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Misguided cost savings is the worst when it comes from engineers. Software developers love to optimize, so if they can save $500 - $1,000 a month buy rolling their own service instead of paying for an existing one, they'll do it, completely ignoring the fact that their time costs money.
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My current glib explantion is that "Climate Change" is associated with Al Gore. Gore won the popular vote in the 2000 US Presidential Election, and arguably was kept from winning the Electoral College vote by a politically-motivated Supreme Court vote.

Republicans know this. Their response is to stigmatize and demonize Al Gore and what he's closely associated with, in an attempt to repress the memory of arguably illegitimately winning the 2000 presidential election.

Yes, I'm advocating for Freudian analysis of politics in the USA.
> it's not clear that it has learned anything like "superhuman" levels of strategy

But still, it's learned "human" levels of strategy, and that actually amazing.
And let's not forget, that this is only beginning, more stuff to come. IIRC - some third-party StarCraft AI actually invented a trick that was later used by human players on pro-level tournaments.
* Not including the right technical resource when interviewing new hires.

* Failing to identify when they need and don't need micromanagement.

* Basic PM tasks like meeting protocols and case management.

* Not listening to technical resources to recommendations on scaling.

* Penny pinching when dealing with redundancy and scaling.

* Not communicating with their team.

* Not being honest when failing.
> well, we're all adults and we understand how statistics and distributions work.

I think too much faith is put in the abilities of most management; otherwise this Ask-HN article might not have been asked.
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Glad, you like it ;)
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"Hey, can I swap weeks with so-and-so?" "Sure!"
Pretty much every office is open-floor now. So, great job on that, guys!
What about needing time to cover something like your child moving to college, or a doctor visit? How is this simpler than just taking the actual days off you need instead of having to factor in an additional set of variables?

What about if your sister is getting married the week before mandatory time off, and no one is available to switch with you because they have deadlines or their sister is also getting married? I just find this adding more obstacles to getting work done and more overhead. We need solutions to employee time off, but this is naive.
Yeah, it's like Watson on Jeopardy. It could buzz in faster than a human, so it got to answer every question that it thought it knew, which was most of them. Problem is, the human competitors surely also knew most of them (maybe even more than Watson) but they couldn't buzz in fast enough.
No, most of it is a move away from serverside page rendering to single page app memes.

Its why the first meaningful page draw on most webpages takes 3x as long to happen as it did a decade ago.
> I mean, what did Hitler do exactly to redirect the party that you see as not being socialist?

Among the more obvious things, displaced the focus on levelling social and class heirarchy with imposition of the heirarchical doctrine of Führerprinzip, and abandoning any substantive pursuit of the platform plank for confiscation of all non-labor income, and maintaining a robust insistence on the importance of private property and private initiative in industry.
WaPo writes: The ‘alt-right’ is just another word for white supremacy, study finds

"The Associated Press warned this week that the media outlets should avoid using the term “alt-right” because “it is meant as a euphemism to disguise racist aims.”" ...

"And now, a new working paper from researchers at the University of Arkansas and Northwestern University sharply underscores the extent to which people who identify as “alt-right” harbor prejudicial views toward non-white people."

So, not just the Southern Baptists.
don't think they make too many mistakes

Nailed it. Customers, employees and shareholders may be unhappy but managers are always happy...
I didn't see such statement in the original article from https://www.svd.se/nytt-omfattande-sparpaket-pa-gang-i-erics...
On the contrary, it's stated that "...there are far-reaching plans to centralize several of the European markets to reduce costs by reducing the number of employees." The bad thing with companies of such a big size (IBM, Nokia, Siemens..) is that there is always a lot of people to layoff.

Ericsson has to find it's own way through these troubled and quickly changing times. There are many areas such as Virtual Network Functions, Internet of Things, Hyperscale Datacenter System and many others which are being heavily worked upon and I think will give some good results.
What do you think of two years paid maternal leave? By law. . .
A lot of places. It dates back to (IIRC) Intel in the late 70s. Doerr brought the idea to Google.
>You might think startups are small enough that this couldn't happen but that was actually where my worst experience was.

Start ups are merely new businesses. New businesses can be poorly run just like any other business can. If anything, start ups are probably more likely to be poorly run merely because the genuinely awful ones haven't gone out of business yet.
Just grab the most recent Chrome/Chromium .deb from the dev/canary/stable channel via a cron job. Piece of cake. We do it for our services.

That said, headless still has a mountain of bugs open against it, so most parties will be best suited by sticking with ChromeDriver for now.
I invite you to read this.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance
It's not covered in the article, but it's such an obvious issue that I'm sure they've got a system in place.

