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If you're developing iOS or macOS software, you need a Mac.

If you want to do live browser testing in all major browsers, you need a Mac, and you can do it with no other hardware, as you can virtualise all of Windows/Linux/Android/iOS under macOS.

Based on https://support.lenovo.com/us/en/solutions/pd031426, Lenovo support for Linux distro's is a mixed bag of "fuck you" and "Enterprise Edition", so "full control" is likely to mean "Full Responsibility", too.

Why would any developer prefer to run a hardware/software combination that has zero support if something fails, and predictably endless issue volleyball between h/w and s/w vendors if you happen to use one of the specific combinations that has support, over running hardware and software that is supported by a single company?

Personally, I prefer to spend my working hours actually making money. If you prefer to be endlessly tweaking kernel parameters or driver settings because you updated some software and now your trackpad works in reverse, well then good luck to you sir.
China crypto ban may not be as bad as everyone thinks
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I'm on the same camp, coding professionally since 2005, had a few mechanical keyboards and I've swapped my work laptop from a MBP 2015 to the 2018 and had no problems with the keyboard so far, like you I actually like it more than my old MBP mushy keyboard.

As a disclaimer: I have had at least 4 iterations of MBPs before starting at my current company and getting a 2015.
Wrt drag and drop: I always enable three finger drag on any macbook.
One problem with this reasoning is that it assumes one can assign a fitness function to each single employee in isolation, independent of their different roles and how they relate to each other.
There are plenty of numbers associated with humans in workforce. For example, their salary.

> If your workforce has a craptastic gender ratio you will hammer that in because potential new members of the minority will be less interested in joining the company.

I don't see any complaints about "diversity" in female-dominated or minority-dominated professions.
I remember 2nd term math lecture. There were students from different engineering disciplines. There were 600 students with ~15 females among them.

Some years later situation is no different: ~100 people on the floor, 5 females here: 2 secretaries, 2 export specialists and senior researcher with PhD degree.

Where find suitable candidates for these quotes when women avoid technical stuff at university level?
How are you supposed to choose a candidate without filtering by any criteria?
The Irrelevance of Thingies
I'm disappointed. From the title it sounded like someone had created a language specifically for dynamic programming (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_programming).
The counter argument is that in practice, the true fitness function is only very roughly approximated by the selection heuristics used. And if - consciously or otherwise - $ismale happens to be weighted positively in the selection heuristic (more so than any positive effect maleness might actually have on their performance in the job), a quota which artificially inflates the number of females might actually go some way towards redressing that mismatch.

Obviously this is considerably more likely to actually be the case in some businesses and industries than others.
What very confident nonsense!

Individual fitness is not independent, let alone group fitness. And without independence you are just plain wrong.

Sociology dressed up as a priori mathematics is rarely credible. Even worse if the math simply isn't correct.
>And please, don't point at stuff in the popular press.

The articles I've linked show the failings of arguable the two most noteworthy climate change advocates, Al Gore and James Hansen (a real climate scientist). This perfectly illustrates my point that the communication on this topic has been complete bunk. But if you want failings from the UN, you don't have to look very far.

>1990 IPCC

Under the IPCC ‘Business as Usual’ emissions of greenhouse gases the average rate of increase of global mean temperature during the next century is estimated to be 0.3°C per decade

>Outcome

0.12°C-0.19°C Depending on your source

>1990 IPCC

This will result in a likely increase in global mean temperature of about 1°C above the present value by 2025

>Outcome

0.31°C to 0.49°C by 2017, depending on your source.

>2007 IPCC

by 2020, between 75 and 250 million of people are projected to be exposed to increased water stress due to climate change

>Outcome

Confidence is low for a global-scale observed trend in drought or dryness (lack of rainfall) since the middle of the 20th century, owing to lack of direct observations, methodological uncertainties and geographical inconsistencies in the trends (Source UN IPCC)

>2007 IPCC

There is a very high likelihood that Himalayan glaciers will disappear by the year 2035 and perhaps sooner if the Earth keeps warming at the current rate.

>Outcome

IPCC later outright recanted this prediction saying it was not peer reviewed https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2010/jan/20/ipcc-him...

>2001 IPCC

Fire frequency is expected to increase with human-induced climate change, and that several authors suggest that climate change is likely to increase the number of days with severe burning conditions, prolong the fire season, and increase lightning activity, all of which lead to probable increases in fire frequency and areas burned

>Outcome

Globally, the total acreage burned by fires each year declined by 24 percent between 1998 and 2015
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/06/170629175502.h...
Elon Musk, Steve Jobs: Are we treating jerk tech CEOs like gods?
That's because a lot of pins are configurable (there is a muxer on them), so you could have a maximum of 40 GPIOs but if you want say, an SPI port, then you get less GPIOs.
A better solution would be to do gender-blind hiring, not gender quotas.
Some people do, evidently.

