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The behavior isn't ransom. The customer didn't buy a 100kwh battery and only received 80kwh. They never had a 300 mile range and they didn't suddenly lose 50 miles of range unless they paid extra.

They received the performance they paid for and the option to increase that performance for a cost less than full replacement of the battery.
I think the dentists are still in use :-)
If you buy a car with a speed limiter are you being cheated or can you remove it ?

This ruling says you have the right to remove that limit.
Probably 3 or 4 months ago I started keeping a daily list of tasks that I wanted to complete that day. I was using iCloud Notes but I moved office and am on Windows now so I just use Google Keep.

I'll add anything I want on there. Sometimes it will be Jira tickets I want to complete, it might be "email John about XYZ" or if I'm not feeling particularly motivated it can be as simple as: "Eat lunch", "30 minute walk", "clear inbox".

I love having a completed list of tasks and it really frees up my brain from remembering things and let's me focus on getting stuff done.
You mean cronyistic, not nepotistic.
I help design spectrometers. Every once in a while, a new idea for a mini spectrometer floats across my desk. Many of the ideas are based on silicon IC fabrication technologies or micromachining.

The drawback is the same in every case: The sheer amount of light that can pass through the optics of a spectrometer depends on its size. This in turn affects what signal-to-noise ratio can be realized.

These devices are certainly interesting, and performance is relative to requirements, so a novel application could make use of whatever sensitivity is made available by a particular device. But a tiny spectrometer isn't likely to be a drop-in replacement for a big one unless the big one is overkill for its application.

Still, I read these articles with interest, because my "size matters" rule is somewhat ad hoc, and there might be a factor that I'm overlooking.
Employees having sex with each other sounds like a case against remote workforces to me.
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and knowing that google will track and use their customers' data apple went ahead and made google it's default search engine for a couple of billion $ a year. from bing, who was their previous search provider. but not duckduckgo, the only privacy centric search provider.
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The executive that's considered to be most responsible for all the corruption in Well's Fargo received a 125M$ retirement package. The world is just generally amazingly unjust.
I've been using Linux for nearly two decades and the package manager is probably one of the most attractive features it has over other operating systems.

Keeping your software up-to-date on Windows is a massive pain and requires tons of manual work.

I guess people are more used to the package manager's way of working today due their exposure to app stores; but I'd be surprised if anyone wasn't impressed by how easy and convenient a package manager is after using them for a small amount of time.
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Calling it ransom isn't spin, it's disingenuous.

They paid for x range and received x range. They were given a standing offer to increase that range for a cost significantly less than the cost of replacing or physically upgrading the battery.

Now if they had paid for 120kwh batteries and received 120kwh batteries that would only deliver 100kwh of range then we'd be having and entirely different conversation.
> If an employee engages in behavior that frustrates, annoys, or confuses others, performance suffers, particularly in any role above entry level, where leadership, communication, and mentoring ability are part of the job description."

I don't see arguments in the thread that being generally insufferable at work is not a performance problem.

Most of the comments are about the fact that you can easily lose your job for being disliked arbitrarily by exactly one person: your direct superior.

This can happen to people who are good performers and team players.

One obvious example: professional differences, where an employees generally disagrees with his superior's approach. None of them is necessarily wrong, they just have different professional styles.

One less benign example: the manager is incompetent, the employee is a top performer, so the manager is intimidated and tries to push the employee out.
But why?

The fact that they date someone in their organization becomes only problematic if they coerce their partner into something using their position. Or if the partner accuses them of such.

Ruling out theses intra company relationships is like saying that you cannot date a physically weaker partner because you are in a better position to physically force him int things he doesn’t want.
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Even if the relationship starts all well and mutual, it can go sour. Then power dynamic come into play and the institution suffers. The only way to guarantee a safe environment is to prohibit these relationships.
I didn't say it was easy. It is, however, simple.

Please provide evidence for your claim that it's illegal to fire someone for banging the help. In an at-will state, people can generally be fired for any reason or no reason as long as some specific employee protection isn't violated. I have worked at companies, including a publicly traded company, that have rules like that, and the didn't see any problem with it.

You're right that there could be a lawsuit. People can sue for anything. But it's much more likely that a company will see a lawsuit for failing to protect employees from predatory managers and execs. So if lawsuits are the problem, then this rule would be a huge help in reducing the total number, as well as the PR risk.
If "conservative clothes" and "bringing your mom" are irrelevant, it should not have been mentioned.
I'm not arguing your question. I am calling it a lie to say Tesla was ransoming extended range.

They weren't ransoming anything. They gave the customer the range they paid for and never took anything away.
> your employees won't stop having sex with each other

This is normal, legal and by itself it is not harassment.

