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They build their products on open technologies and then attempt to extinguish the open technologies.

XMPP, RSS/Atom, and HTML are three examples of EEE in modern times.

- XMPP => proprietary chat that locks users in

- RSS/Atom => algorithmic news feeds that lock users in

- HTML => AMP -- if you want distribution, they tie your hands with markup and monetization restrictions

- etc.
I had a TI Calculator in my pocket and I learned first learned how to program on it during classes from 7th grade on. I made all sorts of text-based games: rpgs, text-based tetris, action games, fighting games (which was basically just pick an attack and a different formula with random numbers would happen that said how much hp you hurt the opponent), etc.

But 'smartphones' nowadays makes it difficult for you to create on them, especially program code that you can run on the device. I might not have gotten such an early understanding of how to program if I didn't have a programmable device in my pocket to take with me everywhere and play with.

I wouldn't have such a problem with smartphones if it was a fun toy to make things with. Even now, the only thing I ever really 'make' on the device are some notes that I then use on 'real' devices later.
Maybe that works for their internal politics, but not for the users. I've given up even trying new Google offerings
this isn't a mathematical proof. a few counter-examples are easy to create. i looked pretty comprehensively at your history and i think the bias is beyond obvious.

> If you want to look at this objectively you have to work to suspend your own political feelings, which is not easy to do and not something many people want to.

And something I think you have failed at doing. (As you believe of me, so I guess agree to disagree.) However, you are the one bringing it up in a moralistic and pedantic way from a position of power as a moderator.
>That's most definitely a cultural thing, and I believe its what diversity programs try to address.

If it's a cultural thing, why is one version (attitude/culture) towards it considered better than the other (and thus one has to be "addressed")?
Candide would be proud of you...

What more could I ask for?

Which comment is the correct one? There are always multiple "No, that isn't correct, this is the one true way" comments. One posted 5 years after the flurry is unlikely to get many votes.

How about bad information not showing up in my search at all?

How about ageing out votes so it makes sense to come back to a topic and revote?

And this doesn't even account for the information that is simply wrong but nobody cares enough (or has enough karma) to fix.

Curation isn't always bad.
<WTF rant>

- cards listed are only viewable as huge generic CC images and you can't customize either the image or even give it a name. Why this terrible skeuomorphic mess? I have different cards for different types of purchases and they all look identical and I have to scroll through them because they are huge. WTF?

- When making payments there is no quick way to select which card you want to pay with. I'm pretty sure I'm not the only one who sometimes uses different personal cards, credit vs debit, or company vs personal. WTF??

- There is no user purchase validation step! I just swipe my phone and transaction is done. I get this is the same as using a CC but in theory there is such a huge opportunity to improve the experience. How about popping up a thing where I confirm the purchase, even add a tip or sign for some purchases? WTF???

- Pretty much zero updates for years. WTF google????

</WTF rant>

Honestly any of these issue are almost deal breakers but I do use it mainly because I get a geeky thrill out of it still when it works. Are some of these limitations imposed by the CC companies and banks? Like Wells Fargo saying they'll only participate if Google uses the exact full size card image? Or is this just an example of insanely bad UX in a totally dysfunctional product team? I have no idea but the current app is mind-blowingly crappy.
I vaguely remember that when my sister installed iTunes on her Windows XP machine, she also found herself lumbered with QuickTime... whether that was a sly bundling move by Apple or an actual dependency I cannot recall (or perhaps never really knew), but what does stick with me is how much regular grief it caused her.
> notions of preferences and ability are scientifically measurable, are false.

Hmm...as to preferences, there are two easy tests:

1. You ask people

When you do, you find that people generally don't like CS. People in developed countries less than in less developed countries. And women less than men, with the gap becoming bigger in more developed countries. And girls less than boys, with the gap becoming larger in more developed countries.

You can also ask them why they choose that way, and in less developed or less prosperous countries, more people say "because of the money". In more prosperous countries, people are, well, more prosperous, so money is less of an issue.

2. You look at how people choose

Same pattern. It's not as if women are forced out of computing and into early childhood education. They choose to go there because, apparently, that is what they want to do.
France's new rule (no smartphones in schools - no exceptions) is genius, and I applaud them for that.

I agree that some people will use the awesome power of pocket super computers for frivolous things, and some won't, but I don't think banning smartphones in schools is the answer.

The folks empowered by smartphones will suddenly have less power, diminishing themselves and their contribution to society.

The folks who can't stay off Candy Crush when they have a smartphone are still going to struggle with distraction, it'll just be comics/dating/some other distraction.

