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It's odd but I don't find it polite. It's akin to calling someone on the phone and when they say "Hello", responding with "Hey cptskippy, let me put you on hold real quick."

If you say "<small chat> <actual question>", I'm perfectly capable of responding "<small chat> <actual question || delaying response>". There's no need to decouple the questions and making one contingent on receiving a response from the preceding question.

The downside to slamming a person with multiple questions is obviously aligning their responses to the questions asked. So there's obviously some thought that must go into formulating your questions. But I don't see any issue with opening your line of communication with small chat and your actual question as the responses would be easily distinguished.
> Make the culture of your company so awesome that people will want to stay, even if you can't pay the most. Make mentoring/growth a central strategy at every level so people will see a path to grow.

This is why company culture is so important. You may not be able to compete on financial compensation right away, but if you have a culture thats great, enables people to learn and grow and work with other great folks, its very attractive as compared to simply throwing more money.

Not to mention: many folks _want_ that kind of mentorship and culture. They desperately want to learn from smart, experienced developers.
yeah, this is it for me.

I worked for a company on the other side of the world and they'd often message me "hey, you around?" at like 5am in the morning my time. I'd get up later by that time many of them had gone home, meaning i'd have to wait for tomorrow to find out what they wanted. Which, as well as well as having to wait every interaction, also left the issue hanging over my head, fuelling anxieties.
I don't think universities should completely remove their liberal arts programs, but they ought to do something to make sure people know what kind of job prospects they're going to have. They shouldn't encourage people to take out enormous loans to get degrees in fields that have limited career potential.

By all means, let people get liberal arts degrees if they want. And certainly keep offering liberal arts classes as part of every degree program. They make for well-rounded graduates in every field. But don't encourage someone to go into tens of thousands of dollars of debt when the best possible degree-related job they can hope for is teaching liberal arts to the next generation of indebted students.
The built-in tour (C-h t) is pretty good and doesn't take too long.

Learn the various built-in help features, and use them. C-h C-h describes all the various help features.

Beyond that - force yourself to navigate via the keyboard only (no mouse, no arrow keys). You'll get more efficient and pick up shortcuts as you go.
That's completely anecdotal and isn't typical, at least in the current culture. More often than not this is just a myth that musicians themselves spread to boost their ego and perceived status. Although, there's of course some basis in reality.
Italy’s inability to sort out their bureaucracy really doesn’t help. (Ever tried to sell/buy a house in Italy, compared to, say Sweden? It is absurd.) Not that it is their only problem. But when rational people vote for Berlouisconi as prime minister, then you know you have a problem at multiple levels, imho.
I've been working remotely for about 13 years, something that I do with every new developer we hire, is to tell them that we are all available to answer their questions, no matter how "silly" they may think it is.
I tell them not to worry about interrupting what we are doing, because if we are truly busy, we will not go into the chat app (flowdock in our case), but when we have a minute, we'll come to it and if the question is already there, we can answer it right away, instead of saying hi back and having no clue what the real question was.

And we are all very polite about it, we do say things like: "Hi, if you have a minute, how do I get this code working?"

And, we also have a "water cooler" room/flow, where we talk anything that isn't work related, weather, music, etc, and there sure, you can just say hi and nothing else.

In my case, it is not that I'm on a tight deadline, we make sure to have almost no tight deadline, my case is, I'm probably playing with my kids, or about to have breakfast with my wife, so if you need me, and post your question along with "hi", I can answer before I step away from the computer.

Hope this gives you an alternative view.
A uni flatmate of mine.

Sport. It was always sport.
You aren’t getting non personal guaranteed loans as a tiny startup with no assets
> The reality of the 6-pager in 2019 is that it has become boilerplate where style overwhelms substance.

I think this varies by team. In my experience thus far, I've been receiving lots of feedback -- often actionable -- to improve my own narratives.

If your reviewers aren't pushing back on you when your paper lacks the required substance, that definitely needs to be addressed.

> OP1 and OP3 planning processes that are becoming increasingly cargo cult IMO

Businesses need operating plans to determine prioritization and funding. What's the problem with them, exactly?
I regularly have people sending me "hellos" - and then nothing until I answer.

If you want a synchronous conversation, call me or catch me in person. Messages are asynchronous.
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I'm working on a tool with the express goal of "maintaining continuity between mocks and final implementation." I think I could learn a few things about this from you. Would you have time for a chat? My email is my account name at gmail dot com.
Increased reliability isn't a big deal for modern commercial carriers. Engine reliability is very close to 100%, with little gains to be made. The real increase is in getting the same near-perfect reliability at decreased maintenance costs.
When I get those from my manger, it’s usually because he wants to discuss something private/sensitive, so cannot type out the question. It’s also stipulates always “r u there?” Followed by “come on down to room X so we can chat in private”
No, there has not been any studies done on the "efficacy" of vaccines.