I hope that never changes.
Sounds like those squares were conjoined triangles.
>(parent) That's a lie

OK let's see where is this lie...

> (grandparent): Tesla set up DRM to artificially limit the driving range

> (parent): Yes they have DRM in place to artificially limit the range of certain models

OK no lie here. So it must be in the second part of GP's comment?

> (gp): until you pay them a ransom to simply let your car drive longer distances

> (p): they instead offer it as an upgrade path if you one day have a need for the additional range

So you just confirmed everything from GP's comment, where are the "mischaracterization, misrepresentation, and lies" you speak of?
Another clear signal that React alone isn't enough and should be used only as renderer.

Now get off my lawn while I tend to my rum*

*https://github.com/tonsky/rum
Andy went on to create the Essentials phone line which nobody uses or cares about.
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I'm not a lawyer but I would say so. The question isn't what they did but rather is it ransom or wrong?
You could answer this question. We have mlb.tv, amazon prime, hbo, Hulu... all different companies that produce a similar product.
At this point, is there a single FAANG company, or tech company of equivalent size or prestige, that doesn't have a toxic environment? I don't even mean contains pockets of toxicity because of the inherent size of the enterprise, but something rotten at the top or in the core, at the managerial level or in the culture.
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I'd like you to actually cite those claims you've made, because so far you've just repeated a lot of nonsense I hear from people that refuse to back up their arguments with empirical evidence.

Immigration is hardly the issue. Low-wage jobs exist because of the lack of labor protections for workers resulting in companies looking for the cheapest and most efficient labor they can, even if it means tapping desperate people who have no other options.

If you want to fix the problem, you start by increasing the minimum wage and having proper healthcare. Any other complaints about illegal immigration driving down wages is in my opinion deflection. Because if you remove illegal immigration, they'll just move to exploiting the next most vulnerable population (prison labor, people with disabilities etc)
It is actually mentioned:

“Repair of motorized land vehicles (including tractors) by modifying the software is now legal. Importantly, this includes access to telematic diagnostic data—which was a major point of contention.”

Along with this flabbergasting detail:

“You may find this hard to believe, but one major point of discussion at the hearing was whether letting people repair cars and tractors would allow them to pirate music and movies using the vehicle’s entertainment systems. In their 2015 filing, John Deere speculated that farmers might pirate Taylor Swift music using their equipment. Fortunately, the Copyright Office saw through that argument.”
Why so? If people are physically further away from each other, I would say the probability of romantic relationships forming is less.
FWIW, "culture of fear" hasn't been my experience at all, and as far as I know it isn't the experience of the people I work with. I can't speak for other teams/orgs (I work in the ML org) but in the years I've been here I could count on one hand the number of folks (at least among those I knew) who were let go. I don't worry or think about my job security; I think about building better software (and from what I can tell, the same could be said for my colleagues).

The article really sensationalizes the culture deck for dramatic effect, IMHO. It's intimidating at first, but if you're good at your role and treat your colleagues with respect then (at least IME) you have nothing to worry about. The mood is collaborative, not confrontational – and I've never witnessed anyone being treated with anything but dignity and respect. Again, maybe different teams have their own "microclimates" – but that's been my experience.

So yeah, my two cents is that the article sensationalizes things and deliberately leaves context out of other things. I really wanted to keep my distance from this thread, but it makes me really sad to see how successful the WSJ was in getting people to buy in to the picture they set out to paint. I'll say one more thing (at the risk of sounding like a mouthpiece, which I'm not): Netflix has been hands-down the best workplace I've experienced in my career so far.

On the other hand, I've learned that I should view other "culture take-down" articles about tech companies with a degree of skepticism.
One of the benefits of contracting/consulting is not going to those. Just sign something saying you can be fired for it and you're good to go (well, and don't do that stuff, too).
The role of IT and QA is also to shield the company from all kinds of liability: legal, process, financial, failures, continuity, etc.
Come on, you know better than that.
It's a problem whether or not there's explicit coercion, because the subordinate will always have a reasonable suspicion of retaliation.

But how do you plan to prove that no explicit coercion took place? Should they just video-record all of their interactions so that an impartial review board can regularly review goings on to make sure no harm is happening?

