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It's relatively left but not far-left, and it hasn't really moved much in decades, though the rapid movement of the right end of the Overton Window over the past couple decades (and particularly the past few years) may make it seemed to have moved left to those whose perceptions are driven by distance from the center of their own identity group, and identify with a right-leaning (either conservative or right-libertarian) faction.
(Not American and don't live in either place you describe.)

Is that feeling of pushback to an (assumed) different viewpoint just that in the midwest, a conservative is in the majority, and in SF they're not? So, in one place you'd encounter almost no confident opposition, and in the other you would? I assume it might stand out and feel like suppression if you weren't at all used to it.
Yeah…I don't know if it's the depth or type of construction but I can get enough signal to check mail and occasionally twitter on the R and 1/2/3/4/5 but not the A/C/E.
Atleast read the bottom of the README where some of this is covered
Perhaps Codes of Conduct are imagined as a solution by people who fundamentally have sucktastic social skills. They think if you make a rule, it will fix it, without them needing to genuinely develop social skills.
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On the other hand, I have seen a coworker strongly imply that someone is a white nationalist for suggesting that it’s possible to be a non-racist republican.
Quite a lot of companies use Clojure professionally though. And you’re in luck, it plays great with Java!
If these people want to know what it is like to be "stifled" in the workplace, be an atheist or lefty in Texas.
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Well no... they were just very devoted to the election but it's also missing the point. Many people who shed tears over Trump's win are not far left, they're just normal centrist or center-left.
Thiel spoke on national television at the National Republican Convention. He made the choice to bring his private political beliefs into the public sphere, and has no grounds to complain for catching heat for them.
Never suggested that.

That you can't suggest that there might be a legit propaganda problem without people assuming you are calling for restrictions on free speech is absurd. I'm very emphatically not about that.

There's so many tangents not even responding to my post that I'm sorry to have said anything at all.
> So instead of telling me to RTFA, it would behoove you to just spend 5 seconds pasting the full passage you are concluding this from. It isn't any harder to copy-paste the relevant portion of the passage than to comment about why you're refusing to do so when it actually exists. It's only harder when it doesn't exist.

I'm not sure what you'd like me to do, as I pasted the passages I was referring to in my initial comment. I don't think he's referring to preferences when he says that Google women have higher levels of self-reported anxiety due in part to their innate neuroticism[1].

Fundamentally, my problem with this article is that it makes an enormous leap from psychology studies to innate capabilities to unsuitability for certain types of work. We just don't know enough about each of these areas to make the generalizations that are put forth in the essay.

[1] Neuroticism (higher anxiety, lower stress tolerance). This may contribute to the higher levels of anxiety women report on Googlegeist and to the lower number of women in high stress jobs
If we are making statements based on history, you are squarely ignoring the progress that happened in Europe in spite of it being very "fragmented". Some argue that it was this competition between various nation states that pushed development faster ahead.

Yes, I'm aware that India is a single country, while Europe wasn't. But with the right amount of autonomy, you end up with the same conditions, and it's not too different in practice.
Around 2000-2002, you could walk into most B&N stores and find nice comfortable chairs to sit in. These chairs encouraged book lovers to grab a book, sit down, read a few pages, and actually enjoy the book buying experience. So what did B&N do over the next couple of years? Get rid of the comfortable chairs, and replace them on a 1:2 basis with hard, uncomfortable wooden chairs. Then slowly phase these chairs out completely.

This did a couple of things; discourage people from reading books on the book floor, while encouraging them to read in the Cafe, where the books and magazines get damaged easily. But the core idea of having an inviting bookstore died that year.

Another issue was the Cafe relationship with Starbucks. The Cafe's use Starbucks components, and often follow their recipes. They have tons of "Starbucks" branding as part of this relationship. BUT you can't use a Starbuck giftcard at a B&N Cafe. Try explaining this to someone who received a giftcard over the holidays. They order a coffee after waiting in line, and get hassled about the form of payment. It wouldn't have been hard for B&N management to work out a deal with Starbucks for handling these cards, but B&N never did.

Also, bookstores have the ability to send a majority of their inventory back to the publisher (yeah, crazy legacy stuff). Inventory levels are largely decided by Corp HQ yet despite modern inventory mgmt software being a thing, they continually botched it. So you would get huge shipments. Then when cash flow for the company would get tight, they'd have you pull the books off the shelves and send them back to the publishers. This would be a continual process that consumes tons of time, time that would be better spent on customer service.

