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Thanks for linking this, I'm currently working on designing an introductory python course. What background are students expected to have for CS61A? Is it expected to be students first introduction to python?
Same.

Whenever evaluating a programming font, it’s really just a question of how similar to Inconsolata it is.
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ÖBB restarted night trains between Berlin and Vienna last month.
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I'm looking for the essay "High Technology Innovation: Free Markets or Government Subsidies?" by TJ Rodgers
It's not available on this link: http://www.cypress.com/?rID=34993
Maybe I live in a bubble, but IMHO investment statistics shouldn't be divided in only male and female. I'd also be interested in:

- country of origin (e.g. immigrants, I'd imagine a lot of them to be Indian or first or second generation immigrants of some sort)

- Domain/Field

- Applications/vs. accepted investments. I think the ratio might be a lot more important than the actual number of investments.

Tracking half that information is probably illegal in the US.

Another thing that rubs me the wrong way is the use of the word Mafia. I think clique is the right word. Sure, I would like to be a part of that club as well and yeah I'm jealous as well, but calling people that profited from a tech boom they actively participated in a criminal organization is a bit of a stretch.

- a hierarchically structured secret organization allegedly engaged in smuggling, racketeering, trafficking in narcotics, and other criminal activities in the U.S., Italy, and elsewhere.
(in Sicily)

- ( lowercase )a popular spirit of hostility to legal restraint and to the law, often manifesting itself in criminal acts.

- a 19th-century secret society, similar to the Camorra in Naples, that acted in this spirit.

- ( often lowercase ) any small powerful or influential group in an organization or field; clique.
I agree an animal in a zoo can do all those things, but an animal in the wild (usually a good example of being free) can do them, too, and to a much greater degree. I do not quite understand how the comparison works better for a caged animal as opposed to a free one. Draw a big enough fence, and everyone's always been in a cage?

Agreed that our world is manipulated around us, but I think the manipulations are much less influential than (a) the difference in society between now vs 500 years ago (and vs where we will be in 100 years) and (b) what we choose to believe and want for ourselves by thinking critically. Still, I do wonder sometimes about the things we choose to believe vs what society convinces us to believe.

How far off the mark am I?
>> It seems sensible, at the very least, to ensure their research meets the highest standards of rationality just as they ensure STEM meets high ethical standards.

Thank you for clarifying. But, why is that anything to do with STEM researchers, or researchers from any other field, than the fields in question? What are we, the guardians of scientific rationality? If a field is full of nonsense, it's up to its community to fix it. If they don't see the problem- well, that, too, is their problem.

You and other commenters here sound like you think a problem in, e.g., gender studies is a problem for all of academia. I really don't see why.

Edit: to clarify- I don't see how the gender studies etc fields "ensure that STEM meets high ethical standards". If such critique is really common among the humanities, at least my field is completely ignoring it. And I don't see how we can be forced to pay attention if we don't really care to.

In short- they can say what they like. Why should I care?
The difference is so high inside of London compared to an hours train away that it's not even on my radar any more to even look for jobs in the UK outside of London. I sat a jump of 2/3rds in salary when moving to london.
Could you point to a description of the protocols and formats for the 3D data in that documentation please?
I've seen a similar story(video) with Judge Judy pop up on reddit a few times.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IqZKFzFZEqc
They arent a 'mafia' if they have 0 whacks under their belt
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Yeah, drugs can be cut with some horrible things. The worst offenders are dealers at large events e.g. festivals where they easily get away with selling drugs cut with (inert at best, toxic at worst) adulterants to increase volume and still sold at great markup.

This is one of the reasons I hugely support legalized drug testing, and having law enforcement keep out of the way of drug testing orgs, because it's a public health risk.

Reagent testing kits are pretty easy for the individual consumer to buy (legally) and test their substances with before use.

In the UK, the charity The Loop is making great strides with testing and harm-reduction awareness, they've been running stalls at large festivals for a few years now and have a few permanent centers in large cities. When they discover drugs being sold with dangerous adulterants, they make it known on social media, and relay the info to paramedics and welfare. Has definitely saved a few lives!
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Hmmm, I had no idea this was a thing. Will give it a try!
What is "evidence" if not "facts"?

Theory is always changing and improving, as it should, but facts are the foundation for sound theory.

AOC is arguing that what's important is that the theory be appealing, whether or not it fits the facts.

