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>Correction: we'd have Ada

Ada allows for errors just as well.

http://www-users.math.umn.edu/~arnold/disasters/ariane5rep.h...

It's a cargo cult/myth that was circulating from back when I was in university that Ada is some super fault tolerant language because they use it for rockets and stuff and because they designed it to be super secure.

It was indeed designed to be more secure than C and to be an official government/military use language, but no "super secure" and allows for errors just fine.

Besides, they do rockets in C just as well (with certain rules).
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Sure then, a quarter of the country, and three quarters didn't vote for the "right" candidate. The point still stands.
Welcome to the internet. Where we make generalizations about large swaths of people.

This could keep up until the end of time.
I'm an incredibly liberal person in most regards but I find suppressing unwanted speech to be disgusting at a base level.

I think it's unfair to make that generalization; further, it contributes to the false dichotomy that exists through "left/right" politic.
There's also debt servicing that Uber needs to pay for the billion dollar line of credit it received and tapped. It's possible the true metric is actually worse.
Right: I explained what I meant in another reply.
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In Common Lisp let is either lexically or dynamically scoped, depending on whether the symbol is marked "special" which is the situation if the symbol was previously used as the name in a defvar or defparameter form to define a dynamic variable.

So dynamically scoped contexts are achieved just by binding these special variables. By convention, they are usually given names beginning and ending with an asterisk ("earmuffs") to put them into an effectively separate namespace.

That parametrize is reminiscent of fluid-let; another Scheme hack to simulate dynamic scope.
And when you lose your job... you lose access to that "excellent health coverage".

Health insurance being so culturally tied to "employment" is ... very problematic.
Yes in movies or tv shows they do when you see the decipher progression on screen :) But as stated by others no.

Not trolling, I guess for people that don't know how it works it can be confusing.
JavaScript in and of itself is just another little DSL, if you want to do sane things it rows your boat. What creates all the trouble is what people are trying to extract out of it and the usually inexpert community around the language (little amount of actual CS people). It would've been way easier if around 2007-2010 we added a new language to the browser, and had some standards for the average JS programmer. I haven't tried Dart at all, but if Google actually shipped it in Chrome, then others would have to follow. We'd all call them evil for that, but at the end we'd have all others follow and end up with (probably) a proper language to code in for the browser (well my actual thoughts about running that sort of code is rather unpopular and negative, but I'll keep it to myself here to not annoy anybody).
I think you mean "Welcome to modern politics". Suppressing free speech you don't agree with is a time-tested tradition of most mainstream political thought. However, it's most disappointing to see from people you otherwise agree with.
The XKCD method of generating passwords [1] does not imply 'best case' entropy of crackers going after each individual character. Instead it clearly states 44 bits of entropy which is the 'worst case' entropy when the attacking knows your exact method and dictionary used when generating the password.

I'd argue that when targeting the same number of bits of entropy the XKCD method is still easier to remember than a bunch of fully random characters.

[1] https://xkcd.com/936/
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That was a bit too graphical for my lunch to handle, thanks :D
Why.. not? I mean, perhaps it adds too much noise to normal threads, but it feels to me you're explaining why we shouldn't be learning random facts here. Which is odd, because I appreciate learning, doubly so because I don't often seek it out.

Stopping someone mid conversation to correct grammar might be rude or whatever in person, mainly due to the "live" nature of in-person conversation. In a forum-like conversation however; it seems quite the opposite to me.

Purely subjective, of course.
Also interesting is that it's one of the things social justice activists constantly criticize others for. I can't count how many times I've heard the following: "when we say men are privileged, we don't mean any and all men are privileged to the same extent." Or "when we say white people are racist, we're not talking about every single individual white person."

And it makes sense. Yet when it comes time for someone to say "the statistical average for career interests in females tends to lean away from technology", all observable nuance is thrown to the wind.
At this point everybody's made up their minds, assigned heros and villains and victims, and now flood every comment board on the internet to repeat their own existing beliefs.

Has anybody's mind been changed at all through this whole ordeal? Or are we just going to sail through another historic moment of cultural reckoning with our comfortable beliefs firmly intact and affirmed the whole way through?
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We’ve found that people from big companies with a slower work pace and unclear project owners often find it difficult to adjust to a culture that expects them to personally drive their own deliverables.

This doesn't sound very compassionate to engineers leaving big, dysfunctional companies (which by the way preach the exact same ethos of personal responsibility). Basically, they are damaged goods who aren't expected to thrive in a better environment?
Worrying about the water & coast is a very real concern in The Netherlands. I didn't mean to give the opposite impression.

The intent of my comment is to explain that the mental image many have of The Netherlands (even some natives are guilty of this) that it's all effectively under sealevel held up by some above-sealevel walls facing the ocean is false.