Corp HQ would also decide to change the store layout frequently. The staff would pack up all the Sci-Fi/Fantasy books, move them to a completely different part of the store. Customers would come in, head to their favorite section, and be flummoxed. Since so many labor hours were spent doing this type of thing, (and the aforementioned book pulls), there weren't as many employees on the book floor to help. I called it the Titanic chair shuffling...

Staffing levels were always a problem. On busy holiday weeknights, you might have 4-5 people working. One manager, one head cashier, two in the cafe, and one on the book floor. Employees need breaks, so often you would end up with one cashier, and one person on the book floor. If you get a rush of people, that line at the register can get awfully long. B&N only pays lip service to the customer experience.

A lot of these types of decisions add up overtime to create a crappy customer experience. B&N never could compete with Amazon on pricing, and never should have. They should have embraced the book buying experience, and made customers love coming in. But that's a long long game to play, and their management made continually bad choices (like Nook) that distracted them, took capital they didn't have, and confused customers.
Not sure if you intended this, but reading your 'absurd theory' - I automatically read a parallel story that basically replaced engineer with 'big news portal' - it's not just engineers, but reporters, editors, and algorithms that spew what is expected to be the 'right way' - 'politically correct' is another term that I think needs an update to 'socially acceptable to my upper tier peers'...

This disconnect was seen in the reporting up to the last big election, and yet it's still seen by the 'average joes' who are bombarded with the flood of not-so'fake'-news, as much as it's really one sided so much that it seems desperate.. desperate to want truth a certain way or to convince others that things could be a utopia if they just understood what the elites know is right around their ivory towers / neighborhoods.

If you look at the yahoo homepage, comcast home page, similar news aggregators the past few days, does it seem that there is a diverse group of editors offering different viewpoints or does it seem more like a tight niche group who really wants the world to see things a certain way, no matter how 80% of the country has to see reality different, no matter how they might like it to be.

Maybe it's just me, anyhow your absurd theory added another dimension to this for me.. to consider that engineers are also buying into, or have bought into the gated communities and want the rest of the world to accept how they want things.

So the upper class has even more concentrated power by getting the engineers to be part of their illusion it seems.

I've also been seeing posts by people who say even though their team raises concerns about the way corporation X is deciding to do things, ultimately it's their bosses (ultra wealthy) pushing the decisions to do Y... so for as long as the engineers accept the higher class handouts, follow the group think, and help the ivory tower messaging, they can stay in the bubble valleys and nice coastal facades.

dystopian indeed.
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The amount of time and space needed for her to do the problem on paper are irrelevant. The only important thing is that she's understanding.
I believe his point was that even IF some ads were purchased, it’s not that big of a deal, since the potential negative impact isn’t that great and is done regularly by other countries that we curiously don’t seem to be outraged about, like KSA and Israel, which is a valid point and honestly in that context, pointing at the Russians seems a tad xenophobic, just because Russia isn’t under our sphere of influence.

I also feel like it’s important to point out that this has nothing to do with defending Putin, but whether you’re willing to let your fear of the Ruskies deprive people of free speech rights, because by proxy of private companies being required to censor ie RT, it’s also having a chilling effect on independent creators on YouTube and elsewhere, so if you support all this because of fear of the Russians wanting to destroy Western democracy, in a way you’re letting them win.
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Mexicans too. But thats a global effect, immigrants usually vote anti-immigration - it seems paradoxical at first, but they have the the most to loose.
" Is there an example of a company that has implemented the philosophy in the Agile Manifesto in a way that actually meets the needs of developers and managers?"

I have worked at two startups and there I think we implemented the Agile Manifesto. We talked to each other and got things done. There were no pure management types whose only job it is to report further up the chain. But these were teams with a max of 20 people so I am not sure how well this will scale up.
Apples to oranges. There is no way you live in Austin because that place is very liberal and accepting of people. More so than SF imo.

California has some conservative areas as well, but those aren't the big cities.
Which country, do you believe, don't do everything in their power to impact elections in other countries which they have to deal with?

Why wouldn't Russia want someone in the US who is already working with them vs someone new who they don't know they can trust?

https://youtu.be/XsFR8DbSRQE
Consider that from your point of view the open source project is free from politics and the anti-harassment policy is "dragging politics into it." But from the point of view of someone who has experienced harassment, politics were indeed an issue. The inconvenience to you is minor. You now have to spend an extra moment to consider another point of view. The inconvenience to your aggrieved peer was major. They were actually harassed. The benefit to them outweighs your annoyance.
The first step to the road to humility is to realize that we are not the face of all engineering.
This is a very interesting approach. Clearly a lot more work to do but the robust prediction of protein structure from sequence would be an absolute game changer for biomedical science so I hope that this opens up new strategies.
Not only that, but anything that would be considered truly leftist by global standards has tiny support within the Democratic party. What Bernie Sanders advocates, for example, is firmly centrist by European standards.
Women in the USSR were common in engineering degrees because many other high skill careers like law, medicine, philosophy and politics weren’t open to them.

