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The mistake you make is that you expect banning these specific words will satisfy their problem.

Time and time again this has been shown to be wrong. There is not some objective wrong being righted, there is just a subjective irritation being magnified because it makes people feel self important to have a pet issue they can parade around for pity and to gloat when they get their way.

Listening to people means listening to everyone, and that includes all the ones who have learned it's better to shut up lest they become the target of these moral bullies. Especially because you actually need to make an effort to hear them, as opposed to those 'victims' with suspiciously loud and wide reach.

I do understand it. That's why
I say no.

But take your own advice: when people say these neo-puritans bother them, and that the fix costs as little as just saying no to a handful of busybodies ruining it for everyone, why not listen to _them_ and fix it?

See, your justification is not a justification at all. It's just a rationalization, based on a preconception of what kind of offense, taken by what kind of person, is valid in the first place.
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Well partly it's neater to write the headline and grab attention, but partly it's because their research seems to be indicating that this is being used to target only men. For example:

>Our survey of 91 Uber ads found just one targeting only women; three did not target a specific sex.
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Writing clear and as-simple-as-possible code is one of the most difficult parts of programming, one of the hardest skills to learn. In fact, many programmers don't ever learn it. Some do not even realize it's a problem.

I could talk about people unprepared for the jobs they do, and companies and managers setting unrealistic deadlines, having unrealistic expectations, etc. But I think most often than not, the issue is that to really build good code, you need to have a lot of experience and plan and design really well from the start. And simply, most companies and products start as they can. If you start with a deficient codebase, trying to fix that later under heavy budget and time constraints is pretty much impossible, and it's so accepted that some people believe it's the normal way to work.

And even with proper design, clear perspective, and good programmers, you still have to be lucky that no one higher up the ladder imposes decisions that f*ck up all the good work done. There are a few factors more.

What I mean is that you might find all kinds of people, but in general, for those of us who care about what we are doing it's the exact opposite. We consciously try really hard to keep code as simple as possible.
Ask HN: Which career to choose?
So i have two options for internship, one in java and one in PHP(symfony/Laravel).

I already made a wrong decision recently.
What the future say? Which better to choose to go with? I mean it the start of the career, give me some pros, cons. I want to be confident in making the decision, so its wiser to ask.
Your thougth's and opinions will greatly help!
Nowhere near the amount of estrogens you get from drinking milk meant for a baby cow.

That saying prefer almond milk myself.
Yes it would still be a problem. I can’t speak for job postings but I can speak for real estate. There are certain things that you are not allowed to say in advertisement or as a real estate agent.

Even in jobs, you would be walking a very fine line if an obviously pregnant woman walked in and you started mentioning that the place you work is great for mothers.
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>Cultural differences across the US are miniscule compared to the differences between EU countries.

Linguistically and culturally, the US has massive differences within it. And the fact that the media landscape does not reflect the breadth of cultures within the USA, has been a point of contention for a very long time.
Given the factual amount of times it will happen, even this small thread is not worth it except for few pedants. And on architectures where it will, and on compilers that dare to make it happen — it will break much more than just your clever code anyway. All these ancient standard details are there only for history. In reality, you cannot even change the direction of memcpy(3) without turning the world upside down.
There is lots of positive news out there. Reforestation, garbage patch cleanup, Great Barrier Reef improvement. I’ve started prioritizing finding good news. Normal media channels will just get you depressed.
> She very effectively protected us from HR and whoever else wasn't on the team so we could focus on our work.

on contrary, bad managers use this excuse that they are protecting you from politics to hold on to important pieces of information from the team so only he has the complete picture of what is going on. I am highly suspicious of managers who keep saying this.
Yes, I would. I try to read what people actually say, and not leap to uncharitable conclusions about them if a more charitable interpretation can reasonably fit.
Trump and many of his predecessors have gone through the WTO and have very little to show for it. It takes years for any decision and by the time you get the result it’s far too late (see solar panels). Why should any country submit itself to a proven broken system?
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Amazon’s contract is non exclusive, and they offer bulk discounts if the bookstores want to buy through them. They’re just being bitter about it all.
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I first saw this idea on the cover of Goedel, Escher, Bach. I wonder how old the history goes?
Even if US demands are fair, going around insulting other countries and imposing tariffs isn't exactly a nice way of addressing the issue.
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Does anyone have recommendations for a site similar to HN for car news?

