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> And the over-verbose syntax doesn't help

This is basically the reason I have not been willing to put any time even trying to learn ps. I mean, trying to translate

unzip file.zip folder

To ps was a nigthmare. Like:

[System.IO.Compression.ZipFile]::ExtractToDirectory($zipfile, $outpath)

I don't _want_ to learn to type stuff like that for simple shell scripts.
No, I don't think so. We don't know what the recruiting funnel looks like at FB, but it is entirely possible that the hiring process has been designed by a group of engineers who, through their homogenous demographics, are either drawing on similarly-homogenous professional networks for references or selecting for characteristics they possess (which could be bad for anyone who's not like them).
For what it's worth regarding point 3, I spent all of high school sleeping on trains to and from school. That said, I'm a tall male, so no one ever bothered me.
Pretty sure brains are exploiting quantum phenomenas too, we just haven't noticed that yet. This should make replicating human brain much harder.
Eventually.. eventually, we will drop the A too.
I noticed that too.

The tools principle dovetails with "Use a superior development system". Infocom's game building tool (the ZIL compiler) was originally a PDP-10 program. LucasArts developed many games using the SCUMM suite of tools, which they developed on Unix-based Sun workstations. (The SCUMM compiler used YACC!)

Even today, you can use a compute cluster to render videos, "bake" assets, distribute compilation, run tests, run machine learning, ...
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The really sad thing is that viewpoints such as yours are considered racist and sexist in today's society. These issues are so politically charged that it's impossible to have any honest debate. If you even remotely disagree with feminism, Black Lives Matter, or Israeli occupation of Palestine, you're immediately labeled sexist/racist/anti-semitic and no one else will dare agree with you.
There is nothing stopping anybody with an Internet connection and a little bit of curiosity from learning to code. The computer doesn't care about your race or gender.

This issue strikes a chord with me because I spent years programming while others called me a nerd. Now that my skills are useful people claim I must be doing well because of my sex and skin color.
Yes, here in Germany Otto is a household name despite mail order becoming a thing of the past.
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Can't say for other cities, but Vancouver is quite liveable if you gathered your wealth elsewhere. The median household salary is 22nd Canada wide in 2010[1]. The housing price is world renowned.

I wonder if there's a list for world's most liveable cities for young people. Where technologies are rapidly being adopted by both the community and policy makers, knowledgeable government, less presence of established powers/influencers who prevent progress.

And how hard to create such a city from scratch?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Median_household_incom...
Nice interface. Definitely takes a bit of anxiety out of thinking about taxes.

Direct link to Google Spreadsheet used for the calculations:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1DR66Yqd3KaxX9Qje7QiV...
>puts them in existential danger from mobs with pitchforks

All these valley types need to do is tell the grievance mongers to take a hike, and there would not be anything they could do about it.

It's caving into screechers' demands that does these companies in when the outrage happens.
You can live like a king on 40k in Omaha. You can have a yard, a garage, drive a car, eat at restaraunts, shop at Walmart. In Manhattan some of that is inaccessible even to the very rich. There are no walmarts. Parking your car may cost 40k.
ignoring the color added by "nonsense feel-good bullshit", are women underrepresented in STEM degrees?
> Kiev, the only European city in the bottom ten, performs better for health care and education but has a low stability score due to Ukraine’s ongoing conflict with Russia.

What? What is "low stability"?
Thanks for clarifying it. Always keen in learning a bit more about the console world.
For you perhaps it's advantageous once in a while, but in the overall analysis, all commuters considered, any change to the schedule is more negative than positive.
There's a new argument for enacting this as legislation, and requiring the permission of Congress for first use of nuclear weapons. Trump might be elected.
They have every right to vote how they like. It's up to bright young stars like yourself to show them opportunities to better themselves.
"Prior to the judge’s ruling, San Francisco-based Uber indicated it had a long-term solution to the debate about driver classification: driverless vehicles. Uber said earlier Thursday it plans to begin testing autonomous vehicles in Pittsburgh as soon as this month, featuring technology that would eventually make human drivers obsolete."

Well I guess that's one way to accelerate innovation lol
Not only is it on par, it's revolutionary. I'm referring to imgadm(1M) and vmadm(1M) in particular.

The guys didn't have to get out of Oracle to reinvent the wheel: the engineering they did is sound and tenable enough for decades into the future, so they built upon it.
It was a problem that there weren't more women mining coal when mining coal was an up and coming industry and one of the best ways for people to get ahead economically. It just wasn't really talked about because that was then and this is now. But we still see the ripples of "men's work" being the most lucrative in that era, and it's very laudable to try to reduce those same ripples from our own era emanating into the future.
Are men underrepresented in non-STEM degrees?
The typical ingestion method between crack and powder cocaine are drastically different. The way the body absorbs both drugs is different and the impact the drug has on its users and society is much different.