There's a limit on articles per month, at least in some regions, and maybe other restrictions in different regions.
Jamming communications doesn't make robots useless. It just means that they can't be controlled remotely, can't use GPS to navigate and can't provide real-time surveillance.

That can be worked around by pre-programming a fixed route or an objective to be fulfilled autonomously, by using celestial navigation or geographical landmarks, and by having surveillance drones return to base to deliver recordings using a physical connection.
Using the receive times to determine a plane's location is one method (multilateration), but it's also becoming common for planes to broadcast their position (ADS-B), determined with a high degree of accuracy using their onboard GPS. This ADS-B transmission is what sites like FlightRadar24 use as their main source, although they're now also able to use MLAT in areas with good base-station coverage.
Huh. I'm using a VPN exit in the US, to avoid GDPR bullshit.
Before the comments go too far down a rabbit-hole, I encourage everyone to respond to the article instead of answering the question in the headline. The article is talking about boards, not employees, and states that there is no causation proven, despite some correlations found in Europe after they required quotas on company boards.
I think it's possible to deal with offensive (or otherwise inappropriate) clothing on a case by case basis without the need to bring in a smart dress code. Sometimes people implement policies as a way of avoiding awkward conversations but, to me at any rate, part of being a good manager and leader is measured by your ability and willingness to treat your staff like human beings and have those awkward conversations when it's necessary.
> Individual fitness is not independent, let alone group fitness. And without independence you are just plain wrong.

Who said that fitness in my description cannot include group fitness? The same argument goes for adding a worker to the workforce. Does the worker fit the existing workforce?
This just disables making payments via the strip. It's not actually disabling anything on the card. You can still get details by reading the mag strip.
This really depends on the city. In this particular city (Sundsvall, Sweden) I would say no and especially if you’re willing to bike to a commuter’s parking lot next to the bus station.

This goes for a lot of cities in Sweden, it comes down a lot to culture. In Copenhagen 40% of the inhabitants bike to work, in Stockholm less than 10%.
You know what's worse? Their bluetooth keyboard is not backlit so you can't use that as an alternative either.
A religion user should be able to handle that.
Azure Sphere: Fitting Linux Security in 4 MiB of RAM – Ryan Fairfax, Microsoft
Corruption thrives on the population's general disinterest in politics and education. To say Brazilians are disinterested in these subjects is an understatement.
I don't see any complaints about "diversity" in female-dominated or minority-dominated professions.

Then you haven't looked very hard. There are even programs with financial incentives, e.g.
http://www.independentnurse.co.uk/news/new-bursary-introduce...
I cannot agree more. I started when a computer did not have an OS, let alone 1.000 applications.

You got dropped right into the interpreter. There was not already a GB of OS loaded that you had a hard time to learn. All the code that was there was what you wrote (copied) yourself.

The processor & interpreter was about as fast as you could think, so it was easy to follow and step though (mentally). Reversing to assembly was the logical next step and since the programs where small, it was easy to learn & memorize.

After years of coding yourself, you'd stumble on the first OS, which consisted of the most rudimentary libraries that one could basically read & remember.

Years later still, the first rudimentary networking picked up. Slow and not business critical so again easy to experiment with. By the time I connected the first commercial network to "the internet" downtime of email for less than 24 hours was not even noticed.

I do not envy the kids who nowadays stand 0 change to ever learn the complete stack of code running on any modern device. From what I see, they all are "stuck" on top of a GUI with only the slightest idea of what happens between their mouse and the actual hardware (and even that is often not hardware anymore).
> The failsafe is pilots talk to each other in the air. There are lots of totally unmanned airports and airports have established procedures to follow if you don't have radio contact.

This makes sense, of course there will be contingency plans, up to and including shutting down the airport and rerouting flights like your sibling mentioned.

> Not sure about this airport, but in some (most?) places with a tower, there is a very low tech contingency where the airport can operate from a hut on the ground. Everything could be done visually plus a handheld radio and would obviously be slower, but it's there in case the tower had to be evacuated, or similar.

I think this highlights my point, since the airport itself is now "unmanned" in the sense that there is no one there to do the "legacy" way of visual controlling. This means that the analog fallback scenario is not an option anymore, which could be of small importance if it was not used a lot anyway before actually falling further back to other options.
I hated the "new" pre-2018 MBP keyboards.

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=dbg31415%20keyboard&sort=byPop...

But... I think with the new 2018s they've done some nice things.

You still have a stupid stupid touch bar on the 15s. I have a 13 without the touch bar, and it's a billion times better.

You still have a silly silly large track pad (and it has some bend to it in the middle... I don't like it at all).

