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Company is not your mom, it's a agent of a trade on a job market. If it can demand something from you, then you can do the same.

In fact, not only is your job to provide company with a product of your labor, but it also is a job of the management to provide you what you want and need (interesting tasks, a path for long-term development).

Let me repeat again, it's not a privilege to ask for this, they HAVE to do this.
This is, historically, where I was at. Consistently delivering high-quality stuff that makes my fellow devs able to do their jobs faster and better, and while in the top quartile of salaries, it wasn't remotely reflective of the value being generated. That's why I went into consulting in the first place.
This may be an even more strategic move than the press release suggests, as MLBAM powers other streaming services like HBO Now:https://www.theverge.com/2015/8/4/9090897/mlb-bam-live-strea...

It allows Disney leverage not just over Netflix but others like Time Warner.
What do hyper-productive teams look like these days? I've always been part of small teams, with only a few true workhorses, joined by other filler bodies. Productivity was mostly a mystery to management.

I do not understand team sizes of 50+ for some web app product. The formula only requires a few (3) workhorses that make up a collaboration of skills in product design and engineering, and finding ways to keep them curious. Add a junior position if a workhorse is keen on mentorship.

Why take on such high risk with a large team?
I'm not sure what your point is, since neither of those links espouse the position that nuclear weapons are the only reason North Korea hasn't been attacked.

No one is saying NK having nuclear weapons isn't a threat or a danger. It's just simply an oft-repeated idiocy that you have to have nukes or the US will attack you. The US didn't go to war with NK for the 60 years prior to them having nukes, either, because other deterrents exist in the situation.

It's a childish understanding of what's going on.
People absolutely are paying for separate services. There's a limit to how many, but many, many people are paying for Netflix + HBO, or Amazon + HBO, because they believe HBO delivers value for the money. In contrast, I suspect very few people are likely to sign up for the CBS service, Star Trek or not, because I don't think many people believe CBS delivers value for the money.

Disney is banking on people believing they deliver value for the money. For parents of young children, maybe they do. Certainly more than "nobody" will agree.
A lot of vim plugins take a different approach that initially makes one think they are broken: they only render syntax based on what's in the buffer, which leads to things like HTML closing tags with opening tags not visible in the buffer (presuming you didn't scroll past the opening tag and jumped straight to the current position) won't be highlighted correctly, etc. but it means never having to parse the entire file just to get syntax highlighting working. It's a good compromise, on the whole.
To be clear, I didn't create that site. I found it elsewhere and linked it here.

But yeah, to reiterate what I said in the article, the Gizmodo version is terribly lacking and not worthy of being called the 'full' version even though that's exactly what they did.

Thus inciting much hate about this guy's 'uninformed' and 'bigoted' opinions when they're just...not. Controversial, yes, but not uninformed.
Not as long as people want to watch stories about particular IP.
HN has a couple of things that might be at play here:

1) Users flagged it. There are many reasons to flag a post - it's too political; the discussion is toxic; etc.

2) It set off the flame war detector. This is an algorithm that looks at stuff (who knows? Number of posts? Speed of posts? Depth of posts? Numbers of flags to comments? Amount of votes?) and penalises threads that trigger it.

3) In rare situations mods take action. The mods would be either dang or sctb, and they always say they've taken action.
I'm happy to pay extra for content from Disney or HBO, but I just want a consistent user experience. I was a single app that will let me access all of this content.
It should terrify everyone. It's a flagrant attempt at depriving someone (and their family) of access to food/home/healthcare/etc just because they voiced their opinion.
You sound like a cunt. I am being outspoken and misogynistic for calling you this. Not the other guy. Stop being a cunt.
Man, I remember in college when we would be working long hours in the library on a computer lined up in a row of computers. Every one would be intensely working on what they needed to. Sometimes two would work together. This was especially true before presentations when we were trying to put our stuff together. It was neat. It was collaborative. It was fun. And we were happy.

Open floor plan is reminiscent of those days, but it isn't working. And I cannot figure out why. What's missing? Intensity? Work? Stress? Team building therapy? Or just trust? Whatever it is I hope we figure it out.
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Maybe the justification is density, not cost. The floor space of the spaceship was finalized years ago and maybe Apple is trying to shoehorn more employees into that space.
Whether or not it's acceptable, I think we'll see apps/bots employed to do this. I'm not sure there's much in that process that makes money for Facebook, so big players might avoid it.
its all speculation, speculation, speculation, just like the US stock market just less regulated, speculators get a bad rep but do more good than harm in an economy
Yes, beginning in 2019
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Yes, I have no idea.

It seems more like discussion just for the sake of it, then because of actual, real-life problems.

My laptop isn't even amazingly powerful, and I constantly have 3GB to spare despite the fact that I run many random apps and almost never restart it.