Most big population centers are above sealevel, those that aren't are usually "landlocked" below-sealevel areas, i.e. surrounded by land that's not below sealevel.

Flooding's still a major concern, but it's as much about ensuring that these landlocked areas don't turn into big puddles whenever it rains as it is about holding storm surges from the ocean back.

This is why the top comment in this thread stating that "we are ALREADY beneath sea level!" is BS. The nominal state of The Netherlands is not to be under sea level, but just barely above it.

This means that it's vulnerable to heavy rains, storm surges etc. But it also means that it's no more prepared than most other countries if the ocean were to rapidly rise and start overflowing & eroding the above-sealevel costal areas that protect the under-sealevel inland areas from being permanently flooded.
Most people care, but the general advice is not good.

Low fat food is not really healthy.
Mine requires 6 digits to get in, but then for every real transaction I have to inform another 6 digits from an RSA app installed on my phone.
... wat? You cant just count nonvoters for your candidate. They chose not to vote as a way to say your candidate sucks.
In my experience, most people who act like that lack the intelligence to make valid points in an argument or there are no good arguments that support their point of view.

I think a lot of this has to do with parenting. When crying always gets you everything, you don't learn to work hard or have a debate to get what you want. There's a whole generation of full-grown babies.
Most people seem to refer to pension in the U.S. as a private company's social security set-up - you get a set amount per month for the rest of your life after a term of working at the company.
Half the voting population voted for him.
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But a 401k /is/ a pension.

> In the United States, a 401(k) plan is [a] tax-qualified, defined-contribution pension account

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/401(k)
The cost of disruption is extremely high for voting, for pretty much everyone.

For other systems, a disruption is just inconvenient for most people. Like if I can't use my credit card for a day, I don't care (of course this may be of more consequence for some people). Same thing with a power outage (and people that need it can have a backup for grid power; how do you have a backup for legitimate governance?).
> backed by links

> PhD in sexual neuroscience

> female

There's a LOT that's new here, relative to Damore's memo.
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I'm sorry, if you spend your time at work writing manifestos that ignite culture wars instead of working - you should be fired. Wanna write a manifesto? Create a blog post. I would be fired if I wrote a manifesto like this at my job - without any publicity
Au contraire. The high taxes in Sweden are on income (and consumption). Capital gains tax is maximum 30%, the property "tax" is low, and there's no "asset tax."
That scene stuck with me too. They keep going for, like, 15 minutes? Until finally some old fellow sits down. And he's taken away by the next day.
"Eventually someone will find a solution."

First define the problem.

I demand the Australian Ballot: private voting, public counting.

After studing this extensively, I believe there is no way to digitize elections and preserve the Austalian Ballot. Because there is no digital equivalent of the physical secure one-way hash (shuffle) of dropping ballots into a box.

Any crypto- blocko- based system has to design for the whole election. Not just the voting. Including pollbooks, which record when ballots are issued to voters. Including precinct-based election counts, because every single precinct gets a different ballot (say 500 voters).

Maybe someone will prove me wrong. Cool. Then show me. The burden of proof is one them, not me. Otherwise, stop wasting everyone's time with technophilia sideshows. We've got real democracy with real work to do.

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Alternately, any proposal has to replace the Australian Ballot with something new. Some ideas which would simplify the problem space:

- replace winner takes all with Approval Voting;

- issue separate ballots for federal, state, county, and local elections;

- decide that time-boxed privacy, where the secret ballot is preserved until an election is certified and then made public, is sufficient

- supplant our current loose voter ID regiment some kinda of U2F futuretech.
Quite a dangerous falsehood to parrot. I am strongly critical of many of the more conservative values espoused by the practitioners of major religions in the US; their view on these matters do NOT agree with my own.

I will, however, fight for their right to express these views and practice their religion in my country (up until the point it infringes on another's rights).
Its a difference between "general" use and "technical" use. Usually when us normal people in the States talk about a pension we mean a defined benefit retirement plan sponsored by your employer.

But in the legal/literature use it means any savings you keep for retirement. The defined benefit plan is basically gone from the private sector in the USA and is only existent in the public sector.
You are 100% correct. Politics is shouted to the rafters in every forum inside Google, but with a voice that starts out from the extreme left and migrates further leftward from there. I can completely understand why conservatives - or even moderates - feel unwelcome there. It's really bad.
Interview pass criteria are not based on the gender/race of the candidate. The criteria are the same for all candidates for the same role. The goal of diversity/inclusion programs is to find more diverse candidates to interview in the first place.

Edit: referring to Google specifically
> But sexism isn’t the result of knowing facts; it’s the result of what people choose to do with them.

