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If you get laid off in most western countries you get ~10k over 6 months in unemployment benefits from the government + accrued vacation time and possibly more. Assuming you where ok financially before you started that's a long time to look for the next job especially if your cut down your lifestyle.

PS: It's often the case where people get a little warning and end up finding a job before they get laid off. From the companies perspective the trade off is a little more chaos up front for significant savings on unemployment insurance.
> I studied CS and I never learned about what it means to be a professional software developer.

This is a shame. As part of my CS degree I was required to take a "management" module that covered a bunch of legal aspects of the job, and a professional skills module that covered a bit more of what it means to be a professional engineer. The modules weren't great and many (myself included) looked down on them a bit while taking them, but looking back I know they helped and I would advocate for more education like that in CS degrees.
I often search for things at home on my personal laptop only to see them on my facebook at work on a different location/machine.

I assume its due to the fact your amazon has been linked to her facebook account at one point or another as you were logged in to both at some point.
Cooling limitations are extremely applicable to laptops! You can easily have two different machines with identical CPUs and 10%+ performance difference because one has a proper cooling system while the other doesn't. Check the notebookcheck rankings if you want to see some specific numbers.
How about not censoring anything, and letting the marketplace of ideas be free, would that be fair?
Except the one the GP objects to: "Minimise the stuff."
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I also think this whole situation is overblown and edge cases are constructed as world-end scenarios.
What other STEM fields are you referring to?

Using CS as a tool to solve other problems is a different proposition than the study of CS itself. I don't see why they'd have to be connected in people's minds in the way you're suggesting.

For instance, undergrad math enrollment is almost at gender parity, but postgraduate math study has similar gender ratios to CS. This is because you need an undergraduate degree for teaching and other careers, and so the interest in pursuing math for maths sake appears to be much lower among women. This could be for a number of reasons, some of which might be fixable to improve ratios, but some may be innate.

http://slatestarcodex.com/2017/08/07/contra-grant-on-exagger...
_You_ should stop, immediately. Attempting to silence an issue because people are not experts on the issue is beyond immoral.

Please reflect on how you are hurting everyone, not helping.
You can be safe in the knowledge that the current state of ML for analyzing language in this manner is basically just a fancy keyword search. Any subtlety will completely trip it up.
It may take people a while to respond if AM is messing with their time sense again.
sql server does. We benchmarked it at work.

If you are that interested do your own tests.
There are trolls on the internet, but pretending it's a unified front is a ploy only useful to those seeking to play out their victim status.

Pao got roasted on reddit because she became the figurehead for widely unpopular community changes. At best you could say she was set up as the patsy by Reddit's board.

GamerGate was a cluster fuck where existing troll groups like GNAA and BWC jumped in, as did the nihilistic lolcow milkers of baphomet and kiwifarms. But the whole thing was started by a scandal over an ex helldump member, whose anti harassment group was later caught doxing and harassing, and whose posse got caught false flagging in the Social Autopsy drama. To pretend like GG is a misogynist troll army means falling for the narrative set out by the media the movement accused while ignoring the realities of the spheres in which it took place.

GG is also not right wing, as Brad Glasgow's research showed, so associating it with the alt-right is more idiotic narrative spinning. Like when feminists lump together MRA, red pill and mgtow as some sort of unholy woman hating underbelly, instead of the 3 very different things that they are.

None of this has been objectively covered, nobody bothered to investigate, only to do what the article above does: feature one sided profiles of self declared victims who stood to gain a lot from that portrayal. Visit r/KotakuInAction for instance and observe how what was claimed to be a "smoke screen" for hate is still going 3 years later, still covering abject failures in reporting, while banning all harassment.

(Repost: stop flagging the truth, you cowards. What is it going to take to admit you got rolled by a sociopath and her pets?)
It does in well-designed machines, although usually not in the ultraslim ones. The ThinkPad T470 can sustain full turbo indefinitely according to notebookcheck. Lenovo's premium line (X1 Carbon/Yoga) cannot, though, as they're too thin and light for a sufficiently capable cooling system, and will throttle after a while.
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Monopoly was actually originally designed to demonstrate the "surprising" effect of accumulation of wealth by a single player (via rents).
With the implied moral judgment that this is unfair/unjust: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Landlord%27s_Game

edit: via rents, not property taxes
Considering how recently the Apple Kaby Lake bump was, and that the 8th generation Coffee Lake parts for the "real" Touch Bar Pros won't be released for several months, I'd be shocked if this wasn't one of the better times to buy.
I would be more charitable if it were clearer the author even read the patent grant to begin with, or understood the basic principles of what software patents even are.

