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I know that applying on jobs pages is not popular here on HN but, well, sometimes it works. In my opinion, having some projects on GitHub certainly helps, even if they are just hobby projects with no use in real world. So it doesn't mean that you must spend months working on open source projects on the evenings and weekends, hoping to get noticed. Same for technical blog posts. It definitely provides more signal to the person who is reviewing your application.

Also, very few companies are 100% remote, and making remote team work is not trivial, so it's important to ask the right questions when interviewing. Don't forget that's it is a two way street! Personally, I was looking for these two key things:

- at least ~30% engineers should be remote;

- there should be a strong culture of written async communication.

Once I discovered a company which I found interesting ( https://heapanalytics.com ), checked the jobs page, noticed that they are hiring remotely and just applied a few months later. Had several interviews over video chat / slack, no white board coding or CS trivia. In the end it worked out and I got an offer. Totally recommend applying at Heap - we are doing cool and challenging technical things (querying hundreds of TBs of data in seconds and making it reliable), the interview process is great and our small distributed remote team is made up of engineers from 4 continents, from North America to Australia!
I think success is more dependent on marketing/promotion effort, than number of apps you would build.
Please define what metric(s) you're using to make that statement. I'm not saying you're wrong, but a statement of objectivity requires something to substantiate it. Certainly, the US doesn't have nearly as many political dissidents incarcerated, but China doesn't have a systematic problem with summary executions of a racial group by police (for example; there are plenty more on both sides, which are not necessarily comparable; yes I know in this case that China has its own minority racial group issues). Then, are scale effects (population size) factored in your figures?
So whatever makes women uninterested in programming happens before college

I don't think that, by itself, lets industry off the hook completely. We still have to make a culture that isn't downright repulsive to half of the population.
Thank you! What you describe regarding my experience might very well be possible. And I will look at Logo again. I am sure you are right regarding its design and foundation.

You quoted my question about teaching-kids-to-program languages, but didn't really address it. Are they necessary? Might they not be detrimental? A kid who's interested in programming: wouldn't they be a lot more excited by, say, HTML and JavaScript—which brings the ability to make websites (!!) —than say, moving a robot, virtual or real.

Then again, it is inherently hugely fun to interact with computers in a REPL-style manner, too. I just never felt inspired by the turtle and only kind of resented it. I wanted to learn about bits and bytes and to understand computers.
The first step is to understand that the problem does exist, even if it may not be apparent, or even if we can find other, simpler or more comfortable explanations. That's all my reply could hope for at best. There are many smarter and better people than me offering plenty of detailed analysis and paths to action.
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Maybe they pin to the CA certificate? In that case, it matters how much you trust the specific CA.
You have started working on this platform, so I'd like to return the question to you: Do you see any useful purpose of creating twitter bots?

If so: Try focussing on these useful bots and try to minimize the misuse of your platform for spamming.
If not: Ask yourself if you want to support spammers and dubios online marketing / growth hacking dudes.

One of the problems I see with your question is the missing definition of a "twitter bot" and its operations/features:
If your bots mainly retweet and autofollow based on keywords/tags, not "quality", the impressing of spamming can arise fast.
If you're for example providing a platform for creating service chat bots that are triggered by users interested in a fast response, your bots may be recognized as a valuable service.
No, not really. At lower grades, salaries are often not negotiated. At the higher grades where you see the differences they are.

So the data from the article corroborates that idea.
I think the average cryptocurrency trader is much lower-information than you are estimating.

There are hundreds of rubes who see "Bitcoin Cash" and think that because it suddenly jumped to the 3rd largest cryptocurrency by market cap, lots of people are talking about it, and its cheaper than Bitcoin, this could be their chance to get the elusive short-term 3x+ crypto ROI. Many of these people have no concept of the locked supply.

I'd estimate that roughly 1/4 of buyers are informed BCH proponents, the other 3/4 are low-information get-rich-quick hopeful speculators.
You discount the abilities of monopolists to prevent new market entrants. They can lower prices only when there is a new player, until that player goes bankrupt, and then raise them again, discouraging others from trying again. They can lock up suppliers in exclusive contracts, preventing competition from sourcing parts. They can run massive disinformation campaigns. They can launch a series of baseless lawsuits. Etc... It's straightforward to have an abusive hold on a market without any government involvement at all, all you need is some deviousness.
I actually wonder how many people care, and if it wouldn’t be net negative if they did put it in to due conclusion about its volume vs the OS.

