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Well, Damore made some strongly-worded and poorly-cited claims in an attempt to pass off his "science" as somehow uncontroversial and irrefutable. The fact that multiple people have chimed in pointing out that A) it's very far from uncontroversial/irrefutable and B) his arguments are based on studies whose effect sizes would not produce the results we see, is a pretty convincing rebuttal.

Also it's telling that "the differences are not 100% certain" is your comment while it's still taken by people on the internet to mean "Damore was absolutely right about everything ever and we should all stop diversity efforts since women are too hobbled by their genetic ladybrains to work in tech in large numbers anyway".
Why are they capable of inferring much more complex types? Which sort of types can Hindley-Milner infer – what sort of types can Pierce-Turner and Dunfield-Krishnaswami respectively infer? Which programs still can't be typed using the latter method?
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I've always brought my own headphones or mechanical keyboards and they're pretty obviously not-company. I've never purchased any actual machines though. If I need equipment, I get the shop or contracting/staffing company to buy it. No reason to spend money on that stuff. We're not auto mechanics.
I don't believe the marketing when it says that working with something is "fun". Working is maybe enjoyable sometimes, but it will stay hard work if you're doing it right.
My father became aware of this and started shipping stuff to myself [and presumably my sibling] in order to clear out his in-home crap sitting around when he died.

So far, I've been thankful. I've been going through my own backlog of crap and it's been great. I have to imagine it's been similar for my father and my sister.

My father's goal is no have as little bullshit for me and my sibling to sort through as possible when he dies. To me, this is great. Not that I hate my father or whatever, but that he wants as small a Death Footprint as possible. So do I for other reasons.

Such conversations are good to have.
This is a really interesting hypothesis. It corresponds with several recent discoveries:

- obesity: fecal microbiota transplants, when used to save patients from antibiotic-resistant clostridium difficile, resulted in unintended weight gain (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4438885/)

- allergies: using probiotics (or perhaps better, synbiotics) in conjunction with immunotherapy improves outcomes (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5209480/, http://www.thelancet.com/pdfs/journals/lanchi/PIIS2352-4642(...)

- emotions: brain-gut interactions affect emotional responses (http://journals.lww.com/psychosomaticmedicine/Abstract/publi...)

We aren't at the point where we can say "yes, this caused all of the changes in the 70s" but it seems to be a fruitful area of study.
It's sad that perhaps the most plausible (of the discussed reasons so far in this thread) is being downvoted. I guess people believe what they want to believe.

Anecdotally, I have felt (and sounded) a whole better ever since I stopped consuming porn. There is also a very real drive and stubbornness that I feel in myself, markedly higher than before.

I would chalk (without evidence but as a hypothesis) decreased levels of T to: - not working out (and having a desk job), - increased consumption of porn, - harmful substances in mass produced food that we don't understand fully.
That is the crux, I think - Personally, my non computing passion is music, and I have a ton of guitars (as I posted about elsewhere in this thread), plus recording equipment, effect pedals, amplifiers etc. which all give me a LOT of pleasure to play and tinker with when I am not cutting code.

Elsewhere in my life, I don't have a lot - I think I only have two drawers full of clothing and perhaps a few books and stuff. I have considered downsizing, but pretty much cannot bring myself to give away so much stuff that brings me joy.

My wife is the same - she is an artist, and has two separate areas of the house set up as her studio. Each is filled with canvases, paint tubes, easels, wooden boards, and a myriad of other stuff she uses for her mixed media work. Without any of that, I don't think she would feel as fulfilled and engaged with life, nor have a conduit to de-stress from every day responsibilities.
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That 1/3rd stuff is my life exactly. I've basically stopped trying to get serious work done at the office - it's for meetings and that's it. The rest I have to wait until nighttime when I'm nowhere near peak performance and my productivity overall is easily 1/3 less than it would be if I could work in the office
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I have a question: why does anyone think this tired soundbite is a smashing knock-down utterly destructive CHECKMATE FEMINISTS rebuttal when anyone who thinks about it for a moment can discover that

1. Advancement and representation in high-status positions has a strong normalizing effect which spreads beyond just those specific job titles, and

2. Plenty of people do acknowledge and want to encourage better gender balance in professions like nursing, teaching, etc.?

For someone who claims elsewhere to be making serious rebuttals, you're curiously resorting to some pathetically-weak talking points instead.
Wow, that's really sad to hear!

I wonder if, instead of abandoning the project, they could put together a patron sponsorship to fund further development?