BUT... the keys have just a tad more bounce to them. I think Apple did something to help with the dust issue, and a side effect is that the keys feel just a bit more responsive as you type.

Not saying it's great, or better than past versions, or even good yet... but it's a step in the right direction. And honestly it's probably all we'll ever get from Apple... so I'll take it. Hooray for keyboards that aren't quite as bad as the "new" pre-2018s!
I just don't understand why my card even has a magnetic stripe anymore. It's been years since I've seen any terminals that could actually accept it, it's all chip and pin over here. If I could get a card without the strip I'd gladly do so.
I was wondering that as well. Exactly what sort of leather garments are we talking about here?
The Economist allows two free articles per week for non-registered users[0]. You are not seeing the paywall likely because you have not hit that limit yet.

[0] https://www.economist.com/help/paywall
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Haven't gone through the series yet so I can't confirm whether the things discussed are applicable or not.

However, I can confidently say that founder driven sales efforts are important even before 'finding' the product market fit and will most likely even help a startup reach product market fit.
I've never worked in a company that hires based on quotas, but I have found organically diverse teams seem to make better products. Having people who are able to see that a product doesn't work for them means features don't get added/dropped as easily. I've never made software as accessible as the code I wrote with a disabled person on the team, or as friendly as when 50% of the team were women.

I suspect the reason is that building software that works for users is about asking the right questions, and more diverse groups ask more diverse questions. That doesn't mean an all-male or all-white team can't ask the right questions but in my limited experience it seems they don't.
In EU all banks have to implement 3D Card Secure - when making an online payment over a certain amount, or of an unusual type the vendors website redirects you to your bank's website where you have to authenticate the payment(usually provide an SMS code or answer some security questions).
My general thought on this: why allow tax reductions for giants like Amazon at all?
This Old-Ass Commodore 64 Is Still Being Used to Run an Auto Shop in Poland
The statement is true for all possible criteria.
That's meaningless.

If it were true then it would apply to selection by any attribute e.g. experience or qualification. The only way you'd get around that would be to include the attribute in the fitness function. You're then back to deciding what effect gender has on the fitness function i.e is gender selection good for the business?
> If anything, it feels better than the "classic" mushy MBP keyboard. But dunno maybe I have low standards.

The previous keyboard wasn't great either, but at least there was a little travel, the layout doesn't suck, and it's not nearly as delicate as the butterfly keyboard.
For most people I think this makes sense.

Personally, blunt candor can work as well. I do not let anything slip, if I think someone needs some direction or coaching it basically happens in realtime. There's really no need for a formal review if feedback is constant. Sometimes the feedback can be more general, I feel someone needs some hints I just give it to them.

I don't make it personal and don't expect people to take it personally, it's jarring at first but quickly it just feels really quite normal.

Technically, there are still room for performance reviews ... but if as a manager you're telling someone in a review something they're hearing for the first time then you've failed. They should know right away.
In the context of laptops. But then many people have never used a decent laptop and still comment
This isn't a loss for Brazil alone, it's a loss for the world. So much history lost :( really sad. It was on my list of places to visit before I die.
It's actually against the terms and conditions of Visa and MasterCard in EU to take the card away for any reason, if any establishment does this report them to Visa/MasterCard and they'll get their terminals revoked if they don't comply. It's inconceivable to me that in US bars keep your card to keep the tab open for example - it's insane that people agree to this.
> Who said that fitness in my description cannot include group fitness?

I did. Because doing so contradicts your conclusion. Though I also said it is not necessary. Lack of independence alone makes you wrong.

> The same argument goes for adding a worker to the workforce. Does the worker fit the existing workforce?

Which same argument? The argument you made was about filtering lowering fitness.
Now Hackers Can Spy on You by Listening to Your Screen
Done also at London City (LCY): https://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/travel-truths/london-city...
It's not a question of whether humans could exist in a much hotter climate, clearly that's possible (although perhaps not in the same numbers as in the current era). The risk is how much damage we'll do to ecosystems in a world of dwindling resources. To take one example, when mass hunger is widespread can fishing quotas be enforced effectively?

Widespread ecosystem collapse is a plausible risk.
I think there are three potential issues with this, firstly, minorities are being discriminated against and paid less in the scenario so it wouldn't be desirable on that metric. Secondly competition in many markets isn't robust enough to have an even playing field if you wanted to start a new company with all "minorities". Third, if the company was all "minorities" you would be drastically reducing the hiring pool so even with good competition it would be hard to hire well (which could wipe out any minor efficiency gains).
"Oh and shirt is mandatory"

So wait, coding without a shirt on is how a thing?

My god man.

If there is air conditioning, slacks shouldn't be a problem though shorts aren't extraordinarily unsuitable.

You can wear a shirt man.
I had a similar experience when I first bought my Macbook Pro 2017, but eventually I got used to its size and grew to like the larger trackpad.