Bangladesh isn’t that different and rich families send their daughters to get a degree so they would be more appealing to prospective husbands.

You can’t just pick random statistics and extrapolate data from them the fact is still that the more options women have the less they seem to go for specific fields which includes the engineering part of STEM.

People ignore the fact that many many men chose STEM not because they want too but because it’s expectd it’s the default career path for the new blue/white colar worker.

Myself and everyone else I know went into STEM as a career because it was “easy money” the amount of effort required to get into it is actually fairly low when compared to careers like law or medicine and the payout on average is much better.

That said the career for most people in IT isn’t going to be exactly overly satisfying and fulfilling.
Do you seriously not know what `fortune` is?
If he can't take the heat he should stay out of the kitchen.

I think that's the whole point though. The article is saying that there is too much heat simply because they express their opposing viewpoints. "Stay out of the kitchen" means "close your mouth around Silicon Valley liberals" or you'll experience backlash.

While this may not be your personal experience, the article essentially says that the somewhat ironic message coming out of the Valley from people in the "party of tolerance" is that they tolerate everyone except those that have opposing viewpoints.
You've changed the goalposts.

> No one is claiming that a perfect 50/50 ratio is all we need and then "we're done, pack it up folks". Simply that making efforts to get women into tech is actually a good idea.

Not true. The concern IS over statistical gender bias and the automatic assumption by many on the radical left that if women (no concern about men) do not make up at least 50% of some occupation's workforce, then it MUST be because of sexism or implicit bias or whatever. The problem with that claim is that there is little or no evidence for any of that in today's workforce. Furthermore, there is positive evidence that would explain the differences in terms of sex differences, something that is ideological heresy for the radical left.

The negatives you speak of, what is the evidence that women are leaving because of hostility toward women in STEM fields? If there is evidence[0], why not address the problem instead of using dubious measures like trying to force other women into fields they don't want to enter just so the ones in STEM feel comfortable. This compulsion to get women into these disciplines against their own wishes is not only intrusive and weird. It's using people.

[0] I know of certain types of things women tend to have difficulty with not just in STEM but everywhere, like asking for raises. But that's not hostility nor particular to STEM. Again, that may be something women need to learn to do instead of trying to adapt the world to themselves.
In that thread -- After reproducing the issue and performing some tests, it was found that the issue is because “LDREX” and “STREX” instructions overlooked LMEM cache. That means those instructions always access external memory directly, which leads to data inconsistency.

There’s no SW configuration to make the cacheable data consistent with those atomic instructions, and design team will fix it in later CM4 integration.

Its a bug. But they see a workaround so they aren't in a hurry to fix it apparently.
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I agree this one is more of a marketing fluff. But if you think all tech advances in China are Cold War era propaganda then you have not been paying attention to the tech world in the last 20 years.
You got this wrong.

First of all, what we choose for our career is depending on many external factors, it can be people putting you off your interest but also someone helping you to learn more about it.

An important fact you're missing here, girls are lost from the STEM pathway in their early teenage years. https://it-online.co.za/2017/03/07/teenage-girls-fall-out-of...
Teachers not thinking they could do STEM, parents who have other ideas for their kids (I include boys, if my mom had her way I wouldn't be a programmer) and friends who think STEM is just for stupid nerds.
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> if in 50 years you still want to be wearing plaid, drinking craft beer, and listening to lcd soundsystem

At risk of playing armchair psychologist, this is something I notice in American debates on diversity: people seem to be looking for what's in it for them. What's the hidden music genre I can turn into a trend and profit greatly? Will this traditional African dress make me less like some backwards bumpkin?

I don't share the objection to "cultural appropriation" (I like sharing and remixing of cultures). I know it's not an exclusively American phenomenon. But it seems that people are always selling something, and I'm out of money.
My carrier in the UK supports WiFi calling (https://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT203032). We have WiFi on subway platforms in London and I've been able to make phone calls.

Unless you want filtering, people are going to make calls anyway, and they don't need to be particularly tech savvy to do so.
The Green Party is a far left US party.

