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Webpack, yarn and system test are great highlights for a point release.
Developer Broke Decade-Long Silence to Expose This Bank's Cybersecurity Cover-Up
You have a valid point of logic. The only problem is that in reality, many many of those books actually were racist. Slavery and racism were in fact culturally acceptable in the United States for a period of time, it is not at all a stretch to hypothesize that the writing of the time reflected that fact. One might even argue that to assume otherwise would be extremely illogical.
>> We need to forget politics red vs. blue and consider that this may be a bad idea. If we make it an unpopular position for politicians to support, they won't pass it.

Then let's stop blaming the shouting man for stuff other than being the idiot he is. There's plenty of other folks to blame, and plenty of them were in power before now. There was plenty of scary and stupid Internet regulation discussed under Obama that he didn't react to the way I would have liked AT ALL. There's plenty of stuff Democrats suddenly decided they didn't like and Republicans suddenly decided they like when in reality it's hardly that different at all. There's a bunch of shitty people in Congress and in many other sectors of government, and let's not forget that they're not going to go away once anyone's President-of-choice wins the next election, or that they're not partly responsible for a whole bunch of conservatives feeling disenfranchised and going with a lunatic as an overreaction.
We have no clue as to how various chemicals released by the mother affect the newborn psychologically. Would probably not be able to predict the effects for over 10-20 years.

I'm worried we might end up with sociopathic kids. It's been shown in many animals that the mother does not bond with the newborn without oxytocin release from childbirth.
Interesting. I naively assumed that the most important part of preparing for a developer job interview was to prepare for the coding exercises -- the stereotypical algorithm stuff.
Embedded programming, kernel programming, high-performance computing. I view all of these as variations on systems programming.

> What does that tell me? I might assume it meant manual memory management or a language suitable for writing a kernel, but the Go people call that a "system programming language" even though neither of those things applies.

I'm not sure picking one relatively odd member of a category and concluding that since it doesn't match in some aspects that the category doesn't exist is useful. To stay with the theme, you might encounter 24 Hours of LeMons[1] at some point, and I don't think that makes the idea of race cars invalid or useless (there's a reason I said a 70's Pinto might be acceptable).

You can do some systems programming with garbage collected languages, or even dynamic languages in a pinch. It's not ideal in the vast majority of cases, but there are certain situations where it's not entirely unacceptable either (running the webserver in the same language as your dynamic site is implemented in is one).

1: http://www.cnbc.com/2016/06/19/how-an-amateur-launched-a-mil...
If nutrition facts regulations went away tomorrow, I suspect the market would enforce their existence anyway.

I think consumers want to know what is in the food they're eating, so you would get many startups who study what makes something healthy, or finding cheaper ways to list calories and ingredients, instead of listening to the government telling you about the food pyramid etc.

Even if customers deem it too expensive to pay for the nutrition facts, then how do you or others gain the right to intervene in a voluntary act between two people?
An interesting question is: does it just reflect reality, or does it shape reality? There are cultures with different ideas about genders - ideas taught to people. So a random book, movie, story, etc you discover in modern west has a higher chance of describing a man murdering a resisting woman. If you see that trope repeated enough times - are you affected in any way? Is there a statistically relevant impact on society as a whole?

I'd say that if there is, then yes, content which keeps the idea alive is sexist to an extent. (Unless you're writing non-fiction) And the existence of the adtech, and ideas like brand awareness, and catchy jingles, and recent fake news is a decent example that society is relatively easy to influence just by constant repeating and enforcing of information.
There are other reasons to take a laptop home. For instance, at my workplace, the night before snow is predicted, nearly every single person will want to take their laptop home so that they can work from home the next day if it snows. If your laptop pool is smaller than the number of employees, there won't be enough laptops to go around.
"Another metaphor would be like a computer with many programs running simultaneously. The more programs that are running, the slower the computer functions. This is a problem then. With all the programs running that are demanded of our consciousness in this modern world, we have problems finding deep integration."

I find this part disturbing if he sees the different programs as competing viewpoints and wishes to enforce a "deep integration" by limiting the possible viewpoints to a single one. I see a mind that is in constant contradiction and disagreement as the only way to prevent a person from becoming a zealot of any particular viewpoint.
That paragraph didn't match the rest of the article. I sense that he reached his own conclusions well before collecting the data. Confirmation bias is the cardinal sin of data mining.
So you fall in the "close enough" category (UK being especially convenient since there’s nothing close on the western side), good to know! I was mostly thinking of the US in my post.
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A good employee does their job, and then does more. No way should they be allowed to work for someone else (themselves!) on your dime. Fired.
Since the stated goal of the project is

> The goal of the project is to make text hard to read for computers yet fairly easy to read for humans

it has to be close to bulletproof. Humans should be able to decipher obfuscated text while computers should never be able to decipher the same obfuscated text. This is going to be impossible since AI is a fast follower to human ingenuity.
> your company doesn't care (and rightly so) about your lost productivity because it just simply doesn't matter.

