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> "Have some GitHub/GitLab/etc profiles" is in the same category as "give the most personable person in the office promotions and raises".

Sorry, it's not at all in the same category, because it's actual output of work. Being able to look at actual code written by the person you're considering hiring is a really great measure of acceptability.

I think we are all agreeing that it's not reasonable to reject someone due to lack of published code. Latch is trying to point out the reality of the situation:

> The "problem" is that people without public profiles are competing with people with.

If you are considering two candidates, who seem more or less equal on every level, but one has an extensive amount of published good quality code and the other does not, it's less risk to hire the one with code.

It's very hard to judge someone's work quality based on personality. I've hired people who seemed good when talking to them but turned out to be not very great developers. I've also hired people who seemed questionable when talking to them, but had decent code samples and/or published code and also turned out to be good or great developers.

I guess to be fair I've never hired anyone who seemed like they'd make a poor developer, had no code samples to prove otherwise, and did badly on coding tests, so maybe I'm missing some great developers who aren't very personable or good under pressure. Frankly I'm okay with that, because I am absolutely positive most of the people in that category are in fact poor developers.
There is little doubt that ESR is notable. He is best known as the writer of essays about Open-Source such as The Cathedral and the Bazaar and The Magic Cauldron as well as others on many topics including gun rights. He suffers from cerebral palsy but has not let that hold him back. He is also known for being contentious. Arguably, his philosophical contributions are more valuable than his code contributions.
I am a technical lead for a frontend dev team.

Looking for a senior developer to work with, I would prefer someone with a breadth of knowledge over someone who just focuses exclusively on one thing. For example, it is no fun to explain basic Unix concepts to someone who you expect would have that knowledge. Of course, I would want good knowledge of web development, UI design etc., but things don't stop there.

Some things that look good to me:

1. Some knowledge of compilers, parser generators
2. Relatively decent Unix/Linux knowledge
3. Big Software engineering ideas and how to apply them
4. Big ideas in different programming paradigms and how to apply them
5. Low-level stuff: write some C code, tinker with assembly, learn about computer organization (you might be doing that already)
6. spin up a server and maintain it ... like an actual, bare metal server. deal with its problems.
7. Research and understand the pieces around enterprise systems ... a fun challenge is a trading system.

Even if you end up focusing on web development, coming in and saying something interesting about your breadth of knowledge and to utilize the ideas is always a good thing.
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I remember having to use a floppy with custom autoexec.bat and config.sys files to run a lot of games on my 486sx25 with 4mb ram.

idkfa made single player Doom a lot easier :)
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>Rubio may have had on his mind what happened just a week earlier, at U.C. Berkeley

Well, probably not, given what Rubio actually said:

http://www.rubio.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/2017/2/senate-f...

The context of the speech was regarding the vote to prevent Elizabeth Warren from reading Coretta Scott King's letter opposing Jeff Sessions.

>These are the continuing rules of the Senate that have been in existence previous to this time and have carried over into this session, is that correct?

>I imagine many people were not excited about the fact that [Hillary Clinton] would be secretary of state, to my recollection, and perhaps I’m incorrect, not a single one of those horrible things that have been written said about her, some of which actually did accuse her of wrongdoing, were ever uttered on the floor of the Senate.

I lose track of the ironies here. There's the irony of Rubio lamenting we are "becoming a society incapable of having debate anymore" while in the very process of shutting down debate. There's also the irony of an article with the quote "The less we know about the mind of another, the more we use our own to fill in the blanks", that filled in blanks of Rubio's speech that didn't actually exist.
"I'm not saying either system is better than the other, but doing it Google's way is certainly easier for Enterprises that want to make the move, and why Amazon is starting to break with tradition and release products that let you do things "the old way" while hiding the details in an abstraction."

No, they said this in the F1 RDBMS or Spanner papers. They originally did the NoSQL, eventual-consistency type of stuff. This had app developers required to do a lot of work to avoid problems that model can create. Apparently, even their bright people had enough problems with it that they decided to eliminate or simplify that situation with stronger consistency. Took some brilliant engineering but now they have a database easy to use as old model with advantages of newer ones.

If anything, they learned some hard lessons with a good solution to them. Now, they're offering it to others. I was hoping they'd do this instead of keep it internal only. F1 and Spanner are amazing tech that could benefit many companies.
lol he referred to team dinners as a good thing you miss out on.
Can you clarify the point about the LOC? I don't understand why that would matter.

Oh, and where is Wireguard supported out of the box like IPsec is?
100 hours of someone else's work means lots of my time coordinating and supervising it...and a non-trivial probability that I will not like what I get. I mean, my first thought regarding social media shares is that someone will just write a bot or outsource it to someone with a bot.

