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I don't think I can take these impromptu rants for the next eight years.

You've inspired me to write a Greasemonkey script to filter out any comment with the word "Trump" in it. Thanks.
waaaaay back in the 90s.

i remember having a stark realization one day that i probably couldn't get hired to do the same damn job again with any reliability, so thats when i took things into my own hands and started a company so i could deal with a different set of problems other than ace-ing stupid interviews.

that was right when i heard questions about interviewees being left in a room alone for 30 minutes, were being asked idiotic questions like "how many ping pong balls..." or being put in uncomfortable situations on purpose to test their reaction, dumb riddles, or any of a number of other non-work-related questions.

as someone who now has interviewed hundreds of people and hired dozens, i can unequivocally say that the above techniques are a stupid, idiotic, fucking dumb and counterproductive waste of time for hiring good people _for anyone who does not have the time and luxury (read: cash) to indulge in it_.

i would fire anyone who worked for me that insisted on doing interviews like that, because we are not google or mckinsey or goldman sachs and we do not have a never-ending supply of money.
You asked what to do. You seem like an intelligent person early in their career.

I want to tell you a quick, true story. In my high school Geography class (or Social Studies, or something), our teacher told us that the USA was the 2nd largest land mass country and my friend knew USA was 3rd and Canada was 2nd.

Sure enough, we looked it up in the new almanac (This as back before Bing was a thing) and Canada has annexed some land and we proved the teacher wrong.

We went to the history teacher and showed him the facts. He said he didn't care, he'd mark us wrong if we didn't answer the question like he taught us.

We went to the guidance counselor for "guidance." He recommended we write down what the teacher said to get a better grade and avoid conflict.

So, my friend and I, we wrote down Canada for the 2nd largest country, and we got it marked wrong.

And we dropped it after that.

Pretty stupid story huh? Doesn't matter now.

Whatever you argued with this Product Owner about, you need to go and apologize to her, and tell her you're sorry you weren't supportive, and that you want to help make her product great, and can you wipe the slate clean.

If you can't do that, quit and go work somewhere else.

This is not a place that needs to adapt to you and your opinions. You either help the company and the organization, or they get rid of you.

I mean this with love, and with gentle guidance: You are not a snowflake. Maybe they're sexist bigots, or maybe you're just a jerk.

I don't know.

But if they don't like you, you won't work there long. It doesn't matter how good your code is.

So find a way to become liked, or go work somewhere else. And when you get there, don't attract conflict or disagree rudely. Find a way to be liked and make your perception be one of a helpful friendly approachable person.
Typically, agressive people are those who can't admit defeat, agressivity being their last resort to "still win".

The trick is to maintain their illusion that they are in control.

So instead of saying:
"It would be unwise to implement this feature because of X"

you could say: "I'm wondering if X could stop us from implementing this feature efficiently, what do you think?"

(what do you think = I am relegating control to you)

Stay clear of personal statements as much as possible but if it's unavoidable, think of "leaving them an open door"

Say your PO ate your lunch (for god knows what reason),

you would not say: "Why did you eat my lunch?",

you would say: "It might have been an accident but did you eat my lunch?"

(It might have been an accident = I'm giving you a ready-made excuse that you can use so that you can still feel in control about stuff)

It is important to have you "open door" at the begining of the statement for maximum effectiveness.

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Business-wise though, the typical steps is

- try and fix it one on one (use the open door trick): "It might be just me but did you notice work tensions between us, if so how can we fix this..."

- if this fails, go to HR but don't talk badly about anyone, you need to use the "ask for advice" approach.

- if this fails, start sending your cv to other jobs
>So, you get a disastrous economy like the one we have.

Care to elaborate?
Based on the anonymity aspect, I was thinking of Whisper Systems: https://whispersystems.org/ Hence my curiosity about the stack.
Well, not starting a civil war in two of those four would help. That horse already bolted.

North Korea is a failed state by design.
There should be a bitcoin tab on the stripe payment form. Is it not there?
Not to belittle your feelings in this situation, but nothing here is what I would describe as "bullying".

A person not being nice to you, or being an ass in general, is not bullying. I don't think you'll get a positive outcome here if you frame this situation as being 'bullied' so I'd suggest using a different approach.

What I do see (and of course, it is a real problem) is that perhaps you and the PO seem to have a personality conflict. This is obviously an issue because you clearly don't want it to exist and of course are in a vulnerable position being so new to the company.

The first thing you need to do, regardless of your fear, is to sit down and talk with her. You need to explain that you clearly started off on the wrong foot, and ask her directly if there is anything you can do to change things. Her position is one of the following: She doesn't realize or intend to have this affect on you; she thinks you are incompetent or; she is just an ass or dislikes you for some irrelevant reason. By talking to her directly, you have a good chance of solving this problem if her position is one of the first two. (You don't have to like what she offers, but the idea is to assign motive here.)