Or is instead your plan to place a burden on the junior person to report? If that's the case, you should do a little research on what percentage of problems are reported, which of those reports are taken seriously, and which of the seriously-taken reports see appropriate action. In those numbers you'll find your answer as to why it won't work.
It is very difficult for relationships in a workplace to not involve some sort of power differential. I'm speaking specifically of your working group so if the context is a programmer dating a researcher in a 20k employee company the tie between you might be so distant to basically be irrelevant, but in most other cases a soured relationship can always cause problems to employees and employers.
Does #including (non-trivial) Qt headers make your software a derivative work? IIRC there is a decent amount of actual code in some of the headers. Seems like a very grey area.
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You are the only one who has associated a sedentary job with being a loser or a blue class job with high testosterone. I'd appreciate if you didn't put words in my mouth.

You seem to be misconstruing a "tendency" for an "absolute blanket on all"
Hardly ever.
I think the parent is implying that, given how hard it is to stop employees from having sex with each other, it seems that employees want to have sex with each other, so remote work is in this sense a downside.
Google has a lot of right wingers. They just are closeted about it. Doesn’t make them “losers”.
If they are thinking medium or longer term, then the short-term slump may weigh less in their decision process. A visa worker is less likely to be ABLE to go elsewhere if/when economy or an industry improves. They are almost like indentured servants.
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> these situations typically don't turn out good when they get the public eye.

And you think the ones that don't have turned out better?
Squaring explodes differences.
> PNG is basically zip with some extra tricks.

Sure, if with "some extra tricks" you mean "four relatively simple scanline filters[0] that nevertheless Paretro Principle[1] the heck out of more complex forms of lossless compression".

Especially Paeth is amazing in how it makes gradients so much cheaper than naive approaches with such a simple formula.

Similarly relying on DEFLATE is smart too, as that means any improvement to that format can be safely applied to PNG as well, like with zopflipng[1].

[0] https://www.w3.org/TR/PNG-Filters.html

[1] https://github.com/google/zopfli/blob/master/README.zopflipn...
Same reason repairs that required bypassing HDCP were denied: it would weaken the effectiveness of the DRM implemented by current high definition media formats. The billion dollar copyright industry won't stand for that.
This is not about Essentials (flop) but about Android (huge success). Would you like to be paid for your most successful project based off your worst one? Of course without Google Andy would not be successful, but the same could have been the other way round - without Andy Google might not have had Android and Nokia would be still popular smartphone king...
Wait. Did you just assume something hasn't gone through a clinical trial because of how it sounds? There have been trials done of the effectiveness of elderberry syrup.
It's interesting how the title of the BBC article (and as a matter of fact, this Hacker News post's own title), "Google sacks dozens over sexual harassment", makes it sound like something that just happened, versus stats over the past 2 years that have just been reported as part of a response to a New York Times article.
I haven't worked at Google, but from what I've heard, politics becomes an even bigger issue. If you're only worried about your boss (and your boss's boss, presumably), that's like two people to impress. If you're going to get graded by a committee, not only do you have to do good work, you also have to make sure everybody on the committee knows you're doing good work; and you have to fight people on your team to get the opportunities to do visible good works.
Ah yes, the "Conjoined Triangles of Success" from Silicon Valley is a parody of this.
> your employees won't stop having sex with each other

The Onion covered this of course, curiously using Mountain View in their story:

https://www.theonion.com/waitstaff-tired-of-sleeping-with-ea...
Yeah, I know some. I said "tendency" for a reason. People in this thread seem to think I said "every and without exception".
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I feel very nosy for knowing this but it was the marketing manager for Google Glass. https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2014/04/sergey-brin-amanda-...
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How was Anne feeling? How about Chloe & Benji? They don't matter in the overall picture?
Ah, so it's more of a downside from the perspective of the employee, not the employer (which was the perspective of the original quote).
So I guess I was looking up peatbogs, they seem to be a large source, could we turn large areas of the northern continents into peatbogs? Seagrasses or maybe some micro organism I guess could help store it into calcium carbonate? Limestone. So maybe there is a way we could do something like that? I don't know, I just think it's a tall order and will need some engineered process. It's hard to see how.
At least Theo has a reputation for breaking embargoes. If he wants to get notified, he should work on changing that reputation.

[edit: It's probably more accurate to say that Theo doesn't want to agree to an embargo.]
Sometimes the disconnect is that your idea of quality work is different from your manager's. Although at the end of the day, that's your manager's fault anyway (because keeping that alignment is literally the manager's job).
> the days of Angularjs 1 and the beta versions of Angular 2 are behind us

There is still a _heap_ of Angular 1 code out there since the 1 -> 2 move basically meant you couldn't upgrade without a full rewrite. Both my last two jobs have involved re-writing Angular 1 apps.
I think it's sad that people have to go beg some "copyright office" for permission to do this in the first place.
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Maybe you can help me with this... I want to measure the quality of light in my home and office. CRI seems to be the right metric, and it seems that the cheapest option is a $2000 (Sekonic) hand-held device. Are there cheaper options? I don't need much precision, just enough info to understand that these lightbulbs over here are much better than those other lightbulbs over there.

