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Bank-fraud laws existed for multiple decades longer than there was the (arguably unconstitutional) CFPB, so I'm confident that any activities which actually violate the law will, eventually, be curtailed.
Regular exercise improves mental and emotional health for the vast majority of people.
But he wasn't asking questions. The document wasn't an invitation to explain where he was mistaken.

It was precisely that.

By all accounts he was given feedback on his ideas before the final memo went out.

By his own account.

In the very text he says that opposition to these ideas demonstrates bias and he therefore dismisses the very idea of being wrong.

Quote, please.

This wasn't some intellectual debate.

No, the reaction to the memo turned out to be screeching and namecalling.

Here's a feminist interviewing James Damore: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5SFLoKa8FdA
The problem is the assumption that being cooperative is somehow a liability rather than a strength in a profession that's much more about cooperation than other engineering fields. (E.g. the trope that software is more complicated than an aircraft carrier because unlike in software, the toilet doesn't have modes of interaction with the steam launcher.)
All it requires is that you read it in its full context. Read the memo. Then it's fairly obvious what he is talking about.
In a way that aligns well with some nebulous personality difference between men and women? That's quite a claim.

It seems to me like the nature of the work hasn't even dramatically changed in the first place.
I do believe in equality of opportunity, and do not believe we have it. You're familiar with what I think of tech management culture. Hiring, in particular, but none of the rest of it is any better. The idea that anyone would feel comfortable making assertions about things our field gets right offends me. As a profession, we're clowns.
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I know plenty of younger programs who can diagnose their own problems, so the generalization doesn't hold so well.

I think the issue is more about experience and need: when we were learning to program, we HAD to do those things. For the younger generation, it is totally possible to get by without because the ecosystems are so much easier, coupled with a lot of online knowledge that they can access quickly, which was mostly missing in our age.

On the other hand, those young programmers that are faced with a complex ecosystem will usually learn how to deal with it. Heck, with the web and its many step backwards in programming environments (e.g. try debugging in Chrome!), many things are actually harder for them and they acquire skills that I didn't need!
Personal anecdotes here. I never occurred to me that people who could program couldn't do some sysadmin stuff to some extends until I work a small contract in a company. A day I was to demoing something there was a problem, so I fired Powershell to to some command line stuff... and someone asked "why do you have IT skills?". At first, I didn't even understand the question, I mean, installing systems, playing with VM, and the like was my daily bread, so I thought it was the some for every programmers...

Another day, I went to the local of the university's CS student association. I was excited about what I did the previous day so I told after entering: "yesterday I installed FreeBSD in a virtual machine and did XX". One people replied by what is a virtual machine, and another by what is FreeBSD. I explain to them briefly then left wondering where the people actually interested by the field were. It turns out I met some of them a few months/years later. Both mostly self learners, one with formal training in theology and the other a musicology.
I've already seen that interview. How people behave behind closed doors is a more trustworthy guide to their sympathies.
Perhaps they ought to spend time on actual crime (e.g. a $200 ticket) rather than non-crimes like which particular natural substances someone chooses to burn and/or ingest? It seems to me that police departments could earn a good return on investment simply by, y'know, chasing down criminals who defraud others. Maybe I'm a starry-eyed optimist.
Woah, this is kinda ad-hominem and off-color dude
Doesn't the postal service already scan every piece of mail and put those images in a database?
Good observation it could be trading one time sink for another.

That said, prep time is the most time consuming, but only takes about 10 mins. for me. Cooking, while linearly can take a lot if time, doesn't because I'm doing other things while the cooking is happening.

The line thing can be many things like walking to a restaurant/food service, getting seated, ordering, waiting, eating. Or walking up to a food truck, ordering waiting. Going to a sandwich shop ordering, waiting. Going to a supermarket, deciding, ordering waiting checking out.

On site food service is the quickest of course, but not all techs or star-ups do or have that.
Actually... Yes.

Obesity related complication occurr with excess weight. So, if they were at their ideal weight at 50 yrs old and gained it back at 80 when they also incurred high blood pressure and diabetes, then they weren't successful.

That's why it's difficult. Most can lose weight at some point in their lives. But the weight eventually comes back, along with the other complications.
Interesting that the public thinks he’s justified given how strong the media fought and continues to fight to condemn him. That should give one pause.
As long as we're just literally making stuff up, isn't there a strong argument that software has become more "feminine" since the 1950s? Back then it was all about business calculations and the like. Now it's all "social" and "design" and "user-centric."
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I look crazy for saying he didn't learn to read when he claimed I love the alt-right based on that post I wrote?