I'm sure there are plenty of companies out there that rely on firefox and selenium and would be more than happy to help contribute?
Why is it referenced from the PM's Delivery Unit Facebook page?
Something well-frozen will take longer to warm to melting temperature than something that's just below freezing. Maybe that's the difference? Having lived both places (although my time in Germany was almost 20 years ago), I don't remember there being a drastic difference in melting times.
The trend happened for a reason. Suburbs aren't as interesting as they were in the 80s--no one wants a big ol empty palace in the middle of nowhere since technology is what gives us space now.
I'm sorry, but I have no inclination to do that. If you have a strong opinion on some subject which is based on things said by people who you know are not expert and have not researched it -- namely, your opinion is knowingly based on ignorance of the issue -- yet you can't be bothered to look up what the experts say on the matter, then I have no desire to educate those who don't wish to be educated. Either you care about this subject or you don't. And if you do, I hope you have the scientific curiosity to actually learn about it, and only then shape your opinions. Thankfully, after decades of study and action, we no longer need to convince the world that germs exist — the world now knows. So we no longer need you to listen; we have critical mass. You wish to remain spitefully ignorant? Be my guest. My comments are intended to those who are interested in learning, not to those who say, "thank you, but I'd rather take the word of some schmoe who knows nothing about the the subject he so vehemently writes about than spend some time actually learning about it from those who have".

I will, however, say this: Damore’s email is deeply misguided regardless of the merit of the couple of papers he cites (and must have run across in some conservative blog, as that is the extent of his real interest in the issue). It is basically a memo written by the owner of a chemical plant who dumps radioactive waste in a river, and claims that the pollution should not be stopped in spite of an increased incidence of cancer in the area by citing some papers showing that not all cancer is a result of exposure to radioactive waste.

And don’t worry, there's no need to learn any feminist theory; just some sociology and history, even at Wikipedia level. Anyway, I don't know why you put the word papers in scare quotes, as I don't think you have any idea as to what feminist theory is, and I don’t understand how you can ridicule something without even knowing what it is that you ridicule (I guess you’re basing your disdain on connotations you have of the name and maybe writings by others who have similarly not bothered to find out what feminist theory is before writing against it). And the fact that you, again, confuse sexist/racist with misogynistic/bigoted, shows that you don't even understand what the issue is, and instead wish to ridicule some strawman position that you imagine your imagined opponents possess.
In the context of this article I'm not sure if it has so much to do with repair and retain as opposed to simply not wanting to own a bunch of stuff that will take up space and never get used. Fine china, silverware, crystal, etc.
It would be great tool!
I know for a fact that dropbox, and all other large tech companies, spend a fortune on office buildouts. Offices don't add significant construction expense; it's purely a matter of how many people you can cram in per square foot.
It's not an overwhelming lot, so I wouldn't expect you to find someone on there that you already know, but it has this sort of early internet forum charm, where you can easily get to know a handful of strangers and hop on there every now and then to talk to those.

Also, its community does very much consist out of the more technical crowd, with a focus on privacy and it also helps if you don't mind the occasional free software activist shouting about. That's just the group that's most likely to sign up to it, which can be a blessing as even with so few people, you always find someone to talk about tech stuff, but it can at times also get somewhat old...
Or a can of film?
Ah, this makes sense. Maybe its a generational thing but I notice my parents do love their trinkets/mementos. They are avid travelers and try to get something from wherever they visit. When I visit new places, my memory of the place is mostly: photos on instagram and facebook.
I think the macOS sandbox, "apps can only access their own files, unless the OS file open dialog is used to select" is a really clever solution, and could be extended -possibly to URLs too? On install an app can list "home domains" everything else requires a confirm or general permission (for web browsers).
Why is Atom slow despite having the team who themselves built Electron?
You can see the performance test here: https://blog.xinhong.me/post/sublime-text-vs-vscode-vs-atom-performance-dec-2016/

I understand that Electron apps are inherently slow but, At least, Atom should have been faster than VS Code?
What? No! After researchers having established, with thorough researched that's available for all to see, that women have been marginalized from positions of power -- which includes the tech industry, where women participation, in the US, has been declining in the past three decades or so -- we feminists demand that the practice stop. That's all.
Yes of course, but let me try to shine a light on the distinction I was trying to make.

If I as an individual become aware that there are hungry people in my area, I may as an individual choose to put forth some effort, funds, etc. to attempt to rectify this problem. This is an individual act for the collective good. You are emotionally attached to your own act and have a personal interest in improving the system of feeding people because you want to make sure your money feeds the most people possible.