The second group may learn a bit more, but it seems like a net loss for society as a whole - which completely opposes the stated mission of a mandatory education.
tax authorities tax based on income or value at set percentages. cartels pretty much extract what they can arbitrarily.
No, because "best" is highly unscientific and subjective, and can change in an uncountable number of ways depending on environment.
It is a large set of simple tools. It is conceptually complex because each tool is different and you must learn them all.
"Children will be allowed to bring their phones to school, but not allowed to get them out at any time until they leave, even during breaks."

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/dec/11/france-to-ban-...
The book Inside the Company is the diary of a CIA officer in Uruguay and El Salvador during the late 60s and early 70s. He specifically recounts times where he allowed/encouraged the local police to torture dissidents, and how he helped fund the anti-Allende campaigns before 1973.

This primary source shows that the CIA was encouraging political violence before 1973.
Facebook and Google are free. They shouldn't be.
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This isn't quite the same thing, but i've always found it annoying how it's generally okay to say, for example, that Chinese people are good at math but it's not okay to say that any other group is bad at math, even though the former claim is a relative claim that is presumably understood to be comparative to other groups of people, who are (on average) worse at math.
I built an iOS app that does this exact same thing a few years ago: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/100-pushups-all-star/id70851...

It uses face detection to determine a pushup.
How is this a top post? "Pay your taxes because, um, you should, I mean talk to a lawyer"
For the only Google service I pay for (Project Fi), customer service is stellar.
One of Nielsen's classic UX heuristics:

> Error messages should be expressed in plain language (no codes), precisely indicate the problem, and constructively suggest a solution.
>I am glad that his life is ruined and that he is toxic and non-hirable.

step back and listen to what you just said.

Why are you glad about that? You're aware that he's still a human that can suffer, like us, right?

This guy isn't a dictator. Find some balance here.
To be the devil's advocate, many things are a lot more offensive if you swap words of gender with race.

"Birth control for blacks", "we need more jews in STEM", "no blacks in the whites only bathroom".

They're more offensive because unlike race there are very real and relevant biological differences when it comes to gender. And whether or not that applies to STEM probably shapes your viewpoints on this subject.
Copyright claims don't affect a user's ability to login to their google account.. what are you talking about?
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I don't think I've ever had it work.
I wish we’d stopped discussing the effects and started discussing potential mitigation measures
Price controls always end up creating artificial scarcity. The solution to lower housing costs is more housing, not less.
Man, the iPod had a great interface for quickly browsing a hierarchy of organized music. I know that people hate organizing music into hierarchies. I know that search is faster than browsing (usually). I know that curation is hard generally.

But... I listed to a wider variety of music when I could start at an entry point and browse my way in, possibly tripping on a long un-listened album along the way. Now with most search driven music subscription apps, I feel like

1. Browsing functionality is crap. I typically can't go in looking for a genre and find anything I want to listen to.

2. The search feature is a brick wall of need-to-know-what-you-want-to-listen-to.

Also, having the TV on (routed digitally to a DAC / Amp) to listen to music sucks. Most of the streaming apps for TV scream for attention visually, when I want to—surprise—listen to music.

So yeah, a small interface that I can reliably browse music from like an iPod attached to my sound system but could also be taken with me sounds lovely.
Yup. Same reason I spread my risk with a bunch of Amazon products rather than stick to any one ecosystem. It's either that or abandon the whole system altogether.
I think monsky's comment and the exchange below hit on an important point: different understandings of what a professor does.

I would venture that most people equate professor with teaching. While many of the people that responded to monksy, understand that the position is much more than that. Seeing this dichotomy is important to having a productive discussion.

This happens a lot in life. Another example from higher education—University President. Most people equate University President with something along the lines of U.S. President and hold the requisite expectations for them. Reality = fundraising figurehead.
Oh man, you'd be surprised. Historically, at the global scale, war's biggest driver has tended to be economics.

African enslavement anyone?
This is almost irrelevant if they don’t get the supply issues worked out.
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I wonder how much evidence google has of people who were pissed off by Damore's memo.

Cause really, that's all it should take. "He made his continued employment here impossible because he pissed off his coworkers". Sounds like a completely valid reason to fire me.
Burn the dangerous books!
There’s a tendency to accept without question, in these sorts of conversations, that “trivial entertainment” is bad, or at least qualifiably inferior to either “good entertainment” (less Skinner-box-ish games, going outside, socializing, etc.) or “self-improvement” (reading, thinking, practicing, etc.)