We know that men are taller than women. I can see you agreeing, but actually this statement is ambiguous, because these two are not the same thing:

A man is taller than a women

On average, men are taller than women

Sexism is taking a random male and a random female, and claiming that despite all the facts presented to you, the male is taller than the female. It doesn't matter that in a specific case a female is taller than a male.

The same can be applied to any group and their respective stereotype. The *ism happens when we fail to assess an individual on the data given to us, preferring to fall back on mentally-lazy stereotypes/generalisations even when what we can see says something different.

A single study, published in 2015, did claim that male
and female brains existed along a “mosaic” and that it
isn’t possible to differentiate them by sex, but this has
been refuted by four – yes, four – academic studies since.

This includes a study that analyzed the exact same brain
data from the original study and found that the sex of a
given brain could be correctly identified with 69-per-cent
to 77-per-cent accuracy.

Well I'd argue that isn't great accuracy as 50% is what you'd expect from chance (though I haven't read those references). In fact, I might expect a similar accuracy from a machine-learning technique to predict sex based on your height.

I haven't touched on the causes of population differences. With height, I don't think anyone thinks it's anything other than genetic (by way of testosterone levels). For interests and skills, the proportion that is caused by testosterone versus culture/environment is still unclear.

If we believe there is still a cultural effect, then I think positive discrimination is justified to counter this.

As an anecdote, we were wondering why our four-year old son suddenly lost interest in 'Frozen'. He told us this week that a girl had told him at nursery that 'Frozen' wasn't for boys. Cultural stereotype reinforcement is alive and well, and starts early!
There isn't a conversation. There isn't going to be a conversation just because you keep insisting there is. Insisting that there is in an indirect way, such as moralizing over how we go about this non-existent conversation, aside from being useless and weird is also not a clever way to make a conversation magically happen.
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"Have you ever used a microwave? Great. Grab your apron and get going. The Big Mac rush starts around 11:30."
> a 2.5 years (high mileage) old Corolla may still have some minimal residual value, let's say US$ 1,500.

Even on the wholesale market, I'd wager it's several time that amount...
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Women work in the Berlin Post Office with calculators, 1928:
http://www.alamy.com/stock-photo-women-work-in-the-berlin-po...

The managers, a more people-oriented activity, are all men. But the people working with actual calculators are women. And it was not just this office, this was happening everywhere. Working with a calculator was a woman's job.

More: http://www.history.com/news/human-computers-women-at-nasa

There is a lot of factors to why STEM is dominated by men. Testosterone may be one, for real, but it is not the only one. And it doesn't justify such a big difference in numbers.

I don't know if the engineer wrote something awful or not, but this article is just a justification for the difference as if nothing can be done. And that is not true.
Political beliefs are on a horseshoe.

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

The far left and far right have similar policies but for different reasons.

The far right will censor to ensure that nobody questions the regime. But the far left will censor to ensure nobody questions the idea of the day. Which is functionally equivalent to a social regime.
> not openly offensive

Basket of deplorables...
Because it doesn't align with their worldview, and the wrong kind of thought must be quashed.
I was getting progressively more and more annoyed that they weren't addressing this as I read the article.

The setting in question is the "Analyze Unknown Binaries" options, right? Which I believe are disabled by default in the default group settings. They should probably have a big ass warning on there, but last time I set up CB Response it was glaringly obvious that you shouldn't enable it.
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In modern days, suppressing free speech is 90% a leftist thing.
This is a big one for me, too. Would make working with CI tools much easier.
If anything, the state censures any speech that goes against hand-picked 'protected groups'
I'm not bringing in libraries. I'm trying to put together a set of libraries that work well with async for my purposes (custom net I/O, databases, etc.) without having to wrap them or fiddle with resolving promises on my own.
In the literature/law yes. In every day use in the US a pension means a defined benefit plan sponosered by your employer.
Agreed and I understand that disability is not universally disadvantageous - thats why I said I was generalizing. E.g. a blind person proficient in Braille would actually be great candidate for reviewing production quality of Braille books.
Nose is buggy. Lots of memory leaks, things that don't work in parallel, etc.
React was never an abstraction over WebComponents.

What the guy did was create another DSL over React's API. (JSX is another DSL)
"I love the movies, love ‘em. Now, I’m watching Terminator 2 the other day, and I’m thinking to myself: They cannot top the stunts in this film, they cannot top this shit, unless … they start using terminally ill people as stunt people in feature films … well, hear me out, ’cause I know to a lot of you this may seem a little cruel. “Aww, Bill, terminally ill stunt people? That’s cruel!” You know what I think’s cruel? Leaving your loved ones to die in a hospital room surrounded by strangers. Fuck that! Put ‘em in the movies! What, you wanna let your grandmother live out her last days in a sterile hospital room, with translucent skin so thin you can see her last heartbeat work its way down her blue veins? Or do you want her to meet… Chuck Norris?