The lost productivity of a single person might indeed not matter much if the corp is big enough, but since everyone is sitting in the open-plan office, we're actually talking about maybe 10-20% productivity loss across all employees, which even for a big corp is quite massive.
done! Good luck with the course!
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Seems like a fairly simple scam. All you would need is an email thread with relevant invoices and you would be well on the way. Surprised all the money was recovered after the fact though?
Politicians will be politicians.

"Like those millions of people who believed the fake news fed to them,"

So people using Facebook which includes both Democrats and Republicans? You do realize a lot of Democrats are not technologists right? And that they won't have a better understanding of technology than their conservative brethren?

I know it's popular among my circle to just outright shit on all Republicans no matter what, but it's really not helping our cause.
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In Europe, Paypal is a bank ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PayPal )
I can understand where you are coming from. I can always feel the anxiety coming back when I've taken them, and can see how that would make folks uncomfortable. I've a friend that won't take them because of this, in fact.

For me, having taken more psychedelics than one would like to admit, it just mellowed out over time. Those walls broke down some and i got more comfortable with that bit of myself. And oh, the depression lifting has been a real effect for me as well. Of course, mine didn't reach anxiety attack level either, and I think that would have scared me off.
Back when I took signal processing, I remember our professor making a very insightful comment. I sadly don't remember his exact words, but it went something like this.

"20 years back, everyone wanted CD's for music, today it is flash drives, the upcoming thing is streaming music from the internet. Technologies come and go. What I can say is that the Fourier transform will still be around 200 years from now as a valuable way of understanding the world."

I am of course in no real position to assert that this is a good idea (as I am still in graduate school), but this is the reason why I gravitate towards math and physics classes. Conditional on the assumption that we have a meaningful civilization decades from now (and none of the dangers outlined for instance in the excellent book "Here Be Dragons: Science, Technology and the Future of Humanity" by Olle Haggstrom) cause its utter collapse, I think it is a safe bet to assume "fundamental" topics like Maxwell's equations, Fourier transforms, etc will still be around, alive, and fruitfully studied and applied across a variety of domains.
Part of the reason is simply historical: the Fourier transform has had over 200 years to prove its worth time and again across a variety of disciplines.

Maybe deep learning is here to stay, maybe it isn't. I don't know, and I am not willing or interested in making bets either way. I am willing to bet on a time proven framework of understanding, such as the examples above.
> You do realize a lot of Democrats are not technologists right?

Technologists believe fake news, too.
> The Nazis concealed and eliminated any traces of Babiy Yar before retreating, there was nothing there at all already.

Please brush your history knowledge. Pretty please.
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> We need to take our society into consideration. Where Rich have more say in the government.

These two ideas are at odds. The rich are doing fine for themselves. The people we need to go out of our way to make sure we're helping is the less wealthy and the less powerful. That's whom the government should be advocating for.

But in balance. Businesses need to be allowed to flourish, as well.

And, by the way, you benefit greatly by having the government have a say in your life.

[Edit: I believe I misinterpreted the bit of text I quoted from you. Apologies on that. But my general comment stands.]
Thanks! You should have got an email so you can reply to me. Let me know any questions and I'll get back to you today.

I worked in the videogames industry for nearly 20 years and they didn't do much unit/integration testing but I've immersed myself in learning about testing JS for the past 4 years since I switched industries. Hardest thing is knowing what to test I always found.

I'm happy to do some 1-on-1 with you to help.
Yeah but it can be unpleasant when other people casually bring up tragedies about your life randomly when the context isn't quite right.
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>> “Well you should take on more work to show you are a team player.” Nope. Team Player is code word for “Do more, and never get paid extra for it.”

