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Just looking through the Product Manager section, I find it telling that almost all entries are “low” risk to the project, particularly the Sales Liason. The ones with high risk are about vague requirements, changing requirements without increasing deadlines, or being a people pleaser.

In practice, none of the six companies I’ve worked for has ever used anything other than vague requirements at all times for all teams, whatever gives the most fungibility to the product / sales side of the organization. Adding scope definitely requires amending deadlines, so I can agree with that, but a Sales Liason is low risk to the project? No way.

It makes me question who is writing this and what their personal perspective is for choosing the taxonomy of risks, which in turn makes this whole thing seem childish to me and certainly not any kind of broadly applicable way of analyzing people at work or risks that are posed.

Meanwhile, there is actual research literature that attempts to study things of a similar vein, e.g.

https://static1.squarespace.com/static/55dcde36e4b0df55a96ab...
i dont agree with the tracking that goes along with all of them. i shouldnt be recording my action to a bunch of unrelated companies just so i can give a few cents to a website.
> Not even sure how newspapers would be able to figure out that all those readers they are not seeing is because they don’t take micropayments.

By interacting with their users. I’ve written to newspapers in the past asking about their subscription. I remember one ocassion I did it with 2 newspapers. One replied they’d look and I never heard back. The other didn’t reply.

If I write asking if there’s a way to use micro donations and there isn’t or they haven’t heard about that, it might be a good idea to research it.

Another is following news about competitors. ‘We’ve increased readership by x% since we added micro donations’. Or following industry conferences where it might be discussed.
> The Distrusted: A Designer who has lost all credibility with the project team, leading to their UI requirements being ignored as they are deemed to be not in the products’ best interest.
It does increasingly feel this way, but I think (hope?) it's selection bias. In other words we hear about the psychopaths because they are newsworthy. We don't generally hear about the average CEO, because they are average and generally follow expected social norms.

At least, that's what I hope.
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Remote work is great and I agree it needs to become more culturally accepted, but almost every remote-only worker I talk to about it with has mixed feelings. The gist I get is that remote work has its ups and downs and usually their preferred ideal world would be having an office to go to but only 1-3 days a week, depending on the individual.
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It demonstrates the lower order of intellect left at Google. Now even science is just too painful for them to face. Can I still say the earth is round?
An Australian businessman and politician called Benjamin Benjamin died in 1905.

There's a current Australian politician called Grace Grace.
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That still violates point 11:

"People’s names are all mapped in Unicode code points."

It seems like it is impossible to address all these points. Obviously there's no way for me to allow people to enter their names which don't have any known code point. So at some point you're always going to be saying "tough luck, you must adapt your name - or come up with something - that confirms to these constraints." And I am sure people are clever enough to do so.
actually, google should do that. Review all their ads and give them a rating, then allow publishers to pick only high quality ones. But i guess they don't have the money to do that (/s)
If you consider the page code, you requested it and it’s bundled in there. Same with CSS and JS used for features.

In that case, you requested the page and allowed them to.
You probably need a good pair of headphones with a good soundstage to experience as intended. The effect on my TFZ series 2 isn't very pronounced or immersing.
Now can they make a real VS for Mac that isn’t a rebranded Xamarin?
Doesn't seem that way.
Mozilla shooting themselves in the foot again? Really, these people can't take a break.

What's worse is that both Google and Mozilla are equally vile, so what browser am I supposed to use? In the end I guess I'll go with Brave.
I'd like it if you were a bit more specific :).

This will remain a matter of interpretation and, while my reasoning may be sound, your interpretation may differ (much like those employees that pose that designing and developing a censored and spying China search engine app is consistent with "organize the world's information...").

First off, some premises:

- Information Retrieval, Ranking, Spam filtering, etc. are part of AI. Dragonfly applies to these principles.

- Publishing the AI at Google Principles and packaging it the way they did, allows me as an outsider to hold Google accountable to these principles, question their leadership, and critique them if they apparently skirt these principles.

- China's government spying on political dissidents violates international norms on surveillance.

- Google shut out privacy and security teams from evaluating project Dragonfly.

- Shutting out security teams makes it harder to build projects designed and tested for user security.

- Shutting out privacy teams makes it harder to build projects designed and tested for user privacy. Censored search terms are not transparent. You don't control which data of yours get shared with the government.

- Sundar Pichai lied to employees when he said the project was just an innocent proof-of-concept. There was no room for many voices in that conversation, because people lacked moral authority to form an opinion on the matter (they were kept in the dark).

- A fully operational Dragonfly project would make it impossible for Chinese users to use Google to find information about this very controversy (AKA: Google and its behavior itself becomes part of censorship)

- Human Right Organizations were correct in denouncing Dragonfly for its potential to do damage to Human Rights.