If STEM operated that way nothing would work.
>> "Apple took a lot of flak for not having multitasking, but to they credit they took the time to build explicit APIs that allowed apps to handoff certain whitelisted tasks"

iOS's support for background tasks is still shit. This is why some apps have been abusing the location API to ensure that background tasks don't get killed. Apple deserved all the flak it got and it still does.

_Example 1:_ fetch email (without push) for any non-Apple email app will not work reliably, because the app can get killed. You have to rely on Apple's built-in notification support, but this means that a server-side connection needs to be maintained.

As a result, if you want reliable mail delivery without using Apple's Mail, you have no way but to share your username and password with third-party app servers which you don't trust. For example: Airmail or Canary Mail.

Of course, Apple's own Mail has no such restrictions because it is a special part of the OS. This is no surprise however, since Apple has been actively hostile to alternatives for their own apps.

_Example 2:_ backing up photos and videos (with Dropbox, Google Drive, etc).

There's no way to ensure that your photos get backed up without making an effort to keep the app active, in the foreground, with the screen on, or without the app developer abusing the location API, which Dropbox has been doing.
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yes and other things. its just put to the background. there are others but the concept mostly remains the same.

rss is nice as a universal tool to follow things forums/podcasts/news.
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If a patient does not want to pay for a needed service, such as a knee replacement, but still expects a physician to provide that service with no payment, the patient will be able to file a complaint against that physician in order to take that physician's ability to make a livelihood?

Furthermore, if that physician later tries to practice without a license, the government can step in and arrest that physician, using armed police, because that physician was breaking the law?

Is your assumption that all physicians are either employees of the state or state-authorized hospitals? What about self-employed physicians and freestanding outpatient surgery centers?
I don't know how reliable Payscale is but it's showing software development salaries in Germany to be 2x those in Poland.
This is the clearest explanation of the distinction I've read, thanks.
Can I run XMPP or IRC on an iphone by now or does it still only receive messages when foregrounded?
Telegram isn't anymore encrypted than Skype by default.
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The book 'Never Lost Again' (2018) tells the keyhole/Google Maps story line. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35820393-never-lost-agai... Actually I left with the impression nobody involved had a good plan what Google Maps should be after launch. API was an afterthought.
"mindbogglingly huge" is an incredible overstatement. It's not easy to deal with malicious e-mails, but it's also not some unattainable end-goal that only a huge corporation can achieve. A single very motivated person can do it with significant effort, or a small team (3-4) people can do it with average effort (in the setup phase. Maintenance is a 1-2 people affair, and not even fulltime).
Well, it is enforced by competition. Not every market player is going to be rational, though. And it was rational for the CEO to try to pay lower than SFBay pay, but maybe not to bail on the negotiation entirely.
This is ridiculous and incredibly unfair to the service workers. You're not sticking it to restaurant owners by refusing to tip, you're just being an asshole.
Paypal - 1998.
They're talking about PayPal mafia [1] in the article. So it's specifically about PayPal, Confinity and X.com.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PayPal_Mafia

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confinity

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X.com
The article indicates that this is what the group is already known as, it didn't come up with the term.

That said, "a popular spirit of hostility to legal restraint and to the law" sounds indistinguishable from how AirBnB, Uber & co operate.
In fairness an exception is made for ActiveSync. I wonder how that is handled at the OS level.
> In that case you wouldn’t opt-in to beacon notifications.

Never have, got 'location related alerts' a few times before I figured out how to switch them all off, without ever having opted in.

To be fair I have no idea if these were BLE related, but they were annoying.
What?

The system you’re saying “evolved out of the manufacturers”, runtime permission requests, is from “core Android” all they way back at 6.0

And the problem has almost never been users blindly revoking permissions, it’s blindly granting permissions.

The problem the parent comment mention isn’t the method of asking for permission, it’s the fact there literally is not a permission.

And Android already has built in “active” battery management with Doze, if anything manufacturers are ruining it with poorly coded “optimizers” that do dumb things like kill their own alarm apps...

And even if Android did add a permission to allow an app to do whatever it wants in the background and kill the battery as much as it wants, manufacturers can’t be bothered to write optimizers that don’t kill a music playing app while the user listens to music, why would they bother respecting a permission they didn’t make?
The most important I can think about right now is a CLI Mac app to install apk/ipa on devices (iOS and Android).

You see, my company has about 10 apps, all sort-of maintained, that we manually test on several devices for each single feature (because not having bugs is very important).

