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Well the code itself doesn't look interesting at all, it is ugly as hell. Lacks comments, poorly organized, full of ugly names.

e.g.: from chain.js:

// TODO: BUG! Handle plural chains by iterating over them.

(obj_has(next, 'put')){ // potentially incorrect?

if(u !== next.put){ // potentially incorrect? Maybe?

A lot of comments like: // ugly hack for now.
U.S. citizenship as well. Few Americans are aware of the degree of privilege that being American grants them.
I'm personally entertaining the possibility that for Google to engage in a proper response would require it to admit to certain illegal positive discrimination practices.
Are you saying to request each level as needed? That's a lot of round trips, especially if levels need to be opened on mouseover or something.
The open office arrangement works for some industries but for others, each company would need to evaluate how specialized their workforce is to choose a suitable arrangement.

I would prefer a glass office with the freedom to have it closed much of the day without any "judgement".

I am developer with an office now, but if i close the door I seem to be keeping people off, and not "social" or "accommodating". Leaving the door open exposes me to a lot of distractions (noise, visual-people walking etc, people just stopping by or spying on me) which are unhealthy and reduce my productivity. I have since learnt to ignore as much distractions as I can.

Working previously in an audit firm, the open space worked well, because there is constant collaboration with multiple audit colleagues and all tasks complement each other hence the need to constantly keep tabs. But in development,if I have my specs or requirements , I don't need to keep in touch unless when giving updates, requesting for a resource, asking fr help or something else that is really pressing.
Since I presume you're a techie, it's funny that you overlook the main reason for Luther's success, which was technological—the invention of the mass-printed pamphlet.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propaganda_during_the_Reformat...

I would also urge you to resist the lure of game theory in analyzing human behavior. It's a toy model that gives toy insights.
The question is where he's blogging from, which is probably Texas since he's a professor at UT Austin. The beauty of his blogpost is that depending on your perspective you can choose to read as pertaining to Texas (probably going to ban most insurance coverage for abortion) or "gender stuff" (Google manifesto fallout)
Yes, and more specifically they are hoping to (a) reduce the number of students forced to take remedial classes when they actually were prepared for regular classes and (b) increase the sense of belonging and progress in students who do need remedial work by allowing them to take regular for-credit classes alongside any remedial work. There's no reason a student can't take French 101 just because they aren't up to speed on their math yet, and the current system that prevents them from doing so directly causes increased frustration and dropping out because of the wasted time.
These are actually way nicer than I expected. I've seen much more distracting open office layouts.
Gay isn't a political party or affiliation.
To add a bit more context, his comment is highly personal and deals with how he felt ashamed of his sexuality during his childhood and teenage years. His self-loathing was apparently so bad that he asked a doctor to chemically castrate him. His comments need to be read in the context of his life, because unlike the infamous memo they were highly personal, and that makes them hard to summarise fairly.

I really like his blog, even if it's mostly beyond me. It would be a shame if anyone drew a negative conclusion about Scott without first reading what he wrote.
That sounds awfully close to Idiocracy. Next up, law degrees from Costco.
Wise for the individual, not so much for population.
This exactly - it was mediocre crap.
When you insinuate that some of your co-workers have certain drawbacks because of their gender, it makes that gender more aware of their behaviour and they are put in a position where they to take extra effort to prove otherwise. This is creating hostile environment for them. This is the reason why similar forms of generalisation, like racism, is frowned upon – not just because of innate sense of right or wrong. If this is being politically correct, then damn right I am politically correct.

This reminds me of the movie Gattaca - let us start deciding the traits of people based on the gender, race and blood samples and assign jobs based on that.
I'm not disillusioned with the left because of this one incident, or any one incident. It's a trend I've noticed over the last few years. If I had to pick some single incidents then Brexit and the Trump election would stand out, the left now has utter contempt for the white working class.
He said nothing of the sort you're attributing to him here, yet here you are with the pitchfork. What brought this on him was the internet lynch mob condemning him as "anti-diversity" without taking the time to even look at the pictures he included in his memo, let alone read the damn thing.
Im using KDE, and I don't really think its a big deal that there isnt a Qt build. I think FF looks great.
But the QC35 (which I also own) absolutely thrives in that same environment.

The problem is that engine noise is constant where as voices are unpredictable.
What part of being unwise seems wise?
You are right. But we usually have multiple ways to query our data in a DB. Not many ways to do that with the limited Firebase API.
I'm sitting in an German open-office setup right now. There is nothing in the regulations to forbid these (and most of these Arbeitsschutzgesetze only are applicable to industrial settings).
Yeah, god forbid a person thinks for themselves instead of referring to some cultural intellectuals for judgement.

