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I did very good work. Work people would repeatedly be amazed at.

So, I proved myself, in that regard.

Yet, when I would ask for a quiet, distraction-free workplace, I would receive incredulity. Impossibility. Lack of regard.

The resources were readily available. But the disconnect between what I was doing, and the control of those resources, was apparently too great to bridge.

And sometimes -- not infrequently -- the direct reports I was so helping out, were not willing to go to bat on this.

Rock the boat -- me, or them on behalf of me -- and you're out.

For me, human noise is the worst. I can tune out a storm, or a significant degree of mechanical noise if it is regular, not too extreme, and not indicative of risk. But nature or nurture has left me highly sensitive to the human activity around me.

Headphones don't help; music is as distracting as the rest.

All I asked for, was that my circumstances be acknowledged and respected and that a reasonable amount of readily available resources be devoted to matching them.

You either trust and believe your employees, or you don't. My output was already exceptional; further, my employer could have measured whether that continued or improved after choosing to "believe me".

Unfortunately, my environmental needs were discounted and I was coerced and semi-brainwashed to try to make "open", "collaborative" spaces work, from the time I was a kid. To my great distress.

For a time, youth and cortisol and all that carried me through. But I eventually built into and hit a severe level of burn-out, including physical.

These days, I'm not even that sharp, any more. You can, indeed, really get "used up".

So... I don't care HOW MANY words, slogans, nor how much rhetoric is thrown at this topic.

You either respect the people you work with. Believe them. Give them what they ask for, and see whether it works.

Or you don't.

Most of the people talking, don't.

Look for actions, not words.

P.S. Likewise for people who say they like different environments. If open-space works for you, fine. Or whatever else.

I'll respect that. As long as your performance matches.

Just, respect me. Don't force your noise on me.

You like what I create and contribute? Then give me the tools I ask for, to better do so.
Prolog is very useful for decision and optimization problems. There are a ton of those available in the world. For example a lot of scheduling problems are relatively tractable with logic programming and a total bear in imperative/oo
Good Eats (forget the season) had some good baked ones, and this is my go-to base for protein bars: http://www.bodybuilding.com/fun/diy-protein-bars-healthy-bar...

The secret is just... freeze them. I find the best results come by sandwiching each layer of them between wax paper, and then wrapping the whole thing up and storing in the freezer, separated out by 1 weeks. Just take your 1 week batch out at a time, pop in the fridge, and you're set.

EDIT: I just want to add, it's a real GIGO thing; the better and tastier your base ingredients, the better the result... especially with nuts and chocolate.
Its rare for family firms to last for 5 generations on one of the rare exception that I know in the UK is Charles wells (the brewer) when one of the board is a family member.
Google & Print or buy "The C Programming Language"
Let him study every letter. It simply is the best "start from zero" programming guidebook.

Then buy him a RasPi (+with instal guide).
This is an incredibly interesting story. I haven't been through nearly anything as bad as you, but my insight onto the issues of my family were similar - poverty and lack of knowledge and hard psychological issues. Because our society doesn't consider (yet) psychological issues to be "real" in the sense that any other illness is, we get this dumb talk about how "you can get out of it if you want". Yes that might be true, and you are the proof of it. But there is a huge denial going on in our society about how psychology actually works and how bad it can really get before you get marked as a "clinical" case. Society is bleeding people to cure them, to make the analogy with an old medical practice that we now know is insane.
Why is that page covered in seemingly unrelated anti-Trump propaganda? What does alleged white supremacy have to do with the narcotics trade?
You took the class 43-44 years ago? Is that a typo? If not, mind sharing more about your experience?
> some people celebrate it and compare it to biology or evolution.

Creating life is scientifically exhilarating, but incredibly dangerous.
This helped explain a lot about how and why Prolog works. The coolest thing? That's only a tiny percent of the language, but it's already enough to start solving problems.

For those of you looking for prolog out in the real world, a surprising number of languages contain embedded interpreters for it. Mostly Lisps.