However, when I switch to my old Macbook Pro 2013, they keyboard feels so much nicer to me that I feel frustrated with my purchase.
This was the setting for plot of the 2006 novel "Rainbows End" by Vernor Vinge.
If I remember correctly 23% of norwegian males under 40 are childless while only 13% of females are childless.

And that is for having children; I'm sure in the "casual dating"/monopolising the most fertile/attractive years of women the top males have it much better.
This is an implementation of pure form of gender type discrimination.

Employee should be of a neutral color, creed or gender.
> From what I see, they all are "stuck" on top of a GUI with only the slightest idea of what happens between their mouse and the actual hardware (and even that is often not hardware anymore)

I tend to agree with the feeling, but, on the other hand, only the really worthy will chose to dig in and really understand how a computer works.

Separating the wheat from the chaff.
Widespread distrust which resulted in a thumping win for the government?

Shutting down the economy... seriously? I was in the economy, it did not seem shut.

Unfortunately the outrage seems manufactured, like so much outrage nowadays.
Then there are those who will not just ignore the problem, but gladly regurgitate the latest denialist tropes:

→ CO₂ makes plants grow! It compensates for the rise of CO₂ levels!

→ We used to worry about the environment too, now suddenly it's the climate. The environment turned out fine! Acid rain wasn't a problem either!

It all boils down to not being able to accept that our society will (have to) change.
I think that's fair, even better than performance reviews, so long as it's happening. In my experience that's generally a rarity, and "replacing performance reviews with continual feedback" turns into "we'll post a happy emoji once in a while on something you said in Slack and that should be enough."
I think he's saying 80% of women want monogamous relationships with the top 10% of men :)
>or answer some security questions

Will be phased out soon due to regulation (PSD2) as it doesn't meet the requirement for 2 factors.

Some banks also allow you to confirm the transaction inside their mobile app, which is pretty convenient.
Your world class Y people should have valued communication. They should raise red flags every time they need management to remove an obstacle in order to increase their productivity and realize their full potential.
> How many couples will have more than one child?

I think this speech should be aimed at nations of Africa, Middle East and India. After all, they have way greater fertility rate than Europe, US and Far East, and they are also in greatest immediate danger from Climate Change.

Why this moot point is being made to HN audience, I fail to understand. We're on track to dwindle our numbers anyway.
I am skeptical on this. Yes, currently the desireability and price of central, metropolitan housing is skyrocketing, and rural communities are declining. But I think once technology catches up to emulate or near-emulate in person contact, that more distributed, more at-distance work will be more common. We are not there yet, but I do think we will arrive there sometime.

On a tangent, I highly recommend "Internet of Shit" Twitter account if you want to have a laugh:

https://twitter.com/internetofshit?lang=en
The lack of access to documentation was hard, very true, but then it also meant reverse-engineering was the only way to proceed, and from a certain angle, that was a good thing.
Anyone else missing context? The link opens to what seems like a Kindle related forum on mobile.

EDIT: Links to the forum post when I use "Request desktop site".
I feel that most performance reviews I've had have been at least pretty decent. Basically just going through what I've done the past 6 month, talking about what I'd like to be working on over the next 6 month and if there's anything that I should work on or might need to help me manage to do those things better. Often there is some sort of checklist that has be worked through, but I always get a few minutes to just talk in general about my work.
Of course that assumes you can select the best candidate from a pool. Feminists argue that there is bias that prevents this. However studies on the gender pay gap reveal that there's very little bias and most differences can be explained by education, experience, job choice, hours worked, etc. More recently psychological differences between men and women have been shown to contribute to the pay gap.[1]

My opinion is that affirmative action is naive and that society is better off to strengthen meritocratic hiring. Removing names from CVs may help women slightly but there's no reason to believe that men and women would achieve the same outcomes given equal opportunity.

[1] https://academic.oup.com/oep/advance-article/doi/10.1093/oep...
That's an extremely easy test case, and I've seen better results several years ago.
Humans aren’t cogs in a machine. Our value to an organization is not absolute and based solely on our technical proficiency in a single area. An individuals value is relative to the team.

Adding another programmer to my company would be less valuable then adding a salesperson. Similarly, adding people with diverse perspectives is more valuable then hiring only people that grew up in the same city, at our income level, with same gender, ethnicity, age, etc.

An assumption I suspect you’re making is that we already have THE correct fitness function.

They aren’t just trying to filter the fitness function, they’re trying to improve it.
I was only responding to the suggestion that quotas are "mathematical nonsence". I don't know if they are the best solution or not.
Babel Technology Launches AI-Based WiFi Translator JoneR Pro Worldwide
Here is a video of one of the founders yelling at their carriers https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ooTmdOyKYpQ