Maybe I shouldn't have replied but he was basically trying to start a mob against me. Not that I care but just wanted for the record that his claim was wrong and didn't want to engage in any civil manor when not spoken to that way either.
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> Reading this makes me realise how good Australia is in this regard.

I'm from Sweden, I started paying bills through my internet bank over 20 years ago. And it was never difficult or a big deal, because the existing giro-based bill system that every vendor uses and has been using since the 1960's, slotted right into it, with zero technical integration required from the payees.

Moving to the US was like stepping into a time machine when it comes to dealing with banks and bills, it's ridiculously backwards. And Americans generally have no idea how behind they are. It's so fucking frustrating having this discussion every single time.
Are you really implying that the fact Apple doesn't even disclose which processors were vulnerable to this a positive?
"People leave managers not companies".

I actually beg to differ. The three times I've willingly left a company were some of the best managers I had, but the company had made a bad decision or I wanted to go do something new.
This has been debunked a million times. He did no such thing. The one legit study he cited came to the opposite conclusion he claimed.

Putting footnotes in a document doesn’t magically make them scientific research.

Please stop repeating this trope.
1. Seen a huge observed gender gap

Like the ones favoring women in medicine in some countries? Like nursing?

4. Outcomes drastically changed once those simple measures were adopted, in a way which clearly and beyond reasonable doubt put the lie to the explanations claimed in (2).

But only up to a point. Google and YouTube execs are on the record saying that they basically got to parity with the available candidate pool.

To buy Damore's arguments we must either ignore this evidence, or somehow buy into a completely unsupported assumption that computer programming -- for reasons nobody knows -- is completely and utterly unique

Not at all. We could just suppose there's something skewing the preferences of people in school.

Even worse: we have to believe that about a field which previously did not have such a huge gap, and acquired it only relatively recently.

Actually, for a time "programmer" was skewed towards women. That could also lend credence to the idea that something is skewing preferences.

To anyone who does a bit of actual research on this stuff, Damore is practically a cliché. He's the person who ends up in the history book under "wow, people actually used to believe that stuff".

No, the Big 5 results he cites are actually quite important in psychology.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Five_personality_traits#Ge...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKmyO3hbOz8
It is relevant, because it means that while `|` may produce a disjoint union if its arguments are already disjoint, it is not guaranteed to produce a disjoint union in the general case. Hence, my original comment had a point.

As if that weren't enough, any talk about universal properties is utterly pointless as soon as object identities matter everywhere.
Depends what you mean by subsistence. I meant like the farming we had in America in the 1900s, or Rural Mexico, rural Kenya in the 70s, Russia 1920s. You can sustain a lot of people --but it requires clearcutting, and burning. Lots of inefficiency and waste.
If you want to convince me, show me the evidence from the memo.

Throughout this discussion I mostly see people stating their own opinions with nary a quote from the actual memo.
> Damore certainly cited many studies,

He did no such thing. Please stop spreading misinformation.

He linked to blogs and magazine articles then people started calling his footnotes “research”.

The one legit study he linked came to the opposite conclusion of what he claimed.

I suggest you go read his links for yourself and consider the sources. It might be illuminating, unless you are already biased in favor of the argument he made.
I’m much the same and I always feel odd trying to answer that question. I learned programming by immersing myself in the subject and trying and reading and talking about as much as I could. There was never a magic bullet, besides the fact that the returns on persistence began to compound.
Good point. He probably still has some civil court actions to take but I suspect the NLRB position is wounding to his case.
As far as I can tell from the issues, previous versions of his software loaded the chat service in question's website in a browser, and then either applied a custom stylesheet to the webpage or attempted to extract portions of the HTML content for display.

eul.im literally never was minimal. He can keep saying it's minimal software, but until he produces something that both consistently works and doesn't consume orders of magnitude more storage than claimed, his words mean nothing. Again, current, literal reality is an issues page documenting myriad problems from crashes, blank screens, mangled displays, absence of advertised features, and claims of updated versions that still have not arrived.
Where does he claim it's a liability? As far as I remember I claim that this difference means that men and women generally make different choices. Can you point to where he says it's a liability?
I'm skeptical of the "early days of CS" narrative. Could it be that there were lots of women working with computers because it was seen as "secretarial" work. In other words, was it just bosses placing their female employees in computer-related roles as companies added those positions? If so, could it be that that "dropoff" in the 80s could be just reflective of the demographics of people who were choosing that profession. i.e. Once "computers" became a career that you could pursue, as opposed to being placed in, it attracted more men than women, possibly because men are more attracted to that type of work.
In choosing to publish at risk of jobloss? Surely not: they both go into the situation expecting adversity and seeking a wider oucome. He did no such thing, either by intent or not. But I already stated I don't agree with his world view and contextually I do agree with union organisation and whistleblowing, neither of which this was. What's your point? Trolling.
> The fact that Google and YouTube are such extreme ideological echo chambers calls to question their stewardship of so much power in our society

Ridiculous nonsense.

