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Don’t worry about not having heard of Robert Scoble. After this, you almost certainly never will. Going forward, anyone who supports him, finances him, gives him a platform, or even acknowledges his existence positively is themselves culpable for unleashing such a horrific, unapologetic person upon our industry.

I almost vomited reading this abhorrent statement in its entirety. I’m still stunned, and very little about sexual impropriety in SV stuns me any more. This is a whole new level that I didn’t even think possible, and one of the sibling comments correctly points out that we will be talking about this for years, and years, and years.
At what point in your example did you agree with the competitor not to reverse engineer his winning method?

I feel like this example doesn't really reflect what happened in this court case.
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Most sane folks would like to find another job to quit into rather than just leave their job, but if you have a great financial cushion to rest on, sure, go ahead.

Having been poor most of my life and worked full-time since I was 15 years old (with an odd break or two), I can tell you that that is a luxury most people do not have.
Take any other profession and apply the same - see if it makes sense.

Architects should have side projects they can show.

Mechanical engineers should have side projects they can show (e.g. modifying cars, robotics, etc).

And so on.
Why do you recommend seeking out right-leaning groups?
Interesting. What kinds of things has your group accomplished?

I'm not a conservative, but the Sierra Club will never see a dime from me until they lay off mountain bikers. It seems so stupid to antagonize a group that could share about 99% of what they want to accomplish.
Then what is their complaint exactly?
Are all fish the same shape if you stretch them?
The problem is, he is one of the MOST influential people in the tech ecosystem. Yes, he is a "blogger", but in many cases he could make or break a product, a startup or a career. A friend of mine startup was noticed (and acquired) by Facebook because Scoble started blogging about it and that came to the attention of Zuckerberg.

This guy leaves and breathes in tech conferences, as he is a regular invited speaker/guest. I'm sure he had to see, read a million of "code of conducts". The fact he claims "I have no employees... I have no power" is...disgusting.
"Fired" generally means terminated for cause, though not exclusively so. "Laid off" implies a general workforce reduction, and maybe some severance payment, job placement help, etc.

Either way you're out of a job, so in that sense there's not much difference.
Thanks! I'll have a look
The bigger issue is that they bring in startups, have them tell them everything, and then decide not to buy the company. There are many stories floating around about this and it is highly unethical.
Thanks. I'll have look into that book. Until then: How often is it recommended you do a 3-5 day fast? And is there a significant boost (?) from the first one, since in theory there's more junk to clean out?
You can't, in general, bring a lawsuit based on "reverse engineering." This was a breach of contract lawsuit, where the contract prohibited "reverse engineering."
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Memoization implies caching specifically, which implies its own things, such as cache size and eviction methodology. Not something that's necessarily thought of when using the term "memory".

Memoization is close enough to "memorization" that you pretty much know what it is without having heard of it before and easily rememberable, while being specific enough to the actual concept as to be easily searchable and imply specific concerns of its own. That's a win-win in my book.
I bought an install disc for Snow Leopard (OS X 10.6) back when that was the current version.

Seems they have it in the offical online store still actually: https://www.apple.com/shop/product/MC573Z/A/mac-os-x-106-sno...

However when I inquired at an authorized store about a later version after it came out they said that it was not available on disc and you had to buy it via the Mac App Store which means you need to have OS X in the first place but I'm not sure if they were talking about their own store or in general.

I'm on mobile right now so not going to bother finding out what other versions can be bought on disc media from the official online store but if someone else would like to chime in with more links that'd be welcome.
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The Nik Collection is one of the few offline products of Google, which also doesn't require any server infrastructure (AFAIK, I never used it).

Most other Google products mostly live server-side, entangled with proprietary internal services and frameworks. So before selling them off, they would have to do extensive rewrites of the codebases, which might not even be possible with public tech, and also eat into one of their scarcest resources (developer time). I can understand why they'd rather kill off their services.
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Or RE WPS' software after they went bankrupt. Sell it back to the founders of WPS for bonus points.
Side projects are for software what a portfolio is for other creative industries. You don't hire a designer sight unseen -- usually you ask for a sample. It makes perfect sense to expect the same of technology.
I thought I read Tesla got away from LIDAR because it won't be inexpensive enough for consumers any time soon.
> That seems to be what he is defending against. After reading the article, I didn't find anything in there that constituted sexual harassment.