I am puzzled as to why it has to be so expensive. I would think one can put a prism, project the light over the surface of a black-and-white CCD sensor and measure the light intensity along the length, giving a reasonably good idea of how much energy is deposited into each wavelength range. I feel like one of these can be made for $20 in parts?
Dude, how did you get "right-wingers are losers and there are none at Google" from "low-test is an insult used by ALT-right losers"? I wasn't talking about political leaning of Google employees at all.

I seriously gotta get better with my words lol. Everyone in this thread seems to be getting a different meaning out of what I said.
Get used to it ;-) You can still have some good discussions with people that captured all the shades of your statements properly.
I agree with that assessment, which I think is a pretty toxic view to have. Everyone is going to work to do work, get paid and go home. Two coworkers might be open to a relationship, but if someone is walking in with the assumption that work is a good way to find a partner then their presence is just going to degrade the working environment for everyone else.

(And yes we're all just human and such and such but we've got social contracts around maintaining a decorum so what you feel doesn't have to be openly expressed)
> Marissa Mayer got $260M for basically running Yahoo into the ground. (To be fair, it was already heading there before she joined).

Uh, so which is it? Did Mayer:

A) Change yahoo’s trajectory from positive to negative, thus “running it into the ground”

B) Yahoo was running into the ground when she took over

For the crime of failing to turn around the cluster fuck that was 2012 yahoo, I guess Mayer is forever destined to be HN’s punching bag.
Jeasus. Yeah thats exactly what I meant. WTF?
I cringe every time I read serverless, what exactly is that supposed to convey? That the code is so ephemeral that it doesn't even exist, or does the code execute on a higher plane of existence without the need for lowly hardware and dirty power?

Why every time someone mentions “serverless”, there is a post where people feign ignorance and “cringes”. Do you also cringe when people mention that there is a virus on their computer or a bug in their program? Words change meanings over time. From your post, you obviously know what serverless means in context.

Furthermore, I fail to see what real world problems this architecture solves. It seems to offer rapid horizontal scaling at the cost of complexity, performance, and vendor lock-in.

Any complex system you always have “vendor lock-in”. It’s just like all of the coders who have the nice pretty Repository Pattern just in case their business decides to rip out their multi million dollar Oracle installation.

Furthermore, I fail to see what real world problems this architecture solves. It seems to offer rapid horizontal scaling at the cost of complexity, performance, and vendor lock-in.

Lambdas are not just for APIs and it’s the one use case that I avoid using it for. I use it mostly to respond to events and stream processing with Kinesis.
As well as the first 5.0 beta, Gutenberg has also started to show up on the Dashboard as a prominently promoted optional recommended plugin upgrade for 4.x installs sometime recently (I noticed earlier this week and installed it to trial it immediately).

I'm guessing that Dashboard push may have motivated this being posted here.
This is an excellent point, not sure why you've been voted down. So now functional components can't be guaranteed to maintain their best property? Weird.
Popcorn worthy. I like that Cook called them and others out, and I also like this response. Both seem valid.
You are explicitly associating virtuous characteristics with "liberals" and suggesting that "conservatives" don't have those virtues.

Very divisive and unfounded IMHO.
What were the results? For that matter, do you have a reference?
Yeah sry if I came off aggressive man. Everyone in this thread misinterpreting what I said probably reflects more on ME than them. I need to get better at writing...
Enough (of both genders) were creepy and assuming/entitled while I was there in 2010. Being more beta, they tended to have difficulty getting laid unless rich and were more open to using/abusing any pull they were perceived to have.
If you look at the grammar rules, "gone" is a past participle and should always be preceded by an auxiliary verb. "Went" is the correct choice, though "gone" is probably more common.
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NASA source for this report:

https://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/198300...
The rich and powerful have always been living the indulging life since the beginning of time. I guess people have just misplaced their faith in seeking the moral compass from Google and its execs.
On any given line segment, the center is fixed. It's only perceptions of it that vary wildly.

What's also does vary is people's definition of the line segment, both directionally (what do liberal and conservative actually mean?), and where it starts and ends.

When I define the start and end, I'm typically not talking about centrism in SF, or globally. I'm talking about centrism in the USA. I realize not everyone here is American, but that may provide context for my statement.
I'm not sure about 5.0, but in 4.x, using the Gutenberg plugin, you can embed instances of the Classic Editor within Gutenberg blocks.
I didn't use the word loser.