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> It's also quite dishonest of you to liken a reasonably well written, source referenced piece with the rants from the clown in the oval office.

The parent comment mentioned Trump, and I'm responding to that. Fact is, the parent comment, the manifesto author, and Trump, all complain about not getting the proper attention. Meanwhile, they're getting a TON OF IT! and laughing all the way to the attention-bank.

> You fail to see the difference between attention and actual debate

"Actual debate"? Sounds like you want the debate to happen on your terms. That's not how debate works.

The original author wrote that women have "higher anxiety, lower stress tolerance". That is highly debatable. Yonatan responds to the author's belief that "women and men are intrinsically different" as it pertains to the workplace.

We all know that, historically speaking, women have had fewer rights and opportunities than men. Women won equal rights from government, and it's not so shocking to me that a company might try diversity training in order to move the needle further towards equal opportunity.
> If you're lonely, ask yourself why you refuse to go out and meet people and make connections. Even if it's just at the grocery store. Even if it's just with the homeless guy down the road. Keep digging and eventually you'll find a root cause.

Your posts come off as an extrovert who doesn't understand why introverts find socializing with random strangers a draining and unpleasant process.

> There's also the problem that, even if the infrastructure were there, that doesn't mean people will take advantage of it. Loneliness is tied very closely to the pride part of the brain, nobody wants to admit they have a problem and seek out help for it.

For some people, maybe.

I don't care about random strangers, pride, and a number of other things people (like you) expect me to. People seem to think I'm lying or confused when I say this. My accomplishments in life (outside of work) have been as anonymous as anyone could make them.

I've still had times I felt lonely but it has more to do with the fact I realized a group of people I thought were trustworthy were not. As a result, its transient until I'm done pulling the knives out of back and addressing the wounds.

As such, a large number of interactions with strangers isn't useful to me. I wouldn't trust them because most people are too selfish to be trustworthy. And trust is necessary to deal with loneliness and form connections.
I don't think that's right. See the sibling comment, which made it click for me. He is saying the degree of a single term is the sum of the exponents in that term, and the degree of the equation is max(...all term degrees).
>after 3 years and a few months

That's not long at all.
Chile also got its first one up not too long ago: http://www.latercera.com/noticia/primer-satelite-hecho-chile...

Some technical info here: http://spel.ing.uchile.cl/suchai.html

Good space year for developing countries!
>"Loneliness is a psychological problem masquerading as a social one."

Its fascinating that you you have chosen to state this as fact without any supporting data.

>"Loneliness is a self-inflicted problem."

Again based on what, just because you say so?

There's an excellent book called "Bowling Alone" that came out in 2000 long before social media. The book traces a phenomenon of declining "social capital" that began in post war boom. Social media and the large scale replacing of real interaction with those conducted by phone has only exacerbated this. There plenty of real data in the book and the author conducted half a million interviews over 25 years.

See:

http://www.nytimes.com/books/first/p/putnam-alone.html

>Look, there are people all around us. Neighborhood streets have, what, 50 people on them? People congregate at churches, bars, coffee shops, even Wal-Marts.

There is big difference between being alone and "feeling alone." Going to Wall Mart or coffee shops solves the problem of the former. This "being alone" however is generally not the one psychologists are referring to when they talk about the modern phenomenon of "chronic loneliness."

Of hose 50 people on the street you refer to, how many of those people have ear buds in and are/or are staring at, typing on or talking on phone as they walk? How many are cognizant of those around them? Most of them wouldn't hear you even if you did try talk to them.

Spend just 5 minutes walking anywhere Manhattan and it is quite apparent. Walk into a bar and most everyone waiting for their friend is staring at or typing into their smart phone. Their maybe 50 people around on the street but most of them are in their own private bubble.

The Atlantic recently had an interview with John Cacioppo who is something of an expert on the subject. He sites both cultural and environmental reasons for an uptick in loneliness. See:

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2017/04/how-lonel...
I would never hire someone who would rather spend 20 minutes thumbing together a solution that may work instead of someone who would rather read available documentation and literature to find either...