I wish I could call BS on this.
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Under the Democrats, the FCC passed net neutrality, twice, after a court order struck down the first attempt. Under the Republicans, the FCC isn't just doing nothing, it's actively going out of its way to repeal it. The difference could not be more stark. If a neutral Internet is important to you, the sides are not even remotely the same.
Putin has a lot of assets (possibly even the most of anyone), but nothing close to the full assets of Russia. Dictators can definitely use their power to enrich themselves greatly, but they can't capture the entire country's assets; they need to use a lot of the assets just to keep the country running and to stay in power. The people that help them to stay in power will expect to get something out of it for themselves. It's kind of like how you wouldn't count the shares of Microsoft that Gates gave away to early employees as part of Gates's assets even though Gates was effectively the dictator of Microsoft.
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> I don't think Russia is planning on annexing any more territory

That was wishful thinking in 2008 and the result was Crimean invasion a few years later.
Do you think it make more sense to do async backend when we are moving to real-time ( meaning websocket-based connections ) web apps?
I used to do Accounts Payable for a large tech company. Any invoice >$5,000 had to be matched to a PO. POs had to be approved by an appropriate level. Payment information was maintained by a separate team and POs were linked to that payee. Nearly all payments were done via ACH; we actively discouraged wire transfers wherever possible by charging ridiculous fees. The payment process itself was also audited daily by the payments team. We also had an entire org of finance people responsible for controllership. This fraud would have been hard, though not impossible to pull off in this system.
That's not been my experience over a 20-year career. On a given day I might not have that freedom, and I've had ideas get shot down. But over the long run it's always been true that if I have extra time I can use it to my advantage one way or another. This feels like a pretty universal rule about work. If I worked at Chipotle I'm sure I could still find a way to distinguish myself over my co-workers.
I think the past actions of these companies speaks for themselves.

The question YOU should ask yourself is why you think ATT & comsat will do a 180 turn and stop their attempts to kill the free market after this.
In what culture are women depicted as more likely to commit sexual crimes against men than vice-versa?
From "The World's Fastest Indian"

Tom: Aren't you scared you'll kill yourself if you crash?

Burt Munro: No... You live more in five minutes on a bike like this going flat out than some people live in a lifetime.
Sorry, your defensive arguments are very weak. Like "if they had leaks related to Russia they'd publish them. But they don't. Probably because Wikileaks isn't necessary for Russian leakers" - really?
I'd expect a battleship to stay in operations for a very long time without spare part and replacements available.

The battery will long be dead by the time they'll need it.
Uhhh, legally that company would probably own everything the engineer has been working on during office hours. So if it's really promising, then they might let him keep working on it. But he won't own any of it, and he can't keep it if he leaves.

I don't agree with it, but I think that's usually how it works, and they would have a strong case.
I've lived in 500 person towns, and currently live in a county with less than 60K, but I have always had DSL available. It is not great for bandwidth, but it is sufficient. I've read that ~80% of the US has access to DOCSIS and DSL, so usually it's a duopoly.

Edit: I guess I'm a bit surprised you have cable lines running into your place but not phone lines.
Let's say your second hypothesis is true.

What would that mean? That men commit more aggressive crimes or that the users of the language perceive it that way? Also, what would then be seen as a crime or as violence?

The point I am trying to make is that there is probably a cultural factor in this as well. (How the culture perceives things to be.)
If you look at FB's and Google's annual revenue, the time period of the fraud, and the fact that it appears they got most of the money back, I'm surprised why anyone would consider this a "material event". Google had around 90 billion dollars in revenue in 2016. No, I don't see why a, say, $10 million dollar loss over a couple years to Google would be considered material.
He doesn't mean "dark" in the sense that the words are negative, he means they don't conform to modern progressive social views.
Hear hear. I used Angular for about a year and tried to use React for about six months. Then I tried Vue and I couldn't not believe just how much more sense everything made. Give it a shot.
Also, much of the classical knowledge reintroduced later in Europe was from Islamic translations.

Having studied some history of math it's pretty mind-boggling how this is ignored. Not to mention the developments made, e.g. Algebra (al jabr).

I speculate one of the reasons Italy was so prolific on this field and anticipated Europe is it's proximity and being a trade center.
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No, it had join, see docs link above.
It's not a fundamental limitation. People just haven't gotten to that yet, since there's so much low-hanging fruit with DL.
I don't understand why anything more needed to be said past looking at Google Analytics, unless the target audience was unfamiliar with electricity.

The titled intrigued me and I thought it'd have much more information on things like automating test builds and using unique device/OS features, not how a company worth almost billions can save a few hundred dollars by ignoring 20% of its users.
It's hard to privatize a system of radio links. When everyone's network is owned by themselves no one can really take that away from them.

The only reason most networks are privately owned right now is the extremely high cost of laying down physical infrastructure. We saw that severely slow the progress of Google(!) Fiber. If a giant like Google has troubles with the cost of laying down cable on ciy-land then imagine what you or I have to deal with?