If something constructive comes out of that, pursue it. If she is just an ass, or if you try something for a while and you continue to have issues, then you can talk to your Coach. I wouldn't talk to HR without first talking to your direct supervisor though. As your manager they deserve the respect of being allowed to solve this issue first. At that point, you also have your conversation and any remedial steps to refer to in that conversation as well.

If that doesn't work, you should look for a new position. You can tell HR the issue on the exit interview if you want. To be honest, if your manager can't address this issue to your satisfaction, HR won't either.

Finally: If you can't sit and have a conversation with your PO directly in which you are able to articulate your position for whatever reason, you should probably just start looking for a new job regardless. Communication is essential to your success at work. If you can't communicate, whether it is "your fault" or "her fault", you won't be successful. May as well cut to the chase. If this is the case though, you need to be clear and honest with yourself though about why you are coming to this conclusion. There is more than one person out there that is going to be hard to work with... at some point you need to be able to address these types of conflicts in a way that is constructive and that works for you beyond simply removing yourself from the situation entirely.

I wish you the best of luck. These things are never fun, but they are inevitable given human nature.
Looking back at a failed startup for warning signs
> I really don't like this article. It makes me think that I might have been very wrong in my judgement of GWB.

Why would that cause you to not like the article? If an article teaches you something new, something true that you didn't know before, isn't that virtuous? If your prior beliefs were wrong, wouldn't you want to know they were wrong?
Which actions, and what were the results of those actions?
"There's nothing stupid about working for $30,000 doing a job that's worth half a million, when your friends are earning $20,000 as barristas at starbucks."

That's patently false. Undervaluing your labor because your friends work in a poorly compensated industry makes no sense. If anything the money you are earning when you are younger is more important to secure for ROI purposes.
You would need quite a few diacritics to map to all of the Hindi phonemes, especially including loanword phonemes (/z/, etc.) I'm not saying this is bad, but it's not the easy solution that it was made out to be. Meanwhile, Devanagari handles consonant and vowel phonemes quite consistently as others have pointed out.
void * isn't related to void (or this discussion), they just reused the keyword.
Unfortunately not.

I had to surrender publishing rights, and the university only publishes about 10 submissions a yeaar... So unlikely to appear anytime soon.
Libya was doing just fine until "the world" decided to deal with it. Some might say the same about Syria as well.
If you're going to play devil's advocate, you should read the indictment first and see what the devil is being accused of. Here are some damning allegations:

1. They lied to the courts to cover up the fact that they were, in fact, advocating for their own shell companies. Doing this is not a crime, lying about it is.

2. When the courts started limiting them to 1 defendant per lawsuit, they lied again and invented fake allegations of hacking. They had not been hacked, they just needed false pretenses to send more ISP subpoenas.

3. When judges started catching on to the above and asked them to explain themselves, they lied still more to cover up their previous lies.

4. One of them forged the signature of his housekeeper, setting the housekeeper up as the owner of a shell company.

5. They uploaded files to ThePirateBay themselves, then lied and said they didn't.
It seems unfair to downvote the parent comment. It might be a little snarky, but it's still pretty close to the truth in a lot of modern IT.
Hey, Andrew from Gust here. Thanks for asking! Stripe Atlas has some of the same functionality but it's just designed for the first step of the process. In addition to incorporation, Gust Launch helps you through the company formation process, includes cap table management, and also gives you bookkeeping and tax services. It handles your accounting/bookkeeping needs and offers other ongoing support on top of the legal advice and bank account setup that Stripe Atlas offers.
As is often the case in international politics, the justification is "well, what are you going to do about it, then?"
Current discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13194185
How real is this and what impact, if any, would this have on server apps that run on a JVM? There's tons of them, many of which bundle a copy of the JVM in the app itself. The latter is the suggested deployment model in containers (i.e. bundle all your dependencies).

Also, would using OpenJDK remove any "Get your ass sued by Oracle" risk or just defer it to a later date?
Additionally, it seems it's pretty much the standard way to do business in the tech world these days.
In short, I'm suggesting let them think you are considering legal action.

It's surely not worth the expense (money, time, energy) but at least you'll have the satisfaction of knowing you made a number of people scramble and she will now have a scrutinizing eye on her.

