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Okay, yes, there are some reasonable and legal actions that can be taken with that information, so it is valuable, I was apparently exaggerating.

However, giving that information right before a decision point (i.e. when changing jobs, getting a promotion, etc) is just inviting it to be misused, it's a risk they shouldn't be required or always expected to take.

For some context, some time ago I was involved in handling quite a few maternity/replacement situations. Our local laws are quite generous with maternity leave, so for existing employees we (in that company) had often started planning replacements as early as 6 months before start of their leave. However, this is a bit tricky - if there was some promotion issue in the middle of that period (3 months after I'd known but 3 months before she'd leave), I could try acting as if that information was unknown, but it's difficult, I can't magically unlearn things, I couldn't be sure myself if I wasn't biased one way or another (unless we had extremely dry formal procedure based on some arbitrary "objective" metrics that mismeasure as much as they measure), and I definitely couldn't prove that I wasn't influenced if that was contested. So in such an situation I might have even preferred not to know, despite the extra hassle it would cause.

It's probably a question of trust. If an employee is working in a trustworthy environment, they'd likely volunteer that information (which I've seen happen) and the employer would benefit from having created such an environment. But if employees feel a lack of trust, they would likely want to protect themselves and keep it a secret (which I've also seen happen), and IMHO they have (or should have) a right to do so if they really feel the need. The employer's reputation and trustworthiness is their own fault or achievement based on their previous actions, so in some sense they deserve what they get, whether it's trust or lack of it.
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Continued usage of Cloudflare baffles me. They spewed tons of private data, across customer boundaries, on random web responses, which made its way into search engine cache around the world. They conducted an act of Internet censorship:

https://fightthefuture.org/article/the-new-era-of-corporate-...

..and the CTO who made that decision later backed down and said he wouldn't make that same decision again. O_o

I really feel like the biggest reason they're still in business is that very few alternatives offer anything really competitive.
We've taken that attitude to on some RFPs. Occasionally we have responded with a "We aren't able to respond because ...." letter.

Basically tell them why its not worth your while to respond.

I believe that in a couple of cases, this may have caused the customer to rethink and then come back again later with an easier RFP.
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You're right, it would be more constructive for them to respond with name-calling and vitriol instead. But that sort of thing tends to get flagged here.
Sure, but it would make more sense to refer to them by name than as "Justin Trudeau's Conservative predecessors" or whatever.
Sounds about right to me. I think that there are many terrible things that have happened and even continue to happen that stem from racism and sexism, but I don't think a solution will come from the same thing that spouted so much evil.
If you actually look at the "study" it's clear that what they did was not particularly scientific. With such a broad and complicated topic, they basically just took the talking points they wanted to have about it and worked their way backwards from there.
It definitely doesn't exist in any other language, so from that perspective it is strange. But please give Nim a try before closing the web page because of this feature.
> I can’t see how there would be any cost savings except if you dump equipment that would otherwise be available

Compared to an urgent care facility, they pretty clearly have to be doing that.
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I have known two people who worked in the Queensland Health payroll roll-out. Both actually blamed the government for constantly changing specs, and politicians making claims in parliament about deliverables and deadlines that they then had to meet. They also said IBM (or whatever actual contractor they had on the ground) should have managed things better.

I now work with someone who was at Main Roads Queensland who claims the whole of the Queensland government has an implicit ban on IBM for any new work, and are trying to replace all current IBM products and services.

Edit: My previous job used DB2 on an IBM server. During end of financial year time we had to ask them to turn on more server processors on the server. Jeeesus they charge like a wounded bull!
I don't see what's weird about that -- before companies relied on chat, they relied on email -- in my company email can go down and people hardly notice, but a Slack outage is immediately met with cries of "Hey, are you having trouble with Slack!?".

Before companies relied on email, they relied on phones. My company doesn't even provide desk phones for most staff, only Sales and other staff that need to make a lot of calls have them.

So what's so weird about companies relying on Slack?
It depends on how one define's 'rich', but if you go by the metric of having $1MM+ in the bank, it strikes me there are plenty of opportunities to get there that aren't pure chance.