- Getting in trouble with the government over search terms that may denote a political preference opposed to the government causes an unjust impact.

- Censored search terms (without showing a notice: "Some results may have been censored it accordance with Chinese law") remove control from humans without any recourse or opportunity for feedback (or choosing another company). By facilitating a censored search engine Google can't point at a government and say: It was entirely their fault.

- A Chinese Google Search Engine which leaks user data to the government is easily adaptable to harmful usage (with little power for Google to push back/notice/monitor once deployed).

- A Chinese Google Search Engine will have significant impact.

- Google is deeply involved, making a custom solution, which enlarges their duties and responsibilities.

- The (user) benefits do not substantially outweight the potential for grave harm

- A censored and spying government-controlled search engine can be viewed as an information warfare weapon.

With these premises in mind, I see them violating all the principles, but one.
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Trivia:

- The Kumbh Mela's periodicity of 12 years is based on Jupiter's period of revolution around the sun

- It's called Kumbha mela, because Kumbha is the name for Aquarius. Jupiter spends an Earth year in each Zodiac, and the year in which it is in Aquarius is the year of the Kumbh in Haridwar

- Apart from Haridwar, the Kumbh is also celebrated in Prayag (which is the festival this article is talking about), Ujjain, and Nasik. The years of these Kumbhs are offset from the one at Haridwar. In particular, the Kumbh at Prayag occurs when Jupiter is in Taurus (rather than Aquarius). So it should actually be called Vrishabha Mela...

- The Kumbh that's happening in 2019 at Prayag is actually called an Ardh Kumbha Mela, or Half-Kumbh. It occurs half-way between two full Kumbhs, i.e., 6 years after (or before) a Full-Kumbh.

- Prayag also hosts the Maha Kumbha mela, which occurs once in 12*12=144 years. The last Maha Kumbh happened in 2013.

- The article erroneously mentions that Prayag is the meeting point of 3 rivers - the Ganga, the Yamuna, and the (mythical) Saraswati. This is incorrect. The Saraswati was not mythical - there is evidence for a Sub-Himalayan Saraswati-like river flowing into the Arabian Sea until 10000 years ago through the Rann of Kutch (see https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-017-05745-8). Also, the Saraswati is not described as having a confluence with the Ganga/Yamuna at Prayag in the Rig Veda - this is a later legend which does not seem to have any basis.
LOL...Substitute "parents" for "experts" in 2 and your comment is an observation of youth growing up. I think it's a human condition.
A bit of a bummer that is just Enterprise, but interesting that this is their primary market
I'd suggest you consider the Dell XPS line whether you need 13" or 15" laptop. Both laptops have good battery sizes, surprisingly durable coating for what it is, good keyboards, trackpads, screens... And both have a fingerprint reader which works just as well as touch id on a Mac. Oh, and they are very repairable because they're designed to be serviced on-site, so even after warranty runs out, you can service them with quite cheap genuine parts (which are themselves abundant on ebay, amazon, parts-people, aliexpress).

I do have a bias in that I've been a happy user of the two generations of XPS 15 for three years.
Google is evil.
Welcome to reality. The whole "google is ethical" is a mantra they've always said to attract naive programmers like you. The point is for anything unethical but profitable in any way, someone else will end up doing it anyway so why not do it yourself.

Morals only work at the scale of a closed society (be it a full country), not at the scale of the world.
I took an internship in college that was an hour car drive and swore off car commutes before even graduating. Now I do 45 minute door-to-door with transit and I’m quite happy. I can only imagine how great a 15 minute transit commute would be, unfortunately most places that close to downtown are expensive as heck in Boston.
Thank you, you motivated me even more :) (spent 6 months in India backpacking around and in the Himalayas, it is an universe on its own)
China has their social score built around tracking. People can't get on planes/buses because of it now.

Considering all data is saved forever, how likely do you think your country is to get something similar in the next 30 years?
There is no single solution. In terms of complexity required, I would suggest:

- Not having a field, if you don't need it.
- Having a single Unicode variable width field for "how would you like us to call you" (so not necessarily a full or formal name), with a maximum length of at least 1K characters.
- Having two such fields for "given name" and "full name", with the understanding that neither may match the legal name because of practical limitations. Which field you use depends on the formality required by the specific use.