Just because things are chemically similar doesn't mean they are the same, nor should they bet treated the same.

But I do agree that on the whole white people get cut breaks where minorities would not. I just don't think the crack/coke example is a very strong one.
I was administering windows computers at a university at the time of windows 98and most of my automation came from ActiveX where I could register external libraries and script most OS interfaces with vb or js. Powershell is just that plus lots of objects and types
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We're not likely to iterate on thermonuclear war, though!
Here is some relevant data for anybody trying to add some facts to this post: http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2014/10/28/359419934/who-s...

Conclusion: it's complicated. Women make up about half of science and business degrees, and relatively small percentage of engineering and computer science.
Having realized that you're not bad, you overcorrect and start thinking you're good. But when you think you're good, you're not as good as you think you are. And if you really are that good, it's best not to think so (or at least to act like you don't think so).
There have been plenty of folks who have proved this wrong. This is the classic "pipeline" argument, which is really just a case of the company restricting the "pipeline" through various practices.

There are plenty of posts out there about why Facebook's recent declaration that their numbers are that way due to the pipeline problem is wrong. There was a particularly good one I recall, but I can't find it sadly. But the other articles out there should suffice too.

There are also many self taught programmers out there, which are not affected by the "pipeline". Interview practices often subconsciously discriminate against them (for example, an overabundance of datastructure questions -- most self taught programmers I know are good enough with datastructures, but haven't become super awesome experts at them because that's not very useful when actually programming. Focusing your interviews on solely these questions excludes nearly half the "pipeline").

The college I was in has an extremely skewed gender ratio. There are many companies out there that nearly exclusively hire from a set of similar colleges as a matter of prestige. And of course have a large gender diversity issue, which they (well, employees there -- in this country there is less of a push for diversity and companies don't make public statements about it) blame on the pipeline. This is absurd. What Facebook does is similar, though not as stark.
it would be interesting to know whether any societies don't have this bias in educating women.
Then shouldn't Facebook hire more Chinese and Indians? They comprise ~35% of the world population.
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So your recommendation is that Facebook completely ignore lack of diversity and rely on childhood mentorship and less tendency for CS to attract men in college to fill in the gap in twenty years?
A very simple desktop app that can send raw http requests
I live in Melbourne. Seems quite livable. It's fairly big at about 50 miles across depending on how you measure it.
True, and some people should probably be removed from society in general. Give them a pleasant life, but understand that they are too dangerous to allow back into society. We expect common citizens to be willing to sacrifice their lives in defense of our society. I don't think asking someone who was trying to murder random strangers (for example) to sacrifice their freedom is asking too much.
Improve. Yes. I for one am going to lobby the government to provide early training for young women who might be interested in coal mining. Hopefully we can reduce the number of men in coal mining in favor of more disadvantaged groups who are less interested in back breaking labor.
I saw that! Except when I saw it, it was mostly broken, perhaps under the DDoS of children putting too many bits into it too fast.

When I saw it, you could send a message from one designated terminal to another, but that's just rolling balls on tracks. In the intended design you could choose which terminal it went to using an 8-bit IP address.
It's often the customers who are complaining that your current output is not suitable.
The relevant question is whether they are underrepresented in non-"nonsense feel-good bullshit" degrees. But then we would have to agree on a definition of that. Having no statistics handy, I suspect by my definition the answer would be "no", while by yours (which perhaps is just equivalent to STEM?) the answer would be "yes".
The fact that the quit rate is higher doesn't disqualify the pipeline problem as an explanation. It sounds like your assumption is that a hostile work environment must be the reason for the higher quit rate, and thus that fixing the pipeline wouldn't fix the issue. I'm not sure this is as ironclad as you're pretending it is.

I personally know people from underrepresented groups in tech (African-American, women etc) who attest that, even in work environments that made them feel 100% welcome/comfortable, they felt a mental cost from the very fact of being underrepresented. That is to say, even if you were to remove all the consciously and unconsciously biased behavior from workplaces, some people still have a negative reaction to being the only present member of a group that they identify with. The pipeline problem is the only solution that could possibly address that[1], by addressing the imbalance per se.

[1] I suppose short of having people stop feeling this way about being underrepresented. I've been underrepresented ethnically in almost every group I've ever been in, but it has never bothered me. Far be it from me to tell other to stop feeling a certain way though.
The answer to both questions is yes.
Sorry, but you're massively underestimating the problem here. There's a whole lot more to it than "they could all keep their own copy."

