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I had a few different commutes in my life.

Once I worked in a company 20km away and had to drive 45min by bus through the countryside every day. It was especially bad in summer, when the bus was full and I had to stand the whole time between sweaty people. Then I arrived at one side of the city and had to "climb" to the top of the hill on the other side of the city.

Then I worked at a hospital, but it was in the woods outside of the city, so I had to get there by bus, took 20min, so a bit better than the last job. Not much walking involved, but the busses were often rather cramped.

Later I moved into a bigger city and worked in a smaller city that was about 20km outside, but since it was a metropolitan area, I didn't have to drive by bus, just 10min train. Also, not much walking. I could get to the office between 10 and 11, so I didn't end up in full rush-hour trains.

Now I do contract work from home. Every other month or so I travel to customers for meetings, but most of them we do via Skype. All my customers were ~3 train hours away from me, so it wasn't much of a problem.

I also worked as a paper boy for 2 years, where the work included the commute, worst time ever :D
Damn, if only these women had also found the Wikipedia portal for logical fallacies, and also had concrete stats on workplace harassment, which is a personal, embarrassing, and highly political subject.
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This stuff, like catcalling, is mostly invisible to me as a man.

But at some point, you read enough stories, you realize it's the norm, not the exception.
I feel like they'd just apply the software through their partners, then when anyone complains the partner agency will make a reasonable sounding argument about how whatever they're doing is legal because of some separation between the GPL code and the blackbox code.

It will either then be decided invalid in court much later---in which case the CIA has plenty of time to do whatever it is they wanted to do. Or the existing incestuous relationship between the government and the private company will ensure that this remains a grey area of law for a long long time.
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A bit disappointed that the tech-related job titles on the list have so much overlap. I mean, "Enterprise Architect", "Software Architect", "Solutions Architect", "Data Architect", and "Systems Architect"? The distinct is not clear to me.
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Capital flows completely freely between borders, but people can't. I don't really blame anyone for being economic migrants - they're just refugees of a different type.
What exactly would you work on yourself with an EV? You can still swap the tires, wipers, etc. but there's no ICE to do anything on, and for the most part the motor and battery either work or they don't. EV drivetrains are way more reliable than ICE drivetrains as well, so your overall repair needs are going to be really low [1].

[1] http://www.energytrendsinsider.com/2015/04/13/nissan-leaf-dr...
You've just invited the assumption that your compiler can do SROA as the basis for better performance - how is that an abstraction?

If you really care about performance to the point of register occupancy, you need to look at the context. The "abstraction" of having a Point type with methods is almost certainly far from optimal, because it doesn't fit SIMD well. It's then also not "good engineering practice" to use it.
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I also loved that book! It is in my list of best books on building DSLs (https://tomassetti.me/domain-specific-languages#books)
Here is the newest PDF about something like that: http://www.computermachines.org/joe/publications/pdfs/hpca20...
I worked with a lot of women in software development, and not only didn't they face much discrimination, they were also constantly praised and helped by everybody, because people in that industry are taught constantly that women need help, that women are harassed, that we need more women.

I'm tired of that crap, when a male coder face problems with teammates, at best he's called arrogant for defending himself, at worst incompetent because somewhat that loser deserved to be bullied. It's a tough industry but women are a lot more preserved by their colleagues than men are.
Every asshole I've ever known in tech got flagged by an interviewer during the hiring process, but the people making the hiring decision ignored the feedback. Often the person doing the flagging was female, or the hiring manager was desperate for a body, or it was otherwise easy for them to justify their decision to themselves. And in every case it wound up costing the company other, productive employees and millions of dollars.

It's very easy for assholes to 'hide' their assholishness if the people with power aren't looking for it, and won't listen to the people who see it. However, even people like that are now on notice that Uber employees are tainted.
I know a lot of you guys/gals here are very successful and have your "shit" together. Do you ever ask yourself what a man or a woman of your interest has to offer to you when you seemingly have everything? I started doing this after a number of failed relationships started taking a significant toll on my well-being and the answer to this question has kept me single for a few years now (some of the happiest years too) because outside of consistent sex there is all too often nothing else. We don't even know how to "relationship" anymore. Ambitions and trying to one-up each other are taking precedence over everything else. It's really sad and reminds me of the society described in the book called "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley.
Exactly - at the end of the day, the majority of Kaggle users are potential Google customers. Majority of them would probably buy Google API access outright (for things like NLP, for example). A minority is probably more interested in building their own AI-based processing pipline using Google Cloud resources.
> Age had a strong effect on sexual frequency: Americans in their 20s had sex an average of about 80 times per year...

This seems too low to be true. Only three times per fortnight?
Snapchat is big enough to do it in house without paying Google to donate their data for their NN.

