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pretty much, its the new "Agile"... and people use the term often have no idea what it means. to me 'devops' a focus on automated deployment (in prod as in dev) and integrating prod. operations teams more closely with the development silo
Haha this is exactly how I pictured it working! Made by the makers of express too.
I thought the Windows Subsystem for Linux was kinda funny, but actually it's so well integrated and useful for all the reasons people like using Linux (more correctly, their shell of choice). Where Apple is so neurotically anti-GPLv3 that they've allowed the GPLv2 stuff in macOS to get extremely old. And I see no evidence those ancient tools like rsync 2.1.9 are even getting security updates. That is the platform I see sinking, at least that part of it.

It also sucks to VM, it's not even legal to VM it if not on Apple hardware. It sucks when running other OS's in a VM. Seriously, XNU just does not like being host or guest, it becomes a CPU and memory pig like no other OS.
The UK has 50% fewer deaths per mile than the US, so automated cars at 25% fewer in the US would be a bad thing in the UK
Some other questions I would want the answers to:

1) Is a Non-Compete Agreement required and what are the terms (time and geographic coverage; compensation during the non-compete time frame)?

2) Is the company going to assert ownership over IP created before employment began?

3) Is the company going to assert ownership over IP created that is unrelated to current responsibilities (or IP in a area unrelated to the company's current business), especially IP created on the employee's own time, not using any company resources?
When I pay my credit car bill. With my San Francisco software engineer salary the FX risk of that $20 is acceptable.
Someone downvoted you for stating your preference and how you feel. WTF???
I'm not sure that the app is "recommended" per say, but I guess it wouldn't hurt to be extra cautious if you're out in the sun a lot or predisposed.

The only other app I know is SkinIO, developed by some northwestern students if I recall correctly. I'm not certain how it all works, but maybe look into that?
Apologies for being "that guy" in the skriptkiddie field who still can't write an xss<script>alert(1)</script>
xcat absolutely requires persistent storage, both on the management node and the service nodes.
But how is it not?! I mean, apart from the fact that you never know whether software is buggy, of course.

CNAMEs are not a feature of application software, but rather a mandatory part of the DNS specification that any standards-compliant resolver has to implement. As they claim to be using DNS, that obviously implies the claim that they implement what the DNS specification defines, and that would necessarily include following CNAMEs.
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>That's easy: you should not switch to Linux because of games. You should switch because you like it better than Windows; if you also happen to like gaming, you will find plenty of games for Linux. Your favorite game might not be available, but then again, you should not switch (to any OS!) because of games.

That's my point. For the "masses", there isn't much there (see how much they care about privacy), and something to lose.
can you do a blog post about the porting process?
> Self-driving cars may have a faster reaction time, but they will never reach the level of human awareness of their surroundings while driving.

Self driving cars can simultaneously see in 360 degrees with multiple types of sensors. They already see better than humans. Now they just need to understand better, which doesn't seem far off.

Maybe you just work for a bad self-driving car startup?
There's a difference between life, and the economic system of capitalism. More than that, if rich people are only willing to fund the ideas of other rich people, eventually society becomes static as does technological progress.

And the article is focusing on the SV startup scene because that's where most of the new economic growth has been focused. The only other big growth areas have all been in energy.
King of Dragon Pass has a lot of problems as a game, but as a roleplaying experience (where 'role' doesn't just mean 'tank' or 'ranged DPS' or such) it really has no equal, IMO. What I find fascinating is that the challenge, which is to play a very specific role (what are the expectations of my tribe/patron deity), is far more interesting than what we get in more open "play however you want!" games.
You just listed the principal agents in the NIMBY crusade, which I suppose it's clear I am in pretty strong opposition to in most cases. Tyranny of the majority is a serious problem in race, class, social, and wealth spectra, and these groups represent that form of tyranny in action. They're great right up until you do something that the majority disagrees with. Not recognizing the red flags this throws up makes me think that you've probably found yourself in the majority most of your life. It's worth considering what these systems mean for folks who fall outside of the majority on any of these issues.
This guy just comes off as really full of himself. With the amount of money and success he has had he can be that all he wants, he earned it I guess. But he still comes off as a pompous bitch.
It’s pretty fun and I like it.

One issue: if I flick a card away very slowly, it’s pretty annoying how long it takes to float away.

I’d suggest a minimum velocity...
You:

> if your company has an open office, your productivity as an employee isn't actually a factor in the company's predicted bottom line. The company exists as a talent pool to be acquihired,

The article:

>80 percent of all offices now have an open floor plan.

Does that mean 80% of companies are aquihire plays whos employees don't factor into the bottom line? I have a hard time believing that.

