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What SOP / WI software is available?
I'm looking for software or app that makes creating work instructions or procedures easy. I've looked around and the types of programs that keep popping up are task managers like Trello. I've seen Simple Process but even that isn't what I'm looking for. I'd like to find a program that is designed more like "If this...Then that"or something similar. I'd also like it to be interactive and responsive. Currently our company is using Oracle information center to store Microsoft word documents with our instructions. I've googled this to death but I can never find the right words I guess. If there isn't something out there, I'd love to work with someone to build it. I know I'm being terribly vague and inarticulate. I just feel like I'm onto something here and it would be really helpful if I didn't have to reinvent the wheel on this one.
Related popehat article about the arrests. He's been following the whole case for years. https://popehat.com/2016/12/16/the-prenda-saga-goes-criminal...
Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future.

Yes everyone is an Elon fan already, but the book offers a great inside look into how he thinks and how he faced down some incredible challenges. The book really inspired me to think bigger and to optimize for impact.
>I read everything in my Graduate classes and that was 2,000 to 13,000 pages a class a semester. If you aren't careful with your reading

That is the exact opposite of careful reading, that is skimming. But of course your super-brain can process and fully understand 13,000 pages per class per semester without skimming. How ridiculous.

>I am 100% aware that that statement is untrue.

No, you're just trolling, and I'm starting to doubt that you even have studied philosophy.

>My parents : "Just cause everyone else is doing it doesn't mean its right"

...and also not that it's false...

>Also my empirical evidence is different then yours.

<sarcasm>Well, I'm so sorry that I haven't used your empirical evidence in my original post then.</sarcasm>

But what's even more troubling about your post is that you confuse empirical evidence with personal experience, which are the words that I have used. That's exactly the kind of sloppiness that is rightly giving philosophy such a bad rap.

>You use empirical evidence so I kind of am done with this discussion.

I would leave that standing as is, except I need to point out that empirical evidence != personal experience. So much for your reading comprehension.

>You have acted dismissive to the article and of my words.

Yes, that article is crap, full of deviations, jumps in thinking, loose association, and vague and fuzzy vocabulary. It's a light essay, not what I would count as serious philosophy.

If you cannot live with the fact that others disagree with you about your articles, then philosophy is really not the right place for you to be, because, as you should have noticed by now, people disagree a lot in philosophy.

>Every student with a BA or a BS with some rare exceptions must all complete a Philosophy/Ethics class. I guess I should have told them to all drop out instead of having to learn Philosophy in this class for the next 13 weeks?

Frankly speaking, I have gotten doubts whether they learn philosophy in those classes at all, as opposed to history of philosophy, fast reading, and essay writing.

>Your presenting yourself cynic and not a skeptic.

Oh dear, how cliche is that. I'm neither a skeptic nor a cynic. I have clearly stated that 10% of the publications in philosophy are extremely interesting and worth reading. Similar things can be said about every discipline, the vast majority of what is published is sub par, only the ratio of trash:good differs from discipline to discipline. If you cannot even agree with that, then I can only shake my head in disbelieve and move on.

Anyway, you should perhaps take it a bit easier and try sounding like a normal person rather than some highly pretentious 'eminent scholar'. I didn't like your article and I still don't like it, okay? You disagree with my assessment of the article and the state of philosophy. Fine. Noted. Bye!
I think it's valuable to work for at least one big company early in your career. You'll get exposed to a wide range of tech and ideas that you wouldn't necessarily get in a small team, and it's also good for expanding your professional network quickly.
It does. It's the "Energy" tab. It doesn't give you amperage or anything, but it tells you the "Energy Impact", which is a relative measurement of the current energy usage, and "Avg Energy Impact" which is the average for the app. Similarly, if you click on the battery menu, it will call out any processes that are using "significant" energy.
> since the 2008 Recession, workers age 55 and older have been the ones gaining employment

I suspect that's less a trend against age discrimination against them and more a trend that they are progressively less able to retire acceptably.
From a reverse perspective, I am new to professional development but have been a long-time programmer. At the age of 45 I decided to pursue my life-long dream of being a programmer and went back to school. There was another "oldster" in my Intro to Java class. He really struggled at first because he had spent the last few decades using technology but not really understanding it. Me, on the other hand, I utterly destroyed everyone in the class. My final project was a "Dwarf Fortress" style game that utilized more advanced programming techniques, algorithms, data structures, AI etc. that was far outside the scope of the class. Not only was the class blown away but the teacher appeared threatened. I had never had programmed in Java before though I have programmed as a hobby throughout my life. But the major difference between me and the other oldster as well as me and my much younger classmates is that I have devoted my life to learn. I've never settled. I've never grown complacent. If I forget something I relearn it. If I don't know something I know where to find an answer. I believe that this is the problem with many oldsters...they get comfortable, set in their ways, entitled.