If your business is related to certain government, healthcare, legal, etc. stuff you'll probably have domain specific requirements, but I could imagine you might need to be able to have several names connected to a single person. One scheme that might be useful in such a situation might be:

- Having a set of (description, name) Unicode string tuples (variable length, generous max length). For example, one might have:

{("Given name", "John"), ("Birth name", "Vera de la Cruz"), ("Legal name", "John Quincy de la Cruz-Stevens")}
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No, but it's Google's love of software patents that is spilling over into everything else, like popup books.
>But also, physicists claim that they do not deal in philosophy, yet the main subject matter of theoretical physics is a collection of old philosophical subjects such as time, space, the cosmos and absolute beginnings of things.

Geometry used to be studied exclusively by philosophers, but after a long string of successes the group of people who specialized in it got renamed to "mathematicians." Likewise at one point natural science was called "natural philosophy." Philosophy is the mother of the sciences but once the kids get established they move out of the house.

>physicists pick and choose "smooth" and solvable system and then claim to reveal the secrets of the universe.

If you are looking for knowledge about the universe, one hundred percent of it will be found in the form of "ideas comprehensible to humans." All of the secrets of the universe that we know are obviously going to be the knowable ones. If you spend time studying things that aren't knowable then by definition you are wasting your time, even if there is an ontological category of "unknowable but true."
rather than anything saving anything, I see it as a necessary step
Wouldn't that be solved with tags? Most time series databases support tagging values.
I knew names were hard but now am convinced they are diabolical. The only safe solution seems to be to store every name as an alphanumeric blob and forget about parsing altogether.
Designing am organization and keeping it running well are incredibly difficult. What you see as encouraging poor behavior could easily be poor management. I have never worked at Google so I do not know.
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What about Go in 32 bit ARM?
I'd take static image ads without the tracking.
Interestingly enough in the hierarchy of power in that context, MIT has more than Google.

MIT is free standing when it comes to their finances. They have a $16.4 billion endowment. So Google (etc) doesn't have economic leverage over them, such that MIT always needs money and can't afford to ever cross large organizations.

If you get three or four of the better schools together in the conflict, Google would beg forgiveness. They desperately need access to the best those schools have to offer, and they know it. That access and relationship is worth more than gold or pride to them. Money? They've got so much they have no idea what to do with it. Get cut out of critical relationships with elite schools and that can take enough of your edge away over time that you start losing in subsequent competitive rounds of don't be killed by tech inflection.
>I don't know how many users are still on 32bit. Maybe low power network devices? Older mobile phones (Go isn't usually run on mobile, but it's possible...).

Well, 16 bit would also be possible if someone took the effort. Perhaps it just shouldn't be encouraged.
Heh, sorry to be a nit,but CEO didn't quite make it to jail. He died while "vacationing" between sentencing & incarceration. Very shady, but history written says it was natural causes.
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The alternatives are everywhere - you just have to let go of the idea of replacing Amazon with another single, giant everything-store. It will be multiple stores.

I recently noticed that all my hobbies and/or niche interests are better served by specialized shops dedicated to the interest in question - whether it's studio equipment, computer hardware, bikes, outdoor equipment, fashion, music, HIFI, furniture...you name it.

What Amazon still does best is delivering common, everyday items. I don't want to register at countless, small third party stores to do one-off purchases of low cost, everyday items that don't really matter to me. Amazon with Prime still shines here. And no, since I live in a rural area going to a brick and mortar store down the street often isn't an option.
I generally agree. But experts could also stand to improve their ability to give meaningful actionable advice, separated from all the various information that may be useful as part of the broader discussion/treatment.

I asked a handyman community the other day if my furnace running 22 hours a day during the winter is normal and how furnaces work.

I got about a dozen "it depends..." answers that enumerated all the factors involving a house heating and cooling until someone basically said, "no it doesn't really depend. That's very much not normal regardless of any factors. You'd have to be in a really unusual situation for this to be normal and not warrant further investigation."
Since it is original research it will get thrown out in a minute.
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Note: This has affected Marriott's "Starwood" division.

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… all of which is futile as long as NSA records everything and their databases will leak one day.
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That point and point 40 ("People have names") can't be solved by technical means. There are two options here:

- You can make name fields optional for people without (representable) names
- You can loosen what the field stands for to "what you want us to call you": for people who don't have a (representable) name, they can choose an alternative, without implying the user's (lack of) name is Wrong.
That workaround is for the 50MB limit on zip files, not for the 250MB limit :)
In which case, what value is the digital tokens providing, when they can just be overruled anyway?
This reads to me like someone who has never seen a project die due to being stymied by unreasonable delays and forced technical constraints coming from devops or central IT, usually for reasons of their own political control or job security. This is why the cycle gets repeated and repeated where you have to break devops rules to innovate in some way that is deeply required by your project, you do so with great maturity towards the security implications, costs, maintainability, etc., of your new tooling, and deliver the whole thing as proof that devops was hindering unnecessarily, thus basically forcing devops to accept your changes, which is a horribly antagonistic way for it all to work, but it just goes on.