But again to the economics. There is an implication that the companies using the platform are doing so as an alternative (and perhaps not by choice) to capitalization. Betting (time or money) on an under-capitalized company is not the same as betting on a long shot (VC's bet on adequately capitalized long-shots).

Anyway, the proof will always be whether or not people adopt the platform.
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Without rewriting the article, the point is that there's an exploitable gap between the output of modern prediction systems and athlete performance that is explainable by information not accounted for in prediction systems.

The writer suggests that it wouldn't be too hard or expensive for someone to gather this "extra" information, and with enough of it and enough study of it, it's likely they could come up with a winning system over automated prediction systems.

From my own experience around MLB and MiLB teams I know that teams do this themselves all the time. They look for pitch patterns, pitch tips, changes in mechanics, changes in vision, changes in performance within games and within seasons due to tiring or wear-and-tear. A bettor with some resources could collect this same information and gain a meaningful advantage.

For a famous example to build on the other examples in the article, in 2006 everyone in baseball except Brad Lidge knew he was tipping his slider [0]. This kind of thing, if your net is spread wide enough, gets discovered all the time. A savvy bettor or syndicate or bettors could come to know this. Teams certainly did.

Anyway, my $.02 cents.

[0] http://www.chron.com/sports/justice/article/Lidge-was-telegr...
Indeed. If we want to leave the analysis to professionals we would look at the CDEC river guidance for the Feather above the dam. Here it is.

http://cdec.water.ca.gov/guidance_plots/MFP_gp.html

As you see the forecast flow is only about one third of that experienced on Friday past.
> its been years and google and has been building out various pieces of infrastructure around mysql - including cloud spanner.

What does Cloud Spanner have to do with MySQL? It's neither API nor SQL-dialect compatible with MySQL. If there are MySQL bits used somewhere in the implementation, they are well hidden, and irrelevant to users.

> the issue is that the migration path of self hosted mysql to cloud sql to spanner is pretty well defined.

So what? Were there a Cloud SQL-like Postgres offering, the same would be true; Spanner is no closer to MySQL than Postgres. (If anything, it's SQL dialect is a little closer to Postgres's dialect than MySQL's, though not so much that you'll get away without doing substantial conversion going from either.)
I don't think many ever thought the language itself was ever "the best". It was the way the libraries and visual components (together, the "VCL") were designed, and the way things worked within the IDE, that many thought made Delphi the best. The Delphi/ObjectPascal language on its own, however, was pretty good.
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And wear himself out he did, dying barely into his fifty-first year.
What? Did you read the article? That's not even close to the plan mentioned.
Mind you, there are other things US citizens would want to safely/anonymously leak info on, besides their government (e.g. corporate malfeasance), in which cases the Snowden reaction does not have the same chilling effect.

And there are people living in other countries who want to leak things about their governments (or corporations), too; what the US thinks about leaks doesn't matter much to them.
> I am too lazy to look it up on the mailing lists but a while back I recall ESR contacted certain BSD projects trying to convince them to change to Git.

They're mostly still on CVS these days, right? Regardless of one's personal feelings about esr, is there any good reason to stay on CVS in this, the second decade of the twenty-first century?
He would have been so proud. He was such an inspirational figure. When I was a kid my father used to tell me to be like Kalam.
https://twitter.com/lyon01_david/status/827918656562720769
Or his public arguments with Larry Wall.
Public speaking is a fantastic example of a course that doesn't need a textbook at all.

I interacted with communications instructors a lot when I was in university, and literally all of them thought the required textbook was a complete waste. It was there because the department required it, and none of the instructors actually used the text.

Instead they all had their favorite examples of great speeches or debates, and combined that with a few (free) essays on different types of speeches and rhetorical techniques.

But all of the instructors said that the most useful thing they did in the course was just practice. Requiring students to give short speeches in front of (portions of) the class or in front of instructors.

A truly useful platform for public speaking education would consist of recording student speeches and providing a way for peers to provide structured criticism of each others recorded speeches. Perhaps different pre-packaged peer assessment techniques for various types of speeches.

In this and many other cases, I'm very convinced that textbooks serve no purpose outside of accreditation and futile departmental attempts at standardizing ad junct instruction.

Maybe you can get departments/universities to buy into your product, but there's a huge difference between extracting rent from university administrators and actually improving learning. If you have to convince instructors/students to actually use the required instructional material in order to get your cut, you're facing an uphill battle. 99% of students in a public speaking class will either not buy the book in the first place, or else return the book at the instructor's wink-and-nod. And without a truly novel practice speech assessment platform or a very low-priced product, I think that's a good thing.
> his views on guns are not relevant; or if someone wants to claim that they're relevant, they need to defend that claim.

