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I don't get it. Why is this even controversial, let alone "fucking disgusting"? What exactly do you expect Google to do instead?

As I see it, they have 3 options:

1. Give accusers the right to choose whether to relitigate claims currently in progress, effectively allowing them to judge whether to restart their case from scratch based on how well it's currently going and forcing individuals accused of misconduct to be investigated twice for the same offence.

2. Somehow unilaterally force all current cases to be moved to the courts, removing their secrecy, and exposing the details of previously confidential claims to the world without the consent of the alleged victim.

3. Do exactly what they're currently doing.

Do you see some option that I don't? Or are you advocating for options 1 or 2? I suspect both of them would be completely illegal.
As the top comment says, information flow at the right time makes all the difference. When you do something nice, put something in your slack channel like "man I finally got this elastic search issues fixed. the search is faster now and it doesn't fail for certain terms` or something like that. a subtle self congratulating message and everyone know you did it.
If you have a large enough fleet, and log your ECC errors, you have actually built a not-very-sensitive and very expensive scientific instrument- a cosmic ray detector. Physics is awesome.
I wonder why nobody has tried to make the alarm clock-ish system form Between Planets yet?
The problem here is not Bitcoin per se, it is the current state of the real world, where anyone can "buy" and "sell" Bitcoin for legal tender.

Bitcoin, in a world where it is the sole currency, has the benefits you quoted.
I read Robert Heinlein's "I Will Fear No Evil". The book takes place in 2015. In one of the chapters there were characters who were looking for a freshly dead body and one of the characters suggested they could search computerized medical databases because "computers were growing increasingly interconnected".

I found that funny, I was reading that book close to 2015 and I thought, "we already have the Internet". Then I realized the book was published in 1970, before even the personal computer revolution. So then I realized the incredible foresight Heinlein must have had to anticipate that people would network computers.

In the "I Will Fear No Evil" universe computers are connected together in a slowly growing ad-hoc network. I think this was a reasonable prediction, most progress happens slowly and incrementally. "Revolutionary" change that happens quickly is the exception, rather than the rule.
> It seems more like they were looking for a specific person, instead of trying to intimidate directly.

That idea doesn't make any sense. They didn't search other rooms, and this person was a journalist that was covering a story that's more than likely embarrassing to one of their superiors.

It seems like they wanted to threaten and intimidate her in a deniable way. Their excuse was flimsy by design.
> Friston found time for other pursuits as well. At age 19, he spent an entire school vacation trying to squeeze all of physics on one page. He failed but did manage to fit all of quantum mechanics.

Is the page available to read?
Pixar really wants to stay out of the uncanny valley with their characters, so they intentionally design them to look "cartoony"--closer to the classic hand-drawn animation of the past. They want their movies to look like animated movies.

"Live action" movies try to make it to the other side of the uncanny valley. Usually the most successful efforts cheat a bit by avoiding human characters. Think Avatar, Gollum, Snoke, Thanoes, etc. They look so real! (If aliens or ring-wracked wretches were real...)

Where movies looks weird is when there are elements on both sides of the uncanny valley--in the case of The Good Dinosaur, the backgrounds look real and the characters look like cartoons.

This was surprising because Pixar is usually careful to avoid this. The sea in Finding Nemo looked amazing, but it didn't really look 100% real--it looked like a beautiful stylized version of a sea. Same with the environments in The Incredibles, as the top blog here details.
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Commercial development of codecs has put a lot of resources towards codec development, the ability to be compensated for that work enables continued investment, and the ability of standards to incorporate patents means that this work that can be used in broad-based standards. All that society has gotten out of it is cheap, ubiquitous video on a lot of devices that wouldn't have it otherwise without consumers having to pay attention to what video formats they're paying for using.
Time in the market is not good by itself, but can be a proxy for leveling. Someone could have 15 years of repeating 1-year experience and be a junior dev. Another could be out of school by 1 year and show tremendous potential and have shipped some great stuff and quickly fill a mid-level position. But time in the market is definitely a consideration. Not the most important, but, for sure, on the radar.

For a normal person, it will take time to develop expertise. Time for exposure to novel problems and time leveraged for (the opportunity of) growth.

After you get into an organization, you can level up quickly depending, to a degree, on the speed of execution. I also agree with you that it is uninteresting to gauge leveling based on code style, dependency count, and/or a favorite framework. However, discussions around those can lead to a better understanding of someones professional maturity.
You talk about not getting enough credit but want to be a manager. It's not a good trait to have as a manager and you will suffer even worse.

A new shared dependency is worse than duplication. Sometimes developers get carried away about doing it the right way and don't understand the trade-offs you need to do to make it tick. FYI - I am a fully hands-on manager.