To go much further left, you have to enter Venezuela style Socialism. The GP openly advocates for changing essentially everything about the US political and economic system and shifting every area much further to the left ideologically (by much further, I mean it far surpasses what even "liberals" in Congress advocate for).
I'm scratching my head about "we dont have money to pay for kafka+zk+monitoring(kafka,zk)". Kafka and Zookeeper are both open source. As are monitoring and alerting tools such as Prometheus. Surely the hosting and storage costs are similar. So what does this project offer its creator, other than a great deal of infrastructural debt and all the latent bugs of a roll-your-own solution that lacks a community?
It has nothing to do with the content of Silicon Valley beliefs. As far as I can tell, Silicon Valley/Bay Area beliefs are mercurial and change by the month.

It has to do with the moral panic over intelligent people dissenting from The Narrative. This is a new and extremely illiberal phenomenon, and it's probably going to get much worse before it gets better.
Broadly I agree; also I'm no maths professor.

But the talking as if understanding can't be helped by programming, seems wrong to me, if only because I've been doing it all my life. Maybe we have different definitions of deep and shallow, but you can memorize a formula with no understanding. Playing around with it with a program, and seeing what happens, you get a hands-on experience that no amount of ..abstract generality can replace. I keep reading about how the great mathematicians have gotten their results not by doing mysterious genius things only they can, but by getting their hands dirty, playing around with base and border cases, seeing what happens with pencil and paper, in a way identical to mucking around with programs.

To give a couple of concrete examples: I wrote a program that had planets orbiting a central mass, and playing around with it I gained for the first time a gut understanding of orbiting, and how natural it is in 3D space - it's something that just doesn't happen in the normal human environment. Fiddling around with fractal formulae, seeing what happens. Drawing the distributions of prime numbers, prime pairs etc. On and on, I could give hundreds of examples, you get the idea.

Sure, it would be silly trying to recreate 2000 years of mathematical progress on your own without reading textbooks, but exploring, getting a feel for things, learning for yourself, is an important part too, to say the least. And one equally deserving the name 'learning', if not more.

Read Oakeshott's essay Rationalism in Politics for the best explanation I've seen for this modern affliction where only things that can be explicitly written down are counted as knowledge. (It's super-enlightening - I was embarrassed how much I learned from it, always a good sign. I even learned a lot about piano teaching—my day job at the time—from reading it.)
>The authority rewarded the contract to Transit Wireless, which now holds a 27-year license to operate cellular service in the subway system.

27 years ?!?! How is this not monopolistic?
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> "Stay out of the kitchen" means "close your mouth around Silicon Valley liberals" or you'll experience backlash.

No, it means don't expect to be able to say controversial stuff without people who disagree with you also having their say.
Then what are teachers who create good engineering/programming students worth?
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By "when moving domains" I mean that I'm enabling a production domain (project.com), where previously I was working on a development domain (project-dev.com). More recently, I was deploying gitlab and exhausted my quota simply because of mistakes I made along the way. This was simply my mistake, so I don't think it would be appropriate to request an official rate limit increase. If (say) a $100 donation to the EFF allowed me to specify a domain on which the rate-limit-counters would be reset to zero (as a one-off), I'd likely have done that - it's easier than changing the process of how I'm managing certificates.
>I'd expect each day to be a bit less, but no, it's about the same.

That tells me your cleaner is either not powerful enough or you need to run it more often. When I used mine (not even daily), it would be a lot initially and after a few runs would pick up less.

Of course, my "less" may just be the baseline that you're seeing.

As for dust, people used to say 90% of dust is dead skin cells. That claim is often disputed.
No, there's nothing wrong with that and it's usually significantly more readable than JSON Schema. Good idea!

Of course there are use cases that JSON Schema works better for (eg most other replies you got) but I fully agree that TypeScript type definitions are a great way to specify the structure of JSON data.

To make it feel more language-agnostic, you could consider using type aliases instead:

type Person = {
firstName: string,
lastName: string,
age?: number // Age in years
}

This is equivalent to the interface you described, but potentially less confusing to readers who don't know what an "interface" is (eg because they mostly used Ruby or C++). You don't even need to tell people that it's TypeScript - this could be a perfectly sensible schema language for JSON. A bit like what RELAX NG[0] is for XML.

At my company we actually use typescript-json-schema[1] so we can specify the structure of our API payloads in TS instead of JSON Schema and still benefit from JSON Schema's better tool support.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RELAX_NG#Compact_syntax

[1] https://github.com/YousefED/typescript-json-schema
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Plus, the TSO/Dispatcher role is a lot less bureaucratic than being an RO/SRO. I think most current RO/SROs would enjoy the job immensely more. You still get to operate a pretty large, intricate, and intellectually interesting system but without all the fuss of dealing with the NRC.
Seems like another case of "a fool is born every minute"
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