The problem occurs when devops no longer takes a customer service attitude towards developer teams, especially regarding how to incorporate new technologies into production. The developer teams are the experts of whether that new technology is the right cost effective choice for the project, and that needs to be respected by devops. Their job is to get it working in production or else find equivalent solutions that meet the properties identified by the development team as necessary. Unfortunately, devops tries to be involved early on almost like a consultant to constrain what choices can be considered at each step, risking that the company can’t benefit from the expertise of developer teams in identifying solutions.
I'm surprised this isn't mentioned, but there are a couple of possibilities here:
a) the Google folks listed did actually steal the patent, as described
b) the Google folks were working on this already, saw someone in academia that was doing very relevant work, and called them in to see if they'd like to join the team. Not clear how interview went. Unrelated to the interview, the team filed a patent when significant progress was being made.

Correlation != causation, so unless there's evidence that the author had a super specific take on electronics in popup books where the probability of someone independently working on the exact same thing is very low, how can we jump to the conclusion that it must be explanation A?

Disclaimer: I work at at El Goog, but these views are obviously my own. It's entirely possible that explanation A is the truth in this case, but it seems like people are taking it as a foregone conclusion
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How could the same microstate be part of different macrostate? Like, if I described the microstate of a drop of water, wouldn't it have, as a whole, one temperature? I thought that a macrostate could have many different microstates, but not vice versa
> I knew names were hard but now am convinced they are diabolical.

That's a pretty common theme of more or less any datapoint evolved through human cultural history, because you're dealing with divergent cultures and cultural mores.

> The only safe solution seems to be to store every name as an alphanumeric blob and forget about parsing altogether.

That is absolutely the recommendation. Depending on your use case you may e.g. ask for a name and a "name of address" (possibly defaulting to the regular name) so you don't display "Hello, Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Ruiz y Picasso" on every screen or use that in every notification email or whatever.
The bonuses are actually not that large. The real motivation is to have patents to put into your promo packet to help you the next time you apply for promotion.

I had 2 patents issued when I was at Google. As best as I can recall, the bonus for first one was nice ($5K?), and then the second was much smaller ($1K). I'm not sure how far the reward decays (I do not recall if it reaches zero). I remember thinking at the time that the Google patent bonuses were much smaller than patent bonuses at other companies, as a friend at Red Hat was making a killing via patent bonuses.

However, I'm sure the patent lawyers made a lot
Aaaand it will also be the dirtiest water you will ever walk over.
Of course I believe that Python (etc) can replace PHP and do a better job. Isn’t that the entire topic? There’s no question in my mind whatsoever. I stopped using PHP in favor of Python in 2011 and would not consider reversing that under any circumstances. I’m quite experienced with both languages and PHP utterly lacks elegance. It’s not even close to something I’d consider using or supporting. Not sure what your perspective is based on.

I mean, I’d never consider eating at McDonald’s under any circumstances whatsoever, but somehow they stay open and people appear to patronize their stores intentionally. So, tastes vary. If you like a bunch of dollar signs, semi colons, illogically arranged standard library, endless inconsistencies and poorly thought out syntax, don’t change a thing.

Where is PHP popular? Or standard? I’m not even sure what you’re referring to. People still use PHP?

Hmmm... https://www.codingdojo.com/blog/7-most-in-demand-programming...

Okay, so it’s way behind Python, JavaScript, C# as far as common web programming languages. Beating Perl. Sounds about right for something as outdated as PHP.

My recommendation to you is to hurry up and learn how to setup your web server for Python.

https://hackernoon.com/top-3-most-popular-programming-langua...

Here, Python is noted as surpassing PHP in popularity in 2017. I guess that was the stack overflow survey. This is based on searching for 1 minute.
Requesting the code doesn't mean I'm obliged to run all of it. If you serve data to my computer I am free to do whatever the hell I want with it, if you don't like that, don't serve me the data.
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So I haven't yet had the chance to do it myself, but yes I'd look at f2py first and how to integrate it with Numpy.
Actually I just found out a video on the related idea where halting probability is proposed to be 1 (the argument uses genetic programming techniques): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fst40OxKX7o
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There is a project that does attempt to disentangle musical instruments and voices in the waveform domain that is interesting,
http://jordipons.me/apps/end-to-end-music-source-separation/

...such that the results could be flanged and recombined separately. But as you hear in their demos, any recombined result would be a Picasso painting as compared to a photograph, maybe interesting though.
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