPS session and exchange a few requests with Amazon servers. A much dumber wifi button sending a single packet should be able to use 1/10th of this energy.
A job offer is a business deal. The earlier on you learn how to do business, the better it is for your career.
Good story, but not exactly hard-nosed in my opinion. Either be left on the sidelines while your competitors all jump on the newest distribution platform, or follow suit. I'm just surprised these details happen over email instead of over the phone/dinner.
The only sort of negotiation worth "winning" is one in which there is no ongoing relationship at the conclusion of the negotiation, i.e. certain types of purchases/sales such as for example a house or a car.

If there is an ongoing relationship and one party "won" the negotiation then the price is resentment and likely "evening up" by the "loser" at some point in the future.

In many cases it is worth conceding some value to the other party even if the other party has no leverage just because you (as the "winner") want the other party to feel that they did not "lose" the negotiation. For example say a potential employee asks for an extra $10K. The employer might know that the new employee will take the job even if the $10K request is refused. But just to ensure the new employee saves face and feels like they were valued and listened to and did not "lose", then a wise employer might give them $1K or $2K or some other concession instead such as a guaranteed review in 3 months.
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To use a 3.5mm jack headset you need to add power amplifiers inside the phone, do proper impedance matching and hope that noise in the path does not corrupt the data. But sending power and digital data solves all these problems, the wires don't need to be as well made either!
A lot of people associate "service" with something they have to pay monthly for. "Windows as a service", to many people, means Windows subscriptions. Similarly, "free" upgrades in this day and age, generally aren't, and come with costs in the way of privacy and advertising. Microsoft did a poor job judging how their marketing would be interpreted, as well as made the FATAL mistake of implementing a ton of data collection nobody wanted which reinforced that idea.

The clickbait titles by BetaNews and such haven't helped either. I like Windows 10 personally, but Microsoft has a HUGE marketing problem right now, and your PR guys aren't addressing it. The mildly useful data you collect isn't worth the huge reputation cost you guys are getting for collecting it.

Sure, it lets you say how many billion hours users have spent on Edge in press releases, but is it really all that valuable?
You don't have to be productive all the time. It is important to have some time to relax and have fun. There are far worse things you could be doing than playing too many video games. You can try replacing video games with a more productive activity, but make sure it is something you enjoy doing and don't feel the need to quit gaming entirely.
Classic Kenny!

Common Lisp used to be much of my programming world also.
I said in the comment above that "knowledge" is represented as a structure of specialized areas of the brain - stored procedures, if you wish, but the system needs to be "trained" by the spoken (or signed) language from the shared environment.

The "machinery" probably has notions of a thing, a process, and an attribute, because it reflects characteristics of shared physical environment and every human language has nouns, verbs and adjectives. There are also notions of time and space, due to serialized input of sense organs and self-centered nature of our perception.

Evolved, highly-specialized machinery of the brain's specialized areas reflects major characteristics of the shared environment available to it through the sense organs. There is nothing more than that. No other "knowledge".
I understand it but still hate doing the dance. Negotiation doesn't end once you've started a job either. If you want good projects, promotions, higher compensation, you usually have to negotiate for those too. Sometimes managers recognize talent and take initiative, but it's easier to compensate the loudest voices or people who are credible flight risks. This can lead to a very toxic culture. It takes very mature and long-sighted management to pay for value before the employee complains.

I agree with the author's one point: The best possible thing you can have is an alternative. I remember reading through the leaked Sony emails where executives were discussing compensation packages for people making millions of dollars. They didn't care much about how much revenue a VP brought in, if they were a nice person, how many hours they worked, but they sure cared a lot about losing them to a competitor. Performance reviews, metrics, titles, etc. were just a pretext to pay whatever the boss decided was necessary to keep them.

FWIW, I think careers where you know your objective value and have a portable skill-set or book of business are the best in terms of employees capturing more of their surplus value. Google's revenue per employee is probably similar to a good trading firm, but no one Google engineer can recreate Search, so they take home much less of their value than a trader would. You see the same thing in sales roles, law partners, etc. where employees and management both know what they bring to the table, and know they could walk out the door to another company if compensation is unfair.
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So are used car deals. That's why we have lemon laws.

Getting a good deal by fraud harms everyone involved.
Cognitive Dissonance: Wealthy universities are not immune to diminishing returns
this is an excellent project that's great fun to watch the progress of. keep up the great work.

i have no experience with altos but i have been wondering -- on day one of the restore, it was noted the alto in question had some modifications from stock issue[1], could the booting issues be related to the microcode or wiring changes necessary to support those modifications? is it trying to boot off of the now missing trident drive?