Thanks
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Yes, while in many countries Software Engineering is actually a degree that needs accreditation and in some cases even a professional exam if you need to sign off projects as the responsible person, on US apparently you can call yourself software engineer after a three week bootcamp.
> I find it quite worrying that devs already wrote a lib to fix the issue but didn't fill a bug report to Apple and shared it on SO.

It is worrying... but as someone who has filed my fair share of bug reports to all the major browser projects it's also understandable. Filling good bug reports takes effort, especially for the more obscure ones to produce small and reliable test cases. In my experience only the largest projects have the man power to acknowledge let alone address all bug reports. I abandoned reporting bugs to IE, Edge and Safari long ago because this effort often goes to waste.

I get it though, browsers are one of the largest most complex incoherent pieces of software everyone uses today, but that's also why I think only fully open source (well engaged) projects work well in this area.

As an aside: This is the same reason I think the browser needs to get simple again (without loosing capability) - RE James Mickens thoughts on this. Then browser diversity and man power becomes a moot point.
Another programming language. God! I have no idea - what's happening to the world?

Are people not skilled enough to propose or send commits to an existing or alternative programming language?

There is Rust, Go, Julia, Clojure, and many other...

What is the primary reason to create a new programming language?
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Any idea how Facebook handles people with rare gender pronouns? Doesn't Canadian law require use of chosen gender pronouns and Facebook operates in Canada.
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Thanks. He3 is actually out of business, but I have found someone else to help.
I think the (much, much) bigger problem with AMP is that it restricts the future.

If you're only allowed a subset of HTML otherwise your site won't rank which is entirely dictated by how fast you can get back to Google serving more ads, bye-bye HTML, bye-bye innovation, bye-bye open web.

When all websites have to be AMP as you get heavily penalised for not being AMP, why would you keep up the HTML version of your site? The internet will be forced by Google onto a standard that heavily benefits google, and heavily penalises the things we should actually care about, which is an open web on our own servers, not controlled by centralized CDNs, and content makers.

What's worse, how long before google start including "other people searched for" in their top bar as soon as you scroll up a bit? And then how long before google start showing their adverts at the top of your web page?
Depends on the country, as some do require a certain level for people to call themselves software engineers to start with.

As for the liability, I fully agree.
It really is very weird talking by yourself to a camera. The first few takes have the very obvious 'I'm talking to a wall' feel to them.

It's strange but it feels more natural to have a real person behind the camera and pretend you're talking to that person instead.
Just as newspaper/radio/tv aren't required not to post job adverts that violate the EEOC's rules.

http://panewsmedia.org/legal/legaltopics/legalemployment
Great example to add to the discussion. The post does mention that pointers may have some meta bits which I fully accept but without concrete examples wouldn't give much consideration for.

Reminds me of the recent underspec that was closed with signed/unsigned some operation or other. Better for the spec but can't imagine practically mattered.

If some unbelievable situation occurs on some unique platform/compiler remember this post. In the meantime do as we have been with using pointer values. Back before the System7 32bit clean code people put all sorts of stuff in pointers because we could. We know the costs but also remember that it had value too.
It might be interesting to know about the technicalities of such things, like computational ones. The Liverpool group¹ that recently got hand-powered records did a fair amount of CFD modelling a few years ago, and presumably more recently (and somewhat restored faith in mechanical engineering students doing research computing).

1. https://news.liverpool.ac.uk/2018/09/13/record-breakers-ulv-...
Good points, if a bit verbose. :)

Tangent: regarding "problem space vs solution space" issues, I find that many projects suffer needlessly from too much focus on one of these over the other. Learning to balance them isn't easy, but is critically important.
Except with property you have the utility value of having a place that keeps rain off of your head and with the S&P you have the utility value of.. getting to be obsessive about numbers on a screen every moment of every day. Whether that difference is worth the extra points is an individual call.
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Only in countries that don't have certification of job titles.
Sure, the Jewish Israelis celebrate and observe Yom Kippur. The Muslims in occupied Palestine? The military makes uses force to ensure they don't leave their ghettos. "Strong moral code".

https://www.timesofisrael.com/israel-to-close-of-west-bank-g...
Jaguar Forums (I think that's the site name) is analogous to HN but of course solely for Jaguars, because they break down so impressively and catasrophically and often :)
> Some people simply aren't apt for the real world. That's sad but it's the truth.