Google and YouTube happily allow conservative, alt-right, fringe-right, pretty much any content on their platform. Fox News, Breitbart, Alex Jones, Milo etc all have channels on YouTube.

And there is zero evidence that Google is deliberately prioritising "left wing" content over other types.
Please stop making vapid assertions without evidence. Cite your sources.
Personally if I have to jump from Twitter, I'm more likely to switch to Micro.blog [1]. Everything is posted to your own site as an RSS post, and it already has iPhone and Mac apps. And of course, it has an API for making your own apps.

[1] https://micro.blog/about
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The goal would be a higher amount of code sharing and perhaps a more consistent way to organize data and logic across platforms.

React Native runs a JS VM in a separate thread and communicates to the native platform code (Java and objective c) to tell it where to draw things. The native code then passes things like touch events back to the JS thread.

I want to replace the JS thread with native code to hopefully increase performance and gain advantages from Rust such as its nice type system and the Cargo ecosystem.

I have a proof of concept running Tokio and Serde to talk back and forth on Android between Java and Rust but it doesn't do much yet. Needs a lot more time to get anything serious going.
I'm sorry but leaving a company because your manager doesn't know what you are working is the last reason I would leave. Even better if no one knows what you do, bonus points for turning it into a telecommute position. Up the ante and get a second full time telecommute job.
IRQ conflicts! Holy mother of hell IRQ conflicts! particularly when dealing with those early gen Sound Blasters -- and trying to get that Roland MT32 you borrowed from the greasy weirdo in your big brother's band hooked up and pumping out that sweet, sweet midi
Well, maybe you have insider knowledge about how much he actually disagrees with those on the left at Google--or maybe you don't.

But either way, those who are fully in the alt-left camp at Google seem to consider themselves completely free to make anyone who disagrees with them uncomfortable and to go far beyond that: to force them to undergo indoctrination "training", or to be fired outright to make examples of them to others who might be tempted to openly question leftist dogma that may or may not actually be correct.

At Google, those on the far left don't seem to feel the need for "careful deception" when it comes to expressing their opinions of/to coworkers they disagree with. They don't act as though they are required to make those with different opinions "feel safe". They have every reason for confidence, because "safety" just means "privilege": We get to blame and criticize you, but you aren't allowed to respond, because we (not you) are entitled to "safety".
Yes, we all agree that's what the NLRB said. We're discussing how they came to this conclusion.

The lawyer who wrote this memo argued that Damore's statements would normally be deserving of protection, if they weren't so offensive.
can you elaborate on what you mean by intellectually dishonest?
"women, on average, have more neuroticism" is provably true. It's been measured. It's a shame that we can't start a discussion with the truth
I am capable of appreciating that such a circumstance is possible, but what I have read leads me to believe that's not what's happening, and instead Uber is charging prices that do not cover their costs, with the hope of achieving monopoly. Earlier series on the subject: https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2016/11/can-uber-ever-delive...

> By contrast, in the hundred years since the first motorized taxi, there has been no evidence of significant scale economies in the urban car service industry. That explains why successful operators never expanded to other cities and why there was no natural tendency towards concentration in individual markets. Drivers, vehicles and fuel account for 85% of urban car service costs. None of these costs decline significantly as companies grow. As the P&L data above demonstrates, Uber has not discovered a magical new way to drive down unit costs.
How many miles should I run per week?
https://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/11/27/ask-well-how-many-...

"Surprisingly few, it seems. According to a new review of studies related to running and health, jogging for as few as five or six miles per week could substantially improve someone’s health."

That's about an hour of running for most able bodied adults who have been making it a habit for three or four months. If you can't budget an hour a week for exercise, you're booking yourself too tight.
> You can make a rails app and run it in heroku within an hour into your first tutorial.

How long does it take to actually understand what all of that does? I can claim to understand it, sure--but I'm also thirty years old and I've been getting paid for this stuff for the last fifteen. (Not, like, random POKEs into memory to make syscalls, for sure, but I understood why stuff like SCREEN 13 worked, along with the general constructs of the language.) On the other hand, I pretty much fully understood how QBasic worked and its interactions with DOS at age 5. I was able to parlay that into C and C++ and into understanding how the thin virtual machine there, simultaneously into PHP and Java and how those actually worked by relating them back to lower-level concepts I'd picked up...