IMHO, most of us in fact choose all of the above; what we should be aiming for is the proper balance, not to replace all of one type of activity with something “better”. “Trivial entertainment“ meets 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. It’s always been that way, from dice in Mohenjo-Daro to graffiti in the Coliseum to, well, fucking Candy Crush. The trick is to engage in the right amount of it - and this is, I think, where the pernicious effect of these sorts of entertainments lies: in encouraging us to make the wrong decisions about that balance.

It’s true that we now have opportunities for self-improvement our ancestors couldn’t have dreamed of. It’s also true that they had opportunities in this dimension that are increasingly rare in modern society: formal apprenticeship, for instance. Put another way: the sum total of human knowledge is, in the end, next to useless without a social, human context in which to learn and apply it. Even those in this thread who are “self-taught” have undoubtedly learned much from mentors and peers. In this respect, it matters very little that we have that knowledge in our pockets unless we also have the tools and social structures necessary to promote its use.
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Except that the empirical research does not prove his assertion. Citing papers is not enough to rigorous science. Small differences between the personality distributions of men and women are not themselves sufficient to explain the gap between men and women in software.
I actually lived in Germany for a few years before moving on to North America, so I can somewhat compare. IMO, people in US are generally more competitive than in Europe, but in the current political climate this unfortunately leads to more backstabbing and more dirty play.

Europe has its holy cows as well. Try publicly questioning the Syrian refugee program or come up with scientific evidence that nationals coming from war conflict zones have a higher chance of becoming criminals - you'll get crucified the same way.
>All it does is force land lords to massively increase rent amounts

Ah yes, the landlords are forced to massively raise rents, unlike the tenants, who are allowed to choose whatever price they want.

Simple reliance on a profit model for housing is never going to adequately meet housing needs.
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GP is asking you how you concluded that Joe Rogan is right wing podcast.
Why do you assume they are not stupid? Individuals and groups even at companies that are, on average, pretty smart can easily be really really incompetent. I think this is really common at google where they have lots of awesome products but still many seem either abandoned or led by people who are misguided.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/health/old-cholesterol-warnings-steep...
Landlords will rent at whatever they can a tenant to pay for, not some number in their mental ledger.
> Why did Google cut Android Pay out of Wallet if they were just going to do this?

They didn't. Android Pay was a renamed of an acquisition that was originally planned to be integrated with Wallet but wasn't (well, until now), it just looked like it was cut out of Wallet because they killed Waller’s similar NFC payment functionality. From the fact that they now for a while have had “pay with Google” that can use cards from Wallet, Android Pay, and some other superficially siloed single-app payment systems at Google, I would assume they’ve actually finally integrated everything to use the same infrastructure as Android Pay, so now the siloes can go away.
I understood the point of the article to be that it's addictive -- and intentionally so.

"...smartphones hook people using the same neural pathways as gambling and drugs."

We have laws regulating the others. Or in some countries, treatment programs. But either way, we don't just say "Cocaine is only a problem for those who choose to use it".
Strikes me as a distinction without a difference -- incompetence means you are incapable of performing a task.

One could speak of someone having more skill than another, but if both skillsets have no value, it doesn't really matter.
One thing to keep in mind is that Finland was a part of the Russian Empire from 1806 to 1917. It had a fair amount of autonomy, but it was a part of Russia still. The "Winter War" was in 1939, which puts it just 20 years after Fins used the post-revolution mess and declared their independence.
I empathize with what you're saying. But the error is in the meaning we put into the word "progress".

We need to talk a lot more about "false progress". Because that's what it is if we create more problems than we solve when society changes.

It would be irrational to not believe in "true progress", any change that solves more of our common problems than it creates new one's.

If we can't have true progress then human society has kind of lost its point. It seems illogical to say that it's not possible. But we often seem lost at adopting the right process for it.
> have been found watching (racial) porn at the office

pretty sure we don’t want anyone watching any sort of porn at the office
Does this paper actually demonstrate the "due to biological reasons" part?
>> Exchanging a single word for another may totally alter the effect of a passage

> I think that describes code perfectly.

I wasn't very clear here: what I meant was that exchanging a single word even for its closest synonym will always change the effect of a passage to some degree, because the intrinsic aesthetic qualities of the word inevitably alter the effect of the word.

This isn't true for code, where refactoring a line of code might change how readable that line is, while conceivably having an identical effect when the line is interpreted, compiled or executed.
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> If people "on the left" won't allow him to speak, where exactly do you expect him to go?

