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I had hopes based on the title, but...

> Too many people experience Stack Overflow¹ as a hostile or elitist place, especially newer coders, women, people of color, and others in marginalized groups.

Maybe that's a problem. I don't know.

I'd rather see them address the problem of rampant question closures for dubious reasons and people who like to treat questions like a damn medium post.

edit:

Okay so reading further that is what it's about.

What the hell does it have to do with minorities and women?

oh they told them they feel less welcome. Did they say why, cause I don't see it here.

This just feels like dressing up a very real, very broad problem as an issue for women and people of color so they can get extra bonus points by focusing on it.
It looks like a ride-sharing service logo.
The "rent-brake" in Germany does not apply to newly built apartments.
At this rate, how many packages would you have to order for Prime to be a good deal, assuming you use none of the other Prime services?
This won't make the language any better.

It will make the language more approachable for new comers.

The Go website is _almost_ as bare bones as it gets. It functions fine and we are familiar with it.

But compared to say Python, the site looks pretty amateur. If you were to judge a language by its website, I'd say Python looks better.

The new branding can lead the way to a more put together presentation, and that could be good for the growth of the community.
While the document might reveal that in some aspects they were not well prepared, I must say opening up the document rather increases my trust than reduces it. I'm sure other companies have their risks and poor practices, too. Why should I trust them more for not communicating? (Marketing BS is not communication. Communication requires a receiver and I typically deny to mentally receive it. At least not without reading heavily between the lines)
I actually wrote about this in 2012. It's still one of the most popular articles that I've written today:
http://theexceptioncatcher.com/blog/2012/09/stackoverflow-is...

Their issues aren't due to particular identity politics. It's been this way for a while.

Original HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4494016
> It's sort of like being bullied in elementary school, and then high school, and then college, and then as a working adult. You never outgrow the bullying. Indeed, the bullying seems to get worse as one matures and loses the youthful physical characteristics which people often read as non-threatening.

It's not just the appearance of the people who bullies you. Bullying forces you to become more closed, and changes you fundamentally while you learn to resist it. Unfortunately, resisting bullying needs one to unlearn "inherent (baseline) trust" when meeting with new people, and unlearn "implicit trust" which is reinforced with the duration of civilized communication and relationships, because bullying can come from the least expected person at most unsuspected time.

Also, continuous bullying warps one's perception about discussion. Any sign of escalation causes any bullying victim to just change the subject and feel bad about itself, because bullying starts with (generally intentional) disagreement, then this disagreement is used for a basis for physical or psychological bullying. Bullied people may not hate from themselves, but they cannot be content with themselves either. They always think that something is wrong with them, and feel powerless to correct it, because continued bullying is only possible when the victim is bullied regardless of his/her character, intention, behavior or capacity.

Prolonged bullying really leaves deep wounds like trust issues, complete lack of self confidence, fear of communication and feelings of inferiority. These wounds are very hard to heal, because as time passes and one grows up, society thinks that these issues are over and doesn't care. Also, people don't seek help since these features are considered part of the character and deemed fixed after a certain age, but they are not.

Good friends, and a really caring person can change everything if the person wants to heal. It's hard, but not impossible.

How do I know this? Because I'm bullied for 10 years straight.

Edit: Clarify sentences.
At what point will customers start to say “maybe paying for shipping/driving to the store” isn’t that bad?

This is a 50% increase in price since Prime got started and if you’re not getting something delivered every fortnight probably costing you more. Let alone the fact that amazon has been shown to use their reputation as a cost leader (in electronics, books, etc.) to increase the price of everyday items so the same basket can cost you less in Walmart.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dogcow

OK, its old - but it certainly served the same purpose in branding "the priesthood" that lived and breathed the ecosystem.

Less prevelent: see Hexley, Darwin's (unofficial) BSD-Devil Platypus mascot - http://www.hexley.com
I'm pretty sure that Google hires separate people to work on branding and programming.
Should people pay to shop? If I buy a product from Jeff Bezos shouldn't he try to ship it to me as fast as humanly possible? If you don't have prime you end up waiting twice as long. Isn't that bad service?
Thank you for taking time to provide useful perspective.
Fair point. I was still only just out of school at that point, and as a young student with little debt, my world view (and that of my friends) would have been different from people who owned property or other investment vehicles that came with interest payments.