What kind of arguments are these? How to be more compliant? What happened to all those enlightenment ideals of being LESS compliant, judging for yourself, etc?

And when did "hurtful" (as in feelings) became some huge consideration in public discourse?
You'll actually have to go to .sh among the contenders (this is what I would suggest) as .io is not up anymore and besides .me was the original one.

It's linked on the official/original github repo[0]. But the official official[1] repo doesn't link anything. Just that original developers are supporting .sh as official and have apparently moved to it.

There's also ...ce.ch but that's community edition as the last two chars suggest.

[0] https://github.com/popcorn-official

[1] https://github.com/popcorn-time

PS. I have put info to the best of my knowledge :)
I started with quarters years ago before it was cool.
For you. I have a really long commute, and I can work from home if I'd like. I still prefer coming in to my open-plan office. I think his point was that it's not this simple for everyone, even if it is for you.
Launching a mobile app for your e-commerce platform?
This is not just PC assertions. Generalizing characteristics of people based on their gender is harmful and exactly the reason racism is frowned upon.

If biological reasons can determine if a person is fit for a particular job, let us start deciding the traits of people based on the gender, race and blood samples and assign jobs based on that. If you haven't, please watch the movie Gattaca.
The fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.

-- Carl Sagan, "Broca's Brain"
I'm writing from Nigeria! After talking to a bunch of tech people, and a great conversation with a different trying to start a restaurant chain, a common theme is onerous investment terms. Sounds like you can't get a investment unless you've been operations for a year or two already, and are already profitable. There is some amount of tech start up finding, but it's actually miniscule in the scheme of things.

You don't see many chains/franchises here: takes capital to start and expand them, which people can't get access to. So most businesses are one-offs. There's a lot of space for innovation here; living in Kenya, I used to say you couldn't walk down the street without literally tripping over a market inefficiency. Just gotta get the investment to come in and get to the right people...

(There's a direct flight from Atlanta to Lagos these days if anyone is interested in checking it out, by the way.)
Things the Google manifesto doesn't say that the media claim it says
Nowhere does the article say they are lowering standards. They are just changing how they handle students who need extra preparation in English or math.

Before: give them standard English and math tests, and if they do not pass make them take a year of non-credit remedial classes before letting them take any credit glasses.

After: everyone can take credit classes. For those that need extra work in math or English there will be programs that work concurrently with or as part of credit classes to catch them up on math or English.
That is not the typical use case. As web engineers one of our goals is to make websites faster. Speed is a very important UX.

Also unless you have a fast website, people will drop off your site and google won't rank you. No point of having great images with good EXIF data if people never see the image.

For photography websites, it does make sense to keep it but in general no point wasting those extra bytes which add upto GBs in wasted bandwidth.
An electric bike doesn't have to mean no pedaling - they can just offer enough assistance to make a long or hilly commute doable, or just make an average commute doable daily by a non-athletic person.
You are completely aware that working for pennies a day is pointless, shortens their lives, and many people would be better off not doing it.

However, you stand by your original statement that you are glad they have a job.

Color me confused.
Scott Aaronson is a wonderful human being, and seeing the attacks against him, and how they have changed him, has been very painful.
>The implicit message here seems to be, "let everyone pass through the system regardless of how qualified they actually are, but we'll have to lower the bar to keep grades and graduation rates high."

No. You are completely missing the point here. Graduation requirements have not changed. Students still have to pass the same amount of classes. What this will do is allow students to have a shot at taking actual credit courses rather than being forced into noncredit remedial classes they may not actually need. Remedial courses put an undue financial and time burden on students who would be better served with a bit of motivation and support to get through actual 101 level courses.
Gay marriage is a political position, they may not have been able to not serve someone because they were gay, but following the same reasoning as Airbnb here they should not have been compelled to make a gay wedding cake.
I am going to chime in and second the team argument here. Being stubborn on style tells me a person is going to be inflexible on a myriad of other things as well.
Indeed. Good intentions do not justify means.

You cannot escape responsibility of the bad consequences of your actions, even if you say the consequences are "unwanted", not what you intended. Particularly if you know those consequences were going to happen.

"The misery of being exploited by capitalists is nothing compared to the misery of not being exploited at all."

- economist Joan Robinson, 1962
I'm using (for amy.ac a math tutoring platform) Firebase now since about 10 month and I'm quite happy with it (now). After about ~3 month I became pretty tired of it since I came from a SQL background and I had no way of dealing with fancy queries. At this stage I almost switched to Deepstream (Sorry deepstream but non of your examples worked, so no Deepstream for me. Also I need todo my own load balancing, etc.).

