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Or worse yet: "Sorry, a group of our employees recently went back to Mexico to start their own business there, we can only hire Hispanic for the foreseeable future."

Bonus question: should the HR department be allowed to ask for ethnicity ahead of time or would noneligible applicants have to sacrifice precious time in futile interviews?
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Does a standing desk make any difference?

Are there any studies done on this?
Not sure why people have decided that iTunes was always horrible. Here's a description from Ars in 2003:

http://arstechnica.com/features/2003/05/itunesms/2/

> Actually, iTunes is an excellent example of a
> fundamental Apple design principle: the application
> is the computer. The software automatically imports
> and categorizes songs, creating an obscure directory
> structure filled with 'unknown album' folders, but
> you never see that. You see all your music, all the
> tag info, easily sorted and easy to access from
> within iTunes. It's elegant and simple, as can be
> discerned by the fact iTunes users spend most of
> their time arguing about whether the widgets
> (buttons) look better raised (previous versions) or
> sunken (current version).

Here's a tour of iTunes' descent into madness. Note that the original version was, in no way whatsoever, bloated or inelegant.

http://arstechnica.com/apple/2012/11/itunes-through-the-ages...
Oh brother. Neither Hong Kong, nor China is the principal actor in this story. Their role consist of letting him leave despite a passport revocation and an arrest warrant.

Who is trying to muddle the point with irrelevant detail? It won't fly here!!

//

Also, I'm glad there were witnesses of some SD card being destroyed. Good thing we can trust the word of someone who at that point has already stolen deep operational intelligence in the first place (we're not even talking about information on mass domestic intelligence - just typical intelligence data), that this was the only copy he held or wasn't already compromised. A person who then fled to Russia by way of China. Unbelievable.
Yeah, it wasn't the case that I couldn't have come up with the $34k at all, it's that it was asked of me in the first place given that I'd already put in far more than $34k of extra hours and had no shares to show for it.
Edge demands attention till you disable it's popups.

Telemetry reactivates itself every time Windows updates. Also Edge forgets your ignore preference, and repins itself to the taskbar.

Ads can appear on the start menu, and lock screen.

Office asks to be activated every time you open it if you don't link an email. (Though it is activated).

You no longer have search without Cortana.

These are not small annoyances that happen sometimes. They happen frequently. Microsoft is dictating how you must use a computer.

It results in a lot of calls from less tech savvy friends wanting me to 'fix' their computers.

This seems to me, to be an unsustainable bad business practice. It could work if there was no competition in the market, but Apple certainly competes, and for many, Android is also an option.

That's ignoring the crapshow that tried to force everyone to adopt W10.
This article (only a summary in the link below because we still live in the dark ages of research paywalls) from the Annals of Internal Medicine claims via meta-analysis that exposure to sitting will harm your health regardless of exercise.

http://annals.org/aim/article/2091327/sedentary-time-its-ass...
I don't read Japanese at all, but it seems pretty obvious the the three buttons on the top left are big flush, middle flush and eco-flush.
Good ideas for some http processing libraries. We already have httpotion and httpoison for Elixir and httparty for Ruby. A pill has its place between them.

Seriously, I disliked all 4 logos that made to Mozilla's shortlist. Moz://a wasn't the worst one graphically, but changing name to something unspeakable and ungooglable doesn't feel right. However I'll keep using Firefox. Hopefully they won't waste many energies into this bug.
I sense the dumbest security hole ever...
It's not exactly with sin, but sexual activity is correlated with the power of creation. So "misusing" a "big bang" is often painted as something "bad", be it a sin or simply considered an act of layman's ignorance.
Disclaimer: I work for a large and pretty prestigious University that has been undergoing major work in the last decade to update facilities and add buildings.

Almost all of the building budget has been paid for through our endowment and donations from wealthy families so all the building activity hasn't really touched our bottom line at all. However, year after year the state has cut our funding which has directly led to the rise in tuition. The University already runs as lean as possible with staff-our total compensation is a joke (even factoring in generous retirement bonuses) because of this many years long death by a thousand cuts that the federal and state government has pushed on us. EVERYONE has to justify their jobs every year-and this includes faculty. If a faculty member isn't publishing, teaching, and doing community outreach on behalf of the University they won't be getting tenured.
Probably related to this slightly weird sentence at the beginning: "Some advanced 3GLs like Python, Ruby, and Perl combine some 4GL abilities within a general-purpose 3GL environment." I sorta get the argument but it's not standard usage. The problem is that there are (multiple categories of) language that are really post-3GL but 4GL was long ago coopted for a different purpose. And given different classes and branches of languages I'm not sure talking in generations makes sense any longer anyway.
Obviously they can run an alternative server, and if their version is sufficiently more attractive people will switch their client.