1. A trusted library that implements a complex feature
2. A way to abstract away the need for a complex solution
3. Feel the need to rush an implementation of a mission critical piece of code

I'd say software engineering is more about organization, abstracting, and simplification of a problem than it is about writing complex data structure implementations or complex algorithms. When you do need to implement a complex data structure or algorithm I think it's much more wise to survey available (and current) literature and implement the algorithm after thinking about the problem for a day or two then it is to attempt to implement it yourself in front of 3 people in a stressful time.

I'd expect no one I've ever worked with to be able to correctly meet any business requirement (full battery of tests, an attempt to avoid the more complex solution, documentation for the need and edge cases of an algorithm, real error messages, abstraction or library-extraction of this algorithm into a documented sub-project in our company's git server, etc) I have with a big 5 styled interview question.

It boils down to this:

1. Your question is so simple it is stupid to ask someone who is actually qualified
2. Your question is so complicated that anyone who would feel semi-confident in having actually solved it in 40 minutes is someone too dangerous to keep around
Considering the language was first called Mocha and then Livescript, "Java in the name" was not a requirement - it's just that OO and Java were all the rage at the time, so they followed the fashion.

The worst crime Sun ever committed will turn out to be influencing the birth of JS.
Conspiracy to commit an act is already prosecuted on variety of crimes
Doesn't it simply put the maintainers of SDF in line of fire (legal and otherwise) for any anonymous content hosted there that annoys someone?
The author defined degree poorly. a monomial x0^e0x1^e1...xn^en has degree e1+e2+...+en. A polynomial's degree is the highest degree of any of it's monomials.

Degree has the property that Deg(P1P2)=Deg(P1)Deg(P2)

How do I escape asterisks?
I think you have a point about the public nature of these jobs. That said, I picked these 3 somewhat at random. And though teacher and firefighter salaries are very much set by state budgets in the US, doctor salaries are not. (They are, instead, mainly set by a complex interplay of state funds, insurance company profit margins, and hospital/practice competition for doctors.)

Take, for two other examples, commercial airline pilots ($75k-125k per year) or paramedics/EMTs ($36-50k per year), neither of whose salaries are set exclusively by state budgets.

Consider this note I just found in researching EMT salaries: "Private ambulance companies generally have the lowest rates of pay, but may be more likely to hire newer or less experienced employees. Many EMTs start with private companies to get their feet wet. Government agencies such as [...] state ambulance services generally pay the highest, but they’re more competitive to get into and may have higher education requirements."
cool story, bro
Brain-intensive work is fatiguing just like physically demanding work, and if you regularly push past your limits mentally or physically there will be consequences. Yes, over the short term you can get away with it. But it's gonna cost you, and the longer you do it the more it's gonna cost.

With that in mind, not all coding is equally brain-intensive. If I put in a serious intense hardcore 3 hour session of gnarling code wrangling, I'm pretty much done for several hours. Conversely I can do minor refactoring and code cleanup all day.

It's well known that pushing developers to work more hours isn't effective. It might (might!!) get a product to deadline faster, but it will be at the cost of burned-out developers who will have greatly reduced productively, and a decreased quality in the codebase and more defects at the time of launch. And the better developers tend to leave for a healthier environment.

Regarding skipping meetings and emails, figure out (if you haven't) why you're doing that and take appropriate steps. Maybe it's having a discussion about why a particular meeting is unproductive, or alternate forms of communication. Maybe it's finding a reason to go to a meeting other than its stated purpose.
They could. However, they would risk making the currency worthless if detected.

