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This is one of the biggest problems at our office. We respect the headphone rules fairly well, but we sit like this:

P1 P2 P3

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P4 P5 P6

in pods, and if P5 turns and looks at P4 or P6 to check if they have headphones on, that person will obviously see the movement, possibly get distracted, remove headphones...it's not just a noise issue.
Scale the shit out of this
For. Sure. I have difficulty with lively sensory input conditions. In a nutshell I will, by default, listen and hear every conversation within ear-shot. It can be a huge effort when attempting to carry a discussion when among many.

Not too mention I reflexively am willing to snark at anything I hear, no matter who's speaking. That can get uncomfortable, too, but in different ways.

That's one of the reasons I wave one of those tech-broad-brush-anti-social banners around - Internally I'm interacting with everything around me. That can be hard. I demure when the option is available if for only to manage my senses. I'm so misunderstood.
If you're conservative, be conservative with stating your conservative opinions. I find that conservative viewpoints are generally unwelcome here.

Same goes for religion, if that's applicable.

Stick with tech topics, and you're generally safe.

I wish I could say this weren't the case, but ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.

As far as sections, like someone else said... don't just stick to the front page.

Personally, I find a lot of value in the "Ask HN:" section, and the conversations that result from those questions.
This is an extremely smart play by Disney.

Everyone realizes that content is king, which is why Amazon and Netflix are busy making their own content. Disney already has the content. This is them building the distribution network. People complaining about how this will lead to each studio having their own service, are missing that this is where things are going anyway, just with Netflix and Amazon playing the role of studio.

This isn't really out of character for Disney anyway. They really like vertical integration (they own their own film distributor, for example).
Ha nah. They have their eyes on something much larger than a measly $10/month. Disney/Netflix/Amazon etc. are gonna partner with the carriers.
Maybe because people have a little bit more pricing data than they used to and know what $10 of programming is worth.

Your $80/mo cable bundle is split something like: $12 taxes, $43 ESPN, $9 Viacom and the rest split by everyone else. $10 buys a lot.
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So "proper" as in "the one(s) almost no one uses"?
> weaponized smug

That's a beautiful phrase. I'm stealing it.

> It isn't the party of the workers anymore, it's the party of the people who think workers are stupid.

Very true.
Expect to see more and more tech execs run for political office
Actually the Chinese build near-extra territorial enclaves. In the Western model you pay bribes to many people (though intermediaries), while in the Chinese one you pay a few people at the top.
The various incarnations of the Disney Channel currently have 33 ongoing series and 6 upcoming series. There are hundreds of completed series. Their back-catalog will probably be smaller than netflix in 2019, but they have more new content than you would think.
And what do you propose is the correct way of collecting these measurements?
10 years ago everyone wanted a la carte cable. I guess this is it? Makes sense that it would be just as bad as bundled channels.
No worries, I'm of the opinion that offense can only be taken, never given.

As for your question, I live neither in the US nor in Canada, and where I live "diversity hire" programs don't even exist. I'm also a contractor, so it doesn't apply to me anyways.

Finally, I don't really have well-reasoned arguments against affirmative action. All I have is literally the thought that "F* anyone who tries to take my agency away by calling me a victim."

"When you do a fault analysis, there's no point in assigning fault to a part of the system you can't change afterward, it's like stepping off a cliff and blaming gravity. Gravity isn't going to change next time. There's no point in trying to allocate responsibility to people who aren't going to alter their actions. Once you look at it from that perspective, you realize that allocating blame never helps anything unless you blame yourself, because you're the only one whose actions you can change by putting blame there." -- HP:MOR

If I fail, I fail because I wasn't good enough. I am in control of my life. Perhaps the bar for me is higher than for a random white person, but so what? If I work hard and reach the bar set for me, I will have surpassed the vast majority of white people in the process, and even if I fail at reaching the bar, I will still be in an excellent position to monetize the acquired lead. So win or fail, I always come out ahead.
Let's say that we had a different experience.

I wanted to find out more about this release, and all I got was that I should switch to VSCode.
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Because such a large percentage of people have had to deal with bias, there are laws against it and Codes of Conduct etc. So they had to fire him to prevent lawsuits. In less public disputes people may be able to get away with it, but that doesn't mean it's legal. Sexism, racism, ageism, etc. are not legal in most workplace contexts but still unfortunately very popular.
in the end "cord cutting" is going to be paying the same price as before for cable, but only getting internet, plus paying ala-carte licensing fees that are higher than what the content companies previously charge on cable because now they are selling to individuals instead of a collective.

already cable companies and fios price internet so that you pay only a little more for a full cable package. even if you drop cable you still have to pay extra to subsidize it.
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> If you have views but can’t give voice to them you don’t have a sense of psychological safety. Getting fired certainly didn’t contribute to your feeling of psychological safety. I care about psychological safety in general, and your psychological safety in particular. I wish you’d had a boss or a mentor who could have helped you to find a more productive way to express yourself, and to challenge some of your views.