Previously, devs (we are only 2 devs) were disturbed all the time to build apps and install them on specific devices.

Because I was fed up being disturbed all the time, I automated all builds, then created a CLI app to install the nightly build on all USB-connected devices at once. Then teached the QA guy how to SSH onto the build machine and invoke the command to install.

It's used daily, several times a day.
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My understanding from the OP website is that this is ineffective for certain popular phone vendors' customizations. In particular, the Nokia phone listed comes preinstalled with an app that aggressively shuts down any running process, whitelisted or not, if the screen has been off for 20 minutes. There's simply no way to stop this behavior apart from gaining root and uninstalling the battery "saving" app, or flashing a stock Android image that doesn't contain it.
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> But apps can tell when their permissions are denied, so some of them straight out refuse to start unless you give it all the permissions it wants.

I'm pretty much fine with this, though the data-hostage situation you describe does seem bad.

You're right that from a user control perspective, the cyanogenmod approach is likely best.
perhaps occluded since this is focused on introductory computer science students?
"IT boom" sounds more generic though so I wasn't sure, I am not as familiar with the PayPal Mafia term till this article came about. I may of heard it briefly in the past and dismissed it. I was aware of some of those people running PayPal once upon a time, but I didn't really think too much about it.
The point she is making is that playing 'gotcha!' with relatively minor errors (in this case misinterpreting 21 trillion dollars worth of unaccounted for income AND expenditure as merely 21 trillion dollars of cash unaccounted for) misses the greater conversation about huge military spending vs civilian spending.

Sure you can spend your life being pedantic about things and us nerds commonly fall in to that trap, but it doesn't engage the conversation in a meaningful way and is very petty.

The reason I linked it is because the larger back-and-forth with Cooper where she admits facts are important and talks about when she makes mistakes provides colour that is missing from the misleading snipped quote "being morally right is more important than facts".
And my point is they founded companies without taking money from themselves. So anybody else should be able to do the same as they did.

Further more, why is their money better for founding companies than somebody else's ?

On top of that. What is the suggestion? Sorry Uber I have already invested in my quota of companies founded by men ?

Even more being founders is not a job position nyou hire for. You have to have something to have a idea and plan. The assertion that they are telling women with amazing ideas that they won't invest them because they are woemen is silly.

Not every idea is a good one. They fund founders who they think have good ideas.

This whole article is silly and flame bait. I wish I had never replied.
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An undo button would definitely help, especially if it is able to undo multiple times.

Thanks for the fast help! I really appreciate it, and it will make me even more likely to keep on using Feeder in the future
The story would be more (or less) compelling if a comparison was made to a wider group of VCs and/or an index of VCs who are credited for investing in female founders.
Postal Inspectors have some strange powers (read up about Comstock laws) - also in the UK BT Security (aka SD or IB) inherited quasi legal powers from its days as part of the post office - you did not want to be investigated by them.
Wong Kar-Wai grew and made his main films in Hong-Kong, which was not part of China (AKA People's Republic of China). I believe most of his actors spoke Cantonese, not Mandarin. Since these languages are mutually unintelligible, it's of little use to the OP which was learning the latter.
The more you think about salary based on location the less it makes sense. I got an offer for FB London that is as half of offer for bay area. Where does that $$$ go? Maybe some tax, but then a bay area office is also more expensive. I'd be doing the exact same work.

Coming from a freelance perspective, the only equation should be 'how much value do I provide company X, how much of that do they give back'
It seems like there can be a >100,000USD difference in total compensation. Take it with a grain of salt, but there's some self-reported numbers at https://www.levels.fyi

If you click on an individual position, you can filter reports by location. If I were a SWE working for Google/Facebook/Uber in London, I'd be irked.
Asserting that "anyone can do X" and then observing that very few people do X in reality: don't you think there's a contradiction here?

Even if I just read bits of information from Thiel's bio on wikipedia, I see quite a few "not everyone" moments:

" With financial support from friends and family, he was able to raise $1 million toward the establishment of Thiel Capital Management and embark on his venture capital career."

"his luck changed when Max Levchin, a friend of Nosek's, introduced him to his cryptography-related company idea, which later became their first venture called Confinity in 1998"
I don't think the 8-bit CPU instruction sets were designed with code-generation for high-level languages in mind, but to make it easier to write assembly by hand.

And each 8-bit CPU had its specialties, and it wasn't uncommon that computers were designed around those specialties.

