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> I'm ok with that, but I'd rephrase as "there is no absolute freedom of speech", or even better, "there is no absolute freedom" in our society, and I'm ok with that.

I think our opinions are much alike at this point.

> Do you mean

I mean 1. I think one day we should accept freedom of speech and freedom of the consequences. That will prevent bad/good ideas to gain further power and bad/good ideas to appear as an option. Offcourse which one is bad/good will depend on the judgment of the person who listens.

> IMHO, there is no mainstream, only the immediate surroundings. Saying "women are less capable of doing CS jobs" next to that engineer who got fired will probably help you make a friend. Saying that in front of a woman will probably help you make an enemy.

Mainstream = conventional, normal. So we could say we have both, the mainstream and your surrounds (probably your surrounding has more power than the mainstream, don't know)

> Both are consequences of speech. You make, and lose, friends based on your speech. Why would someone find the positive consequences of your speech acceptable, but not the negative ones?

Agree, both are. Usually, I often disagree with my best friends, sometimes our opinions are very, very different, and as far he doesn't act against my rights (settled by laws and our society), I'll accept and tolerate our divergence.If the opinion is too different, probably there will be no willingness to talk with each other.
Saying "women are less capable of doing CS jobs" will make problems, I personally strongly disagree with that phrase, however, I wouldn't fire him because of that, is his opinion, and I respect that as far he doesn't break the law. (He would have a hard time trying to convince me of that, I would say that a warm discussion would happen)

> In life, there are always consequences. IMHO, the key part of being an adult is recognizing that your acts will have consequences, and be willing to face those consequences, positive or negative.

I also agree with that. I hope one day our society would be mature enough to separate opinions from consequences.
is it not true that you're better off poor now than rich 100 years ago? maybe the statement alone is reductive, but most of "these" articles give justification via examples, too.
He was fired for being an asshole about it. Like you'd be fired from most places for being an asshole. Most mega corps are pretty sensitive about their brand and what you can post as a representative of the company.
> They aren't false.

Correct. It's worse: they are irrelevant. It buried the lede of unsubstantiated and toxic conclusions under some marginally related statistics and science. As a whole it wasn't a scientifically sound argument by any metric.

> The people creating a toxic work environment are those[..]

The people determining whether a working environment is toxic for them is the majority of people working in that environment. Whether you feel it shouldn't be considered toxic is a different matter.

> Firing someone for political beliefs is not grounds for termination, and never has been.

Anti-social behaviour, whether based on religion, political beliefs, or plainly being a jerk, is always a good reason for termination in larger companies. It's what keeps a work force together.

P.S. "subpar people"? Maybe you meant to say "Untermenschen"?
Sadly, if it's just a single compliment with no relation to the actual image posted, it's likely a bot doing the commenting. This is a common way for people to boost their follower count.
I have a set of Razer Krakens that are pretty comfortable even if I wear them all day, and I wear glasses.
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If I had a dollar for every time I tried to stream a movie legally and couldn't find it anywhere but on torrent sites...
Visual distraction is very real when trying to focus.
To be fair, I saw the other day, a job posting doing this exact thing for liberal people. It literally said we are looking for liberal like minded folks to help build X.

So this is happening and I find that very fighting.
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I don't think this particular comment section is even close to 50%. Far more negative.
Try Chromecast. It costs almost nothing and it's absolutely awesome.
I'm a Solutions Engineer and whenever I have to get on a sales call or demo at my desk it's a disaster - it's simply far too loud and too much background noise is heard on the call.

This is just one more complaint in a long-list that I have with this arrangement. Makes me miss my cube!
I work remotely too and I often think about how much this has reduced my environmental footprint. It would be interesting to see some figures on how much of a positive impact it has.
India has pretty significant terrorist/separatist movements that you almost never hear about, such as the Naxalites, yet they don't seem to be threatening the Indian state as a whole. If such movements are peripheral to Nigeria then maybe they would be as much as a minor factor to development.
This is misleading for some aspects of the cuckoo filter.

> The cuckoo filter can also support a small number of duplicates of some items. In the authors’ reference implementation, each slot can actually hold 4 values, so the system can support up to 8 duplicates, although its not clear how this will impact the probability of failure during inserts of other items. One could attempt to add counting to the cuckoo filter by associating a counter with each fingerprint, but this would increase the space usage.

Cuckoo filters support buckets of arbitrary size. (They can also support an arbitrary number of candidate buckets per item, but that requires a different scheme for the partial-key cuckoo hashing. It also reduces how much compression is possible, as described in the note below.)

The upside of larger buckets is better load factors; the downside, in theory, is the need for more bits per item and longer query times. Cuckoo filters are amenable to compression via integer coding within buckets, though, so in practice reasonably large buckets are free.

