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> The legal system frequently disregards intent when ruling and punishment for even small infractions can be quite severe in the US.

Is this actually true? I'd like to learn more about if it is. My personal experience has been that all of my honest small mistakes were accepted as honest mistakes, occasionally with a small fine.
Your idea might fail for several reasons, always keep that in mind. There are more places other than the Bay Area: Why don't you try Berlin?

Regarding the accent: https://www.elsanow.io/home :) They are based here in Lisbon, I'm also based here and there are also lots of other startups, some of them with Eastern European nationals.

Go on Facebook and find groups and discuss with people to get a sense of fulfillment of what you need in another place. The US is hard to get to, but Europe is right next to you
That's not entirely correct. I've experienced several cases of inadequate language skills leading to misunderstandings that took months to clear up and that had real consequences. On a day to day basis, bad language skills also introduces friction and frustration.

Learning whatever language you use for work properly and being able to make yourself understood is immensely important.

I work for a company that has a pretty extensive global footprint. Just in the office I work we have around 15 nationalities, and it isn't even a big office.

Just about the only hard requirement I have for people being hired on my team is that they can make themselves clearly understood in english over a dodgy phone connection. Despite the fact that we are a norwegian company, I don't care if people know any norwegian at all. But english they must know. And yes, I have passed on norwegian candidates that could not make themselves understood in english.

And to underline how important people being able to communicate is for me: despite almost exclusively hiring people that are multidisciplinary (just being a software developer isn't enough, you need at least one other skill) I don't care about what education people have and I don't look at their grades.

If you are a developer, the most important language isn't any programming language: it is english.
>How is consentual making out at a party in Miami can in any way be considered a bad thing?

I agree with this in principle, but if it's an official Uber event, HR rules of "appropriateness" would still apply. It probably wouldn't be as big a deal if Uber's HR department wasn't on fire.
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It wouldn't be a bonus if you were entitled to it no matter the circumstance.
I, too, started leaving comments for myself and other future maintainers to explain why a bad decision or awkward solution was chosen at the time, and offering the list of things I tried along with potential future improvements. Explaining the constraints under which the bad decision was made is important so that my future self can evaluate whether those constraints are still valid.
From the stackoverflow comments its clear that theoretical models have been proposed to infer the temperature on land from the ocean database.

the main concern is that the models are pure junk science.

so saying "our models say it is so" is precisely the problem
Well, if the foundation of the house where you live is crumbling, I'm sure you'll admit it's not good.
Maybe you're depressed, and that is why you hate your job.
I'm not sure how your 'leadership' translates to all this. How can you properly lead the product dept. when you hate your job and are depressed?
And why would you want to switch to the same job, the one you hate so much, but at a different company?
This isn't true. I've personally found proofs in the diagrammatic notation that I wouldn't have found without it.
> "It runs just fine" isn't data. It isn't a useful metric for performance.

I don't see any claims from "mordant" that their anecdote is a useful performance metric. If anything it'd be a data point that could be used as a user experience metric. ie. X% of users in the target demographic agree with this statement, "works fine for me."

The point was a counter to your claim of Slack being, "offensively wasteful". Further, isn't "offensively wasteful" equally useful as a performance metric? If you're experienced in performance perhaps you could share some of your "reason numbers" and contrast that to measurements your made against the Slack client.
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>unless the political situation requires placating the noobs

If something is a pain point for the noobs it's usually a badly designed part of the language that the "veterans" have just learned by rote to step around.
Foreign banks tend to not deal with customers with US tax residence though due to FATCA requirements.

So it might be a burden even if you are under the threshold.
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Yes.

Or what is your point? That we use too fine grained sand to build our cities and then let future generations deal whith grumbling skyscrapers?
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-> Result<MyStruct, Box<Error>>

accepts almost any type of error (via dynamic dispatch of things that implement std::error::Error trait).
True. Well, arguably cooler than a Porsche baseball cap.
Actually I stick with taxis. It's more expensive but I don't have to hand over all my contacts and my location at all times from my cell phone for frankly no damn good business purpose except for one's the company won't reveal to me and will vaguely reference in its ToS. Deceivers. Sadly Lyft app permissions don't seem to be much better.
I don't understand there are no stack traces unless you use a library?
Would be happy to privately review your resume and do a mock screening call to see if there's any constructive feedback I can give.

Email is me @ glenngillen.com
One word: autocompletion.

You only need to type unsafe_file_name_from_user once. After that, even the simplest, language-agnostics autocompletion of identifiers from the current buffer goes a.long way. A proper IDE makes it even simpler.
> Where is my logical mistake then?

