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Not to be contrary, but "citation"?

This (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_companies_by_r...) lists the 5 largest companies in the US as:

1. Walmart

2. Berkshire Hathaway

3. Apple

4. Exxon Mobil

5. McKesson

Walmart's CEO, Doug McMillon, career at Walmart was in distribution and then buying before moving to the executive.

Buffett had a background in business admin, economics and insurance.

Tim Cook has that CS background.

Daren Woods of Exxon Mobil has a degree in Electrical Engineering in the early 80s, which might be at best half a point.

John Hammergren of McKesson has a pure business background, with a Bachelors and Masters in Business Administration.
"Mr. Zuckerberg is sensitive to anything that might disrupt Facebook, even the teeniest startup, say current and former executives and employees. "

that says it all. Facebook is vulnerable and has a limited life span. The idea is out of the bag. It has a high chance of going away just like myspace and others before. Z. knows it and it seems will protect it at any cost.

When you suppress competition instead of reinventing yourself and retaining/attracting users that way - you are basically done.
If the numbers are true, Genghis Khan killed more people in a few decades than the Romans did in a thousand years. It's estimated that 15M died in the Mongols' five-year invasion of central Asia. https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/entertainment/books/2... Rome used to turn the defeated tribes into slaves (though it was not a permanent status) or tax-paying citizens.
Things like this are why committees and bureaucrats have a bad name.
Wikipedia has some cases where the defense was used, but it's hard to ascribed the cases where there was a conviction on a lesser charge (or sentencing decisions) specifically to the use of the defense.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gay_panic_defense
> He went right to alt-right commentators and podcasters and targetted a group of people inside Google as PC leftists,

And to how many leftist podcasts was he invited?
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It goes like this: the claim is that dynamically typed "don't count for the comparison" because "compile time type checks are impossible". Even if we suppose that nil values or union types are useless at runtime (they aren't), it is not true that dynamically typed languages could not be analyzed statically. Not only compile time type checks are possible, they are sometimes expected to happen and already part of some language's design.

Python added type hints recently, but in Common Lisp, there is not only a null type (which contains the nil value), but also an empty type: there is no practical use in defining a type for which there is no possible value at runtime, except if the language and its type system are designed to support static analysis.
It it expected that a compiler can optimize away things that are known in advance to be impossible, or help you detect errors statically.
A function should be X Lines long... but no longer

where X is any number of lines necessary for implementing the ONE thing that function should be doing

Any attempt to replace X with a concrete number will invariably sacrifice simplicity for the sake of that number.
> Something that keeps bugging me - and this is in no way limited to tech - how being a victim has become an identity to many

Victimhood is a strategy that has been used since forever to gain power, influence and control. Victimhood is both shield used to defend against criticism and spear used to attack others.

You could look back to ancient greece ( herodotus ) and the Peloponnesian War. Or more recently to the "settlement/extermination" of the natives. One of our excuses for exterminating the natives is that we were being victimized by the natives who were defending their land.

An interesting case is ww2 and the holocaust. The nazis painted themselves as the victims of jews and used that supposed victimization to attack, steal and murder jews. Of course that naturally led to push back from the jews and which the opportunistic nazis as further evidence of "victimization".

And as a juxtaposition, look at what the israelis are doing to palestinians. They are using the victimization via nazi germany as an excuse to seize palestinian land and to prevent anyone ( especially europe ) from criticizing it.

Look at japanese justification for ww2. They justified invading much of the pacific rim nations were that they were being victimized by european powers.

The same applies to gulf of tonkin and our official entry in the vietnam war. Or more recently with 9/11 and the invasion of iraq. We were victimized and used that victimization to invade iraq ( which
had nothing to do with 9/11 ).

The difference between seeking justice ( civil rights/suffrage/etc ) and victimization is that latter is vengeful and dishonest and greedy. Justice is a matter of what's right and fair. The ideology of victimhood is getting something for myself and taking something from others.

The civil rights and suffrage movement was about equality ( justice ). The modern victimhood movement is about taking from others. It's why the victimhood movement wants censorship. They want to take away someone else's rights. The civil rights movement was against censorship.
Macs don't reboot without you taking an action if you have automatic update installation disabled. You have to click a button to apply the updates after which it will reboot. But it tells you this in the dialog where you agree to apply the updates. Windows just applies them and reboots when you're not actively using the machine.
Because their parents push them to academic and professional success. In America, parents generally tell their kids to follow their dreams and to ignore the money.
"Diversity of thought means being open to people with different perspectives and opinions."