Reliable distributed consensus without a "master" node is one of the hardest problems in computer science even when all the computers are always-on servers located on the same network. When we're talking about random laptops and phones all over the world that flicker in and out of connectivity -- and you want real-time collaborative responsiveness, and you have users who are not allowed to see the whole data set -- you're deep in unsolved problem territory.

If and when someone builds a real system that can handle this, performs well in real-world network scenarios, and is easy enough for typical application developers to use... then we can start the arduous process of rewriting all of our applications to use this model.

Instead of all this, Sandstorm aims to make it easy for everyone to have their own general-purpose server (maybe by using their own physical machine, maybe by paying a hosting service). This way we can keep using our existing code and existing application development practices.
I'm not sure how you put a backdoor in an atom.
I find interesting that you could read what the worker said as a metaphor to software development.

And if a worker were to look at how some code changes just looking at the files modified, he would probably notice that we keep tearing open and modifying the same piece of code many times, he might ask why can't we just fix all the bugs at once.
It sounds like it's an incentive system for recruiters to find non-traditional candidates. It's easy to only recruit from top colleges and universities but I think the system tried to get a better pipeline of candidates from other sources.

It doesn't like the Hiring Managers (who decide offers?) got that same system.
I was not happy with the current REST clients, that are all either to complicated (soap-ui), integrated inside some other tool (HttpRequester, vscode-restclient, ...) or are to basic (can not save/recall previous requests) so I made my own.

Wanted to share this, maybe someone else finds it useful. And it's really easy to hack: just one html file and one js file.
Yep, I understand that not everybody can afford it. To me, it's was a pure, dirty capitalist investment thing: that system paid for itself hundreds of times over with all the time and effort I've saved not having to mess with it. Best money I've ever spent, what with all the time I've saved, and all the jobs I obtained with it.

Have you looked at alternatives to GNU/Linux, like PC-BSD or FreeBSD? Did you find those inadequate / too much overhead?
Agreed. Vancouver is only "liveable" if you are extremely established. Wages are pathetic. Its a city full of investors and not much else. It isn't a place for anyone young who doesn't have a steady trust income.

On the other hand, much of what makes Vancouver liveable has little to do with the city and more to do with the province and country. Get out of Vancouver, to Squamish, Chilliwack or even to Bowen and you can afford to work.
> It's clear that tech is the Golden mine of XXI century

What's the evidence for this claim? I think tech is fun, pays for a good standard of living, and is a solid career choice for any person entering the job market. However, according to the bureau of labor and statistics, you're still better off going into a host of fields like medicine, dentistry, airline pilots, law, and finance.

[0] http://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes_nat.htm
The comment may be wrong, but a LOT of people have similar ideas. This is your opportunity to educate, not punish with downvotes.

Punishing merely makes people afraid to tell you their ideas, which means they just go on believing them. How does that help?
I didn't mean parent countries were forcing their athletes, I meant Brazil, as the host, are not living up to reasonable expectations on hosts of an international sporting event. You say it as if all athletes were given due notice, and agreed that they would take racist, partisan abuse. The crowds are uniquely, surprisingly bad. The answer to this isn't "you're welcome to leave", that does not deflect blame from the way Brazilians have been behaving. And just saying "it is what it is" downplays just how far below basic standards of decency such booing is.
This comment is mind-numbingly anecdotal and runs wildly contrary to reality.

'"Happiness" at Mt Holyoke' - here's the list of majors at Mt Holyoke: https://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/majors. 'Happiness' appears nowhere on the list.

"bunch of women who didn't even go to college" - females outnumber men in college 55/45.

Beyond the blatant disregard for facts, the comment is dangerously reductionist, attributing the diversity gap to a single cause- a lack of encouragement for females to pursue technical fields at a young age.

Yes, this is part of the problem, but no matter how much the talent pool increases, women are going to continue to leave tech at alarming rates until tech culture issues are improved as well.
I have read a fairly compelling site saying that it is a myth that you get significant power on the upstroke. I'll try to find the link.

I suspect the more important part is that you are getting better power while pushing down because your foot is always in the optimal position.

Edit: it's discussed at https://bicycles.stackexchange.com/questions/14059/are-there...
I wonder how they plan to deal with the GFW-induced disproportionally low Chinese users problem.
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quite possibly - i have no idea though :)

careers such as nursing, teaching, and (ironically given the op) human resources seem to be highly gendered towards women.
> Sorry, so you're suggesting the problem is that women don't study computer science? Hmm. [0]

The reference you cite says that

> about 214 women are majoring in computer science, accounting for about 30 percent of majors in that department

and

> only about 18 percent of all U.S. undergraduate computer science degrees go to women.

While the WSJ article states that

> Women made up 33% of its global workforce, up from 31% in 2014.