This job is just a stepping stone to somewhere better.
It's like we've all been fooled, and more than once. Shame on... shame on... you?
And Servo is aiming for compatibility with the Chromium Embedded Framework so for most embedded browsers it will be a straightforward replacement.
Posting here because a sibling comment (throwaway username starting with hex_) is dead, but the content seems reasonable.
The problem is that Venezuela's government doesn't recognize that they failed. They blame all their self-generated problems on US imperialism, subversive right wingers, counter-revolutionaries and whatever nonsense they can come up with. So even if there was an international motivation to give help, Venezuela would most likely not take it. Not to mention the rampant corruption, which requires force to solve.
As a new HN user myself, I'm curious of this post would fall under "spam" on HN? If you look at OP's account they have only made two posts, both linking to this site.
Your definition of dependence seems to assume there is harm involved, but I can think of a lot of dependencies that are either beneficial or neutral. Are you referring specifically to psychological dependence, as opposed to physical dependence?
I watch some. How could that not be racially stereotypical? It's clearly a stereotype, as you said yourself, and it's clearly applied to an entire race. I'm not sure I could think of a better example of a racial stereotype.

You can argue over whether or not it's offensive, but that's not what I'm asking.
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Straight from the article:

This is a hard one, for liberals only. Do you assume that he is unintelligent because he made policy choices with which you disagree? If so, your logic may be backwards. “I disagree with choice X that President Bush made. No intelligent person could conclude X, therefore President Bush is unintelligent.” Might it be possible that an intelligent, thoughtful conservative with different values and priorities than your own might have reached a different conclusion than you? Do you really think your policy views derive only from your intellect?
Depends how often you're underworked.
The biggest barrier to understanding someone is distance from the source. If you spent more time near a person your judgement would be much better. The problem is we cannot be close to so many people to really understand them.
I'm motivated by the pursuit of things that interest me because I perceive them to be worth knowing.

Unfortunately, crippling depression and a looming feeling of nihilism are sucking most of my motivation away.
Strange. I look at bankers, consultant, doctors and lawyers and they don't make any less than we do.
Invading Iraq resulting in the deaths of hundreds of thousands civilians. Destabilizing the Middle East.
Yes, the off-the-shelf package includes a large fee for Microsoft support, and the right to move the OS from one machine to another. You don't get either of those with the OEM versions.

One obvious factor in the fall of Windows pricing is the fall of PC prices. Microsoft could charge a lot when PCs cost $/€/£2,500 each.

As PC prices fell through $/€/£1,500 each and $/€/£500 each to today's levels, the cost of Windows would have been an increasingly large proportion of the total. That was bound to be unsustainable, so I imagine (without any proof) that the price of Windows has come down much like the cost of hard drives and screens....
The other notable thing about deterministic builds is that they are needed for the nix package manager.
What is the age to qualify as an "oldster"?

I would think in web development it could be as low as say, 35 but in sales, 50 may only be approaching it.
It's not the whole story, as I can't speak on behalf for the toxic employee, nor on behalf of the manager's. However, there's not much use dissecting it, as it serves to represent many months of multiple employee altercations with this individual summarized into a paragraph.

To be frank, I was part of and witnessed a smaller role compared to others, as I prefer to keep my head down and work, and not participate in office politics. Regarding the lunch, it was something we often did when we were feeling cheerful. Most, if not all had a reason to be plenty cheerful by the time lunch hit, but I digress. It turned out to not differ from a normal outing. It was the defining topic of discussion, of course.

In this case, I think catering to the notion of trying to "fix" someone this toxic who is bringing others down in hopes of rehabilitating their work behavior is a lost cause. He had numerous chances and it was unanimously understood that work life would be easier for all without his presence. I believe you are very right in stating that this shouldn't be a primer. Thanks for your response.
Don't panic, friends, but the Chinese nicked one of America's underwater drones
> If you're going to play devil's advocate, you should read the indictment first and see what the devil is being accused of.

If nothing else, to note that included on that list is perjury in the course of a bar association complaint against their own attorney. So, maybe, it's not a good idea to be the advocate for these devils...
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You may find the top answer to this SE question helpful (asked 5 years ago, though): http://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/6561/are-modified.... Especially I think the following comment is spot on:

"Galaxy rotation curves are not very good tests for GR itself, since there are so many parameters about mass distribution in a galaxy which are simply not nearly as precisely understood as GR itself"
>root causes
Maybe years of tracking down bugs has a payoff
SpaceX Founder Elon Musk Joins Trump Advisory Group
Airplane pilot mental health and suicidal thoughts
> What if these emotional issues are caused by a chemical imbalance that the drug alleviates?

These deep emotional issues are not random brain malfunctions, but often caused by childhood trauma, or other forms of trauma. Addiction is a pathological response to pathology.
I would argue that "a couple people I follow on Twitter said it was cool" is not good criteria for investment. Then again, the post didn't mention any information about how serious the reach-outs were. I'm guessing they may have been introductory emails rather than the "HERE TAKE MY MONEY" messages the author seems to imply.
I'm going to go out on a limb here and say the above poster was being sarcastic.
Starting that war might have advanced some of his goals.

Depending on them, it might seem or have seemed clever.