I expect the only situation in which 51% attacks would be useful is when a party wants to deliberately destroy a currency.
Chile is as developed as Spain, Portugal etc. Light years ahead of Ghana. With an economy more free than the USA.
Thanks so much! To be fair, while my primary job has been as software developer for the past several years, I've worked in startups small enough to know what the marketing team was doing. You pick up a lot of general business knowledge working for a small company.
I think there are lots of applications for gradient-free methods, but it's never been clear to me what the advantage is of the "genetic" aspect as compared to other randomized search strategies. However, the ability to dynamically grow a program tree is interesting and somewhat difficult to model in an ANN-style framework. But in gradient free methods, there are lots of interesting ideas like particle swarm optimisation and simulated annealing, or even just random search. It's not really clear to me what the "gene swapping" approach brings to the table, except that it probably encourages exploring the area in the middle between some good minima that are potentially far apart in the search space. But you could formulate this same idea without appealing to evolutionary metaphors.
Flexport is hiring engineers in SF to break down barriers to global trade
the guy said that the differences don't matter. I was asking him to back that assertion up.
Here's the graphic transcribed as text for non-English speakers.

Software Engineering: Requirements, Modifiability, Design Patterns, Usability, Safety, Scalability, Portability, Team Process, Maintainability, Estimation, Testability, Architecture Styles.

Computer Science: Computability, Formal Specification, Correctness Proofs, Network Analysis, OS Paging/Scheduling, Queueing Theory, Language Syntax/Semantics, Automatic Programming, Complexity, Algorithms, Cryptography, Compilers.

In my opinion, some of those could be on the other side of the line (estimation could be CS, language syntax/semantics and network analysis could be SE). But I agree with the general division.

I studied Electronic Systems Engineering, but somehow always found jobs in software companies. One problem I struggle with is the division between DRY (Don't Repeat Yourself) and WET (Write Everything Twice) coding styles.

Most programmers hate it when code is repeated. They prefer to spend days trying to integrate external libraries instead of just copying the necessary functions into the main branch. There are good reasons for this (benefiting from new features when the library gets updated), but there are also risks (the code breaking when the library gets updated).

Software Engineering priorities include Safety, Portability, Modifiability, and Testability. I interpret that as a WET programming style. "If you want it done well, do it yourself." There's no arguing about responsibility then - the code is mine, and I should fix it if it breaks.
Very nice. Having build a product using D3, I respect the work that went into this.
> 30% platform tax

That's like a wholesaler saying the mark-up the retail store charges on their products is a business expense.
Like your friends, I started out focusing on the sciences before switching to CS. But now that I think about it, if someone had told me that trick for bypassing the school firewall I would probably have landed on CS much sooner hahaha.
Powerful Gaming PC the MSI Trident 3 (4K Video)
I take it you're not married
Batteries don't maintain their maximum charge cycle to cycle. High cycle count batteries hold a fraction of the charge of new batteries. You may get 200 per cycle at the beginning but after a few hundred cycles that could drop down to 150. Depending on your daily commute, the car may become unusable long before the battery is completely exhausted.
I've lived in the Bay Area most of my life. I have had a hard time finding true friends.

I know it's partially my fault. I also believe it's the environment.

I live in a wealth area. I'm not wealthy, by any means.

People seem to have everything here, except friends. If they are lucky, they have a wife, or a husband they can tolerate.

I think because the cost of living is so great, people have their defenses up. Kinda like, "What do you want from me?"

My best friend died a few years ago. He was a master at friendship. He was also manic, but he knew the secret to friendship.

He would just call people. I met him at work, and within a few weeks he would call me daily. At first, I tried to end the conversations quick, but finally gave up.

We were best friends for years. We went into businesses together. I could trust him with my life.

I don't have it in me to be so persistent though.

I did try to keep friends with my exes, but there was always that day, where they I could tell they wanted more, or nothing.

When I was younger, I really thought men and women could be friends, but I don't think it works in the long run, especially after an intimate relationship.

If I had a do over, I would have listened to, "We don't want to ruin what we have right now?".

I can add this. Money can't buy good friends. It might be the only huge downside to making it financially.