As a developer, I don't see what the problem would be if my main tool occupied even 2GB of memory (and we're talking about 500MB-1GB in most cases).

I never heard any graphic designer complaining about Photoshop occupying 10GB of memory for a logo (which happened to me a few hours ago).
Amazon is also a good example of a content provider offering "streaming bundles" - you can get add-on subscriptions for HBO and other premium television providers.
Ah, good to know. At least the title isn't wrong, even if it's not reflected in the content of the article. Thanks!
Hopefully, more and more companies experience backlash from this. It is a horrific mistake to add distracting elements to most programmers environments. Even worse, in my open office plan, they put our very loud finance group right next to us. Absolutely no thought of noise management was considered, except for putting in horrible "white noise" generators that set off my tinnitus Thankfully, my direct manager is understanding and let me turn off the one directly over my head. And by directly over my head, I mean about 4 feet.
A typical NOx reduction is to feed some exhaust gas into the air intake to reduce the amount of oxygen in the chamber.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exhaust_gas_recirculation
Yes for people with ADD cigarettes enable focus and productive work. Much stronger and more effective than coffee.
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I would pay $20 a month if it had every disney movie ever, and every new release after a certain time period. I imagine there are a lot of parents that would as well.
If there is a donations box or a tip jar, I'm using that. But that's available in maybe 10% of shops (most drugstores, some bakeries, no supermarkets).
Right, I read the title as Disney would pull Netflix content to their own service and was wondering for a moment there.

Anyway, can confirm, I won't be signing to Disney as Netflix still has quite a bit more good content than I can watch.
It really depends on your objectives. Just want to save some fiat? Go 85% BTC/15% ETH this way you can ride the BTC price rises and still enjoy xx% gains on ETH. Or you can do what the most opportunistic do and go 100% ETH and then diversify that into ERC-20 tokens built on top of the Ethereum protocol. Now obviously you should do your due diligence but hopefully this can give you some ideas.
I suspect he sees Google and Facebook as a threat to his breitbart empire, since there's calls to remove ads from fictitious news articles.
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If you want to see flagged or censored comments, you can enable those in your profile settings, just change showdead to yes
My company moved engineering into the same open office as sales and customer support, we can collaborate with everyone all the time!

Definitely a negative to productivity on my individual work because it's so much noisier in here.
Didn't know that, can you elaborate on that? Anyways 2 guys directly come into my mind which where not programmers but still involved into tech work. (One guy was actually doing FoxPro stuff with his private license, and the other guy had a server with some custom PHP. The one guy was on the lowest point of the career ladder at the company and the 2nd guy got fired eventually.)
Employers have the same concerns for their potential hires, that's why there are interview processes after all. Leverage these interviews to ask the right questions.

They may get surprised when you turn the table around, just remind them that interviews go both ways.
Of course, at this point, most people will be astonished when their Solaris (or Solaris-derived) or FreeBSD system shows CPU load instead of system load, given that most *ix exposure now happens via Linux.
Gizmodo and other sites removed charts and citations from the memo. The full version with links to references is here:

https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/3914586/Googles-I...
I for damn sure won't be subscribed to more than 1 at the same time. I would alternate every month. It makes no sense to be subscribed to all the things.
actually, it's distribution decoupled from actual value creation that has given us things like 4 hour football games with 10 minutes of live play.

I would prefer that content is sold without need for a middle man. Seems easy when spotify does it and there are no commercials but they aren't doing 4k streams. I think top quality spotify is 240 or 320kBPS.

Netflix needs 4x that for their lowest, "wouldn't watch it on my phone" quality stream. It's just going to cost more for these products in a non-broadcast world.
Yep - I see it now, you're right. Thanks for the clarification.
> Asserting that half of humanity is incapable of taking on pressure and responsibility is insulting

Where in his manifesto did he say that?

I've read it through a few times, and nowhere does he say that.
The cord-cutters never had it right in the first place. They thought internet bandwidth was unlimited and free compared to broadcast/cablecast television (not counting OTA in this discussion)

The reality is really the opposite.
Gold chunks (and wampum) aren't currencies though, they're commodities.
> Asserting that half of humanity is incapable of taking on pressure and responsibility is insulting [...]

That is actually what he is trying extra hard to explain that he is _not_ asserting (if you go read the thing).

It's basically what he is spending the first few pages trying to be absolutely clear about. The overlapping normal distribution curves is a very immediate way to visualise it, but an excerpt will have to do:

"Note, I’m not saying that all men differ from all women in the following ways or that these
differences are “just.” I’m simply stating that the distribution of preferences and abilities of men
and women differ in part due to biological causes and that these differences may explain why
we don’t see equal representation of women in tech and leadership. Many of these differences
are small and there’s significant overlap between men and women, so you can’t say anything
about an individual given these population level distributions."
Interestingly HBO just did this: They put HGO Go into Hulu.