Conversely, if we all decide we're going to take some of your money, whether you like it or not, and decide how all of us cumulatively wish to solve the hunger problem, that is not an individual act. It is not an act of your conscience. It separates you emotionally and cognitively from the people you're feeding. You never meet them, you never get to know them. You have no attachment whatsoever to what's going on. You just pay taxes and hope the bureaucracy does a decent job, or more likely you stop thinking about feeding the hungry altogether because it's "taken care of." You still want your money to be used efficiently/effectively but the entire scope of government is far too big for the average person to deal with at that level.

I'm not intending to make any argument about which way is the most effective at: feeding the hungry, providing healthcare to the poor, etc. That's a different debate altogether. I'm only pointing out that the government giving some of your money to feed people is a completely different social experience than you doing so yourself. And further that when the government tells you it's going to take care of feeding everyone, it tends to drop off your radar.
Why on earth would it not apply to programmers? We accumulate just as much cruft, if not much more, than the usual person. I have old 8086s, Atari's, tons of computer peripherals for ports I no longer have, etc. Most of it chucked away in some attic (somewhere). We gather stuff that obsoletes fast than anything, besides food. And we as a industry produce it too: I had a Nokia 3110 for close to a decade. Now my phones seldom last me two years.
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That's called common-law marriage and it exists in California too, but it doesn't mean you start paying married tax rates. It just means that, e.g., if your partner falls terminally ill you are allowed to make medical decisions for them just as a spouse would, or if they die you take custody of the children rather than their side of the family, etc.
Hm. Well, to each their own. That's one of the aspects of eating ice cream that I enjoy, and I'd miss it eating a product that didn't melt the same way. Kind of like eating barbecue ribs without getting your fingers all covered in sauce; along with the taste, the experience is part of why I eat the food.
I had some fun Haskelling Thompson's algorithm too: https://github.com/darius/sketchbook/blob/master/regex/nfave... -- though I think Haskell's at a disadvantage for this one.
I apologize. The reason I came on so offensively is because you are spreading something that I perceive as misinformation. Misinformation, I might add, that when heard by the masses, makes my day-to-day job harder.

For example, there are people in my company who are just like you. They can't be bothered to learn how to use slack. They are hard to get a hold of. They are always offline. When asked, they spout misinformation about how distracting slack is, and they actively fight the idea of using it.

Every single one of their complaints can be easily answered if they would just listen for a second and use the notification and channel muting system correctly, and if they were just a little bit more open to the idea of trying new things.
> This is the common theory but it doesn't really hold up.

It's not really a 'theory' per sey. 2 independent scientists in UK and US ( I don't remember their names, see the documentary mentioned below) in the 70s came to conclude that Sugar is Toxic and causes fatty liver disease and Cancer. The Sugar Industry in US hired a PR firm comprised of a couple of well known Scientists in the US, and made these scientists who found out that Sugar is Toxic and causes diseases, looks like fools in the media. Then they (Sugar Industry) went 1 step further. The CEO of the Sugar Industry Association (or whatever that entity is called) got onto the FDA committee that was doing research into the toxicity of Sugar at that time, since it was all over the media that Sugar is deemed toxic and causes all kinds of diseases. And surprise, surprise, the committee declared that Sugar is 'GRAS approved by FDA'. GRAS = Generally Recommended as Safe, a label that makes the average consumer feel safe that Sugar is not bad. They (Sugar Industry) also simultaneously transferred the blamed for weight gain on excess consumption of fat * .

This is documented at length in the "Sugar Coated" documentary (available on Netflix) - http://sugarcoateddoc.com/

* Source: NPR: "50 Years Ago, Sugar Industry Quietly Paid Scientists To Point Blame At Fat" http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/09/13/493739074/...
That's what money is for, isn't it? The mental comfort that if you do need something, you can buy it. Again, if necessary.
I just stick to using geohash with regular indexes. Luckily it has no patents around it.
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> Fine china, silverware, crystal, etc.

But note that in particular is a cultural thing where people are cooking at home less, smaller families, less formality, etc.
For some it'll still work ... I hope :).
Ask HN: No sperm?
I am 28. I just got my TESA report. It says that no sperm seen. Doc asks me to use donor for fertilization.

I want to know the causes of no sperm.

Can any doc here help me what causes are and what I should next?
The ones I have read while scrolling to this comment:

1. Jet fuel

2. Sugar

3. Plastics

4. Space Rockets

5. The gays
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Probably also a cultural thing. A big ol empty place in the middle of nowhere seems like a better place to raise kids and build equity early.
macOS' recent Metal feature is great and extended my MacBook Air's life by 2 years. People keep forgetting it.
Little early? We're still twelve hours away from landfall.
Man, has ML become as easy as throwing a huge CSV at a gui and filding with some settings until the graphs look right?
Ask HN: (If you use them,) what's your model for using webfonts?
We also value space and time differently because it is so damn expensive. The things you own, own you in many ways, so reducing them increases living space, and time which are both in short supply.
That sounds really tragic, about the pictures. Its great he got rid of stuff, but those pictures would have been priceless from a historical standpoint. I wonder how many such treasures are in cupboards all over India, their owners not realizing how important they may be...
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>>Until recent years all developers I met were socially awkward men, me included.