Is there any place where I claim that "his views on guns" are relevant? Can you explicitly quote my words? I see all your responses as your own confusion, probably having root in your own worries (and I'm also not surprised that it's hard to admit that). As others also commented here, the page I've linked to, written by ESR, does speak about ESR's personality, directly related to his vision of his own importance, his communication skills ("I am not in fact crazy" in the third sentence) and his perception of those not agreeing with him ("idiots"), and, as I've read his more recent statement "I shot ntpdc through the head" it surely made me think of that page that he proudly maintains again.

P.S. To philh: your own words, again: "his [ESR's] views on guns are not relevant; or if someone [here in the context, acqq] wants to claim that they're relevant, they need to defend that claim." It turns out "if X than Y" had X that was invented and false.

P.S.S philh, have you ever known anything about ESR before or were all your responses triggered only by a link to the ESR's "I am a gun nut, I am not in fact crazy, you idiots" page which somehow you understood as an attack to your own gun beliefs, even if the link was in another context? Would you respond the same to somebody's else page which starts, approximately, "I'm a free speech nut, I am not in fact crazy, you idiots"? I claim not, I claim your responses reflect your own issues. Now you finally accept: "You [acqq} linked to his page on guns, with no further commentary, and then suggested that people inform themselves." And the way you made all of your responses doesn't match with your mission statement "being charitable towards people I disagree with; and not mouthing off about things I don't understand." You didn't understand, you saw "it's a page about guns" and attacked. The reason: you saw that as an "insult" to you. Completely not understanding. You write now: "I'm not interested in being psychoanalysed." Sure. It hurts. Have you read the first paragraph of his page before you responded so many times? Haven't you noticed anything there? Also, have you noticed that you "analyzed" my intentions making wrong conclusions in all your responses?
Yahoo's board may be desperate, but that doesn't mean they necessarily believed they were contractually in the wrong here. Verizon only had an out if it could show that this event was a "material adverse effect" on the business, which is a very high standard to meet. Verizon likely also preferred to close the deal, and neither company wanted to take the risk of litigating this and losing.
Quoting from one of the LA Times updates linked from the link:

The result is a balancing act — drain as much water as possible as quickly as possible while trying to minimize further damage to the spillway. The main spillway was returned to action, but at reduced capacity compared to what it could normally do under the current conditions. After all, the spillway needs to last for the remainder of the rainy season.

The stated capacity of the main spillway is 250,000 cubic feet per second, once it became clear the emergency spillway was not holding up, they increased the main spillway to 100,000 cubic feet per second. So limiting damage to the main spillway is an ongoing concern.
> I think a significantly better version of this could be built.

I'd encourage you to help build a better version.
>In November, they launched an online content marketplace, where professors can create course materials and sell it around the world.

Professors already post a lot of study materials for free on their websites. However, that hasn't replaced traditional textbooks. Why this should be any different? Also given all that free course materials why would someone pay for additional materials?
Sure, but if you care about security you won't mind installing it.
If you can get popped through your web browser, what's the point of taking any ASLR penalty on a desktop system?
Securedrop is used by NYT-level companies. I thought using it is a no-brainer for any news media. Now I am having doubts :((
When I was looking to replace my OpenVPN server for a cloud based VPN one thing I wanted was to use the OS native VPN solution. Everything pointed me to L2TP/IPSec, I am wondering why I would choose IKEv2 over that.
1. Do you have plans to adapt this to Autonomous Cars anytime in the near future as a potential temporary work-around for navigation / technology shortcomings?

2. Why not port this in partnership with Forza to make race tracks out of real world environments? I had an idea along this line, though it might be way out of scope heh:

https://hackernoon.com/dashcam-google-maps-dev-kit-custom-ne...
Well, that would explain it.
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Oh one other thing:

>Faculty in fields like Biology and Physics are also overwhelmingly liberal, but departments generally know nothing about the political views of faculty candidates.

One of interesting thing to keep in mind, is that while it's true that biology and physics professors also lean liberal, the ratios are inline with what the ratios have historically been in academia as a whole. They are closer to 3:1 or 4:1. Fields like sociology or social psychology are closer to something like 20:1. A college student taking a sociology class is more likely to be taught by a Marxist than a Republican[0]!

(Please don't tell me that the intellectual underpinnings of marxism are more correct than that of conservatism. I'll have an aneurysm.)