My cynical-but-less-cynical-than-that hypothesis is that it's cheap and hip. Doing the cheap popular thing is harder than the expensive unpopular thing.
h20 is nice, but I believe it requires libuv. libuv is a massive stack with LOTS of abstractions on top of abstractions that are sorta atypical of C libraries. If your code crashes because some assert in libuv fired, good luck navigating through the "typedef city" that libuv is. I wrote a little server built on top of libuv but I could never really get it working right on Windows (which is a platform that libuv supports fairly well I think). In the end I ended up abandoning libuv, and all the that abstraction, and just requiring Linux or BSD by targeting epoll/kqueue directly.
For me personally, working in an open office is increasingly a non-issue, even with the ol' ADHD. I spend so much time in an office working with people who are remote, ~80% of my distractions come from my computer, not the physical space around me.
I personally feel that cubicles are the worst of both worlds. You get none of the privacy and sound isolation of a private space, but you don't get the frictionless collaboration and socialization of an open office. I felt like I was socially isolated and living in the hell of hearing the conversation of the "that guy" through the wall without being able to give him any subtle social cues.
What does it do with the models? So it samples a probability distribution, by training GANs, but how does it evaluate the points? (Which GAN is better?)

Even after looking at the readme, I don't understand how it works. Could you explain it a bit, please?
Google, Amazon, Facebook -- all still waiting for that one sweet acquihire offer to come along so they can finally cash out.
I have never been more unhappy at a job than when I had my own office.

I hardly felt like a part of the team. I barely got to know anyone and communication between developers was horrible. I found it way easier to goof around and not actually do work.

Sure, I get distracted more in an open office, but I always thought that was the point. When I overhear my coworker going down a particular rabbit hole that I've already been down, I can save them hours of work. I don't need to wander down a hallway hoping the person is actually there. I can just look up.

I don't doubt that some people prefer their own office. I am not one of those people.
Are we sure the lifespan thing isn't just a statistical quirk? If you take a thousand small places, one is bound to have the longest-living people in the world.
“It’s intended to be a symbol of what we believe at Facebook, which is that our work is unfinished,” said Lori Goler, vice president of people.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2015/11/30...
Maybe I'm missing something, but frankly I think if you're building GUI with Python, tkinter is probably the best option. Comes with stock, is pretty solid, and on edge-cases serves you well.

I had to create some applications with py earlier this year, I started out with pyside but it was really heavy and kind of difficult to grok. wxwidgets I tried as well and it didn't work (I needed mouse cursor information and use it in a certain way to draw certain things, it was messy to do it with everything except tkinter).
I thought the point of open offices was to increase team productivity, not employee productivity.
it's propagandish, it's less outlandish to suggest that wikipedia is propaganda than how this article presents the issue, something along the lines of "once they started leaking stuff about DNC it seems fishy!" ... seems silly. why is the line crossed at DNC leaks?
right, so it learns to please its human audience.
and distributed computing for rendering because it takes an hour per frame.
To each their own, but FWIW, I have a MBP and an X1 and I _greatly_ prefer the former. I think the new touch bars were a mistake, and I think Apple is expensive and the QA going downhill, but the overall quality and customer service are still miles and miles beyond the X1.
"Why does anyone need this? Like all advice, this sounds deceptively simple. But make sure you get a very compelling answer here."

Right now I'm at the Web Summit, in Lisbon. I saw a few ML/AI startups here, but I was surprised there weren't a lot more. There was some imbalance. There were many startups trying to create new online social networks for niche groups -- business professionals, women, entrepreneurs, sales professionals, etc. I do think there is some innovation that can happen in social networks, but generally I regard it as an over-crowded space. For the most part, the benefits offered by the Internet seemed to have been mostly absorbed by the 1994-2008 cycle, and what's left is fairly minor compared to what happened previously.

One of the few areas where I still see the possibility of significant traction (the creation of large companies) is with information gathering and a combination of ML and NLP. We've already seen a wave of startups which were no more than pretty GUIs over existing technology. At the risk of being unfair, BigML.com is just a nice interface over existing ML tools, and API.ai is just a nice interface over some NLP tools. AmenityAnalytics goes a bit further combining their web scraping and NLP scripts with a nice interface that customers can use to filter the incoming data. But there is still a wide space for companies to go much further in this field.

All the same, I agree this is a good question: "Why does anyone need this?" You should really ask it whenever you are joining any startup.
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Well, I didn’t say when the extra electricity generation happened!

But seriously, thank you for all the additional info, that’s really interesting.
One of my friends growing up had a child when he was a teenager, and he and I had a candid talk about this sort of thing once. I pointed out that he was close to his father, who would always tell him stories of all the 'legendary' and reckless mischief he made, and how he's somehow grown up to make the same kinds of mistakes, whereas I never knew my father, and thus didn't have any legendary tales to idolize, instead spending my time trying to figure out who I wanted to be on my own. And I basically said "when you go on to tell your child about all the fun you had causing mischief, make sure you understand that they're probably going to look up to you no matter what stories you tell them. Make sure you tell them ones worth hearing."