> The space savings from these optimizations make the RSQF more space efficient than the Bloom filter for false-positive rates less than 1/64 and more space efficient than the cuckoo filter for all false-positive rates. In contrast, the original quotient filter is less space efficient than the cuckoo filter for all false-positive rates and the Bloom filter for false-positive rates larger than to 2^-36.

The reference semi-sorted cuckoo filter is more space-efficient than the RSQF at +2 bits per item, vs. +2.125 for the RSQF. The same can be true of a cuckoo filter with compressed buckets, e.g. Golomb coding gets you down to ~+2.54[1] regardless of bucket size, while also allowing the load factor to approach 1 thanks to larger buckets. For low false positive rates, that makes the cuckoo filter quite a bit smaller.

1. Assuming two candidate buckets per item. Specifically it's +(1 - Bth_root(1 - ε))^(-1) bits per item, where ε is the desired false positive rate and B is ε * the number of candidate buckets.
I like to repeat myself on this, but proposing "invisible" matter has historically been a very successful strategy in fundamental physics. Simple laws have a tendency to stay simple.
Surely they will put monitors or machines in there, so there will be separators.

I have worked in a similar situation, you DID get used to it quite quickly.
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There are ligatures in fixed-width fonts[0], like VSCode with the Fira Code font! I've been using it for a week or two now and like it so far.

[0] HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14821446
The problem tends to be the pricing. The per-episode and seasonal purchase rates often seem higher than going and buying a DVD, probably due to the store taking a cut. The streaming services, or even cable TV, are much cheaper if you make a lot of use of them.

The hope always seems to be to operate like a gym, where there are people paying but almost never showing up.
this is interesting work but at least on the node side I am going 100% native async/await promises after node v8.3.0 is released. whatever small advantages more advanced libraries may offer are for me overwhelmed by writing standard spec compliant code now that the spec and implementation are finally (almost) up to par.
And ~63% is under 24: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Nigeria
I feel similarly. The success of HBO Now has been a challenge because it holds out the hope that if you are "good enough" you too can get $10 - $15 a month per subscriber. This is easily 10x the revenue share from a cable bundle deal according to NAB publications.

But does anyone think I'll pay $10 per month per 'network' for entertainment? It would rapidly cost more than cable or satellite.

What I find curious is how difficult it appears to be to sell advertising on streaming channels. If you've streamed one of the 'minor' brands like SyFy or Discovery you can see a 2 minute commercial break with three identical 30 second commercials back to back.

It is hard to imagine that the people who put these things together are so clueless in terms of how their product is perceived.
Not that I'm aware of. I'll typically start with Ubuntu Server and add a DE to it, but this time I did a clean Kubuntu install. I'm looking at my resource monitor right now and it's been sitting around 200 all day for Plasma. Perhaps if you add up all the rest of the KDE background services like KDE Connect, klauncher, etc, you'll have a grand total above 300. But I have the hardware, so I don't mind.
Exactly: "pro-diversity" is not necessarily incompatible with "maybe we should reconsider affirmative action-esque initiatives".

I disagree with many things in the document, but, by all accounts, the employee had no issues with a diverse workplace. I think the case he was trying to make is that maybe the lack of representation of women in programming and similar fields can't entirely be explained by sexism or discrimination or bias, and that if it's true that women are on average less interested in things like programming, then it doesn't necessarily make sense to make a commitment to, say, "double the amount of women we hire this year" (not a real example; just hypothetical). The pool for women interested in the job may just be lower in numbers even when controlling for all social and cultural factors.

Of course, the science on that is still far from conclusive (and many of the "scientific" facts he cited sound dubious), and this absolutely can't be extrapolated to suggest that female programmers who do work at Google or other companies are less interested or are somehow less competent. I don't think the author tried to make that claim at all, nor did he suggest that sexism and bias wasn't an issue contributing to the gender gap or an issue that shouldn't be stamped out, but a lot of people (and the media) seemed to draw those conclusions after reading the document.
http://www.cravetv.ca/ has a bunch of HBO.
There was a whole discussion about ligatures in programming fonts here [0] a few weeks ago.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14821446
This (conflating opposition to a process or movement for X with opposition to X) seems to be a common trick in the political discourse nowadays, and is unfortunately called out very rarely. We didn't hear many instances of "anti-jobs" as suggested in this article, but it seems like describing a variety of institutions as "anti-white" has been a right-wing staple since long before the emergence of well-connected Tumblr and Twitter rubes who could plausibly be described as such.
> Our engineers don't seem to mind though

Eventually you just seem to attract the people who can tolerate such conditions, or who are happy to keep up the pretense.
the quick semi-smile meant to acknowledge the other person without starting a conversation that just makes things more awkward...
Basically. My vested shares / shares outstanding * sales price. Full vesting on sale.