The most obvious is to join a high-growth startup, particularly after the initial period of high risk. An example of this would be to join Google in the early 2000's, Facebook from 2007 to 2012, Stripe from 2012 to 2014, Uber from 2012 to 2014, etc etc. Today those companies would probably be the ones on this Breakout List, plus a few others like Coinbase and Robinhood: https://breakoutlist.com/

Join one of those companies as a software engineer and there's a very good chance you'll make decent money. You don't have to be that lucky or clairvoyant to identify these opportunities. This current cultural phenomenon of explaining all success as either the result of luck or immoral behavior is seriously troubling...

edit: would appreciate a discussion here rather than just being down-voted.
It was an HP pen plotter that first introduced me to computer graphics. Sometime about 1974 I think - probably the 7202A [1]. This was before HPGL, I distinctly remember the PLTL and PLTT commands to start and end the plotting sequence. The first thing I did for it was to create a font.

[1] http://www.hpmuseum.net/display_item.php?hw=83
because nearly everyone in this discussion is in tech; while sexism in the hang-gliding community might be as bad or worse, I'm not part of the hang-gliding community so I can do less to affect it.
What exactly is disingenuous about that?
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>Even with the change I found a number of systems with better performance in the low bands.

Such as? I'm not aware of anything in the price arena of the LimeSDR that can Tx.
Basically copying files without actually copying them. For example, when making versioned backups, or when copying a large number of files from production to various development environments.

Something I wish there was a better solution for. Perhaps there is a filesystem out there that supports CoW in a way that fits this usecase (XFS perhaps even), but I haven't looked into it.

The disadvantage of using hardlinks is that you can't hardlink between users (user is a property of the file, not of the link to the file), and there's always the danger that a write takes place through one of the links. Imho, that should really be solved at the filesystem level using a CoW scheme.
Wait a second, it's pronounced Plateau, like what a learning agent would reach eventually.

The long O is obviously French. And actually it's transliterated Platon (Πλάτων), but who knows, maybe the English knew that ν (nu) and υ (upsilon) are easy to confuse. I was joking but hey, who knew I would, reading the wiki artikel on "ν", discover that it was optional on occasion to link two words.
I think this incentive structure can actually work! I would use this. If I applied for Jobs.
“Our” in this case clearly refers to Canadians, not IBM. Do you know what public sector means?
We've banned this account for repeatedly violating the site guidelines and ignoring numerous requests to stop.

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Why are you arguing against a point no one made?

That section begins "But it’s important to portray the drip-drip-drip of smaller stories as well, so here goes."

> I would avoid approaching a group of women talking by themselves since I'd be the odd one out.

In what world is that not sexism? It's at least "sex-separatist", which isn't a good thing either. The fact that it is theoretically symmetrical doesn't make it OK. (And in practice it's not symmetrical, since women are an extreme minority at these events.) That is treating people differently because of gender, in a situation where gender is irrelevant.
What's your intention in writing this? I'm struggling to identify a good motive, because it looks like concern-trolling to delegitimize the stories of the terrible behavior these women experienced.
Well, people rarely stab or shoot each other in good neighborhoods either, so why would you even bother?
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Another aspect of this is that signing a deal with a big customer when there are only a handful of big fish in your niche locks in a price at a time when you have no power and little information.

One place I worked at locked in over half of the big fish in the NA market and never made money off them. We would have been much better scaling up on smaller contracts.
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‘I didn’t know how to do x, so I just had to figure it out.’ This is what I regularly hear from successful founders, whereas ‘I couldn’t find someone to do X, so I had to reconsider whether to pursue it at all’ is a common refrain from unsuccessful founders.
I had some of the same thoughts. But I learned C and Unix a long time ago, back when you could more easily understand the source code. I think we used a very early version of Minix, just a few thousand lines. It was a simpler time ;-).

Coming to it now, with all the layers that have built up -- the side-track for the script that uses tr, and the idiom with ${1+"$@"}, and all the cruft build up within sh(1) -- it must be pretty hard to separate what is incidental from what is fundamental.
If you order a kit, pay a bit more to get one with instructions! The quality of the kits seems pretty hit and miss. I would go with a branded AxiDraw instead of a clone if I had it to do again.
Does it really? Even if the code author hadn't learned to escape/sanitize close to use so it's visible (or to avoid cases where you need to escape/sanitize entirely, like using something that bypasses the shell and takes array arguments), let's look at the manpages.