They could 'solve' all these usability problems, fix the use of google interfaces the tin foil hat brigade detest, and deploy it on a non-existent non-proprietary secure phone platform. Oh and make it federated but keep it immune from spam. Yeah, seems like that is a bit hard.
Why travel if not to learn about new cultures? Maybe you add an explanation to the map rather than changing the symbol.
This looks pretty awesome. Hope I can try it out in a project some time soon...
> there are actual numbers for Pypi supporting that. What do you have to counter these?

99% of Pypi traffic is composed of mirrors and bots. Python 3 toolchains are more likely to use tools like devpi, wheel, and Docker to cache their packages, while Python 2 toolchains are often going to hit Pypi directly.

We're concerned about which version has the majority of users, not about which has more downloads on Pypi.
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I do a lot of data science/ML work and it is almost exclusively done with Python3 so I'm not sure what libraries you are referring to as I haven't had any issues.
> Unfortunately "the next stable is the one you want" has been the story for quite a while now.

Not really. serde and diesel have been more convenient on nightly for a long time now. It is only just now that we can say the "next stable" because that's when the particular feature they need will be stable.

> I'll note that their story is more like "the next release will be better, but don't wait for it".

I can't wait to use Go's `sort.Slice` function[1], but I'll have to wait for the next stable release.

Seriously though, I'd say the key difference between Go and Rust on this venue is that while Rust is stable, there's still more stuff we'd like to add. To that end, we encourage experimentation by making the acquisition of a nightly Rust compiler really easy. This naturally leads to people experimenting with nightly and publishing crates that either use it or require it. This is a necessary part of experimenting with new features and getting feedback.

Go's scope for experimentation is much smaller. Their changes are much more incremental and conservative. It's a really nice benefit of using Go.

My point is: this is a trade off and it should be presented as such. In Rust land, it requires that you---the user of Rust---ignore crates that require nightly or ignore features of crates that require nightly.

[1] - https://tip.golang.org/pkg/sort/#Slice
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Oh god, /another/ Apache fast data analytics platform.

Apache is like a powerhouse in creating these short-lived projects that force companies to get the most expensive, esoteric talents.
Nice, but if you have body fat then you still need another guide to lose it. I'd rather have a guide that deals with muscles and fat simultaneously.

From the linked website:

> Recognize that all these guys have low body fat, which helps reveal their muscles. You will not actually lose fat by lifting weights, so weight loss is a separate goal altogether.
Wow, people are really hating on this in the comments. Makes me wonder, are there any examples of new brand identity that has been generally well received at first?

The big things I remember is Uber, Instagram, Google and Yahoo, and I don't remember those being followed by any nice words.

Looking back I consider both Google and Yahoo to have been an improvement. I'm on the fence about Instagram. Not sure if I like the new one, but also not sure if sticking with the old one would make the service look dated. I still think Uber is really bad.
Devil's advocate: Wouldn't a person who prefers sitting be more likely to keep a job as a driver rather than conductor?

An unhealthy person might think, "Ugh, I'd have to be on my feet all day." And a healthy person may not see that as a major negative.
Stupid question: what kind of electronics do you need in a rocket launcher of this type?
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> Why use a symbol on maps specifically for foreigners to use which would probably confuse them?

If everywhere is the same, why travel? Local color like this makes destinations more interesting, not less. Hiding culture and heritage makes the value proposition weaker.

/German living in Seoul
It is definitely built into the wall instead of a sort of unit. For reference, the little stainless steel panel above this toilet are the flushing buttons, the sizes representing the amount of flush you give.

https://static.byggmax.com/media/!Item!06403!productImage!0_...
> Appealing to "reality" in a discussion about bias amounts to throwing up your hands and dismissing the problem as just "the way things are".

Yes, that was how I read GGP's comment. I think you are overstating the degree of control that we have over society.

For example, I have often heard the case that society influences young women into roles that eventually prevent them from becoming engineers. Gendered children's toys are often used as an example of this. However, gendered toy preference exists before socialization has occurred (it has been demonstrated in 3-8 month old infants[1]). The same gendered toy preference that exists in humans has also been demonstrated in vervet monkeys[2] and rhesus monkeys[3].

[1] http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10508-008-9430-1

[2] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2643016/

[3] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2583786/

With those references now provided, I think it's safe to say gendered toy preference in humans is much bigger than simply a question of which toys we encourage children to buy -- there seems to be a considerable amount of genetics involved.

Hopefully now you are understanding what I meant when I defined reality for you. As I said I believe this is also what GGP was referring to.

