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We have a pet policy at work. One dog at a time, it can't be a large dog, must be well behaved and...
... if anyone has a problem with the pet policy it may need to be canceled.

It's fun having dogs at work, but it's pretty sensible for a company to place its employees before their pets. Raise your concern - it's not unusual to be uncomfortable around animals.

If it's not a deathly fear though, I suggest trying to be open minded about it. Most of the dogs in our office pretty much sleep or stay near their owner 99% of the day. They only perk up when food is around or the UPS guy comes by ;)
That's an awful way to burn someone. Better to fire this person or really put an effort to find a better position that he/she really wants.
Are you talking about the wikipedia article or http://www.jofreeman.com/joreen/tyranny.htm

I have been in those same activist groups. Right now I work for an "engineering run" organization. Maybe my emphasis should have been on _a little_.

Every organization collapses towards high-school. Those that don't are the most successful. Just as the majority of Olympic athletes are freak'n amazing, the contest is rarely not who excels but who doesn't falter.
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I vote for genymotion. The performance is amazing, and very useful features that are actually easy to use (location mocking, camera mocking, etc.)

The default android emulator always ran kinda slow for me. There are some performance hacks online, but why bother!
It wasn't exactly an unintentional bug - rather one company owned a patent on the technique of enforcing a guard time before and after the attention string to go into command mode (the Hayes '302 patent). They licensed it for $1/modem, but some manufacturers felt that they couldn't afford that.
They forgot to mention the corollary: most treated adults remain depressed.
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Next time a company says they're looking for "rock stars", I'll be sure to tell them that I'm the Kanye West of <insert skillset>
When you say those are the programs that they're "supposed to run", I ask, who gave them that mandate?

Specifically ... Who gets to determine which programs the NSA is allowed to run? And who gets to determine what civilian data they are permitted to retain? And who gets to determine the "acceptable" number of civilian casualties when they bomb in Yemen?
You have a very low threshold for what is considered gross. That's just the tip of the iceberg with pets! (and babies)
Another interesting and possibly germane question is: what happens when you find yourself giving fucks you didn't mean to?

And another: what happens when you find your fucks getting stolen?
Is it called node because of its inode usage?! Jokes aside, it's just crazy how big node_modules can become for a simple app! I was kind of surprise the first time I got a "no space left on device" error and df shows < 50% of usage :/
Exactly, and I'd be silly not to expect other countries to do the same to the U.S.
They bring them to work, set them in a bouncer, and then proceed to work the entire day while the baby is there?

The most I've ever seen is a few minutes of someone bring in their child to show some co-workers before after heading out to lunch or home.

If someone is bringing their baby in while they are working for the whole day, I think it would be reasonable to ask them to find child care options.
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Now that I think of it, the majority of this work should have been done in JS land, with the heaviest decoding being exposed as a document._firefox.media.flac_decode() method that takes a buffer of flac stream. That one flac stream could be formally verified, everything else lives in user land.
A few years ago I had a a ptoato android tablet. The thing couldn't play music without stuttering, chrome would take more than a minute to render a page, then another minute if you scrolled.

Firefox was first released for android around the time I bought it though, and turned it into a capable web browsing device.
Clearly you - and many people commenting here - have no idea how the business model works and keep making these comments of: "don't mess with the free market."

Explained in a very simple way:

- Researchers do the heavy work, carrying out the research and writing up the articles: they don't get a cent from publishers (sometimes they even have to pay to publish).

- Reviewers, since of the most knowledgeable researchers in the area, take their time and knowledge to check what the researchers did: they also don't get a cent from publishers.

- Publishers, get all the work already done and charge money - stupid amounts of money like 30eur per article - to let other researchers see the works.

Researchers have nothing to lose by cutting the publisher. We are not wasting any money - on the contrary - for demanding free access.

Seriously, people should stop commenting themes they simply don't have a clue about.
Would be nice if the client side state prevented the loading indicator when going back and forth on the same post. Looks nice though:)
I did not. If your prospective users have to try a demo to even understand what your software is even for then something is seriously wrong.

I'm talking about initial messaging communication here. A demo is not for that - that comes after.
>I mean, I don't think it is fair to blame scientists, engineers, workers, etc. - let alone the tools that they use

I think it should be fair. It's no secret what these precision guided bombs are being used for, so why should the nerds that continue to work on them be free of culpability?
Get proper documentation of the phobia from an appropriately licensed medical practitioner. a) It'll be a good first step towards resolution of the phobia itself, and b) you'll probably need it for making your case in the office.
If I were her, I'd want to spend my time with horses too.
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(Quill maintainer here)

Draft’s own description of itself is "Rich Text Editor Framework for React" and is more comparable with Parchment[1], both being a foundation in which you can build a rich text editor. But there are many pieces missing for it to be a full fledged editor like Quill.

