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I feel the same way about my Klipsch computer speakers. I saw them for sale at Best Buy the other day and they looked exactly the same. I've had mine for at least 7 or 8 years and still sound great.
Citations not needed. There are allegations, nothing more.

If this happened to me, I would find the moral import of the matter significant to the point that it would not occur to me to use it to plug my book.

This may well be an endemic issue at this company, and it does seem that these sorts of situations do in fact exist in some places, but so far there is only one person's story's and without proof.
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A rare appeal to reason and thoughtfulness! Well put.
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We don't know what else life looks like, so we can't really look for it.
I was also going to say a Zojirushi rice cooker. I've had mine for 6 years and it shows no signs of slowing down. Super easy to clean and makes amazing rice every time.
Also, two of the cup holders are right at the AC outlets. Very good for cooling drinks.
Even if that is what they said, do you honestly believe that was the real reason?
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I went nomad earlier this year and decided I needed a good backpack. After much research, I landed on the Synapse.

It's simply amazing that something as simple as "a bag" can be so well designed. So clearly better.

It's the only product I've ever owned where I notice myself stop and admire it regularly.
The pouring end of a stainless Bialetti stovetop espresso pot[0]. Beautiful, precise, never a drip. Amazing.

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They would likely be on the typical graduation track, but there are alternatives for students with special circumstances.
I don't know if that really counts as 'boxed in'. The behaviour Susan described as widespread is absolutely unacceptable and in any sane company would be grounds for instant dismissal. If the CEO is acting in good faith then he wouldn't hesitate to act on any cases found - the fact that they have a new head of HR might indicate that a purge has already begun.
You are assuming that the allegations are true.

From what I've heard, it seems plausible that the alleged culture may exist at this company. But I don't take allegations to be true simply because they have been made - as is, in my opinion and in the opinion of the legal system of the United States, the correct perspective.
It's easy to believe. The thinking HR probably was expressing that Susan couldn't expect positive reviews just because she had a valid harassment complaint. You have to look at HR as CYA for the company. Looking at it any other way is naive.
This one is much nicer. Fully fledged implementation. Awesome
Woah. Now that's cool. It's really interesting to see that they are full 3D models but the shaders are done so that the ideal viewing angle is from the front and yet they don't look weird or broken from other angles. That's really nicely done.
This article is out of date.

If you look at the actual bug report [1], a replacement option to disable Widevine has already been implemented.

This isn't some evil plot, it's just fallout from Chrome removing support for third-party plugins and thus the plugin management UI (chrome://plugins).

[1] https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=686430
>Some of the women even had stories about reporting the exact same manager I had reported, and had reported inappropriate interactions with him long before I had even joined the company. It became obvious that both HR and management had been lying about this being "his first offense", and it certainly wasn't his last. Within a few months, he was reported once again for inappropriate behavior, and those who reported him were told it was still his "first offense". The situation was escalated as far up the chain as it could be escalated, and still nothing was done.
I don't think you understand what sexual harassment is then. I hope you take a closer look at this, because this is beyond acceptable workplace behavior.
Thank you for the warning! I can see how that could happen with chrt. I can't work out how it could happen with just taskset. Are you saying to be careful when combining them? That would make sense to me.

Also I can't figure out what pgrap is. Do you mean pgrep? I think you must mean something else, because I don't see what pgrep has to do with priority inversion. But it shares a manpage with pkill. . . .

I don't do real-time work, but I've always been curious to know more about it. And priority inversion seems like an interesting and challenging problem.
Telling a victim that they should expect to be abused further (in the form of a negative review) does not minimize boat rocking or protect the interests of the organization. It leaves them open to lawsuits and antagonizes the victim into further action. And if it was true that they were protecting the manager because he was high-performing, why would you make this explicit. It just makes no sense and reeks of one side of a story.
They're using the term 'taxi drivers' to refer to the Uber drivers, not to local licensed taxi operators.
It will have impact. It won't move the needle 100% across the industry, but I can see a 5% movement. Well done Susan if she doesn't sue.
Agreed. The "HR is not your friend" trope gets thrown out a lot, but in cases where your goals align with the company's (i.e. you don't want to get harassed, and the company doesn't want to get sued), HR is the place you should be able to go.
Which is why I added the remark "do work", not when they are just yet another way to take vacations.
That comes across as a variant of "blaming the victim." Telling an internet stranger to sacrifice himself to some higher cause is not really a noble act. Maybe he can do more good by trying to change the company from the inside. Or maybe he just needs the job and doesn't need to be a hero.
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I'm just starting to learn NLP through book natural language processing with python.

