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This can definitely be the case. There are lots of sh--ty white male programmers working in the industry.

I have met plenty of white men who have masters level CS education, have worked for Google and other top name companies, and can't produce a line of useful working code to save their lives.

The reasons why corporations frequently hire people who don't actually produce anything are varied and complex, but it happens, a lot.

If someone is incompetent and also happens to be from a minority group then everyone starts complaining about how they are a "diversity hire" but with incompetent white males they just shrug and go "that's the way it is." In other words, it is so common with white males that no one even notices.
> Are you taking into account the time savings of only needing to charge on a trip a few times a year

Yes, that's why I said that cars optimized for different roles are likely to survive in the market rather than only one surviving.
I would imagine it depends on the dose. An large dose of lsd would render just about anyone completely incoherent and possibly, absolutely insane. However, there is a reason many are gathering behind the idea of microdosing lsd for productivity. Here's an article on microdosing: https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/gv5p5y/a-brief-hi...
No it isn't. Try applying for a job:

https://www.google.com/about/careers
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I wonder what they’re going to use to mitigate cheating. But give the recent uptick in technical difficulties, they have bigger things to worry about.
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I stopped using a smartphone 2 months ago, switching to a flipphone with wi-fi calling. When I made the switch, the employees in the mobile store acted as if they had lost one of their own and outwardly displayed the 7 stages of grief for my old phone as I returned it for something without a touch screen...

1. Shock & Denial - ...I was asked if I was 'sure about this' more than 10 times during the transfer and repeatedly dissuaded from making the "down"grade.

2. Pain & Guilt- ...I was told that no one had done this before, that it was not recommended for any customer, and skeptically prodded as if in attempts to uncover that I lacked the qualities and smartphone use cases that make one human.

3. Anger & Bargaining- ...As one of the employees started setting up the phone for me, another came over, asked what model it was, and snickered loudly before saying how sh&@$#y the outdated messaging system was on the phone. I begrudgingly sat through spiels on several other models that didn't fit my requirement of 'just no apps'.

4. "Depression", Reflection, Loneliness- ...The 4 employees started talking amongst themselves in a ring about the old days, before any of them had a smartphone. There were noticeable pauses and head tilts throughout the conversation. I had been here an hour at this point.

5. The Upward Turn- ...They handed me the phone and one even said he envied me and wished me good luck.

6. Reconstruction & Working Through- ...I signed the contract and they showed me how to do wi-fi calling, cellular, and send messages, the only features I had wanted in the first place.

7. Acceptance & Hope- ...The employee who originally helped me said I "just had" to email him back to tell him what it was like on the "outside".

It was the most surreal experience, a basic exchange of products and services that from the perspective of everyone around me was akin to renouncing my citizenship.
2068 here, everyone's addicted to virtual sex. Once you had body suits that could simulate your entire environment, we no longer cared about being outside the facebook social network in a real sense.

A few of us venture outside to reminisce about the old days, but our fascismo overlords have made those opportunities less and less over the years.

Reap the discord you've sown.
And the curriculum is determined by the government, correct?

And the intent of banning smartphones is to force all students to pay more attention to that curriculum, correct?
> But maybe the typical Haskell programmer is not a good enough mathematician, who knows.

Gloves off, boys and girls.
> I am terrified about giving smartphones to my kids.

I am terrified by the fact that so many other people don't think twice about handing their toddler a smart device. Every time we go to dinner, there's a table nearby with a tablet planted in front of a child in a booster seat.

"There's no evidence that it's harmful", people say, but how could the evidence possibly exist? It would take 16+ years to do a thorough study (possibly longer), but smartphones have only been popular for half that time. And people have only been using them as babysitters for the past 3-5 years, at most.

We may not know the true extent of their damage until it's far too late for the affected generation. There's always a chance that the damage will be minor and/or reversible, but most people don't seem to grasp the risk they're taking.
Another point which is usually not well-discussed, the houses/apts in SF are really bad in terms of quality, amenities and features. With new housing, this is starting to change a little bit. But, overall, rent control results in really bad maintenance. Landlords do the absolute bare minimum to not get sued/fined. For the rent people in SF pay, the value they derive is almost a joke.
Why would you choose debit over credit? I have a debit and credit card and only use the debit card when I absolutely have to.
I agree. Over a decade ago when I was a freshman in college I participated in an AdSense click ring with my dormmates. We made $200 or so each, which was cool at that age. Within a few months we got caught and banned from AdSense. Now I have a YouTube channel with tens of thousands of viewers but I can’t monetize it at all, even though YouTube wasn’t even part of the same company as AdSense when my silly freshman experiment went down.
I did the same with my TI85 as well. Part of it I think is we have to focus on productivity and providing value because the hardware couldn't render high end experiences.

