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Because without throwaway accounts people can't express views that aren't politically correct? Look through my history, I express such views all the time. I just don't think virtual points are so important that I need to make sure they're always going up.
Notice that according to the very figures cited by the article and released by Google and Facebook, as well as other uncited figures released by Yahoo, Amazon, and LinkedIn, whites are actually underrepresented with respect to the general population of white Americans, not overrepresented, and minorities collectively are therefore actually overrepresented, not underrepresented. This is primarily due to Asians being so overrepresented with respect to the general population of Asian Americans, by as much as a factor of ten.

Yet amazingly, the charges that tech "lacks diversity," is "too white," or even "overwhelmingly white"[1][2][3] haven't let up even as the hard data refuting them has become available, and may even have intensified. In fact, many of these critics, like the author of the linked article, actually attempt to use the very data that refutes their point to somehow support it--an indication, perhaps, of the "post-fact" era leftists so often complain we're now living in.

Little wonder is it then that Trump's white supporters despise journalists so much, considering how deeply so many journalists seem to despise white Americans.

1) http://money.cnn.com/2014/05/29/technology/google-white-male...

2) https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/jun/02/googles-s...

3) https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/answer-sheet/wp/2015/05/...
So you say you are serious and open to improving your process, but you would refuse to look at a product because 10 minutes (or insert nominal time sending an email) is more time than you're willing to spend to obtain a demo/quote. Well, its your choice, but frankly I don't quite see the logic behind it. Personally I think the 10 minutes (and I have spent more on similar products) is time well spent if the potential upside is gaining several days time spent finding and fixing bugs. Even if it finds one bug, you'd probably recover the 10 minutes as far as lost time goes.

Edit: This applies in this specific context, where the market is not exactly deluged with code analyzers.
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If a hosted service is HIPAA compliant, by definition, that means the host is willing to execute a Business Associate Agreement and is directly responsible for various compliance requirements.
Quite a few UX/design people who have actually gone through education/training (as opposed to learning by doing) seem to suffer by an extreme form of process overload.

It makes sense I guess. It's really easy to teach processes and it probably makes the them feel "professional".
I prefer my own style where comma is placed before every column. It makes columns, subqueries and case expressions line up nicely, especially when you have 15 columns or more.
I manage three accounts and in the main one, I've never seen ads. Can't work out why.
> For example in my case I ran into problem when reading all files lazily. This caused my program to have too many open file handles. It was easily solved though, by hacking a bit to force the complete file to be read directly

This kind of thing is exactly what I'm afraid of and makes me not wanting to commit to a purely functional style. IMO FP is simply the wrong tool for handling expensive resources - e.g. I/O or large memory regions. This is why I think an imperative shell handling these resources, around a functional core (potentially around another tiny imperative innermost core for handling caches), is overall a cleaner approach for performant code.
Reminds me of the million dollar Pepsi logo change, which basically tilted the old design a few degrees.

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/pepsis-nonsensical-logo-redesign...
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> What business does a government agency have spending nearly 800 hours (plus inevitable expenses on stationery, biz cards, signage, etc) on a logo?

Presumably because they are trying to be a "startup", they are copying the business style of startups. It's easy to look back afterwards and say "that was a complete waste", but it's possible that at the time it was seen as justified. It's easy to say we'll just take the good aspects of startups and the good aspects of government agencies and reject the bad", but it's not always apparent what is the good and bad in each, as they are both fundamentally systems whose ultimate behavior is emergent from all their aspects. It's very easy to accidentally break something useful by tweaking or removing something that appears completely unrelated in systems like that.

That said, I think the more interesting question is should we be trying to emulate a startup in government, given that the vast majority of startups fail? In that light, it should be absolutely no surprise that 18F is failing. It was the likely outcome.
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Why not just go to ADP?
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Usually this happens because they aren't allowed to hire more employees but they still have the same work to do. A lot of workers don't want the extra shifts because they have a home life but there are outliers who will take every shift they can.
Yeah, I've definitely seen this and tried it myself. Visually for some reason, it just pains me too much. It does make removing lines much easier though so I can understand the appeal.
Obviously it doesn't make sense rationally (you miss 100% of the shots you don't take and all that), but it's emotionally very powerful. It's much easier to emotionally justify giving up (I'm not really interested in switching jobs/getting in to tech/etc.) than it is to face the prospect of being rejected many times.