Where exactly do you draw that line? As some thoughts are felt as hostile/ insulting to other people and enter grey territory. You can't really obligate people to be open to all thoughts - good luck with that.

What does that look like anyway within a workplace? If such a memo was sent out in my workplace and I had a slew of different thoughts on the topic, would I be allowed to spend work time to pitch my ideas to my coworkers and discuss them to my hearts content or simply send out a memo of my own? And then where does it end?

"Women tend to be more empathetic than men, and this may have something to do with why they're more likely to pursue psychiatry as a profession than men."

While that may be true statistically it's impossible to prove woman choose psychiatry because they're empathetic rather a myriad of other complex reasons. I can tell you as a woman, I don't think Biology plays a large part at all.

"But as long as affirmative action is conducted the way it is (discriminating in favor of underrepresented minorities), those prejudices will always exist."

Affirmative action is meant to level the playing field and balance out the effect of existing prejudices and biases when interviewing etc. So the real question is do you think those prejudices exist and can be alleviated by affirmative action? I do and talking with the woman of the previous generation I would say we've come a long way thanks to affirmative action.

Thanks for the discussion!
Speaking as a fan of C#, Clojure and Haskell, I'd say the problem is caused by having insufficiently powerful abstractions in the base platform.

Phil Freeman has said that there are entire libraries on npm that just implement traverse.
The problem with this whole conversation is people add their worst cast assumptions and value judge that.

When Damore said people have different traits, he meant it in a statistical way https://video-images.vice.com/_uncategorized/1502146696203-S...

And he definitely didn't say men are better. That was the assumption added by people who propagated the message. If you haven't read the original, please try to read it, and I mean really, read it, not skim over it and make judgment.

And please try to be open minded and don't add your own assumptions about what other people meant such as:

"I think you might be implying that men are biologically better at creating software."
Yep, I'm using that ssh too, it's really nice to have native ssh in Windows.
Instagram follows the same path as Facebook when it comes to curating content to the core of user's likes and dislikes. When a content that is tailored to the user's preference starts to surface more on the feed ,it tends to keep the user engaged passively even if not active, leading to ad revenue for the company. Once you are out of the platform and exposed to different, if not opposing views,people find it tough to handle and lead to depression.
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If it's pasteurized, sealed in a can and stored at room temperature there's not much to make it go bad.

The molecules that make up living things (e.g. corn or Spam) are stable at the temperatures at which those things live. If you remove the bacteria that primarily breaks things down there's not going to be much change.

It's no different than a house with 200yo timbers.
Great ideas! I was wondering, what book/tutorial/website would you suggest to someone interested in digital marketing?
Where did he call for hiring more conservatives specifically for being conservative? I think I missed that part.

Actually for some reason I interpreted as "Stop alienating conservatives", but clearly there is no where in the article where he alludes to this, well except for a few dozen times.
I don't think Marketeer is as a name should be diminished. Truly and brilliant excellent Marketeers are very rare and amazing to watch.
some (all?) of it isn't brutalism, it seems postmodernist.
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And frog memes.

Which died out very suddenly once Trump was voted / in office, which means either Reddit coincidentally updated its algorithms right then, or the online marketing / propaganda agencies called it a day.
But there is also great writing from independent people in my Facebook feed. I can't go back to reading the paper...
That is a blog article I would read.

Doubly so if it was on Coding Horror.
> I think they have thought about it, it doesn't mean they got it right.

I think you're being evasive.

Do you think they have not thought about these problems as much or as effectively as you have?

How much have you thought about it, what expertise are you comparing to this company's proposals, and how do your proof of concept deployments compare to theirs in terms of size, scale, and longevity?
IIRC, wasn't he a Democrat and a labor lawyer? More of a centrist Democrat than a conservative?
I have no real knowledge on this, but what if women just don't, as a generalistic point of view, find programming as interesting? There are plenty of things I don't find that interesting, or enthralling enough to pursue a career in. Midwifery, primary-school teaching, gardening.

Now, I'm not sure if that's just society having pushed me in that direction, or if I, as a human, just don't enjoy those. If it's the former, maybe it needs some work. If it's the latter, does 'equal outcome' really work?

I don't see as big a push to equal out the playing fields in things such as janitorial work. This may be due to the fact that it's not as cognitive, which I understand. I think we need more women in tech to expand our (currently male) viewpoint. But I'm not sure that aggressively targetting people who may not be as interested, from either gender, is the way to do it.
A commenter above said they ADDED a million accounts in June. I assume they had some multiple of that already. 7 support people for millions of customers is insanely low, especially for something financial-related.
This was interesting:

> an awful lot of times, pragmatism and reason is sacrificed at the altar of a dogmatic subscription to DRY, especially by programmers of the Rails persuasion.

