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It is a community that curates discussion based solely on technical discourse of technical subject matters. When the matter is subjective people lose their minds because the only moderation standard is "off topic, subjective discussion. Detach thread!"
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You mean perpetually then? This is not a problem that will ever go away in general. So people get tired of it. I could share some stories my mom told me about her workplace experiences from the 70s to the 90s. They're much more disturbing than being passed over for promotion. So perhaps things have gotten better.
It sounds like you felt it was a net-positive experience. Is there anything you'd want to do differently next time (i.e. to avoid the crash)?
Whenever I hear appeals to "meritocracy", I'm reminded of this anecdote (http://www.bradford-delong.com/2009/09/republicans-to-the-ma...):

I remember back in the late 1990s, when Ira Katznelson, an
eminent political scientist at Columbia, came to deliver a
guest lecture. Prof. Katznelson described a lunch he had with
Irving Kristol during the first Bush administration.

The talk turned to William Kristol, then Dan Quayle's chief
of staff, and how he got his start in politics. Irving
recalled how he talked to his friend Harvey Mansfield at
Harvard, who secured William a place there as both an
undergrad and graduate student; how he talked to Pat
Moynihan, then Nixon's domestic policy adviser, and got
William an internship at the White House; how he talked to
friends at the RNC [Republican National Committee] and
secured a job for William after he got his Harvard Ph.D.; and
how he arranged with still more friends for William to teach
at Penn and the Kennedy School of Government.

With that, Prof. Katznelson recalled, he then asked Irving
what he thought of affirmative action. 'I oppose it,' Irving
replied. 'It subverts meritocracy.'
That's helpful. I was more under the impression that someone will help me how to get better at conveying my thoughts as I get into blogging tech I have learned. Does that mean I should avoid putting anything on HN as long as it is not related to new tech or about the code?
In the US these "independent shops" are called car dealerships and they sell all of the new cars in the US. Manufacturers don't sell cars directly to customers and this is enforced by law in many states. Tesla is the only company doing it. The independent shops usually sell only one brand of car and their profits come mainly from service not sales. Think of them as sales floors subsidized by the money brought in when the product breaks or need service you can't do your self. Not a feedback loop that is good for customers, I think.
There are many many intangible reasons for choosing one qualified person over another (yes, even if one is somewhat more qualified). The engineer passed over will have other opportunities if he or she really is highly qualified.
This one should stand out to most people so it's no surprise to me that EU took note as well.
Okay. So?https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_exports_of_the_United_...
I think that is called Web Annotation: https://www.w3.org/annotation/
When I was first at Amazon in Seattle (later moved back to Toronto) it became known that if you had a TN visa, you didn't cross at a specific Vancouver-area crossing. There was just one guy there who had decided he didn't like the TN visa program, and tore up every single one he saw.
I did, I thought you meant the S class, although my rides in a couple of different trim levels of the Model S didn't leave me with that impression.

I would agree with you as far as aesthetic preference goes, but if you view this as an objective metric similar to cabin space, audio/onboard computer performance, etc. then I would disagree.
You can't attack someone's beliefs because they cited anecdotal experiences, and then go and do the same thing to justify your beliefs.
Linux now runs on 498 out of top 500 supercomputers in the world
Well, the other issue is that if they are constantly barraged by trolls trying to offend them on social media (just because they find offending people to be funny), then it could be more of a "if all you have is a hammer, everything starts looking like a nail" situation.
Who said it's random?

Productive people earn more and earning more is correlated with longer life.
I had to reread it a few times to parse it. Its result of "adding" the uppercase of 1 that should be 11, not the uppercase itself.

In other words, the result of "makeUppercase" should be a string, not a number.
The symbolic representation is just a language though.
We might not be equipped to understand a language different from the formalisms we came up with.
That's an interesting idea. Basically, availability lags production. Which makes sense when you consider things like stock distributed in stores and warehouses. So when you have a large, relatively sudden population drop, there's a glut of availability before the production drop hits.
There's a third choice: Have a supportive opinion. Knowing full-well that you don't understand what it's like to be a woman/African American/non-binary/non-straight person in this situation, express belief in everyone's individual experience, and support them in it. Don't assume you know, just listen and show support. If it's a matter of having to decide between the two opinions, bow out, because you have no say.
I just looked at your blog post and it reads like nonsensical garbage.
The elephant in the diversity room
I'm excited to give this a try, as it's downloading, is there support for:

- Approving / rejecting on the PR as a whole?