To me, the computer sound is really the one that you want to modulate, know how to modulate, and likely have hardware buttons on your keyboard to change. If audio is properly normalied, then in what scenario are you allowing any random computer sound (such as the OS’s beep) to blow away your ears but you selectively want to do extra work to make SoundCloud play lower?
Change the wording of the question slightly, and answering 'No' to it becomes dishonest.

The change in wording may be illegal, but good luck proving that to anyone who cares.
Because it would make sense 50 or more years ago, when women were openly shut out from other professions. That's not to say the after-effects of those outmoded cultural traditions aren't having an impact, but to claim that this accounts entirely or even majorly for the professional disparity in female representation demands evidence.
We all have sampling bias since the number of rides we take is so small compared to the number of ride givers. I'm sure most taxi drivers and most Uber drivers are perfectly normal, safe drivers, with the outliers being the problem.

I've personally been driven by awful taxi and awful Uber drivers, though Uber so far has the distinction of being the only one to genuinely scare me driving 3x the speed he should have on a twisty road, with tires screeching the whole way.
Indeed. Classic reverse buyout to escape a bad name. It's complete bullshit and the browser vendors should see right through it.
You have no idea what you're talking about, your argument is not even coherent, it's just a bunch of talking points stringed together.

As I explained, the reason Bitcoin Cash situation is different is because the blockchain / private keys are shared. It's not the case with the altcoins. That's why Coinbase is in the wrong.

Plus it would cost them very little to fix the situation, compared to how much of the users' money they are holding.
yea. either happens before opening or after closing.
Isn't this screaming for lawsuits in this thread driving the idea of an currency independent of any central authority ad absurdum?
My kids will be taking every AP test they can reasonably handle, including the Comp Sci AP, regardless of whether they are male or female, simply because tuition is crazy now, and only getting crazier.

I want to retire someday, and I also want my kids to be free of student loan debt. So I guess all it takes to defeat sexism once and for all is massive financial stress upon the middle class. Way to go, everybody!
I'd say something in the range of 500-1000 hours.
Its not an unpopular opinion, but that Juicing thing was definitely an exception, not the norm.

As to why everyone is chasing unicorns, one of my friends who's actively trying to get funding for his hardware startup sums it this way: VC's would make more from 1 unicorn than 50 other mildly successful businesses, and the other 50 businesses would probably require just as much work as the unicorn.

Its a really fucked up calculus to be sure. I'm not sure what the solution is though. How do we encourage VC's to invest in more meaningful startups?
Most of the research around the topic quotes a study on negotiated prices at car dealerships, where women ended up with higher prices offered at the start of the negotiation and ended up with higher prices by the time the process ended.

Which is a very specific use case of a specific environment with mainly unknown opponents (as opposed to work relationships, where you typically know the boss), tight deadlines (need a car immediately) and little wiggle room (shopping around car dealerships is time-consuming, sending resumes to competitors to test the waters is less so).
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Learn something new every day. Yes you are correct, I meant pessimistic concurrency because that's what I'm familiar with. Which databases support optimistic concurrency and full ACID transactions?
> Purists will probably complain about the audio being modified.

As a SoundCloud user, I would argue that a great number of the target audience (musicians) would be turned off by having a carefully crafted mix altered. Anyone who has spent large amounts of money on the tools of their trade has an investment in achieving a particular result from their hard work. The listener is (IMO) secondary to the artist in this case.
When Symantec bought Verisign it was making over $400million in net profits off of over $1.1 billion in revenue.

Symantec basically killed their golden goose are are now selling it off to another company at a huge discount. If they didn't do this there's a good chance their whole business would fall apart.

I'd consider losing potentially billions of dollars over the next few years to be a pretty solid message.
Personally as a dev, I find AWS's service in the middle of Paypal (shit, not sure why they're popular) to Stripe (Damn that was fast and easy) seeing as I used them both.

Their support is alright although you often have to pay for it but AWS docs are atrocious and remind me of university textbooks written by professors who like creating pseudo-scientific-sounding jargon which mixed with their huge array of features is quite un-comforting to use for even people with intermediate AWS experience (built some apps with AWS before kind of people).