They were surprisingly open and honest about the raw numbers and then somewhat stunned when I did the math right then and said "That's not much".
Women 31% overall, 20% tech.

https://www.google.com/diversity/
Absolutely seconded, this is the first article with this tone that I've seen
Considering the main version of the memo that was circulated was doctored (and the article stated they had doctored it), I wouldn't put much stock into anyone having bothered verifying it. But I don't think that's the reason nobody has quoted the document, it's because nobody bothered to do their research.

"Professional" journalism really isn't doing it's job well at the moment. Everyone just copies the same article contents and titles, and nobody does any actual research. It's quite apparent if you read two articles by similar publications on the same topic -- they contain effectively the same contents which tells me that very little independent research is done.

There was a particularly striking recent example of this, when the director of the movie "The Red Pill" was being interviewed on Australian TV. The questions being asked of her came from people who clearly had only seen the movie trailer, and upon asking whether they had seen the movie (she had sent them links to stream the movie for free several times) they said they "couldn't get it to work". Which means that they objectively were conducting an interview without the faintest clue what the subject was.
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If you can work from home, try it. It's not that bad.
Disney might actually get some people to buy this.

My girlfriend has a kid and she would probably pay $10/mo. rather than have the kid drive her crazy.

What I mean is that Disney might just have enough movies that you're practically forced to buy the thing if you have kids.

Let's not forget that they have Pixar, and even Star Wars.
Odd, I find Irish accents generally easier to deal with than various English and Scottish accents (with the exception the mild, internationally familiar ones). This might simply mean I haven't met anyone with really interesting Irish accents.

Also I leave the Welsh off the least, because I have always found their English easy to understand -- if sometimes amusing.
Sure, we've had access to distributed internet for the whole life of the network and people have chosen over and over to use centralized, convenient systems. That's not going to change for TV.
I find it interesting that the entire article mentions Netflix exactly twice and just as a side reference with other businesses.
I stand corrected. Thank you for pointing that out!
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They also own ESPN and ABC, back in the day Lost was something Netflix paid a ton for, and I'm sure there are other things that I have been forgetting that are relevant here.
Aren't all these people just going to be arrested?

It's not illegal today, but it will be soon enough, and when you piss off powerful people they find a way to shut you down, one way or another.
I've worked in both, and both have their benefits. However, my evaluation of open office may be biased because we also use slack.

Regarding open office plans:
Focus does suffer in an open layout. Creativity does suffer too. In the face of a fire in production, an open office creates a low friction environment for task distribution to handle it. A factor that makes up for this is that we can work from home one day a week. I find these times to allow me to be most creative for planning long term solutions. Occasional remote work is possible and effective thanks to several technologies including Slack.

Regarding individual or paired offices: focus is easy to accomplish, and it is easier to be creative. It can be quiet, but it sure feels lonely when my team members take 3-6 minutes to walk to. Unfortunately, meetings, ad-hoc visits, and email were the communication methods here. Remote work was near impossible and impractical with just email for peer involved processes. This was also in a very corp-legacy environment and my ability to make an impact was unsatisfying. So I feel my creativity was often wasted and unvalued.

Overall, I think I like what I have now, which is mostly open office, but still occasional time for individual creativity.
I mean no offense, but I found amusement in this post. It used to be that people hated cable bundles so much that they would say they would rather pay $10/month a channel for the few they watch rather than the $80/month for a bundle of hundreds of channels with only a few worth watching.

Now that we have that, are we living the dream? No, we want it for a tenth of the cost.
Albeit I can't disagree with your point. There seems to be significant evidence to support the hypothesis that a minimal degree of socialising helps prevent mental decline.

For instance consider the different things you need to consider whilst holding a simple conversation. It's not the same as talking to a wall. It's a game with constraints and a game that our DNA would rather have us do in order to better our chances of survival through cooperation with other members.
As someone who has never worked from a private office or classical cubicle I tend to agree, but maybe I just haven’t had a chance to experience the productivity explosion that comes with those options.

I think open office is fine so long as the density is not too high.
Ive seen conditions where you are shoulder to shoulder with your co-workers, which seems awful.

I have always had around ~8 square meters of space in my open office layouts.
I value being able to casually converse with my nearby colleagues.
Well ripping DVDs was made illegal (again) in the UK in 2015; so perhaps if Disney managed to do that in enough jurisdictions they'd increase their market.

For real, btw.

iTunes creators should basically be imprisoned in the UK for contributory copyright infringement.

I strongly suspect this sort of crazy, luddite, anachronistic attitude to magnify when the Tory's get their "sovereignty" back and don't have Europe to check their anti-democratic attitudes.
I've checked my doorstep for this book every afternoon since April ;) and am super stoked. Great book! I've learned a lot through the projects.
Technically it isn't yet. It is still inflationary for the next 100 years or so. It is currently making less and less over time, but it is in fact still making more than there are now. Eventually it will be deflationary though.
Pretty much in the order that I acquired and used them:

MIG wire welder. (this saved weeks of labor building custom cars)

Duct tape. (yeah)

My first Mac computer. (A Mac Plus, it was truly an amazing and sucky computer and I learned an immense amount about computing using it.)

