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I've found that Meyers Briggs feels accurate to people whose classifications don't fall right on the margin. If two of the letters fall close to the margin, parts of the description will feel a bit inaccurate.

In my opinion, the Meyers Briggs is useful mainly because it can help people become more self-aware and more empathetic toward others.

I've observed that in a group of 15 people who just got their Meyers Briggs results, several usually think it was uncannily accurate, and a few are immediately defensive because the result does not jive with their self-perception (usually because the personality type is described as similar to some unsavory characters from history). When I read articles criticizing Meyers Briggs, I always assume it was written by one of these people.

If you are in a relationship, one interesting game to play with your significant other is to take the Meyers Briggs test and then read some of the stuff that has been written about relationship compatibility through the Meyers Briggs lens. I've found it to be quite accurate for many couples I know. There is also a very amusing book called Please Understand me II which has detailed write-ups about the characteristics of each type. It's great for parties to read out loud everyone's results over a glass of wine.

IMHO Personality tests are useful mainly to encourage self-awareness, introspection and empathy. As a Meyers Briggs ENTP I find the descriptions of an ENTP personality flattering and desirable. I suspect nearly any type would find their own type description equally flattering and desirable.
>If someone tries to explain stuff based on the "human psyche", it's important to understand that people aren't the same.

It's also very important to understand that people are more alike than different.

The "not the same" thing I've found to be mostly based on superficial differences, whereas all the basic imperatives (sex drive, evolutionary instincts, core cultural values, etc are mostly the same wherever).
Bit late with this.
In a small team, if you can't toss a kudos for an employee once in a while it means that you don't know what he's doing, or he needs help to improve his work.
Not really. Even if a loan is collateralized by an asset, that doesn’t mean it is easy to liquidate said asset at full value.

For example, let’s say I buy a Monet painting for X million and a bank is willing to give me a collateralised loan of up to 75% of the asset value. If a bank decides to sell that asset tomorrow (i.e. at a suboptimal time) they might not even get 75% of the value back.

Debt is a lever in business and some people make it big by leveraging big.
> I'm not sure I can see a real use for checking out every repo of an organisation

Maybe I wasn't explicit about it, but I did (and do) have one:

New customer with a github org and I want everything from their org so I can have a spelunk through the code while getting up to speed, build out dependency graphs to get a feel for how things interrelate, etc.

In fact, making it possible to script checking out an org's worth of perl repositories and shoving them into an http://p3rl.org/App::opan instance easily was the thing that was painful enough for me to finally install git-hub.

So, yeah, it may not be a common use case but it's actually an essential feature for me. Whether this means you should prioritise stealing it likely depends on how common it is, which I can't answer :)
But DNSSEC is pretty much a false sense of security. See the copious and lengthy critiques on it from tptacek (here on HN) about it. However, this blog post (also from him) is a good start:

https://sockpuppet.org/blog/2015/01/15/against-dnssec/
And it can be harmful. People use their categorization as an excuse (I know I have). "I'm an INTP, I can't have a normal career, I always lose interest and move on to the next thing!"

Yeah... this is called being undisciplined. Experts and Masters aren't born with the discipline to master their craft. They struggle like anyone else, but they break through those barriers and continue their mastery.

Don't use your personality as an excuse to get around the discipline and practice components of success. Don't let the introvert label be an excuse for you being a standoffish asshole or a hermit.

Go on the subreddits for these ... such as /r/INTP and browse a bit ... they are sad.
I think that, in principle if it could be arranged such that the exploitation of the children is not beneficial for the family then the problem would solve itself.

If children are only burden and not the source of the income (by direct workforce during the young age or by sending money to the family when older) and contraceptives are accepted and accessible then there is no initiative to have too many children. Well, at least it looks to be the case.
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The weirdest job interview I ever went to was for a sales position at a software development company. These guys had me do a Myers-Briggs test online a few days before the interview. After taking a day off and making a long drive to see these guys, the manager introduced himself by saying "We don't want you for this job. With your personality type you can't be a salesman. I let you come here anyway, though, because our web developer is really overwhelmed. Would you be willing to meet him and talk about working for him?"

It was so bizarre it took me a while to decide if they were insane or just incredibly rude. Upon reflection, they were both.
Humans can be somewhat monitored and limited in their killing through licenses.
Yep, personality indicators are a useful way to understand oneself and others in terms of personal interaction.

Sadly, these tests are misused by well-meaning HR departments who are in no position, as amateur psychologists, to make _any_ decisions based personality test results.
That is a completely reasonable approach. Like astrology or tarot cards. Getting people thinking about big questions in a non threatening way can spark interesting conversations. There are a lot of cultural norms that prevent people from talking about themselves in that kind of way. A little hocus pocus can help cut through that.