This is almost gloating.

"Maybe if you'd just knuckled under and remained quiet, you could've been kept safe."

Author seems to miss the bigger picture here: a bunch of people not only missed the points that Damore made (least of all because of deliberate sabotage by the leakers who stripped links and pictures) but also pilloried him for a position he didn't make.

This rubbish strawman of "women are stupid and neurotic" got in the way of productive conversation and was used to fuel a witch-hunt. Most people can't even point to specific lines in context from the document when making their claims, a tradition this author continues.

What a joke.

Additional good reading on this problem is here:

* https://status451.com/2017/08/06/judging-things-by-their-side-effects/
* http://slatestarcodex.com/2017/08/07/contra-grant-on-exaggerated-differences/
* http://quillette.com/2017/08/07/google-memo-four-scientists-respond/
I'm fairly certain entire post is sarcasm, including extroverted engineers, headphones making it OK to keep yelling, and quiet/meeting rooms being used for unproductive purposes :)
Or maybe he was wearing a slutty dress.
You might want to read the replies on his previous post

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14395204
This. For highly talented developer it is definitely possible to make 6 digit salary in London at least, not sure about Cambridge.
It's pointless to claim "lack of critical reading ability" without presenting an argument, since anyone with critical reading ability would have to dismiss that statement as unsupported.
I left my last job because I was bored. All I really want is a challenge to tackle and the flexibly/trust that I will tackle it in my own way.
So I'm supposed to pack up my computer, a couple of monitors, my notebooks and stationary and move it all whenever the noise levels are distracting me from focussing?

Sounds efficient.
I get what you're saying. So let me add context...

At the time I was making around 200k consulting and those were 40hr weeks.

To take a job at a "startup" that was mature enough to pay me 120k salary but too mature to give me significant equity meant that if all went to plan I would get 120+120+40=280. On top of that I'd be working grueling startup hours.

Vs. 200+200=400 and taking it easy.

The appeal was that the job was in a coastal town where I wanted to live. There are very few IT jobs in that area.

Fast forward 8 years later. I live in the area I wanted, but I had to bank consulting money and gain experience to get to where I can work remotely and still demand a good rate.
As I remember, that was a special-case arrangement for some kind of family reason (and after he had worked in Cupertino for several years).
There are current Apple engineers with the arrangement you describe though, I know of at least one on Twitter.
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Counterpoint: Working from home is awful. In contrast, open office plans are pleasant.

It's fine that lots of people here have the opposite opinion, but they shouldn't assume that their opinion is objective truth.
Ironically I have a Vive at home and it would be one of the reasons I'd never get much work done
Well played! Just don't forget that there are too many people on the internet (including HN) who don't understand sarcasm if it's not explicitly marked as such.
why is there no good, fast, open source text editor that is user friendly like vscode but written in a low level language?
The speed also increased, but I use editors due to interface and usage over any speed seen.
Their _entire_ comment is sarcastic. Even "Try to limit all discussions at the desk area to 5 people or less" - all it takes is 2 people talking to ruin the environment for everyone else. Scratch that, it takes 1 person - someone on the phone.
Engineers are also well known for being unable to effectively communicate sarcasm in written prose.
I worked at Apple during the years when the company designed and built its first campus at 1 Infinite Loop in Cupertino. As I recall, Apple R&D employees were considered stakeholders and participated in the design of the interior spaces. Apple wisely decided to give each engineer a private office. There were open areas near the offices with comfortable furniture and whiteboards for engineers to meet and collaborate. I worked in one of these buildings from 2001-2007, and I can confirm that the work areas were beautifully designed and ideal for fostering productive work. It's sad to hear that Apple apparently abandoned this approach in its new campus.
it sounds mgmt wants you guys to work from home.
http://phoenixframework.org/ actually has a built in websocket layer called channels. (its the inspiration for action cable and django channels) . Unlike deepstream, or socketcluster, it has a longpolling fallback as well as multi node clustering.

Its a shame more people don't realize what a gold mine of a piece of technology it is.
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We use 'fetch' extensively. It does not support cancellation or timeouts, although you can implement the later as a Promise.race with a setTimeout.
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Book recommendation: Piketty's Capital[1] is still the single best resource for understanding why income inequality and the concentration of wealth have been so pronounced over the past several decades. There are ample citations, footnotes, and references to meticulously researched data sets.

