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I've had my fair share of controversial code reviews, both on the giving and receiving end.

I no longer ask 'why?' inside a code review, because it immediately puts the author in the position of justifying what they did, while feeling like they have to defend a decision.

Instead, I'll take a coaching (or a more socratic) approach that doesn't risk making the author feel dumb, or like they never considered the alternatives: "what was your reason for this?", "did you try x,y,z?", "I wondered if this would work?", "what is this for?", "what does this do?"

In addition to that, if I have a suggestion (or a suqqestion [0]), I will always follow it up with a refactored, copy/pastable code snippet to make it clear what I'm talking about and also to help push the review forward. This is especially useful for learning by example.

This means that code review takes more time and effort, but that investment of time has value. Code reviews become an implicit, shared mentoring space, and people like it when they see your review pop up.

[0] https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Suquestion
Other megacorps like Google have already demonstrated that ability to cancel all your services for violating terms on just one.
I think you are wrong to claim current business practice as "sexist". Ideally, it would be nice for single parenting be as easy as traditional family, but in reality, nobody is entitled to easy life.

Traditionally, people can also help each other through big family, church and other local communities. The new generation does not want to be involved in any of these. Now they want the government and their employers to bear more responsibility to support their personal life.
People often make this argument, but it's an incautious one. It assumes the stay-at-home spouse's pay won't go up in the future, but this isn't the case. After four or five years, you won't need all-day childcare any more. However, the SAHP's earning potential will have gone down due to their time out of the workforce. This has compounding effects down the line. If you spreadsheet it out under reasonable assumptions, your after-tax income from the SAHP has to be substantially lower than the cost of childcare before it makes sense for them give up work over the long run. Obviously it depends on the family, but I think a lot of people take a fairly myopic view of this question and don't think about the long-term consequences.
This. The only exception being if the round is measured in billions. Cf Uber, etc.
And it also seems to not be 'Amazon', it seems to be his immediate manager that's the larger problem
That’s nice for perpetual guardian but I don’t see it happening as a mainstream movement without an incentive.
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I use syncthing for file syncronization between laptop, desktop, nas and mobile phone.

And scripts that 'index' the books and create a directory structure of the metadata (like tags, series, publication date etc.) containing symlinks to the real books.
Most scientists leave after their PhD, if they know what's good for them. Postdocs suck, PIs suck, and big industry is slashing r+d budgets as fast as they can. Science as it's performed is only appropriate for the truly obsessive.
What major expenses do you have in a WFH software position? Other than one-time office set up?
This is what husbands are for.
Theres also plenty of evidence that children flourish way more under the guardianship of parents* rather than at least traditional day care. Having kids should push you out of full time work because raising kids is its own nigh-full time job.

The real problems are A. the number of people who can actually do that is way below replacement rates on the current population and B. women are still dropping their workforce participation much moreso than men are.

[*] I don't think it needs to be biological parents, more that many-to-one day care, especially with rotating or inconsistent caretakers and especially the younger you get, is harmful to development, Theres a lot of research on "models" of parenting and child rearing and how effective they are at producing the "best" children by varing definitions of best, but classical day care is usually considered by most metrics one of the worst.
Because this is how science has always been done, it's just visible on twitter now. Someone submits a paper to be published. A few scientists look it over and check for basic correctness. Then the paper is published and people read it. If the paper is interesting, they start talking about it. They use the breakroom, email, twitter, facebook, science journals, backs of envelopes, and anything else that's convenient. This conversation about a paper is a critical part of the community absorbing a new piece of evidence. From these conversations, subsequent experiments are planned and published and science keeps moving forwards. These conversations are not as formal as a journal publication, but they are much more formal and structured than laypeople usually realize. Comments are worded in particular ways, and only certain kinds of objections make sense. Proving things about nature is an excruciating task that requires an enormous level of care and evidence.
One explanation would be, that men (on average) favor abstract subjects (STEM), and women (on average) favor social interaction (children).

(See e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex_differences_in_psychology#... - Childhood play, Intelligence, Personality traits, Empathy)
> Call me a pessimist but the consumers will likely get shafted.

You're a pessimist!

Actually I don't see that there would be much difference. The car will perform at some level of skill and have an associated risk, lets say that amounts to $50/mo. The customer could pay the manufacturer to pay the insurance company, or the customer could pay directly -- same thing?
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Yep. Constantly says "service battery", too. I've made and cancelled a couple of service appointments due to Seattle basically shutting down for the snowstorms, hopefully I'll get it there at the next one and they will not wave me off with "oh just reset the nvram, also reboot your computer every week or so!" like they did the first time.