Perhaps most famously, picolisp uses a tiny, lisp-syntax prolog called pilog as a query languages for its built in database. Yes, it has a built in database. Picolisp is weird.
I too always find it really curious that people find breakfast so time-consuming. My breakfasts are three scrambled eggs and a tablespoon of light cream; I grab whatever I've got handy--sliced mushrooms, cubed ham, whatever--toss it in a skillet, once it's browned and happy I pour in the eggs and it's only a couple minutes from there on high heat. Couple dashes of hot sauce when I dish it onto a plate, and I'm done. It takes ten minutes, cleanup is "toss the plate in the dishwasher and run a paper towel inside the skillet", and I'm not hungry until well after lunch. If I'm going to be really time-crunched I'll hard-boil a few couple eggs the night before in a steamer--fifteen minutes and out. (If I screwed up--well, I'm going to be hungry until I can scrounge up something reasonably healthful, and I will do better next time. Discipline is weird, huh?)

Many people don't really agree that fruit is healthy, though, given how much sugar is in it; I personally avoid it, because I feel like hell when I have it.
Yes, you block by IP and piss off customers or the whole /64 if necessary. IPs will almost always be sticky to the advertised prefix.

A TCP SYN, or any UDP initial request indistinguishable from legit traffic of the same protocol at L3/L4, and both can be spoofed so I don't know where you got the idea that they cant be spoofed and are L7 only.

If you're "stopping the attack" through dispersion, you're not actually stopping it, you're just paying the price of absorbing it. I know this is common practice, but it's pathetic than an arms race is the state of the art in defense. It concentrates power into orgs like cloudflare, akamai, and Google (project shield) because the only way to participate is to use them.
Native American Father: Great grandparents hung by the KKK in South Georgia in the center of my hometown. No Formal education.

White Mother: Great Grandparents rich oil $$$ in Texas. Wife no formal education, alcoholic. Father business degree white men making oil money in Texas. Had ONE child. The ONE child was a girl (My grandmother). Rich Girls in Texas are not allowed to learn how to handle money. She went to finishing school. She inherited the money, and did as she was told and taught, gave her money to the man to let men handle the money.

Married a Southern babtist preacher and he squandered it all in 5 years dont know how. BY the time my mom was born they lived on a farm in South Georgia and he was preaching at his church.

My mom was a preachers daughter who fell in love with the Poor Native American kid in South Georgia, from the Natives who refused to go on the trail of tears.

It was the beginning of a BEAUTIFUL LOVE STORY! lol. and the rest is history as they say.

and yeh, my mom is extremely religious as is all my family. I am not. So add that onto the list of socially isolating struggles and criticism I had to deal with. I was taught women are not supposed to talk about science or politics, and that science is a scheme to eliminate god from the equation. Ummm yup, it is! It's a pretty good one too, trying to replace God with understanding and answers.

So In Summary
Background
FEMALE
NATIVE AMERICAN
CHRISTIAN
WELFARE POOR

goes to be an Electrical Engineer working in a male dominated environment, compounding every minority status to the extreme. Dude, its been an interesting ride but I can tell you one thing, I don't give a F^%& about what other people think now because I'm used to being an outlier, so I HAD to overcome that to do well and have good self esteem and tell myself I can keep learning and do well.

Some people would complain and say its been hard. It has been hard and socially isolating but actually if you choose and force yourself to look at your uniqueness as an advantage I think about things differently and it usually gives me an edge in applying ideas I have or understanding how to communicate and implement them. People get scared or attack things they don't understand. I'm not as understandable or relatable to other people but the more you hang out with intelligent people the less they do that so its just motivation to be around better people and do better things and work on more challenging things.

Also, people will try to tear you down at first, but if you hold your ground and respect yourself and respect other people regardless of how they respect themselves and how they respect you, eventually they will respect you, but theres not alot of instant gratification here, so I can only say this in retrospect.
If you mean reading existing published research, I think they probably are doing that.

But they're certainly not funding a lab that is doing new nutritional science research, because that would cost tens of millions of dollars a year.

I think the risk is that they'll be missing ingredients that are rather important to the human body that we don't know about yet.

Even the idea a 'vitamin' didn't exist until about ~100 years ago.
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Parsing with Derivatives – Functional Pearl
I wish society would just become more inclusive.
The whole point of medical insurance is to hedge against the risk of medical expenses.