I can see that there could be more specialized services like Firebase (which is built on Google Cloud) that should be built on AWS for the users. Firebase is a breeze to use and very responsive and I've used it to build real-time chat apps in a couple days.
You can wrap REST APIs with GraphQL. And yeah, as you you mention, caching is usually important in such scenarios. In JS there's https://github.com/facebook/dataloader which help with the caching. I am using a Java implementation with Google's LoadingCache.
Out of curiosity, what percent of companies just outright refused to consider remote work? And of those that considered you, how many had no remote engineers or didn't really have the processes in place to support remote work?

Because, I think, working remotely it's not just something that you, as an organization, do. Getting it right, in my experience, requires active effort.
I'm surprised there's not an extension out yet to return the functionality.
Couldn't `let` be a compile-time expansion using `gensym` or some other symbol mangling? Or is that what the contrib macro does?
I don't recall the exact details of their poor historical practices, but I think they at least had audited issuance, and reasonable control of their roots, although their intermediates issued questionable certificates?

If so, the new owner can relatively easily shut down issuance under the current pipelines of questionable quality; issue new intermediates from the root, to be used in the new owner's pipelines and to make it possible to revoke/detrust the old intermediates if more serious trust issues are uncovered in the previous practices. Then the new owner gets to enjoy the benefits of the previous customer base, and installed base of the roots and pins.

In short, as long as they do a good job of making a clean separation of issuing practices, it's not a toxic asset.
Given the problem in the article, an accumulating snapshot table is simply the best solution for the reasons I laid out. If your actual system has different requirements in terms of storage and analysis (which apparently it does), I would be happy to hear about those and come up with an updated recommendation.

Along those same lines I'm not insisting you can't have a transaction table. If you need to record more information, like an IP address or user_id with each transition, then it would require a transaction table (although the article mentions none of this).

Honestly, the storage concerns I bring up (that is the schema) are really far less of a concern than the basic idea of storing your transitions in the database. Put simply, you are storing the wrong information. Instead of storing the actual state, you are storing a series of inputs that allows you to derive the state. This is a HUGE mistake. What if you add a new state? Say, [in_transit]. Every one of those 1 billion rows that are already in there will no longer be able to be processed correctly because they won't have the correct order of events.

This entire thing could be one table that stores the [order_id] [state] [timestamp] [is_current], with a stored procedure to update it that takes an "order_id" and "event_name". Instead, you have created a house of cards.
Absolutely. I have two children and I got to be much more involved in the early childhood of one than the other. It's a sacrifice that I've felt personally. It's just not anywhere close to a level playing field.
http://news.ufl.edu/archive/2015/04/why-everything-youve-hea...

"Miller and Douglas discovered that women who had experience with successful negotiation were superior negotiators to men, even when they rated themselves as only average negotiators."
If you're based in United States, Toptal probably isn't the best solution for you.

Otherwise, it's a completely different story.

As a developer I've used Toptal in the past and honestly, they're doing a great job. I'm based in central europe where average salary can be as low as $22,000/y. Toptal allows you to 3x-5x that easily by working 40h/week, 100% remote.

It's literally transformed hundreds of lives within my city.

There are tons of long term projects (6-12+ months), and I've never had problems finding a new project (front-end, js). Once I start looking, I expect to be working the next week.

For some, it's a great long term solution. For others who are more ambitious, it's a great stepping stone into the $70-100+/h market.

They do take a pretty big cut, but the developer is still left with tons of cash.

I dropped it after a while, because I started receiving fat offers directly from other clients, but I'd still recommend it to anyone who doesn't have a well developed client network.
The onus is on the person claiming sexism to prove that the disparities in promotions are the result of sexism.
>1. If women were 25% cheaper than men while being as competent, wouldn't white/male capitalists trip over themselves to only hire women to increase their profits?

I believe this is a very weird ponderation. The whole point is that capitalists don't do that because there is sexism among them. They are ignoring rational evidence because they have a preconceived idea that women are worse employees. If capitalists were actually these rational straw man devoided of human flaws, we wouldn't have sexism at all.

So this line of thinking is basically saying: if there wasnt sexism we wouldn't have sexism.