Adding to this; we should bear in mind that while nobody specific speaks for "the left"'s moral judgments, at least some people literally won't allow him to speak.

Secondly, he was never trying to be a martyr and we shouldn't expect him to be one. He was posting a controversial opinion on a message board marked for controversial opinion. He was clearly putting in a solid attempt to be objective and to employ facts and evidence. He has some academic exposure to the fields he was talking about.

He didn't expect to be targeted the way he was; he likely wasn't trying to set himself up as a hero of free speech; and he doesn't have to do a walk of shame through hostile talk shows to justify his intentions if he doesn't feel like taking the (unjustified) heat.
> Do you have evidence for that claim? You know your parents said the same about you with your computer games.

You're asking me to provide you evidence of a widely written about social phenomena while simultaneously claiming to know about my youth and what my parents thought about my activities?

>>> Most of the profitable skills I know are self-taught, from the internet.

If you want to know more about how the current smartphone and internet ecosystem is deliberately designed to be addictive, I suggest you go teach yourself from the internet. A lot's been written the last few months.

While you're at it, read up on loot boxes, since you seem to be interested in computer games.
Speak for yourself! I'm in the wealth game so I can get other people to do things for me. Machines performing the labour isn't authentic, doesn't have the same meaning.
How about Google is forced to split up into two competing general search engines? Google is a monopoly, little different from Bell in the 1970s. Bell was forced to split into two corporations due to anti-trust laws: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breakup_of_the_Bell_System
Google in general has become pretty amazing at customer service. You can get someone competent on the phone 24-7 for Home also.
Ok, then what's your objective and scientific way of hiring?
I'd love to know the current percentage of school kids doing productive things with smartphones during school hours!
And yet, filling my head up with over a decade of information from a public school education was essentially useless to me.

Studying programming on my own (not offered in my schools) was vastly more important.
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> For example, imagine if you can take out your smartphone when you're done with your work AND you are averaging above a 85% in the class.

Imagine taking out a book on a different subject when you're done and are keeping up, and no teacher complaining about that, ever. Then imagine being the teacher not having to deal with the other kids protesting because a single one of them is allowed to use his phone in class including all the teenage drama that you're definitely not getting paid enough for.
You need a very minimal amount of social skill to succeed in programming - just enough to not piss coworkers off too badly while working together on projects. Past that, you get mostly quiet and controlled environments, managers willing to let you work on your special interests, and generally get left alone to stare at your screen and type things out. This is one of the best working environments you can find for autistic people. And all these factors that make it so good for autistics makes it more hellish for neurotypicals: you have techies to socialize with who do not like to be interrupted, lots of time expected to be working instead of socializing, and your soft-skills aren't particularly well suited for making the computer do the things you want.

There are something like three to five times as many autistic males than females, depending on the cutoff point and study used. I'm honestly astounded that people are rejecting the biological claim, given how strongly it attracts autistics.

IMHO, a lot of inclusivity-in-tech movements are horrifically ableist for wanting to destroy this niche in the pursuit of making the programming niche more welcoming to other groups. It's about goddamn time there's some push-back against these sorts of gentrifying movements, they're incredibly bad for the work environment interests of autistics.
Public Schooling is a socialist policy, taking smartphones isn't. Giving every student a smartphone would be socialism in this context. However nobody is talking about that.
Dennard scaling is what would allow that to happen. Unfortunately, the lesser known cousin of Moore's Law is essentially dead.
If you read the article, it did mention Socrates warned about writing. Maybe Plato did say it as well.

Anyways, your point was brought up in the article.

Did you read the article?
This will be good to keep in mind when looking at performance reports.

The main performance numbers I've seen so far are from two kinds of sources:

1. Local benchmarks like the Phoronix benchmarks, which I think are all on physical hardware with PCID.

2. Reports from cloud customers like https://forums.aws.amazon.com/thread.jspa?threadID=269858 and https://twitter.com/chanian/status/949457156071288833.
These are with a patched host, but with an unpatched guest OS. The best case scenario here seems to be that it doesn't degrade much further when the guest OS is patched.

I don't think I've seen any numbers yet for AWS with a patched guest OS - this would be interesting to see on instances with and without PCID support.
Yes, but it's pretty obvious that there were multiple parties betraying each other. Madero was only in power because of a previous coup.

It was not a stable political system. Wilson stepped into that void (and wrongly), but he did not trigger that revolution.
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If the ban is limited to a specific space/community (school or classroom), then it's completely different from alcohol prohibition and more akin to the ban of smoking in restaurants, which is accepted by most people even the smokers themselves.
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