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Although the percentage is declining, many relationships still begin at work [1]

The real issue is a power imbalance, but this issue also exists in other settings as well.

Alcohol inhibits your judgement, but many people can successfully consume alcohol without adverse social consequences.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/03/08/how-m...
I worked with a large group of a local graduates from a well-known coding camp. The results were horrible.

They would submit a lot of pull requests, but upon review it became very apparent that documentation was not being consulted resulting in unnecessarily hacky solutions. The reason: programming by trial and error.

In the face of that, the only thing I could do is: give them the benefit of the doubt by asking them to walk me through their problem solving approach. This insulted them, because there was no problem and solving approach, just bruteforcing code with live reload until the feature worked.

Unfortunately, sometimes the feature did not actually work, or would not handle edge or error conditions which caused the program to be unstable. Sometimes to the point of causing a live incident.

Since coding camp graduates graduate very frequently and because of referral bonuses, they were a majority in our team. They used their majority to deny code reviews (not allowing people to mark their tasks as finished), and took turns to pull off microagressions in a round robin manner so nobody is accountable enough to be retaliated against.

In the end, these people know they will not prevail through technical excellence but rather by pumping as much code as possible and by playing dirty: refer a lot of friends, become a majority, avoid situations where a relative rank can be established and bully any opposition until they quit.
So should every building have scanners and metal detectors? What makes a train different?
Not being Australian: would it be legal?

I grew up in Alaska and when you ran into a moose you weren't allowed to keep it. Instead there was a volunteer crew that was called to clean it up, compensated with the corpse (which is how I grew up on moose).
Curl ipinfo.io seems simpler, and provides a lot more information! If you do just want the ip then curl ipinfo.io/ip
Maybe the EU is, but I doubt Germany is. In addition, Even though there is Baidu, it is preferable that the rest of the world can Google "Tianamen square" and get back something resembling the facts. If Google had used this logic of "well somebody else will do it anyway", the rest of us would have only seen what China permitted.
I find that he mentions the situation occurred "over drinks" a way to make it seem less innappropriate. It's pretty simple, don't hit on women you have a business relationship with. I've seen it happen on multiple occasions and I cringe every time.
Really, anyone?
But apparently humans get confused by kangaroos too, based on the number of collisions.
I for one am happy to see a true apology here, not an "I'm sorry if I offended you" statement that so many people make the days.

This has all the points of a proper apology: an understanding of the wrong committed, acknowledging that it was his fault, and demonstrating commitment to change. It also appears to be sincere
A HUGE percentage of couples meet through work.

It's not inherently wrong, or something inherently taboo. (We've all been told not to stick our pens in the company ink, but... time and time again we also see examples of happily married couples who met on the job... Bill Gates' wife worked for Microsoft, The Obamas met while they were working together, Ryan Reynolds & Blake Lively met on the set of Green Lantern...)

So it feels like the message here is, "It's fine when it works, and it's totally not fine when it doesn't work." The only way to know if it's fine is to ask. It's not really something you can make universal rules for. To each their own, right? (I would say a wedding ring means someone is off limits, but affairs happen all the time too.)

Point being, it has to be something more than, "It's OK to hit on someone if they are attracted to you." I think hitting on someone is inherently a compliment. But if they say no, and you try again, and they still say no, well probably don't try a third time. This guy is apologizing for being called a creep after hitting on someone once... man, that's rough. You don't know until you try.

There needs to be a little more flex here, it can't just come down to, "Anyone who we don't feel attraction to should be fired if they pay us a poorly worded compliment or tell a bad joke." Stalkers, sure... people who try and leverage their position in the company to get laid (with the implication), yeah... but just some guy who tries to clumsily flirt with a girl and can't play it smooth because he's fundamentally not a player and actually likes her... come on, cut that guy some slack.
There is a ton of information of healthy living, the basic level of health you mentioned, emphasizing fitness and lifestyle choices, is taught in most physical education classes through primary education to high school, but phys ed has been gutted since the 1960s, kids are staying inside more, and now even schools sell sugar drinks and high sugar meals. The role of the homemaker is now a cultural taboo, resulting in less home cooked meals and more fast food, so the standards for what constitutes edible food is shit, and for similar cultural reasons people are delaying childbirth beyond the window of fertility which results in poorer genetic and physiological outcomes for their children.

The combined total of the entertainment industry (keeping you on the couch for money) and the healthcare industry (money made from complications of staying on the couch), is something like a whopping 1/4th of US GDP.
According the European Digital Rights association, the law's definition of social media is so broad that it would apply there as long as the service has 2 million German users (the wording is not clear whether this number is active/registered/total users).