The reason I'm saying "nerd" is that it's clear he has some expert knowledge about some things but apparently no grasp of the fact that this does not mean he has expert knowledge about all things.

Actual lawyers have come out on the patent grant and how it's basically harmless and pointless. It doesn't even require an actual lawyer to understand this. It just requires not being ignorant about intellectual property law.

The only valid argument against React is open source purism, which is why the Apache Software Foundation has banned it. They're not concerned about people suing people, they're concerned that it doesn't mix well with projects released under a pure Apache license. That argument is valid.

Every other argument boils down to "I don't understand the difference between patents and copyright". Even when the author shows a glimpse of self-awareness by saying "maybe Preact isn't safe either" he goes on to recommend other libraries as if they were 100% certified patent free.

Saying "I don't understand this, please explain" is okay. Saying "this is my expert opinion on something I don't understand and you should take this as advice" only spreads FUD.

Want to know whether you are at risk of being sued over software patents? Here's a simple checklist:

1) Are you using or writing source code?

If you answered "yes", congratulations, you're at risk of being sued over software patents.
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If I do X for someone I get paid Y. If I do X for myself, I get paid X*Z. However, I also have to do marketing, sales, and everything else a particular X requires to be a business. These are things that I prefer not doing. I'm on the fence if the Z multiplier is enough. Been there, done that. I don't knock it, but for the time being, I enjoy the stability of a long-term contract and not doing the peripheral work.
I've decided to summarize my thoughts on how to come up with ideas for a startup if you don't have one at the moment.

Can't compete with PG post on that, but see it as an addition, though.
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This would be more appropriately titled "downloading, cleaning, and plotting cryptocurrency price data using pandas and plotly in a Jupyter notebook."

TL DR the analysis is just a couple of time series correlation coefficient heatmaps.

That being said this is a great tutorial for people just starting out with data handling and analysis in pandas.
I don't think it is, at least once you are established. I've been working for myself for nearly twenty years, I'd say I'm fairly conservative in my approach to business and money as are most of the people I know in the same situation.

When I look back at my earlier career it was quite volatile compared to doing my own thing.
I disagree with the "many other industries" part--I'd say maturity level overall is pretty low and incompetence among men and women in the US is pretty high. There's not enough emphasis on business ethics, but that isn't the true problem, it really goes back to basic education and how most people don't really have one. Business itself is simply toxic to humans and it doesn't help that it drives people insane.
Kotlin is essentially Java with some sugar sprinkled on top. That's its strength: the semantics & the concepts are the same.

I also never said Kotlin will replace Java, but that it will gradually grow to the detriment of Java, which is still here to stay.
But someone might get offended. Imagine how awful it would be to get someone offended!
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I concur, tons of Kickstarters dupe people out of their money and deliver a really bad product. Pewdiepie once played a game like that and trashed it rightfully which lead to the developer crying online and throwing a fit like "I give up" which was sort of big news in video game forums and websites. Seeing a good product is what helped.

Off topic, they're still calling them "anti-semitic videos" straight faced which would lead someone to believe they weren't "jokes" but serious posts which is not cool.
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"Isn't it time we have conversations about what it means to be a professional in tech?"

Many cultures and subcultures in many times and places have had cultural protocols for people to indicate that they are interested in each other and would potentially like to do whatever, and protocols for acceptance and rejection of said advances. Perhaps tech (and to be honest the office workplace in general) needs to work something out for that. Most "nice" people end up holding themselves to restrictions that turn out to be grossly stricter than what the actual law says, so the "nice" people feel stifled when they actually aren't, and the not-so-nice people have no real guidelines and just do as they please.

It would at least give some guidelines to people on how to act, because right now the guidelines are all mostly negative... don't do this, don't do that, don't do the other thing, but I don't know the positive guidelines. That's sort of difficult to navigate through.

So, caveats. First, please don't read into my first paragraph anything that isn't there. I am not endorsing any particular set of protocols nor claiming that any particular set was perfect. I am simply saying it might be helpful if something existed; feel free to craft it to your sensibilities. Second, I'm married with no intention of changing that, not in SV, and psychologically and politically not a match for SV culture anyhow, so I'm not trying to suggest any specific protocol because anything I'd suggest wouldn't stick anyhow. (Or possibly there is a clear protocol and I'm just so out of it that I don't know what it is on account of not caring, but I'd expect more people to be discussing it in these matters and I don't see that, so I assume this is not the problem.) Third, I make no claim that the mere existence of such protocols would suddenly magically make all harassment go away, but having something, especially something with positive suggestions about how to go about courting, would be a good start. It's hard to referee a game with no lines on the field. (That may be the most important sentence in this post.)