Your logical mistake is in understanding "discrimination" as happening mostly on a personal level, and pretty much disregarding that there is systemic discrimination through which, while everyone is being pleasant to each other, an outcome is achieved that still promotes inequality.

So while you not willing to believe this...

> This means that almost EVERY hiring manager in almost EVERY company across Germany is discriminating women. I decided for myself that this is really unlikely and that I am not willing to believe it.

...it's probably true. Not in the sense that every hiring manager is a terrible chauvinist, but there is a bias in the system which is skewed against women. The most basic example:

A hypothetical hiring manager when faced with the choice of hiring a woman, has it somewhere in their head that in humans women are the sex which can get pregnant, and they'd have to hire a temp, possibly continue paying her, and then deal with maybe even a part-time employee when they wanted a full-time one. That's simply something that a male candidate doesn't have to deal with.

This doesn't happen because someone is being particularly mean, it just happens.

Consider that this phenomenon of women's liberation is a relatively recent one, through our culture we have ingrained in us millennia of womens' oppression.
Consider that women, in the American context - even just white women, haven't had the right to vote for even a hundred years.

We've come a long way, but we're not "finished", and these forces are still there - sometimes stronger, sometimes weaker. You even see it yourself, when you write:

> Very quickly it was clear to me that the boys were much more aggressive in asking for money than the girls. The ladies were mostly shy.

Have you given some thought as to why women were shyer than men ? I would put it to you that they're being taught, from childhood, that to be a girl means to be a bit more on the quiet side, and to be a boy means to be a bit more on the loud and more demanding side. And no-one means the girls or the boys any harm in doing it, it's probably not even all that conscious of an effort. That's the link between "gender" and "personality" you were missing in :

> Hence I started to believe that lower salaries have nothing to do with gender but with personality.

The end result of it is, that you in the team that you manage, pay the women less. Which is clearly unfair.

I think if I were in that situation as your female employee, I would be a pretty loud obnoxious asshole about it.

You're doing yourself a dis-favor by just calling the people who loudly attack you, "assholes". The progress we've made in gender equality has depended to a large extent on women being unpleasant and loud.

Maybe instead of just dismissing them, try to actually imagine what life looks like from these people's perspective. Because while I am sure there is lot's of anger that get's released in an over-the-top way, that doesn't mean there isn't some truth in there that might well justify being angry.
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Couldn't stomach continuing to work for such an ethically derisory company.
Public speaking anxiety- It’s all in the mind…
One addition.

those same people can later declare a purchase you made to be criminal after the fact. Scenarios include purchases made from someone that is convicted of a crime and the government deciding devices/equipment/goods you own are dangerous to the state
I agree with everything you've written, but from a personal mental health perspective, it makes sense for most of the population to accept it. That is, until it's certain to be fixed in their lifetime.
Other companies who can hire their talent.

I actually don't believe all these stores are going to affect Ubers customer potential that much. Just like McDonalds aren't being affected despite one of their biggest hurdless is dealing with bad PR.

Most consumers don't care or know about these things.

Where it's really going to affect Uber is with regards to attracting talent.
This hasn't been my experience at all in three countries (Singapore, Vietnam, and Australia)
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> if you live in a country where the income tax rates are lower than the US federal income tax rates, which is not common (although state income taxes sometimes make this a bit more complicated).

That only applies to a subset of countries that the US has an agreement with.
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Just a few quick comments on the Switch after a day of use.

First, a quick digression, Nintendo seems to have gauged the launch demand pretty well. There are some other comments here regarding Target morning waits. I was 2nd on line at 6:40am in a northern NJ Target. The guy in front of me had slept in his car (!), but he seemed to be the only one that did. By 7:45 the line was 20ish people. Our Target had 25 consoles. So everyone that got there by 8 (opening time) got one. Nice.

The hardware seems really good. I was surprised at how nice it all fit together (nice, solid clicks) for a product that costs half as much as an iPad! It's obviously still a "toy," but I don't mean that in a bad way. The finish is below typical Apple HW standards for sure, but I think that's to be expected at $299. It feels rugged enough to take with you, although as some said, a screen protector might be nice for extended away play.

To me, the nicest, most thoughtful thing about the HW of this gen of tech products is (believe it or not) USB C! Can I please shout out my love for this freaking connector!! GO USBC! Seriously, I didn’t realize how much subliminal psychic damage non-symmetrical USB plugs have done to me. This connector is so great. You no longer feel that weird little moment of anxiety where you know it will take you an extra second to look inside the damn connector and re-orient the blasted plug 3 times. If you are an old man like me (58), you will probably need to go find a pair of reading glasses, adding insult to injury.