I don't want to complete the book without knowing essential parts of the book.
It would be great if you guys can point out which one are important concepts to grasp on and thereby i can put extra effort to learn and experiment these concepts.

Looking for advice from folks who have learned the NLP concepts or have some kind of experience in NLP.

Bonus: point out sample projects to work on.
Which browser?

On Firefox for Android, I'm able to interact with it and rotate it with full 360° range of motion.
My job prevents me from using my phone at my desk for PCI compliance reasons, so the battery regularly lasts 2 days for me. I even play 3D games at lunch (ex: X-Plane) and it holds up fine.
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It is valid to point out that the allegations are not corroborated. To suggest that the author invented a sexual harassment fantasy to advertise her book is however quite crazy.
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It's pretty sad that this comment is being flagged into /dev/null. The points are at least thoughtfully constructed and deserve proper responses from those who disagree, not just knee-jerk slamming of the flag button.
Conversation is all we have. Let's make use of it.
Ah, you are correct:

https://www.amazon.com/Apple-Radio-Remote-iPod-White/dp/B000...

Interesting, never knew about this.
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Yeah, I have the Mazda 3 Astina - 2014. I believe its MazdaConnect is roughly the same, maybe a slightly smaller screen.

Blown away by how good the UX for the whole car is, including a HUD which for its price class and the time is rather amazing.

Adding things like rear cross alert, curving lights and radar cruise in addition to EBA is simply great.
Common sense. Absolutely agree. If a woman flirts with me I dont go printing screenshots of the Google Chat and run to HR. I see no abuse of power by said manager at the point of expressing an interest. The rest, well that is odd way for HR to handle it I accept, if that is actually what happened - we need to hear the other side of the story.

This is like red bull for diversity and inclusion directors though.
I wholeheartedly endorse the idea that people should learn more physics and math, but I'm not sure the author's personal story supports her apparent message.

She apparently went from 6th grade math to graduate quantum mechanics in a year and a half. This is highly atypical and is surely not an example of a "not smart" person overcoming and managing to learn some physics.
Good point. I gotta wonder about their general competence. What are the credentials to be an HR person? Here, even if they really wanted to discredit her and protect the company (so assuming they completely were not prepared to take her side, ever) they acted in a very stupid manner it seems.

Is there an HR major? Or is it MBA student who never graduate? How does one end up picking a good HR person vs just a friend-of-a-friend? Programmers go to an interviews and they get slammed with whiteboard silly algorithm questions. What kind of question do HR people have to answer to pass the test?

It seems here protecting the company would have been firing the person proposing sex on the spot. Blog author even had the chat logs as evidence from what I understand!

Now the answer is probably they had defended and covered up that manager's behavior before. Blog alludes to that. So it became a pattern. Then just when another similar complaint popped up, admitting it was wrong and doing anything besides what they did before, would have meant acknowledging how wrong they have been in the past. "But we've already covered up for him 10 times, why is this special now..." kind of deal.
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* The USB charger that came with the Nexus 4 - it's only been replaced because I finally got a decent QuickCharge charger.

* A Grundig AM/FM radio with Aux-in, still going strong after 10+ years as a bathroom speaker. One dial broke off. Oops. Still one of the best sounding speakers I have in my house - possibly due to it being wooden

* Yamaha NX-P100 Bluetooth speaker - used to use it for the APT-X capability, now I use it because it supports 3.5mm jacks, and USB sound input. Practically bulletproof although the battery life isn't as good as it was.
> Which is why I added the remark "[in countries where unions] do work", not when they are just yet another way to take vacations.

That's not a matter that's specific to a particular country, though. It's inherent in the nature of a union structure (and arguably inherent in the nature of any hierarchical human structure, which is a superset of "unions").

You can find situations like the one I described in any country, not just the US.
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> The thinking HR probably was expressing that Susan couldn't expect positive reviews just because she had a valid harassment complaint.

That's very different than what the author claimed. But even so, why would HR even go there? It makes no sense.
My SR-80s have what many reviewers (and I) say is the best sound for anything under $1k (and these were under $100).

That said, they're poorly designed mechanically, and they use lower quality materials - especially the type of plastic. The way the speaker unit attaches to the head piece is just a little pole of metal (textured at the end) stuck into a plastic hole, and the hole can eventually stretch. The result is the speaker unit falling off the headpiece... and there's really no way to fix it. Superglue is a short term solution, and it's hard to get the angle of the can perfect.