For instance when you look at the video memory layout of Z80 computers like the ZX Spectrum or CPC, those often have a weird non-linear arrangement, which only makes sense with the special 16-bit register pairs on the Z80.

E.g. when the 16-bit register pair HL is used as a video memory address, the memory layout was often such that H and L could basically be used as X and Y coordinates. E.g. incrementing L gets you to the next character on the same line, and incrementing H to the first pixel line of the character line below.

The KC85/4 (East German home computer) even had a 90 degree rotated memory layout of 320x256 pixels, 8 horizontal pixels grouped in a byte, so the video memory was a matrix of 40 columns by 256 lines.

Put the column (0..39) into H, and the line (0..255) into L, and you have the complete video memory address (or rather offset, H must 0x80 + column, because video memory started at 0x8000). Increment or decrement H to move to the next or previous column, and L to get to the next or previous line.

edit: messed up the number of columns, it's 40, not 80 :)
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I don't disagree and to be honest Uber did actually operate like a Mafia. Although I don't know if that's still the case. Rarely do we read it being labeled that way however.

And while the group is called PayPal Mafia, the article specifically keeps using that term over and over.

Besides the 5 times PayPal Mafia has been used in the article in compound there is a total 24 times the Mafia word has been used alone. That's a very clear framing of the article and most paragraphs contain it at least once.
Wow that is an interesting one. I thinking I might love it. I’ll give it a try.
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Have you seen Fennel? https://fennel-lang.org/
A much better (in my mind) solution to your backpacking battery life issue is to carry a phone with a removable battery. If you're turning off all services including calls and SMS, there's simply no reason for the device to be powered on at all, and removing the battery guarantees there's not even a trickle of power being drained. For your alarm, well I assume you wear a watch backpacking, so you can use its alarm feature.

Of course, then you have the issue of finding a quality midrange or higher end phone with a removable battery in the first place. They are an endangered species due to the thinness war.
Thiel got started with just a million dollars from his family. Surely anyone can do that, right?

> The assertion that they are telling women with amazing ideas that they won't invest them because they are woemen is silly.

The judgement of "amazing" is extremely subjective and vulnerable to unconscious bias on the part of those being pitched to.
It's also a bit weird. Where I live is very expensive and far away from family but I live here because it's a nice area in proximity for jobs.

What's to stop me just moving somewhere cheaper after I get the remote job tired to location? Are they going to renegotiate with me? What if I just forward my mail and don't tell them.

Further still, there are always expensive areas in poorer places and cheaper areas in expensive places. Are these companies going to start auditing our finances before they discuss renumeration?
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So 13 percent of their investment targets had at least one female founder which corresponds with the industry as a whole quite closely (15.5 percent).

They don't seem to be contributing either way, just following the status quo. Primary reasons may just as well lie elsewhere. Are less females trying to raise capital? Or are they raising capital differently that may cause this effect (different industries/motivations/methods)?
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It depends heavily on the stealth used; a distributor could easily put a small quantity of drugs in a cheap object that weighs several pounds.
On-site-only is a lot more productive, we just like to pretend otherwise because we wish it wasn't?
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Example 1 has been solved with Background App Refresh a long time ago [1]

Example 2 should work fine with the background mode declared [2]

Both these APIs are pretty old... is there something I'm missing?

[1] https://developer.apple.com/documentation/uikit/core_app/man...

[2] https://developer.apple.com/documentation/foundation/url_loa...
> it jarred me how often the word "race" appears in the text

like... 6 times on 225 pages?
Social networks are taking the place of RSS? Ugh.

RSS allows intelligent selection of what you put in front of yourself every day. I suppose Social media could be used in the same way, but I don't think anybody does it.
My entire full-stack web framework because it's currently what's used for all my commercial projects.

It has been the most beneficial project to me both financial but also in terms of gaining knowledge.

It's the most important code I've ever written because while some would say you shouldn't reinvent the wheel, by reinventing the wheel I have made my overall performance and knowledge ten times better.
> It isn't always a win win.

Agreed. Especially with less experienced folks, remote work can be hard because there's less context. You can't see someone struggling quietly at their desk, they have to ask for help or you have to ping them.
TI still sells 15Mhz Z80s in their TI84 graphing calculators.
I totally understand the setup, but when I hear 64Gig of Memory, I always eager to get ECC memory.

That's why I would have chosen an AMD cpu with a mainboard which allows ECC memory.
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