Humans are not rational agents.
is there any recent study about standing desk?
$32mil is 10 cents a person for a year to fund. It's worth it.
Have you used it on an under powered laptop? It's dog slow and gets exponentially worse the longer you have it open. Don't even thinking about scrolling back through the history.
I don't think that's limited to designers.

That sounds a lot like dealing with B2B consultancy companies too.

IBM eat your heart out.
Laziness (lazy IO, in this case) has nothing to do with a language being functional or not. It has everything to do with a language being strict or lazy. There are strict functional languages. Most are, in fact.
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In many cases this applies to software engineering as well.
Thanks for responding. I'm still having trouble finding the information:

> * https://plasma-mobile.org/technology/

This page doesn't mention the OS, afaict.

> * https://plasma-mobile.org/nexus-5/

This page seems to describe installing Plasma Mobile on top of Cyanogenmod, a fork of Android. Neon is mentioned only under "OLD INSTRUCTIONS AND ERRATA (no longer needed)".
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Here is how I write SQL:

select
t1.col1,
t2.col2,
t3.col3
from table1 t1
join table2 t2 on t1.col2 = t2.col1
join table3 t3 on
t1.col3 = t3.col1 and
t3.col2 = something_else
where
t1.col1 > 0 and
t2.col2 <> t1.col4
order by col2
limit 100

So:

1. SQL capitalization is not sacred. I lowercase everything.

2. I just indent subclauses, with four spaces, like I indent other languages. I don't go out of my way to line up things vertically.

3. Conjunctions like "and" are put at the end of a line, like a comma, not at the beginning. I think it lines things up better vertically.

4. I try to keep lines short, but I also try to keep it from getting needlessly long vertically. So if the statement is short and simple, I might fold some things back onto one line, like:

select col1, col2, col3
from table1
where col1 = something_or_other

or even:

select * from table1 where col1 = something
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From a purely utility-maximizing perspective, it's easy to see what happened. Training people costs time and money, both in non-productivity of the new person, and lost productivity from the people training them. Also, there's a fair to good chance that once you train a new person and they get a couple years of experience, they will jump ship and leave you in the same position as when you started. If you look at it this way, it's better to hire a person who can already do the job than it is to hire someone who might be able to do it with a lot of training. (And yes I know it's a chicken and egg problem of who betrayed whom first with respect to long-term employee retention over the last few decades).

The notable exception to this thinking is in established firms where there is a specific methodology and persona they wish all employees to have. Ex. the major consultancies, law firms, investment banks, etc. For them, it's generally best to pick a completely fresh person (new grad) and mold them into exactly what the company wants without having to "undo" things they may have learned elsewhere.
> I still do not understand why people pay so much attention to these things.

Quite a lot of people who respond as you do actively don't want to understand. But in case you're one of the ones who is actually curious:

Historically, sexism has been a problem. For millennia, women were basically property. The last couple hundred years, we've been unwinding that. E.g. less than 100 years ago, women finally got to vote. They didn't have equal access to credit cards until 1974. In the 1990s, US states finally all made marital rape illegal. In the early aughts, women reached parity in the proportion of people getting medical and legal degrees. (The proportion of actual doctors and lawyers hasn't caught up yet; it's around 33% now, and I'd guess it will hit 50% about 2040.)

One place that sexism still resides is in language. That language at least sometimes shapes thinking. Many women in professional contexts reasonably object to gendered language that excludes them. So to be polite, many workplaces are shifting to use more inclusive language.

So, TL;DR: we're in the middle of overturning millennia of pervasive sexism, a language shift is part of that, and if we're lucky we'll be done with the project in only decades.
What's the difference in the hardware between your phone and the n900 though?