This goes away with radios and building interconnects.
That's a bold claim!
This seems like the latest April 4th, 2017 flight test: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hT__fdxWig
That's certainly not true if the disempowering of government only occurs in those areas of government where the rich are pushing for it because of how it constrains their power.

It might not be true generally, either, say if the advantage wealth provides outside of government is greater than the advantage it provides in government. That rich have disproportionate influence in government doesn't mean they don't have even more disproportionate influence outside of it.
Well mobile is one option.

I don't know anyone who has more than one or two land-line options.

I think the reason for that is businesses invested in infrastructure, and they expected to earn some profits for that. That was necessary to get the internet to where it is today.

Going forward, the question is how to continue increasing quality.

Buying out ISP's doesn't seem like the right solution to me. That's a worst-case scenario for the American public, when something needs to become totally government-owned, like banks or mortgage backers.

I think killing net neutrality would build more silos, enabling people to further insulate themselves from each other, which leads to more miscommunication, and would be detrimental.

We don't need to do that. We can make this issue known, and even if it passes, monitor its effects afterwards.

Sorry I just don't think there's an overnight solution for increasing ISP competition, unless you're willing to switch to mobile.

If you feel Comcast is somehow breaking their contracts, take them to court. That's how we address bad businesses.

Perhaps there's some argument for breaking some up -- I don't know. That doesn't seem to be on the table at the moment and I think it's better to stay focused on net neutrality for now.
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Thanks for sharing. Having tried a bunch of these, I like it a lot'.
I've seen the "Express <Form with Personal Data>" vuln before, but with people's SSNs, DOBs, and bank account numbers, plus sequential numeric user IDs instead of emails. It's fixed now, thankfully, but, uh, yeah.
Resume writer here to add that the STAR technique applies to resume writing as well. For any accomplishment on a resume, it's ideal to have these four items covered in at least some detail.
The difference is that in the UK, you'll either have multiple flights a day or can take train/car without much delay instead. That's very different in more sparsely populated countries as the US.

But cash is likely to be the main issue here. If united had offered $800 cash, they would've probably found someone to rent a car and drive down there instead of flying.
>Fortunately, now the EU has made odometer fraud illegal

It only became illegal recently? I find that surprising.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Service_Fund. The 18% rate is paid on some part of the total bill that the FCC deems to be related to interstate voice, with additional state USF fees paid on intrastate services. Historically, telcos didn't pay money into the USF for broadband (except to the extent they're offering telephone service over it), but historically they also couldn't get money out of it for broadband. Under Obama the USF started conversion into a broadband fund, and USF taxes on broadband will likely follow.
Yeah trying to create a model of 'how you should talk' is probably often counterproductive as everyone responds differently. Your suggestion of STAR is better as it is far more generalized while still giving you a guideline to focus on so you don't get lost or off track.
People signing letters should donate money to politicians' campaign with letters to those politicians advocating specific legislation. That legislation might also have compromises that consider all parties or at least concretely show benefit to them. Alternatively, convince rich people and profitable businesses to donate as well.
How to learn how to learn!

Personally, I used to find it tough to learn things I couldn't immediately apply. That's because I would try and commit them to memory in a way I could immediately retrieve them if required. So spawned a path of memory learning techniques... flash cards... ugh...

Then I was watching a Derren Brown show (a British 'mentalist') who taught a guy to memorise hundreds of books so that on command he could read out the content of any given book, any given page and any given number.

The individual would read the books in a particular way (picture dragging your fingers down in a v shape across the page). When asked to reiterate the content, it was very important that he just trusted his gut. And he got it right every time.

The key takeaway for me was that it's equally important to learn how to retrieve knowledge.

Slight tangent here, I also remember reading about how Steve Jobs was able to 'think outside the box' and come up with seemingly new ideas. And the suggestion was he was just good at retrieving knowledge through a confidence of confidence in himself and a non-pressured environment.

Hope that gives you something to think about!
> ...and he will spend unpaid hours in office if things are slow.

How is this in any way a good deal for the engineer? Being 'forced' to be in office has an opportunity cost, and should be compensated accordingly.
This could have been an interesting article about a real problem, but it's just 3 paragraphs of ranting about political straw men.
I've never heard of any airline overbooking here in Europe. Yet they seem to manage just fine. In fact Ryanair (a budget airline) has a bunch of flights advertised for around €15 ($16~ USD)...
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Thank you for all of you who have given advices. I will make an experiment and want to see the result. I hope I get the good result.