The Suzuki Samurai. (Best little 4x4 ever made.)

Recordable CD-ROM. (My first app ran on a CD-ROM.)

Mac OS X (I coded my very first web app on the very first beta version I could get my paws on.)

Netscape Navigator (It too was an amazing and sucky bit of tech.)

Digital Camera (Everyone should put that on their list.)

Cell Phones.

Handheld GPS with Topo Maps (My first was a Garmin eMap. More than anything these increased my confidence in "bushwhacking off trail in the wilderness by confirming I knew where I was. As a result I was able to go further and now I don't worry or think much about it and go wherever I want using a printed topo map. I still bring a GPS but rarely turn it on.)

Super bright LED headlamp (These made a huge difference in my ability to hike at night.)

Linux. (This (and the price) is why I won't be buying another Mac computer.)

A "Supercat" cook stove for backpacking. I shelved several expensive backpacking stoves when I found this.

Raspberry Pi. (I've learned more about using Linux mucking around with these than I ever thought I would or could. I have one on my desk connected to a USB switch and a monitor so I can switch between it and my Mac for work and I will be bringing one with me on a trip this week to use as a portable desktop PC to keep up with things.)

iPhone.

LED monitors and TVs.

Roku (this has saved me a few thousand bucks since I got one. I was able to ditch Dish and DirectTV after years of expensive and crappy service and DirectTV flat out trying to steal from me.)
Cheers! Great point. I'm working on filling up Apecademy (https://monkeytest.it/apecademy/) with all the explanations for these tests, and I'll make sure they're linked/summarized directly in the reports. Stay tuned, there's plenty more to come :-)
I wish IntelliJ was added to the list. It's a monster in comparison but it feels much faster than Code...
2040 is a long way away. very easy to pass laws that take effect after you retire. and very easy to change them after you retire as well.
That's interesting, do you have a link to the law they passed?
What's the moral of the story?
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Honestly, why take the risk? If you are looking to invest long-term, just buy an index fund like $QQQ or $SPY and sit back and let it ride. You can use Robinhood to continue to buy without paying commissions (which is going to be crucial since commissions would take a large percentage on such a small investment amount).
Yes, specifically ligatures in fixed-width fonts like erik-g mentioned. My personal favorite is Hasklig[0], which is based on Source Code Pro.

[0]: https://github.com/i-tu/Hasklig
You assign it. Everyone knows that there's going to be some of that; that's why it's called "work". But you have to make sure to spread it around as best you can, so that one person isn't constantly being bombarded with the crappy tasks. Maybe after they're done, give them first choice of other tasks.
Google's customer base is "everybody."
Disney has a lot of content people with kids would watch. Also almost none available in 4k yet. Their own subscription service could work, I'd pay for it
Once I was visiting an London, staying with a friend from Oz who was doing the working holiday thing. We went and visited some friends of his, a couple. The girl was a Kiwi, and that was all fine and easy to deal with.

But I could barely understand the boyfriend, let alone place his accent. When I asked my friendl later, he said the dude was also forom NZ.

I have no idea what was going on in my head that day.
Or to summarize, every studio thinks they're better than their competitors. And thus deserving of a larger portion of streaming revenue than their competitors.
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This is from September 2016.

I'm sure many editors there have changed since then. This is true of Visual Studio Code, at least - the tests uses 1.4, way behind the current 1.14. I know the team has been spending some time doing performance improvements (e.g.
1.9 had some big improvements in highlight performance[1]) and I wonder how it compares.

1: https://code.visualstudio.com/blogs/2017/02/08/syntax-highli...
Disney has a sprawling cable content network.
Maybe I unknowingly stepped into some long standing debate?

I'm not saying it was an obviously terrible choice and how could he have made it. I'm saying it made the course more difficult and less rewarding for me.
Doubt it.

They have articles on it on many publications. It seems like a famous app.

What a crappy name, though.
That's only partly true.
There are countries where average wage is $300/month. They are NOT going to buy legal software and media for $40/thing no matter how easy it is.
I read the whole thing and didn't really see the part where he was an asshole about it. I agree with your general point though that any company probably would've done the same. To me that gives the lie to every company that bullshits about being open to different viewpoints. Maybe that's true to the extent your opinions don't become their problem, but it's another example of why workers should never trust their employers very far.
Me too. They're part of GM now. They should have access to GM's design facilities. Both the 2013 GM/CMU self-driving car and the Cruise Automation prototype had better sensor integration.