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> Private insurers do so instead, but the government binds their hands, for example by requiring them to pay for six broad categories of drugs, without exception

I'd like to understand more of this -- it seems like there is hand-tying at multiple levels. In addition to insurance companies, why isn't it possible for pharmacies, for example, to compete on price directly -- CVS, or Walgreens, or potentially even Walmart, seem like they would have sufficient market share to negotiate prices as well.
That may be true, but there aren't more hours of content I care to watch. I often can't find anything to watch on Netflix, because I'm picky. I welcome them spending more on content, then I might be able to find something to watch.
He still makes a point if for example country A is 8% poorer yet paying 40% less.
Good question. The term "mansplaining" is just another way of saying someone is being condescending, but with the underlying implication that they're being condescending because they're male. In our culture, men do tend to be more condescending, but by using the term, it implies that it's due solely to the fact that they're male, which is wrong.

A good example of the same thing would be if a woman that complains a lot and just seems to be in a bad mood is told she's "PMSing." Statistically it may be accurate, but the assumption is rude and sexist.
Have you read the short story the movie is based on ?
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You mean for how it influenced my work as a software engineer?

"How Buildings Learn", by Stewart Brand. It's about architecture over time - how buildings change and evolve (and eventually die), to suit the needs of their owners and occupants, and how they deal with the three enemies of al buildings (time, money, and water).

This book really fueled my interest in legacy software, and how the software lifecycle actually works. I recommend it highly to all software professionals.
Here is a podcast that had some insights in this topic [0]. Found it interesting yet I believe its hard to encompass something that works gender wide.

[0] https://thewomenintechshow.com/2016/08/23/retaining-women-in...
> It doesn’t really matter so long as they circulate like other currency though.

Except that it's all profit for the criminals counterfeiting them.
I agree, maybe I should have said passive-aggressive. It's certainly also an issue from the physically 'meek and mild' types.
My daughter just watches "real dragon" videos, she's desperate for proof they really exist. Fortunately she understands they are all likely fake.
Wow. So in the name of getting women women into tech, we need to abandon

* Code reviews, design documents, and anything else that might provide a forum for "chest thumping"

* Opportunities to express one's love of traditionally geeky things

* Organic conversation during happy hour

* Meritocracy (since diversity pushes end up being affirmative action in practice)

Maybe women in tech are less common than men in tech not because of some fundamental unfairness, but because fewer women want to be in tech. Maybe that's okay, and people like you are doing significant damage trying to create an unnatural situation of exact equity that nobody really wants.
You nailed it.

Unreasonable people come in all shapes and personalities.
> How is the author resistant to change?

I specially quoted the section head "curl sits in the boat" and the entire section ends with "We sit still in the boat. We don’t rock it". Now read it again, and then tell me if that's welcoming changes or resisting changes.

> He specifically said someone has or would write a competitor to curl in Rust or some other safer language and that a good one will take off. He welcomed that.

Sure there might already be some alternatives out there. But those are not curl, they are at most forks.

> He specifically says that given a fresh start with the availability of these languages he might use something besides C.

Nope, he used the word "Maybe. Maybe not." Might is a stronger word.
Do you have data that shows that? HCV net prices are lower in the US than in the EU.
I am a big fan of it but do not take the book uncritically. Everything in the book is somewhere between simplified and incorrect. It is still very useful challenging of conventional wisdom for all of history. It ties everything together too neatly but neatness has some benefits. It makes your own think more solid and makes you question everything.
"Almost ruined someone's career" is such a stretch here. PewDiePie is a multimillionaire. He didn't almost lose his career, he almost lost a few business opportunities. Others like as not would have opened later. This is a very successful entertainer facing criticism; it's not analogous to a normal person being forced out of their job.
One wonders if this asinine legislation might also be supported by VPN providers?
I'm sure a lot of the music you hear is using autotune without you realizing it. It's not some fad.
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> the only woman engineer on the team spends the night sipping on her drink quietly wishing she found these topics more interesting or wishing she took more CS classes so she could appreciate the intensity of the conversation

Women might have different interests than men, but why do you think they might be stymied by technical conversation? She's an engineer the same as the rest, unless she was hired because of tokenism she should absolutely be able to hold her own in a technical conversation.
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That's a bit of a self-fulfiling prophecy there. You didn't use it and got angry when they integrated SMS into the hangouts application, and so when lots of people reacted that way, they decided to take it out.

I'm not saying I disagree - I'd rather have a dedicated SMS app than an attempt to force me to use Google's messaging service more.