- @ mentioning

- Assigning team members to a PR

- Viewing a subset of the diff (i.e. all changes since my last review, or even better all changes between these two commits)
OPs comment is so disconnected from the article its actually funny. That person did not read it.
Not just destructuring, see https://elixir-lang.org/getting-started/pattern-matching.htm... for example
Hi Peter, thanks for your time! I'm an Australian currently looking for web development work (on E-3). I have a Bachelor of Design (Visual Communication) and 10 years dev experience.

If the job I apply for requires a 'Bachelor of Computer Science or equivalent' and they hire me based on experience, is it OK that my bachelor's isn't CompSci, to satisfy the E-3 requirements?

Is it better if the job listing requires just 'A Bachelor degree'?

Is it better if the job is front-end/UI related, where my degree is more relevant?

A recruiting manager for a large company had no problem with my E-3 elligibility, but from further reading I'm not so sure. Thanks!
Inherently any discussion about human cultures and values is going to fail a fully reductionism approach. But to be more specific one might refer to Northwest Europe, inside the Hajnal line, arguably creating institutions and cultures encouraging an interlocking and self-reinforcing set of values like universalism, non-consanguineous marriage, anti-nepotism, rationality, individualism.

These values do not "belong" to Europeans or any specific group of them, but if one looked at the cluster of societies in which those values were most strongly supported one would find a high degree of correlation to ones relative closeness to a NW European population.
Read like 4 more lines down. They offered to help, he's just an ass.
If an individual were genuinely under-performing, and the company were decently managed, then there would be a paper trail of feedback and attempts to rectify the situation which would indicate that the individual was not performing adequately.

Such a paper trail is what allows a company to defend itself in wrongful dismissal lawsuits. The sort of lawsuit that arises when an individual is wrongfully dismissed for non-existent performance reasons as a retaliation for other actions they took.

The individual is not, in any way, immunized from making false claims so long as Tesla is operating itself in a manner befitting a company of its size.
> Actually arguing on the "lack of things that should logically happen" is exactly the same as arguing on "things that are happening".

Reasoning from first principles is a huge downfall the higher up the science stack you go. The only time you really reason from first principles is in math. When you get to psychology and sociology, you need try fit observed data to hypotheses.

The author has suggested interesting follow up experiments, but has given no backing for the disproval of the hypothesis other than "I don't believe that can possibly be true."

That's not science, or even an informed opinion on science. That's just religion.
I previously used a chrome extension which supports 9 different settings to simulate different kind of color blindness.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/spectrum/ofclemegk...
> Whatever the perceived tone, what Caroline didn't do was suggest improvements, provide examples. It was a teachable moment.

Seems to me she directly suggested the improvement, after explaining both the reason the existing version was bad and the reason the improvement was better (the two reasons being the same):

Quoting directly from the issue she raised, which was not merely quoted but emphasized as a pull-quote in the article: “‘Transgender’ is not a gender. Transgender people may be male, female, gender queer, non-binary... If you want to know if a survey respondent is transgender, you need to explicitly ask that question.”
Declining population and deflation and abundance and no work are not bad at all. They are just bad for capital.
The main takeaway should be a company has one obligation to you: a job to do and money to be paid. You as an adult bring your services to fix the problem in exchange for said compensation. Personal tesponbility is everything and Im glad she was fired. Individuals like her should be fired and removed from any workplace where they act as a menace to their coworkers.
>personally I would find voice commands to be quite useful, since I can speak much faster than I can type.

Interesting. Wouldn't speech recognition be marginally to somewhat slower in response, than response to keyboard commands, though? More so, considering that a lot of processing has to be done to recognize speech, not to mention the time to receive the audio input via the mic, do analog-to-digital conversion (assuming that is needed, not sure these days), etc.
The one advantage I see beyond the traditional self-organization of various diversity groups is that an ERG can do a lot with a non zero amount of money, and influence within the recruiting department.

Forced participation is never a good thing when it comes to this type of stuff, but to have the money to send those who do wish to participate to events that help those who feel excluded, to feel included is certainly valuable in its own way.
I specifically used the words "protected class" in my statement, which covers: race, sex, pregnancy, religion, national origin, disability, age, military service, bankruptcy, genetic information, citizenship status, gender identity, sexual orientation.

Leveling thinly-veiled accusations of sexism ('it looks like you are telling us that "women" do this while "men" don't') is the reason why these topics don't advance from discussion.
Since its entertainment, I can hardly think that "scared" would be an appropriate reaction to take anyways.

Some good things to take from this article though:
1. The integrity of writing and original scripts are being altered to fit a specific message.