If you truly aspire to be a manager you need to understand that tech side alone doesn't cut it.
Education. Make a thing that's simple, make it bug-free, make it customizeable, then _teach_ people how to do great stuff using it.
When I first heard about eCLipz, I thought it was pushing towards a single processor architecture for all three series. From today's article, it seems as though z/Series machines still get quite distinct CPUs, though. Do you know to what extend these processors are relatives of the POWER9?
The biggest I heard of was built by SGI (although it was just the husk of SGI which was was bought by another company which kept the name), now HPE. It had up to 32 Xeon sockets (so maybe 256 cores?) and up 24 TB of RAM.
Generally it seems to happen in response to Darth Vader deals "pray we do not change the terms further".

OS branches over technical direction disagreements are a closer thing but they generally aren't businesses.
I strongly disagree. What matters in the security field is the ability to program, a desire to learn, and an deep interest in security itself.
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Divide et impera, I'd say. Get a backer, someone that sees your values: your manager, your manager's manager, one of the senior devs. If you have 3 people in a room at work, there's bound to be at least 2-3 (hidden) conflicts. Figure out where they are and benefit from them: get your backer to help you with your task and when you present it, present it as being team work. While you're the person actually presenting. Your backer will... back you and you'll be able to stay a bit in the spotlight and you could use the exposure.

Or just find a sane work environment, which one is easier.
Seems you & all the fellow downvoters've mistaken my statement of fact for a statement of moral obligation...

Nope, it's the calling of statements "facts" when they are quite arguable nothing of the sort. Moral obligation was not at issue here.
Thanks for this shot of nostalgia that is rushing through my brain. Yes, I remember IPL from z/OS, working with RACF (Resource Access Control Facility), LPAR (Logical Partitions), and the complexity of Parallel Sysplex (clustering) all leading up to running COBOL and PL/I applications mostly for banks.

The TN3270 terminals, and the wild hacks of writing Assembler macros to translate those TN3270 inputs and outputs to a webservice :-)

I have never worked with the Power systems personally, but heard a lot of good things about it.

It always felt like IBM enterprise stuff that $$$$ heavy are in a world of its own completely disconnected from people who cant think in that much $$$s.
You can claim a lot of things that don't happen are dangerous. Skating on ice is dangerous, because someone could bring out a flamethrower or napalm. Flying on a plane is dangerous, because someone could fire a shoulder-mounted rocket at your plane. Eating food with a fork is dangerous, because someone could come up behind you and slap the fork into your throat. All of these things are dangerous possibilities that do not happen.

AFAIK, small startups do not get unseated by other small startups that poach their technology in order to ruin their competitor. Besides being quite unethical, it's very bad PR. Not to mention, someone else would have to be in the same position, ready to take the same risks, on the same business model, with the same technology, at the same time.

Risky things happen. But so far, I am unaware of this particular risky thing ever happening. I would love to hear if it has happened before.

(I will add the caveat that if anyone were to do this, it would be China)
Can I just say, kudos for being considerate, compassionate and inclusive?
> there’s no difference between ridiculously shitty code ...

I side with you on this because of something I see often: At the end of the day what the CIO (a purchasing manager or the budget signer) asks about is who killed the fire for the day. When you are the good fireman, no one wonders about the quality of hose you used ..
Still up thousands of percent since 1783.
HODL, buy low!
actually, this sort of criticism and shaming is exactly what causes things to become illegal. meanwhile, market veneration is both economically illiterate and used as ideological cover for massive crimes.
Tumblr like any website with image content is liable to have illigal images on it. Apple removing it, but not removing imgur, reddit, or any other site as an app, is playing favorites and making excuses.

Its difficult enough to have reliable, safe sites where arists can create, share in legal artistic pornography, but with Tumblr being forced to mass-wipe things they're deleting both sfw and nsfw content. Most likely based upon reports, which in Tumblr culture are typically fake.

There should be grounds for suing apple in mistreating the market in this manner, as this is real loss of profits involved, but I doubt it would work. Either way Tumblr is gonna lose a good amount of it's userbase.
Read the Dilbert Principle. If you are in too much of a hurry here is the Wikipedia summary of it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dilbert_principle
The situation seems completely unfair but you need to move on, life has some sucky points sometimes and a magic fairy isn't going to come down and fix things and set them right. I suspect talking with the management will only make things much much worse. You look much better to an hiring company if you currently have a job. Put your resume out and when a good offer comes in jump. Do not let the fact that you did great work and an idiot got promoted suck the life out of you.
Any intimidation might also be aimed at potential informants. A journalist might see this action as a sign to dig in deeper, but an informant might see this as proof that the local authorities will know if you try to spill the beans.
A look at Dfinity, the project teasing developers away from Ethereum
> I would be vegan if I had more self control.

