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> Doing rote arithmetic is nothing like doing mathematics. Doing manual calculations is nothing like being a programmer. The activities have zero resemblance.

Understanding the function of pointers, classes, and most programming itself are also nothing like advanced mathematics. Even ML is largely stats and calculus in its technical aspects, not cutting edge math.

There is zero at all evidence to suggest that women are less capable of understanding the concepts behind programming.
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I do like his idea of building up investments and running wikipedia off of ROI instead of begging for donations every year. Why is it that WMF hasn't done that yet?
DataGrip by Jetbrains is decent. I really like the autocomplete found in the psql client as well. Sublime Text has a few sql plugins that help with code readability.
As a seasoned AWS developer, I love this feature. However, I wonder how the increasing complexity of AWS affects new devs as they try to grok the offered services. AWS typically does a pretty good job hiding advanced features from beginners, but I wonder how long they can do that.
Has anyone here used any of the products/services mentioned in the article? I was surprised at how high the prices quoted for the Touch2 and Cloud Analyzer are. With Cloud Analyzer, at least some of the major features, such as exploring location history, seem like they could be easily replicated for free (the Google Maps Timeline feature). Is this right? I wonder if a much cheaper alternative could be easily developed to help defendants put up a stronger defense.
and star channels you need fast access to :) you can star people, as well!
Looking at what they claim to be working on, maybe the money is just being spent on stuff that americans don't see.

The last few years, the annual plans seem focussed on making Wikipedia relevant in India, South America, and the Middle East.

When I was at EE school, the chip manufacturers gave the school devboards students go to know their stuff. Matlab was cheap too.

I suspect Wikimedia is funding a bunch of journalism and research training in these countries, so that every highschool kid gets pointed to wikipedia at school.
Craigslist has held on to its market share quite strongly for a long time, but more recently it has clearly started to weaken with Facebook Marketplace and a plethora of more special-purpose apps that are much more mobile-centric. I'm glad they are finally starting to defend their share. I'll be curious to watch: time will tell if they were too late in transitioning to mobile or will it be just fine for them.
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Apple's market share in Japan is big.

Not sure about other places yet.
And it’ll be necessary to either a) pay exorbitant salaries for these jobs to compensate for what is effectively an incredibly broad non-compete or b) hire idiots that can’t get jobs anywhere else.
Small tech company tried it all to stop employee turnover. Only one thing worked
> Since demand is so high there, the value of the property is not determined upon is "worth," but on someones ability to pay.

The monetary value of the something is by definition what the highest bidder is willing to pay for it. How would you determine it otherwise?
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For anyone who hasn't used Craigslist in years due to FB groups/Marketplace, OfferUp, and others: IMO it's only improved since the rise of competitors. I did lots of buying and selling on Craigslist as a college student, then stopped using it for years until recently.
The point is that while views have increased by 10x over the past 15 years, expenses have increased by 1250x. That leaves a 125x increase in per-user spending that does not appear to be reflected in commensurate increases in user value.
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Unionization is done for collective bargaining in worker's best interest; the problem is when it is done to organize strikes to force the employer to enact social or political policies. This may remove the idea of collective bargaining and turn it into a top down fiefdom to promote the organizers pet ideologies
Thanks for a different POV. Here in Redmond, WA I’m either not looking (which is quite possible), or corn starch dominates the shelves.
This happens a lot in retail, the DMV, post office, etc. The best way to model it is with a meta-process where servers randomly disappear and reappear. This also captures the infuriating phenomenon of tellers going on break or (worse) looking like they're available when they're not because they have to stop and count the till or something.
Well that's odd... because this post is getting upvotes... and I was unable to connect to console.aws.amazon.com for at least 30 minutes before switching DNS servers away from cloudflare... and it worked.
U.S. Tech Giants Bet Big on India. Now It’s Changing the Rules
People often make reference to a time when programmers were predominantly women, say roughly the 50s-70s but I don't get the impression most younger people personally know someone whose career was largely during that era.

I do/did, and the reason she ended up as a programmer was because she wasn't considered for an engineering program (because they already had a woman studying engineering) and had to take a math scholarship instead.