Yeah, because this is him trying to change the story and narrative. Go actually read the stories on his accusations and you'll see they are forms of sexual harassment.
For clarity: the larger more rigorous studies put it much closer to the 2% end.
I agree with this sentiment. I personally loathe white board coding as it has little in common with day to day work and would much rather discuss some real working code as part of an interview
For distribution, yes. But for production and post-production that's fine.
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It can be any of those people, true. But EEOC also says;

harassment is illegal when it is so frequent or severe that it creates a hostile or offensive work environment or when it results in an adverse employment decision (such as the victim being fired or demoted).

So I think he is responding to the second half of that definition, meaning it's not totally irrelevant.

For a client or customer's harassment to be illegal it would have to be "so frequent or severe it creates a hostile or offensive work environment".

Note that "offensive work environment" certainly doesn't mean someone was offended once.

Let me caveat this with I have read absolutely none of the accusations levied.

I do think that sexual harassment should be defined carefully. In some cases what people are describing as sexual harassment is actually assault and I think the two should be carefully distinguished.
I’m not mad at you, but as the dude on the other side of the desk, I have to decide whether you can cut it and I’m fine saying no. I could make you do some whiteboard problems, but I think whiteboard problems are pretty far removed from your day to day development and I am uncomfortable relying on them as a proxy for your ability to ship code.

I don’t really disagree with your philosophy of working while you’re working and NOT working in your downtime. I think the same way.

But I have a whole pile of stuff I can show you that I’ve worked on. I don’t ask anybody to take my word for it. In computing, you just can’t. The signal to noise ratio is too bad, there are too many guys out there making unmaintainable junk, if they actually ship anything at all. There are shops out there that can afford to hire a bunch of maybes and just weed out the duds when they wash out, but I don’t have that luxury. Nor am I going to go on some weeks long hiring safari where I hire you for a week or two and see if you can cut it. No time man. Sorry, don’t have it. I’m going to give you the job or I’m not going to give you the job.
Acquisitions should be regulated.
The next time I'm interviewing in front of a hiring manager who asks me about my side coding projects, I'm going to ask them about their side managing projects.
Totally agree, it makes sense in many parts of the country because of a combination of incumbent electricity costs as well as high number of sunny days.

Just a few miles away in Santa Clara it would make no sense at all, since they have their own utility where power costs just 10c kWh.

There is something nice knowing your electricity costs are relatively fixed for 20 years though, since the price tends to follow the rate of inflation and the loan is fixed.
Here is another one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Trust_for_Public_Land I am having a hard time determining the difference between these organizations. There seems to be plenty of advocacy. I am particularly interested in organizations that pool money from donations, buy land from these private ranchers, and then turn around and donate it back to the public.
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Self driving cars would still suffer deprecation, wear and tear etc relative to miles driven. I don't see how self-driving will directly change any of those.
Thanks. I will check it out. Published by O'Reilly so that's a plus.
The 90% figure from that list is described by the study which listed it as from an unreliable/untested research methodology with a small sample size (18 cases). It looks more like ~20% is a more common upper bound for the figures listed.
Everyone buys companies. This is nothing new. If the threshold for Facebook buying companies becomes too low, the startup sphere will be flooded (which to some extent has already happened) and Facebook will stop buying them all (which to a degree is true already). Eventually there will be enough that goes under their radar or enough companies to say no to their offer (e.g. Snapchat) that stuff will get through the buyout-barrier. Everything old is new again, yawn.
Bethany Hughes, BBC Doc... probably pirated...

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=R5vuTpN4WUI

Well worth watching, very related.
Lots of environmental issues get tied up in a debate that usually goes like:

Left: "Issue X is a problem"
Right: "No it's not"
Left: " ... "

...and repeats ad nauseam. If the right was more open to solving environmental issues, we wouldn't have these issues and the debate could be about policy, not the existence of the issue itself.

Right-leaning groups already have an "in" with the right and will naturally be better at educating and convincing the right than left-leaning groups.
True, but two failsafes is better than one. If one fails (is distracted) the other compensates.
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Work the hours in your contract. No more, no less. If you aren't being compensated, why work longer?
Difficulty of replication is not requirement for an innovation. What a stupid question, seriously.
I've been a hardcore C programmer for decades and just got into C++11 this past year. I LIKE the standard library.† It's pretty much just basic data layout stuff that I've done 100 times manually in C, nothing more, nothing less. Leave the complicated data structures and libraries to 3rd parties. std::vector is already exactly what I want (though it could do with one fewer specialization ;). There's pretty much one way to implement it and they got it right.

On the other hand, there's 100 ways to implement, say, an HTTP client, and they're all wrong.

† Except for iostreams. Ugh.
Sax Russell, is that you?