* UI Draft only has buttons you can toggle for formats. There are no dropdowns to select which header size—just six h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6 buttons. There are no tooltips or link, video, or image UIs to assist with editing.

* API - Quill’s API is designed for the editing use case. Draft is built on React and inherits many primitives and ideas that are more appropriate for websites, rather than linear content like text. Which APIs is nicer for which use case may be subjective so I will just link Quill’s API’s [2] and Draft’s API [3] and ask the reader to think of some common tasks, like making a range of text bold, and try to figure out how to accomplish these tasks from reading through the respective APIs.

* Markup - With the exception of nested lists, Quill’s markup is clean and semantically correct. Draft uses <span> tags with inline styles with lots of attributes for bookkeeping.

[1] https://github.com/quilljs/parchment
[2] http://quilljs.com/docs/api/
[3] https://facebook.github.io/draft-js/docs/overview.html
I've found that generally my managers are pretty approachable and I've never had any fears of expressing concerns I have with them during my bi-weekly or monthly 1:1 sessions.

If you're not having 1:1 sessions with your manager, you should be. It's a great way to nip issues in the bud before they become unmanageable.
Having worked two places where this was possible, there's a number of advantages.

Everyone in the office became a fan of the mutt, and I had lots of volunteers for lunchtime walks! Including the lady who was wary of German Shepherds at the start, who ended up curing her phobia "Oh it's only him, he's harmless".

He'd sleep near the desk until someone came over to talk to him, and as a result I wasn't clock watching quite so much (must go, dog needs out). A few heads would sometimes turn when he was having a drink (not so quiet). If I was away from desk he'd just go and settle near one of his other friends.

I felt much better towards both employers as a result.

A lot is going to depend on how well trained they are - lots of barking and running around will drive everyone crazy. Me included.
Make a demo that shows the process in action.

If you can't make a demo: people are better at understanding concrete vs. abstract. "Honda Civic" is better than "car" is better than "transportation device".

What that means in your case: describe the app by describing a concrete use case. Pick a concrete example instead of talking in abstract. Presumably you already have compelling examples of specific spreadsheets turned into web applications.

If you describe 2-3 concrete examples, they'll generalize themselves but it's much more difficult for people to start with generic explanation and imagine concrete examples.
So - if an intruder breaks in to your house, you can shoot him without repercussions; but if an intruder breaks into your house and trips on your loose stair carpet, he can sue for his resulting injuries?

Bizarre!
How is a dog biting him falsification? Claiming that the dog bit him when it did not would be false, but if the dog bites him, the dog bit him.

Unless the dog is huge, it's unlikely he'll die.
I used to think that too. Until I got my own.

While there are breed variations and some seem to have a skin that's oilier than most, actual bad smell is a sign that something is wrong. As in humans, it is usually due to poor hygiene, with poor oral health being the biggest culprit (dogs use the mouth to scratch, remove things from fur, lick themselves, etc).

Skin conditions are rather common, some can smell really bad. Even if it is something as benign as whatever the dog acne equivalent is.

Localized smell usually means the dog found something interesting, to his sense of smell, and rubbed itself on it.

Of course, some owners are just too lazy to bathe their dogs, even once a month.
there is nothing wrong with being afraid of strange dogs, just dont pet them or interact with them, turn away from them if they approach you.
make clear that you dont want to interact with them on ur workplace, ppl will understand.
yeah u will look like a partypooper. whatever
Neither of those noisy (distracting) things belong in an office, though. Offices are a place for focus.
> I'm so annoyed by the push for metrics at my service oriented company.

I saw it here on HN, from someone else and I remembered these quotes:

1) Just because it can be turned into a number, doesn't it mean that it should be.

2) Just because something has already been turned into o a number it doesn't mean it is important.

Usually managers will want to turn everything into a number. Number of tickets closed per iteration cycles, numbe of issues opened, number of lines written, number of comments per number of lines and so on.

Because they think those give them a deep insight into the team dynamics, and it makes their job more justifiable because they can use those "statistics" and present them to their manager instead of say wave their hands and say "yap it's fine, we shipped this feature, found some bugs, fixed them".
Unfortunately it was on a pre-baked image on AWS, and you apparently can't retrofit it.
So, translation is actually:

blorp blorp!

money money!

blorp blorp!

feed me, seymour!

Yay! I feel reassured that everything is going smoothly, just as planned, and 10% growth as usual.

One could quickly argue that PR articles that skip the details, and make designs to produce the sensation of graphs that "go up and to the right," are a clear indicator that pleasing investors produces a bland gruel of profiteering corporations as ineffective at doing anything useful besides "making money," as is flatlander management, at providing direction to employees (read: millennials) who can't adjust to the sensation of not being subordinate to micro-managing overlords.
Thanks for clarifying. If you know anyone willing to donate 2002 era hardware, I'd be willing to do some tests and benchmarks.
While I don't entirely disagree with your premise, this oft-repeated argument misses some key points.