In that same spirit alcohol is a pretty great social lubricant. A little bit of booze lowers people's inhibitions enough to have fun conversations.
From your last paragraph, I think you've misunderstood my point. The problem with taxes isn't that it gets siphoned off for private gain. The problem is that it intentionally goes to do a bunch of horrible stuff that people disagree with. My tax money helped invade Iraq with all its horrible consequences. My tax money helps kill wedding and funeral attendees in Afghanistan and Pakistan. It pays to imprison people for non-violent drug crimes.

I'll fight to get the government to stop spending my money on these things, but on the basis that they shouldn't be doing it at all. I'd never argue that my own personal tax money should only go to things I agree with, because the whole point of taxes and government is to take collective decisions and collective action. I may not always agree with the results, but the basic concept is important and useful.

Why is it OK to send money to the US treasury when you know some small part of it will buy Hellfire missiles, but not OK to send money to Aetna when you know some small part of it will buy Plan B?
From what I could quickly find [1] there is nothing more expensive than London in Europe. And there is not a lot that is significantly cheaper than Berlin. At least in case of office space rent in major cities.

[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/431672/commercial-proper...
How much data are you going to have, and of what format? Do you actually need NoSQL here?
Thats the only chrome app I use and care about. Though havent been able to set up my linux mint PC as host.
Post-soviet countries are very sensitive to WW2 history. Similar thing on west would be to question, how many people died in Holocaust.

> In January 2014, independent liberal broadcaster Dozhd TV came under attack. It was accused of smearing the memory of WW2 veterans by asking whether residents of wartime Leningrad could have been saved by surrendering the city to Nazi forces.

Zero? Germans were planning genocide to get their Lebensraum

> The public discussion of WW2 history has also been curbed by a controversial 2014 law against the rehabilitation of Nazism.

omg
Shrink the number of tiers in a multitier architecture from 5 to 2
> what should I expect ?

Expect two peers talking shop about the industry. Most likely it will be surface level stuff. Be prepared if conversation goes deep. A lot of guys like the informality of coffee chats hoping to foster a more genial conversation. Expect that he is going to size you up on potential cultural/team fit.

You can craft a great meeting by expressing genuine interest in him as an individual. Read his profile, look for points of connection. Ask: What were the attractors for him to join the company? What are some of the priorities he's facing now? Where are they struggling?
In private enterprise I believe it is perfectly acceptable to champion a social cause.

However when a company goes public it does in fact become"psychotic entity". It eschews its social cause in pursuit of funding, and supplants it with a single minded focus on profits for shareholders.

That is why PR exist as an industry, to convince consumers that the initial social cause is the primary motivation behind the company's actions. This is a lie.
Only this time without that unfortunate collateral damage to indigenous peoples!
Eh, I'm right on the E/I border and pretty strongly test one way in the other categories so I just say i'm barely an I and then NTJ.
On Mac OS, you must initialize Mac-OS-specific members of struct sockddr_in to zero, or it won't bind a local listening socket. You can't fill in just the address family, address and port.

E.g.

http://www.kylheku.com/cgit/txr/commit/?id=8bc6ba624272e9df4...
CLIs generally aren't highly dynamic and offer only limited screen-addressability. It's possible though for, say, a rapidly updating CLI list to get away from you.

The other element, though, is that your selector point in a CLI is very frequently (though not always) keyboard-driven, and tends to stay with the item it's on, rather than drift up or down as elements are added or removed other than by direct user control.
A book by Antony Bevoor seems to be a pretty balanced account of most of the more or less important events - balanced, as evidenced from the outrage by many reviewers, both American and Russian. Highly recommended as a well-written introductory text on the history of the war.
Other than the Chrome icon on the "Get It" button, there's no real indication on the page that this is a Chrome only extension.

I like the design though. Looks pretty slick.

What's the target use case?
It's not a similar situation at all: Linux doesn't break POSIX semantics (well, not here: MADV_DONTNEED has an... "interesting" interpretation of POSIX, so there's at least one violation, but that's not the exact topic of discussion, and seeing as it's not one of the most used syscalls in POSIX, it's less of a problem. Although it's still bad. If you're interested in the sins of the Linux kernel, you can go see Bryan Cantrill's lightning talk on the subject).
That proves what? If you want to argue that people's MBTI fluctuates too wildly to be meaningful, the proper question is whether there's any information gain from knowing a person's previous MBTI results for subsequent tests, not whether it is exactly the same. And the answer to that is yes. If you know I scored INTP on my last test, am I equally likely to score say ESFJ on a subsequent test as opposed to INTP or something closer to it (there are four dimensions after all) than a randomly selected person? Nope.