The new Zelda is breathtaking, but you can tell that it wasn't designed for the small screen. It looks really, really great on my OLED 1080p TV, where I think it is meant to be played. Little things like HUD element size are too small for my eyes on the little screen. The FOV is not quite right for the small screen either. Not deal killers, but also things that could be fixed in a patch.

The Pro controller is a very nice "on the couch" controller. Very solid. No lag time. The analog sticks are fine, although I much prefer a mouse for camera controls, but that is my age talking.

I am totally loving this little thing. It's well put together, the only game I care about is Zelda, so the software is great. I think Nintendo has a potential home run here.
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Oh that's a hilarious description of AvE (and I'd say it does match the purveyed image)

Keep away all body parts from the vise
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> I'm Belgian, and if I were to move abroad, I would have to file nothing with the Belgian authorities.

Don't you have to ask to get yourself radiated from Belgium's tax system?
They are paying too much unless there is some unique complication. I'm a US expat in Europe and pay ~ $1000 for my US and foreign tax preparation.
We switched everything to Google Cloud where costs are much more transparent.
Elixir is essentially just erlang, with a more convenient syntax. Being a functional language, you shouldn't be doing nested if statements in the first place. The if statement in elixir is really just a case-switch macro.

Also writing elixir always feels like the lines of code are longer than the width of my IDE

This just seems weird to me. The pipe operator makes the code really compact in my experience, and I wish other languages had this feature.

I have a feeling you never bothered to really learn the language and just jumped on the new fancy framework, and tried to glue some code you didn't understand.

You struggling to write something isn't a language problem. I'm interested in seeing some examples that highlight your problems.
(I'm the author of the article you cite.)

For the record, Chrome has been working on improving their postMessage performance as of M57 [1], so my benchmark should probably be re-run.

Assuming they end up in the same ballpark as Safari and Edge, the only browser for which stringification would still make sense is Firefox. (And maybe they have improved in the past year too. :))

But a lot of the conclusions from that article came from the fact that non-stringified postMessage perf was so bad in Chrome, which especially impacted performance on Android devices.

[1]: https://twitter.com/cramforce/status/824273332258209792
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Can't find a link right now, but I did read an article on skyscrapers being designed out of engineered timber. I think it is something about using the whole box as structure, whereas in a steel building the curtain walling is just dead load. We simply cannot keep building out of concrete, as this story shows.
During the collapse of the communist regime in Albania, the US airforce was airlifting both US and UK citizens (and may be others, I only know about those two for certain) out of the country by helicopter. I know a British family of missionaries that were based out of Tirana who were evacuated that way.
Transfer learning is very simple. Very complicated generative adversarial models / deep RL are still research domains and it is not clear it's good enough yet for major commercial applications. ResNet is a very simple idea.

The spelling/grammar errors are minor and not very important.
Well other manufacturers have had limited edition vehicles that can with accessories that didn't have much to do with cars other than branding. For some the exclusivity is a nice bonus.

still manufacturers run the risk of any technology oriented accessory or similar having issues and tarnishing the brand
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I think you're reading it right, or close to it.

It seems like the biggest advance of this one is that the design allows the use of a metallic lithium anode rather than NMC/LMO/LFP etc. They say in the introduction:

"The organic-liquid electrolyte of the lithium-ion battery has an energy-gap window Eg ≈ 3 eV, but its LUMO is below the Fermi level of an alkali-metal anode, it is flammable, and it is not wet by an alkali-metal anode..."

The actual design is lithium metal plated directly onto lithium-doped glass, placed onto sulfur ink on copper as an electrode.

My translation is "The organic-liquid electrolyte will start to spark above 3eV, which is lower than the electron energy if lithium were directly touching it as a metal. Plus, hey, the electrolyte won't wet the metallic lithium anyway so contact is poor."

The glass has a much higher band gap, wets lithium (and sodium, which they also talk about) metal, diffuses sodium and lithium pretty fast, and manufacturability is super high since now you can use all kinds of standard metal working techniques rather than powder handling and sintering -- lithium even melts at 180C, so processing temperatures might be way lower and less costly.

In any case, in this context, the weight density is probably just normalized to anode mass. That would be better to explain clearly what they meant, but it seems fair since the energy density really is higher if you have more lithium in there and that's often the energy density limiting component.