For volume consumers, Google should be paying Snapchat to learn from their data.
I think you might have wanted to do some input validation: http://imgur.com/a/510dc
> Since this certainly won't happen, what's the point of your question?

Demographic explosion in Africa coupled with the consequences of global warming makes it an inevitable event, that should be dealt with right now.

This is not a partisan issue. It's going to destabilize Europe. Massive immigration from third world countries is not the answer to that problem. People in Europe are already on the edge since the latest refugee crisis. What do you think will happen with the next wave? Some people take civil peace for granted a little too much.
The USCIS is run through application fees, by the way.
The resulting Intel Payola sometimes carrying Dell's quarters - preventing Dell from missing profitability.

https://www.velocityreviews.com/threads/intel-and-dell-scum-...
I agree with you, but to play devil's advocate: isn't the purpose of an IDE to keep you from having to remember parameters and stuff like that? Autocomplete?
Don't let anyone with kids fool you. It's perfectly fine to never have kids, and becoming much more common.

My wife and I decided before we got married we were probably not going to have kids. Now that we have been married for years and enjoy our life of independence, it has to turned solidly to never.
An electric scooter should beat all of those.
My seven year old website work without single line of code since, so I know this is true.
So what do you propose?
oh man thats intense. we plan to release the CAD so hopefully someone can take it to that next level!
>What is the motive for an enormously advanced species annihilating humans/earth/our solar system?

Here are some assumptions:

* Information limitations imposed by the speed of light mean that there is very little reaction time between the development and firing of a near speed of light weapon and any defensive measures taken. This favors pre-emptive strikes even against a far less advanced civilization. Consider two civilizations 100lys away. In 80 years the less advanced civlization could develop and launch such a weapon. Maybe they already built it and fired it at you 20yrs ago. All your information is both incomplete and 100 years out of date. Striking as early as possible is the only way to be sure that you preempt such an attack.

* Technological process may be an S-curve which allows less advanced species to quickly catch up and reach destructive parity with more advanced species.

We can't know until we find out and by then it is too late. Caution is called for in these circumstances. We should listen and lurk until we have enough data to make reasonable risk assessments.
> Personally, I'd be loath to spend a car's worth of money to trade "up"

I completely agree. But they are put into a position where the car is completely illiquid as an asset and also offers no transportation value for an indeterminate amount of time, which limits the owner's ability to plan or pursue a reasonable plan B.

If the parts scarcity was expected to last 12 months and the cost of renting a loaner was $200/month, perhaps the owner would turn out to be better off trading it in and taking delivery of a new Tesla.

Another way to handle it would be for insurers to bake in the possibility of a year long wait for parts into the price of collision coverage loaner options. If the scenario is rare this insurance would be cheap.
One of the most powerful women in tech just promised to protect other women
An absolute number doesn't say anything about whether a change is "awfully small to notice".

If the average adult had sex 18 times per year in 1990 and does it "9 fewer times" in 2010, that's a 50% reduction for example.
Some well drafted agreements will purposefully not discuss certain conditions the parties are aware may occur. Sometimes that's the only way a deal gets done. Resolving the relationship between the parties when that condition does occur is a complex dance of fitting square situations into round contract provisions and lots of phone calls.

It seems impossibly complex to predetermine the resolution of all possible human outcomes and encode it into a smart contract within a reasonable amount of time and effort.
longer != mismatched
Can you elaborate on what you mean by that? What would it mean to be able to manipulate the call graph? In which situations would that be useful?
You can't turn off the body, and you need exercise to stay healthy. Thus it does not really make sense to compare cycling to driving like the article does. If you are driving to the gym, and then using the energy you would have used biking at the gym, you will cause the combined emissions of both cycling and driving. The only way to get away from that is to be more passive, so that you would require less food, and thus cause less emissions. That is hardly an attractive option.

It is better to start with the most avoidable emissions first. Driving is obviously more avoidable than respiration, and coal fired electricity generation is likely even more avoidable. After that the next step will be to reduce the CO2 footprint of food production as well as changing to a diet with lower CO2 footprint.

Comparisons like the one in the article only give the message that it is really nothing you can effectively do about climate change, so why not continue as usual.
How many of that older generation had 6,7,8,9,10+ kids. There were certainly "things a going on."
That's a bit tricky. We figured it the kickstarter gets a good response we will make that better. As it stands, the iphone has several mics and the os uses which ever has the best audio
Hey, thanks for this in-depth response. I've generally felt that thinking high-level and not getting bogged down in implementation details is a great idea, but I do try to keep up, only really investing in a technology when it seems established (for instance, Angular a couple years ago, and VueJS now). Occasionally I get restless, and I do feel that tying myself as much as I have to .NET has limited me in some ways, but I guess there's a balance to be sought.
1. Soylent is the majority of my caloric intake, so cut out the passive aggressive bullshit I'm trying to make meaningful contributions here.