230 cycles, 65% capacity, seven months old.
I don’t think it’s unreasonable to hypothesize that while the quantity of work wouldn’t change, the quality would increase. I presume to pay for 32 hours if they work 32 hours.
you're wrong. RFID is generally a very poor way to track/locate. have you ever played with a tile? they're not accurate to 1cm (yes I know they use ble).
> Seems highly unlikely that there’s any actual secretive insider trading happening here.

There's no smoking gun and the Times did seem to be fishing around for one in this piece. It's a bit of a lurcher.

On the other hand:

> Internal documents examined by The Times show that from 2000 to 2010, MIO’s flagship fund, the Compass Special Situations Fund, had an average annual return above 9 percent, compared with a 1.6 percent loss in the S&P 500 Index. In 2008, when the broader United States stock market fell more than 36 percent, the Special Situations Fund lost about half that amount.

It's possible to get that kind of return with nothing but public information. But it's a lot easier if you have miraculous hunches every now and then.
Say what you will about Darth Vader, but he was a pretty effective manager.
You provide absolutely no evidence of this theory being widely discredited. The reality is it seems to be very difficult to test empirically. The most comprehensive survey I have found to date is here: http://www.goertzel.org/dynapsyc/1997/Koopmans.html

"I mean, if this theory was true, you would expect to find schizophrenic families--after all, they all had the same mother."

First of all, maladaptive social behavior of the kind that is labeled as "schizophrenia" (or other so-called mental illnesses e.g. "bipolar", "depression") does tend to cluster in families. This is why doctors screen for things like "family history of depression."

Secondly, there are major differences in siblings' roles and how they are treated, despite having the same mother. The birth order concept is the most obvious version of this. There is another concept of the "identified patient" which explains how in some cases one family member plays the role of the "sick one" as a way to maintain stability of the family unit as a whole.

"It also doesn't line up with the timing of onset at all."

I don't see how this theory conflicts with whatever timing of onset you are referring to. Perhaps you can clarify or provide citations for what appears to be a very strongly held opinion.
Ask HN: Getting a Cs Degree After 15 Years in the Industry?
I’ve been in the industry for 15 years and I’m a senior software engineer at a very large company, but I also dropped out of community college and I’ve never taken a cs class.

I have, however invested a lot of time learning higher math and advanced computer science topics on my own and I’d like to get a degree, but the idea of having to spending all the time and money going through undergraduate prerequisites feels like a waste for me.

Is there some way to get credit for work experience so I don’t have to spend a semester doing a basic algorithms and data structures class and so on?
As a human it makes me so sad to read this post. I hope the rest of his life is meaningful, comfortable and pain-free.

As a doctor it makes me so mad. We talk about winning and losing against cancer like its some game or some foe personified. Just because there aren't any more chemo therapy options doesn't mean there aren't treatment options. Just because he'll be home and not in the hospital doesn't mean his doctors will stop caring for him. He and they will have different goals. Cure seems like a goal that isn't realistic anymore. But there are goals that are realistic. So I hope his doctors are trying to help him live a meaningful, comfortable and pain-free life, like they would for any other patient. And we need to make sure he doesn't think he lost anything. Its not fair and its incorrect. We need to change our language around cancer.

Read a more articulate explanation of the problem with language around cancer here: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamaoncology/fullarticle/21...
I think that's the point the parent post is trying to make
OP probably means exploratory science, in the sense of not starting with a claim to confirm (or deny) but with procedures to discover features of a system (e.g. about human red cells) that hypothesis may not be targeting.

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/09/130927105138.h...
Do you know if the rides in higher energy jet streams are less comfortable, or is it undetectable by the passengers?
Seems like those who already had full-time STEM jobs would favor them pretty hard, yet they still leave at nearly at twice the rate as their male counterparts.
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We are not getting and developing the best scientific minds anyway. Not by a long way.
I wonder how it knows/why it thinks the backend is py2.7
The generally poor quality of research in the social sciences (proven so by the lack of reproducibility) is not really a good defense for the poor quality of any individual study.
This is ridiculous. It’s intergalactic debris, it could be anything.

I would prefer to see a list of things it could be vs. the hubristic response of leading scientists.

It’s a great example of something unknown.
> Or maybe you put 6 days/week in at the outset, as an investment so that in a few months you'll be able to work a lot less?

There are two outcomes in that situation.

1. Great, so you've gotten Service Foo stable! It now needs minimal dev attention. Since there's no shortage of work that needs to be done, and you've got 3 days/week free, it sounds like you're free to work on Service Bar, in addition to Service Foo.