Off-topic, but this is one of the reason's I get irritated with this "child needs both parents" crap that people spout sometimes. A child needs as many good parents as they can find, and sometimes that number is 1.
That doesn't explain why banks and hedge funds do it. Trading floors have been open offices before that was a thing, and that's transitioned to their IT departments.
I remember being extremely annoyed because my quiet lunchtime coffee spot was suddenly inundated for a fortnight with zombie-like (as in, their frequency, lack of conscious eye contact, and shuffling-like movement) smartphone users all trying to catch a water pokemon down by the river/dock...
The thing is they don't just hide sexual assault cases. I reviewed a very popular, 5 star business on TripAdvisor that was selling fraudulent goods and they removed my review. I could pull up the exact reason they cited but it was total nonsense and basically amounted to protecting the business.

The owner of the business personally lied to me but TripAdvisor took down the review because he complained. How messed up is that? I learned to never trust TripAdvisor after that. At least other sites usually let you see the flagged posts if you click at the bottom to reveal them. TripAdvisor just pretends they never happened.
Is not the SEC aware of these mysterious "USDTs?"
I still don't really get what they are or how they come to be, and furthermore how they are used to manipulate price.

It's like a guarantee that there is a cash representation right?

Also, most federally-backed banks have but a fraction of all balances on hand.
Yeah and that place is Ikaria.
It's not just about Cost of Living. When you're an immigrant you know very little outside of your own family/community. The options are either be your own boss or be underemployed forever because you can't get hired to match your skill level.

And if you look at the founders of companies that eventually go public (or at least have the revenue that they could do so), they are pretty much all started by people who had connections and access to their own capital early on.

I'm not saying the American dream is dead, but it's never been as great as people make out and it's only getting worse.
Increase the productivity of a team by reducing that of its members? How do you see that working?
> I found it way easier to goof around and not actually do work

Why do you need someone to watch you in order to actually do your job? I work at a company where remote work is exceedingly common, almost half the company is remote, and those in the HQ city don't come in to the office everyday. We get amazing amounts of work done.
yep, more secure, and battle tested. And one additional subtle advantage is that it leads you to make better architectural decisions because it eliminates state.
The thing is they don't just hide sexual assault cases. I reviewed a very popular, 5 star business on TripAdvisor that was selling fraudulent goods and they removed my review. I could pull up the exact reason they cited but it was total nonsense and basically amounted to protecting the business.
The owner of the business personally lied to me but TripAdvisor took down the review because he complained. How messed up is that? I learned to never trust TripAdvisor after that. At least other sites usually let you see the flagged posts if you click at the bottom to reveal them. TripAdvisor just pretends they never happened.

For the curious, they were selling "silk" scarves that did not contain silk (its easy to test if you know what you're looking for) as well as jewelry boxes and the like made of "camel bone". They were making so much money off clueless tourists.
> Unlike marijuana and mushrooms it is easily possible to have a drink or two and function normally. This accounts for a lot of its social acceptability.

You are stipulating that ethanol [0] is the only psychoactive substance which can be properly dosed for its effects? Sorry, but you realize that's rather.. uneducated? It's about potency, tolerance, bio-compatibility and the resulting individual threshold.

Case in point: Your "one or two" drinks could be beer, booze shots, cocktails, wine and many other products with varying, often not even labeled, potency. You could drink them over the course of 2 hours or 5 minutes, all of that influences the final effects, especially how regularly you are having your "only one or two drinks".

That's why there are such things as "functioning alcoholics" or people who regularly consume high potency cannabis and thus don't even notice any effects when consuming low potency cannabis.

[0] https://psychonautwiki.org/wiki/Alcohol

[1] https://psychonautwiki.org/wiki/Cannabis
They aren't using open office plans because they think it's cool. It's because giving most people an office isn't practical unless they want to get 5 times as much space which is not possible due to the high cost of space in the locations they choose.

I think we will eventually see some workplaces offer micro-offices with high tech ventilation, fiber optic lights, sound proofing, and virtual windows.

I also think that as self driving cars deploy people will realize they are able to work in the car. Then they will realize they could have just as easily stayed home to work.
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Occasionally you'll see online harassment shift once they have something they perceive as more damaging to use. Example I saw in the past was all the harassment shifted to mockery about dead child after son died.

