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Honesty and integrity are pretty high on the list of qualities I like in people I associate and work with. The fact that you would conspire with your previous employer to artificially prop your value up and then tell a bold faced lie in an interview, does make it seem like you are not above doing whatever it takes to get what YOU want and feel you deserve.
What makes you jump to the conclusion that technology investment, or capitalism, or whatever you think is "bad" is "at the expense of others?"

Currently, about 10% of the world's population lives in extreme poverty. It was 12% in 2012. It was 40% in 1990.

The history of the world, post-war 20th century, is one of extreme progress for the lives of real people -- especially really poor people.

So, what do you think drove that change? Was it shaping a society that "works for everyone?" Or was it technology and the efficient allocation of capital?

I'd argue that it was the latter, because I can look at the world and find the places where people have remained extremely poor, where people have starved to death in large numbers, and it's not hard to see that it happens in the places where technology and capital are stopped.

Before modern markets were (slowly) permitted to function in China and India, lots and lots of people died of hunger. Way more than today. The lives of nearly everyone in the former USSR became much better when the wall fell. It's still pretty terrible to live in North Korea. Right now in Venezuala people are starving, and there are hundreds of thousands of people demonstrating on the streets.

I'm fine with "the oligarchs" getting rich, by comparison.
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Not sure what the big deal with this is! Whatever the recruiter wants to think, you are offering what it would take to make the move over. It's not like if they offered less that you would just as likely make the move. You are saving both parties times which is positive overall.
Original Article (thankfully not behind a paywall):

http://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(17)30344-6
> I mean, how many media entities said Iraq had WMD before the war? Most of them?

You're conflating two different categories of error. In the case of Iraq WMD, the claims were attributed to the government agencies making them and most stories noted when experts (e.g. the UN inspectors, French intelligence, etc.) either disagreed or simply pointed out the lack of corroborating evidence. Additionally, all of the credible media published followups and corrections over time.

What we've been seeing a lot more lately are National Enquirer-style complete fabrications where no detail in the story is backed up by a verifiable source and nothing will be retracted, no matter how flagrantly wrong.

Google could stop the latter by flagging sites which don't cite real sources or retract known fabrications. That doesn't mean that they need to be the content police – a site which wants to say policy X is terrible could still run op-eds or simply quote real people (“Sen. X says other party's plan will …”).
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Man. Being treated this way would make me want to explode.
>In exchange for...greater responsibility.

So you would be willing to be paid less to do more?
Why lie? Just say you don't provide that information. If they don't like it, move on to another company.

Why are people so blase about lying? I don't get it. It's arguably far more helpful to just wait for the company to state their number first - bearing in mind the fact that there's tens of thousands of other companies out there. Eventually one will budge. In my experience, they all do.
My kid is 3. Try installing flooring or doing any type of home repair with a 3 year old running around. Good luck.

Sure, it's good to have hobbies. I like to forage mushrooms, cook, hike, photograph, etc., and I agree they are stimulating, creative, whatever. Who's arguing otherwise? I don't follow. My dad's only real hobby was working on the house and yard. One could argue that's less stimulating than having hobbies spanning a more diverse set of skills. Also, maybe parents should occasionally consider what hobbies their children want to do.

I have installed flooring a few times in my life. I have never consciously used that experience in other facets of life. All it taught me is that I would rather spend my time doing something else. I don't find it particularly satisfying or enjoyable. Let's say I have 5 more instances of wanting new flooring in my life. What I'm saying is I'd prefer to have 25 days where I can choose how I want to spend time rather than spend those 25 days installing flooring to save $4000. I think most of my peer group thinks similarly, whereas I think many middle class people would have made the opposite decision a generation ago.

My point was not that you should only be coding or sitting in an office or something. I don't know where you got that idea. My point was that I don't inherently value self-sufficiency when it comes to home/yard/car maintenance – at least not to the same degree that previous generations did.

And obviously all of this is on a spectrum, right? I think it's important to know how to change a tire or jump a battery, if you drive often. I know how to change my own oil but rarely choose to. I don't know how to, say, change my brake pads. It's probably easy, but it's not something that comes up often enough that I care about learning – and not an area I want to test my amateur abilities.