How much extra power do we have to cram into the device just to achieve the same performance?
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'... until we get the answer we're expecting'.

Just expecting an effect is a bias towards outliers.

http://doingbayesiandataanalysis.blogspot.com.au/2013/11/opt...
Not 'skins' per se, but even when themed, most (good) professional apps will still use native or native-behaving controls and similar design language to the host OS.

In comparison, Mac apps will look and feel different from Linux or Windows apps, and QT and GTK+ apps will look and feel different from one another or the other two.

Switching between apps, even with heavily customized UI/UX, is consistent on a given platform, and that's what's important. Taking that away will just frustrate users and complicate things overmuch.
I agree, it's not a feasible strategy for most companies. It's not even that innovative, it's just repeating a test with a high error rate repeatedly. This doesn't reduce error, but it does change the type of errors they make. I think that's pretty interesting. (From speaking with co-workers, it also damages Google's image considerably and reduces the probability that people will spend time and energy applying there; the their applicant pool seems large enough anyway).
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That's typically a hindsight position.
why? why should you be more inclined to think the explanation is found in a pertinent cultural difference between two large groups of people, (asian women, non-asian women) rather than that the explanation is to be found in the culture of one, small group, (tech)? maybe you're right, but i don't understand the inclination.
Such a loaded statement. Taxpayers are never ever ever going to get a good deal on their expropriated funds.

The Treasury and Fed were practically running a hedge fund and the military losses are magnitudes higher

In this case they're a two year old department mimicking silicon Valley and already making money

I wanted to be offended but this is pretty good
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> The value is in the middle, which is done internally.

Wait. Can you back up and explain that? From the way I think about it, design is about producing something in the end. If you can produce the same end product cheaper and or faster, then you are ahead. If I buy two manufactured items bikes that are physically identical, but one company found a way to reduce the work required by 10% to save themselves, money, that doesn't matter to be as the end recipient of that product. If it's identical, it's identical.

Now, if you're a design firm, sure, the knowledge gained from the work might yield benefits down the line. But 18F isn't a design firm. A new logo does not help them make better products for the agencies they serve. In what way are they better off by spending that time than if they were able to literally just slap the same end result together in five minutes?
30 minutes of my time is worth a lot more than the entire cost of a delivery/takeout meal.
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If they booked 0 in revenue but helped other agencies save money by lower procurement cost or generate revenue, is that a problem?
But meanwhile Facebook users have proven to be completely unwilling to curate their own feed, so if Facebook didn't curate which pages you saw stuff from, everyone would leave Facebook because "it's all just ads".
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+1 for tiny home.

My wife and I are looking to build a tiny home in the near future. I imagine it to be a highly stress-relieving activity.
Yep. Revenue really isn't a useful metric for an organization like this. They may save the entire government money even if they are recording losses on their own balance sheet. The opportunity cost of using private contractors vs. doing the work in-house through 18F is what should be emphasized.
Load up Office '97 on a computer today and compare it to Google docs - even 20 years ago Office was more fully featured than their most viable competitor is today (real time collaboration excluded).

Then think about all the good work that was done over the last 20 years, and how that really solid base turned into the best mobile office solution.

Office has an extremely deep moat and their continued O365 efforts are deepening it.
This is actually intended as a cost-saving measure. Government IT is enormously snarled. Quite a lot of money is spent on outdated systems and giant contracts with enormous overruns. Very few people with serious technical chops actually want to work for the government as a lifetime career choice.

The theory of 18F is that you bring in high-grade technical talent for 2-4 year stints. You have them jump in to help unsnarl knotty problems, using approaches that are obvious to we Silicon Valley types but not widely adopted in government IT circles.

I know all this because a couple of years back I interviewed with them. I decided to stay in private industry, as I didn't want to leave SF. But they have a lot of really smart and dedicated people who want to change the way the US government does technology, making it faster, cheaper, and more effective.