You misread something. Your link is about "adverse reactions", my statement was about "efficacy".

>There's not been one single peer reviewed double blind test done on the _efficacy_ of vaccines
Imagine the same interaction happening in real life. If I came up to your desk, said Hi, then didn't say anything for 60 seconds, and then asked you a question. Anyone would reasonably be annoyed by that. It has nothing to do with deadlines and being overworked. It's just annoying.
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It is 20 year old computer science often discussed in upper division compsci courses.
Hard real-time without formal proofs is not only possible: it's the norm for almost all hard, real-time systems out there. It's mostly about careful coding and time analysis. Recent ones have had stronger isolation with formal verification of a few. It's not necessary to get them working most of the time, though.

Matter of fact, regulators for safety-critical fields are just starting to accept formal verification as evidence. CompCert is only tool I know of that's qualified to just one standard. If in those fields, using formal verification instead of whatever evaluators are used to can get something rejected. It can aid the development or be supplementary evidence at best.
You went from 300k to ~460k? Well done. Have you considered sharing your experiences around how you negotiated that?
In my darker moments I think people don't want to take the time to type a good question and only commit to it when they believe I'll be faster than grep/google. Not sure if they realize that now I have to sit through that typing time in addition to providing help.
Like jvolkman says, I'd be worried changing it might break your mechanism. Not that that's what's driving most people's choices.
I'm confused by people admitting they're "irrationally emotional" about this, as though those two things aren't flaws.

Maybe that 1 minute efficiency is something you're irrationally emotional about. But you have the privilege of working with hundreds of other people who have their own, sometimes contradictory, emotional irrationalities.

I think our industry's greatest weakness is the too-accurate perception of petty emotional battles and tribalism (e.g. Tabs vs Spaces, vim/emacs, mac/windows, front-end/backend, iphone/droid, sql/nosql, php/python). Why don't we do ourselves the favor of not leaning in to finding more silly hills to die on?
This article assumes that the person you are mentoring is open to being mentored. I’ve worked with some engineers who were definitely junior despite having years of experience and very opposed to even a slight suggestion on how to improve their thinking process or implementation process.
Yes, but they're distracting, unnecessary, and grating in an async memorialised medium such as IRC or Slack.
>I would guess that’s because IIRC, there’s no official support for Emacs to display native windows in Cocoa

You would guess wrong.

(If you install an X server, you can run Emacs on X11 on a Mac, but if you do, the text looks radically different from the text in other Mac apps. ADDED. whereas if you run Emacs directly on Cocoa, the way most Emacs users on Mac do it excepting the ones running Emacs inside a terminal environment, the text looks exactly the same as the text in, e.g., Textmate or Terminal.app.)
Exactly, there are so many articles showing how costly context switches are, especially for software developers. By saying hi in a separate message you are forcing the recipient to perform a completely avoidable context switch while also priming them for another.

A cordial greeting before an ask is mostly an empty gesture anyway. If you actually care how someone's day is going, ask in person or via a message with more substance.
What's sc?
Then you are blind or ignorant. Visit any European capital these days to find large flocks of Chinese tourists enjoying their expensive vacations, shopping tours and gadgets.
That thing where you click on the box that says "I agree to the terms of service." during signup.

Technically you are giving facebook all rights to reproduce and monetize any content you put on the platform... thus has it always been.
You're missing the key modifier: legitimate. It's not an irrational fear of missing out; it is a very real concern about a culture where being less responsive on Slack reduces your influence on key business decisions. "Close the app" is only good advice if you both want to and can afford to opt-out of any involvement in those decisions.
It's a "death by a thousand cuts" sort of thing. As a maker, every little interruption hurts. And an interruption that's entirely unnecessary and wastes my time makes me annoyed. Not "I'm going to go throw something out a window" annoyed, but annoyed nonetheless. These things add up.

If this sort of thing doesn't bother you on the receiving end of it, that's great for you. But please recognize that other people have different communication styles and respond to things differently. If you're going to ask someone for help with something, it's a nice thing to do to try to be aware of their communication style and work with it if possible.
Conflict of Interest seems to be the name of the game when it comes to board of directors

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

[2] https://www.visualcapitalist.com/50-largest-u-s-companies-bo...
Sounds exactly like Japan, when will these people learn that tired workers are unproductive and error prone workers?