2. Great, so you've gotten Service Foo stable. Now that it needs half the development attention that it used to, we no longer need a full-time person on it. Since we don't have any more work, we're laying you off (Or, in a fairy tale, where, for whatever reason, your manager values your contributions for what they were, laying one of your co-workers off.)

Personally, I prefer outcome #1. I'm paid to be at work, and do things, and if I get my work done faster then estimated, I'll get more work. And that's fine. The alternative is much worse.
As someone who worked for Amazon for a long time, I agree with you -- most managers I worked for took anonymous negative feedback well, making changes at the team level.

Import Caveat to your last point: If you make games for Amazon, you give up your ability to make them in your spare time. Amazon has pretty aggressive game development policies around side projects.
I do exactly the same thing, but when you think about it, isn't this just a pomodoro? You work for 25 minutes. An alarm rings. You take a 5 minute "break". In reality, in that "break" I quickly write down what I accomplished in the last 25 minutes and update my TODO. I also look at my DONE tasks in my TODO list and think about what I was doing and why. I've often found this kind of retrospective to be valuable. I'll notice that there is a better way to accomplish what I'm doing, etc, etc.

As crazy as it sounds, I've even experimented with 5 minute "pomodoros" using this technique - 5 minutes on and 1 minute reflecting. What can you do in only 5 minutes? When I first started it was hard to think in those terms, but as I got better at it, I realised that almost everything I do takes less than 5 minutes. If it takes more, then it's an indication that I need to rethink my approach.

For example, if I'm reading code, it makes sense that it would take more than 5 minutes, so I'll make a goal -- find out how X works. If I'm not finished in 5 minutes, in my 1 minute retrospective I think, "Am I approaching this task in the right way? Is there a better approach?" If no, then the next 5 minutes will be the same as the first. However, I often find that having that break snaps me out of doing unnecessary things.

I can't do the 5 minute thing every day (it is exhausting). I'm dramatically more productive with it, though (surprisingly so). It's made me realise that these kind of enforced reflection periods are really valuable. While you are reflecting, it's easy to write down what you just did, so it's kind of 2 birds with 1 stone.
Well basically yes. Cambridge analytica more or less measured how stupid you were and rationed out appropriately outlandish lies.

What I’m asking is whether we can establish your baseline likelihood of clicking any ad, and then use human made models to determine placements. My hypothesis is that naive human models only lose out because they miss the low hanging fruit of avoid people who never click anythingf
This is how it has always worked for me. When I was more junior and didn't have a corporate card, I had a person who booked all my travel on the company account. At worst, I might have to cover a few incidentals like food or taxis.
Perhaps the real message ought to be that we all live as part of a broader continuum wherein we are all recipients of the privileges and hardships of the past, and as a consequence of that reality we ought to have better empathy for all of our brothers, sisters, and otherwise.

IMO arguing whether people are 'truly' self-made is a discussion of semantics. Calling people self-made or not doesn't change the actual timeline of actions and events of an individual’s life.
Yes, that was meant to be a general remar. This probably most often comes up for floating point, at least in my circles, and the similar option to fast-math that the Intel compiler defaults to contributes somewhat to the myth of its greatly superior code. Likewise restrict isn't relevant here -- you'd see notes about aliasing from opt-info otherwise.
Is there a problem with part-time science? I am not reading the article and I imagine this is a tangent, but it would actually be interesting if work in true science was thought of as a part time pursuit, at least by practicing engineers and others in technical fields that had ideas they were interested in studying scientifically but their day jobs are far too lucrative to leave for the pursuit of knowledge. That, or the 20% time policy (again, no idea how this works in practice) being adopted at a more national level, somehow creating incentives for companies to allow their talent to pursue science that might be a bit more out there than would traditionally receive a formal grant.
The core idea of a fractal is something having fractional dimension. It just happens that the ones we know of are self-similar. If we had a formula that generated different shapes ad infinitum, I would also call that a fractal.
I believe men's cognitive biases predispose them to seeing the fact they've spent money as justifying some sort of entitlement. To such people, getting justice for perceived slights is worth burning everything down around them. If someone undeserving is on their team, they would rather lose than see that person win, like crabs in a bucket.

I have even seen people admit to doing this. That's why you can't appeal to reason by explaining that their behavior is contributing to the loss. Once someone begins to rage, they have already decided that justice is more important than victory.
> They go against meritocracy.

Not necessarily. You can have union representation and maintain a meritocracy at the same time.

But I also observe that the industry is not nearly as much of a meritocracy as we like to pretend anyway.
Any measurement tool for iOS? I guess we cannot use Speedtest day the day, just have an idea ...