So with that background out of the way:

> In case you missed my point, we aren't talking about physics here, but about society, which is a reality we create.

> It's like if you described a complicated social problem you've observed and I shrugged and said "physics, eh?".

A. How do you know it's a problem with the "reality we create" and not a problem with the reality we are stuck with? (Again, this is how I read GGP)

B. If we can trace the problem to something akin to male vervet monkeys preferring to play with Tonka trucks... what are we to do about it beyond ensuring that P(loan | race=1) = P(loan | race=2)?

I ask B because the idea of forcing my life choices onto someone else makes me feel ill. It reminds me of being forced to join the basketball team in high school, which I hated (though others seemed to love). The sick feeling compounds when I consider doing it purely on the basis of their race or gender in contexts where their race or gender is causal... and that's usually the course of action people on your side of this discussion recommend.
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This would arguably be more secure. Depends who you trust least I guess, Apple or Google + OEMs. I think Apple has a lot to lose if they were to produce a backdoored firmware. Some android handset contract manufacturer or OEM? Not so much.
You don't think at the very least older people will see Moz://a and try to type that into the browser's address bar?

Also, Moz.com should expect a huge increase in its revenues soon. I imagine they already have the celebration party planned for the weekend.
The problem with Rust is that Rust cannot be understood by someone who never had to do manual memory management. So people coming from Java, Ruby, Python, Javascript, PHP who have never used C or C++ will never understand why Rust handles variables the way it does. Rust cannot be popular among these people because Rust doesn't solve their immediate problems in terms of performances.

the Rust team often pretends they are open to suggestions as to how to make Rust easy or easier to learn, that's impossible given how memory management is done in Rust, especially in regard of the people i talked about in the former paragraph.

Only a developer familiar with C or C++ can appreciate Rust semantics. The others cannot.
...or art and music. Good luck learning to play the violin over the internet.
I had a few hours of single player games. The advantage is that they're over and get boring after a while. At least in story mode. I played Super Mario on iOS. It's a neat game and indeed, it got boring after I got all green coins and all characters. Games getting boring is a good thing!

But the real good ones keep you engaged forever. That's the problem ;)
Ironically googling for moz://a from the address bar doesn't work in Firefox Android. It's interpreting it as a protocol and doesn't send it to Google. It displays a blank page.

Moz://a from google returns moz.com as first result. Ironically again, it's a SEO company. Maybe Mozilla needs their services.
Tabasco for anything Mexican-y, or with eggs.
Franks (x-tra hot) for anything American, like pizza.
Sriracha for anything Asian.

Lesser known brands are always good too, but I can never go wrong with this holy trinity.

Lately, I've been absolutely in love with Trader Joe's brand habenero salsa. It's perfect on everything.
The human services cloud
"until I scored a student housing room"

Is there a waiting list?
salesforces's market is much bigger IMHO
Confusing Japanese toilets were my favorite part about visiting. I don't mind having to it a few random buttons. But yeah having standardized iconography for visitors is probably a good thing.
Ironic timing that Reddit is currently undergoing a major outage right now...
A message begging the use of a product? An unsolicited one at that? Yes, yes you can. Pretty sure that neatly fits the definition both in fact and in spirit.
>This isn't a numbers contest.

And yet you complained about my many comments. If you just had an issue with their content, you could have said so instead of that, and with specific arguments not just "stop" and "lalala hands in the ears, I don't want to hear you".

>Unlike yours, none of my comments are shitting on the efforts of volunteers that are doing their best to keep people like you happy and making money using a project you're not paying for.

You don't know what I've paid or what I've donated to the PSF since 1998 that I've been using the language, or what the companies I've worked for have done for Python. So it's not your business to talk about me personally as I've not talked about you. Can you stop being rude and ad hominem?

(And of course, any user who has evangelized, worked with, and devoted time to a language pays the opportunity cost, whether he pays for its development directly or not).

The community of a language's users can, and do, have an opinion on its progress and the changes that happen to it, whether it goes against the ideas of the volunteers working on it, or not (and it's not all volunteers, a lot of programmers are paid by corporations to work on OSS projects, including Guido who was paid by Google and now Dropbox, and that way companies often get a say on the direction a project takes).
You're attacking a straw man. Jack Ma didn't say that things have gotten worse, only that we've engaged in unwise actions. I think that's certainly true. Our lives today may be good, but they would be so much better if we hadn't spent $2T fighting wars in the middle East.
They are two completely different tools, they can't be compared, serve different purposes.
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Managing people is something much more easily done face to face. So is interfacing with senior management and execs.