If I ask you what your weight and height is today, it's indicative of what your weight and height will be a year from now even if the number doesn't fit into exactly the same rounded range. Doesn't mean weight and height are meaningless if the answers change classifications a bit.
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> Perhaps it's just because I'm familiar with setting up and provisioning servers

I'd be inclined to say that may be the case. Our codebase leans heavily on Lambda, primarily as a wide stage in our data pipeline. And I love it.

Using a configuration file in S3 - or any other means of dropping a text file on AWS - is barely more complicated than open("file.txt"). The true frustration is when you need to work with files beyond your memory limits, but even that can be mitigated by divide and conquer approaches.

That said, the API Gateway is annoying in that it makes complex things impossible and simple things more configuration than they need. Yet, I'd still take it over actually standing up a server.
Interesting, thanks!

I get the impression from the wiki article that, so far, these are well-studied but rejected theories re: sources of petro and gas on earth. It's unclear to me, though, whether that's because of essential reasons that would apply to other systems, or just a historical happenstance specific to earth.
At the company I work for, everybody took the test and then we all sat down with a coach to go over the scope of Meyers Briggs and exactly what each part meant. As we were going through this with our team we each had a card in front of us with our type on them.

Explaining the profile parts while seeing your team members profiles was a great exercise for us because it effectively taught us how to communicate better with each other. I'm an ENFJ on a team of highly technical introverts INTJ.

We learned how to work better together, how to communicate better and they also learned how/when to better utilize me for interactions with the rest of the company.

Until we did this exercise it was just some interesting test results.
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Ask HN: What timesheet / staff schedule tools do you use?
We are looking for an easy-to use, extensive, staff schedule and timesheet solution.

We are a software consulting company with about 80 devs, and every single tool I find seems either over-complicated and restrictive, or too simple to handle projects.
Speaking with different size company, I couldn't find anybody happy with their actual solution.

It can be a SaaS solution or an open-source tool. API for import / export are a need (so we can feed invoicing for example).

So, what do you use and what are the pro / cons ?
... or twitter.
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Superfluous words in your comment: anyway, essentially.
https://workplace.fb.com/stories/#europe

really?
The accounts were linked (same devices, same credit card number): https://london.kapeli.com/downloads/Apple_Call.m4a (edit: direct link to the phone call with the Apple representative)

As much as they tend to piss me off for other things. I don't see any wrongdoing from them. It's like accusing them of cutting off the payments to a bakery that operates from the same bank account to that of a drug dealer.

Also that kind of blackmail: "You're sure you want that statement to become public?" is plain stupid.
Interesting to see the results of the polls on HN:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=204240

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7365294
"they present a danger we can't determine"

Why not? Counting the number of deaths per passenger-kilometer seems pretty straightforward.

What if self-driving cars wind up killing fewer pedestrians than manual cars, even if occupant safety is prioritized?
When I did this test, the trainer was pretty clear that it's not meant to be a 'spectrum'. You're either an E or an I and that was that. The only one they claimed might be a spectrum was P to J.
In many developed countries, humans are the apex predator. Hunting is strictly regulated to positively impact wildlife and fund conservation efforts.
If you have an indoor cat it's not. Toxo is only shed by cats for a few weeks after exposure, and the toxo lifecycle can't be completed indoors so your cat will not be reinfected. Unless you have a mouse infestation, in which case I'd be more worried about hantavirus than toxo.

Just keep your cats inside, everyone! It's better for the environment, it's better for birds, it's better for the cat, it's better for you.
Relational is super handy. Very easy to report on and do various things down the road.

If all he needed was session id, sure, NoSQL is more or less the same. But what about when he adds other fields that are related? Say customer address or reports or .... His life may very well be easier with relational.

You should generally start relational. Then branch out if you are hitting the brick walls of relational. People using NoSQL for a 100MB database are making their life SERIOUSLY more difficult than it needs to be. (I have done it before, not fun).
In addition to what joeberon said. After this happened Apple were prepared to welcome him back to the App Store after Apple had learnt of all the facts. Kapei had gone public about this account nuke (which at times is the only way to raise the issue, I remember the times I've had to deal with Googles Support for the play store shudder) and while he didn't know all the details on why his account was nuked the issue has gained some notable press in the dev circles. Because of this Apple had asked for him to release a blog post explaining what had happened, that Apple had correctly detected fake reviews on one account, that account was linked in a couple of ways to him so when Apple nuked the one account they nuked the other along with it and that's is why his account was terminated.