I quit school that semester as it was clear that I would be far more effective learning on my own. What was true in my Java class turned out to be true in my Linux class, my networking class and my generals. I was WAY ahead of the curve. I now work in the industry as a full-stack Javascript developer and continue to learn each day.
This whole thread is about EEE, which is a concept coined in 1995 and my reply was addressing

>what are the odds that the company's executive-level culture has changed?

So, quite relevant.
That's fairly restrictive in terms of getting the client app approved by Apple but I guess their watch is the only available off-the-shelf solution that doesn't ship user data exclusively to a proprietary cloud. I'll take a look at this once they address sleep tracking, sounds like they're working on it. And hopefully the battery life won't be abysmal in the future. Thanks.
I still remember reading the article about one of google's (?) early recruitment campaigns, circa 2001: an ad in the train station that said www.e^(5,000,000 digits ).com, so you would only know the URL if you were nerdy enough to know how to calculate the non-repeating non-terminating decimal. The webpage then solicited them for hiring. I still think that was a cool idea.

Edit: it wasn't e^ of anything, it was like the [5million, 5millionth + 10]-digit-of-e.com
> One last point about the linked list structure at the heart of Lisp. Linked lists are poorly executed in modern computers that rely heavily on locality of data, to optimize the L1 cache.

You could maybe say that linked lists are at the heart of the platonic ideal of Lisp. Naive interpreters might use linked lists in their internal representation. But real implementations of e.g. Common Lisp or Scheme provide a wide array of data structures (multi-dimensional arrays, hash tables, linked lists).
Sorry, you run 154+ sites?
Would a research paper constitute enough proof? Or some "results"? Comparison of their technology to some other state of the art stuff? In other words, what is the proof that VCs (and other AI newbies) should believe?

EDIT: note that VCs just contacted them. That is far from signing a deal.
Would be really interesting to combine this with failure rate data. What fraction of companies not raising another round is due to failure vs. No longer requiring additional venture funds. The long term goal of a business is not to raise more rounds...
The people who have the most purchasing power and speak English, are they bilingual or do they only speak English?

If not, could language be used as a tool for market segmentation? Give price-sensitive people lower prices to increase the size of the market without hurting the profits extracted from the wealthier people.
They do if always matched 1:1, it doesn't usually happen, specially in big codebases, thus leading to CVEs.
Google doesn't need to be magically different from all other companies to make it a desirable place to work.

They just need to pay more than everyone else. Which they (along with a select few other giants) do.

Attracting droves of applicants really isn't hard. Just pay above market and advertise that.
I recently bought a Lenovo sporting Windows 10 and decided to give it a fair try. I've been using Windows exclusively on my personal laptop for about 2 months and so far it's a good experience. This is after 16 years of running linux (or briefly a mac) on the desktop.

The window manager is tolerable (not as good as Xmonad, but equivalent to Unity). Windows subsystem for linux is letting me get my work done with no problems. Anaconda lets me do scientific python work natively from within windows. Emacs seems to work just fine. Cortana is actually pretty cool.

Overall, I haven't felt the need to race back to Linux. I'm surprised to say this, but Windows might be an acceptable linux.

(A while back I wrote about my failed attempt to use OS X: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1787411 )
Median employee tenure is almost entirely dominated by things other than employees leaving. A company that is not hiring will not have any new employees and as a result have a really high median tenure.

The question you really want to ask is: what's the percentage of people leaving each year?
Good summary, but disappointing reactions from other distros.

Just to add some info:
In the past few days a couple of people gathered in Berlin to discuss reproducible builds. There were some people from the distributions quoted that they don't show much interest, so maybe there will be more movement than this article suggests.

My personal take is that I think there are a few more pieces that are needed for really trustworthy software distribution.

I tried to get a grip on that with the idea that we have a chain "upstream repo" - "usptream tarball" - "potentially insecure transport" - "distribution compile" - "package" - "user download".

Reproducible builds basically fix the tarball to package way, but there's a lot more. E.g. how does a repo become a tarball? Who's checking that? And how does user a know he has the same software as user b? (This is mentioned at the end of the article with the comments of Joanna Rutkowska. Others have discussed basically the same ideas under the term "binary transparency".)
I was interviewed by FBI agents in a small town, and they did not appear sophisticated at all.

First, they went to my mother's old employer that she had left 8 years prior. The message got passed to me and I called them.

They mispronounced words, tried to intimidate me and at one point said, "We aren't the Federal Bureau of Information" when I pointed out holes in their questions.

I'm sure if I was a high priority this would had been different.
Yeah, floats are in flux right now in Servo. I'm not sure if pcwalton's new stuff is completely finished. I'd suspect the edit issue is also a float bug or just a CSS property not being implemented.
I am pretty sure if I don't pay dues the union will tell me to go take a hike if I come to them with a problem. Or at least they will require me to join.