My point of saying all this is that the sound engineers did a great, great job, but the product/mechanical design guys - or maybe the production guys after them, ruined it.
Beyond the slightest doubt.
> The problem is that there seems to be a terrible, unbelievably toxic culture pervading nearly every department at Uber.

I wonder if such things are limited to Uber or more widespread than we believe it to be. I have a fear that these incidents are more common than I believe them to be and that because we have our heads down and focusing on an end-goal, we don't notice that some of our colleagues are being traumatized by people we admire/put in positions of power.
Meta: /r/buyitforlife has a lot content in this vein.
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Not sure if you're agreeing or disagreeing with the person above, but just to clarify: the FLSA doesn't prevent tech workers from collectively bargaining to gain paid overtime as a condition of employment, it just determines the highest wage at which salaried workers are required by law to be paid overtime (which I agree is stupid, and should be a benefit all workers receive).
The point was that Rust _can_ (more easily) tell LLVM now that MIR has landed.
>I think women just are naturally or at least culturally (does the difference matter in this case, really?) more social

This is really sexist.
You should abandon your throwaway and talk to some of your lady friends in tech about their experiences. See for yourself if their anecdotes build up into something approaching quantitative - and ask them if anything was ever done about their complaints - or if they even felt safe enough to complain to the people they ought to feel safe around.
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- Lagiole knifes (more optical design / less practicality)

- Victorinox SwissTool (more practical)

- Stabilo Worker Pens (amazingly low friction for a ballpoint pen)

Edit:
- Razer: Merkur Dovo Futur Duoclip (Its predecessor was an overdesigned, brittle mess. But this one is great.)
If you care about having recent technology and experience improvements, then 10 years is WAY too long of a refresh period. 5 years is the cutoff for me
> s but from my experience once you define a company culture its almost impossible to turn it around in any meaningful way

You do see it happen. Dropbox was known to have a bro-y, male dominated engineering culture in 2013 and earlier, but since then has become significantly more diverse due to cultural changes. (To be fair though, it never suffered cloak-and-dagger problems described in Fowler's post, making it more plausible to alter the culture)
It wouldn't be the first time such a thing has happened. I'm not implying that's what this is, because I have no verifiable knowledge of the sitauations.

I was pointing out a (possibly chance) correlation that should give pause. That is not "crazy". If the alleged events happened to me, I would find it serious enough of an issue that it would not occur to me to advertise my book when writing about it; conflating a moral stance with a moneymaking one makes no sense to me.

Calling the idea of not judging until proof has been presented "crazy" is what is crazy.

The allegations may well be true; if they are, there should be severe consequences. As it stands, though, all we have is one person's story, containing a self advertisement but no examples of supposedly recorded proof.
My old Snow Leopard MBP was pretty much perfect in its day. It's long in tooth now but with a new battery and an SSD upgrade would still be well and truly usable as a general web-and-email machine.
HR is subordinate to management. It sounds as though management was unwilling to take action to remove the responsible individual.
The reality is that most people have never even seen a sharp knife.

Unfortunately, sending them in to be sharpened is not likely to give you a sharp knife either, most sharpening services are crap. There is no way to really sharpen a knife for $5. A specialist who does hand sharpening is going to cost at least $30.

To reliably have truly sharp knives is best to sharpen them yourself. Start with a decent blade, eg an entry level Japanese gyuto something like a Fujiwara FKM, JCK Carbonext, Tojiro DP, or a Sugimoto cleaver. Sharpen with Japanese waterstones. Diamond is bad for the knife, oilstones and ceramics are way way too slow for modern hard knife steels. Get a medium (1000-2000) and a fine waterstone (5000-6000), the Bester 1200 and Suhiro Rika 5000 are excellent and not very expensive. Then learn how to sharpen. It takes a bit of study and practice and will feel awkward at first, but once you get it, it is not at all difficult or time consuming.

The difference is everything. For example, the reason you cry cutting onions is because your dull knife is crushing the cells and spraying onion juice aerosol everywhere. A sharp knife does not do this. Chives cut with a dull knife turn mushy right away because of the tissue damage but will keep hours if cut with a sharp knife.
Does anyone have any idea how this might have "called home" in the early '80s?

I mean, that doesn't seem possible.

My best guess is that some later version of the software was updated to include phoning home.
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Callout to The Wirecutter for doing a great job of reviewing products.

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The allegations are trivially falsifiable. Did multiple women report the same person for harassment? Were multiple accusers told that it was his first offense? If the answer is yes then heads should roll.