One thing that really guts me about Brexit is that if the Tories get their way then 996 will become the norm here too.
Can people stop using the acronym PIGS ? That's so annoying!
I am not sure the Euro in itself was the problem, but countries where included before they where ready and not enough mechanisms across the union to help those regions/countries that where struggling. But,hey, I am but an armchair economist.
I read and shared your paper and GitHub link with the rest of my data science team here at Microsoft Azure--we do a lot of hypothesis testing of this nature in our day-to-day work (using R or Python) and a tool like Tea would go a long way in helping us apply stats tests more efficiently and thoroughly. Good to know that you're planning to continue development, we'll be following with interest!

Some other areas to potentially explore could be support for power analysis, sequential analysis and stopping rules, for use in the pre-trial phase of controlled experiments such as A/B tests.

I'd also suggest adding a LICENSE file to your project to clarify how it's allowed to be used.
The difficulty is that the two "basic" schools of politics/economics, Capitalism and Socialism are so diametrically opposed in terms of assumptions and methods that objectivity itself becomes subjective. Socalists tend to look at the world differently to capitalists.
Really? GDP says otherwise.
Wasn't the problem of countries like Greece and Italy corruption?
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WSL is a Windows 10 feature that allows you to run Linux applications on the NT kernel. It's not a 100% complete implementation of every Linux kernel API (yet?) but it's far enough along that you can run a lot of interesting software.

https://www.hanselman.com/blog/TheYearOfLinuxOnTheWindowsDes...

Pengwin looks like a Linux distro that removes the parts of a traditional distro that don't make sense in WSL and streamlines things that are still somewhat difficult in WSL, like getting X applications running.
> Left to float independently, the Deutschmark would not be as low as the Euro is today and the Lira would never be as high.

But wasn't that the whole point?
> I expect a billionare to say he needs his workers to have no free time and do nothing but work.

These days you'd actually except billionaires to go on a virtue signaling tour on how they're paying too little taxes and how capitalism failed the little man, e.g. like Warren Buffer or Ray Dalio.

> Why? It makes him more money.

It actually doesn't, good old capitalist Henry Ford already knew that 40 hours are about the optimum in terms of worker productivity. Everything else is a waste of time (and therefore money).

> This "996" encouragement from the rich is just an expression of their desire for others to help make them richer and others poorer.

Jack Ma came from nothing and worked very hard to get where he is. He really believes in hard work paying off - what else is he supposed to believe?

Also, in a country with a billion people clamoring for a good job, worker competition is cut-throat. It has nothing to do with "rich people" trying to squeeze the workers like lemons. The lemons are squeezing themselves.

> In short: This is the avarice of Ma speaking, and nothing else.

Nope, that's just the "evil rich guy" narrative that your psyche desperately wants to see confirmed.
The issue here is that they should got that raise in company. It happened to me and I did stay long in that place.
How do they do this? How is the device not trivially trackable ?
That was the BetterPlace model [0]. All is left are several deserted battery-change stations across Israel [1]. I think the fact this model failed miserably in the tiniest of countries is telling.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Better_Place_(company)

[1] https://images.haarets.co.il/image/fetch/w_544,q_auto,c_fill...
WSL is Windows Subsystem for Linux, and it is part of Windows. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/install-win10
It translates Linux system calls into Windows.

This allows you to run a Linux userspace on Windows. The Windows store has (for free) installable distros for Ubuntu, Debian, and others.
It's not "squeezing a drop of humanity". It's making the case that chat pretends to be a synchronous communication medium, but is actually asynchronous.

Somebody just saying "Hi", without followup, is saying "I expect you have nothing else to do, except wait for me". That's not "humanity", that's entitlement.

I do draw a distinction to "hey, available for a quick question", because that is stating a request - the person sending it asks for a chunk of our attention. It's a deliberate request to move to synchronous mode.

And to forestall the "but isn't chat just like talking to each other" - no, no it isn't. Talking is 150 words per minute, and it's delivered as a continuous stream. Chatting is (if we're lucky) 50 wpm, and it's delivered bursty.
I always liked the idea of a two tier Euro, like 1:3, and I feel like that could have helped Southern Europe and nudged their fiscal policies closer inline with the ECB.

They also could have just pulled the bandaid off of Greece in 08, booted them from the union, took a loss on the debt, threw aid, and laid it out as an example for Spain and Italy to get their shit in order.
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>When someone says HTML & CSS is terrible I ask them to design something better that lets you represent user interfaces that can adapt across multiple screen sizes, and allow complex layouts that Flexbox and CSS Grid makes possible

Short answer: layout and styling in one DSL with one syntax/grammar and not you know, two. But the problem isn't "how do I make something that's better" but "how do I make something that's better and supported on my target platforms."