So I think the real question is not, "How much was spent?" but "How much did they save?" That's a harder question to answer, but I think it's the only real way to evaluate 18F as an initiative.
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Sure, you can do things like that too in Ada. To some degree that might make sense sometimes, but having the option of an equally safe type that's used in a "normal" fashion, rather than something that has to go through the proper library interface has some advantages as well.
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Oh this looks excellent, I was thinking of trying to make something like this work for running the Bonjour Compatability Suite for automated testing against Avahi.
18F is another money grab. A bunch of SV people said to themselves, here is an easy few years to make money and if nothing comes of it we can say "Ah well start up culture...lol". I never had high hopes of this, it's sad that it was touted as a startup. 99% of start ups fail over the course of 5 years....
NY Times didn't really go much into the political stuff, which they really don't write about.

Do you have any recommendations after those hundreds of hours of Chomsky? I have problems reading/listening. To me, Chomsky's politics seems to not be written as an honest academic -- but just to change people's opinion.

For instance, there are gigantic double standards in how different sides are evaluated by Chomsky. In an interview I found (no link saved, sorry) Chomsky was asked about criticizing Israel thousands of times more than the hateful antisemitic groups around Israel, which routinely use civilians for targets (while Israel follows the laws of war, more or less).

Chomsky answered. The reason (at least then) was that Israel ignored an Egyptian peace initiative in the early 70s, so they deserved what they got... Uh... WTF?! Neither I nor Chomsky have a clue if that was a real initiative or just a trap ("give us X and we will sign a peace paper and follow it.") Even assuming the initiative was real and that it was realized on the Israeli side, but the Israeli politicians at the time were militaristic expansionists (maybe as bad as their neighbours) -- it is just not serious to hence you judge the future governments for decades because of that!

After seeing that, I stopped reading/listening to Chomsky again.

Edit: Two minus votes in 5 minutes for asking about references and explaining why Chomsky's political writing seemed weird? :-)
Do tell. What do you think about paying the salary of FBI agents who interfere in presidential elections?
For the US Federal Government, it's fairly revolutionary.
This looks interesting, but the combination of a high price (~$375, rising to $500 after release) and technical limitations (720p DLP, large deployed footprint, screen material?) make me question whether it's just a novelty looking for a market. In the short term there are other (admittedly smaller) portable LCD monitors for 1/3 the cost plus a variety of projection units and in the longer term I suspect some form of VR headgear will become more of an option for individual use.

Overall this seems like a $400+ campground movie display more than anything else.
Except we've heard this exact excuse -- "women just aren't interested in X, men are" -- before, and it's turned out to be wrong. Plenty of other fields people just said "oh, women don't like that/aren't interested"... until concerted effort to break down biases and barriers, and then suddenly "oh, guess they do like and are interested, we'd just been keeping them out all this time".

So any "in a highly convenient coincidence, human sexual dimorphism just happens to prevent women being interested in/good at my field of endeavor" argument should at this point probably carry a presumption of incorrectness (and of same for anyone advancing said argument, if not presumption of outright bias/discrimination) until overwhelming evidence is provided in support.
This is really the meat and potatos of the electorate. The system depends on knowing what giant swaths of the country are going to vote for. The people that run for office (the parties, not the candidates) have a vested interest in refining a race down to a few targeted areas. In presidential elections that's only a dozen or so counties per swing state.

I can't speak for this specific effort; but most 'get out the vote' campaigns are designed to fill one a single parties rosters. E.g. Rock the Vote concerts put on by MTV with the Democratic Party pre-checked.

If you don't generate new apathetic and uninformed voters who will do what Kim K tells them to do; attrition will turn your once very predictable race into a much more expensive coin toss.
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I'd want to see the ad copy to believe this. The remnant inventory may have cost $2.00/$4.00 CPM but if the ad copy is highly relevant to the readers of the particular site (i.e. listen to our CTO talk about digital marketing) this is quite deceptive to draw industry wide conclusions based on this - some other readers have questioned the sample size which I agree with.
So... a Haskell approach?
And I thought 18F was supposed to be an example of government becoming more efficient.

This has to be a joke.
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Depends: does the first option shrug off failures and keep at it, or become suicidally depressed and die?