Of course, the dedicated SMS application on my Pixel doesn't seem to correctly normalise phone numbers - if they don't have country codes in my address book, the SMSes don't show names. In a fun bit of stupidity, the phone application does the exact opposite and only displays the contact if it doesn't have the country code. I assume my carrier is doing something weird when providing the numbers that they don't expect, because it seems incredible that such a big flaw in the core features of a phone is around.
Completely agree. The book is full of ideas and questions the fundamental assumptions we live with.

I just started reading it and am through the first 100 pages. Was reading it last night when I hit upon : US Declaration of Independence document is an imagined reality - a myth. It talks about equality of all men ( was hoping to read word human there but anyway ). And then he goes onto blow away the fact how all men are not equal - biologically - evolutionary and so on.

I do not necessarily agree with a lot of things he says but the book is a riveting read and does questions some of fundamental assumptions we have made.

I can't wait to discover what the book has to offer next. It is very thought provoking.
Could this be used on the LLVM intermediate code?

http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~stevez/vellvm/
Get everyone focused on thinking about the team's mission, role, and what it takes to get the job done. Drill that into everyone's head and stick to it. Let everything else go.

A mentor once told me that business fundamentally revolves around making money, saving money, saving time, and making customers happier. I like thinking about work that way, as it has nothing to do with religion, sex, gender, age, height, phase of the moon (maybe you employ werewolves), etc.

Focusing on work can be hard though, because it might mean you will encounter a conflict when it comes to supporting a cause with good intentions. Say the MinorityCodingClub wants to host an event in your office. Personally, I think promoting diversity is generally a healthy thing. But what if MinorityCodingClub doesn't allow people not in that minority to participate in the event? You may find part of your staff wants to allow it, and part of your staff opposes it (perhaps silently).

Staying focused on making money, saving money, saving time, and making customers happier. It's hard enough to get people to come together on doing that, so don't tolerate a culture that gets in the way of making that happen.
I didn't read that as suggesting that you shouldn't do code reviews.

The issue is when code reviews become a competitive sport, and more about technical oneupmanship than they are about improving code quality and team knowledge.
I'm firmly in the multiple monitor camp because, for me, switching between maximized windows or virtual desktop is a greater distraction than the more intuitive gesture of turning my head and moving my chair, while fiddling with windows is a quickly amortized setup cost that allows me to see what I want without further interaction.

For me, the loss of adequate window resizing in recent Windows versions (you can still drag edges and corners, but not near screen borders) is a good reason to use the good tiled window management in Emacs as much as possible.
On a related note, Microsoft Office allowing multiple windows only with tricky workarounds is a strong advantage for LibreOffice.
It's a derogatory comment focused on one gender. The problem for me is that similar comments focused at women are often (and in my opinion correctly) viewed as sexist
I had to see if their own language (mal) implemented itself (ie self hosted) and I was pleased to see it does.
For anyone interested in a sci-fi book about how a society filled with this kind of technology might work, I recommend reading Rainbow's End by Vernor Vinge.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainbows_End
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That's a good question. I didn't make an effort to compare them, but it seems like it would be Racket because writing DSLs seems to be Racket's specialty, plus it's already a lisp.
Can you point me to the part of the sentence where OP says not to review code entirely? You sound like you're just making his point.
I mean, if you're writing a kernel in Rust you have the same issue. In that case you'd use no_std, which takes away the part of the stdlib that depends on allocation and such (also threads and other niceties).

You can lose new/delete and .bss statics and still write reasonable, even "safe", C++. Rust doesn't have .bss statics by design (lazy_static emulates this for you though). new isn't necessary for the "modern" C++ safety stuff and you can write pretty good modern C++ without new. All new gets you is a nice wrapper around allocation, and when writing a kernel you can't and shouldn't allocate anyway. In Rust, too, you would not be allocating, either via memmap/malloc or via Box::new().

So it wouldn't be "C with a C++ compiler", it would be "C++ without allocations", which is a restriction from the problem statement anyway.
These are both ridiculous. (1) can't take the heat, stay out of the kitchen. Women should be just as passionate about the work. (2) There's such a thing as a stay-at-home-dads and men that take care of their children. What ever happened to the chant of 'equality'?
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Your being down voted because no one wants to hear it, but there is some truth to it.

It isn't so much a biological difference (there may be some of that) but one that is likely a byproduct of how we socialize children [1].

Fixing this issue in adults is a hell of a lot harder to fix than it is in kids.

It doesn't help that software engineering as a whole, is to varying degrees, broken. From how we interview to how we manage projects [2]. We simply have no idea how to build something effective and repeatable within the constraints of the current system.

[1] I could put a million different links here, lets just use this one and you can do your own research after that: http://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-girls-bo...