If we want to continue to live in a world where women can become engineers, and managers, and CEOs, then some of the talented people who were forced to become programmers in earlier days are going to be diverted.
It seems Central Canada is more philosophical than Geographical.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Canada
Hey I meant to track one of y'all down at the MLOps conference, but didn't get the chance. I've built a very shitty version of a cached-execution DAG thing internally, and one of the design decisions I made was to have it so that parent nodes in the DAG don't need to know anything about child nodes. This allows for larger DAG builders to be more easily subclassed.

MetaFlow doesn't do that -- instead each 'step' has to know what to call next, which means that if I wanted to subclass e.g. the MovieStatsFlow in [here](https://github.com/Netflix/metaflow/blob/master/metaflow/tut...) and say, add some sort of input pre-processing before the compute_statistics call, I'd essentially end up having to either override what compute_statistics does to not match its name _or_ copy-past e that first step just to replace that last line.

I'm sure this design decision was considered and/or that use-case doesn't come up a lot at Netflix (although I've encountered that a lot), or maybe I'm missing something very obvious, but I'd love to hear your thoughts on that.
My experience is somewhat the opposite: I have a BSc in Software Engineering and MSc and PhD in Computer Science. I've been in the Software Industry for about 10 years now and have held a Eng Director/VP level positions at some start ups.

I used to be very degree-centric in my recruiting. But some time ago I started hiring from boothcamps, particularly for frontend jobs. The fact I saw is that as part of the development needs of the companies I have been at, there is a good amount of work that can be done by developers of these skill levels. Once my team was able to organize the work, we were able to make jr people productive.

This not only made us capable of hiring jr devs. It actually made more Sr devs happy because they did not have to do that work and made mid levels happy because they own the growth of the jr devs .
You should really post specific error messages and dig results when making such an assertion. A DNS lookup miss shouldn't cause 'not responding to pings.'
CL desktop works pretty damn good on mobile if you don't mind pinching and zooming.
This argument seems shallow because the author already clearly and specifically argued that the growth in cost is not proportional to the growth in services authored. For example, one of the first arguments put forth by the author is that bandwidth costs have increased by about 11x, expenses increased by over 1,000. Even straightforward commodity expenses such as hosting costs have increased more than expected, 33x.

So while yes your argument is true that in fact the platform is growing, that however as an argument hete isn't really demonstrontative of a correct understanding of the problem the author argues.
>I would be much more concerned if Wikipedia's revenue and expenditures were flat over the past decade.

Why? The thing of value in wikipedia is the encyclopedia that was Built off of FREE LABOR by VOLUNTEERS. The increases in spending seem to be going to white collar office jobs that aren't actually necessary for The Wiki to exist and thrive. All wiki needs is servers. It shouldn't need to grow.

Wiki isn't a capitalist entity. It doesn't need to play by the rules of capital. And that it is mirroring the pattern of capitalist companies is tremendously worrying for the future of the project.
The More Gender Equality, the Fewer Women in Stem (2018)
The hosting expenses associated with the Wikimedia foundation are, according to their financial report [0], 2.3 million USD. Hosting their servers is actually their smallest expense item, other than "Special event expense, net". As a comparison, they spend 52.1 million on salaries, wages, awards, and grants.

I'd disagree with your statement that they could not reasonably develop and host a top-10 website with the amount of money that they're raising, and if they needed to, they could significantly cut down on expenses and still keep everything running.

[0] https://wikimediafoundation.org/about/2018-annual-report/fin...
Frankly, if a nonprofit can't justify to laypeople why they should have money, they shouldn't have money.

My money is limited, the causes which can benefit from it are not. It seems to me the height of self-absorption that an organisation should expect donations over the many other worthwhile causes without justifying the benefit that money would bring.

Changes to editor tools and processes don't cut it. All of those exist in service of improving Wikipedia as a resource. If I can't see those changes as an end-user, I question whether any of them really mattered. Is a fantastic new user-friendly diagnostic machine justified in a hospital if treatment rates don't go up?
The problem is how you gonna find a different hiring pattern to force 50%?

Internal training, ok, but are you going to only provide internal training to women? Is this even legal?

Basecamp training, ok, but are you going to only provide basecamp training to women? Is this even legal?

Special talents (dropouts etc.), ok, but are you going to only hire special talents who are women? Is this even legal?