I'm not making this a tribal thing but it does sometimes feel like there's a cultural tendency in the Ruby and Javascript communities to... well... preach a little bit. All advice is flawed and most maxims are only partially true.

If a community bounces from one "one true way" to another all the time then it's probably not a particularly healthy environment for those who are learning - as they tend to lack the experience to put advice into the correct context.
If I invent a fantastic new algorithm in a space people are hamfistedly competing in, does my manager get the credit for inventing the algorithm because he pushed me, or do I?

This type of thinking makes great engineers move into other non-engineering ventures.
> But that's not in his document

Neither is anything that would support him being described as a “centrist”.
Much like dwarven bread in Discworld?

"A traveller can go for miles, just knowing there's dwarf bread in their pack. A traveller can think of just about anything to eat rather than dwarf bread including their own foot and even pumpkins"
Probably not. I mainly use Preview and a folder on iCloud Drive and they are both free. On Windows PrtSc does the job. Linux has a free tool too.

Also, if I'm storing it in my S3, why am I paying you?

An example of what I would pay for, Screencast-o-matic - it lets you create screencasts and optionally stores them for you in the cloud. If I was doing a lot of screencasts I would probably pay for that service rather than clog up space somewhere else.
Exactly this and I feel it is getting worse. People are increasingly getting into IT/ICT because of the job security and the money it brings, not really out of passion anymore. This also attracts certain kind of personalities I cannot really get along with.

I am just lucky that people respect me because of my 20+ years of professional experience. The office is really like a battlefield sometimes and I learned not to take things personally.
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Yes, he went there after interviewing with the alt-right misogynist.
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http://atmosphir.com/

Atmosphir is a 3D platformer where users create levels and play levels created by others, with diverse assets and tools.

We made a community game server that aims to restore playability to the game, since most of it required online to properly function. (user profiles, equipment and sharing levels).

It is even endorsed by the devs, who kindly redirected the original domain name to our website.
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This is what i'd call brutalist.
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You don't just wrap a cake in a bag, toss it in the bottom of a ship and expect it to be in good condition when it arrives on the other side of the world.

Metal and wooden crates/boxes did the same job then as cardboard boxes do now.
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>An extremely small fraction of the inflated value of these coins is actually part of - interacting with - the global economy. Most of it is not and will never be liquid.

I am not sure how you arrived at this conclusion? As more money will move into these currencies, won't it create an impact when eventual crash arrives.

> The dotcom bubble implosion wiped out trillions in moderately liquid value (the US stock market as one example being radically more liquid than the coin market overall), a sum that makes the crypo-coin bubble look hilariously trivial (even if you inflate it up to $500 billion), the global economy kept trucking regardless; US GDP has expanded by ~80% since the year 2000.

Don't you think mania has just started? It took a few years for dotcom bubble to reach its bursting stage.
>Why is that? Are we sure the distributions of things men and women like are exactly the same? Men and women are different both physically and psychologically, so what is the force that counterbalances the differences and makes the distributions of things each gender likes identical?

Because it is possible for two people to be very different and yet equally interested in and equally good at any particular task. It is obvious that men and women are different in some respects. What is not obvious that men and women differ in such a way that men are going to be better at programming, or more interested in it, than women are.
The problem here is that even when building is "functional", the needs of the functions change. If the architect does not allow it, or if the building is not well adaptable, the "functionality" becomes "non-functionality".

In my case it was that the architect (who worked in early 1960's) could foresee classrooms with tables, but could not foresee that the classroom tables would have computers connected to a network (as they had in 1980's).
This made me think of education being made into an educational RPG. I'm sure some students enjoy the entertainment of the character development and mastery in a RPG, so why not make education (real life K-12 education) imitate art (video games)?
> It is when the investors throw money at it in the hope they'll get a return on investment

Traditionally, the gambling-investment line is drawn at the zero-sum boundary. If you're buying these tokens because you think the encrypted storage business is worth that much (i.e. based on profits), it could be investing. If you're buying to avoid missing out on something other people will want to buy because it's cool (i.e. there is no discussion or thought given to profit) it's probably pyramidesque gambling.
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It seems to have been representative enough during the time when Intel's CPUs were wiping the floor with the AMD CPUs on the very same benchmarks.
It also applies to media and websites like medium.com that use clickbait to make money for itself.