Note: Here's something from just 2014 with a better explanation of why it matters, and a much more complicated sounding solution. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/pure-lithium-in-b...
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There's an argument to be made the other way too. If you're using an unusual default rounding direction and you care which direction your PI constant is rounded, you might prefer it if PI rounded in the same rounding direction as the rest of your floating point math. In that case you'd want a constant that is equivalent to PI under all rounding modes.
I doubt anything physical would work if you are on different continent.
If this is true, then why are even bigger players with more resources like Facebook and Microsoft building on top of Electron instead of building natively?

I surmise that you are not alone in believing that Slack would be better built as a native app. But if it's such a bad direction why are so many going down this road and what are they missing?
You're talking about OffscreenCanvas. It's available in Firefox and nowhere else:

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/OffscreenCa...

Having said that, if you want fast image manipulation, you're probably better off doing direct manipulation of Uint8Clamped arrays anyway, since that can be much faster.
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How is selling out by 9AM considered 'gauging the demand well'? What about all of the people who go at lunch of after work?

I'm pretty sure they always like to sell out as a marketing ploy anyway
Unless he knew exactly what he wanted, and simply asked for that :)
Does anyone know of an article filled with examples of good naming? Functions, variables etc.
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Missing from the article is a mention of all the people who invested $15k in something and lost it all.

Also, can you honestly say that you would have put $15k in Snapchat 5 years ago?
Unfortunately, I haven't met anyone who gathers those requirements so far.
Fuck what Yahoo are doing, they're dead in the water.

What annoys me more about modern workplace culture is the inflexibility that companies adopt on almost any every facet of employee work life. A little flexibility around how employees go about performing their work could make a huge impact on their employee's quality of life. Large companies are particularly problematic. For example:

* No working from home, period. Despite technology and comms being so advanced now most jobs could probably be performed from the moon.

* 20 holiday days per annum and no negotiation around how one might earn, purchase or simply request additional time off in the form of unpaid leave

* No flexitime - in at 9am, out at 5pm...hour for lunch, that's your lot. Sucks to be you, enjoy being stuck in rush hour traffic twice a day

* More often than I hoped would be the case in 2017, many companies enforce a strict dress code even for people working behind the scenes. Some of the biggest morons I've had to work with have been devout wearers of the suit and tie (or female equivalent)

You get the idea.
I could counterpoint his/her entire comment, but I'll just briefly say that citing the success of certain ethnicities (backgrounds of the CEOs of Microsoft and Google) is like implying racism/sexism is over because Obama was President and a woman almost became President.
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Just thinking out loud, doesn't your flickr account have any photo of yours which is public? If so, share some links and your id card?
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Another recommendation for Modern Love here.

I easily silence my emotions in favor of rational thinking and Modern Love has been excellent in showing me a bit of what life is like for those who feel deeply and just the myriad of ways love is felt, expressed and experienced in all is beauty of messiness.
If it's anything like their fecking toaster then expect your OS burnt on one side and damp on the other.
I think it's because gamers have lower expectations than people used to the quality of other laptops.
I wonder if bundlers like WebPack could make life simpler here..
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Could you elaborate on what you think the elaborate on what the "right" tools would be?
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I doubt it. Reputable news sources require at least two independent sources before they'll print a story. If NYT didn't have multiple current or former employees telling them about this then you wouldn't be reading this story.
If they started building so massively and anarchically with timber, it would likely be even worse. Illegal cutting, mud slides, complete destruction of rivers, massive building fires.

The place could turn into a desert.

You likely can't fix this with some simple technological measure. There are just too many people who want to improve their material standard of living. They have the tools and it's a tragedy of the commons from there on.
You should be asking who was gateway.
Ask HN: What motivates you to participate in any online coding challenges?
What are the things that motivate you to participate in any kind of online coding challenges or competitions on any kind of platforms that you know of? Is it the cash prize or the gadgets which you get if you win? Is it about something giving back to the community by learning more stuff and teaching others what you've learned? Is it just for networking if it's the offline hackathon? Or Do you really want to build a product that is loved by people and used by them?
About the USB C, can you use a standard C to HDMI converter, or do you have to use the base ?
Unethical, shitty company does unethical, shitty thing. Cue unwavering show of support from the HN faithful.
Depends how you define v2. If you define it as a revision to the original version then -

The DSi was an upgrade to the DS but not a whole new console generation.

The Wii Mini was a downgrade (seriously) to the Wii to make it cheaper/smaller.

The New 3DS was an upgrade to the 3DS similar to the DS->DSi upgrade.

Plus all of the Gameboy and Gameboy Advance models which you could argue were often more revisions with some new features but still compatible than a totally new product.

Such as the Gameboy SP and then Micro which were totally new designs for the Gameboy Advance with a better screen but otherwise the same console.
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