A practically identical train of thought from that character shows up in one of KSR's Mars books. Alway found it an excellent point.
They have a different definition of environmentalism

“True environmentalism, from my perspective, is using natural resources that God has blessed us with,” Pruitt told the Heritage Foundation last week.
I think you overstate his influence even back in the day. But absolutely to the rest of your comment. One of the more cringeworthy parts of a rather cringeworthy post.
I agree that it shouldn't cost you being able to have a job that you like. That being said, I don't see why you shouldn't have a couple of side projects on Github or even a personal site. The side projects I've shown to employers were not gargantuan MVPs but simple applications that did one nifty thing well. It's fine if you don't want to do any of that; I personally would want to do things that give me an advantage with a company that values interest in coding and innovation.
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Why doesn't he mention what he thinks interviews should be about? Does he think that asking a bunch of dry-erase-board-questions about algorithms is better? What about just a company going with their gut?

It's tough to agree with a post that doesn't offer an alternative. All I get from this is that he wants to talk about how his life is more balanced and hobbies are better than ours, and that alone should be enough proof that he deserves every job he wants.
How will this impact imports and the US economy? Are there any mid-Kickstarter businesses who are having to refund donations because the factory cancelled their work?
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Am I the only one who likes side projects? I'm addicted to the idea of starting new projects in new languages. How many of them ever get completed or push into an environment is a different story... It's fresh, clean and filled with possibility. An existing code base is usually filled with hacks etc.
haha we talked to some rocket companies, and it isn't an area we plan to enter soon, but technically yes we could! Even with the current anthraquinone process, hydrogen peroxide is still a much "greener" monopropellant than hydrazine, although I believe monopropellants in general are not as popular nowadays.
Along these lines, would Google be in trouble for Google Sheets, since it can take an excel file and load it?
Only if you believe software development is neither engineering nor science, and is purely creative.

It isn't, though, and demanding a portfolio is almost as terrible a practice as Cracking the Coding Interview style interviews.
You do not know 100% what you're doing. Evidence being, in the grandparent comment you wrote "[...] because awk initializes the variable total to 0" which isn't how awk works at all.

Your intention can be understood as the promotion of code golfing, as evidenced by these words:

The fragment BEGIN{total=0} can be skipped

by which you're clearly encouraging that other coder to make their code shorter by removing an initialization that works fine.
Ha very nice!

I made a vary similar (but much rougher around the edges) project for fun a few months ago using a smaller french corpus of press releases from La Quadrature du Net (a non-profit lobbying for net neutrality in France and Europe).

There is a live demo at http://jorquera.net/quadra_neural/. You can press tab to auto-complete word-by-word, or just start typing and the suggestions update on the fly. Instead of "Weirdness" I called my cursor "Drunkenness" :)

I used keras-js (https://github.com/transcranial/keras-js) to run my model in the browser.

If you are interested in this kind of experiments, do go for it! It's quite accessible, and projects of this scale do not require heavy hardware (I generated my models using a GTX 770).

If you need a kickstart, in addition to the repo from the OP all the code for my project is Free Software (https://github.com/tomjorquera/quadra_neural), and I tried to document the generation process in a jupyter notepad https://github.com/tomjorquera/quadra_neural/blob/master/gen.... While I did it on a french corpus, it should work with any language.

I used two main resources for inspiration :

- http://karpathy.github.io/2015/05/21/rnn-effectiveness/

- https://github.com/fchollet/keras/blob/master/examples/lstm_...
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As a research geologist, working in the western US has generally been great because of so much easy access to a large amount of public land. But, over the last 5 years or so, I have noticed more ranchers gating off roads going through their land. This is especially annoying when they have a small in-holding in a national forest or BLM land and the road that has been used for over 100 years is now blocked. Most times there is a new (closed, but not locked(that would be illegal)) gate and a big sign that says no trespassing.

One can legally open the gate and use the road and it won't be trespassing, but most people won't know this. Even if you think you are in the right in going onto someones land, confronting an armed rancher is something most people will not risk doing. I generally don't. It would be nice if there were signs that made it clear that it is legal to pass through such gates, but I imagine they would be removed by the ranchers immediately. I'm glad at least some forest service employees are pushing back on this practice.
Remember that the Chinese government doesn't have to deal with a lot of what the United States' government does have to: things like local governments and our election system. Our government is not set up to move quickly (by design!): our government can't decide to shut down thousands of businesses for a day without consequences, and for good reason.