My only specific feedback is that "nobody should ever be approached for anything ever and anyone who is approached has all rights to go arbitrarily ballistic on social media" is simply unrealistic; humans are gonna human. Part of the eventual contract would have to be that whatever an "approach" is, you do get one chance, and if you get the "go away and never raise this again" then yes, you are obligated to do that. The protocol could include some way of opting out entirely; without an argument that this should be used by tech, as an example, I would point out this is one of the purposes wedding rings serve.
What you mean you developers don't do that like every week?
"the gamergate troll army isn't really in dispute"

I'd be happy to see some examples of their actions.
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And it's existence doesn't make me any worse off? It only grants patents that I wouldn't by default have?
I don't think it matters in the sense that people with that kind of money can never be reined in--they just spend more money to route around anyone who wants to regulate their behavior.
This is true, you replace one set of problems with some completely different ones. However, it does give you the ability to set your own priorities rather than them being handed down from management.
Although I don't expect it, I can imagine Mozilla delaying it a bit if they have reasonable belief most of those will be ported in a reasonable amount of time.

That said, saying it's an administrative decision really misses the point. XUL support hampers performance, slows down Firefox development, and includes security issues. Those are serious reasons for moving away from them. They might not weigh up to the benefits to you, but you can't deny that they're there.
Affirmative action does not necessarily imply quotas. What you suggest ("stop alienating conservatives" or "selecting for high-conscientiousness" with the intent of hiring more conservatives) is affirmative action too.
Sorry, I meant that in the sense that no laptop is "properly cooled". There definitely can still be variations. :P
This seems like a step towards the diversity and inclusion Damore suggested in his memo.
I've actually been wondering if it might not be a good idea for HN to be time-delayed in some way.

I've noticed that with hot-topic issues (like the Google memo), there's usually a flurry of divisive, and in my opinion uninformed and low-quality discussion over multiple submission, followed by (somewhat) more informed and reasonable discussion when the initial outrage dies down.

I wouldn't know what the best way to implement this would be, though. A community guideline? A 'too hot, let it cool down' button for users with a certain amount of karma? Active moderation?
[Edit] You should A/B test.
See step 12 - it is specifically mentioned that it might make sense to integrate payments right at the beginning depending on the MVP.
This is the future. Get with the groupthink and keep your dissenting thoughts private.
I'm currently working remote and took the job over an on-premises gig in the big smoke.

It's a 200 pay cut per day.

However factoring in expenses in fuel and parking and car wear, and the 10 hours of time lost commuting per week. I'm counter-intuitively better off by the equivalent 200 per day.

Reason being my time spent NOT commuting is invested in my bootstrapped startup. If I had to commute, I was essentially earning money by sitting in traffic rather than coding, which had to be spent to an offshore developer while I'm in a car instead of at my machine. So that including expenses in commuting will erode my net income. Not to mention the stress and health and mental performance impact commuting does to you. Sitting in traffic, cognitively processing the driving, finding a car park, walking ten minutes from a car park to premises.

My motivation and energy is sapped by the time I'm in the office. And more so by the time I get home.

Prior to this I was doing the commute to make sure the boss sees me gig for a year and compared to now, the difference in performance I notice is remarkable.
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All things being equal women prefer men that can provide for them and their offspring, thus selective pressure for men that can provide, thus drive to accumulate resources. All clear now?
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I find it funny how the few of men whose livelihood may have been affected by unfair allegations is compared to the millions of women who are harassed while earning their livelihood and/or pushed away from earning one, every year, for centuries. Frankly, I'm amazed at how level headed the "outrage machine" is given at how much bigger the real outrage should have been. Also, those who want or are willing to be educated have plenty of resources at their disposal. The evidence is so overwhelming that there can be few if any those who are exposed to it and yet remain unconvinced. At this point, it's mostly diehards that are left, and the reason they are left is precisely because they don't want to see the evidence. Dawkins doesn't really think he can educate all evolution deniers on apparent evolution, and we don't think we can educate all those who wish to perpetuate sexism.
There isn't an issue. The issue is software patents.