$15/month is still a lot though.
More likely its progenitor, MLB Advanced Media (MLBAM). They often get that weird 'giant company you've never heard of' coverage, well past the point after many people have heard of them.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MLB_Advanced_Media
I'd love to get a discussion going on whether people support or oppose the flagging (and subsequent disappearance) of politically charged topics on HN. While HN is not a politics site, some of these censored topics have been tech-related.

I guess it comes down to a value judgement: is it worth discussing tech politics even if it spawns flamewars and heated arguments? I think it's worth it, but this is certainly debatable. Curious what other HN users think.

My own thinking is that political discussion between opposing factions is always going to be contentious, but that doesn't mean it should be suppressed. However, angry rhetoric can lead to further polarization, so I'm not sure what the right approach is.

Edit: funny enough, this topic itself was flagged and killed! I've vouched it, but I'm open to hearing arguments for why this link doesn't belong.
> it's best to look at your directs as someone to help them advance for their next job.

I'm happy to say this is my manager's position. I joined this team nearly 2 years ago mainly on the strength of a great discussion with him during the interview process, and our team is clearly excellent thanks to him, with significant investment in growth, responsibility and empowerment (I know they're buzzwords but ick, I don't know how better to say it).

(Just want to stem the tide of inevitable gripes that are going to show up)
The internet is choke-full of content that was "recycled" and stripped of attribution. I wouldn't call it the cancer of the web, but perhaps algae overgrowth would be a fitting metaphor.

You would need to add something original and of value to have it accepted here.

Also, your apology is very tone-deaf. I imagine it pisses people off way more than the copyright issue.
same here, I am a software engineer who happen to be a woman. There are things I don't agree in Damore's article. But that's just his opinion and that's okay. However I have no words to describe how frustrated I am to see media twisting and portraying him into this pure sexist, using words like "Anti-diversity" in their headlines just to get views.

And what's even more frustrating is Google's response of firing him. It makes me scared of working in the tech industry, luckily, I am a "minority" in both gender and race. Yet I can't help but wonder, if someday I speak up about my different views than the vast majority of my company, am I going to get fired for it?
I just subscribed to HBO through Amazon for this reason. It's really great. Amazon user experience and streaming capabilities seem better than HBO. But HBO is the only place you can get Game of Thrones. Win-win :)
As someone who is looking for a job, but does not particularly agree with most people in tech or even on HN, how would you approach looking for a job and interviewing knowing that you are apart of a minority and can be ostracized for not having the same viewpoints?

This is getting scary.
For the most part, that has been TiVo for the last 4-5 years.
Does Disney have more off-brand subsidies like ESPN and Pixar?

Without more of that, Disney's amazing brand recognition could turn into a problem for them: because everybody thinks that they know exactly what to expect when they hear "Disney", a Disney-only subscription might feel much more like a monoculuture than one Amazon-only or Netflix-only (assuming those two even go that far towards exclusivity, which might be inevitable if more licensed content leaves)
It is still more than they would get from many of us any other way. Before Spotify I'll buy less than a cd every second or third month maybe.

Now I'd probably just stop watching movies. Others will start pirating again.
This is only a rumour, I would wait for some photos to appear to confirm this.

Anyone got any recent images now people have started moving in?
Ugh, thank God.

I get that until 2016 and Nadella/.NETCore only Ruby, JavaScript, and Python were the hipster languages of choice for web development... but .NET has been an awesome, rapid-development, tried-and-tested, business-friendly option for creating business applications, including, believe it or not, eCommerce platforms.

Outside the "hacker bubble" no one in their right mind would have neglected .NET as a first-class API target for this long. It's insane that Stripe got away with it for as long as they did, actually.
I may sound like a skeptic, but I am fairly sure that if MPEG have an interest in this, it is in order to license it.

If not now, then later. In my opinion, this would be MPEG getting their teeth into a new tech, in order to either license it now, or wait until it has traction and then license it.

It is absolutely amazing tech though. Shame.
This is great!

I actually had to write my way around non-cancellable promises quite a few times and my situation mirrors yours though mostly on the client:

I have a search page that updates results every time a new filter is updated (imagine you select a new tag to filter by, or narrow down the search somehow). This can be done faster than responses come back and can create a huge mess because some responses can come back faster than others.

This creates uncertainty in terms of what should be on the page. A few lines of code and it's fixed but the cool thing is that I get to throw away results that I don't care about and not process them (expensive-ish action).

This kind of situation happens somewhat often because a user can quickly navigate around, fire off a ton of requests and only really cares about the last one in the queue.