Every user is free to make changes themselves but upstreaming them to the 'official' repo won't work, because the devs have decided they've moved on. Everyone is free to maintain a publicly-accessible fork, but without community coordination, the forks will diverge, unless widespread community consensus is reached about which one is the preferred survivor repo. Essentially, to solve the problem, merely dumping code isn't sufficient; you must also build a community.

Hence when a project's leadership decides they will no longer release/maintain/fix/accept-pull-requests-for a particular version, all of us lose the single most logical place where collaboration about that particular version happens. This is what I lament, not that woe-be-unto-me, I-have-to-fix-it-myself.
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Aggressive dogs are incredibly rare, especially if you're just ignoring them and not trying to interact.

Here's what my city looks like:
http://dogswaitinginberlin.tumblr.com/

Unleashed dogs everywhere. Never heard of it being a problem.
i like all sorts of dogs, i have a rescue dog, i'm a dog person. big, small, pure, mutt, rescue, whatever. i love them all.

but there's absolutely no way i would suggest, or insinuate, that someone with a fear of dogs (phobia or otherwise), get "help", or even have to worry about the remote possibility of dealing with dogs in any office environment that doesn't have "veterinarian" in the description.

it's just straight up ridiculous. i'm highly allergic to cats, even though i like them in general. if i had to deal with cats in an office i'd quit on the spot and probably not quietly.
Good point. How about SlackMon ....sounds a bit rasta but its to the point. Looks like nice tool .... now if i could only get the company to use Slack instead of Skype+email!
If you dislike dogs that strongly, claim to have an allergy and politely ask the owners to keep them away from your desk. If that doesn't work, explain your allergies to management. It'll spark less resentment than the truth.
> So - if an intruder breaks in to your house, you can shoot him without repercussions

In many US jurisdictions, not generally the case. The ones with a strong "castle doctrine" are notable because this is not the norm.

But, even so...

> So - if an intruder breaks in to your house, you can shoot him without repercussions

Your loose stair carpet was not created as a specific and immediate response to a particular unlawful act, and thus the relief from otherwise applicable legal liability attached as a result of self-defense doesn't apply to it.
I work in an office with a dog. I detest it, the dog distracts me constantly with barking and such. I genuinely believe that the dog has a negative financial effect on the company - I'd be much more productive without it, and productivity is $$$. However, I would never say anything, as this could lead to me being ostracized as a non-"team-player".

Something to keep in mind when all feedback on an element workplace environment is positive.
Or you can buy 2GB of RAM with those $30
I can't use Adobe products for any serious amount of time, they induce rage followed by narcolepsy. I give the theory some credence, but I wouldn't call it "ego depletion". The mechanism I think consumes glucose in the brain 'the fucks' and once exhausted can't be replenished without rest.
It isn't a manager's job to provide you with well defined technical specifications. Figuring those out takes an ongoing iterative process involving input from multiple stakeholders.

One thing that can really help in organizations that lack discipline is to define a detailed, rigorous definition of done and institute strict work-in-progress limits for each agile team. That way the team will be less likely to underestimate in the first place and everyone understands that time must be allowed for testing and documentation.
I don't really know what you mean by rock. I would classify punk, metal, and all their angry friends as rock subgenres.

Putting those aside for a minute, the earliest forms of rock were quite rebellious. Rumble by Link Wray, the 1954 instrumental hit that pioneered the distortion and power chord combo, ended up getting banned in many markets because it was thought to incite delinquency. Today, the tune is bland at best.

At this point, I think it's quite hard to rebel culturally. So many different genres have pushed their definition of rebellion so far at this point that it has become exceptionally hard to push the envelope of what is culturally acceptable.
For me, the biggest cure to (admittedly, mild) phobia was my significant other getting a dog (miniature schnauzer-like).

In my case, I big component of my fear was due to just not understanding their behavior. After living with one for almost 3 years, I've basically lost whatever fear I had. I was fine(ish!) around small dogs, but got really scared of big ones. Now I just don't care what breed or size it is, I can just read their body language.
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You mean never overestimate anybody. Or maybe, "You can never underestimate anybody."
I like dogs but I wouldn't want to work in an office with dogs running around. I would definitely ask for a dog free zone (at the very least) if it were me. You're definitely not wrong to be weirded out by it. Working outside on a farm with dogs is one thing, but offices are no place for animals that might have energy to burn by running around (imo).