What's hurting people is self-proclaimed experts writing authoritative blog posts about what technologies people should chose and presenting it as if it were legal advice.

This entire drama is a 100% repeat of what pops up on almost a monthly basis because some random developer finds out about Facebook's open source patent grant and decides he has an opinion without even understanding the basic underlying concepts.

There are legitimate issues worth discussing, especially around the notion of open source purism (i.e. whether React should migrate to the Apache license to make it more compatible). But instead of having these discussions we get ridiculous unfounded opinion pieces by yet another "dude with an opinion" who didn't even bother validating his basic premises.
So if there's a post by a climate change denier and I reply "this is wrong because of A, B and C", then this qualifies as toxic now? Awesome.
> It is interesting that those who are looking experimentally for both dark matter and dark energy have come up empty in every experiment so far performed.

Given that <1% of the dark matter search space has been covered, this is an entirely unsurprising result.

The ΛCDM model doesn't come out of theory, it comes out of observation - the only thing we can make fit our observations of the universe is cold dark matter (and a cosmological constant, aka dark energy)

The thing a lot of people don't seem to get is that astronomers hate¹ dark energy and dark matter - they're really quite inelegant - but nothing else fits. Every other attempt (and lots and lots of time and energy have been spent on this) to explain our observations without hypothesising the existence of a lot of weakly interacting matter out there (e.g. MOND) has failed to match them

¹ In much the same way physicists dislike the standard model in all of its' ugliness - even though it works
> There are certainly some researchers, like those in the first article, who agree with Damore's position, but they are by far the minority;

This is a pretty wild claim. I'm not aware of any surveys or polls of social scientists on these topics, the way we've done surveys on, for instance, climate change. How could you possibly know what proportion of social scientists accept any given proposition? If you have a link to such a survey, I'd love to see it.

Also, calling those sites "conservative" is grossly inaccurate. You're just trying to spin the evidence they present as biased.
>It's only their preferences that are bounding their salaries in those cases. At some point, a polite manager is worth more than X more in compensation.

A good boss isn't a benefit that can be awarded or revoked by the company. Sometimes money isn't enough to induce employees to remain in a bad environment or leave a good environment for a bad one, but normally a decent manager is expected and taken for granted, and if salaries are "bounded" below market that employer is dead meat.
"Beyond immoral" seems to me somewhere between excessive and totally wrongheaded.

Bad advice has consequences and bad legal advice often doubly so. The law is nuanced, convoluted and often unintuitive. People really are better off going to an expert!
(And to put things another way: of course we've come back empty in all searches so far. If we hadn't, we'd stop looking!)
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As I said in my message that anticipated your reply, he calls for discrimination to reach higher representation of conservatives in the same memo. Presumably he wouldn't be doing so if he thought that was unfair or divisive, and he explicitly claims it would be good for business. The only factor that changes is "conservative" to "women" one of which he thinks is good for business and one of which he thinks is bad for business.
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> Measuring performance is not hard.

It really depends on how you define "measuring performance". Any high-level manager can pick a set of garbage KPI's and pretend that they're measuring what really counts. And and many get away with that especially in large organizations. This is why performance review time is universally despised and viewed as a bullshit politics-laden activity.

Measuring performance of humans is an intrinsically subjective process when you're dealing with knowledge work or anything more sophisticated than a brutal piece-work assembly line.
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This is similar to AutoLisp which has only immutable cons cells and strings. There are no global referencing functions, like rplacd. args are locally bound, but without refcount bumping.
It sucks a bit to copy everything, you cannot efficiently share big lists, but the benefits were much larger.
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The decision for Firefox to move to web extensions is stupid. The only reason I'm still using Firefox, which is technologically inferior (1) to webkit-based browsers are its high quality addons.

(1) Slower & crashes more, just more UX problems on websites all around (including youtube!).

And this Selenium thing is just another example of that.

You're really crippled in what you can do in Chrome. As a compulsive hoarder of bookmarks (about 2k last time I checked), it's important for me to have a bookmarks sidebar. Chrome doesn't have one, and it's not possible to add one via an addon.
I read more along the lines of you having the liberty to decide where that personal space is.
I basically live your last paragraph right now. Home prices are lower here than in the rest of the country, but I probably also get paid a lot less than you. So yes, all of the perks, affordable housing, private parking, but lower wages.
Most VCs wouldn't tolerate such boorish behavior on the part of execs at their investments. (They might let it slide for a time, for tactical reasons...) Why do limited partners put up with it when the VCs do it?