Cargo-cult monkeying about doesn't adequately, to me, replace understanding and insight--and "just make a Rails app and push it to Heroku" is fundamentally cargo-culting. If you don't understand how your tools work, you don't understand what you're doing. (I've written everything from CPU emulators to Rack frameworks to prove that I do understand what I'm doing.) I started doing that literally from the jump as a kid, and the systems were built so that it was something you could easily do.
Your comment makes me want to argue both sides. It does should like they are offering more than the other payment methods, but the idea that a company should "tell customers that they shouldn't send money to strangers" really cracks me up. That seems like something you should learn before you are old enough to have a bank account.
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As a profession, there is hardly a better one to be in for women. It's one of the highest paid, most flexible and equal opportunity professions there are.

All the biggest tech companies go out of their way to encourage women to the point where they favor women rather than men.

What industry does better when you look at it on a whole?

No one is claiming it's perfect but it's hardly filled with clowns IMO.
perfectly normal - it's quite overwhelming to think about how much computing has changed in the last 30 years.
There's a large number of candidates who lost in 2016 running again on the same platform with support from the party. Fundraising seems to be the main requirement for support, which is at odds with their "Better Deal." This touches some of the issues, https://theintercept.com/2018/01/23/dccc-democratic-primarie...
Its technically not "market cap" since there are no stocks and no public offerings, and therefore no "bet" on their future. A valuation and market cap are entirely different things.
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But you don't know how they behave behind closed doors as you only have access to very little and out of context.
source? (not trying to be snide or anything, I'm actually curious if there's a source for that)
When the primary purpose of the device/application/product requires a connection to the internet in order to fulfill its primary purpose.

If it can't do its job at all without an internet connection then denying functionality if you don't update is entirely reasonable in my book. If it can do its primary job without an internet connection then no it's not.
Right. I agree that social media shame parties can overreact to things and create social punishments that I would agree aren't "proportional" (again, for some arbitrary definition of proportional).

My general views on this are derived largely from Popper and the paradox of tolerance (though, to be honest, I've more read about his writing that his work itself; it's next on my reading list). I don't think, as a society, we should tolerate intolerant behavior.

Which means, again as a society†, I think we should aggressively refuse and reject those with nazi ideologies. As an extension of that, I think we should mildly reject and refuse those with mildly intolerant ideologies. In my utopia, those social consequences would be proportional to the degree of intolerance, and I think you're right and fair to note that social shaming can quickly out-escalate the level of intolerance.

†not as a government; all consequences and punishments I'm speaking of should be social consequences and punishments. I'm fairly absolutist when it comes to 1A protections from the government
> "women, on average, have more neuroticism" is provably true.

What does that have to do with anything? It does not support (let alone prove) the idea that they are less capable engineers because of this. Where is the science linking this to ability? I might as well state "men, on average, are more violent", or have narrower hips - this is provably true, but it would equally uncorrelated to suitability to the life of a software engineer.
Memory management. I started on C which made me a better programmer in the end, but extremely frustrating to learn.
Presumably it's a reference to the robot at MIT media labs, rather than a direct reference to the Turkish term.
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From that I would choose 2.c, with the emphasis on evident

> the power or faculty of attaining to direct knowledge or cognition without evident rational thought and inference

There is such a thing as developing your intuition.

I think your meanings are not qualitatively different.
He says:

>that these differences may [emphasis added] explain why
we don’t see equal representation of women in tech and leadership

And he says one of the differences is a higher drive for status. That is one way it could change without the 80's thing being counter-evidence, if the status of practitioners and/or leadership in the field changed for some reason (maybe Bill Gates becoming the richest man in the world).

I'm not saying that I agree with him, or that the status drive difference is true, or that it would actually be an explanation for the difference from the 80s to now (Bill Gates might have lowered the status of the field for being socially awkward). I'm only saying that your counter argument may not work because he couched his statement in "may" and he talks about meta-level factors around the field.
I assume you write this knowing (a) that I do not at all agree with your conclusions about "science" and (b) do not really care, because science is not the issue here. Google has an anti-harassment policy. Damore violated it. The NLRB defers to employers in the enforcement of anti-harassment policies. Damore cannot use the NLRA to "overturn" Google's anti-harassment policies. This part of Damore's game is over.
If true, where did sailors get the bad rap about being "smelly foreigners" come from?
You can use twitcher in Chrome. Works very well, but to your point I don't understand why Twitter hasn't baked this in to the website yet.