EDIT: But I also recall that those times were when high flying business people like Alan Bond etc. were still getting banks to throw money at them even though interest rates were astronomical. A large part of the problem which probably lead to the eventual crash and burn of the economy...
Ask HN: How do you navigate a software engineering job search?
I've seen a recurring theme on HN lately of engineers who are looking for jobs talking about how daunting the interview process is these days--several intense rounds of technical interviews and days of take home projects for several companies, followed by dozens of rejections even for good engineers. I think this is a symptom of the most desirable jobs having a daunting number of qualified applicants. In many ways it makes a lot of sense that you should have to work your ass off and be competitive to get the most desirable jobs. But as an individual it often doesn't make sense for an experienced engineer to spend hours, days and weeks to prove and reprove themselves when their education, experience, existing projects and references should be able to prove that they're a good engineer with a lot less effort.

It seems like traditional tips for efficiently navigating a job search apply less and less these days. You can be a great engineer, have a great resume, connections at the company, get lots of interviews, and have great interviewing skills but it's still a lot of work to land a good software engineering job these days.

So my question is, what are some strategies you use to interview with multiple companies, prove yourself and get competitive offers that you can compare without exhausting yourself with all of the parallel interview processes? Job search burnout is real. How do you avoid it while still pursuing the jobs you want?
I started using Cathode a lot. It has terrible input latency, destroys my battery, is very hard to read, but coupled with some cherry blue switches it really brings me back to a better time.

If I ever need to blow off some steam, I just start smacking the "degauss" button.

Puts the meta key in the wrong place but I'm usually using vim for remote editing anyway.
Flask has a stigma for not being that good when building larger apps, but honestly Flask scales really well for that type of use case (coming from a development / maintenance point of view).

I have some pretty large Flask apps with dozens of top level dependencies and models spanning across many thousands of lines of code. Even if I don't touch the code base for a few months, it's easy to jump back into it.

I'm also a huge fan of Rails, but truthfully I find Flask apps to be easier to reason about and hack on once they grow to a decent size, simply because Blueprints make it really straight forward and intuitive to modularize your application without increasing the complexity of everything by using micro-services.

If anyone wants to jump into Flask and start building real world apps, you may want to check out https://buildasaasappwithflask.com/. It's a full blown course where we build a SAAS application using Flask and Docker. I recently added a free RESTful API bonus section to the course and now that Flask 1.0 out, I'll be adding another free update which will cover updating all of the packages in the main app. Just going to wait for the dust to settle on the 1.0 release first.
Django has nicely integrated components, but each of flask components are better (jinja2, sqlalchemy, migrations, etc).
fMP4 has an index for each chunk, so you have to buffer the whole thing to create the index on the writing side. However, with DASH you do have the option for WebM as well, which does not need and index and can be streamed. Or really small fMP4 segments work too.
> Why "after the kids are down"?

For practical reasons. My wife doesn't like the yellow lights, and she usually goes to bed around the same time as the kids, or at least retires to the room at that time.
Do the math.
Right. So let's not do that. Instead of waiting for minorities to speak up, you should complain right away when an online environment turns toxic.

Since we were not aware until today that minorities received more hostility on SO, that means users really don't know other users' gender and ethnicity, so it's not like anyone will call you a sissy girl for speaking up.
The people in tech who get all the prestige
are those who are solving real problems or
work in more esoteric domains

I'm not sure my girlfriend's parents appreciate the difference between me inventing my own Byzantine fault tolerance algorithm and me importing Apache ZooKeeper.
The human eye uses a lot of tricks to be high effective dynamic range but the retina is a long way from 20 stops. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-dynamic-range_imaging

So, in a direct comparison where cameras are allowed to use a similar set of tricks tricks including a fair amount of post processing they actually win. Aka, Retna vs CCD the CCD wins, iris vs iris camera wins etc.
Back in the '90s after the Gulf War, many veterans started coming down with weird symptoms, eventually termed "Gulf War Syndrome." Some of these were quite real, but studies found the Gulf War veterans were, on the whole, healthier than the general population. But the guys who served there were convinced of it, and it made them pretty miserable to think they were sick and the government was covering it up.

When you tell someone they're sick, or unwelcome, or subject to bias, and especially if you're a neutral source, they're liable to believe you. The mind is incredibly suggestible.

So how much of these feelings are because we keep telling people that racism and other issues are a problem? I understand the impulse to not dismiss the problem, but it seems like feeling like you're surrounded by racists has to be almost as bad as the real thing.
Walmart has an excellent free two day shipping policy, as the case is, without a subscription fee.