My guess is simply that you can trade vacation weeks with others, and that they fall back to the traditional system when that doesn't work: whole company shutdown during Christmas, and submit vacation request form at other times.

I imagine the main issue Europeans will notice is that a week is pretty short. They're used to real vacations 2-4 weeks long.
That's a pipe dream, but employees will just do whatever they have to do to make it work despite the company adding more obstacles. Oh, Jim's not going to be here next week, so let's schedule that client meeting for the week he gets back, plus the other meetings that come up while he's out. Same old story, just now not even manageable by the employee.
I think it would be fair to say that the public is concerned with both, but more actively threatened by the fact that their house might have its windows smashed in because a protest happened to occur near to them. Like it or not, we tend to be more frightened of things that affect us personally.
>DC/OS can use Kubernetes natively.

Although this is possible. I've never actually heard of anyone using this in production. Would be curious to know what kind of issues ppl run into with this in production.
Let's put the issue of Nazi speech being illegal in Germany aside for a moment.

If my lawyer yelled "Heil Hitler" and claimed the judge in my case should be murdered, while ostensibly defending me, I'd want them at the very least disbarred and wouldn't mind a bit of jail time.

BTW, I highly doubt a judge exhibiting this behavior in the USA would keep their law license, and they'd probably end up slapped with a contempt charge as well.

> The inside of a courtroom needs MORE protections for speech, not fewer

Perhaps for the defendant. But actually, in every country -- including the USA -- lawyers have extremely strong and often vague constraints on their speech.

And even then, what you're saying just isn't true, even in the USA. There are far more constraints on your speech during a trial than in the public square. Judges in the USA have extremely wide latitude in determining what can and cannot be said, how those things should be said, etc. Those are constraints that judges can enforce in their courtroom but cannot enforce in the public square.

Also, FWIW, knowingly committing libel during a trial is probably a bad idea. Even in the USA.

> disclaimer: in the US. Can't speak for how they do it in failed states like Germany

Well, if you consider Germany a failed state then I'm not really sure what to say. They have their problems, but then so does the USA. No place is perfect.

E.g., using your metric, the USA has THREE TIMES more rape than Germany. So if you put your identity politics aside for a second and look at the data, you come to a far different conclusion.

Also, IMO German citizens have a lot more practically useful freedoms than US citizens, even speech-related freedoms. "Don't be a Nazi" is something the Germans are pretty serious about, but they're a lot more lax about a lot of other speech that is de facto prohibited in many parts of the US. Eg, I seriously doubt Damore would've lost his job in Germany. And the Germans I talk to claim it'd be unambiguously illegal. And cultural self-censorship matters as well -- I'm much more comfortable discussing Christianity in Bavaria than in Alabama.

Germany draws their lines differently from the USA, but we're talking more about delineations at the fuzzy edges than actual differences in kind.

So again, if Germany is a failed state, I'm not really sure what a non-failed state looks like. At this point it's kind of hard for me to take you seriously.
Yes, that's exactly what I meant. In Poland it is similar: you have 26 vacation days and you have to use them all, with at least one two weeks in one go. Employer can be fined if employees don't use all of their vacation days.

Add 5-7 days of bank holidays on top of that and average Polish employee has at least two or three vacation periods per year.

My own, single data point from this year:

one week vacations in February (skiing),

5 days in April (Easter + 2 vacation days),

one week beginning of May (two bank holidays one day apart + 3 vacation days),

two weeks in August,

one week planned for Christmas (requiring only 3 vacation days).

Fairy typical schedule in my country.
Aah, this the devious "product as a service" model, at least here they properly call it leasing, unlike the companies that adopted Keurigification
Failure to focus on the logistics surrounding the team, while relentlessly pushing out carrots and sticks for more productivity.

If you have the right skills, training, tools, and processes; things get done well. When there are gaps in these areas, no amount of discipline or incentives will make up for it. Don't make the cheese bigger, make the maze smaller.
> There's no difference between the two. You can break any religious tenet and still belong to the particular religion/faith.

Sure it is. One is within the tenets, one is: maybe, despite the tenets.

You are a [religion]:ian because you follow the tenets, and you can be a [religion]:ian by reforming, despite breaking tenets.