[1]: https://www.amazon.com/Capital-Twenty-First-Century-Thomas-P...
Too late. I already took an screen shot of your comment and will post it public tomorrow and they will fire you. (so sad this can be true for some of the people commenting here, I am even scared that my comments in this topic here can have consequences in the future).

young engineer, women, white, black,... we are all worried because of this event. The people who was scared to talk before now are not going to talk for sure.
The galloping horse GIF is just the trailer
Awesome. The idea that companies are apolitical can't die fast enough. No person-to-person platform can reach scale and be apolitical.

You end up with companies like reddit and twitter who are too timid to make a stand about what their rules really are, and then waffle until they're forced to deal either with the PR nightmare of suddenly changing directions at scale, or the PR nightmare of allowing shitbags nobody wants to deal with to run rampant on the platform because they don't want to change directions at scale.

If you really want to support "anything goes" you have to be willing to be 2006 /b/. Turns out the legal, advertising, and financial implications of this decision are painful (even for 4chan).

If you're not willing to be /b/, you've default accepted that free speech is off the table. If that's the case, the best thing you can do is actually spend thought and effort on your principles, and on enforcing them swiftly and evenhandedly.

Speech is free on the internet, and it should be. Speech is not free on a single company's website, and it shouldn't be.

Curation is a very important form of product design, and curation of users (or lack thereof) is no exception.
Haha. In my particular case I was at the boundary of two departments. To make things worse, turnover was high.

Hmm, I wonder why?
Make sure you have enough margin that you aren't wiped out by a quick spike up.
Didn't bother at all here either. Great article.
And I am sure you have handy flow charts printed out so people can figure out what to do when 6 people at a desk have a discussion while wearing headphones.
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Even if we assume that your premise is correct that the rich deserve to pay more, there are 2nd order effects to consider. The rich may respond to tax hikes by raising the price of their goods and services, by moving their taxable income/wealth offshore, or by producing less/retiring.

Here's an interesting thought experiment: Temporarily imagine our economy as a barter exchange between the rich and the poor. If the exchange rate between goods and services provided by the rich and goods and services provided by the poor remains constant, then no tax policy could ever possibly change the income distribution.
Does it maybe work like the Pentagon, where you can't just randomly enter any area?
Yep, that's a very good synopsis )
Disney buying Netflix would make way more sense - an expensive acquisition for sure, but worth it for Disney.
Yeah, I agree. He went too far in that direction.

I think he was wrong on some facts, and also didn't explain things in the best way.

But I think it was wrong of many people to misrepresent what he said (as "women are inferior"), and it was wrong of Google to fire him.
Emacs doesn't qualify? Why not?
You only need to remember your experiences in high school to know that biology plays a role in men and women striving for different things.
Ah! I noticed this interior layout in more than a few buildings but didn't realize the backstory. Thanks for posting!
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There is nothing special about "engineer" either. It's just a made up title.

Look at the origin of the word:

>Middle English (denoting a designer and constructor of fortifications and weapons; formerly also as ingineer ): in early use from Old French engigneor, from medieval Latin ingeniator, from ingeniare ‘contrive, devise,’ from Latin ingenium (see engine); in later use from French ingénieur or Italian ingegnere, also based on Latin ingenium, with the ending influenced by -eer.

Electrical engineers certainly aren't building fortifications and weapons, yet they have it in their title. Software controls the behavior of physical systems just as much as electrical engineer-designed circuits do.

The only people that get pissed off by the use of the word are people that think people who write software are intellectually beneath them.

>Why not call yourself a "Software Doctor?"

If you have a PhD, that would certainly be fine. Doctor is pretty well-defined throughout the history of the word.
No, it’s not simple.

I am awfully bored of these “everything is simple, open offices are uniformly awful, everybody should be remote” arguments. Yes - this works for some people, in some workplaces. In other cases, it doesn’t work. I’m fine with my open office space, and I prefer working from an office - which is a bike ride away and better equipped than I am.

How about instead we accept that there are almost certainly trade-offs involved in these areas, and that maybe building an office space that works for everyone is important? Provide open office space for those who thrive in that environment. Make sure there are private areas for those who don’t. Establish a culture that supports remote workers, and encourages good behaviour in shared areas. That, if anything, is simpler.
I completely agree, or make leadership positions less desirable for men.

The essay actually touches on these points.
I can already imagine the future where someone slacks me "hey" in order to start a five-round conversation about if I'm busy and if it's OK for them to ask a question only to find out they were standing behind me the whole time.
I expect this will depend a lot on your frames - if the arms on your glasses are thick it'll be more inclined to squish into your head.

That said I'm really happy with my Logitech G930s - I usually use them wired to keep the charge (the usb cord length is _very_ generous) but they're just fine wireless too, and do a good job staying put if I'm moving around a bit.