Creating seems to have fallen by the day wide compared to mindless consuming, interaction and feeding content to social aggregation companies who sell users attention to advertisers.

As dreary as this topic is, it's kind of nice to see a healthy exploration about more than the one current way of using tech.
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As the social pressure gets greater I hope to see more talk of freedom and democracy.
agreed, lived in apt in the East Village, and while my apt. was really nice, the common areas were in shambles and it looked like the managing company didn't care about its exterior either.

The reason was that almost half of the apt. in the building were rent controlled (grandfathered in).

I think a mix of limited rent control (i.e. 5 years, max) plus building more apt for people that can't afford it, is a better combo on keeping a stability and folks being able to afford and live closer to work.

The only way to build more affordable apartments, is to allow for building more market rate apartments as well. Right now this current older (baby boomer) generation is screwing hard the upcoming one.
a human need for mental and physical downtime, as well as for the sort of quick gratification that we rarely get from loftier or more productive pursuits

Could this not be said about drugs and alcohol? And while it may indeed be beneficial to use drugs and alcohol in a balanced, well moderated way, the downside risk seems to great to me to be suggesting this to a society.
More like each newly turned over product team always makes a https://xkcd.com/927/ decision, and only gets 80% through to completion before the next batch decides to do-over yet again.
> It is unclear to me that this sex difference would play a role in success within the Google workplace (in particular, not being able to handle stresses of leadership in the workplace. That’s a huge stretch to me.)

In other words, "that's not the kind of question we ask."

Also I looked at the citations, neither of the metastudies looks at differences in sensory perception which imho are the most interesting of the sex differences. But even ignoring that, looking at the statistical significance of certain population traits doesn't tell you anything about their clinical significance. E.g. if you look at two groups of 100 people and one group is 100% alive and the other group is 99% alive, there isn't a significant effect size, but there is a big difference to that one person.
They could also take on Square by moving the "confirm, sign, tip, send receipt" aspect of Square (basically the entire interface) to the phone anywhere there is a payment system that takes tap to pay which more and more is basically everywhere. Unfortunately google doesn't agree and the actual payment experience is so shitty and limited it is a joke.
> running costs (i.e. fuel and maintenance) scale linearly with thrust

Interesting. Question: Both twin and quads have to be able to take off with one engine failed. Thus, under normal circumstances twins can deliver up to 200% of required power (times 1/2 = 100%), while quads deliver up to 133% (times 3/4 = 100%). If max thrust were a contributor to cost, quads could be cheaper than twins.

However, common understanding seems to be that twins are cheaper. Can you elaborate on this myth?
Gah ... I automatically started looking for doors when I went to your site! :D
I'd like to see more organizations adapt this way of thinking in terms of the way they build software. Turns out business functionality is a great way to define boundaries for a service in a micro-service architecture. There's really no reason why the application code that gets a list of book recommendations (functionality provided by the business) can't be completely separate from the code that provides the user with a bio for an author (functionality provided by the business), or ratings for a book. This allows teams to work independently and in parallel. Organizing software development around projects makes it more difficult for software developers to leverage tools for continuous delivery and deployment. Project based development really does slow you down.

Hmm... I guess my way would be to have teams that work together to deliver business functionality over products or projects. Functional teams, if you will. I see thinking in terms of products as a step in that direction.

*edited to clarify my earlier statement
Feedback was explicitly solicited, and he published it in that forum.

If the company doesn't want views that might contradict current policy, it should not solicit feedback.
And where is the evidence that biology is a factor in influencing career choice ? Haven't seen anything like that to date.

Equally valid is having is that having to work with socially inept people reduces the appeal.
Last night they hit 1M+ users, but also booted the vast majority of them from the game by marking the correct answer as incorrect on the first question. The cynical side of me wonders if it was a load shedding method.
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I found the Bose headphones mediocre in most regards, so I switched back to my Shure 315's. The foam earbud is enough to keep the airplane noise out, and the sound quality is awesome.
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Alcohol doesn't cause problems for 99% of people though does it.

You can apply that argument to anything banned. Why ban anything at all, why not let kids drink in class? Because it causes a lot more harm than good, especially in a learning environment.