The law's definition of social media - telemedia providers who operate commercial platforms that allow
users to exchange or share any kind of content with other users or make such content
accessible to other users (“Social Network”).
Kudos to you guys for building this. There is always a lot of scepticism from people on "why would anyone pay for this" . Reality is not everyone has the time or resources to build their own kit. There are literally 1000s of businesses on the internet that that are in the business of selling "time" or timesavers and removing the risk of maintenance, ongoing support.

Keep improving this and with the rise of web personalization, the demand will continue to grow.
> As the law only applies to stuff that is already illegal, and only requires companies to remove it on request, if it is obviously violating the law, ...

The problem is that these things often aren't "obvious". For example, one offense that is listed in the law is §185 of the penal code, which criminalizes insults (I'm not kidding). Because making every insult a criminal offense would make real freedom of speech impossible in practice, actual application of that law is subject to various and sundry constraints as the result of case law of the Constitutional Court. As a result, it's actually virtually impossible to commit such an offense in the political arena (in practice, the law has therefore been reduced to an institutionalized form of contempt of cop for the most part, and occasionally sees use as a modern form of dueling for the few bored and rich enough to pursue a private lawsuit: lawyers at ten paces, so to speak). But to understand that, you do have to be sufficiently familiar with the case law.

That's not much of a problem when an actual prosecutor examines the facts: the case against Boehmermann, for example, was pretty quickly dismissed, because the prosecutor knew it was going nowhere fast. But now let's have Facebook's staff – most of them without legal training – examine the same facts and they may very well get it all wrong. Or, worse: decide to simply not bother with getting it right and just err on the side of caution. The law does not penalize inadvertent censorship, after all.
It's a strange notion that politics in a company are a good thing. Rewarding people for attacking the character of those above them is a race to the bottom. In this case it seems it was a co founder and not at all the situation you describe.
It's obviously not the same. A man does not physically get pregnant.
>..., and yet a totally stagnant economy. I mean I understand a lot of the reasons, but it's still weird.

Totally explainable by the fact that Japan has the world's fastest aging (and now shrinking) population. [1]

1950: 84 million

1975: 112 million

2000: 127 million

2025: 124 million

2050: 110 million

[1] http://www.un.org/esa/population/publications/worldageing195...
I met my wife at work drinks, so I'm glad it happens.
Aha, thanks for the clarification. Upon reading the comment again, I see that it's Relay that didn't suit his use case, not GraphQL.
Talk to a lawyer. I highly doubt your internship will end well there, the way things are going. Do you really expect them to give you a good reference?
Fun fact: You don't have the right to be creepy or predatory towards women just because alcohol is involved. Women have the right to go out for drinks with coworkers without being sexually harassed.
If you want an example of providing access across private property in the bay area drive up to Genentech. You can drive right through their campus to access the public beach and there are several public parking spaces provided here.

https://goo.gl/maps/hAyPMsWvJV52

I'd be curious if there's a story there. If Genentech knew they needed to do this and just did it or if it was settled after. Either way it would be good to know.

On the other hand, I tried walking in the Dogpatch area of San Francisco near the end of 25th street along the water and was warned off. When I called the government to check why that wasn't public I was told not all coastline is public.

https://goo.gl/maps/VVRNoHyKkSk

A better example of that I'm pretty sure you can't access the shoreline around SFO.
The problem here is that they met through the recruitment process and she was being considered for a job. That means that he had power over her which makes this potential sexual harassment. It would be different if they had met in a bar and talked about a job at his company and he had sent that email.
I'd prefer a "crash if receiver doesn't support sender's MIME type" model for debugability.

Which could still be ergonomic if all the common piping programs supported some specific collection of formats and there was a relatively robust format-converting program.
His career depends very much on his reputation, and his reputation was just dragged through the mud over the past week. It's difficult to know whether this introspection and contrition is genuine, but his post is all about salvaging his name.
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Should we add security for buses too then?
Competition law is one thing, but Data Protection is probably the thing EU citizens can cherish most. It is light years ahead of many other jurisdictions, including the US.
Do you think free IP DB providers insert "fictitious entries" [1] to identify breach of TOS like this, similar to what happened between Google/Bing a few years ago [2]?

