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Well...we don't have real meetings at my work...the closest we have is when someone fucks up bad enough the owner takes notice and gathers everybody up and yells at us about how our work is worse than a bunch of Chinese and brown people...without recognizing the irony because most of his employees are Chinese or brown and he himself is Cambodian.

Mostly I dislike the part where we get yelled at over such mistakes. We do a lot work every day and we do high quality work. We rarely make mistakes we can't fix and we all take pride in the work we do. But we're only human.

The rest of what I consider meetings are usually productive and necessary. They involve relaying important information about upcoming jobs to the people that will need the information or general planning about the best way to accomplish a task.

For the most part we don't tend to waste time with general meetings and the like. Everyone for the most part knows the schedule and their tasks and just gets to work. We don't usually report progress unless asked or we notice a problem or we know we're going to fall behind.

Generally I have a negative view on useless meetings. Everyone should have a good idea of what they need.to be doing and if they don't then time needs to be spent with those individuals rather than wasting the time of those that are on task. If people regularly don't know what they should be doing or failing to complete there work then something is wrong with the management.

Our manager never usually directly interferes with things unless there's a problem or somebody asks for assistance or guidance. Despite what I said above, most mistakes or problems are dealt with on an individual basis and usually dealt with without too much fuss or problem.

I guess, in summary, meetings should be saved for only the communication of necessary information to team members that need it or to deal with a specific problem. Needing regulary meetings and progress updates seems like something is lacking somewhere. A good team should already know there roles and duties and shouldn't require constant meetings to ensure progress.
This is kind of orthogonal issue. Making sure that technology is used ethically. Google now has ethical charter. Hopefully, Microsoft will do something similar. Then it's Amazon's turn: https://twitter.com/amanda_m_macias/status/98380706501249433...
Regulations tend to follow abuse. The more egregious the abuse, the stronger the regulation.

Therefore a strong regulation can follow deregulation.

Of course the opposite can happen. Deregulation can shift the Overton window to the point where regulations that once seemed reasonable are off the table. As an example, even most of the people complaining about growing inequality between rich and poor aren't openly suggesting a return to pre-Reagan top tax rates of 70%.
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IANAL either, but I did get a Bachelor of Law; one thing that was hard for me to get while I was studying is that while I thought of the law & contracts as a series of instructions that get executed by the "CPU" (our legal system), really for the most part it's being executed by humans who really dislike cute "this then that, screw context" thinking. I would not be surprised at all if a judge would laugh at an employer that tried to make the argument that he was "terminated" due to a clerical error and automated systems, therefore they don't need to pay him...

But, it depends! It's never black and white for this stuff. It'd be an interesting case though, and I'm sure it's happened before!
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/bill-gates-arizona-smart-city-t...
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I’m not American and I’ve always found it fascinating how a part of the American population defends the existence of illegal immigrants in American soil. It’s crazy.
I worked on one of the largest Radiology SaaS coding/billing platform. Working with hospitals is one of the most strenuous industries. Everyone has their own formats and trying to learn the lingo takes a couple years.

Also many players have been in the industry for a long time and it's quite incestuous. I am no systems architect either but the validity of the data at any requested moment is very important so much of the services run in a synchronous environment. In my opinion as much as possible of accounting/scheduling should be async but this is one of the problems the industry is facing i guess.
NYT is just giving MSFT its pat on the head for being "with it".
This seems to underestimate the impact of prescription pain killers on the opioid crisis.

"A study of young, urban injection drug users interviewed in 2008 and 2009 found that 86 percent had used opioid pain relievers nonmedically prior to using heroin, and their initiation into nonmedical use was characterized by three main sources of opioids: family, friends, or personal prescriptions (Lankenau et al., 2012). This rate represents a shift from historical trends. Of people entering treatment for heroin addiction who began abusing opioids in the 1960s, more than 80 percent started with heroin. Of those who began abusing opioids in the 2000s, 75 percent reported that their first opioid was a prescription drug (Cicero et al., 2014)."

https://www.drugabuse.gov/publications/research-reports/rela...
Google employees work for the worlds largest spyware company. They aren't worried about being ethical.
I'm not sure it needs to be effective at influencing the decision making in order to be worthwhile.

I think people owe it to themselves to evaluate the ethics and morality of their work, and not contribute to things they do not want to be part of.

Take IBM and the Holocaust (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_and_the_Holocaust) for instance. Could you imagine having written that software on your conscious? Would you be willing to write it? I wouldn't.
Someone did this to UPS's global headquarters.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/may/11/man-changed-...
I've won disputes on PayPal as a seller.