That being said, definitely consider meeting some nice dogs to convince yourself that they're not so scary. If you're feeling ambitious, go to a dog park and ask people if it's okay to pet their dog. Hold out the back of your hand to let it sniff you before you pet it, and move toward it slowly to gauge it's level of comfort. These little fears are worth taking the time to overcome.
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> If you get rid of managers, essentially everyone becomes a manager of sorts and they need to really embrace the role to make it work.

This. In my years of working in Software, I've dealt with managers, both good and bad. The best ones have without a doubt been those who took care that I had to attend as few meetings as possible, that my requirements for work were met, who were open to genuine conversation about my performance.
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It's true even if you don't take psychedelics. There's a tendency to confuse peak experiences (however that comes about) and awakening.

Bonnie Greewall, who wrote her PhD dissertation on specific form of spiritual emergence in the field of transpersonal psychology is one person who teaches this. She speaks of people who, having confused those peak experiences with "enlightenment", goes on trying to seek out greater and greater experiences. There is a kind of withdrawal effect that happens when the next big thing doesn't show up. This is in contrast to awakening, in which one is aware of true nature as awareness. This awareness is available in all states, whether blissful or wrathful, with or without psychedelics.

At the end of the day though, it's still about awareness, whether that is in the ceremony or in the ordinary life.

I think the psychedelics gives the kick out of the nest some people need. I know a lot of folks roll their eyes at some of the things being said in the article, but having participated in ceremonies and hanged out with the folks who go, they are not as far-fetched as you might think it is. Both the cringe-inducing quotes and the folks who roll their eyes are, I think, representative of the the spiritual miasma and dis-ease in modern society.

And since I got into some drama here the last time I said something like this, I'm going to try to write as clearly here: while there are some people who can answer what these peak experiences and these spiritual paths do for themselves as individuals, we as a human species and a race _as a whole_ still have not figured out the place and purpose of spirituality in modernity. Modernity was first the separation, and then the complete disassociation of spirituality. A Dagara medicine man friend of mine puts it, "there were the Keepers, the Breakers, and the Menders". The Keepers are traditionalists. The Breakers are modernists. The Menders are only emerging.

Modernity broke the traditional views, with some proponents seeing themselves as heroes for doing so. Although it isn't as if all traditional views were all that great, in the glee to toss everything out that smacked of traditional, we left a big gaping hole in our beings. We don't even have the language in modernity to speak of this without feeling cynical, or opening ourselves to being attacked for being superstitious.

This is the hole that traditional spirit medicines like Ayahuasca helps now -- despite, as the article says, it wasn't traditionally used that way. It just happens to be something a lot of us need, even if we don't always know we need it.

But since we don't have modern (or post-modern) language or framework to speak about spirituality in a coherent way ... well, let's just say we're all engaged in a grand discussion about that, groping together towards the answer. Ayahuasca is part of that ongoing groping we humans are doing.

Whatever we come up with, it's going to radically include both traditional and modern view, both rational -- and yes, irrational and transrational things about our world.
Yes and no. I'm not getting that money either way, whether my employer decides to spend it on my health insurance or not.

Regardless, the OP was discussing percent excluding the portion the employer covers.

I'm not particularly interested in any particular discussion of why and how the American health insurance industry is a clusterfuck. We all already know that and the points would take all day to enumerate anyway.
just look at it like this: most humans are dog-autistic.
Heh, yeah. Tron 2 was disapointing to day the least.

Stephenson's novels in general are like this, although Cryptonomicon for one certainly has better character development than Snow Crash: they're a disorderly jumble of whatever ideas Stephenson thought were interesting at the time, wrapped in a skin of plot, and enfleshed in the characters that surround, encounter, and explore them. Stephenson sometimes jumps the rails entirely, writing long monologues, dialogues, and digressions that barely refer to the characters or plot at all, just because he thought the ideas were neat (most of Randy and Pontifex's discussions in prison, The mathematics of Alan's bicycle chain, a good stretch of Hiro's discussions with the Librarian (although nowhere near all of them), and Hiro's adventures in Flatland on the raft (you can just feel the seeds of In The Beginning Was The Command Line, struggling to get out)), or for reasons known only to him (probably because he thought it was funny) (the TP memo, the stockings/Van Eck... thing). To some people this may be seen as a disjointed, overhyped, overcomplicated mess, but to the right sort of mind, it's an almost magical experience.

Curiously, these sorts of people tend to be heavily into computing, which is why Stephenson pervades that culture.

Or that's wrong, and I'm just completely mad. That's also a possibility.
Yes, it can be found in semen months after infection.

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They also might expect documentation and thorough testing when things break. This forces an inverse relationship where the engineer has to manage the manager by documenting interactions and then having the manager acknowledge them. Otherwise the manager will push and blame the engineer when things go sour. Its a sad dynamic that is rather common. You sort of get used and good at it with time. It is not exclusive to software, though. Its everywhere because most people can't manage.