My neighbors are very lonely. Marin County might be the loneliest place on earth. (Yes--I outed my county. Too many people move expecting their lives to be great. And to those that have a different perspective--share it. I'm at a loss.)
Is there a number which can be written in base 2,3,4,5,6 using only 0 and 1?

What's mind blowing here is that if you ask for base 2, 3, 4 the answers are trivial but for bases 2,3,4,5 somehow you get 82000 and we do not know whether there is another and for 6 it's unknown.
Yeah, no shit...

Truck Driver ≠ Road Planner
That's great! When I first started trying to learn Chinese, I had a problem because I couldn't read the characters and sometimes couldn't copy-paste from some apps. I made a font that was similar, and then I could use the Unicode Hex Input keyboard. Your font looks so much better though!
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When I'm contracting and have to take my own insurance into account, I estimate 1800 hours a year. $462 a month translates to $3.08 an hour. If I can't bill an extra $3.08 an hour over a full time gig, why would I contract? If I can't make more than $462 a month being self employed than I could make by being a corporate drone, why would I be self employed?
I also have watched Cantrill's talks. But I think you're intentionally ignoring my point, in two ways:

* You were discussing porting a Linux application, not a kernel feature like DTrace, ZFS, Zones, kqueue, etc. Obviously porting a kernel feature between two OSes that share a kernel history is going to be easier than porting to an entirely different kernel. It's almost tautological. Porting an application has more to do with whether the syscall/libc interfaces are compatible and if you take kqueue/eventports as an example you still need to do standard porting work. glibc provides BSD-like interfaces so it's not like you have to switch away from bzero or whatever -- that's not the hard part of porting code.

* You specifically stated that Linux is "off in the weeds", "doing their own poor re-implementations of tech others have already done". Ignoring how disrespectful that is, your response to me saying "the whole Unix family re-implements each others ideas all the time -- DTrace and ZFS are the exception and only three members of the family use them" isn't helping your original point.

Also this whole section is just a non-sequitur:

> And there are not different views on zones and jails. They are the same thing. [Long description of how they are different and were developed separately.] [Random aside about Linux containers and how they're a mess.] So jail and zones are similar.

I am aware of the similarities and differences between Jails and Zones, and I'm also very painfully familiar with Linux containers. Not sure why you're bringing them up in a discussion about porting applications between different Unix-like operating systems. Sounds like you just have an axe to grind.
> It's HDD died so I put in an SD to CF and then a CF to SATA adapter and put in a 32GB UHS-1 SD card

Seems like there's a chance the SD->CF->SATA adaptor might be slowing things down? Cheap, low capacity SSDs can be had on Amazon for chump change...
Why are programmers called engineers these days? An engineer has an engineering degree and does something completely different than computer programming.
Right. The article instead repeatedly referred to the Group B candidates as making upwards of $600,000:

> "Engineers get paid $250,00 to $600,000 range, but there's no sense of urgency."

> "estimating that very senior engineering positions can command up to $400,000- $600,000 in total compensation at X, including bonus and stock options.

(though now that I quote it, those are all data from the same anonymous engineer working at X)
Mathematical Maturity
How can you rent out 3 properties while living in one of them?
At that time they already had C#, so it's not impossible to believe they could have done better than vbs.

The real problem would have been that they would have had to give other browsers a chance to adopt the new language, possibly even by providing dedicated resources to implement it for them; but Ballmer's MS didn't really "do" cooperation, they were happy to push ActiveX to lock out competitors.

Still, they did have the chance.
> a thoughtfully designed extension interface that was easy to use. But every major scripting language has that now.

OP> Easily embeddable/extendable.

Easily embeddable language implementations have regrettably remained more uncommon. Sure, extending has gotten relatively easy, but it's still in that "we own the world - you are welcome to visit, as long as you fully respect our partially-documented memory, stack, io, threading, whimsy, and other disciplines" kind of way. And "feature: we're embeddable! (sort of, if you're careful, sometimes, maybe)" toxic hairballs of surprise are still a thing.
It isn't that painful at all, that is the equivalent of FUD in this article. It is about as painful as any other shot.
> Yes, a biased pipeline is absolutely something that needs to be solved.