A more practical way of making my point. In past decades black athletes werent admitted in competitive sports teams. Would you say that you believe that wasnt racism because if it was, team owners would be tripping themselves to hire talented black athletes that were being ignored by most teams?
No, they werent because they were racists. It took a lot of civil right activism to give black athletes the same access to sports jobs as white athletes. And today we know for a fact that black athletes werent worse athletes back then.

Why are today employers more enlightened that past team owners?
Interesting. I don't understand how all of the BCH and BTC stuff works so I guess I should read up on it but thanks for further explaining your position :)
most people here seem to agree more bloat = less users

I haven't seen any data in this thread to back that up. It certainly doesn't apprar true in my experience.
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I think he's referring to the platform itself providing most of the apps.

e.g. Google Play Music replaced spotify for me when I used android. It can now play podcasts (like Apple's podcasts app) and also recognize music playing (like Shazam). Google's Inbox replaced Dropbox's mailbox. Google Map has a lot of features I used to find in Waze, even some extra ones (like Timeline). etcetc

It reminds me of what Microsoft used to do: embrace, extend, extinguish.
> Yes. But I think you miss one point. People are not rational beings (even trained ones are not), and "value they obtained" is a result of some psychological process which is not strictly rational. And if people estimate value obtained from employee by sex of that employee, it would be not surprising at all.

I agree in part. I agree wholeheartedly that the rational actor model is (at best) incomplete. We are not rational beings making perfect value judgments moment to moment. I further admit it is possible that, in individual interactions, the gender of the employee/agent we are interacting with may be a factor in price considerations.

However, ultimately prices are set by supply and demand. What the OP is positing, is that demand is suppressed by sexism. What would this mean? Some female-dominated professions are: Nursing, teaching, and social work [1]. Now think about what would have to be true in order for the OP's point to be correct. People would have to systematically demand less nursing, teaching, and social work in order to achieve the result they were implying. Do you think that is plausible?

When thinking about intra-profession discrimination, I would have no problem attributing that to sexism. That is, if you said to me that female teachers are systematically paid less than their male counterparts, i'd be all for labelling that sexism. But that's not what's being posited here. What's being posited is that because certain professions are dominated by women, people consume them less. People want less of them. But what is a profession's role in the world if not to generate its own demand? If people aren't demanding your services, you find a new profession.

In other words, if demand for the services women choose to provide is so elastic that it can be depressed by sexism, then maybe they ought to find better services to provide. Services that are important enough that the demand for them is non-negotiable, and can never be suppressed by sexist preferences.

1. http://www.businessinsider.com/pink-collar-jobs-dominated-by...
A big reason that A-list tech companies don't post ranges is that from the company perspective it's a no-win situation:

- if the ranges honestly reflect how high the company is willing to go, existing employees making well short of the tops of those ranges are likely to become disgruntled when they realize some of their co-workers are making significantly more for the same work.

- if the the ranges are toned-down so as to not enflame the current employees, they are likely to be scoffed at by golden-handcuffed candidates from other A-list companies.
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Fair enough, we'll all find out in due course. The constant flow of comments where people are trying to equate this particular hard fork (the end result of a very long and messy civil war) with any old Joe creating his own BTC fork is clearly just grinding my gears a little too much. There's a reason to expect BCH to end up as more than just a boondoggle (to the extent that any cryptocurrency can be said to be more than just a boondoggle): Bitcoin with larger blocks has been desired by many people for a very long time.
As I mentioned above, when Symantec bought Verisign it was making over $440 million a year in profit (not revenue, profit).

Buying up their customers like this is huge for Digicert. They're getting a huge influx of paying customers at a steep discount. I'd expect Digicert to make billions off of this deal over the next decade.
https://qz.com/300486/the-best-times-to-release-bad-earnings... says that as of 2012 only 2% of earnings are announced while the stock is tradition, down from 20% in 2000. There is no reason to believe that this trend has changed.
I think the parent's point is "sexism" (and most "isms") themselves aren't specific enough to be actionable. There are many beliefs and actions that can be classified as "sexist". These specific ideas may be corrected. But "sexism" is too vague to be addressed itself.
Do women choose jobs that are lower paying? Or do we pay less for careers that are female-dominated?

There are some observations (sorry, don't have the links right now) that typical salaries for careers such as teaching and primary care medicine have decreased as they've transitioned from being male-dominated to female-dominated.
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