Don't know the last time you tried, but the world of dairy substitutes (at least for me in San Francisco) is much better than five years ago, and incredibly better than ten years ago.
You'd have to ask them (after noting that preemptively out-of-court settling breach of contract claims with a large cash sum & an NDA is standard practice throughout the Western world).

I don't get why all the rabid SJW downvoters think I'm defending Google here? The "self-serving policies" you mention are that they maximise their bonuses by suppressing negative information such as this as long as they can.

EDIT: makes a statement that it's bad that Google implemented these policies, explains how their perverse contractual incentives led to these actions; gets downvoted to oblivion... hmmmmm..................
What would a "pump and dump" for short sellers look like?
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The point is that these things are free already. There is nothing to invest.

Linux took the creativity and hard work of several people. Nobody involved in it actually got richer as you might imagine people did with shitcoins...

People are investing into cryptocrapto like it is some fintech.
Yuan has already slided nearly 10% since May, and I think may slide another 10% within the next 12 months. Ultimately I am looking at 7.7 - 7.8 range.
Yup. Liquidity isn't something you need to care about if you trade something listed on an exchange, at reasonable volumes (neither very tiny nor enormous). If nobody else wants it the market makers will automatically take the other side of any trade at the listed buy/sell price, and keep the difference, that's their job.

But Bitcoin, BBS stocks, weird instruments that aren't listed anywhere, those you can only sell if you can find a buyer, if there is no buyer (or no buyer at the volume you care about) then the "price" doesn't mean anything at all.
It probably is not legally possible.

I wonder what legal standing a private company's "policy" has. Is it written into a contract of some sort, "if you are accused of sexual misconduct, we will follow policy X"? Are all those contracts now being updated?

Realistically, Google can handle this how they want, so I don't see why they can't change how they handle current claims (within reason, of course, I'm sure if your arbitration date is tomorrow, maybe it's bad to change that so suddenly). Of course, Google is going to want to minimize the public knowing about any of these claims, so they'll do what they can to keep it quiet.

I get the feeling that these policies have more value to marketing dept. than the legal dept. After all, there many things that constitute "sexual misconduct" that aren't illegal.
But Free Software is a reaction against Proprietary Software... it exists because some people don't want to embrace PS.

Hey ho. You go your way and I'll go mine.
Okay so I ran my program and I didn't manage to find the exact optimal median but I narrowed it down a lot. I'm assuming each bet is a whole number of cents.

I found that there was a strategy that achieved $6.84 with probability 1/2 + 1/2^10. So the median is at least $6.84 (which is 3.8 times the median achieved by Kelly criterion!).

I found that there was no strategy that achieved $6.87 with probability 1/2 or greater, so the median is less than $6.87.

I found that $6.85 and $6.86 could both be achieved with probability 1/2 but no greater.

So the median is somewhere in the range [$6.84, $6.855].

The optimal starting bets of these strategies show some interesting behaviour. For example if you want to have a greater than 1/2 chance of achieving $6.84 then your starting bet can be $0.22, $0.26, $0.31, $0.36, $0.40 or $0.50, but no other value. Make of that what you will.
Reading your post, the only incompetence I see is your management. So, to deal with that I have some suggestions.

First off, again, your manager failed you. They should have known who was doing what and who wasn't. There is simply no excuse for that. That is their job.

Second, what you should take from this is make sure you have constant conversations with your manager(s). If they're not doing their job, do it for them by initiating these conversations. Tell them what YOU have done both individually and as a team member. Don't be negative. Even when teammates fail you, find a way to be positive. That may just mean that you leave out the team part and focus on your individual part. This cannot become a habit, however.
Could you expand on that, what is toxic about programming culture where you are?
> then anyone who has ever taken crypto to work on a project, anyone who handled the influx of cash to exchange it for crypto by selling Tether (which is all of the major exchanges), are headed for a storm of hurt.

Why would all cryptocurrency transactions be tainted by this? Or are you saying that the value (relative to real money) would plummet?
> Unfortunately that's not true. If "shitty code that works" requires three days to be understood in order to make a small change that became a delivery issue and three days in a problem that can be solved in one hour are $$ that somebody is paying. In addition "shitty code that works" most of the time has scalability and performance issues sooner or later you need to address if you don't want it to implode.