EDIT: Anyway, I'm not trying to argue, though I acknowledge I am bristly in the text above. I actually agree with most of what you said. You're totally right that as my daughter gets older, there's more opportunity for the family to do projects together, and if she enjoys learning how to install a new light fixture or whatever, that can be a hobby for us to do together. Though I still wouldn't view it as inherently much more valuable than other hobbies, like camping or painting, and that's where I think my viewpoint differs from my parents' or grandparents'.
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Exactly right IMO. we are entering very dangerous legal grounds and belief systems with this rubber stamping of 'verified' information. Jared Cohen, former head of Google Ideas and now president of Alphabet has a pretty spooky background as Julian Assange will attest to...
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Remember the time he went walking with Mark Zuckerberg and Zuck says I know you did something famous back in the day, what exactly was it? Answer: I'm the father of the browser.

He had a career before Netscape, he wrote the Mosaic browser for the Mac and Windows while he was still a student at the University of Illinois. After having to install tcp/ip on my Windows machine (Trumpet Winsock) that is the first browser that I used, perhaps a week(?) after it launched.

Interestingly after getting into a spat when he wanted to use the Mosaic name with his new company his alma mater licensed the code to Bill Gates so he could quickly launch Internet Explorer 1.0 and use it to destroy Netscape. So he really is the father of the modern browser.
"I'm breaking the law, but I don't want to get in trouble" is a sad excuse, not a legitimate reason.
There's two kinds of faith.

One is ideological and almost by definition cannot be observed.
The other one involves things that can be observed where our faith is our trust of the well credentialed individuals who observe them.

You can choose not to have faith in the second one, but that doesn't make it not real.

What you're saying if you're denying global warming is that you don't trust the thousands upon thousands of trained scientists observing it. That doesn't make it not true whether you believe in it or not.
Google has logs. Google made assertions with the logs backing them up. Uber (to my knowledge) has not denied the assertions. The employee in question (to my knowledge) has not denied the assertions.

It's a civil case. That's probably enough.
Knowing a candidate's compensation history can save an employer a significant amount of money which they otherwise might've spent on the same candidate. This gives them an unfair advantage, and the way I see it, it's unavoidable to remove this advantage. By restricting employers from asking about previous compensation, we're just shifting this advantage to the employees, for better or worse.
The problem with objective fact checks: https://twitter.com/nbcnews/status/785299709342654465?lang=e...
WikiLeaks publishes what they get, if it is authentic, if it wasnt yet published elsewhere and if they find it historically significant. They cant really choose what to publish, since in case they would try to censor some leaker, he can easily leak via some other channel and accuse WikiLeaks of being biased and not publishing his leaks.

Would you like them more if they would publish what they get, unless it somehow hurts American institutions?

Why should WikiLeaks protect only US? They arent US organization, Assange is Australian, most staffers are European based.

Your arguments sounds like it came from somebody who would say, that leaked DNC and Podesta emails should not be read, because they can hurt DNC campaign. I advise you to start advocating for big American firewall, something like China has, so you can protect US citizens from all information that might open their eyes but hurt some officials.

It very important that these tools are published, so software companies can patch their software and people are able to protect themselves. Not everyone is US citizen. Rest of the world greets any leaks from intelligence agencies from any country. If you dont want, dont update your OS and security software, the rest of the world will.
I haven't used D much- how much of an impact does that have when using the standard library or other libraries? Is there a good way to use things that assume a GC even when it's disabled?
> Why does gc disqualify a language as a system's language?

AFAIK a "system programming language" should have deterministic performances, obviously Go hasn't. But different people might define "systems" differently.
> Fact checking is like spell check.

No it's not. Spell checking relies on very precise rules. Fact checking relies on assessing context and, more often than not, the speaker's intention.

For example, let's take the statement "There are 300 million people in the US". Is this false? Well, it depends where I'm going with it.

If I was only relying on the figure as an approximation, I can say something like "therefore deaths from terrorism only affect 0.0x%, which is not something we should worry a lot about". This is obviously a factually valid argument, even though you might disagree with the conclusion b/c you think other facts are more relevant etc.

On the other hand, my argument can also be "and there were 300 million in 2007, therefore the population has been stagnant and we need to do something about it". This is factually quite false, since the population has in fact increased by ~18M.