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fictitious_entry

2: http://www.cnn.com/2011/TECH/web/02/02/google.bing.sting/ind...
I met my wife at my job! Been married 8+ years now.
One thing I'd like to see from these people on the inside is some sense of where this comes from. Where did they learn it? What does it say about others in the VC club who saw something and said nothing? This stuff has obviously been condoned for years and years and years, he should help dismantle it more than falling on his own sword. Reveal the secret handshake(s).
June 20, 2017 - Germany Raids Homes of 36 People Accused of Hateful Postings Over Social Media

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/20/world/europe/germany-36-a...
He saw a lot in his life, and I would imagine that the stare into the abyss line was in his mind. I get the feeling that he was not really tempted to cheat himself (unlike some other that can be named), but was very conscious of a scandal.

For other, maybe in this case, having people around you to get you away from trouble is also an excellent idea. In a position of power, a person should also be conscious to the effects on all the people who depend on you. If you have a drinking problem, perhaps a constant sober coach is a good idea. Having a person to make sure you don't get personal with other might follow along those lines.

Like a lot of things in life, it is a two front war. Are you protected against some external agent, and are you protected from yourself. Some will only need one type of protection, but if you are in a position where people depend on you, then you should be honest, at least with yourself, and make some good choices.
Do you rely on provided internet? Doesn't your phone LTE work well?
It's true that, along the Acela corridor, there are normal people who can't use the freeways to travel between cities for lack of car ownership. So the Acela is helpful.

Almost everywhere else that isn't the Acela corridor, people will have cars by default, so rail doesn't meaningfully increase access to inter-city travel over existing freeways.
He was aware that she was in the process of interviewing for a job with his company. It is not okay for him to hit on her in that situation, because he has power over her.
Their economy is based on copying things that worked in the U.S. In the 1980s people were worried based on Japan's rate of growth that it was going to overtake the U.S. Instead they just ran out of things to copy, and the growth completely flattened. At some point you can only grow by doing new things, and for whatever reason Japan has historically been very bad at that.
I'm a man. I would not leverage my power in order to seduce her.
The cheapest per request is $0. There is a free tier where, presumably, the long tail lives.
Well, I just imagined that the devs of the library may be come across your comment and be offended/saddened to hear it being called "ridiculous" and "stupid". But then again, it sounds like you have good reasons to be frustrated with it, so why not. I recently saw someone write, "Webpack is ridiculous" - I suppose there's nothing wrong with inflammatory adjectives if it's backed up by evidence/experience.
Aw man, there's no contact info in your profile :/ Could you drop me a mail with your details, so I can ensure I never end up working in the same environment as you.
At least that is an improvement on Tesla being confused by a large truck and hitting it at full speed. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/jun/30/tesla-aut...
You want one of the portable battery powered high speed die grinders and some metal cut off discs, you cut most locks and heavy duty chains with them in seconds. There are numerous youtube videos demonstrating them. Couple hundred dollars at home depot and no larger than a cordless drill.
>It's only cool til someone stands up on your car and pulls out an AR.

This is the case for any crowded public space. It is unavoidable.
It doesn't sound like the problem is it's detecting specific animals, but in how it's detecting the distance -using the ground as a reference for things that aren't standing on the ground.

I wonder how it it handles low-flying birds.
So Palantir wants senior people who still know how to write code. If you consider it below you, then don't work there. What's the problem?
This stuff is still early days. I don't see how a problem encountered with a research project could possibly indicate that the whole problem is "practically impossible." It would be weird if they didn't have problems like this while building the technology.
The best PR is usually going to be PR that doesn't sound like PR. I do hope people learn from this, but I tend to be dubious of "I've changed!" statements immediately after getting caught.
Maybe those folks were so sharp in their youth that their reduced mental capacity in old age is still a sight to behold?
>Do you send just one job application when you're trying to find a new job?

No, but if it's a lucrative job that I really want to work at, then the hiring manager definitely has power over me.

>That assumes that transaction is somehow not mutually beneficial.

It is mutually beneficial, but you're probably looking at a 30:1 (or higher) benefit ratio here, in his favor.

> In the end, she's the one that has power over him, as evident from all publicity and his subsequent apology and management changes.

No, she only has power over him insomuch that she can leak any attempts by him to exploit his leverage over her. If he doesn't make any such attempts, she has no power.

This is like a cop beating and arresting someone recording him and, after the tape leaks to the media, defending the cop with "the suspect was the one with power over him because he was filming him, as evident from the aftermath."
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Since we're sharing experiences, I had a pretty interesting ethics course in college. We were taught consequences, not morals, since trying to teach a bunch of twenty-somethings morals that they may or may not need to exercise in their careers was deemed impractical. The class mostly revolved around what might happen in situations like using substandard materials, whistleblowing, etc.
10,250 miles is still bigger than the Earth, but not vastly bigger. We'd better hurry up if we want to squeeze the planet in there.
Enforcing laws that restrict expression is restricting expression.
You have most of that with a train too, other than the security clearance (for now). But assuming high-speed train travel became something more than the sideshow operation that is Amtrak today, security screening of passengers would very likely be implemented.
But to differentiate ourselves from animals, we have this thing called 'civility'. We have the capacity to rationally think about our actions and discard primate style behaviours that do not function in modern society.