So, exactly a pipeline problem.
As an engineer who has worked in both the design and construction side of utility work in NYC, allow me to explain why utilities are such a big problem. Every utility not owned and operated by the city or MTA must pay the city for use of their right of way, meaning streets and sidewalks, in between property lines. If a utility were to operate within outside of the right of way in private property they would have to pay the property owner to use the land As an easement.

A utility company has an agreement with city and pays the city on those terms to move the facility when told to do so at own cost (gas lines are exempt because they are international lines). It also must pay contractors when working near those lines for the discomfort they cause.

Utilities don't just have conduits or pipes running down, but also manholes and chambers, and some of them are huge. I once came across a 90' x 60' x 40' underground substation. These chambers cause other utilities to avoid them by switching lanes and going to the sides. These switches cause greater infrastructure density, or more pipes in an area.

For places like manhattan, telephone company requires more conduits and wires in every street than any where else. Some companies insist in a conduit just for themselves, like Amazon AWS to run their own services. Parallel to that are electric lines that require large pipes for the huge area it serves. Same goes for gas main and the next annoyance e.g. Steam, which is difficult to move around.

If the city were to come and build something, pretty much everyone has to move things around. This is what causes a significant spaghetti buildup. Eventually, it becomes virtually impossible to locate or record location of everything. Add to that the age of records and the frequent loss of records.

Designing utilities is an art of patience. Constructing around them is far worse. Recording them is poorly done. I was very peculiar about accuracy of records but even I had to sometimes wing it. And I am pretty sure few take the time to painstakingly record and draw stuff like I did.

Problems like this make me imagine that all utilities should be placed vertically in a chamber easily accessible and maintainable. But that is naive.
> '"Happiness" at Mt Holyoke' - here's the list of majors at Mt Holyoke

Congratulations, you can Google! Maybe if you exercise that talent a little bit more, you'll realize that My Holyoke, not unlike the infamous Evergreen College, allows students to design their own major.

> the comment is dangerously reductionist, attributing the diversity gap to a single cause- a lack of encouragement for females to pursue technical fields at a young age.

How is that any different than the OP suggesting that hostile work environments are the single cause of poor diversity?
>…since it wasn't really useful from the neuro perspective (since it's such a cartoonish model of real neural networks anyway).

Still isn't and still masses of people go on to think that these "neural" networks work the same as neurons in a body do… while neuroscientists are still trying to understand how real neuronal networks operate with a bunch of pet phenomenological theories that most pretty much ignore physics despite the tools used lol
I don't see this surprising. It's like trying to find the target market for your product. It's possible that the market size is too small or you are being too restrictive. It also could be that facebook's recruiting itself is biased.
Melbourne's really liveable - if you own a house already. If you don't then you can look forward to renting for the rest of your life.
TE: under represented, SM: over represented, at my uni, anyway.

This whole thing is way overblown, imo. If, for some reason, far more women want to be doctors than engineers, then good for them. The last thing we need are grumpy doctors who treat their patients like machines, or bored engineers who make a special snowflake out of each server.

Imagine how ridiculous it would be, if when I was enrolling in uni, an advisor had said something along the lines of "Are you sure you wouldn't rather be a doctor? Because we need more male doctors, and the engineering fields are way over their quota for males. In 4 years, you might not be able to get a job in that field, unless you discover that you are actually a woman in a man's body."
Well, to be fair, what was demonstrated here was that people didn't actually extract the data after multiple edits and tries, regardless of what tools they had at their disposal.

I think the idea of an object pipeline is sound for precisely this reason, but I don't think it should be connected to any one language or platform.
On Linux you can set tcp_keepalive_intvl and tcp_keepalive_probed to make this much shorter, but it's global to all sockets, so app keepalives are better for finer control, among other things mentioned.
Facebook is significantly less white than US in general. Given that white people are over represented in occupations like programmers I would expect them be actually more white than USA.

It appears that Facebook does not hire enough whites and these sort of point systems appear more like an active discrimination against white people.
Do you have any references / sources / examples / stories of this? Sounds like an interesting area.

Thought there's a difference in being disowned / disinherited, and in simply not being the primo genitur -- the offspring who will inherit the title.

I'm thinking of Ludwig von Wittgenstein, born to one of the wealthiest families of the Austro-Hungarian empire in the late 19th century. In his case, he chose to leave the family, or at least its wealth, though AFAIR it remained reasonably supportive of him. I'm not sufficiently versed in nobility/royalty to think of other instances offhand.
The minimum default is 2 hours, but applications can configure this to much smaller intervals, like 10 seconds.
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Easy: You put the backdoor into the atoms it's entangled with.
That's reads more like spies doing spy stuff with other spies. The guy was going to get out of it anyway, but blood money was the most politically sensitive way for the US and Pakistan to deal with the issue.