I think you might be missing their point. From the perspective of a programmer, yes, these things are true. Code SHOULD be Good and Right™, and that is very easy to see and grok from a programmer's standpoint. But to a manager? These things usually have to be stated explicitly, and that isn't entirely the manager's fault. It is easy and pervasive in the industry to write crappy code that works for a variety of reasons (time constraints, incompetence, poor decisions from on high, etc...). Even the best managers have some degree of "out of sight, out of mind" because they rightly delegate the responsibility of making sure the code works AND minimizes tech debt to the developer. It doesn't become apparent to them (and by proxy, the business) that the code was poorly written until the shit hits the fan.

Also, it is unfortunate that you have to leave that job. In my experience in the industry, being able to go back and fix tech debt like you are describing is very uncommon.
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your whatboutism to compare a street gang to justify the Chinese intimidation. That's a horrible comparison. A street gang actually don't touch civilians because it attracts negative attention and feud with other Crips members.

The Chinese leadership will kill as many civilians it needs because it is the only gang in town. Unchecked power at the hands of the few results in catastrophic consequences for the citizens. I'm sure they've learned their lesson from Cultural Revolution but unable to apply those lessons because those checks and balances, once again, is unavailable because Xi decided he wants to be like Putin.

My only immediate concern is for the people of China. If Russia is a model of what a nuclear armed dictator with an inferiority complex, there's no limit to what Xi can do to his country. He's already half way there, destroying the economy and the rivals to consolidate power. He doesn't care about the well being or the economy of the country. If he did, his actions would show otherwise.
Kids these days. Clearly not familiar with the glory days of let-stuff-everything-in-xml of the early 00's.
this still doesn't make it not evil.
At the bottom most level it really does boil down to education and awareness. One could argue they go hand in hand. Even in western nations being educated is not enough, you must be aware of your actions. This is why I always point at legislation as the most effective means of getting anything done. Lead by example through innovation, investment into sustainable tech, methods and living and pass legislation that does away with the bad and promotes the good.

I guess to even get to this point we need to rewrite laws on lobbying to get special interests out of politics. Why stop there, might as well get campaign funding an overhaul to eliminate conflict of interest. Put in short term limits that do away with politics as a career choice and pass laws that promote it as civic duty.

To add to the recipe, make representatives directly accountable to votes against public majority with the ability for the people to kick them out of the office through expedited voting where a majority can remove a representative within a 48 hour time window. While we are at it, start imposing prison time for corporate crimes and start enforcing it. Add transparency to all political conversation online and offline for any member of the public to review. Face to face meetings are to be accompanied by a third party for documentation.

Creeped out? Yeah... so I think we need a total overhaul of values, economy, social systems, work policies and many laws to get to a point where we can do some good. Of course it al starts with education which is cut short by insufficient funding by said politicians.

Ok, it’s hopeless and we’re doomed.
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Existing (non crypto/legal tender) also has environmental downsides. Is there a serious study comparing the environmental downside of currencies (crypto and not crypto)?
Speculating here but if you look at the price graph this year it looks like someone was trying to prop it up and keep it above $6000. Maybe tether/bitfinex or the Chinese miners, dunno. But anyway this would require $17m or more coming in to the market each week to cover the mining rewards. Maybe that dried up and the buyers ran out of money, then once it broke people tried to sell out before it got worse?
It's a little sad these machines are so expensive. I can see it from IBM's point of view, there probably is not much money to be made in scaling these machines down, but still.
If only "leave the chat" were a real iPhone feature...
This has a lot of potential - imagine a "Book of many things" following the concept of this app!
Thanks - I found this very useful.

> From the Alius interview:

"The free energy principle stands in stark distinction to things like predictive coding and the Bayesian brain hypothesis. This is because the free energy principle is what it is — a principle. Like Hamilton’s Principle of Stationary Action, it cannot be falsified. It cannot be disproven. In fact, there’s not much you can do with it, unless you ask whether measurable systems conform to the principle."

This is a big kahuna burger of a bullet to bite!
Worth noting that a greater proportion of a whales body is fat, to deal with the cold cold waters... The size of the digestive system probably isn't quite what one would expect from scaling purely by a volume ratio.
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Nothing big ever got built by a bunch of self-centered loud mouths either. And these are typically the types that find themselves in these roles.

I think you're making a big leap saying "let them deal with the frustrations of relationships". Nowhere in OP's post does he mention disliking people. In fact he seems proud of the fact that people come to him when they have questions. You need more than pure technical acumen for people to feel comfortable coming to you.

Situations like these are complicated, and I'm not sure there's enough information to make a judgement one way or the other. I do think taking the "high road" here is not always the best course of action. If you're more interested in the success of your team or your product, you will remain ripe for being used by those more interested in their personal success. It's a toxic circle that's hard to escape once you find yourself in it.

My advice would be to heed the red flag and look for work elsewhere. If you are being leaned on as heavily as you feel, then it will likely become apparent once you move on to greener pastures.