Why I still use firebase has 2 major reasons.
1) Cloud Functions
2) Using Firebase-DB as my model and never query anythings from firebase.
3) I really don't want to touch docker/aws/load balancing/etc.

In my case, the client simply listens/writes to a particular model (DB-path). A cloud function will wake up, manipulate the model and falls a sleep.

That pretty much means, every view-model a user can see is pre-calculated and stored in the DB.
Corporate proxies are still an issue. Now they have something like SSL inspection proxies. Essentially the proxies can see everything even if it is https. And websockets does not work with these proxies even over https.
Critical Path CSS is not fairly large, its fairly small in most cases.
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We have protections- some based on the constitution, some based on individual state and federal laws, others based on common law precedent- that prevent discrimination against certain classes of individuals. In most cases those classes cover things that people have no control over (being born black isn't a choice, and neither is being born gay).

Being a bigot (which is what white supremacists literally are, so this is not just some hyperbolic statement) is not a protected class. No one has to let the klan show up in uniform to their restaurant, or let people use their platform to promote hate speech.

To be clear the click bade headline here really is awful- no one got banned for going to the rally, they got banned for hosting parties in the AirBNB rentals themselves. They used AirBNB to set up their hate events, and AirBNB put a stop to it.
It does block YT video ads, not banners
Most of the arguments against seem like either personal-taste things or something that will or at least can be fixed in one of the next releases (maybe except inheritance).
I think the problem people have with this is that Google was (and still is) promoting themselves as a place where expressing differing opinions is welcome and encouraged, and the internal forum where he posted this was apparently used and promoted as just that. (A sort of "Google-only Reddit," as some Googlers describe it.)

I think it's widely accepted that work is generally a place where discussion of politics and gender relations is not appropriate. I know I do my best to avoid arguments on those topics at work, and that's fine. But when your employer explicitly encourages carrying out this kind of discussion in specific work-only forums, and then turns around and punishes you for it when some people throw a hissy-fit, that's gonna leave a bad taste in many people's mouths.

To use your example, if I insulted my CEO and got fired for it no one would be surprised. But if my CEO was soliciting honest feedback on their performance and then I got fired for pointing out some stuff they dropped the ball on, I'd be (understandably, I think) quite upset.
Besides ideological self-righteousness, Aaronson left out one important component of oppressive regimes, which I think is actually far more important: it takes a relatively large amount of people to topple a regime, while small groups as well as individuals do nothing but expose themselves by rebelling. So no individual with any regard for his own personal safety has any incentive to rebel, and will instead go along with the flow for as long as it's tolerable to him.

But this, on the other hand, would create an odd situation where actually the vast majority of people might actually wish for rebellion, but none of them actually acts out on that wish. Which I also think is actually much more likelier than what he's putting forward. True crusaders are rare, most of people are "just following orders".
I don't know anything about Kolmogorov, so I can't evaluate the assumption that he obviously saw through the lies and was horrified by the brutality - but I will note that a great number of prominent intellectuals, who were in absolutely no private danger from the soviet regime whatever they'd believe and say, and who definitely had access to information about the brutality, who still chose to support and defend the regime.

Without evidence to the contrary, it's plausible that Kolmogorov simply supported his government and found the brutality to be acceptable collateral damage.

If we've learned anything from the 20th century, one thing should be the lesson that even very smart people can be found supporting extreme brutality in support of an ideology.
What I find myself wanting to fight is not the prevailing views on a topic, it's the willingness to lie and mislead to promote those views. I saw that this past week with the Google memo situation. I also saw a shocking amount of it last year with the US election. Sloppy journalism feeds the people who seem to want to believe the worst in everything, who in turn feed entire social networks. Eventually sufficient people have heard a thing that the network as a whole believes it. Individuals have little influence. I suppose public consciousness (and social media in particular) could be thought of as a big NN.
Let's say this is about the Google memo. And let's say, for the sake of argument, you're a person who thinks Damore had some good points and some bad points but you think the hysterically censorious response to him was way over the line. But you don't want to become a pariah yourself, so you stay quiet about it. The argument Damore was making was fiddly, kind of subtle and takes a long time to explain, it's not worth the trouble you're going to get into. You take the Kolmogorov option and decide to wait out this insane time period.

Only it turns out, when you don't decide to argue for that subtle and qualified defense of Damore, a bunch of alt-right internet trolls make some terrible fallacious defenses of things he didn't say. Suddenly, the original censorious instincts seem much more righteous and justified. After all, "Now there are only full-throated red-pillers arguing in Damore's defense! We were right all along!"