Now should the original statement "there are 300 million people in the US" be rated true or false? A hostile fact checker may rate the first instance false, since there are actually 318+ million. A friendly fact checker will rate the second instance true b/c I obviously meant the rate of growth was low by historical standards etc.
Sub7 had an editor back in the day that would allow you to build a custom client. I don't remember the technical nature of it. I believe it was just packing configuration and the client into a single executable w/o recompiling, but this is the kind of stuff teenage script kiddies were doing back in the day with VBS and/or Delphi.
They could be as ignorant, but the fact that they haven't forced their employee to disclose anything appears to the judge that they're trying to have their cake and eat it too.
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This is fantastic news. But for those of you wondering what to do if you are asked this - it's pretty simple: you lie. This is a negotiation. If you ask a car salesman how much the dealership paid for a car, you think they're going to tell you the truth?

"What if they find out?"
They won't. How could they? There ARE laws, very clear and absolute ones, about what a past employer can share about you. Your salary history is most certainly protected by them.

"What if they ask for a paystub?"
Ask yourself if you know what you're getting into here. This is not a company that is going to treat its employees well.
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You can look at the Employment/Work Experience and see his current (and past) roles. A good resume has this information easily available that you can get to it within 2-3 seconds.
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Well, overriding dunder methods isn't really metaprogramming. It's just method inheritance/override.

Is there anything in D similar to decorators? How does the registration pattern work in D, for instance?
No, they're also claiming that their LiDAR is "fundamentally different" than Waymo's.
You're describing the common psychological stance very well. But are you advocating that we continue to think/feel this way?
I don't think they are very similar texts at all, have you read both?

The old testament is a compendium of an entire people's history over a significant period of time; with one of the primary themes being the this-worldly reward for correctness / obedience of God's Law where disasters and tragedy indicate the deviance or transgression from the Law. The Quran is a revelatory text from a single generation, revealed by God to Muhammad, primarily providing divine justification for Muhammad's conquests and further expansion.

If your intent is to suggest they are similar as in terms of laying down God's law and Morality - sure: but that's the essence of monotheistic religion more generally.
This is the #1 rule I always tell people who are interviewing for a new job. Never tell a potential employer your past job salary, especially so if you are unhappy with that salary.

When my girlfriend was interviewing for a new job two years ago we talked about this because the recruiter was very demanding about knowing what her current salary was and I told her to stay firm on it because the salary in her current job was, frankly, shit. In the end she got a 50% pay increase over her previous job and then six months later got promoted with a pay increase that effectively doubled her salary from her previous job. Which brings me to another point- a lot of people will justify disclosing the amount by reasoning that they can always ask for a raise after they get hired and the important thing is to get a foot in the door. The problem is that anchoring is a very real thing. If you start at $50k instead of a $75k, every raise you get at that company for the rest of your career will be based off that first salary. If you stay at a company for 10-15 years, that is an enormous difference that could be well into the six figures.

Bottom line, don't disclose salary history to employers. You'll seldom find an employer who will tell you what your colleagues in the same job make. Why do you want to show your hand?

As for this law, I'm actually mildly opposed to it. I don't think that the government should have a hand in determining salary beyond minimum wage, because that is an agreement made between two consenting parties in private industry. If you are a more experienced negotiator and are willing to ask for more money than your counterparts, why shouldn't you be at an advantage? There's no law that says you have to disclose it and the rest is up to you.
Or you could simply say, "I prefer not to disclose that information". If a potential employer continues to push you to make the first offer, you can dodge the bullet and walk away with your integrity intact.

Personally, I never ask a candidate what they previously made. I do occasionally ask what their salary expectations are, but only when someone has applied that I perceive as far overqualified for the position they are applying for. e.g. Someone with a PHD and 20 years of experience applying for a Jr - Mid level position.
You can go easier on the GC or avoid it altogether. See this article and the discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13914308
I don't think impartial means what you think it means.
Alexa correctly answered a not-so respectable 19.5 questions out of 54.

But, with a whopping 32.5 correct answers out of 54, Home comfortably takes home the gold.

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This feels a lot like a technology that's not quite ready. This is why I don't use Siri either. The functionality is limited to quick searches I could do easier myself.

Still, it's interesting to see Google take the lead here. I bet the ability to connect to such huge tools like search and maps must be a great advantage.
I've always wanted to jump into a project that used NLP
et al and theology/mythology experts to map thematic commonalities between the world's religions and proto-religious texts. I contacted Huston Smith a little too late.
I would add that the only other real market related finance jobs (that I know of) are in Chicago. There is a large commodity and futures market there as well as the Chicago Board of Trade. I worked at a clearing company there and it was really interesting and enjoyable. There are a bunch of prop trading firms here as well as execution services (which are interesting in their own right) and clearing firms.