No it doesn't. Bias isn't always bad or oppressive. It needs to be proven that the bias is "bad".

If rich kids are underrepresented in tech because their families have connections in finance and they tend to major in finance more often, is this a problem that needs to be solved?

Frat bros are underrepresented in engineering in tech atm.

HR, recruiting and hundreds of other job families and careers have "biased pipelines". Should resources be spent to solve all of them?

Why only tech?
Given JudicialWatch' ALEC/Koch bros status, I'd hold off on presuming the accuracy of anything they put out...

http://www.alecexposed.org/w/images/2/25/SPN_National_Report...
Playing devils advocate, your saying just make more money then? That doesn't seem very liberal and progressive.
I have a battery charger that, in addition to typical NiMH batteries, is designed to recharge regular disposable alkaline batteries. It doesn't work every time, and you don't get the same capacity as the original, but you definitely can get a few more uses out of most disposable alkalines.
A few years ago I graduated with a PhD in statistics with lots of ML inspiration. Since then I have always dreamed of applying my knowledge and skill in this domain. However, despite the belief I was 'probably' in a decent position to do so, I consistently read about how impossible it was. I have a boring 'normal' persons job, but, posts like this are somewhat reassuring that I made a reasonable decision to abandon a life of fruitless datamining and overfitting.
No.... some, sure. Not most.

RHEL7, and all it's derivatives (CentOS, Oracle Linux etc.) don't use tmpfs for /tmp by default, and they are arguably the most used linux distros in the world.
I think the point was that extrovertism(?) is hiding whatever might be a disorder that is the opposite.
What? He cited a failure rate of 18%, which the article supports and you quote as the "typical" failure rate, taking into account that condoms do break and are used incorrectly at times.

If a manufacturer says their manual transmission car gets 45 miles to the gallon, and Fuelly says that same car gets 39 mpg (averaged over a million user mileage submissions), is it intellectually dishonest to use 39 as the working figure when budgeting for gas?

What you interpret as a troll answer, I interpret as a reasonably clear explanation of why he chose the figure he did.
When It Comes to Islam, Logic Is Put in Reverse
What was the XXX figure? It'd be interesting to know.
http://www.saveservices.org/2012/02/cdc-study-more-men-than-...

But like I said - if you use funding to report violence against men, you won't ever get any more funding. So, you can bring out all the statistics funded for violence against women, but you have a systemic imbalance here. And there is sufficient evidence that it needs further investigation.
Usually the "cycle life" of a battery is when the capacity drops to 80% of new when fully discharged and recharged.

You can extend the life of most lithium batteries dramatically by not charging all the way and not discharging all the way. Use the middle 50% of the battery's capacity for the vast majority of the cycles, and your battery may last 4 times as many cycles.
> Why are you bringing up the fixed point combinator?

I didn't mean the fixed point combinator, I was responding to "So all recursion is equivalent to a for loop + a stack." A recursive algorithm implemented with a for loop and a stack instead of function calls and the processor stack isn't equivalent to recursion, it is recursion, just not the lexical kind. This is just semantics and we agree with each other.

> Why should I address this? We are talking about the equivalency between HOFs and
loops.

Because for loops are equivalent to recursive procedures, not to map and reduce; map and reduce are much more restricted.

You can implement a for loop using pure function application, and you can implement recursive pure functions using a for loop. Map and reduce live on a higher abstraction level, and because the two lower level strategies are equivalent, which one is used is irrelevant. Saying that they're not functional because they can be implemented with a for loop makes as much sense as saying that a for loop is functional because it can be implemented with pure function application.

To me, a for loop is an imperative construct, and map and reduce are functional constructs, regardless of how any of them are implemented.