PHP's system() manpage: http://php.net/manual/en/function.system.php

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Warning
When allowing user-supplied data to be passed to this function, use escapeshellarg() or escapeshellcmd() to ensure that users cannot trick the system into executing arbitrary commands.

system(3): http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man3/system.3.html

Any user input that is employed as part of command should be carefully sanitized, to ensure that unexpected shell commands or command options are not executed. Such risks are especially grave when using system() from a privileged program.

This is a canonical mistake that's used as a mistake example in textbooks.
> Um, so how does not having a facility, which is probably required to give care

It's required for certain levels of care, but not every encounter requires those.
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This seemed like a legitimate interaction. Do you know otherwise?
> Yes, indeed, and there are a number of reasons for this. From my point of view, I would avoid approaching a group of women talking by themselves since I'd be the odd one out.

That's really weird. Why would you assume--in a professional environment, specifically--that it's less acceptable to approach a pair of strangers based exclusively on their gender?

> In fact, to me, it looks to me like he was talking about an insecurity he has, and it's not directly related to you... and you are tagging this as sexism.

How would you feel if the mentor had said they'd never worked with black people before, and weren't sure how to talk to them?

You mentioned "alternative explanations besides sexism," but I don't see any way that these explanations aren't sexism.

I wonder if you're assuming that "sexist" only applies to harassers and open bigots. If you mean well but are unable to treat colleagues equally because of their gender, that's sexist. It doesn't mean you're a monster or a bad person, but it does mean that you have some real problems that you need to address.
Do you mind me asking how your spending habits have remained constant? Do you rent or own? What part of the country do you live in? Have you any kids?
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From the anecdotes I've heard, it sounds like the support staff is just wildly insufficient to handle all the issues that crop up with a major change like this. Initially the government switched over a trial group of (iirc) something like 40k employees. There were a bunch of problems with people not being paid or being paid the wrong amounts, but for some incomprehensible reason (perhaps they wanted to ditch the old system to focus on fixing the new one or something crazy like that?) they switched over everyone before fixing those.

Now, I personally know people who've been getting incorrect pay for over a year, who submit a complaint to their HR, who pass it up the chain, where... nothing seems to happen. Presumably because the 500 people or whatever it is tasked to deal with this are literally dealing with tens of thousands of issues, many of which aren't trivial changes (and so block the many that actually are trivial changes, but aren't even being seen).

Basically it was released before it was ready, initial signs of issues were ignored, and now the human side of the system is overwhelmed. It's kind of like when a web server gets overwhelmed with traffic, and it isn't set to reject at a reasonable threshold, so things start getting queued and timing out, people start refreshing pages, and it just snowballs until the whole thing goes down. Which apparently is what has now happened.
This is sad. IBM used to be the watch word for "It just works!" I started at IBM many years ago. When I went to my 1st ISP (back in the early 90s) and things broke I was like "what do you mean it broke? How is this okay?" It was quite a shock to move from a company where we had systems with 20+ years of uptime to having reboot the USENET server every 5 days.
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That has little to do with a PhD, it's the kind of thing you get with experience leading to a deeper understanding.

3D programming started as a field where only PHD's had any deep understanding of what was going on simply because they had experience when nobody else did. You see this pattern repeated frequently, in any complex domain.
Not necessarily. GoGo Inflight uses ground links for domestic US flights.
Does btrfs, with cp --reflink, not meet your use case?
I didn't read it that way. To me, it seems like he's saying that how the tool is used pretty much eliminates it's downsides. It's not like this was being used to conduct no-knock SWAT raids or something.
If you know some women who trust you, you should ask them if they'd be happier being underpaid, professionally ignored, or groped in public my more attractive men.
Whether a man is talking to me solely in hopes of a hookup or avoiding me for fear of offending or something, he is equally guilty

I have a problem with that statement.
So women like it when men get mad at them for being pregnant or imply that they're unqualified as long as the men are handsome?
Is that really bad for the programmers in this case?
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It's serious. I've worked in biotech and healthcare my entire career. The FDA is also not to be toyed with.
I'm a huge fan of this project - we're using it to fuzz TensorFlow [1]. (I wrote the initial fuzzers and Frank Chen got the running under OSS-Fuzz). It was surprisingly easy:

https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow/tree/master/tensorf...

and has, thus far, found bugs in the linkages to libpng, libjpeg, strtonum, the proto parser, and some of the internal utility types. I strongly recommend testing out one of the fuzzers on your own code -- libfuzzer and AFL are the most popular.