So, we restrict things. You might not agree where the line is drawn, but there is a line and its position is obviously subjective. I guess we can measure the effectiveness of this on learning and with feedback from the teachers though.
regardless of intent, the upper classes have material conditions that condition their behavior. Regardless of how they come off upon meeting, they still would rather have subjugation and hold their position than work to create an egalitarian society.
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You probably misunderstood my comment.

I think buildings with both subsidized and market rate units are a great idea. (Segregated subsidized buildings seem to be strictly worse.) But as others mentioned subsidized can mean either "low wage normal folks" or "hardcore bath salts addics living on tree bark with 10 dogs and sold the bathtube for drugs years ago, so they smell worse than their dogs". And they need different kind of help. The former can probably be perfectly happy with their current job thanks to the rent subsidy, whereas the latter category is very likely actively harmful to the community and needs serious (expensive) intervention.

Of course we can debate the problem of injecting even more money into a market with already limited supply, and its fairness.
McDonald's has the fastest payment terminals of any business I've been to.
I think there's a lot of value in having self-aware conscious behavior, it's important that you're doing what you want with your life. You only have one. People have definitely wasted their lives away, from their own opinion deep in a book. The vehicle by which people waste their lives is a lot less important than the awareness of what you're doing with your life, and that it's something that you actually wanted to do.
It's a very good argument. Behavior that is ok for one group should be ok for another group, and viceversa. That is a truth of equality.
I didn't take LSD for any therapeutic reason. I took it to enjoy the experience. The assistance in fixing my lifelong depression was a side effect I only realized had taken place may years later (in the last 4-5 while reading articles about how LSD/Ketamine? have helped people with depression).

It was never a rollercoaster for me. Outside of auditory and visual hallucinations you can mostly control your environment. In fact, it was always quite enjoyable. Playing music, either myself or recorded was an amazing experience, but most everything was.
I believe GP was saying it was credit card only (no debit cards), or is that what you meant?
Even if James Damore does not win Google has a number of practices that could be considered embarrassing if they were to be made public. I know a number of Googlers who confide to me privately about their experiences. Traditionally they would not have an outlet to express their grievances because no-one really cares. I'm hoping this lawsuit will give them and others a chance leak some of these practices. I'm interested in what people outside of SV tech bubble will think about it.
> If you read the article, it did mention Socrates warned about writing. Maybe Plato did say it as well.

All the saying attributed to Socrates are by way of Plato's writing in which Socrates is used as a mouthpiece, and are more properly attributed to Plato. So, the references are probably to the same thing.
I've been wondering about the new cellular Apple Watch. In particular, I wonder if I could get away with just having that, and use it to train myself out of idly reading the news during periods of micro-boredom.

The main thing keeping me from trying it as an experiment, is that I use my phone primarily for mobility (transit schedules, Car2go, ReachNow, lyft, bikeshare, etc.). And it appears that the majority of the services I use don't have watch apps.
I really wish the submitter of this story did a better job than repeating the clickbait title at Curbed. Because this article is actually a fairly good summary of an interesting paper which has a lot to say about the mixed results of rent control as a long-term strategy.

But no, instead we get this, "Rent Control Is Uniformly Bad" title which is designed to split the demo and bring in people who want to argue.

Surely we can do better!
I think a reasonable person can find snippets of what he wrote distasteful. But it’s more like uncomfortable. I agree there is truth in it.

It’s very obvious to me that the negative reaction was greatly amplified by the ever-outraged and ever-posturing social (media) justice contingent.
"Rent control is a failed experiment. All it does is force land lords to massively increase rent amounts when someone moves out to account for multi-year market increases."

Forces them? As if they wouldn't raise rents as much as they felt they could get away with anyway.

Or as if without rent control landlords would keep rents low, merely out of the goodness of their hearts.
Maybe a sign of issues in the field is that people hiring undervalue interpersonal skills/relationships and what it means to be "capable," which I do think is a flaw in Damore's original memo.
Thanks for the encouraging response, I will definitely checkout the keto subreddit.
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Stupid question, just to get a sense of the context of your testimony: are you working for Google or a similarly prestigious organisation? I can certainly expect “a "Software Engineer" who can't write a SQL statement” in some of the company I worked for a decade ago but I’d be confused to see those at Google. I saw one at Facebook (middle-aged white male) but he left the company after ten days and anyone’s reaction was a really confused: “How did he…?”
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Would explain why the clock is always wrong in those damn lifts.
I would love to know more about their software architecture... 1+ million concurrent streams is no joke! Have they published anything about it?
Another second-order effect of rent control is increased traffic. Suppose you have two residents with significantly below-market-rate housing at the same quality level, one in downtown SF and another in Mountain View. The former starts a new job at Google in Mountain View, the latter starts a new job at a trendy start-up in downtown SF. Since they're paying significantly below market rate, they're unable to trade apartments with each other without paying a significant amount of money.