2. I'm stating the major hurdles that need to be crossed for mainstream adoption. We will not see major shift without an alternative that people want to embrace both ethically and in flavor. Bacon is obsessed over for a reason; people don't want to give that up. We simply won't see a major shift without meat substitutes tasting like meat.
Wow, sorry, I didn't say they needed guidance. I said they didn't need to be force fed this narrative.
Feeling good about feeling bad is the current state of public discourse.
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2017/feb/02/amusing-oursel...
> actually have the good chips.

Has that ever been the case yet, for ARM servers?

There's no "magic" in ARM. The reduced power comes from the reduced complexity. Heck, branch prediction is fairly new in ARM. I have trouble seeing a time when an Intel chip will ever fall behind even a bucket full of ARM chips, unless workloads ever fall near zero.
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Spoiler Alert: Day 1 is apparently just enterprise partner/customer announcements, and some self-congratulatory words, except for the single new product announcement: Cloud Video Intelligence API. Apparently all of the product announcements are tomorrow, which was announced at the end of this mostly poorly presented keynote.
The article isn't responsible for the recent re-purposing of the phrase "Nevertheless, she persisted", and I think it's a relevant connection to make.

And I read the "Nevertheless, she coded" as more of a global She, as in there are still women in computer science pushing for equality even in the face of the obstacles that women in tech have encountered in the past.
what is driving lack of intimacy? My theory is pretty controversial but it's because women are working more as well as men. Less parent time, less attachment, less intimacy. For men without a strong male figure it's even more impactful.

p.s. crazy theory I came up with after reading http://parenthood.library.wisc.edu/Hoffman/Hoffman.html
No, I benefit from free software every day. I'm glad that there's software that isn't encumbered by expensive licensing schemes. What I'm taking issue with is free software orthodoxy, or with the notion that there is some sort of "ethical" issue at play with software that is different from the ethical issues at play with the usage and distribution of /any/ kind of product. "Software freedom" is an odd end-unto-itself.
Competition that was on a cash burning trajectory that could have been picked for much, much cheaper later (or just died out)?
Creating and accepting such a labor landscape as described in part depends on smartphones and other such changes...

And while job uncertainty is a give (compared to previous decades) "mismatched job shifts" are not necessarily more...
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That says nothing of the mismatched working hours that the parent was speaking to.
In my city, they've just taken some two lane roads down to one lane and eliminated car turning lanes, to add bike lanes. Those bike lanes see maybe 1 bike every 15 minutes, while the cars are now significantly more backed up (I've noted an extra 5-10 minutes of idling to travel a mile during busy times, no idea how many cars total in a day).

Without denigrating the need for bike safety and separated lanes, I really wonder about the numbers on the carbon trade-off there!
Man, defraud multibillion-dollar corporations all you want. I'm absolutely fine with that.
The biggest factors to me: use appropriate, future proof (insofar as possible) reliable tools and frameworks. Favour popular established libraries over custom code. This can dramatically reduce surface area you need to maintain, and simplify the code that remains.
Simple but often neglected.
I'm more a fan of The Great Filter hypothesis. We're not finding life for the simple reason that in a thousand years, no one will find us; we'll be banging the rocks together again. It might just be that the stage between where we are now, and where we imagine going, is unlikely to be crossed.
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Wal-Mart does use IT to improve the flow of inventory, but also to improve our interactions with shoppers, employees, and the communities that the stores are based in.

We recently just had an internal hackathon, of which there was everything from AI to complete redesigns of our business model. I guarantee that one of those will become a full project withing the walls.

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I used to be a pretty big fan of VS Code until it started defaulting to Powershell recently. Due to PS security policies, common development tasks are blocked in all but the most common tools. It's also got some aliases that get in the way. I know it's possible to get around these issues, but it's enough of a hassle that I migrated back to Atom for web development.
They have just committed to spending $1bn on GCP though, so not unrealistic that they'd leverage some of the other suite of tools.
I'd love to see studies on that. My personal anecdotal experience has not been that nor has it been that for friends and family who have tried vegetarianism/veganism, but it'd be heartening to see that there is documented proof that we can shift.