My only complaint is that they seem to be sensitive to 2.4ghz interference, which can kick them off the wireless connection. Since there's no wired override (plugging in is purely for battery) this means plugging in can't save you. Once I switched my devices at home to prefer 5ghz wifi, it went from 5-10 times an hour at its worst to once or twice a month (and I can maybe blame that on the neighbours).
Has anyone had luck with canistream.it? I've never once had success with it and tried at least half a dozen times over months.

Just now I did a search for "all the presidents men." Top hit was "All The King's Men" but the right movie did show up second. It says "Not available for streaming, rental, or purchase. Click below to set reminders."

So I hopped around and did a few quick searches:

streaming on Netflix (i think) https://www.netflix.com/watch/243547

streaming on amazon (with Cinemax) http://a.co/605SHmD

for rent or sale on iTunes https://itunes.apple.com/us/movie/all-the-presidents-men/id5...

for rent or sale on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZAGNFnI7mZ4

The page also says it's not for sale on DVD or Blu-Ray (showing an Amazon logo): http://a.co/aoa6bG8
you did a great job.
This was submitted five months ago:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13933128

Suggestion: previous submission should be at least a year old before rehashing is allowed
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Disney has a very, very large catalogue of content but is particularly strong on kid's content. It will be very high up on the list for the average household, and a lot of consumers
Just to clarify, my comment is not meant to defend poor hiring practices in any way, I'm very much in favor of agressive efforts to improve diversity numbers (including heavy affirmative action). I just get bothered by the use of the term "white" to refer to groups with heavy Asian representation; these groups have vastly different experiences than whites do, and lumping them all together just because they're present in tech and tend to be financially successful is a dangerous oversimplification. The systematic problems go much deeper than people just hiring people that look like they do, if that was the whole problem we'd have achieved parity a long time ago.
I'm looking at CLICC now a bit.

Boy, the implementors made a significant mistake in this one. Though CLICC is not intended to be a complete Lisp system, but a Lisp application, they insisted that CLICC has to itself be a CLICC-compiled application. And so what that means is that, then, programs being compiled with this bootstrapped CLICC are severely limited as to what they can do at compile time (in macros), simply because of the crippled run-time environment of the CLICC-compiled CLICC compiler which has to run without the benefit of an actual CL runtime. Whereas if CLICC had been kept as a Lisp-compiled program, only the run-time parts of user code would be restricted to the "CL1" language; macros could be written in full CL.
Content is hits+depth. You do the 30 day trial to watch star wars, then stay on because you find other stuff you like. Unless you're going to watch a different star wars movie every week[1], you can just rent or buy the star wars movies for cheap.

1: By 2019 there should be about a dozen feature-length star wars movies, counting the 3 2-hour television specials, so you're right that just star wars movies is not that great.
It's not the augmentation method that's the problem. It's the apparent fact that managers/etc at Google are apparently building secret lists of people they won't work with because of ideological reasons. That's both morally awful and quite insubordinate.

What should they be doing instead? (1) STFU. (2) Do their jobs.

It's called being professional.
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I'm using Google Fi and I havent been able to send messages through hangouts or SMS for 20 minutes or so now.
...Learn from the success of a business that has literally never made a profit in it's entire history?
I will only pay for netflix, and hulu, and amazon cuz I already pay for prime... oh and hbo, cbs, a&e, and that's it. I'll never buy disney. Oh and Lifetime
And they didn't have enough subscribers to justify that model. I wonder what they think has changed.

Maybe on demand Disney movies are valuable enough to enough parents to justify this?
That's not what a broker does. A broker is basically in sales. He takes company research done by analysts and tries to sell you company financial products. He doesn't care which direction you go as long as you do something so he can take his commission, and a little extra if you are buying a company product he might be trying to push.

A market maker is the guy who's tying to capture the spread, but they don't really go around trying to get the public to buy and sell.
>> Before you know it everyone will be paying for an ad-hoc cable subscription.

Still better than a cable subscription. That's my biggest beef. I want 2 channels and I can't get them for less than $150 a month. So they get nothing and neither do I.
Exactly. That's why they HAD to make this move.

The Disney channel is getting hurt badly by families cutting the cord. Disney streaming will be just as much about "The Mickey Mouse Club" as it is about big budget blockbusters.

I have a 2 year old. I will be wherever the Disney content is, and they could charge me basically whatever price they want.
I'd put it slightly differently: People with an authoritarian mindset stir up this mob rule as a path for the authoritarians to exercise power.

But maybe I'm saying the same thing as you are...
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Landlords are going to charge market rate for rent. They won't charge a lower rent if their property taxes are lower than they should be due to prop 13 and won't charge a lower rent if they are deducting mortgage interest.
Motherboard (Vice) did it.

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/evzjww/here-are-t...
Disney already did this in other territories, such as the UK.

People did deal with it. Which is why they're expanding it.