And I will probably still be subject to retarded contract where advancement is by seniority, no benefit for doing a great job and it is basically impossible to fire people.
Democratic donors call for Clinton campaign post-mortem
Not all users are equal though. Do you mean 100 free/trial users?

In general it's going to be much harder to convince 100 users to sign up to a $100 service compared to a $5 service.

It's also going to be much harder to get 100 users to sign up for a terrible product. Are you saying I could create a crappy MVP then pay $2,000 knowing that you'd probably only achieve 10 users max and then get my money back?

It sounds like you need a more complex metric than just number of users.
It is. From that second link: "Such copying back and forth to disk was equivalent to a slow, manually triggered copying garbage collector."
Rayman Fiesta Run (Google Play Store) got obnoxiously annoying to the point they included forced video ads of Rayman Adventures.

Rayman Fiesta Run (Amazon App Store) has some UI issues (like buttons reacting at press rather than at release potentially purchasing pay2win stuff unintendedly), but at least it doesn't have the forced ads.

When I purchased the game at launch date, it didn't have the pay2win stuff, and it was really enjoyable, but eventually the updates degraded the game experience.

If I ever purchase a mobile game again I'll certainly backup and cherry pick the update which gets the best balance between less bugs and less mis-improvements.
I wonder if there is any data showing whether on average starting a startup and running it for a year or so is a more reliable path to employment (through aqui-hiring) at these big companies than firing resumes into their black hole job sites or milking your contacts. I mean, sure, it's a "long game" strategy.
I'd argue that the ability to make a "valid self assessment" is missing from every person on the planet. We can only use the tools available to us, i.e. track our workflow against our peers, our performance in academia, etc.

I agree that we shouldn't encourage people to not seek help, that's no good. But people with the disease sharing how they can leverage it to their advantage can help.
> What makes Google better than, say, Dropbox? Github? Facebook? Etc?

Nothing, but they all pay well and are extremely rigorous in interviews.
Spotify Lightsaber progress bar
Go play the new Rogue One soundtrack for a cool surprise in the bottom of your player.
>It's called the benefit of the doubt.

Shouldn't that benefit extend to the other sides of the stories?

What happened to the "Auditur et altera pars" (hearing the other side) before assuming anything and awarding the benefit to just the one you've heard?
McCarthy's writing style is highly entertaining. Although I still have no idea what "Pornographic Programming" is...
I've always understood that saying to mean "someone who learned everything they know in the first year, and coasted for the remaining nine," or something to that effect. Someone who never progresses.
I think this saying is generally applied more to people who stayed in the same industry (or even the same company) for ten years, yet still has the equivalent of one year's worth of experience (basically they just stopped learning after a while). Hiring someone like this doesn't get you anything that hiring someone with nine years less "experience" gets you, but that other person is more likely to keep learning things, and get more valuable over time.
This. If he is ever charged he will point back at this article as "proof" of accidentally complicity.
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Why would they want to break the loop?

If one language to unite us all is a good thing, then either kids from rural backgrounds have to be taught English, or everyone has to learn the native language of that kid. This will be impossible for a kid from a different rural background. Worse than English, even, since most other languages don't have the same amount of cheap available learning materials.
Huh? This is a list of sites that use Material Design Light, which is not React-MD. Also, I don't Google even uses React.
You including their 2003 stock split in your calculations?

edit: because, if not, it's more like a 9.85% return on the stock
70% of Enterprise Ransomware Victims Paid
It is possibly the wrong framing. It might be better to do something like this with the framing on "a veteran of the industry" or "someone with experience." Being old per se does not necessarily make you one with more relevant work experience.

Just my 2 cents.

Best of luck.
> There are a huge number of reasons why you should not be expected to do this.

When you get attacked in the street, talking is the first thing you should do. When you are harassed by a teacher in class as well. You always need to talk to the person attacking you unless it's too dangerous to do so. It may fail, but if you don't do it, you basically give up your ability to act.

> This didn't need to be said

This does need to be said. There is a high focus on making everything about gender these days, and it's very detrimental. It makes people focusing on specifics, instead of global issues. Worst, it usually focus on fighting against something instead of empowering the victims, which needs to be done for long term results.

> each complaint of any nature should be treated confidentially so reports of abuses like this can be made without fear of repercussion.

That's actually very hard to do, but it's true it would be the ideal call.
My in-laws are Vietnamese-Chinese so I'm painfully aware of how upsetting a perceived loss of face can be.

I would say, though, that there's a big difference between Hawai'i and the Phillipines. The latter is a treaty partner of the US but that's still something less than being territory. (Of course many Hawai'ian people would rather go back to being a sovereign nation but I don't want to veer far off topic.)
> Further, though the article seems carefully written enough to avoid the misconception, the basebands on modern phones don't get direct access to AP memory, but are instead connected over a high-speed serial connection with a limited command set.