And -- shameless plugs here -- if anyone's looking for ways to learn about fuzzing and contribute to an open-source project, we'd welcome more fuzzers being contributed to TensorFlow. grins (if you find any nasty bugs that seem exploitable, see the new SECURITY.md readme for how to tell us.)

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I think there are two broad camps of thinking processes, one that fits people into stereotypes and does system 1 type of thinking. This camp believes in built in traits always lead to certain biases. They perpetuate those biases as well. While its true that exposure in young adulthood to certain things leads to bias to a certain extent, the main driver is YOU, your camp, which created those biases. Remember all those women that dropped out of the Software workforce in the 70's? Someone MADE those conditions happen.

The lack of understanding that those biases can be reversed is what needs to be corrected. This is the other camp, the camp that understands this and proactively fixes things, that needs to be made bigger.

I think, such things start very young. They starts in pre-schools where girls are given a doll and boys are given the lego blocks or children are not sensitized to color of the skin issues.
Sure, but taking appropriate risks in one's career isn't a negative-EV bet, whereas virtually every bet in Vegas is negative-EV
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> Why should 20MB hold less information today than it did in 1990?

64-bit, for one.
That's absolutely false. Many other people need to be able to access the data just to keep systems working. I've worked in a HIPAA environment (as well as FDA class 1 / ISO 13485) for nearly 15 years now.
Eh, but if you've taken a machine learning course, you should have seen the notion of false positive/false negative when you cover any kind of classification technique.
Yes, thanks, I found that, but I'm not sure if I'm ready for btrfs yet. I have to look into it, and see if btrfs is sufficiently stable, etc.
> But there's also some things that make people nervous -- like case & style insensitive names (ie. `read_file` is equivalent to `readFile`) -- that are almost never an actual issue.

Gahhh, why would you do this? It just seems like it'd be a nightmare to use grep to understand your codebase.
As other have said, depends on the position you are being hired for. If its technical, your app downloads, and revenue mean nothing. There are we too many factors that contribute to your downloads (or lack thereof.)

I don't mean to sound harsh, and any success with an app is tough to do, but from a resume standpoint, .025 dollar an app in revenue, isn't something that would rank as impressive, considering development time, you've probably lost money on them?

Instead of the focus being about money and downloads, you might want to consider talking about the knowledge and technology used to develop the apps, or talk about the process you used to decide on building the app, or how you identified the need for in the market for your application.

There is a lot of good resume information you can pull from the work you've done, but the money isn't impressive, and isn't a talking point that is likely to sway many people who will be interviewing you.
>> Noting how if two women are talking to each other at a conference, it becomes highly unlikely any guys will walk up and join us. If three women are talking, forget about it.

> Yes, indeed, and there are a number of reasons for this. From my point of view, I would avoid approaching a group of women talking by themselves since I'd be the odd one out.

The outcome for the women is similar regardless of the motivations behind the behavior. The motivations matter in terms of how to solve the problem, but do not indicate there isn't a problem.

>> My “mentor” told me he had never worked with a woman before and wasn’t sure how to talk to me. I suggested he try talking to me like a person.

> Depending on the tone, it may mean something completely different than what you are trying to say.

I can't read this as not implying that the individual believes that the way he talks with male students is inappropriate for talking with female students. This implication is worrisome no matter which direction you take it in.

> In fact, to me, it looks to me like he was talking about an insecurity he has, and it's not directly related to you... and you are tagging this as sexism.

If I say "I've never performed trigonometric substitution before so I'm not sure how to solve this math problem." m I may be talking about an insecurity I have, but it certainly is directly related to them math problem.