There are exceptions to every rule, but in the vast majority of cases, they side with buyers. I once had someone that admitted in email that they were trying to extort me into refunding them. PayPal actually wrote back saying they were going to go to bat for me with the card issuer after I showed them these emails, but the card issuer didn't budge. I have no idea if PayPal sent the card issuer the emails, I just know that I wound up being out the money.

So you aren't just fighting with PayPal, you're fighting with card issuers as well. PayPal will side with buyers in most cases, and in the few instances where it is obvious that the merchant is correct and PayPal tries to do the right thing, then the card issuer will pick it up and screw the merchant from their side of it.

Regardless of who does the screwing, the merchant is the one that suffers in the end by accepting PayPal.

Companies have been using PayPal for over a decade without their accounts being closed.

Very large companies have nothing to worry about from PayPal, but small merchants have a very high percentage chance of being screwed by them. See http://www.paypalsucks.com/
I had a friend say something that I think is a pretty good way to look at it. He said: "React is the blockbuster hit at the box office, while Vue is the critics' darling"

The big question is if it's good enough to replace what's already established. Things will probably equalize eventually, but by the time Vue overtakes, if it does, there will probably be some kind of new and shinier thing that intends to replace both of them.
Decent human beings don't break serious laws and put their families in danger. There's 10 consulates where they can apply for asylum. No one has to "jump" the border.
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I think that this definition of terroir is romanticized.

inextricably -> in a way that is impossible to disentangle or separate

Science seeks to disentangle the complexities of nature. Engineering is the application of those disentangled complexities to yield controlled results. Maybe one day we can engineer high-fidelity replicas of terroir-bound products.
A) Whom? B) Why?

I can't see this flagged post, but the user in question has such quality comments as "hahahaha", "ouch", and "duhhh" -- most users here actually contribute to discussion, where as a few think this is reddit...
> It's pretty clear that Google used their dominant position(s) in web search and web advertising to then dominate the user-generated video space.

That's not particularly clear to me. YouTube was already pretty huge when Google bought them in 2006: according to Wikipedia, the fifth most popular website, albeit of a far smaller Web. Google, meanwhile, had their own video-uploading service, Google Video, which launched three months before YouTube but was not nearly as successful. Sure, there's no doubt that YouTube has benefitted massively from Google's resources in the decade since, including their willingness to let it run without a profit. But based on that history, it seems far from inevitable that Google would be the one to dominate video.

It also doesn't seem like YouTube's growth is all that directly linked to Google Search's monopoly status, other than in that the latter powered Google's profits (but there are plenty of sources of money in the world). Google Search's video results have always shown videos from all websites rather than being YouTube-specific; who knows what they might have done if there had been more serious competition, but there wasn't, so they don't have that particular blood on their hands. You could argue that Google used its Search leverage to promote Web videos in general, as opposed to some other form of media, but I don't know what other form would be or why it would be preferable to video. (Perhaps live video? There might be another universe in which justin.tv was successful early on, rather than waiting most of a decade for the unexpected explosion of Twitch. But I think that given the state of Internet connections at the time, it made more sense for YouTube to happen first.)
I'm not sure there is a correlation. I can think of many situations in which non-local DRAM fetches are more efficient and I can think of many other situations where the opposite is true.

Trees or hashmaps which use non-local DRAM fetches can be more efficient than a brute force linear search through a continguous array given a sufficiently high enough number of elements.

At the same time continguous arrays can be significantly more efficient than linked lists which use non-local DRAM fetches.
US leaving UN Human Rights Council – 'a cesspool of political bias'
It's baffling to me as well. For some reason lots of Americans also don't support ID requirements for voting either. I'm from Brazil and even here we require ID for voters. I really just don't get it.
Most people don't get fucked in acquisitions/sales by not receiving enough money. They get fucked on the terms of the deal. Get a good lawyer! I can recommend a fantastic one in SF if you're interested.
I mean, that only happened because advertisers learned that the "independent" creators were all assholes. Like this started after advertisers started pulling out when PewDiePie didn't just apologize and admit he was wrong with the Nazi stunts. He threw a fit and advertisers realized that YouTube isn't really as good as they thought it was.
^ turn off cortana and windows starts to fall apart in strange and subtle ways (ie no more local search index)
> I've never experienced that with Chrome

Right, but I doubt that it's for exactly the reason you think it is: Chrome doesn't blindly do "one process per tab" anymore, and hasn't for a bit.
It's not exactly clear what you mean by that comment, but this is almost the polar opposite of the Itanium approach, which was to push the low-level execution unit scheduling right up the stack to the compiler.
In a week or so there will be something else for the MSM to outrage everyone about, using yet another extremely one-sided angle about some other policy that started long before Nov 2016. I simply cannot watch/read mainstream news anymore, it's such a joke. You're being lied to and manipulated on a daily basis. Weekly periodicals are the last best source of any kind of non-technical information, and maybe technical too in some cases.
Enormous, but diffuse. Governments, and especially democracies, and especially especially the United States have consistently failed miserably at tackling problems with diffuse benefits bit highly visible costs, even when the costs are much lower.
Legal immigration has plenty of political attention.