Americans have set up their government so that it more or less reflects the will of the people, and the relatively educated American public is not OK with the government taking drastic steps very quickly. For better or for worse, the Chinese government can move extremely quickly because they essentially answer to no one; if the government wants to raze a neighborhood for something, they do it. If they want to build a road, they move whatever's in the way and build it. In some ways it's incredibly efficient. But that's something the US government is not optimized for, and I'm personally glad for that.
Minor correction: a lot, if not most, of Arab innovations in science and mathematics were republications of ideas developed in India.
I like your project. Great work. I created a bookmark.
You're espousing a false dichotomy. The options in evaluating a candidate aren't merely "give them whiteboard coding problems" or "examine their side projects". Give them a take-home assignment. Give them an in-person assignment where they have several hours to complete a smallish design-and-build task. There are a lot more options, and I'm getting tired of people claiming they don't know how to evaluate technical candidates when it seems like people are just saying "whiteboarding is a bad test" and throwing up their hands and giving up.

Sure, you can use side projects to complement other data, but if you're relying on it as the primary measure of a candidate's programming skill, you're doing it wrong.
Yeah, I don't know how that fee is divided up between processor/payment network/bank, but it's a fair chunk of change, all told.
Maybe you just want to make an error message from an enum? OK string->enum could get tricky, but enum->string should be straightforward. Please explain why it would be a bad idea.
Yeah, good points you make here. I have somehow arrived to the same conclusion. I'm actually working on this little app https://everydaycheck.com . It helps to work on your goals every day, but there are some goals that don't seem to fit in. I still feel like I'd be also good to have a list of the main goals clearly defined for me to read every morning and with some extra context to remind me of why I want to accomplish them
Especially on huge volumes of data.
>The problem isn't the government, it's the "citizens."

The problem is that statement has always been true, even in good times.
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> Assuming you didn't do these evil deeds, having video or audio proof(if legal in your jurisdiction) is really the only way to counter them.

Well, the traditional solution to this is to just cross-examine the accusers about the cut of their skirt, whether or not they had any idea what they were doing when you invited them to the hotel room, how many casual sexual partners they had, and all sorts of other bullshit that's completely irrelevant to whether or not they were raped or harassed.

It tends to work pretty well for people who are actually guilty, it should work even better for the innocent.
Care to explain? 1930s/40s Japan was an authoritarian nationalist regime. I don't see how they weren't fascist, but I'm open to being proven wrong.
It is already trivial to break up logic and destroy the stack using async, if for some reason we are to believe that the call stack is somehow a way for us to somehow figure out we are being attacked. (Also, is it really surprising that the right-hand side of a returned || expression is a tail call? That seems extremely obvious :/. Regardless, the "syntactic tail call" proposal seems like it fixes that issue.)
I love how this ended up with a down vote. Sometimes speaking a painful truth is painful.
> your employer owns all your intellectual output, even that which you produce on your own time

Holy shit, I had no idea this was legal [furiously reviews contract]
> given that Norton's actual account is that she struck him because he grabbed her and put his arm around her?

Nope. According to Quinn, on her medium post, Scoble put one hand on her breast, then a reach around, ending in a butt grab.

> And then, without any more warning, Scoble was on me. I felt one hand on my breast and his arm reaching around and grabbing my butt. Scoble is considerably bigger than I am, and I realized quickly I wasn’t going to be able to push him away. Meanwhile, the people around just watched, in what I can only imagine was stunned shock. I got a hand free and used a palm strike to the base of his chin to knock him back. It worked, he flew back and struggled to get his feet under him. I watched his feet carefully for that moment. He was unbalanced from the alcohol and I realized if he reached for me again I could pull him forward, bounce his face off my knee, then drive it into the ground. (I knew this move because it had been done to me, then the martial arts expert who did it picked me up and apologetically showed me how to do it.)

Source: Robert Scoble and Me ( @quinnnorton on medium.com ) => https://medium.com/@quinnnorton/robert-scoble-and-me-9b14ee9...
Honest question: do you use open source at work? Do you contribute to open source while at work? If not, why not?

A couple days ago I spent several hours puzzling through how to use an open source library. When I figured it out, I made a PR for documentation. Our closed-source app will benefit from having its dependencies better documented.

I do very little coding outside of work anymore, but I still have public contributions to show.
When the USA exported it's manufacturing, it also exported the associated pollution.

That being said, just because the pollution is manufactured overseas doesn't mean the USA won't eventually breathe, drink or eat it. The USA might have cleaned up its own backyard but that doesn't mean net pollution from US consumption is down.
Yes, because corporate & state hegemony is so much less in countries with universal healthcare /s

Universal healthcare is a good thing, but it won't really change things in that way.