Anything in excess is terrible. It's why so much of news industry and people who watch too much too get depressed.

People who religiously watch foxnews and the members of NPR or subscribers to the NYTimes are just as depressed.

Ultimately, this is an article that says nothing. It's a clickbait form of water is wet. And yes, too much water is also bad for you.
To reply to your linked comment:

The "bar" is an approximated objective assessment of ability, not an assessment of someone's ability percentile... as demonstrated by the fact that Google policy hires 'people that pass' rather than 'top x% of candidates' or 'top y% of the population according to some measure'

To reframe the "bar" as being a percentile is inaccurate and excuses Damore's misleading and inflammatory terminology.
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I've seen that bug!

And, I'm not too surprised, KDE has a broken development and maintenance process.
I'm sure they think they're doing a great job - but that's because they don't even see or receive most bug reports.
Bootstrap is great and I used it on a couple projects. Unfortunately I gave up waiting on a V4 release and started using Semantic UI. This has been a long time coming!
It's unfortunate that political discussions are dominated by the people in the edge. There is no room left for subtlety and inquiry.
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Wouldn't the compromise be unit testing?
I tend to ignore people who think the Jews were the only victims of mass genocide in history.
This old article explains it perfectly https://whathecode.wordpress.com/2010/12/07/function-hell/

Over-optimizing for local readability can hurt global readability in the end.
You: Suggesting pair programming is an insult because you think I'm less capable.

Author: Pair programming may be one possible way to bring more social women into programming by appealing to their interest in people vs. things

He wrote one thing, your read another. Who's the one with a problem here exactly? The author or the reader?
> I'm not recommending this, but it meets many of his criteria.

Woah...déjà vu.
What kind may I ask? If you had a negative experience, my guess if you go back your experience will be that of anxiously trying to avoid another one.
I feel like it is a lot less like Tulip mania and a lot more like the dotcom boom/crash. I say that in the sense that there is significant utility in some cryptocurrency concepts, but not all of them...however there is widespread overheating due to speculation.

That is also to imply that some may emerge after a crash in the same way that Amazon, Google, eBay/Paypal, etc., emerged and thrived after the crash.
Can anyone comment on what is new? What to try in 4?
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The certainty comes from accepting that people are inherently ignorant and naturally stubborn in their ignorance. Humans, much like matter, don't like to change when left alone.
+1 to semantic UI, very well designed and more customizable, although their build process is more complicated.
> They must start with a letter

By the RFCs, that's true; but if you think it's true in practice, then 4chan.org would like a word with you.
Thanks for getting off-topic. These seem useful... until WSL becomes more mainstream.

Part of my workflow involves using ncat.exe to use git over a socks/ssh proxy. A real pain. I noticed scoop has nc but not ncat.
>Say what you will about the "frat boy monoculture" - for all of its shittiness at least it's mostly made up of people who are passionate about code, largely self-taught and self-motivated, and enjoy what they do.

Having worked at companies that employ tons of recent grads, I haven't found this to be the case at all. Pretty much everyone I've worked with who has a college degree (so almost everyone) is more "brogrammer" than "hacker" and didn't write code until they went to school. Many don't know their way around a UNIX environment and have never written code outside IntelliJ on a fancy macbook. They'll tell you lisp is scary because it has too many parens, and call software "apps". They don't use or are actively hostile to Free Software and uncritically consume marketing. This is the "frat boy monoculture", I find little redeeming about it, to say nothing of the bigotry.

I find the opposite is true of the weirdos, slackers and dropouts, who taught themselves for fun and were working when their better educated but less cultured peers were in school, but that is a small cohort.
While crime is certainly a possibility, rich people just have so much money and they don't have that many options for where to put it. This is part of the reason why the housing crash happened; some new investment vehicle was created, and people with way too much money ate it up. And now with interest rates so low, the demand for high yield investments continues to grow.
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from the docs this looks like a really practical library. The testing and dev tools look great.

whats the backstory for this library?
>> When you suppress competition instead of reinventing yourself and retaining/attracting users that way - you are basically done.

Tell that to Oracle.

If a company can get its hooks into something, I think they can keep it going for a very long time.

Also, ever since Microsoft achieved dominance over the PC market, they've been coasting along nicely - Leveraging their legacy (Windows server -> Azure, also many patents) - MS never had to compete on the same level as all the others who had to start from scratch... Some old leaves of their business peel off and new ones grow in their place.