Now there are two sides to this issue, and they're both identity politics and brain-dead shouting. Because no one stopped and offered a third option: actually discussing his argument, acknowledging where he was right, and discussing what he got wrong.
Tell me, truly, is this a view held by many here? That, as the church denounced Galileo's observation that we turn around the sun as heretical, so too our modern PC culture suppresses legitimate inquiry into wether gender is a determinant of programming aptitude? This is a comparison worth drawing?

Galileo was a scientist. He published papers, books, treatises. He devoted his life to the pursuit of the truth, found a big piece of it, and was punished by society for it. He is one of the giants whose shoulders we stand on.

Kolmogorov sounds cut of the same cloth. He built a research center, helped other scientists on the way up, and left a legacy.

James Damore is a junior programmer who wrote a 10 page 'manifesto' accusing his colleagues of having inferior genes. This created a textbook hostile work environment,[1] leading to his firing.

The amount of sympathy I've seen here is dismaying. It is illustrating just how far we have to go until equality is the rule of the day. Please, before you throw in your lot with him, consider how ridiculous the analogy OP made here is. The Google Manifesto is manifestly not A Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems.

I will say, some of the heavyweight commenters here do give me hope. tptacek linked this graph[2] on one of the early threads on this. It's a pretty solid rebuttal to any and all concerns that women are innately unsuited to computers rather than that our computer culture has driven them away.

[1]: https://medium.com/@scurphey/googles-response-to-employee-s-...

[2]: http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2014/10/21/357629765/when-...
Sorry, your lists are impossible to read on mobile for those in anyway impatient, requiring lots of horizontal scrolling
WebVR is on Windows only because the valve components it relies on are in Beta on OSX and Linux. They (correctly) won't ship someone else's beta as their "stable". So you'll have to use beta or nightly for it.

As for the other stuff... I've been using Firefox beta as my daily driver for a year and a half, because it's WAY FASTER than chrome, has better bookmarks handling, better built in tracker killing. The speed is only getting better as more parts of Quantum make it to beta. It sucks that it has to be so slow, but they are rebuilding an airplane while in the air with a few million passengers.

Seems like the rest of your post is just upset about the move to Webextensions. Massive API rewrites are awful. But they also bring big benefits. It is better for them to make this shift while Firefox still has some market share, so there is pressure on developers to rewrite.

All told, FF is pretty aggressively moving ahead of the pack in terms of speed and standards compliance. They already are ahead of the pack on privacy. It's not inappropriate to have marketing that pushes that excitement.
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Damore is no Galileo. He wrote about a subject he knows little about, didn't seriously research, and one that he actually doesn't seem too interested in studying at all. He wanted to enjoy the appearance of a "forbidden truth" while not caring to put in the effort of actually acquiring it. Aside from the fact that his opinion isn't popular in his immediate circle (yet far from revolutionary, and indeed very common among the ruling party in his country), he is a far cry from the iconoclast scientists who care deeply about a subject, devote their lives to studying it, know its ins and outs, and research it with fiery intensity.
This is not the same thing, is it? From reading the comments in most forums, looks like people seems to at least partially support the contents of the memo and the guy for writing this. Also, he is not speaking out in support of the minority, he is insinuating that they may be biological not suited for the job.


If only we could decide the characteristics and job of a person based on the person's birth, race and other things totally out of a person's control, society would be so much better.
The i3 is also surprisingly nice to drive around town, at least compared to the Leaf and Zoe.
Your plan is to stop sex trafficking by building an adult services website? On the off chance this isn't bait, what on Earth are you thinking?
I've used one precisely once in my career to date and that was only to make modifications to something someone else had already done on there.

There's a huge one to the right of me which hasn't changed once in the 6 weeks I've been here - although since it says "NEXT SPRINT: [project X]" and Project X still hasn't really started, I guess it's always correct...
Then you haven't done your homework by talking to your people and should be ashamed that you have designed it like that.
Removing EXIF data won't make your website faster lol. You should find other ways to achieve your goals ;)
The joke's on you, working with an AST is a treat :)
I'm curious about what the author chose instead. Sadly, it is not mentioned in the post (maybe for the better - it'd lead to an inevitable flamewar about Go vs whatever his new choice is).
Mass communication was also a factor, but probably not one that Luther would have grasped until he was already committed. And he wouldn't have printed any pamphlets if the local authorities executed him immediately.

As for game theory being a toy model, every model of human behaviour is a toy model. I'm not sure if game theory is a particularly bad one.