As a way of beating your opponents with a stick.
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It's sad what Microsoft has done to Skype. I wish they'd stop screwing it up and fix the gaping security and performance issues that were just not there before they bought it and screwed with it's design (probably to merge it into their legacy corporate chat system). Thankfully they made Teams which I think is fine.
Where was Microsoft’s “protest” during the Obama years when this was still on-going?

Why protest now other than to virtue signal “me too”?
That's the reality of an in perfect market, but it's not something that anyone other than the owners of the large companies want
I feel like the counter to this is unfortunately still the court system; if Bob leaves all his millions to an animal shelter in his will via a cryptocurrency smart contract, his heir Alice could still take it to a traditional court and try and get those assets seized on the grounds he was senile, etc.
+1. and its a great idea to do as an open letter. let's hope it spreads
It seems to me that YouTube's business model is ad supported. They need to run ads to pay for infrastructure
to support the service and make profit for themselves, since they are not charging the user. So a sufficiently large channel that does not permit ads will eat into their revenues.i.e. it becomes an expensive free rider. This, I guess, is the reason behind the decision. I suppose it makes sense. But I don't see why they don't offer a paid option to entities like Blender who don't want ads?
I live in Saigon now. It is amazing to me how many restaurants here claim to serve USDA beef.

I say 'claim to' because so much is fake here and there is no way to verify it.
Lately, it's been hard to take anything from the media seriously. It's strange how the media has been treating microsoft with kid gloves while wailing on facebook.

It's a constant battle with windows 10. You could remove apps, update registry/configs, disable as much telemetry as possible but you never know what the monthly update is going undo. Not to mention the differences options you have for Home, Professional, Enterprise, etc.

Then I install net core and vs code on my linux box because "people" were raving about it. It has telemetry as well. You have options for disabling it, but why bother. I uninstalled both. Why deal the hassle. Vim is all you really need if you can get over the steep learning curve.

If Microsoft is tech's moral leader, then what does it say about the rest of the tech industry? Bu if they have the nytimes' seal of approval, who am I to disagree.
Yeah I watched an interview. It was cool how he says most of the major modeller refactors, and other very important code contributions were donated by volunteers.
I'm a shitty programmer.
I've written code for gameboy, playstation, servers in C, assembly, mobile apps, tons of backends, a CPU simulator, assembler & disassembler. I'm in a leadership role now, but still hacking go, javascript/typescript, python, & prolog for the love of it. But am I a good programmer?

Not even close.

Ever heard of Jeff Dean, Linus? Carmack? Norvig? Then when I look at the multitudes of opensource projects in Github, I can only stay humble. I'm average at best if that.
Yes, I alone on my Skull Island stopped Dart! HAHAHAHA!!!!

Google never sent me kickbacks to provide for foolish and doomed DartVM-in-Firefox work, so I laugh once again from Skull Island at such idiocy.
My former boss was once a programmer. Then he became a manager, so he wrote tools to help monitor his department. That went well for years. Then another manager was brought in to "help" him, and months later he was fired. I guess it was kind of obvious, but it still made an impression on me how cold blooded it was.

The metrics* gathered on us were pretty meaningless, and didn't meet the cardinal rule of being actionable, but we still had to go over them each and every week. And some of the actual work was producing reports on productivity for other parts of the company in different places.

*Despite the fact we were programmers and every person in the department had a different role, we were scored based on tickets done and tickets that failed qa.
> Isn’t that the promise of computers and technology? What would you suggest that business want?

The plot twist with software is that the overall cost (including running costs) of buying the ferarri is often lower than the cost of the Fiat panda.
A single-item-buffered chan is probably most common, but a sync.WaitGroup w/ a 1 add can work if you don't need to do other ops while waiting.
Except for the natives, almost all of Americans are no more than two degrees separated from an immigrant who may or may not have been legal. It isn't surprising that they would be sympathetic to immigrants.
Not sure about the state of the project, but I remember reading this article last year about Bill Gates starting a new city: http://www.businessinsider.com/bill-gates-buys-arizona-land-...
In my opinion, for decades politicians of this country tacitly allowed people to come to this country without adequate paperwork. Now asking them to go back is impractical and cruel. People who are here should be able to conduct their lives without the fear of getting arrested or deported while conducting everyday activities like going to dropping their kids to school or commuting to work. Let us be compassionate and give everyone already here a path to citizenship.