That's good to know; for some reason I had an idea that it was all done via DMA.

Any idea about how exploitable that command set is?
>I don't believe you can prove anything. I mean to say that's my perspective on the universe: that it is physically impossible to prove anything.

Tons of things can be reasonably proven. A videotape of an incident can pretty much settle a dispute as to what happened for example, except if very special arrangements are involved (the camera angle hides the actual act, etc).
It's questionable whether you'll make more money as a developer in finance than at Google. It'll certainly require a lot more politics and careful planning.
I'm not sure I understand the plan:

1) If he's not hired, how is he going to sell his service? People will say "He couldn't even get himself hired!"

2) If he is hired and does a side job of teaching others for Google Interview, that's a gigantic conflict of interest (and probably a breach of NDA). He will be fired.

Is he planning to get hired, quit on the spot, and then start his tutoring service? (Well, stranger things have happened...)
That wisdom makes you of negative business value to your manager, since he still believes 60-hour gauntlets are an intrinsic part of being on time and under budget.

Hence, you won't get hired.
What language did you use it with (if you built a web app rather than a static site)?
What is a PE?
You've been had. The phrase "neural net" has helped many people get tenure, but it's not a model for the human brain.
FYI, I was able to add the Pebble 2 to my cart and get to the order confirmation page (I didn't click confirm though; still deciding if I want to buy it).

I added it to my cart from this page: https://www.amazon.com/Pebble-Heart-Smart-Watch-Black/dp/B01... (the white one)
How is that different from a value of type "empty tuple"?
Speaking as one of roughly fifty founders thereof, and also the founder of a (now acquired) startup in the space, it really isn't. The point the OP made about needing an Ops team is magnified by the introduction of OpenStack, and the existence of Rackspace as a (not-quite) provider of OpenStack won't help because their public cloud is going away and there isn't really a replacement as the field consolidated and the consolidated players have shed their OpenStack investments (or are laying off and trying to get away from it).

If your goal is to avoid the lock-in to a particular IaaS vendor while avoiding ops overhead, your better bet is to go up-stack and lock yourself into either Cloud Foundry or OpenShift. At least then you'll be able to migrate from IaaS to IaaS semi-transparently, but you are locking into a platform.
HR are paid employees of the company. They care for the company's interest's first, any other employee's second.
Cures for everything are possible. We are just atoms. Nothing prevents rearranging those atoms into any configuration we desire, in principle.
There is nothing wrong with shorthand notations which don't disturb the surrounding Lisp syntax (don't introduce strange ambiguities and precedence issues into it and so on: and there is room to even do that a little bit).

Lisp has those short-hand notations. There is nothing worse about 'X over (quote X).

The only thing wrong with [1 2 3] -> (vector 1 2 3) is that it's somewhat of an unimaginative waste of these [ ] characters.
Sure, but that doesn't mean you never change your oil.
>No, the percentage tells me nothing about how long I can expect to keep doing what I'm doing.

At least it misleads you LESS than the time estimate.
Ah, caveats within: https://golang.org/doc/gdb
> You are only as old as you believe you are.

Well, I'm 42 and I believe I'm 20... until I spend any time hanging around 20 year olds.
Tay was only online for a grand total of about 16 hours. I'm sure she was a very sweet, innocent chatbot for the first five minutes, though.

http://i.imgur.com/QYvM2kp.jpg

"1998 – The untested AI is activated for the first time as one of the planned activities on Aperture’s first annual bring-your-daughter-to-work day. In many ways, the initial test goes well: Within one picosecond of being switched on, GLaDOS becomes self-aware. The "going well" phase lasts for two more picoseconds, at which point GLaDOS takes control of the facility, locks everyone inside, and begins a permanent cycle of testing."
My father is still a practicing mechanical engineer in his 70s. The 20-something engineers use words like "awesome" to describe him. Of course it helps that his brilliance is God-tier, even without the decades of experience, but still.
> A two week crunch time every 6 months is OK, maybe even beneficial

Being overworked nearly 10% of the time is not "OK"
I have looked at it but don't find examples that truly look convincing,and the info in the official page look very sad.

http://wiki.tcl.tk/9485
The vocabulary is absolutely flawed. These are very bold claims which need to be backed up with facts.

For instance, the behavior is clearly spelled out here:

One day, one of my supervisors jumped to my defense at a team event, in an awkward display of sexism.

OP explains how she felt and tells us exactly what action caused her to feel that way. However:

The group started insinuating...

They also made remarks implying...

These don't tell me any actual actions, just how she interpreted them. I'm left to judge the second two quotes by the severity of the action in the former.