They don't have nearly the selection for odds and ends, but I don't use Prime, and buy where I can order the cheapest and get free shipping.
In Sweden, lots of mortgages are adjusted every three months, and I would assume (though not certain) that a majority of mortgages are fixed on no more than two-three years.
Yeah, but for some reason the cheap stuff suffers from the same price opaqueness, and for some reason, we still rely on a third party to pay for an expense that costs less than most premiums.

Insurance should be for the actual exceptional stuff. If we made prices transparent for basic care, then we may be able to have people pay for their own primary 'easy' care. This could lower the rate of more expensive illnesses as well as free money the insurance companies are using to pay for basic services to pay for the more life-saving, expensive stuff.
I think people are getting confused.

Fixed rate means the interest rate doesn't change over the term of the loan. Compare this to variable or floating rates that can change.

The difference for the US is that the fixed rates are for a 30 year term. Countries like Canada and Australia have 10 year terms as a max, with most people electing for something shorter as the rate goes down.

In the US your rate might never change. In other countries it changes when you refinance at the end of the term.
They're eternally thankful for living in a country where you can get a fixed rate for more than 5 years.
None, so a separate FEC can still be useful. You can use FEC like described in the article with WebRTC: https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-rtcweb-fec-08
Air traffic control specialists make a lot of money and quickly. This line of work does not require a college degree, and once someone certifies, she’s making six figures in less than seven years — maybe sooner.
I totally agree. I only started playing with Go a few months ago and remember how amateurish the website and the mascot made it look. It gave the impression that it was a work in progress and research project instead of something that's been around for 8 years and used professionally.
Thank you. I'll take a look!
https://github.com/snipsco/awesome-snips

http://linuxfr.org/news/snips-ouvre-sa-technologie-nlu
It has nothing to do with Minitel as it is a private government only slack-like tool. And the encryption restriction is long gone like in the US. Why there is alway francophobes in threads like that ?
Simple formulation of the fine structure constant
There are a lot of service jobs for night owls. Pretty much any place that serves customers at night has jobs for night owls.
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If you have less tolerance, how is that anyone else's problem?

Some people are also more prone to sunburn than others, but we don't say the sun needs to be less bright. You are in control of your own feelings. Yes, StackOverflow should generally have better language and reworked rules around content, voting and moderation, but that has nothing to do with how susceptible you are to comments on the internet.

Also why is it that minorities always comes down to not being male or white when half the planet is female and most of the planet is not white? Do we not have any other dimensions? It's a rather meaningless definition when used in context of a globally accessible site with anonymous user accounts where the audience already has a major commonality (interest in software development) that is far more inclusive than any irrelevant physical trait.
I'm surprised that the price isn't higher. It was my understanding that Weebly is highly profitable, which would normally give them lots of leverage in any negotiation. What am I missing? Maybe there is a ridiculous amount of Square stock for the team on top of the price paid to shareholders? Or growth is flattening dramatically and they panicked?
now this is getting close to the point that i check out walmart etc more often, then again, amazon is deeply rooted in online purchases these days already, sigh
I remember when the BigCorp I worked for asked me to email their entire customer database, every month, to the latest hotshot consulting firm that was going to "drive growth".

I argued for encryption of the files sent. Reached out to the technical side of the consulting company; the person I interfaced with seemed fine with the idea -- even if it wasn't their standard procedure. (Visions of however many companies sending this data each month, quarter, whatever.)

And promptly got chewed out by my management for my efforts.

It's not just that people like this don't know. It's that they are willfully ignorant until the pain becomes too great.

In other words, you can think of this -- kind of like pollution -- as a large momentum of externalized costs.

Even when companies tank, many of the managers responsible simply move on -- or have already moved on. Customers/clients experiences losses they never fully recoup. The wheel turns, and approximately the same people emerge in a new configuration of business that repeats the story.

P.S. This also reminds me of telling a geologist friend that they should really encrypt their online consulting on oil fiend technical issues for clients in the Far East. A lot of email and IM -- back before most any productized IM had encryption, neither of connection nor of content.

If I were playing the other side, I'd definitely scrape those to learn where production was at, technical tips and knowledge transfer, but also particularly -- and if I weren't interested in the geology and technical side, itself -- to learn of production expectations and use those to maximize the revenue I extracted in rights, leases, perhaps even outright confiscation in some cases.