Why were reporters of harassment falsely told it was the accused harasser's first offense? Good question. There are several possible answers. Some more malicious than others. But they all end with several high level someone's losing their head.
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OK, let's have the conversation, tell me how this wasn't blatant sexual harassment?
> I was enrolled in a Stanford CS graduate program, sponsored by Uber, and Uber only sponsored employees who had high performance scores. Under both of my official performance reviews and scores, I qualified for the program, but after this sneaky new negative score I was no longer eligible.

She had sponsorship in a graduate program at a great school. Eventually this was allegedly ruined in a retroactive performance review change. It seems like it was roughly a few weeks after that when she left.
Hrm. Learning anything requires sustained and consistent focus on the subject. I don't think I can.

I have tried learning physics, linear algebra, calculus, abstract algebra, discrete maths, proofs, drawing, game development, compiler construction, operating systems, to write, sound synthesis, music in general and many more. In the past year. I'm not thick so I have varying degrees of success but I never make much progress. The interest lasts from a few days to a few weeks.

Computer science and programming are ones I just so happen to keep coming back to at closer intervals. I just wish I wrote more code, built more projects. There's a lot to learn and that is what lies in larger, more important projects. I know if I could get past this, I could make a positive, if only somewhat, contribution to our field.

I have ADHD, I take my medication everyday. It helps but it isn't a silver bullet. I have learned more in the past year with medication that I have the years before. It is a problem that does not seem to be going away.

Sorry Susan, I really admire your path. You've done well and it's inspirational. I just don't think I can learn psychics like you.
I'm dismayed that articles about sexual harassment in tech often bring up the Ellen Pao case. Her claims were rejected because the jury found that her claims weren't believable, and if you look at the evidence that was presented in the case, I don't think this is an unreasonable conclusion.

If the accusations in this case are true (and, according to the original blog post, there should be plenty of paper trail to back them up), then bringing up the Ellen Pao case does a disservice to Susan Fowler. It would be like bringing up the UVA gang rape case during a discussion of a real case of sexual assault.
HR is just the messenger. This rests squarely on the shoulders of Uber's management. They were informed and refused to act. The buck stops with them.

Also, having the number of woman engineers drop from 25% to less than 3% on that team should have been a red flag well in advance of this ever being published.
Some cars are very difficult to retrofit. My 2012 Accord simply cannot get a CarPlay-compatible head unit without redoing the entire dashboard. That's a multi-thousand dollar job that also compromises safety (airbag placement). Not worth it for a minor feature (though I do really like CarPlay).

Same deal for my 14 Ram 1500. Fortunately, UConnect is pretty decent as it is.
Yeah, Travis Kalanick, Uber’s chief executive, said it was the first time the issue had come to his attention, yeah. And we are to believe this. Yeah.
If the allegations are true, yes, heads should roll. Why are there no examples of this wealth of evidence that has been claimed to exist?
Well, once they permanently replace the ongoing cost, they will be highly profitable.

https://www.wired.com/2016/10/ubers-self-driving-truck-makes...

This one is not Uber, but you get the idea.

https://arstechnica.com/cars/2017/02/gm-lyft-could-deploy-th...
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You appear to be reading something into my comment that I didn't mean, or say. The behavior described is absolutely appalling. All I'm saying is that the CEO's initial statement about it goes farther than usual...these are usually carefully crafted to convey sympathy but avoid liability or commitment to action. Usually words like "appropriate action" and not words like "fired".

I noted it solely because it's unusual.
Maybe he can do more good by trying to change the company from the inside

What's the success rate of this? Keep in mind that their HR department does not have the capacity to recognize repeated instances of sexual harrassment, so someone on the inside I guess will want to transfer to HR first, in order to help there, then maybe get promoted into upper management? After that they can demote themselves to driver training.

I guess Ruby on Rails really can do anything.
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Would that mean you could never take Uber seriously as an technology company again? I suppose under certain circumstances a company does deserve a death sentence of sorts in the court of public opinion.
> The problem is that none of that is apparent to an outsider.

What exactly isn't apparent? How Radar is the way things get done and you need to file a Radar if you want anything fixed? I'd think that's crystal clear given that every single Apple engineer you talk to will explain this to you.
I think part of the problem is giving too much power to middle management in tech, which I think is unnecessary and many companies like google have tried to obviate this problem.
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Finally, some reason!
If something is not based on race, how can it be racist? That makes no sense at all.
Ah, I used to have a MIX boombox made by them. Still works, but had to leave it behind when I moved. Best set of speakers I've ever had as well.
What's your point? That harassment occurs frequently and is often mishandled? I never disputed that.
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you're not into cars then :)
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