The same argument might have been made before women's suffrage, civil rights, laws around accessibility, etc.

Beyond physical laws, "the real world" is what we make it.
At last someone speak up about that very subject "doing impossible things" without being negative about the fact the community (of haters) forbids that behavior.

Innovation is NIH somewhat, somehow and that is a Good Thing.
> Disclosing a mental illness at work sounds like the worst idea you could ever have.

I dunno, I worked with a small number of people on the spectrum before and it wasn't like it required a lot of disclosure to get that.
Yea, it's way worse to put kids in detention than having them brutalizing senior citizens.
Another levine article and another top comment praising him. There seems to be odd pattern with certain types of articles.

> They see it as a noble but misunderstood calling.

No. That's what they claim. That's the PR that short sellers sell. Shorts like the longs love money and are in it for the money. Nothing noble or sinister. Nothing good or bad. Just money. And that's what stock markets should be.

> Say what you want about Bill Ackman, but Herbalife does kinda seem like a pyramid scheme.

Too bad Icahn and others with a larger bank accounts believed otherwise.

> I don't doubt they would probably also do really well as investigative journalists.

Almost every short seller loses money. Ackman lost money on his HLF short.
OMG the breakfasts.

I also alternated between backpacking and occasional posh hotels
I don't think people generally get called out for mentioning their positive impressions of people of a race or other marginalised group.

I get that they can affect expectations but we shouldn't allow ourselves to be paralyzed by the conceivable negative effects of our well-intentioned comments.
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I don't mind this trade wars to continue, after all there will always be dispute between two largest nation.

What I am worried is that this may turn into an actual war. And from what I can tell, China is not ruling out this possibility, it may not happen within next 2 - 3 years, but they are investing heavily into their military.

And if you look into the reporting from US media and Chinese media, they are both extremely one sided. ( But I guess that is... how it suppose to work ? ) Most US citizen do not realise how the USD works, and how currency works today. Most Chinese do not realise how closed their market are and their nation's unfair tactics. If tension continues.....
Not that this completely answers your question, but this is in the middle of the Canadian prairies. It’s very sparsely populated (less than a million in the province of SK that’s about the size of California - with 2/3 in the capital city). It’s amazingly flat. I can remember seeing thunderstorms over a town that I just spent 2 hours driving away from at highway speeds (~200 km away). It’s mostly partitioned out into huge, square farm land tracts.

Basically there isn’t much stopping you from building roads that run straight for hundreds of kilometers.
Okay, this article is good, but is missing some points.

1. Left-foot braking has always been a popular method of controlling a car in racing. The trade off of extra wear for extra control is worth it in competetion. Tech has now made it so the wear can be avoided by using digital logic, rather than its mechanical analog. On snowy days, or in gravel, I often use my brake and gas at the same time to help position the cars inertia in relation to its cg/moment and get a better heading and balance on the exiting end of the curve. Which is to say the car shifts its weight to be less likely to slide in a way I do not anticipate. Common in rally, less so on the streets. However many older people I talk to know the technique, while those under 40 seem not to. Perhaps it is a function of having astoundingly better traction now.

2. Having done lots of left foot braking, it is not as percise. You use your 'free foot' in an automatic to brace your body to give a solid refrence point for control inputs. Using both feet puts this all on your seat, and frankly they all slide and deform if remotely comfortable. You can mitigate by anchoring your heels and modulating pedals with toes, but some find this unnatural or uncomfortable in some configurations.

3. It can be learned, but it takes quite a while to get used to it. Took me at least a year before I was free of the jerky difference between feet. I think training new drivers would have the largest effect. If learned from the start it should be natural, just as a manual transmission is to me.
Seems similar to the YC backed company SigOpt:

https://sigopt.com/
Decided this time I'm just taking the iPhone Upgrade Plan path, and treating the phone as a service. $55 a month interest free, and a new phone ever year + roughly $500 yearly trade in. Also comes unlocked, and without carrier contract.
Do people really use Siri or Google Now? And how often?
So last one, with just one eye, will be the king.
Facebook is not culpable for what it’s users post. They are just as culpable when they accept money from advertisers as any newspaper would be.