[0]: https://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/08/opinion/sunday/a-confessi...
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Back in early 2000's when I used it a lot, the word was that the even numbered versions of Delphi (2, 4, 6) were all poor efforts, and the odd numbered (3,5,7) were all good. I used 6 and didn't think it was bad, but 7 was better. Many Delphi users had remained at version 5.
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Typescript and RXJS (with ts mappings) make CB hell much more enjoyable. There is a learning curve to RX, but it's worth it.
I'm curious of cases for when people are running into size limitations for storing secrets... what type of secrets are > 4kb? I could imagine some example but I'm wondering about real world examples...
And the expected temperature of the falling precipitation, and a whole lot of other meteorological stuff which is involved, so in reality this dataset, while admirable for effort, is really useless as there are way, way, way too many unaccounted-for variables.
It's weird that you're dictating rules around scraping not outlined in Github's TOS.

The article actually mostly talks about how they scaled working with the accumulated data, and only a little about scaling the scraper.

Just like the interesting part about Google is how they process and index the data and not their crawler, the most interesting part of this article actually not the scraping, but how they handled all the data and processed it.

Edit: I found Github's policy on scraping. I hope the link brings some closure to this concern: https://help.github.com/articles/github-terms-of-service-dra...
With heavy mathematical topics (ML, category theory, quadratic programming, graph grammars), I find that it takes me multiple attempts spaced over months before I can say that I understand the basic math. Math is a really broad, really deep, and really challenging subject, but extremely rewarding to pursue.

Echoing the commenter who suggested you learn C++, look at Haskell too. Of all the languages that I've worked in so far, Haskell is my absolute favourite. This free course got me over the initial hump in the learning curve: <http://www.seas.upenn.edu/~cis194/fall16/>
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More like ~100MB. At least it was the last time I tried it about 6 months ago. Might have gotten better since then.
So, less code automagically makes it better. Ok.
While I don't think this is the entirety of the problem, I think the relatively advancement and pervasive use of the following article template is a big problem right now, when combined with the forces that lead to clickbait:

Those crazy idiots are up to it again! You won't believe that
you're the same species as these people once you see this.

As all right-thinking people know, the best flibbets are the ones
that gyrate. Of course you know that; everybody around you knows
that, that's why you were taught in school about how important
gyration is in flibbets. I mean, fucking duh, right?

But wait until you get a load of what these doofuses recently vomited
forth on their latest Sunday morning talk show appearance:

[very unflattering picture of the speaker here]

"Gyrating flibbets are... the worst things ever. Everyone
knows that flibbets... should wobble."

And they go on for a while, but as you can imagine they never give
any reason for their crazed beliefs about flibbets! Ha ha! I won't
even dignify their rant with a link. How could you think flibbets
should wobble? What's a flibbet experience without a bit of quality
dizziness brought on by the gyration?

Of course, in actuality, the "..."s obscure some serious (if rhetorical) argument, and the part where they went "on and on" they actually do give some sort of reason. It's really a very dangerous rhetorical pattern; it makes you feel like you understand the opposition better when in fact you actively understand them worse; not only do you still have no idea why they believe what they believe and probably a terribly inaccurate idea of what they believe, you've been inoculated against the entire idea of even trying to find out, ever, for any reason, lest you end up being socially mocked. Personally I recommend to everybody that you eschew all such sources of commentary like Stewart or Oliver... at this point I don't even think the fact that they are funny is enough to offset the very significant cognitive dangers they pose. If your news feed is hilarious, turn it off; you're being propagandized, not informed. (This is not particular to John Stewart or Oliver... due to the success of the pattern everyone is doing it! I mean, absolutely everyone is doing it now. I don't know if I just recently sensitized to it or if there really has been a huge shift in the past couple of years here.)

(I don't know if it's just me or what lately, but I've also been seeing a lot of claims lately that "there is no evidence that..." when in fact there is some sort of evidence; simple denial of existence is now substituting for even sneering dismissal. Evidence is actually pretty easy to come by in a complicated world; any time you here that there is no evidence your ears should perk up. The problem that makes the real world such a challenge is that it's too easy to find evidence to support any given position, not that there isn't any.)
> See the pyramid shape and all the }) at the end? Eek! This is affectionately known as callback hell.

In other words, "callback hell" is simply the state of having too many nested inline callbacks. It makes the code uglier and for some harder to read. That's why pulling callbacks out into their own functions (i.e., making them no longer inline) fixes callback hell.
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Thanks for locating that. I work with people who do retrospective runoff and streamflow modeling (using past measurements to make better models), but not the predictive stuff in the graphs you linked.
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