Hey, how come you dressed my grandmother up as a mugger? Shut up and get off the set. Action! Push her towards Chuck! (Karate noises) Wow, he kicked her head right off her body! Did you see that? Did you see my Grammy? She's out of her misery, you've seen the greatest film of all time!"

- bill hicks
> gender studies

If I've learned anything, a "degree" in gender studies means one thing. It means that you are not a "Cis-gendered hetereosexual White Male".

Gender studies is a code-word for Women Studies. It's a bone to throw, to get "VP of Diversity and Hugbox" - and those groups are the ones to twist, lie, and deform anything you said because you're a threat. As long as you toe the line, you're usually relatively safe. If you speak out about the elephant, you are not to be discussed or engaged. You're to be blackballed, fired, and worse if they could.

And what those programs teach - they teach professional victimhood, professional weakness, and "Multiculturalism" in the sense of that you should hate Western Heteresexual White culture.
Yeah super. Let me scale that for my bank, car loan, house loan, credit cards, FB, IG, Twitter, Email, HN, Coursera, EdX, Udacity, Udemy, Concur, forums, Netflix, LinkedIn, Paypal, Slac, Spotify, Hulu, AppleID, Reddit, Amazon, health insurance, college alumni page, Digital Ocean, WSJ, GoDaddy, hotel points, and airline miles sites.
I flagged this comment because it's a low-quality political attack made in bad faith which can only serve to start a political flamewar.
And it is the current party that was parading the dangers of Aadhar when they were in opposition. I like how you gave a completely one-sided view of the story. There have been documented cases of Aadhar misuse and personal information being leaked, but of course none of this bothers you.
> I wager there is type inference going on

What will the compiler infer other than a value of type string?

> to supply something that would not one way or the other convert to the types that source can consume.

Well, clearly `source` takes a string, so it will happily accept "produckname" and blow up at run time.

Short of macros I know of no other compile time mechanism that would enable "safe" strings. The usual workaround is to not use plain string values at all and wrap in a sealed type.
Reality isn't sexism.
College graduation and home ownership were markers of success that were misinterpreted as the source of success.
>The proper level of education doesn't really mean college education - having 100% people go from high school to college isn't a goal, shouldn't be a goal and is not a desirable thing in any way whatsoever.

I guess that this is where we will have to disagree. I feel like this is the same sort of attitude that leads to "tracking" in schools, which can be devestating to ones educational future. We certainly do not need to enforce 100% equitable outcomes in higher education. But there is still a massive gap in equity of opportunity afforded to those who missed out on key skills in high school for one reason or another. These people should not be relegated to some vocational training program simply because they could not pass a multiple choice algebra quiz on entrance to a university.
Funny that she calls it "the Google manifesto", as if it were endorsed by Google.
No one cares about your politics, you just totally failed to add anything constructive to the discussion.
Clinton was pretty terrifying in a different way.

A big part of her campaign strategy was to generalize from a few actual white supremacists and paint everyone who opposed her as a deplorable sexist Nazi white-supremacist who couldn't stand the idea of a woman President.

That kind of McCarthyism is always a threat, but it was doubly dangerous in the current environment, with leftist groups declaring that violence was justified against anyone they thought fit that description.
Does the author mean, biometric details have been leaked? I think he last 3 paragraphs, it looks like she's kind of using the numbers leak (aadhar numbers are not meant to be private, like SSN in the US) and the biometrics leak interchangeably.

AFAIK, no biometric data has been leaked yet.
Not that I agree with the statement, but it could easily be the case he wrote it on his own time and shared it at work on their internal Google+. Unless you have a source for your accusation, in which case I stand corrected.
This is wrong. He was fired because he can't reliably review his peers if he thinks they are genetically inferior to him.

Also, 10 page manifestos to your company are never good ideas.

has everyone forgotten Jerry McGuire?
Bro, just got aadhaar fingerprint auth rejected two days in a row. Don't think i'll get it to work anytime soon. Local states' aadhaar auth rejection seems to be 30% rejection rate. (For first 3 months of 2017).
Let me know when your definition makes it into a dictionary.
>The right uses the state to censure.

>The left uses people and popularity to censure.

I think that's only because of how our country's electorate has evolved. The left would be happy to use the state to censure, and the right would be happy to use people and popularity to censure. You could find examples of both sides using populism or legalism to advance their agendas.

>To fight the dictators I can simply join a militia and fight a civil war.

You say that pretty casually! To me that sounds almost as daunting as being targeted by a populist mass.