[2] Again illustrative example, pick your own poison here as well: https://hbr.org/2008/02/the-experience-trap
Meditations, originally written by Marcus Aurelius, but translated many times over. More as an introduction to stoicism; choosing the translation that works best for you is ideal. Hays and Hicks translations are most often recommended but if you can peek inside the book to see what language resonates the best with you.

Stoicism helped me build the ability to care about the things in my power to change, and not stress about things that aren't. Very useful in any job or personal situation that includes a lot of ambient stress.
I don't know of any studies, anecdotes aren't data, and I don't know of any particular issues listed in the article that might affect women more than men.

The only point I'm trying to make is the obvious one: men and women are different. It's a stupid point, taken at face value, but it's one that seems to get lost every time someone says "but men face those same issues" or "that doesn't seem like a gendered issue to me".
Can I ask you where you've read/heard about the imposter syndrome first?

Also, I don't pretend we don't suffer the same symptoms, just that without a name to put on it, it's more bearable.

Personally, I have a very hard time with compliments (I had to learn to say thank you to compliments, which make me think "bullshit" naturally). So I tend to believe I'm average, even when someone insists I'm not. That's not unlike imposter syndrome. Plus I do understand what you mean about reading stuff from/about brilliant people.

But an imposter or a fraud? Nope... I just think I don't have enough self-comfidence or self-esteem, because "being a fraud" and "self imposter syndrome" meant nothing to me not long ago, plus these terms seem absurdly guilt-inducing to me. Living without this guilt definitely helps make progress in anything.
Exciting news, but this just rubbed me the wrong way:

> Do you have fond memories of LAN parties and dial-up connections, or have you heard stories of the good old days?

Very arrogant, coming from the company that killed the LAN parties by forcing always-online-DRM.
Too bad most of their original & acquired programming is terrible.
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I regularly use Netflix, Hulu, and Amazon and I disagree on the far superior UI experience. Amazon and Hulu have done a great job in recent days and I think has Netflix currently has the worst UI experience, at least on Apple TV. The Netflix app does a poor job of highlighting their original content separately from others (recently I searched for a complete list of Netflix Originals and could not find it on the app - the list I did find was incomplete). I also don't like how they organize content, or more specifically the lack of organization options. For example, it's very difficult to view only movies or TV shows - something I'd expect to be a common use case and Hulu makes very easy.

Content-wise I think Netflix is doing an amazing job, even if I cannot come close to keeping up. They're doing so well, it's harder and harder to track their originals you might be interested in.
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It's about choosing the identity you want, and accepting all the beauty that the choice allows.
When "mere disagreement" is something like "I don't think you should have the same rights as me because your sexuality/gender/class/religion is different" then, uh, yes. E.g., depriving LGBTQ people marriage because of your "religious" beliefs is not a political view. This can be hard to understand if you come from a position where you've never had to deal with any issues like that. But for people in those groups, it's important to have a place where you can be with like-minded people and talk about those issues without someone taking over the conversation and making it about themselves and /their/ group.
> as well as a (far) superior UI experience.

Did you ever see smartflix.io's UI? It was incredible.
Awesome -- thanks! This looks fun to play around with.
I agree. Especially about not trying to force meaning and takimg genuine interest in people.
Interesting. I bought a cinema 4k display for 2500$ and put it next to my 'old' 1920x1200 display. I find myself constantly using the smaller display and I don't know why.

This makes me just want to get rid of the smaller one and use the large one exclusively.
What was the process when you found one? Report it in some way, or hope the bank didn't notice?
It's true that culture can give you a sense of legitimity that will wear off the feeling of being an imposter. But cultures always have an agenda, and they give a positive feedback only if you follow it. Unfortunaly i have yet to met a culture whose agenda is to raise happy people. So you are still an imposter, you just don't know it, and worst, you feel entitled because you respect your cultures values. And well, let's just say than on all important topic such as sex, personnal growth, feeling, suffering, happiness, etc. I never witness a culture that I could label sane. Not necessarly evil, but not a power of good either.
No, release Rust does not do this. That is, the integer may overflow, but the buffer will not, unless you specifically go out of your way to use the unsafe unchecked access functions.
Very much this. Between Stanford, MIT, harvard , Yale and Berkeley, I find great lecture content I hope never goes away. Otherwise I find that finding a particularly articulate author or person and searching for all their material is another way to do this.

EG, Robert Fisk, 20 mins, sort by view count.
Ain't it great?

It's always alarming to read stories such as Susan Fowler's, that remind you sexism is still out there in force, in places. But it's great to read things like this, which implies at least a good chunk of fellow female devs are having the freedom to leave because their company doesn't care about software quality.