Now in my opinion that is a fair request and if I were in his shoes I would of done just that because I can see how Apple could of tied the two accounts together. Others have said that it's Apple Blackmailing him "Post a blog post if you want your account back" and I can see their logic.

Apple don't want to be seen as they made a mistake because they did detect fake reviews and took account against the account volating their polices. But they also want it known why his account was caught up in this mess.

Were Apple right in nuking both accounts that they deemed were linked together? Should Apple made contact with all parties (it seems the accounts did have at least differnt contact information as he said he got no notice off Apple, Apple say they did contact the dev who's app had the fake reviews) before terminating accounts? Should a public statement explaining the incident be a requirement of reinclusion to the App Store

These are questions I have asked myself and have yet to come to a firm decision on myself.
Legislation would only be used as a vehicle to achieve monopoly control by large tech companies who would have their lobbyists write the law. The Internet would become a true oligopoly with other uses of the wire forbidden.

The only answer is to fix the Internet to make DDOS harder and less effective. Implementing standards to block IP spoofing is a start since it would make source quench actually work.

Another not mutually exclusive answer is decentralization. DDOS works because you can use it to take down all but the largest central servers or those that don't buy protection. But if apps are decentralized, an attacker can only play whack a mole with individual endpoints to far less effect. If decentralized protocols do mobility well victims could just switch connections or their ISPs could react by rotating IPs.
Of course, they can both be immoral. If someone argued against both of them on the basis of morality, I'd probably disagree but I'd respect the argument. I just can't understand why people find it immoral to be forced to pay for contraceptives but not to be forced to pay for missiles and bullets.
1. Make a version with the removable battery (+3-5mm to thickness).

2. Have a an option with battery pack using the 18650 or similar cells (also would have much more capacity), can be interchangeable with normal thinner battery.

Anyway, that idiocy with large ultra-thin lipo powered devices must come to an end (otherwise you have a ready ignition if it is bends).

PS: One cannot exclude insiders from competition contaminating the separator film during the battery manufacture.
1) Version Control! I normally run a single user git workflow and even that is a problem with Jupyter notebooks.

2) Code Execution is all at once or in chunks in R Notebooks. So I can do everything in batches. I do this so I can loop through 13 reports all pointing to one certain group of persons.

3) Works as a script out of the box and you don't have to change the format of your code.

4) Output. In R Notebooks I can output to HTML, PDF, Word/Libre Office or a dozen other formats with one line of code. I can have it in all formats at once. Because it all in one R Markdown file.
I was perhaps being stary-eyed and naive, but I expected that Linux would have a comprehensive test suite which would catch this sort of thing, at least for the most common syscalls.
I think it was actually for the software that was doing that:

if (osName.startsWith("windows 9"))

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8397664
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"[God is] change we can believe in."
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My primary concern with even cursory usage of Myers-Briggs is that retest consistency isn't as high as I'd like. Plenty of people retest very solidly, of course, but there's a large-percentage chunk of the population that walks or more boundaries and doesn't put up consistent tests. That makes it hard to say anything about the results, at least in simple "my type" terms.

A nuanced discussion would probably accept that these are continuous axes, but instead they get treated as clusters, distorting even casual analysis.
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I'm in the same boat. We're developing a new product with no real reason to stay on Python 2, besides Lambda. Python 3 support would make my life so much easier.
What about considering other starting points and comparing the added value of them with MBTI? How differs "So, you are INFJ, let's talk about your personality" from "So, you are Captain America/Hobbit/Sith Lord, according to this online test. Let's talk about your personality"?
The Myers-Briggs was developed in a time where lobotomies were still considered to be a valid psychological treatment.
That makes sense. It came off as a little impersonal for some reason, like he was just going down a list of email contacts, but I can see why you might do that on purpose.
> "They totally freak me out," says Courtney Bledsoe, as she sees a rat dart across the street while picking up her son at a Lincoln Park preschool.

And we're having rats picking up children at school, now.
I believe the "arbitrary zodiac" claim is made toward people that attempt to extrapolate behavior out of mbti types. For example,

"INFJs are strong leaders" is as arbitrary as saying "aquarius's are strong leaders"

The problem i, and many other people find with the mbti is that most of its users, and even scientific apologists, can't help but fall into the trap of categorizing people into perceived behavioral trends based on their types, which is at best, scientifically invalid, and at worse, harmful.
What a silly article. Is the only taxable value of somebody getting to work the money they spent on tolls and fuel? No, of course not, it's made up and beyond through gross product.

Direct taxes (at least here in the UK) are more of an influencing factor to try to push people towards other infrastructure.

Does this mean that non-drivers are paying for roads? Sure, but they're also getting value and indirect revenue from the system too.