Apple for instance would be sued into oblivion if it let anyone post a song for sale on iTunes without any vetting for copyrighted content.
Was that from actually using Reddit daily though? Or just Googling, and using Reddit as a result?
The poster above clearly didn't mean what they said as an attack or an attempt to set unfair standards for women, I don't think what you're saying makes any sense.

I work with a lot of gay men and I notice that they can often be more empathic and sensitive than straight men. Different groups behave differently and individuals can act however they like.

It's not sexist or homophobic to notice trends. We stand to gain a lot from noticing how people behave and reflecting on how we act ourselves.
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AlphaGo changed my worldview. It was the first sort of singularity that divides my history of the world into before and after. Now I don't doubt that we will rapidly continue to develop the algorithms and hw too that is all very different from what is believed to be known.
It's worth noting that you can absolutely apply every level of "sureness" within the same company - and such gradation can be very effective if applied smartly.
Did they look at the reverse as well, or would that not be shocking enough?

I'd be surprised if there were no companies targeting only women for tampons, various beauty products, breast health.
You can both be right! Most buildings could be finished quickly, but at any given point time there will be more delayed buildings than ones being quickly constructed. This is for the same reason that most people who go to prison in the US do so for a sentence less than six months, and yet the prison population at any point is mostly people with > 10 year sentences.
I just read one chapter, which I thought was OK. It felt more like a book on how the C programming language translates to operating system concepts, rather than a book about the operating system concepts themselves. For example, the chapter I read discusses malloc() and indicates that it allocates memory from the heap, but it doesn't mention sbrk().
Did they get a bonus or just a pat on the back?
"I'm not saying I have a better solution. Some people simply aren't apt for the real world. That's sad but it's the truth"

I agree with the parent that you really want to think through the benefits of reporting a mental illness at work. How you will be treated depends on your employer, your boss, and the HR people involved in the discussion.

However as someone who struggles with a very real mental issue myself and has managed or worked with other people who do, please don't get discouraged like the parent poster seems to be. "apt for the real world" is not a static definition. If you struggle with mental illness, do your best to make the cost-benefit equation of employing you positive for your employer (and society). It won't be easy, but if you find an employer or line of work where you have the flexibility to create some guardrails around your mental illness in a way that allows you to create value, you will be surprised at what you can achieve.

20 years ago I was a failed engineering student who could barely pass most classes but did ok at and enjoyed practical coding. 15 years ago, after convincing a very good grad school that they should evaluate me on the basis of the actual code I had written and my GRE scores, not just my academics, I became a failed grad student who could barely pass many of my classes but enjoyed almost all of them and excelled at some. A decade ago, after dropping out from gradschool, getting fired from my first job as an engineer, and convincing a startup to hire me at less than market rate for a jack-of-all-trades sales-engineer type, I started doing ok and having a ball at work. Most of my colleagues would have told you I was a mediocre engineer, but I created enough value for the cost-benefit balance to be positive even if barely so. 5 years ago, after my painfully discovered role became a traditional desk job due to events outside my control, and I started failing again, I quit my job and started a business. My business has grown to several locations now. I still feel like a failure every day, because I fail at tasks most ordinary people would coast through. But giving myself time by being patient and persisting has allowed me to find a couple of things I am better at than most people and create an organization around me that makes up for my deficits enough to have a positive cost-benefit balance for the world.

Most people who work with me would tell you (and some tell me to my face) that I am simply not apt for the real world. And yet my business employs scores of people and serves a real need in multiple communities. I would have put the odds of this happening at close to zero at almost every point of time along my journey.

Accept yourself, but don't resign yourself to failure. If you fail, learn a little bit from that failure and change the next thing you try a little bit based on what you learn. Don't stop trying to create value for the world. You will find your niche. And, as that brilliant a*hole with evident mental issues said, don't expect this kind of clarity when you look towards the future, these dots only connect looking back after 5 or 10 years.
Well this certainly looks to set start another cold war. The US was not going be the only power for too long. And I think China is in a much better position than the USSR, at least economically. Let's see how this goes.
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