Oh, not to mention taking advantage of inside knowledge to profit from market valuations, where accessible to investment.
I guess I’m saying that societal views on the acceptability of homosexuality have waxed and waned quite a bit, but everyone knows the history. My larger point was that mobs can be quite fickle and for that reason we’ve seen fit to base our jurisprudence on more immutable principals. This I’d argue is an improvement worthy of recognition and protection.
It's free shipping, prime video and prime music.

Netflix alone costs about $130 per year.
Good lord AMP is garbage. I get sent to this Redirect Notice link. Can a moderator update the link please?
The "Go logo" has always been something like "-=GO"[1]. There's not much changing here, unless the announcement signals that they're going to start de-emphasizing the acquired-taste gopher.

[1] See the black/white image halfway down the page-- https://blog.golang.org/gopher
I thought the point of universal income was that everyone gets it regardless of their employment.

Finland just gave the money to unemployed people, so it just became an unemployment benefit.
Sounds like she's got an office job that is not much different from what programmers do. I once spent 3 minutes in the attic while HVAC guys were replacing my unit. They were hauling/removing through a tiny opening in the ceiling and installing heavy stuff for several hours. And July in the South is not a 'recreational' season.
I've seen a few server-side Swift frameworks (for building web apps or API apps) such as Perfect[1] and Kitura[2] (which is backed by IBM). It's not clear to me how much uptake they have so far.

[1] https://perfect.org/

[2] https://www.kitura.io/
Love Flask in theory. My biggest complaint was trying to do user management with it. Flask-Security was good, but the developer skipped town a few years ago. Did they come back? :D

Basically you are left to your own devices, which sounds great, but user+auth is pretty fundamental to be left to a random absentee third-party in my opinion.
According to at least one researcher involved with the project, this is basically what was expected all along. It was planned to be a one year trial, and now the year is up and they'll analyze the results before deciding what to do next.

Source: http://www.wired.co.uk/article/finland-universal-basic-incom...
That just sounds like somebody being a jerk, but I don't see anything about minorities or calling out PoC in there.
What I find really interesting is that as far as product and pricing strategy goes, starting low and raising prices is regarded as a big no-no. The argument being that customers (especially consumers, e.g. non-business clients) respond very negatively to raising prices, especially after getting used to price X. And yet Amazon has continued to hike up the price of Prime and people don't seem to be leaving.

Why? Does Prime really have no competitors? Are people "locked in" the Amazon ecosystem (akin to Facebook/Instagram)? Even though I could never work for Amazon as a "worker bee" (engineering or otherwise), I think Jeff Bezos and the people he surrounds himself with are absolute business geniuses.
My hypotheses for why your comment was downvoted:

* Only two sentences

* Not relevant to the main topic of discussion

* Makes a vague claim

* Unsubstantiated by any source

* Claims that authorities are lying without specifying the particular authorities or particular lie

* Uses a mild swear word

* Resorts to cliche

* Doesn't teach the reader anything new or interesting

* Doesn't reflect any nuance or thoughtfulness

Not saying all these hypotheses are true, but they might explain why your comment was downvoted. I sincerely doubt it has anything to do with your username. Anyway, I hope you don't feel bad about the downvotes. Hopefully your future comments are perceived as contributing more value to readers. :)

Overall the comments on this article feel pretty substandard to me. A fair number of armchair economists are confidently explaining how things are going to unfold and how the system is nefariously rigged. For some reason, it seems the topic of economics brings out a lot of ill-informed speculation presented as fact.
Because I wake up at the optimal time. I've tried many sleep trackers, and although they all have their problems, one thing they agree on is that with no alarm I get up at the optimal time in my sleep cycle.
Its a good opportunity to seed the torrents. I am already on it.
Interesting that your two examples would be called: object-oriented ("top-down") and functional ("bottom-up").

After a lifetime of programming, I actually prefer the latter approach: composing functions that are without side effects and independently testable.

I'm not sure if your examples reflect the top-down/bottom-up concepts in the original article, and certain don't agree that "a lot of jr developers" prefer the bottom-up approach, or that it looks "hacked on top of each other". Maybe it's just personal preference..
The problem is Amazon prices are frequently more expensive than competing online stores, so you're spending more with Amazon anyways.

I think people will eventually figure out the predatory nature of Amazon's practices. The question is if it will be before or after online competitors are out of business.
I like how your [1] has 2 opposing opinions as the top comments, both at exactly 147 points.

> Whats wrong with hi or thanks? Boy what is this world coming to. Mundane mutes who just want answers.

> Kill it with fire. You want to do social you get on Facebook. :) I like the questions just to be questions (without any noise).