2. Propaganda is being inserted into our media with no disclaimer or way to discern it.

3. These institutions are essentially subsidizing film budgets, which seems like an inappropriate use of funds (in my opinion of course)

Of course it isn't anything to be worried about, but it does bring into light how these 3 letter agencies are very aware of their not-so-patriotic actions, and are taking measures to try to erase or distract people.
Amazon/Twitch recently bought Curse last year. In the Amazon HR orientation/on-boarding meeting in the Curse Alabama office someone bluntly asked, "Why are you forcing this unfair non-compete contract on us and not the Curse Irvine office?" After a moment of awkward silence in the meeting room the Amazon HR representative answered, "Because it's legal to enforce it here."

The Amazon non-compete contract has some very broad terminology that could be stretched in a court of law.
No one will sell No One Lives Forever, so let’s download it
it's only "bad" for corporations who need to peddle garbage and have less people to buy their garbage.
That's just sad if you've used languages with actual pattern matching though. It's like C's unsafe unions being back with a furor.
Yes, that's a good use case. I've often thought it would be useful if I could do some light work (reading, maybe some form of more active work too), when I am not at my PC or laptop - though wouldn't want to do it all the time, just have the option and use it sometimes.
The problem with your argument is that it's impossible to measure or get reliable statistics on, so your game theory argument falls apart on empirical grounds.

Perhaps theoretically your point would stand, however it's entirely too politically charged to do anything but find polarizing responses.
Was there really something wrong with that phrasing? How would you improve it? Genuinely curious; I think I'd have phrased it the same way (though at every place I've worked we'd have done a review like this face to face), and I find it pretty non-confrontational.

Enjoyed the letter you shared. Gene is truly missed.
While it may seem like semantics, I think discussing the issues raised by the post is more or less discussing the post.

I would go so far as to say that explicitly discarding the context of the post as many are doing is rude and ironically lacking in empathy. How can we say that the issues raised by something are worth discussing while simultaneously putting down the post?
No. "You" would just make the things you need, slowly. Why would you have virtually nothing?
Yes, yes, yes, and yes :)

@mentions are an aspect of the product that's a little weak right now. There's a lot more we can and should do with it. We plan to improve this in a future release.
Which is a shame because often the most polarized commentary is the only thing left in online discourse. There's obviously a silent majority who isn't either an "alt-right nazi" or a "feminazi" etc. but doesn't speak up because they're afraid of being branded as one.
- You can only build on strength.

- Staying humble helps.

- We're all in this together.

- Greatness is contributing to something bigger than yourself.

- Fulfillment is a myth. You will never be satisfied.

- If you are satisfied, remember it is temporary.

- You don't have to fix all your weaknesses, but if something is holding you back, investigate if it's worth fixing to propel yourself forward.
The healthcare market is not feee enterprise. In fact, it is a government sponsored Trust. Nobody can practice medicine unless the government says so, and no one can take medication unless the government says so. No one can give even medical advice without the governments permission. This is the exact opposite of a free market, and the reason it is so stinking king expensive.

The regulations are passed through fearmongering, and only serve to raise prices unbearably. The government created the problem, now wants to "fix" it with universal healthcare. As with any monopoly, prices will be higher and quality lower than with the free alternative.

The answer to the problem is to introduce the free market to medicine.
Gitter is what IRC with fellow developers used to be like. Thanks for recreating that wonderful experience!
> Does that mean I should avoid putting anything on HN as long as it is not related to new tech or about the code?

From the HN Guide

What to Submit:

On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.

Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
This sounds like an excellent opportunity to make an extension for Chrome or addon for Firefox to clear, reset, or set focus on load.
For a building I've always questioned if we should make it accessible, for safety reasons. When a building starts on fire and if you are in a wheelchair you are much more likely to die: no using the elevators, you can't use the stairs or the fire escape.

In my opinion we should require that all buildings be accessible on the ground floor(s). Those who medically cannot handle stairs should be given priority to the ground floor. (this includes any store that might want to sell to handicapped)

Of course wheelchairs are only one type of accessibility. Deaf and/or blind people can be expected to need some accommodation as well, but their needs are much different (and cheaper!) than the wheelchair bound.
There's an argument to be made that the aria data can be leveraged by your test automation as well.

Code that a screen reader can't decipher is pretty hard for test frameworks to figure out, too.
wow, That's a shocker. Thank you for your honest feedback. How can I improve it so that it is not nonsensical garbage anymore (and next time)?
I certainly didn't, if that's your implication. Population decline due to low birth rate is mostly going to be on the tailing end of population age. You would expect tailing-end losses should generally skew towards retired non-productive members.