I think it is dangerous to confuse “clever” and “evil”.
I was in long relationships and didn't date much. I Googled whether women wanted to be asked to be kissed. Google it yourself to see what I found.

By the way Trump has been married three times, with these lengths:

- Ivana Zelníčková (m. 1977–92)

- Marla Maples (m. 1993–99)

- Melania Knauss (m. 2005)

seems better than most people's marriages. I don't know how I read "rape culture" and "silence denotes consent" but under the rules that women state they want, men are in a difficult position. For example, women will prefer that they try for a kiss and to reject them. Does that mean a woman always has to be on guard and ready to reject anyone, in any context, all the time?

As a man I don't have to constantly be on guard that some girl will grab my junk or try to kiss me, at any moment, in any context, and be ready to formulate a quick yet diplomatic rejection on a moment's notice, perhaps after being techhnically sexually assaulted (in that I didn't want the unwanted touching). Whereas it seems to me that what women state they want is that situation. Or they've internalized it and normalized it.

I personally don't like hookup culture and dating culture whatsoever, and think serious relationships are a lot saner and easier. But I have to play by the rules other people set up. Which are stupid.

The percentage of women voting for Trump is not low.[1]

"According to exit polls, 53 percent of white women voted for Donald Trump".

To take an example that women do not state they want, they (obviously) do not want to be roofied or date raped (and men don't want to do it either -- I have no idea who possibly could be doing all that roofying, I can't imagine that I've ever talked to any man anywhere who would do it. It goes sooooo far beyond what is normal.) But could you imagine Bill Cosby (who has been accused of literally date-raping or roofying multiple women) would run for any office and be voted for, by anyone?

So that 53% of women is very strong. (Especially given that Trump had no political background, and was a republican; both of which speak against many people voting for him, on those grounds alone.)

One thing that I will say is, that after Googling how women like to be approached, kissed, etc, and ignoring anything not literally written by a woman, I would say there is a strong culture, as expressed by women, encouraging the behavior Trump self-reported.

As a man it's not my place to tell women what they should report wanting; that's feminists' job. At the moment they're not doing well at it. As suggested at the top, please Google whether women (in their own words) want to be asked to be kissed, and compare it with the behavior Trump self-reports. Compare this also with the women who have spoken out against his behavior.

[1] http://www.popsugar.com/news/What-Percentage-White-Women-Vot...
I find that most likely it wasn't even my own judgement of GWB, it was the one I accepted as truth, one that was relayed to me over a long time by other people, but not one that I developed by reading unbiased facts over a longer period of time. Simply because thats not possible. You can't consume facts as news, thats not on offer and has never been.
Perfect. Will pick it up, thanks for the recommendation,
My CTO likes to hire cheap. 90% of the time he passes over more experienced candidates for those with only 0-4 years of experience. He says it's because of the big cost savings.

But, internally, we think it's very short-sighted and a waste. Almost always, the less experienced candidate has to be guided. They rarely have sufficient experience to be full-stack, and over half of the time they are on the average learning curve. That means that they're only 0-50% on the way to mastery. And, that has the unintended consequence of dragging down the productivity of everyone.

Worse, they come in with very strong opinions and aren't pragmatists. They lack understanding of trade offs, because that flexibility comes only from years of this work.

I suspect that the CTO (and many like him) likes to hire people who know less than him (i.e. B players). Luckily, I don't report to the CTO.
I mean there is not much there... odd that the author thinks this would be used by spacex like it's close to being done.
This kind of broad definition I find fairly incoherent, because it mixes an emotionally neutral situation(e.g. "black people eat a lot of chicken", which requires context to get any positivity or negativity from) with very emotionally charged situations("especially so as to distinguish it as inferior or superior to another race or races"). It's the difference between "the japanese eat a lot of fish, which is peculiar" - a very natural determination for humans to make, owing to our base pattern matching capabilities and curiosity, and "the japanese untermensch feed on garbage from the sea", which is an emotionally charged condemnation of the nationality.

Mixing definitions this way allows activists to declare almost everything racist, which people immediately associate with the worst possible situation. This gives them power over conversations via a motte and bailey tactic - they will demand that their opponents and critics are racist, invoking terrible imagery in neutral observers; once the critics question this, they will retreat to their motte, qualifying their statements were just following the dictionary definition; when the critics are no longer there to rebut the statement, they will dive back to the bailey of claiming "racism" without the qualifications evoked.
You should take pleasure in chipping away the illusions and exposing as much of the reality as possible.

If you'd like to really explore the feeling you've described, read https://www.quantamagazine.org/20160421-the-evolutionary-arg...
Obviously, all good intentions ... but the very title of this, and insinuations therein ... are really negative and creepy. I think there may possibly be more harm than good being done here.
It is extremely notable that the words "Iraq" and "Afghanistan" only appear once each in this article.
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