On an entirely distributed team where upper management also works remotely, then yes it makes sense to have managers who are remote. But if there's an office where either management or a large chunk of the team are present most days, a non-remote manager will have a MUCH easier time being effective.

I would guess that this decision was 95% about physical presence and 5% about factors like seniority and domain expertise. Physical presence has been a non-negotiable factor in hiring or promoting managers everywhere I've worked that had a part-remote engineering team.

And based on my experience managing people both remotely and in person, being face to face makes a huge difference. Even the simple fact that it's impossible to make eye contact over video conference impacts rapport and understanding. And being remote when decisions are being made at the office means you're going to have a much harder time staying in the loop about business priorities - and a big part of a managers job is to communicate those to their team.

And all of that is important both to the people who report to you and the people you report to.

Decide what track you want to take with your career. If management is a part of it, either look for a job on a 100%-distributed team or plan to start spending your days at the office.
Behind, slightly next to and above in both of my cases. Besides would be odd but understandable; opposite... I guess I'd be looking for it.
Well, qz and huffpo can FRO in the first place...
I found the writeup valuable in terms of provoking deeper thought and discussion.

However, I think perhaps the author is mixing up 'both wits' (logical vs emotional thinking) with the two systems thinking from the TFaS book(intuitive vs logical thinking), at least in the writeup.

I am more inclined to believe that intuition and logic based thought processes are superior to one that has an emotional dimension, at least for running a business.

As an example, I think if in the Cheezburger case the author was less emotional, he would have responded rather than reacted to the perceived threat- which is arguably a better way to deal with the situation.

Lack of affect(especially fear) is a defining quality of psychopathy, which happens to be very common amongst CEOs [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychopathy_in_the_workplace#C...
> Because the likelihood of an a-priori exploit hidden in AOSP is far more remote than the possibility of malicious exploitation, at some point in the future, of the gaping wide security hole that is the "give Google root" subsystem.

I am not talking about AOSP. AOSP does not ship Google Play services unless you try to squeeze them in yourself (which would be silly - why would you run a google-clean system and stuff google back in?). I am talking about versions of Android that come with Google Play services - that is, Google shipped or manufacturer-controlled-by-google shipped.

(I sense that I may have misunderstood your point)

> Yup. And that's unacceptable. You can't really claim to be security conscious if your product comes with the stipulation that you give a megacorp root on your computer, can you?

Indeed it is unacceptable. However, Signal on a Google-powered android system is no less "backdoorable" if you avoid Google Play services. The only way out is to take a Google-less Signal, and put it on a Google-less Android. This is where OWS can start to get on my nerves, because they indeed do not want to make a google play services free version (Even if you do not care about security, you might care about the compatibility), and that they effectively took down libresignal.

Their reasons for doing so were sound (dealing with uncontrolled, potentially borked clients on a protocol and service that is still evolving is quite a pain), but they could quite easily have abstracted these things away in the official Signal implementation so that things could work both with and without, especially seeing how security oriented they are.

However, my problem with this post was that it took a Google Play powered signal on a Google powered Android, and started poking at how Google could backdoor Signal, when the ENTIRE system is under Google's control. I'm not saying that this does not matter until we have solved world hunger, I am saying that fixing this specific instance of the problem (Google Play services dependency of Signal) does not solve the specified problem at all (Google backdooring of Signal).
I'm in the process of quitting right now. I've taken up violin and weight-lifting, after being inconsistent for some years. Glad to see someone of the same mindset!
I agree, but you know what; I think the new branding is worse :(

It's a shame, because I've wanted to try Pyramid since I watched their talk at PyCon 2011, but the branding (including the new 99 Designs looking logo / theme) has always made me think, "This will never really take off."
Was not 'intellectualism' rejected long time ago? It is classic comic book story that strong simpleton defeats smart bad guy (preferably with PhD ;-)
Like if any app out there isn't reporting towards a government...

note: am not a WeChat advocate.
I think it's a matter of unnecessary friction. People traveling to Japan to see the Olympics might not bother to get out of their comfort zone, leave the hotel and see something interesting if the maps seem to discourage them from doing so.

>Maybe you add an explanation to the map rather than changing the symbol.

That's a fair compromise, but now you have to explain it in every possible language that a foreigner might use. Which is probably why you considered changing the symbol in the first place, because well designed icons theoretically speak to everyone.
It does tend to bork the unified search bar.
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This is sad and hilarious at the same time.

Well, mostly sad...
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Books are overrated and not buying things hurts the economy, but okay, I like nerds too. Nerds have always been uncool, mainly because their obsessions cause them to ignore their own unattractiveness. But Friends did not cause the downfall of western civilization.

It was MTV.
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> single best full body exercise

better than swimming?