So, because you cannot trade apartments without spending significantly more money, there's a couple of hour-long commutes instead. This is part of a general pattern - messing with prices doesn't help, since the market still has to clear. You just start paying in things other than money. Paying for things with money is great in general, since then someone else has the money. Paying for things with a longer commute is terrible, since there's no beneficiary.
Well if you think about it it's actually quite genius ...

How do you subvert an increasingly connected population where information travels and spreads like wildfire that can force you out of power?

You bring those people on a platform where they are told they are safe because of technical jargon here.

It's in their best interest to not reveal these relationships or make it obvious that the people on such platform are being monitored. Nor are they trying to catch people who are smart enough to not use the platform. ex. "terrorists"

What's important is that they've essentially captured a large bracket of the population using such privacy tools thinking they are free from surveillance when in fact it's the complete opposite. Now you have full ability to disrupt and destroy any type of anti-government organization.
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Well his sum up suggests two things: If we are to be truly free and diverse, we shouldn't expect perfect representation everywhere (ie. may be it's not a problem that 50% of lumberjacks aren't women), and to make engineering more diverse, the current approach (positive discrimination) is unfair, we should instead embrace gender differences and modify methodology in IT to be more female oriented, he suggests pair programming based on psychological research indicating women are more people oriented, and men more thing oriented. There is no value judgment there, just a sound, scientifically literate approach to change.
Not sure if this'll help your situation, but I did something equally dumb when I was back in high school. Clicked on my own ads, got banned from AdSense, etc. (Luckily, it didn't affect my other Google services at the time.)

Recently, however, a Google AdSense sales rep reached out to me trying to sell me on AdSense. I explained the past situation and that I was "banned", but this sales rep was apparently able to get that lifted and get me back into the program. I never ended up using AdSense, but I now have an open account that isn't blocked anymore. Might help in your situation if you ever run into a Google sales rep.
There can be positives of hiring to increase diversity which aren't related strictly to their performance in the role they occupy.

Two such arguments for this kind of policies:

- by giving them jobs which they wouldn't otherwise have the skills to fill you are trying to break the "cycle" (more on that below)

- having different viewpoints in a team can be beneficial beyond the skill set those people should bring according to their role (ex. for developing apps that don't just cater to the hipster young)

Another thing to consider is that the way you measure performance may be biased, resulted from decades of privileged groups having the leadership role in that domain/area and having developed it in certain ways that caters to their skill set.

For the "breaking the cycle" part, I mean that systematic discrimination results in people of certain origins simply not having the opportunity/chance to have developed the skills to be competitive with the privileged classes. And no, you can't just fix this by giving them a "chance to learn", some of the negative impacts on these groups of people are permanent and happen in early life. Obviously trying to handle this problem in the workplace is just a "hack", it's too late already but it does have the benefit that now those people get included in a social environment that they would normally be cut out from, get payed more than they would otherwise and, hopefully, this will trickle down to their children and grandchildren so in a few generations of doing this we don't actually need to be doing it anymore.

I'm not saying that all of this means I'm convinced affirmative action is doing more good than bad, just that I see it has possible benefits.
Has Google said what they do with the information they collect when people use Google Pay? Does it get added to my profile? I don't see anything under "My Account" on the Google website.
Brendan Eich seems to be doing ok now. The furor that severed his relationship with Mozilla doesn't seem to have impacted Brave, and that was just a few years ago.
So strange. I doublechecked on Wikipedia before posting my comment, just to be sure. Nothing, "John Young is". Now, an hour later, it's there, "John Young was".

Apologise for the misinformation. Offline weekend, the news passed me by.
Awesome! I think the idea of showcasing these collectible tokens is great. Would love to see a React port of this, let me know if you're working/ need help on it!
>Before you downvote/call me a Nazi, I'm a mixed race woman in tech.

No offence but I think it's kind of harmful to everyone when you make arguments based on your race and gender.
Nobody will understand what "IoT creep" and "cloud" mean (at least not the meaning you imply) in 50 years :D

So, for their benefit:
- IoT creep - Internet of Things is a movement towards adding tiny computers into all things (light switches, plant watering systems, fridges, toasters ...) so they can communicate and be controlled from mobile phones.
- Cloud - refers to cloud computing, which is just the way we call when you put information or code to run on a company's server instead of on your own computer.