If browser engine support isn't a design concern there are plenty of alternatives, many of which are arguably superior to HTML + CSS.
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All very true. Take new papers and some headline story that turns out to be false and a retraction later on is always hidden away. Same with likes and thumbs up on viral stories/videos - even a few hours later that it's proven to be fake without any doubts - the likes and thumbs up on that disprove will always fall short of the attention the original fake did. That in is human nature at play more than technology as the old word "rumours" as well as many others plays testament too. So to find a technological solution is not clear cut.

Sure, there are upsides to banning and deplatforming, maybe they outway the negative aspects.

Really, gets down to constructive debate and critical thinking being installed into our education systems more than what we have today. Which alas seems lacking in many avenues of education still.
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While I would think it would be annoying, I think the multiparter (like one sentence per message) works pretty well for work stuff. The people I work with type pretty fast however. Maybe someone should bring back ytalk ;)
Homeopathy is not debatable, it is obvious bullshit. Not noticing that more or less immediately, as a MD at that, is a pretty good sign that someone is really bad at anything science. Taking studies published in a predatory journal seriously is another sign, though perhaps not as strong one.

None of this is proof that her views are wrong, but they are clear signs that she is bad enough at anything science that she is not worth listening to.
Hmm. I would then assume that Emacs has rudimentary rendering support in Cocoa, but is otherwise treating it as a variant of X11, and not the fully different graphical system it presumably is. Emacs still has no full-fledged Cocoa integration. That is still only available in the Aquamacs fork, as far as I know: http://aquamacs.org/
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This is such a great move on part of Google. Gets them good PR and helps the companies behind these open source projects. I hope Azure also follows through and does something like this so it forces AWS's hand eventually.
Allies versus competitors. I just made the same observation up thread.

Only once has this gone badly for me, but it went really bad. Tried to mentor a guy, two years later he’s our boss and everybody hates him. Like we go out for coffee to talk about how much we hate him.

Ladder climber extraordinaire. Gotta learn to watch out for those, but in this case he only connived in private and nobody caught on but one and he left.
Money is not the only way to pay. In fact, it is often the easiest way to pay.

I studied in a university in a country where you have a dual-track system - either you get in for free, but have to pass a far more rigorous exam (since you're competing against everybody else who is trying to get in for free), or you pay and get your spot. The people who paid their way in - or rather, whose parents paid their way in - tended to do that "doing their time" thing you described. The people who were studying for free were far more determined to make all the efforts that they had to put into passing the entry exam worthwhile.
I agree! In a way...

I’ll see a “Hi!“ in a notification or followed by _x is typing_ then safely know that I can start slow context-switching out of whatever mode I’m in, start reviewing that block of work for check-in or noting the key takeaways to come back to, and start pre-loading whatever I was talking about with that person last, without the fear of “here’s a big block of text, please respond to it in kind (all right away)”. And more than that, I can also interrupt any incorrect lines of thought or rambling if it’s more rubber-ducking than a request, or turn it into more of a conversation than a message which can read “please do this” and a reply which says “um... let me get back to you”.

I don’t know about you, but a large technical question or “hey can you... X Y Z” generates much more uncertainty than a chat between colleagues, even if the format is only different. Hell, modes of communication are a thing, we’d be as well use each one for its strengths.
Not to mention throwing litter and spitting on the street, vile people.
While I agree with the sentiment of the site, the form they suggest "Hi -- ...." looks ungrammatical. Disclaimer: I am not a native English speaker.
Also give StencilJS a look. It's a compiler instead of a framework or library. The end result is pure vanilla components https://stenciljs.com/
I don't really understand the point of an urban TEA at all, at least in a thriving city in the midst of a housing bubble like New York. It sounds like a way to just directly funnel funds to gentrification projects.
> there's no way I could say it at work

If you can't politely ask people how to address you on chat, it's a problem with either you, or the team / workplace.

You should be able to talk about things effecting your productivity, or switch job.
> Eventually,

>It's not a slippery slope if it is actually happening.

How can you start a comment with eventually and then end with, it's not a slippery slope it is actually happening?

There's a line to trace somewhere between what is acceptable to host and what isn't. You may disagree with WHERE the line is, sure, but there's a line to trace. It can be barely where it's legal in the country hosting that content (which is still open to interpretation, or else we wouldn't have court systems).

Now are you disagreeing with a line that include Christchurch shootings content? Then say that, or else, sure it will be someone else that will decide where to trace that line.
The abstract only mentions clinical and research use cases, it doesn't sound like they're expecting it to "stick" as a consumer electronics device in its current form.
Italian here. AMA :-)