I've switched the majority of my caloric intake over to Soylent but I still end up craving meat, for example.
Red Plenty (by Francis Spufford), a novel about economic planning in the USSR, is an excellent read and characterizes the information problems at the core of the failure of central planning.
I agree that that is irksome. That being said, we're all victimized by commercial enterprises constantly -- it's difficult to see /this/ particular violation as uniquely worthy of outrage (although I confess that this is not a particularly good argument that FOSS violations are uniquely /un/worthy of outrage).
Those were secretarial jobs because the men designing the hardware thought that was the hard stuff, and that designing software was basically secretarial work. When they discovered that designing software was hard, they forced the women out. http://gender.stanford.edu/news/2011/researcher-reveals-how-...
A 401k is not a savings account. It's a retirement account. You're not supposed to pull from it between jobs, and there are serious financial penalties for withdrawing before you're past retirement age.

A 401k is also supposed to be able to provide you with an income resembling your at-retirement income for at least 10 years, which is obviously impossible if you only have 2.5x your at-retirement salary in it.
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Well I could see Instacart helping (and potentially being acquired by) certain chains who simply don't want to be involved with online ordering and fulfillment. I suppose there's also the added benefit that they can choose from multiple retailers in case certain retailers carry products you can't find at others.

But on the topic of delivery/fulfilment, look at some of our grocers in Canada (Metro, Loblaws, Walmart) who are worth billions of dollars, yet whose only foray into online ordering is for pickup. Wow! Innovation!

A Loblaws near me was applauding itself for setting up the ability for buyers to order products online and pick it up in store, while people in the UK and parts of the US have been able to order groceries online and get it delivered for years. In 2013, Amazon Fresh expanded to SF. Full ordering and fulfilment. While in 2014, Loblaws launched the concept of click and collect, but has not expanded their offering to include delivery.

It's baffling to me that neither Loblaws nor Metro have at least tested online ordering and shipping in downtown Toronto like the way Amazon Fresh expanded into major American cities.
This is a feature that Microsoft's computer vision API offers (in contrast to AWS Rekognition and other services): https://www.microsoft.com/cognitive-services/en-us/computer-...
Maybe variety is key. It could be that people with extra money to spend, are really particular about what they order, and don't really look too deeply into their bills(for example they believe it when instacart says they take 15-20% margins).

BTW, for the grocery market., a $3,4B valuation isn't that large .
I actively left the word selfish out of my post, and the wording really doesn't matter. I don't care what they believe or what they do don't deserve. All I care about is the results.

They are gaining benefit with vaccines and are causing harm without. They are safe and effective. Other people's children die when enough people choose not to vaccinate. I still don't see a grey area, no amount of mincing words adds a grey area, this should be mandatory.
I invoke my 5th amendment right.
Did you keep or return the laptop? If you kept it, how do you like it?
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You are bringing your own assumptions and preconceptions to what Linux is about. Linus Torvalds is not Richard Stallman. Linus has his bread buttered by the large corporate interests that contribute to ensure Linux development. The Linux foundation was initially basically a way to setup a commercial entity to pay Linus for his work. Since Linus holds the Trademark for Linux, it's kind of his say what gets to carry the moniker Linux Foundation.

And there bodies, what are the FSF and Apache Foundation after all? There's also the GNOME foundation, etc, etc.
> You've just invited the assumption that your compiler can do SROA as the basis for better performance - how is that an abstraction?

"Expands to the exact same code everywhere on every imaginable compiler, even toy compilers nobody uses" is not part of the definition of "abstraction".

> If you really care about performance to the point of register occupancy, you need to look at the context. The "abstraction" of having a Point type with methods is almost certainly far from optimal, because it doesn't fit SIMD well.

What do you think http://www.agner.org/optimize/#vectorclass is then?

> It's then also not "good engineering practice" to use it.

Yes, it is! It makes your code more readable, and if you're compiling on any production-quality C compiler anywhere your Point class will have the same performance as the raw version. Lower maintenance cost, fewer bugs, same performance.
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There aren't third-party anti-virus on iOS....
I'm not saying compilers shouldn't optimize, they just shouldn't try to be clever. Some things can be expected to be done by most any compiler, many things are extremely compiler-specific and only work under very specific circumstances.
The difference between code and literature is that, while both can be abstract, code must ultimately be executed unambiguously. Underneath all the abstraction is concrete meaning. This is unlike literature, which concerns ineffable concepts like hopelessness and anguish - qualia. We don't program fuzzy, human ideas. Otherwise, a computer wouldn't be able to do anything.
That's purportedly over patents, not copyright. They're probably weak claims, but it has nothing to do with GPLv2 vs. GPLv3 vs. MIT vs. BSD vs. Apache vs. any other license. It has to do with not getting patent suit indemnification from Google. Google did go to court multiple times for copyright claims from Snoracle.
>What's wrong with the explanation the researchers gave in the paper abstract?

That "more single people" is basically a restatement of the phenomenon of less sex, and not an explanation.