However, that's not the only way to get population losses. Epidemics would be probably be skewed on economic indicators -- Lower class -> higher density -> higher infection rate. War would be skewed towards younger ages -- recruited soldiers in that 18-25 bracket that are on the front lines.

Different causes will have differing effects on the population and different expected effects on GDP. You can't just generalize it to, "Wouldn't you expect GDP per capita to grow as population shrinks?" Which is what the original comment I replied to did.
Wish the Guardian had a better title than "She took on Tesla for discrimination. Now others are speaking up. 'It's too big to deny'"
Reading the wikipedia page with the section specific to the title is a better experience also.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florence_Nightingale#Statistic...
> If are we going to do this kind of thing why not a least do it simply:

I expect it's because actual type-switching allows the compiler to type-assert at the same time. So it knows what within the String branch the value is an actual string. Whereas typeof() is severely limited (only primitive types) and switching on an arbitrary property tells pretty much nothing to the compiler.
I am starting a podcast about incentives and this effort can coincide with that. If you have a list of ideas or deals that we can talk about India specific, lets try to record an episode and see what happens.
When the Video Plays You
Sure, but to say that Tesla sanctions systematic discrimination and harassment of women based on just one accusation and "anonymous" sources is a classic liberal playbook move.
I made all of those changes on a relatives iPhone and they still struggle to read anything on it.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Yeah cool, contact cs-syd.eu/contact
You're saying:

> no context as to whether or not those things were the metrics by which her performance was being measured

But per the blog post:

> Based on the positive feedback from my one-on-ones and how well I was tracking against the goals set for the next engineering level, I was hopeful of getting a promotion and a raise.

I'm confused as to how one could be "tracking against the goals set for the next engineering level" but not be measured by those metrics.
For those of you building for the enterprise and looking to use a Docker-based or container-based approach, Plotly's experience may prove instructive.
‘Useless’ Token Debut Turns Shit(coins) into Gold
Off topic but...Power from solar cells is DC; to the extent these are locally supplying vehicle power you can just cut out the 2-way AC conversion, no?

I have this picture that eventually all parking structures will be fitted with solar power to charge parked vehicles. (Roads would be even better, of course.)
450EUR is an expensive washing machine, they start at about 200.

"Reputation" for quality won't ensure you anything and noone gives out warranty over mandatory minimum enforced by law.
Silicon Valley Wants to Reinvent the Democratic Party with a Group Called “WTF”
A blind person contacted me some time ago to check if I could give him training on Python. He was already using computers using some sort of open source software that helped with his disability, but it was rather inefficient.

After discussions, we concluded that (at least given the tech we knew about and that he could afford), it would not work out. Sad for such people.
"people of no color"? That sounds like a pretty serious medical issue to me.
> as the situation is exactly the same.

it's not clear that the court system is impartial to gender, so this doesn't seem so obvious to me.

nor is it clear that mistreatment of men is culturally seen as much of an issue as the mistreatment of women.
Dont think these companies want to hire people who freak out over meaningless things like this...
I don't agree that she was acting as a menace to her coworkers. At least, I don't think you can come to that conclusion from her blog post alone. I would be pissed too if I wrote an official blog post for a feature that I cared about, and someone else went behind my back and rewrote it and published it without even telling me.

A better way to put what I wrote is this: these problems can all be avoided by approaching problems from a professionalism point of view, rather than a social justice one. Both Coraline and her coworkers did unprofessional things that could have been avoided with better communication, and perhaps more attentive management.
I made a native mac app which combines YouTube and Soundcloud
I'm strongly in favor of going to Mars, but maybe we should also work on fixing up our home planet too.
Ex-VP of Engineering at Twitter, Chris Pinkham, Talks about Joining JUMO
One of things I was taught is that you can't really protect if there is a physical access. Yes, you can make it harder, but that's pretty much it. That's why anyone who is serious have multiple layers of security.

Take for example Google data centers, you need access to enter the facility and access to whatever you supposed to work. There are security guards which will follow and stay with you while you are performing your work.

The mechanisms in the CPUs are there to protect CPUs from their users. Let say again you are a Google and are planning to use this technology. Why would you trust a third party to decide (by signing) what can run and cannot run on the CPU. What if that 3rd party happens to be your competitor. The issue is that person/company who owns the CPU doesn't have full control over it, they can't load their own certificates and use them for signing. They need to trust 3rd party with it.