Just like President Obama did for DACA there should be a cutoff date for a path to citizenship. Once the cutoff date is reached we should deport new undocumented immigrants who don't have a legitimate asylum claim.
I see your point, but no. I've made websites semi-regularly since the late 90s and have contributed to a browser engine, so it's not lack of familiarity. This was just the first site in a few years. I think my argument takes rustyness/routine into account.
Because in the US, and unlike Brazil, Voter ID laws are specifically enacted to discourage people from voting. It’s a solution looking for a problem (voter fraud is hardly an issue in the US).

The Voter ID laws are all about putting a barrier in place to prevent $DEMOGRAPHIC from voting, then making it exceedingly difficult for $DEMOGRAPHIC to pass that barrier, even though it’s well within $DEMOGRAPHIC right to vote.
Is it really? Most people I know would probably contend that the illegal status of most of these people is due to flaws in our immigration system. They want this country to be a place where from all over can come to thrive if they are so motivated.

The quote engraved on the Statue of Liberty comes to mind...

“Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!”
The founder of Dominos pizza built the city of Ave Maria, FL -- It gets high marks in the child safety/friendly category from the local press but feels suburban to me.
The most famous example is probably Seaside, FL built buy Duany Plater-Zyberk, it was the set of "The Truman Show". The story is interesting they had to fight all these dumb zoning laws (eg. The Fire Department buys the biggest truck they can find and then think that every road in the state must accommodate it) -- DPZ has other stuff worth checking out: https://www.dpz.com/Projects/All

My favorite is in Jakriborg, Sweden
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jakriborg

You learn about this sort of stuff if you are plugged into the urbanist blogs / podcast scene
Check out Ave Maria, also in Florida. It is a mixed-zoning town build around a College and a Catholic cathedral, but unlike the Villages, it is actually quite age diverse. So, for those who are not bothered by the the religious aspect, it is seems very livable and I think will be successful.
>> No one was able to stop the machine because no one really knew all the different processes

maybe the engineer that designed the system got themselves fired while they were testing the system
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It’s sad, but it’s become the neglected step child for both dems (not enough upside) and Repubs (just lukewarm). On the other hand dems have done not quite a 180 but a 170 on illegal immigration because their calculus is that it will resonate with their base, given Trump has taken away their union labor to some extent. Obama had greater numbers in detention but back then it was a too much a third rail issue to bring attention to.
I think you're getting it very wrong; this isn't about people saying "let's just allow illegal immigrants the full rights of legal immigrants". There are some people saying that, but they're a small minority.

This is about saying "some people have come here illegally. let's not psychologically torture their children for it" You can be for legal migration and the humane treatment of people at the same time.
Well, if you are serious about selling? Why not also find other buyers and also solicit bids?
More info on this for the interested: https://twitter.com/siracusa/status/1004143205078597633
x86_64, and some extensions, yes. However, as you may be aware, most interpreted code is hosted by a VM that runs compiled code. :) FB's HHVM is such a one.
>Good on these folks for stepping up.

I am not American, but this is the point in time where you take a stand. Where America needs to fight for it's democracy. This is not the time to be complacent.
It was never an enforced policy to seperate children from the parents.
Wow thanks, that explains a lot. So Facebook basically treats RN as an internal library, a single commit can change the framework API and the implementation at the same time so the constant API churn is not a problem.
> Because in the US, and unlike Brazil, Voter ID laws are specifically enacted to discourage people from voting.

How familiar are you with the voting laws in Brazil and the reasoning behind them?
The author's reasons are his own; arguing them with me doesn't get us anywhere. If you're suggesting that he doesn't really believe what he said and must have other motives, I can only say I find that very unlikely.
Which

A) is not what the Statue of Liberty is about, it's about Liberty

B) was added well after the statue's construction and

C) is a poem, not a law of the USA.

If you really knew what Emma Lazarus's (EDIT: wrong last name used at first) views were, it might give you pause... (hint: she hated Ashkenazi Jews and saw them as low-class)
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Are you ok if illegals immigrants move into your neighborhood and compete for your job?

EDIT:
Why am I being downvoted?

I asked a legitimate question. If illegal immigrants moved into your neighborhood and affected the socioeconomic status, school ratings etc of your neighborhood, how will you react? Will you advocate for the same policies you are advocating now?

I have a feeling most of the people who are supporting illegal immigration don't have skin in the game.

P.S. I am not stereotyping all dreamer kids, anecdotally, my wife who works in a school told me some of her best students are dreamers.
It's a country founded by immigrants and for much of its history it welcomed them (with some significant caveats). The assertion that America is only for people who are already here is both radical and relatively recent. That's what's crazy.