Not too many city dwelling men use their narrow focal vision and instinctive ability to calculate parabolic maths and wind speed to throw spears at dinner.

That means they should also curb their instinctive impulses to club the nearest female and drag them back to the cave by her hair...
Chrome does nothing to guarantee that an extension is built from the source that it claims.

You can verify that source, enable external sources in Chrome, ('developer mode' or somthing) and then install it - but that says nothing about what's on the Chrome store.
Go travel round Europe for a month using nothing but public transport and come tell us the same thing. That's basically the entire point of the article, the trains in the US absolutely suck compared to any other developed country. Most are quicker than driving and do take you into the hear of the city, I can travel from London city centre to Manchester city centre (163 miles as the crow flies) in 90 mins, if I drove it'd take 3-4 hours traffic depending. A good rail network makes your arguments invalid I'm afraid.

Edit: For a more US kind of distance look at London to Paris, 2h15m (883 miles as the crow flies) from city centre to city centre.
Track costs far less (in money and energy) to build and maintain than freeway.
Yes, you are victim blaming. You are immediately assuming with no evidence that she's some kind of conniving she-devil.

They are not in tech. They are in venture capital, and it's more challenging to get a position at a VC firm than it is to get a job at a startup as an engineer.
My reaction would be more similar to yours than Dave's. But he's a public figure, with a blog and twitter and people that know him and stuff, so I guess in that position, people start asking "why aren't you posting something?" rather than "why did/will you post something".
I would say that although your situation is probably not unique, not all people from coding boot camps are like that. There are people who believe that an 8 week course will teach them all they need to learn, but this is true of all education, and I have seen similar results from people with 4 year C.S. degrees as well. Do they need to learn more, absolutely, but there are a number of students who understand that this is just the start of their journey.

Like anything, there is no absolute, and I like to evaluate each one on a case by case basis. Just because someone can't spend the time and money to go back and get another degree doesn't mean that person won't turn out to be a great developer with a little bit of practice and help.
I don't get this. When I use a Using to wrap EF DB calls that output to a DataGridView in C# I often get errors that mean the connection was closed before the data was grabbed.

The solution is easy, using a ToList in the DB call to force it to dl everything first, however to me it shows that the Using is working. Now we find that the black box of Using is empty?
I thought it was about old pictures taken by astronauts in the Gemini program somehow helping the Juno team. I was highly confused haha
The freeways were built in a time when you could realistically eminent-domain and bulldoze your way across the country. We no longer live in that time. Any project involving new rights of way is infeasible because property rights (especially property rights over land you don't own, but sits adjacent to your home) are so much stronger now.

Government is promoting cars, spread-out cities, and suburbia because they work so well and people love them so much.

Think about how much housing supply would go away if not for the road network.

Think about the bare-minimum transportation appliance car. With a private, enclosed space, air conditioning, a comfortable seat, and a radio, it's worlds better as a subjective experience than being inside even a relatively luxurious urban train during the commute rush. Now consider how many tens of thousands of dollars people happily spend on a level of comfort and quality far beyond the bare-minimum Craigslist special.

Democratic governments promote and invest in what their citizens like.
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I think it's because he wanted to pepper in details like "It was over drinks and I thought it was social", aka actually defend his actions while renouncing them on the surface. The "upcoming discussions" with 500 associates reads like he's looking to get back onboard.
I think it's less about the people involved and more about setting an example for others who might be in a similar position.
That's horrible. Sorry for your experience.
Time spent on public transport is useful, particularly time spent on trains. You've got wifi, a table and a power socket, so you can get real work done. You can have a proper meal and a glass of wine, you can watch a movie, read a book or have a nap. Most buses in my country now have wifi and power sockets.

A lot of rail commuters find that their commute is an unusually productive time. You've got all the resources you need to work but relatively few distractions, especially in the quiet carriage. It's a little slice of time that's entirely your own. It's like working in a cafe, except you're travelling at 125mph.

Here in the UK, the railways are too successful for their own good - passenger volume has doubled in 20 years, so the infrastructure is creaking under the sheer weight of passengers. We're building a new cross-country high-speed route, two major commuter routes across London, upgrading vast swathes of the network and it's still not nearly enough to keep up with demand.
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