Also is signal strength important as some 4g router do report it but they are bigger
you definitely sound it...
its not so much about having the same number as it is about providing the same opportunities. If new moms had the same support, be it from family members and their communities, they would be less likely to leave their positions.

Some things that would help in my opinion as a mother: affordable and accessible day care including back up care, at least 12 months maternity leave, flexible work arrangements (time and place), PTO (imagine both parents only have 2 weeks to spend with their kids outside of weekends), extended school and camp programs, affordability of all.

I went back to work when babe was 4 months. I have only 2 weeks PTO, there inst even a Christmas shut down, I have no family in the area, the daycare centers around me have 1 year waiting lists and are over $2500/month. I am underpaid. My work is flexible thankfully.

I don't blame women who quit.
Hey sytse, long time no see!

We're definitely interested in these integrations, but our engineering team is still pretty small and doesn't have the bandwidth... yet.

On that note (for others reading): We're hiring for the Workers team in Austin, SF, and London. https://www.cloudflare.com/careers/
Did anyone else notice the "The Network is the Computer™" slogan on workers.dev? I didn't see any footnotes, is this something Cloudflare now owns?
as long as there isn’t then people will blindly look at the percentages and say it must be discrimination that causes the disparity
Give BookFusion a try and let me know if you have the same issues. BookFusion should also render epub content exactly as intended but also works on iOS, Android and Desktops(via Web). BookFusion not only supports epub2/3 but also MOBI, PDF, FB2, TXT and several other formats
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The end game is that almost no one will own a car, and most people will use fully autonomous taxis for transportation. If and when fully autonomous vehicles become a reality, auto insurance will die along with car ownership and parking lots.
There could be many reasons: Perhaps because mothers are more nurturing and have a more intense desire to take care of their newborn children, after all they shared the same body for 9 months. Another could be the hormonal changes postpartum, which might trigger emotional and physical changes, etc. Childbearing is no small feat.
I would say with two supreme Court justices appointed we're past the point of irreparable
I've also heard (but not confirmed) that the skills used for forging cannons and guns were necessary for developing the pistons used in lots of early steam engines
I have a Certificate in GIS. I worked at a Fortune 500 company for over 5 years in a Pink Collar Ghetto department. I wanted a job in the IT department, where jobs generally paid better.

In all the years I worked there, I met only one person who knew what GIS was without me having to explain it. He was a senior programmer in the department I wanted a job in.

He asked me for a date, thereby making it vastly less likely that I would be able to work there (in his department).

I'm sure he stopped to think about whether or not it would tank his career to date me. No, it wouldn't.

I'm equally sure he didn't bother to wonder how the question would impact my future at the company.

(I'm sure he also never wondered what my educational background might do for the company. I imagine he would have wondered if I could do something for his department if he hadn't been thinking of me as a sex object.)

I also appear to be the only woman to have ever spent time on the leader board of HN. Over the course of nine+ years, I've established exactly one useful contact through HN.

I've been endlessly mocked for thinking I could use HN to network and put up with endless crap that I don't really want to get into.

A piece of my writing hit the front page in January. It got more than 60k page views.

This did not result in a single tip or new Patreon supporter.

Instead, someone wrote me around the same time about a two month old comment where I talked about being suicidal over the sexism I face on HN. He offered to do a fundraiser for me out of sympathy.

I wrote back and said I would rather be taken seriously for my work and pointed him to the piece with 60k+ page views. He didn't reply to that.

I am routinely treated like a charity case, not like someone with something of value to offer that's worth money.

I'm on day six of a fast that is partly rooted in waiting for a deposit I expected Friday and still don't have and partly rooted in my inability to figure out how to turn my skills into money because I have the wrong bits between my legs to get taken seriously and paid for my work.
For those that clicked thinking there be an actual multiplayer snake game over http:

slither.io

Be warned, this can ruin productivity in your day.
i mean adding a person to the maintainer community. the review can be spread over current members of the community. 5-10 current members review 1-2 patches each from a candidate, regardless of which project the candidate contributes to.

even if you limit that extra work on repos you personally don't care about to once a month you can help one person to join the community per year, which is enough for the membership in the community to double each year.
All of my favorite niche communities were absorbed by Reddit and Facebook.
> My recommendation is to NEVER leave negative feedback on an employee survey.

Even better, game the system and give them glowing reviews.

For example I had noticed the feedback "anonymous" surveys they were sending had a location field as in employee's country, city, town, etc. Well, in a distributed team it's pretty clear who is who based on that location. So I just gave them glowing and happy reviews.

Same when leaving a company. Nice and happy feedback like "I'd love to work here more, but the tech landscape is so exciting and varied and I'd like to gain experience in other areas..."