If you're a relatively healthy person, of course insurance is expensive. If you're someone who needs monthly prescriptions, multiple operations, or frequent emergency room trips, it would be absurdly expensive for you not to have insurance.
It's worth looking at the full ingredients list rather than just a select few. See here: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a2/Ba...
Paper is here: http://matt.might.net/papers/might2011derivatives.pdf
I've learnt to deal with this by going along with it and getting up for a hot drink every time. If it's going to cost me time getting back into flow I might as well make it a visible 10m.
Turns out I'm happier, they're happier and I since get fewer interruptions.
It's been awhile since I was reading into this stuff, but I believe the idea is that these familial success correlations last a long time (Maybe multiple centuries? Certainly at least one) where as money and other forms of success (which are the things we are actually measuring) have significant noise on much shorter timescales. Those fluctuations would kill the long-term correlations if money were doing the heavy lifting.

In other words, if this were being transmitted through money, you'd just condition on the parents (or grandparents) amount of money and expect to find that the success of children to then be independent (unless, e.g., children were all digging up gold secretly left to them by their long-dead great-great-grandparents). But instead, I think the idea is that even after you condition on success of parents and grand parents, the success of great-great-grandparents still has strong predictive ability.

Indeed, if you thought money was playing a significant role, you'd expect that exogenous injections of money would lead to long lasting effects, but in fact they decay very quickly.

http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/05/26/compound-interest-is-th...

That still allows for the possibility that money is buying something that one's ancestors can robustly transmit across many generations (often bundled up under the term "culture"), but then you could test that hypothesis with twin studies and adoption studies.

Anyways, that's a cartoon version, and undoubtedly simplified and biased by the small number of people I was reading. Would love to get counter data.
We all should have your ability to cheerfully and respectfully reply to disdainful sneers. Thank you.
Over much time, I have learned that my personal feelings about productivity and my actual contribution are wildly different. This is because my sentiment toward work I want to do and my actual work can be different. This really is tangential to the original subject matter, but what I often see is that people feel less productive when the fix a bug than when they ship a feature; they feel less productive when they resolve some service outage rather than when they fix a bug; and they feel less productive when they hold a design review for some operations process improvement than when they resolve some service outage. As this hierarchy descends, I find that "having a discussion with a colleague" is often at the bottom. But in reality, all of these types of work are equally valuable and important. Their literal value may be different, but for an organization to operate, they are all about the same. Sometimes there is no "literal" value -- teaching an intern about git seems like a waste of time, like you're not being productive, but when they eventually get hired and ship a really valuable feature, your work enabled that.

With all of this in mind (and by the way, if your direct manager disagrees with the above statements, I recommend finding a new employer), I consider my productivity to be mostly the same on a day to day basis, with some ebb and flow. This despite interruptions or what my work environment is. I feel this way because of my perception that all types of work are equal, I just spend most of my time doing software engineering work specifically.

Consider the metric for your productivity in terms of value, not sprint points or lines of code or even "number of features shipped." What "value" means to you, your boss, and your organization varies.
> "Clever highschoolers" are writing their own bare-metal OSes these days.

Perhaps you are even right since advanced Arduino programming (which many "Clever highschoolers" should be able to do) is in some sense like writing a really simple RTOS. :-)
> This is why I like ZT games more than other excercises in masochism like BrainFuck. They're ultimately more about using a simple, well-understood set of tools to solve difficult problems than they are about using a deliberately obstructive set of tools.

I tend to feel the opposite way -- the games are written to be deliberately obstructive; that's why we call them "games". It gets frustrating pretty quickly.

Spacechem is a series of exercises in writing Befunge. I don't see how that could be characterized any other way than as "obstructive for the sake of obstructive".
To be clear, I wouldn't suggest that Soylent is some kind of toxic waste (though I think it tastes like shit, personally). It's certainly better than an orange. But I would suggest that there is a human good in being willing and able to do things for yourself that is worth reflecting on and exploring. Like, there's an Aristotelian "are we really attempting to achieve the good?" question that I would put to people who neglect--and this word is chosen very carefully--themselves in lieu of other pursuits.

I don't claim to have any answers on this, mind! And I'm certainly not perfect about any of this (said my waistline, peevishly), but actually thinking about this stuff has made me spend more time taking care of myself. And I actively wonder if attempted solve-everythings like Soylent are not a step backwards for us as people, instead of mere consumers. The stuff you don't want to do with regard to going to the store and so on is so very, very trivial, and yet actually engages you with the ephemera of your world in a way that I would suggest meditating on before discarding.
You nailed it. I'm surprised you didn't get downvoted to the gazoo. You absolutely were able to express the way I feel.

I don't consider myself a troll, nor do I hate Sam Altman. My goal is not to come here and slander. But I agree with you.
Sam's accomplishments and track record have been very much exagerated. And he has played a roll in that exageration.