As you said, progress!
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I'm a layman in this space but I've been thinking about the idea of numbers a lot, mainly for fictional world-building, how aliens may use them, and wondering if they really are universal..

One of the things that strikes me, is how we just started with integers and then tried to fit everything into them. I mean they're fine for counting, but kind of a hackjob for measuring. Like sure, integers may exist in reality insofar as there may be one tree, two trees... but what about weight, speed, gravitational acceleration?

An alien species may use entirely different systems for Counting vs. Measuring.

We even found out that numbers may be "complex", have multiple dimensions. Beings exitsting in 4+ spatial dimensions may "write" in 3D; using Platonic solids to represent integers and fractions, and spheres for measurements?

And just as how humans took a while to come up with the concept of zero, could such a hypothetical 4D being have a hard time thinking about the idea of 1?
Good to see someone can see the irony.
1) Jonathan Livingston Seagull.
2) Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance.
3) Illusions.
> If you really think it could be done better then do it and prove it.

What I said is my believe and opinion, obviously. I don't have the skill set neither have time to do/prove it, unfortunately. But that shouldn't prevent me from speaking out my opinion, should it? Just like a lot of people really think space travel could be done better but not all of them have the capability and resources to do it and prove it.
"regardless of context" does not even exist. Your comment featured it and I don't think it's an inappropriate comment you made here.
> it could be a legacy and baggage if the authors resist to change

Could be. Or it could not be.

Somehow, Git has increased in popularity, despite its author's over-my-dead-body insistence on C.
There's no need for an Origin header and the SSL cert would match. That's the whole premise of domain fronting. You send the request to whatever IP resloves as Google.com, but when you make the request, your Host header is for the AppEngine instance. Because of the way Google (and AWS and I'm sure many others) route requests, they don't care that you're using the cert for Google.com, they just happily route you to whatever Host you specify. You may have to spoof some headers to do the 101 Switching Protocol correctly, but you have all the information you need to do it.
I didn't say "no code reviews" I said aggressive. I've personally seen a world a difference in response from (mostly) young female engineers when the review is less about "you did this and this WRONG, FIX IT" than talking through design decisions calmly and without the (passive) aggressive stuff.

Yes this can apply to males too, but my empirical observation is mostly more applicable to females.
OK, that's a pretty good point and you have me thinking about things a lil'.
I think they smartly took advantage of Hollywood undervaluing the streaming market early on and built an entirely new market segment on the backs of their content. That wasn't sustainable. Hollywood realized (too late) that they created a monster and started shaking them down. Netflix's only real option was to produce their own content to avoid being under Hollywood's thumb.

I think Netflix made some mistakes on their journey (that whole "we're splitting our streaming/dvd business in two to help the consumer" messaging was particularly stupid) but their transition into original programming seems necessary to me, and it's paying off.

As a subscriber, I wish Netflix was as good as it was 5 years ago before Hollywood wised up, but given Hollywood did wise up not sure I can recommend a better strategy for Netflix than what they've been doing even with the benefit of hindsight (my only real criticism is they seem to focus on big prestige shows instead of cheap comfort TV like reality shows.)
This is where auto-tune actually can fall. Singing is not exactly all about hitting the "in equal temperament tune" note all the time.

Take the fantastic singer with great technical skill. Most pitch correction algorithms, as far as I know, are strictly based on equal temperament / 12TET. Fantastic singers are capable of hitting the right harmonics, some of which are not 12TET. Fantastic singers slide into notes, they use vibrato, they add "blue notes" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_note). If you over-apply pitch correction, in other words, you could easily make a fantastic singer sound worse.

Let's also take the singer who is technically a bit pitch deficient, but has "character" that makes up for it. You don't want to make this type of singer too in-tune, either. Too much tuning might remove the "character".

I understand in the industry there are some engineers that are good enough to selectively apply auto-tune, to only fix obvious issues, and avoid the pitfalls. There are also some productions that just apply auto-tune to everything with no consideration of the content. The later will probably work for glossy pop productions, but if I was a really good singer (or a singer with "character") I probably wouldn't like the results.
Talking head on Youtube complains that being a talking head on Youtube is a lousy business. Whatever.

I've watched a few videos of people talking while playing video games. I usually wish they'd just STFU and play the game.
You could use kiwix and have the rpi host a nas w/ the db.
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When you must read email or chat immediately, unhiding it compulsively and/or worrying that you might be missing an update is a far worse "multitasking" than concentrating on something useful until a notification pops up in a peripheral monitor.
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