Nazis are not and have never been violent in opposition to their core beliefs, but completely in line with them.
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This project seems really interesting, I guess it could pretty much replace SPAs (and related javascript fatigue) in a lot of use cases. Am I missing some significant limitation other than moving some computation back to the servers?
Could well be - I read that article some time ago, so likely misremembed the detail. Cheers
This is especially confusing to me given the fact that immunotherapy (allergy shots) for hay fever has been used effectively since at least the 1930s[1]. I've heard that it may be due to the severity of a possible reaction to peanuts compared to that of (most cases of) hay fever, but I'm guessing that's probably not the full story.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allergen_immunotherapy
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Is there any software that is easy to create an affiliate program ... as if it were something generate bit.ly links?
This is one of those things where I'd have to think the washing machine companies have certainly thought of this and there's a reason they don't do it that's being left out of the article. It does seem like a good idea, but curious why it's not done already.
Ignorance is bliss I guess, maybe the white nationalist shouldn't have a web presence for these SJWs to notice them else they would go on rampant like these gangs in LA/chicago.
It holds butter real well, without it soaking in too much.
Ah, that makes sense. However, if you're not interested in spending, just storing for a long period of time, they are more or less equivalent in terms of security, I'm assuming?
I reported a website for human trafficking a year ago, which is still online and protected by cloud flare. I referenced parts of the forum to their staff where users mentioned enjoying raping women. Their response, "I don't see anything wrong with this content".
I use to think that before I read about embodied cognition [1]. I think a lot of the harder and real challenges come from acting as an agent in an environment with often fuzy information.

Not only do challenges come in the form of input mechanism but potentially many rewards as well in terms of how humans process and off-load information.

While I don't think DotA would be the most important example, I think having a more realistic interface is a good step.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embodied_cognition artificial intelligence section probably most relevant
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In the 5th or 6th century. Christians were doing the same in the middle ages. Is that true of the Islam and Christianity people follow today? No.

Completely different when it's a modern ideology with people signing up today who want to see the extermination of minorities.

Yeah sure, it's hypocritical for men to support feminism because Ugg dragged his woman by the hair.

It appears you're trying to defend the indefensible.
There's a single standard. You are free to engage in business with whomever you choose. This applies to everyone. But this freedom doesn't liberate you from the social consequences of your actions.

Cloudflare will probably endure social consequences for its actions - mostly inflicted upon them by social libertarians who believe they made this decision arbitrarily. Some of the social repercussions may be justified. But that doesn't mean their decision was unlawful, just frowned upon by certain quarters.

It always comes down to a war of values. This discussion is just a proxy for the larger discussion, which concerns which values are right and which are wrong. And there is, most of us would say, a real, universal answer there. We might not know what it is, but we believe there is one. Or else all of this hand-wringing is just arbitrary, and it comes down to who has more power.
Maybe you don't want to spend the space or power to run three chips. Maybe you don't want the 3x the maintenance headache as the chips fail over time.
Commercial software is very rarely of a sufficient quality.

Software that comes out of nonprofits or the free software movement is arguably better built and treats the user better.
Real life doesn't have APIs that's why AI applied to robots and cars and whatever have to be able to interpret inputs like humans.
Beautiful work!
I understand what you are saying. But lets imagine gov faced situations when just sitting and waiting for a thing to happen is just too dangerous? Think 911 or mass killing acts in schools? Don't mass investigation would be justified if helped to prevent that number of deaths?
I saw an archive of an issue on C, and I was shocked by two things- the enormous length- that one ran on over 300 pages, and even more-so, that a lot of the articles were still absolutely relevant today!

It seems like a piece of history I was a little late to the party to. By the time I first picked one up, it had become a thin magazine not a whole lot better than PC Magazine.
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> (disclaimer: in the US. Can't speak for how they do it in failed states like Germany)

While neither is much like a failed state, the US right now is a lot closer than Germany (and more clearly heading in the direction of getting closer yet.)
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There doesn't have to be. The decision shows that the Supreme Court intended to exempt a narrow range of abusive speech from constitutional protection.

It's true that the definition of 'fighting words' has narrowed considerably over the years, but the Chaplinsky case is foundational to the debate on what counts as free speech and has weighed heavily on subsequent judgments.
If you use a token for the protocol, and the value goes up, and the developers have token holdings- they've made money. No micropayments necessary to use tokens to fund development.

Also, plenty of companies in the space pay salaries in BTC and ETH. Check out BitWage for a provider.
>Why not just earn dollars? Theory of pricing arbitrage already takes into account coordination irrespective of the currency. What is the distinct advantage of earning Filecoin tokens over dollars?

There is no counterparty risk of Filecoin not paying out - since the payment mechanism is embedded in the smart contract that is immutable.

>Ok so lets just say I bought Filecoin (I didn't). How do I liquidate my position? Do I just need to find a buyer like every other security or can Filecoin buy it back?

You sell it on an exchange for another currency like BTC or USD
> Neo-Nazi groups are organizing and training for the violent overthrow of the US government to institute a white ethno-state.