Actually this true of any area of work that is kind of relatively new with progress and overall scene changing very rapidly.

What you see in Tech, there are plenty of such examples in early Industrial revolution or Renaissance.

Most people only want to get in because their either want a job, or they think there is an element of easy money. Its only when the effort vs return equation becomes clear and you realize its way harder than you thought - The 'make it easy for me' chorus grows.
Why not let them work from home and save even more then?
Why is that even legal? Consumer protection laws are supposed to protect you from terrible retailers. But, if I issue a chargeback against Sony for recourse, but still lose, that defeats the purpose of a chargeback.
Good point. Reading this thread I was wondering what of my crap is pass down able.

Tools (lots of them), art, and furniture (we buy mid-century designer).

Everything else is trash. Why do we keep trash? Why do we buy trash?
I've always been annoyed by "fine China". If something is so fragile that it can't be used, then it is worthless to me.

On the flip side, it's kind of interesting that products made in china are now synonymous with "cheap crap", while at one time we held finely made, fragile cups from China on display in our homes.
I wonder if there's anyone here from SauceLabs or or any other company that does browser automation as a service -- was this easy to see coming? Is everything pants-on-fire there at the moment?
Weird article, as the Model S is already free of mechanical controls and has been around sine 2012.
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>>The "socially awkward" archetype of a computer programmer I think is mostly a western (probably American) cultural artifact.

This conveniently condenses to one word - "Nerdism".

And this isn't restricted to Tech or the US.
So basically drop shipping? It is true that it is not adaptable to another country, especially developing ones. In India we have tons and tons of drop shippers who will cut into your margins very fast.
Never throw away pictures until you have had a chance to scan them and digitize them!

The digital versions take up almost no space at all, and then you will be free to get rid of the old boxes of albums!
I'd be curious to see what the usage stats on the IDE are; my company (Mozilla, ironically) uses Selenium a ton, but as far as I know we write all of our tests by hand instead of with the IDE since it allows you to use patterns like Page objects to make your tests more maintainable in the long run. Although the last time I used the IDE was years ago, so it may be more flexible than it used to be.

Does anyone extensively use the IDE?
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Can someone please share what patents cover react?

Because if they're revoking patents that don't cover react then there should be no problem to continue using react right?
Powerline-hs is pretty quick.
I totally appreciate that there are a lot of people who want to reduce the amount of stuff they have, and feel that our consumer society leads them down a path they don't want to be on.

I am getting a bit sick and tired, however, of this refrain that everyone needs to be a minimalist. I like my stuff. I try not to be a hoarder, but I like buying things and having things, and I don't feel guilty about it.

My personal tastes are for practical things, I don't have anything decorative that I care about, but I do love the 'toys' that I have. I like my metal working tools, my woodworking tools, my 3D printer, and all of the stuff in my workshop because I like making things. I enjoy buying things to make my hobbies more enjoyable.

I like my RC helicopters, even though I rarely get to fly them at the moment. I like my old video game consoles, so I can satisfy my nostalgia when I want to. I might not play them more than once every few years, but I am glad I have them. I look forward to sharing them with my daughter some day when she is old enough to play.

I like having all my old legos and erector sets, and look forward to sharing them with my daughter as well.

I don't feel 'cluttered' by my stuff. I have a good organization system, and they don't interfere with my day to day life. What is the harm in having a box of legos in the closet?

Everyone is entitled to live how they want, but don't act like I am a bad person because I like having stuff.
This thread is hilarious
One word: stress.
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Sure, the time frame will vary. But exponential economic growth started much early than the '70s, we just happen to be around when the logistic curve starts to slow down (for population too).
I can give you an anecdotal counter-example: when I was a kid I ate tons of sugar. Ice cream. Twinkies. Hi-C. Foot Loops. You name it. If it had sugar in it, I ate it. I was never overweight, nor was I particularly athletic. If anyone should have suffered negative consequences from eating too much sugar, it was me. But nope, I was perfectly svelte and healthy. I graduated high school in 1982.
To me, that just speaks about Microsoft’s failure to make the C++ redistributible API compatible across versions. If it was, they could just bundle them with the OS.
Sorry, I don't have something that is easily sharable.