I haven't worked my way around it on a global scale which means that there could be a ton of requests being processed and thrown away right after for no good reason.
Sure. Variety is the spice of life and all that. Still, they are both electron based code editors that seem to have similar goals. Seems apt to compare them and worthy of discussion.

If you publish a new release and you happen to have a competitor in the same market that is currently eating your lunch people are naturally going to ask what makes it worthwhile to switch.
Thanks for replying! I suspected that people did that but never had confirmation.
The post is right about the problems with the context object, but is flat wrong when it claims that the only problem it solves is cancelation.

Cancelation is just one aspect of a generic concern: that a tree of function calls (and more importantly, RPCs) is a causal chain of events that external systems (including humans) will want to monitor and control. Trace IDs, auth tokens and other things need to be propagated somehow, but the code that they propagate through shouldn't care about them.

So its nice to have context.Context in the standard library so that we don't have a proliferation of per-library hand-rolled solutions which then have to be virally propagated.
1. For services the general public depend on and likely end up paying for (even with ads), it seems appropriate to respect the diversity of the public and represent them, especially if the company involved is at risk or actually is a monopoly. We're not talking about being PC for a mom-and-pop style software house here: this is Google.

2. Ability in the context of software is so subjective. Software engineering is a balance of so many skills I cannot believe that any single set of abilities are dominate enough to isolate any nature of person as best at it. The ability argument on complicated code may well relate to Chess (which has sadly its own diversity problems), but that code is a minority of what we do. Diversity in IT is necessary... a lot of our software is terrible (bugs, privacy, accessibility, etc) and maybe that is representative of a lack of dominance of other abilities some of the average current programmers don't have enough of and need to find ways to include.

3. In my experience, I enjoy and worry about the cultural norms I share with most of my peers and get to enjoy through work. We like pizza, beer (fridges), burgers, the football or pool tables, casinos, the pub after work, games consoles (with Football and Fighting games) and the Giphy memes (involving comic books, sci-fi and football). As an industry we are dominated by and therefore cater mostly for young, western (Europe/USA), liberal men... how many software conferences are in Vegas? We enjoy natural discrimination that nobody (hopefully) is intending to create, but that just happens when an environment is dominated by any culture. I don't care how PC we are, we need to find a way to be more inclusive and if that involves ensuring that culture variations that aren't the majority are given additional resource or exclusivity to have room to enjoy their cultural norms in work too, then great... sadly for now, they'll still be the minority.

4. I think it is unfair to judge Google on the firing as the full context of the dialogue between employee and employer may not be apparent yet. As much damage as it might do, we do need concerns of positive discrimination to be aired and I hope Google haven't harmed that dialogue with firing the employee. Perhaps a disciplinary might have been more appropriate (the context seemed to go beyond just concern of positive discrimination and into the territory of sexism so who knows what was the right thing).

Note: the absence of women is so easy to notice that we might be missing the fact that many others are not represented well enough in our industry too: think accessibility, religions and anybody who doesn't read, write and speak English. We're terrible at some aspects of diversity and may not realise because we have people of variations amongst us, but they may not be fully representative in all ways that matter.
The response to Martini always confused me. The language and community (at first, anyway) was all about terse identifiers, type inference, interface inference, etc. But then, e.g. with the continual repetition of `if err != nil {}`, or the "just use stdlib" approach to HTTP, it injects a lot of ceremonial verbosity back into the ecosystem.

It's not the verbosity that bothers me. It's the arbitrary "verbosity is bad/verbosity is good" choices that have emerged over time.
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Yeah this reminds me a lot of Michael Crichton's Sphere, which starts with a professor, funded by the military, who was tapped to analyze in great detail how to deal with first contact with aliens.
I always preferred the story of the gay tree, myself.
But he didn't do that. At all.

He opens _and closes_ with:

> Many of these differences are small and there’s significant overlap between men and women, so you can’t say anything about an individual given these population level distributions.

He even includes a chart to show the amount of overlap between the curves (high) and directly argues against applying traits towards individual behavior.

Let's phrase this another way if I state that if you are "black" (sub-Saharan African) in origin you have a higher likelyhood of Sickle-cell is that racist?

No. It is a _population_, _average_ difference.

Now the _science he cites_ (women are more prone to Neuroticism) is less well settled. That's something to disagree with.

But if its insulting to even have a discussion that the population of women, on average, show different traits then men what discussion _can be had_? Can we even talk about diseases that are more likely to affect women? What's okay?
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Oh, upper management is even more paranoid than that. It's what made this such a strange move for the company.
In the 1990s, the CA state gov. wanted 10% of the cars on the road to be EVs by 2000.

Wow, was that ever effective.