Edit: I would note that there is a lot of C# work in the financial markets in Chicago. There is the C++ high performance stuff but there is also high performance C# as well as just plain ol' "normal" C# work.
Great! (and, congrats on the re-licensing.)
I do not work for MS. I use a Surface Book, which is a slightly higher end but related hardware.

The biggest frustration about it is that many open source projects only care about making their scripting work on a Mac and UNIX. This is awkward because it means I need to use the Bash-on-Windows subsystem which has no updated to a recent version of Ubuntu and is somewhat challenging to upgrade.

Other than that, it's great. It's a solid devbox (when battery saving mode is off), touch monitors are great for working with touch interfaces, it's very easy to plug into the OS primitives to add things like notifications to your build chains, and the battery life even with docker on is better than my corporate macbook pro.
And that's why the Unlicense has a BSD-style "Anyone is free to…" clause.
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Are we in the twilight zone? An advertising company fact checking political discourse? Would google apply the same fact check to their own company?

"Does Google dodge taxes"
Note that Google Fiber is only available in a limited number of markets, and they're no longer expanding. So they're not much of a competitor to national ISPs.
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It's interesting that 50-USC-46 doesn't seem to actually "officially state" any goal for the agency. That seems too glaring an oversight to be unintentional, so your appeal to such standards seems unfounded. I suggest that by any reasonable standard, CIA should have been shuttered decades ago. Even the tools seen here are indicted elsewhere in this thread by a knowledgeable person as "clownshoes".
I disagree that it's to your advantage to try to anchor to a high number early on. The reason IMO is that, at the beginning of a negotiation, neither party knows much about the other. They don't know enough about you to know whether it would be worth paying you that much, and you don't know enough about them to know if you'd be willing to work for them for that much. Start naming numbers at the beginning, and both sides will name extreme numbers to play it safe, they'll be far apart, and no deal gets made if they both stick to those numbers.

Let them see what you can do for them, and let them show you what it's like to work for them, then you should find it easier to come to an agreement on a number.
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Nah, I mean OP should start their own venture if they've run out of salary headroom and want more.
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D's memory safe notions are very different from Rust's.
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Impartial doesn't mean indifferent.

This has been going on for a fair amount of time, the judge has reproached Uber more than once, a lot of evidence has been submitted. It appears that the judge has decided that, at this point, there's enough evidence to say that it's a fact that he stole the documents. They had a chance to challenge the [apparently overwhelming] evidence Google has, and they failed [apparently, also overwhelmingly].
Yes the Japanese are polite and formal and like China there's a huge pressure to conform. However imo there's one key difference: the Japanese obsession with kaizen- constant improvement and striving for perfection. It may not override outward conformity for appearances sake, but imo there are enough Japanese who are madly in love and obsessed with the idea of attempting to achieve acme, that they're willing to risk everything else for it ie. look at things differently, disobey, risk embarrassment from failure, etc... Conversely with the Chinese, guangxi tends to be only fully actualized and achieved with money and expensive physical things that money buys. When it's just about money and there's no love, everything suffers like creativity and quality. The end result is a cheap shallow copy. The authoritarian gov exacerbates this problem.
A very significant number of "fact checks" on sites like Politifact are in fact opinion articles masquerading as fact checks, with some links to sources added if we're lucky. Because a lot of people gave up on reading anything titled "opinion" since they already know what the opinion would be by just checking the name of the site. If you read lefty site, you know what they'd say on Trump or economy or immigration or whatever. Same on righty site. But people still may read something called "fact check" hoping to find anything other than propaganda. Until that well gets poisoned too.
Spell checking is distance between a word and the closest word in a set. But it's not like the set of allowable spellings for words is well-defined. You generally choose a dictionary (or /usr/dict/words) and call that canonical-enough. Which dictionary you use, and whether your spelling is actually a better choice for your context than what the dictionary says aren't generally considered. Even though they do fuzz the idea of what's properly spelled.

EDIT: I'm not trolling or trying to start a flame war on spellers. Just point out that almost every part of human life has some subjectivity to it.
How did 'he' get lucky in the financial lotto? For providing a service that practically everyone in the world wants but no one did right at the time?

How do you have progress without private industry actually making things?
Possibly, I think "impartial" means reserving the judgement until the judgement is to be made at the end of the trial as opposed to in the middle of the trial, which could very well be wrong - IANAL.