Is this actually happening? Asking genuinely as a Brit who's vaguely aware of the militia movement but not of any militant Nazi training camp regime.
Some people are wondering what is happening inside of Elsevier. Here is my speculation. When any large corporation sees the writing on the wall that it has a major threat to its business (Comcast, RIAA, MPAA) due to the fact that something is disrupting it they will take a really hard defensive position. This entails lowering of customer service and everything else in response.

Eventually the market kills them off and the situation changes. The large disruptor is Discrete Analysis which is a journal that has nearly no overhead. https://gowers.wordpress.com/2015/09/10/discrete-analysis-an...
Nothing in the article even implies that employees don't also have other available PTO. Nothing says directly or indirectly "we give employees a week off every seven weeks, and they don't get a single extra minute."
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You can't change it dramatically overnight, but you can certainly change it enough that it's worth it.

It's a boatload of work. Expect to spend as much time per week as you usually spend on 3-5 people. Then make the call if you can afford to do that. It's buying you a lot in terms of employee goodwill and team morale. (The second one only if you don't neglect the team over it, obviously :)
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Also hits a nerve for me. Our mgmt just shuffles devs around from fire to fire without really just sticking the same devs to a single project until it's done.

Then we get questioned why projects are not done.

And don't get my started on our new Agile process. We have scrum meetings for our scrum meetings. We have mgmt. popping in the project level scrum meetings to tell us what is and isn't scrummy enough to talk about during the meetings.

And I moved to this company after thinking my last company didn't have it together. Man, I was wrong. No one writes comments here, or any tests. We just "make it work". Pay is awesome though...
Indeed, and yet Dr. King would likely have been censored on the internet by the EXACT same justification (he is dangerous to us) in the not so distant past, if the internet were around back then.

Which is why it is important to have equality of speech.

"Slippery slope" is a poor analogy for restricting speech. A more accurate analogy would be a double edged sword which cuts both ways.
Assuming that saying 'Do X' is really 'Do X'. Truth is I have to fix 10 bugs before I can even set up a test case for 'X'...

Also just the general cluelessness of the state of the software.

Managers need to convince the higher-ups that the software is in good shape (because their job is on the line), meanwhile the devs know its got 1000 bugs in the ticket list plus 3000 bugs that didn't make it to the list.

Failure to explain management objectives. 'We promised company X feature Y in Z days'
Oh well, I guess it's trial and error then. I was actually doing 5 minute cold showers for a year, alongside HIIT/strength training/cardio and bleeding edge mental work, and I guess I was too optimistic I could handle it and went over my limits (which seem to be pretty high already but still firmly in place...)
Instead of posting these here where they will sink into a black hole, leave them on mplyees.com.
Yes, I'd say so.

You would probably not own a hardware wallet without storing the keywords for recovering the private key on paper (or similar). At that point it is more or less how you store the paper that will affect your level of security.
It actually sounds awful.

Imagine having to miss something you were really looking forward to, then spend the following week on enforced leave. It would get old fast.
> I'd suggest that you could very well refuse to serve someone over their support of whichever side in the current Palestine occupation

I don't know about that, but it is illegal to boycott Israel.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/201...
Thanks, that's the kind of things I had not considered. It looks interesting, but I'll have to read it more thoroughly, as based on a first skimming I'm not entirely convinced by some of the views. For example, Fischer is not rekindled with his father; he is, if anything, cheated of this most sacred bond, and the way the author explains away that it is not so (because it would invalidate their theory) is not convincing. Likewise it is very odd that they present as a victory of sort the ending, where Cobb chooses the possible lie of being reunited with his kids based on his "faith", and ignores the evidence that his totem could provide him (and I understand that at a meta level he has previously rejected the "false faith" that was Mal, and his kids are supposed to stand in for "real faith", but the story is still the story and any meta analysis has to be consistent with it -- and here the story might in fact be telling us he is still choosing "believing" over "knowing"). If they're correct this vision of Fischer and of the ending, to me, would mean that the message of the movie is "choose faith: choose the lies you want to believe in!" which, somehow, I don't think is what the screenwriter had in mind.

I guess I'll have to re-watch that movie, then.
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I know it's totally local to french speakers, but does anyone remember Hebdogiciel or Pom's ? Both were great. The former was crazy and had lots of code in it and a very "free speech" nature (think Charlie Hebdo but for computers) and the latter was all about Apple (2, 2+, 2e, 2c; not the i-thing you're looking for)
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Because no-one wants to pay for that. Washing machines which last exist, but they're expensive. They use sturdier, more easily replaceable parts, higher quality motors and control systems, etc. And sometimes _iron_ counterweights (even more CO2 there).

You can get a washing machine that might last perhaps 5-10 years for about 200-300 euro... or a Miele one that'll probably last over 20 years for 1000 euro. It's a hard sell for most people.