[1] from http://www.righto.com/2016/06/restoring-y-combinators-xerox-...
"I suspect that the Y Combinator Alto originally had both a Trident drive and a Diablo drive (as well as four Orbit boards to drive a laser printer)"
> most Common Lisp implementations are native compiled. ... isn't it nice to compile down to the metal?

Is just the interpreter native or does cl compile your app to native as well?
Chrome disabled H2 over NPN a bit over a month ago, which led to many sites going back to H1.1 because most Linux distribution don't have an ALPN OpenSSL pkg (nginx is very easily static compiled with the latest OpenSSL src btw, no config needed). Secure transport doesn't seem to have ever supported either. It seems Apple has really been slacking in the past few years IMO. I'm sure they'll get around to ALPN eventually.
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Agree. This article is reaching. Jeremiah Johnson, Hell in the Pacific, LeMans, etc were certainly short of dialog, but were artsy and tasteful in presentation. OTOH, "Hateful 8" includes usual Tarantino mainstay heavy dialogs that work. Wasted read, move on.
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> "Earlier this week at a speech at Fordham University in New York, FBI Director James Comey sounded a similar note. He said cyberattacks from states and non-state actors "needs to be called out, it needs to be sanctioned, it needs to whenever possible be prosecuted."

Agreed. Let's start with the NSA.
I like Scheme/Lisp but I don't know if I buy the whole "learning Lisp turns you into a better programmer". Maybe more knowledgeable but not necessarily a better a developer.

In some ways learning a really flexible language like Lisp can turn you even into a really bad developer. I say "developer" instead of "programer" because I want to emphasize working with others and thus sharing code with others. Of course this is based on some past observations working with MIT grads and various other academia so take my opinion with a grain of salt.

IMO the language that really changed everything for me was the ML family of languages and maybe C. I would say knowing C and ML is more worthwhile than Lisp (Lisp is not exactly hard to learn anyway... the basics that is).
I worked on automation of some of the PA announcements used on railway stations in the UK, e.g. "The next train from platform 4 is the...". These were recorded sets of words and phrases that could be concatenated to sound quite natural and the content of most were very dull.

Every sound file was recorded in a male version and a female version although the female was used almost all the time. I asked about this and was told the following:

* Women respond equally to male and female voices

* Men instinctively rebel against petty instruction given in a male voice... unless...

* In a threatening situation (fire, football riot etc) orders in a male voice are trusted more

I don't know how true any of this really is when applied in the real world, but maybe the similar studies have been applied to conversational interfaces.
Because you live in a country that is more concerned that exposing the corruption of your democracy poses more of a threat than the corruption of democracy itself.
I keep one-line blocks unbraced when possible and my reasoning is definitely not to feel like a tough macho man. It's more like a mild form of OCD where any syntax that's not necessary just bothers me if I don't omit it.
Good luck with that. Capital is already fleeing to the US due to high taxes in the EU, increased tax hunting, braindead ECB negative rates, muslim immigrants pouring into Europe, rising terrorism, Italian and Portugese banks on the brink of bankrupcy, shall I go on?
If that's the case our victims are really good at not crying about it. It's like we're the only ones who shout, "I got hacked!"
I keep getting hints that there is some fight behind the scenes in US biology over how much money should be devoted to exploratory vs translational research. Comments like these pretend as if this wasn't a difficult trade off, that we need a huge shift in one direction, and that this direction is so obviously better we don't even need to discuss the relative amounts involved.
A good tech interviewer would be screening out candidates who prepared for tests but didn't have real skills. It would be funny, and sad, to watch someone ace the FizzBuzz question but then choke when the parameters were changed a little.

Standardized testing in schools perverts and devalues education, producing graduates who mistake passing tests for learning.

Imagine working alongside people who got hired because they knew how to answer interview quesions, but didn't know how to do anything useful. Imagine reporting to a manager who thought a good hire was someone who knew all the answers to their interview questions.
It's a cost thing & a culture thing. Japan likes it's cash too. Sweden loves it's credit cards to a point where you can't use cash in some situations easily.
https://xkcd.com/311/

More budget = more action scenes = less dialogue

In the far future, special effects alone might not suffice to sell films, but for now it's enough.

The other trend to consider is films lengthening; there are multi-part series and also the Netflix streaming model. A 6-hour film can maintain the same (high) action-to-dialogue ratio but still have room for a plot.
This article is extraordinary. We now know the biggest offender by far in term of hacking other networks is the US. But when you read it, it feels like we are talking about the US being attacked by a bunch of rogue actors.

Do as I say, not as I do.
Because they are not reputable.

In the US we have the best propaganda news networks in the world. IMO rivaling even North Korea.

Its all 24 hours non-stop political agenda, 365 days per year. It never stops.