I'm afraid that, at least some of the time, people are just trying to be as hurtful as possible. The sexism and rape comments are often just what they think is most hurtful.
Shouldn't the interviewing engineer know the answers to these business questions beforehand during their research of the company? (particularly if the company is upfront about their ML/AI-usage)
So many innovations in medicine, food, exercise, pesticides, whatever, only look better than the old stuff because they haven't been around long enough for all their flaws to be discovered.
Well "shitty tabloids" tend to survive financially. The media companies that don't work that way tend to require a rich benefactor who doesn't mind making little money or losing money to keep it alive. So it's no surprise FB etc value survival.
> What performance are you talking about?

Taking several seconds to a minute to open the god damn start menu. Can take a few seconds if you've got a HDD, a minute if your internet connection drops at at the wrong time. Pauses and stutters in many other places. It's pretty clear MS only dogfooded windows 10 on high end devices.
Judges might forgive a human who drove onto a sidewalk to avoid an accident, but they're not likely to be as forgiving of a manufacturer that programmed their cars to do the same thing.
The narrative seems to go from drinking a glass of wine daily is healthy to significantly carcinogenic. The media has no shame in its abuse & manipulation of its consumers.
This is so misinformed. Pokemon Go was the quintessential example of something that was so overhyped, and covered everywhere for a brief 1-month period, then disappeared. Don't mistake extensive press coverage for "everybody wants your product".

Some bugs are fine if you're a B2B app, and intolerable if you're a consumer game.
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It's OK, I balanced it out with an upvote for synthwave.
My point is that it's because of luck rather than because the residents are doing something special.
And I guess "Don't Do Drugs" will fix the opioid problem flat out?
I first started using Linux because I liked unix, programming and open source; privacy wasn't a concern.

I'm not sure it's an OS "for the masses". I know it works for people who just want to edit simple documents, browse the web, watch movies and play the occasional game.

Note that I was replying to MrFurious' comment about "videogames and MS Office". This may come as a surprise to us techies, but "the masses" do NOT game on PCs at all. Gamers on any platform at all are not particularly mainstream (they certainly weren't until relatively recently). I'm willing to bet most people who game at all either play on consoles or play casual games (which usually work on Linux). Very few people play AAA on their PCs, comparatively speaking. Serious PC gamers who build monstrous high-end machines won't be comfortable with Linux, sure -- but they are not the mainstream.

MS Office and related apps are a reasonable point. I get by with Libre Office, but I'm willing to concede the point it's not on par with MS Office. But gaming? I do not believe gaming is the reason people don't use Linux.
Microsoft still has a lot of buildings with private offices. You might be doubled up depending on seniority and how crowded the building you're in is. Some buildings have gone to open office but I think some execs realize that that's a disaster.
Maybe just lower contrast for those items or something. Would be nice to keep the site “useful” along with the funny stuff
Good question! Many pre-launch startups lack an online presence, so it’d be hard to tease out answers before talking to someone.
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A few weeks ago is several years after they merged the phone and desktop codebases.
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Microsoft has long had a thing about private offices for their developers. Over time the offices have gotten smaller, but they still have them. I think at this point the newest ones fit a desk and a chair and that's all.
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We need a Dunning-Kruger roster, but I'm not sure how people would realize they belong on it.
After online outrage, Logitech will now replace Harmony Link devices for free
Here's what they should do... Make one game and let users choose their theme/skin. License different themes from companies (Harry Potter, Pokemon, etc). Then whatever mode a person is in when they buy stuff, that IP gets a cut.

And then: make that game fun.
In California, the non-compete is not worth the paper it's written on: http://prodigylaw.com/CA_Death_of_Non-Compete.html and the state with the strictest non-compete enforcement, Massachusetts, seems to be close to the long-anticipated reform: https://www.faircompetitionlaw.com/2017/10/10/massachusetts-... and https://www.faircompetitionlaw.com/2017/10/31/taking-aim-at-.... With the reformed bill in place, the non-compete clause in Massachusetts will also be a hollow threat unless multiple (unrealistic) conditions are met.
I don’t understand your argument. Presumably the driverless cars would also reduce the UK’s deaths by a similar percentage.
Because everyone is different?

I don't need someone watching me to get work done. I just find it easier to focus on work when I'm around other people doing the same thing.
Fine, but if that's your point, don't say "Why not use C all the time by default then?" Actually make that point, rather than leaving us all guessing as to what your point is, and more important, why it's your point.

And, as I said, "Why not use C all the time by default then?" does not actually follow as the logical endpoint of the argument that your trying to answer, so making that your response really doesn't contribute much to the advancement of the conversation.
Yes, Apple customer service is worlds beyond Lenovo, I had to return a defective laptop and it took months and painful calls. But still, the hardware is just more competitive in Lenovo. And YMMV but I can't deal with the new MBPs' keyboard, touch bar and lack of ports. It's just a show stopper for me.