For me Sam's biggest qualities are: 1) being able to navigate sillicon valley skillfully 2) having a fantastic network 3) Portraying a self image that is super founder friendly (which he actually probably his, for at least the companies that are doing well).

That said he is not:
1) A successful founder.
2) A serial entrepreneur
3) A tech genius
4) A visionary
But why do you worry about soylent not having everything you need to live, but not your morning cereal?

Why does one meal made by a tech company need to have literally everything you need to live when the alternatives don't?

I'm not saying soylent is all you need to live, and I'm pretty sure they aren't either, just that it's a healthy meal replacement.
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Hm, this might be something to submit to https://unpatent.co/
The CIA has had 60 years of "illegal" coups and overthrows of democratically-elected governments. Many would find nearly everything that the CIA has done to be extremely unethical, un-humanitarian.

That said, I agree that the CIA has done a great job. Unethical? Sure. Effective? Absolutely. There have a been a few major f*ck-ups, but for the most part the CIA has an extremely good track record of shaping the world to the liking of the US (or at least to the liking of top strategists and leaders of the US).
YMMV, but usually fruit sugar is ok because you're eating a bunch of fiber at the same, so the impact on blood sugar is smoothed out. Eating fruit after your meal also helps.
Same thing on Chrome 52/Linux. Just a small black square.
Tax policy to combat global warming: on designing a carbon tax (1991)
Isn't it super rare for firms of all kinds to last for 5 generations?
human rights are far more important than their consent. Those mails include bribing, faulty punishment of opponents based on their order, nepotism for official jobs and much more.
Yes, but that's revenue, not profit. Apparently their margin on EpiPens is 40%, which means it was $520M. So the fine represents around 90% of that.
Yeh, I think people underestimate the power of influence and people do not correlate it or study cause and effect enough in studies.

The influence your community has on your personal decisions and how that impacts your personal wealth is significant.

Weve already witnessed highschool suicides tend to happen in clusters. Weve witnessed it as a nation at Gunn Highschool in SanFran and other areas. If one kid does it, the two others who were seriously considering it are more likely to follow through.

This is also a root cause of the housing foreclosure crisis. Wired Magazine did a piece. One of the missing pieces of analysis was the correlation noticed when one person on your street forecloses on a house, how much the likelihood goes up that other people on your street will too. They retroactively did that analysis and found a huge correlation.

We should do this type of correlation in alot more studies, particularly ones dedicated to trying to understand socioeconomic mobility.

I say correlation because correlation is not causation. The causation we can't know right away but it might be helpful to first look at some significant correlations and then try to understand if there is a cause and effect relationship. Or at the very least come up with some likliehood statistics.
Do you suggest to discriminate applicants based on their public activity? Do you suggest it's somehow more fair than a general question?

Actually, yes. But that's just a matter of personal taste.

Again if you think basic CS knowledge has nothing to do with your job that's on you.

Hmm -- you keep coming back to this supposition, for some reason. And again, that's not at all what I was saying.

Should add that I'm not really comfortable being grilled in any way on the interviews, it's not a very good dynamic.

At least we're on the same basic page, then. The main difference I guess is that (1) I see the issue of maintaining "dynamic" -- the overall tone of bilateral respect, in the interview process -- as not just important, but very important, arguably crucial in fact; (2) dynamic aside, the "quiz-show" approach is rife with methodological weaknesses (for example, it highly favors those who cram on the material - or were simply lucky, and happened to have heard your questions before in there interview process); and (3) I find it quite easy to assess ballpark competence in tech folks (and to find red flags for incompetence) just from unprompted, regular discussion.

But again, that's me, not you. You can apply whatever filters you like. Like Steve Jobs said (in a different, but related context) ultimately either they'll work or they won't -- and everything will sort itself out.
That's not even enough. The token generation can be used as an amplification vector.

That's why this approach of attacking UDP instead of spoofing is misguided.
I've had a similar problem with one of more recent HackerRank challenges. Part of the input were value pairs, the example contained only two pairs and the ordering of the pairs was not clearly specified, ie it could have been:

x1 x2 x3

y1 y2 y3

or:

x1 y1

x2 y2

x3 y3

The worst part way that their example still produced the same result if you read the values in the wrong order! I spent 40 minutes debugging my solution not understanding why my test cases work perfectly but HR does not accept the solution.