Non-traditional education, ok, but are you going to only hire non-traditional education candidates who are women? Is this even legal?

The whole idea that there is a social engineering way to make programmers 50% male/female is not based on any facts as we know in a free society. On the contrary, there is evidence that the more gender equal society, the fewer women choose STEM. https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/02/the-more...

The obsession of 50% is not only anti-science, it is also demeaning to other great contributions women provide to society. Yes, nurses and teachers make less money than programmers, but it does not mean nurses and teachers are less important than programmers. It is because personal caring kind of job is less scalable than STEM jobs, so a team of 10 programmers can provide services to far more people than 10 nurses.

Oh, are you going to disagree that caring for people is more a part of female nature than male nature? Are you going to say this is actually a result of society oppressed women and tricked them to care more about others? Because female psychology is exactly the same as male psychology? So maybe we should expect a gender equal society there are 50% male/female in murders and rapists?
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Putting all the arguments aside, I had no idea Wikipedia was so far in the black. The donation begging had me thinking they were desperately clinging to life. I don't like that. From now on my annual Wikipedia donation will be going to the Internet Archive.
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My guess is this will self correct soon.
Reminds me of that Monty Python skit about the Yorkshiremen competing on who grew up the poorest.
Seems that this is more trivially and optimally solved by using a virtualization library like https://github.com/bvaughn/react-virtualized or https://github.com/bvaughn/react-window
An HTTP Data Compression Protocol That Never Saw the Light of Day
this is amazing!!!
The website works just fine on mobile. Why in the world would I download another app?
But the difference in your case is that we don't expect, nor care, whether math majors and non-math majors end up at the same destination. It's okay and expected that math majors will end up learning more and becoming better at math. But when we're talking about people studying the same major, then this is not okay. You will either end up slowing down the fast track students or you will give them an advantage over those that weren't on the fast track.
There are already two "buy me a coffee" websites - Open Collective and Patreon - for any project other than (or used by) Webpack and Babel.
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> “There are only two kinds of languages: the ones people complain about and the ones nobody uses.” -- Bjarne Stroustrup

> I've found this quote extremely true

My impression of Python, Ruby, etc. hasn't been that they're in either of those categories, though I'll grant you that they don't compete in the same space as C++...
I suspect the grueling interview process is the result of CS being overrun by people who cheated through their programming classes and/or exaggerated (lied) on their resume, things which have become extremely prevalent in recent years. Plus in the US you can't get a meaningful reference anymore because of fear of lawsuits (former employers will often only confirm employment). There's nothing left to trust. Worse, I have come across a number of CS graduates who can't write a working program to save their lives, though many (particular international students) seem to be very well-prepared to talk all day about the technologies and all the cool projects they supposedly did. Not that a surprise exam is a good solution.
I share the sentiment that Sundar to me feels a bit like an invisible placeholder for leadership that I would argue is obviously lacking in Google lately.

There's nothing wrong with its stock price and revenue and I'm sure from that angle a lot of financial people are pretty happy with the status quo of just milking that cow perpetually. However, looking at it from the technical angle, I see a company that is asleep at the wheel and showing a distinct lack of vision, leadership, and direction across the board of its product portfolio. Perhaps a bit like MS under Balmer ramming out increasingly less popular iterations of windows and office. MS turned things around under Nadella. Google perhaps hasn't sunken far enough that it needs that kind of leadership change yet but it seems in my eyes to be going down that same path slowly.

IMHO all the money making units worth mentioning in Google have their origin in a brief period of the early 2000s perhaps up to the 2006-2008 time frame (i.e. the Android launch) when it was smaller, more creative, nimble, and definitely more capable of translating vision into execution. That includes things like google docs, hangouts, maps, photos, youtube, gmail, android, chrome, google cloud and of course the big money maker ads.

A lot of other stuff launched in the years since has simply failed to get traction or got killed early. This has actually become a meme on HN and elsewhere where people openly wonder when they will kill X at the moment of the announcement where X is a long list of stuff Google tried and failed to deliver or just walked away from despite internal and external enthusiasm (e.g Google Inbox). The list of stuff that they announced in the last decade or so that actually didn't get killed is worryingly short.

There actually is very little of significance that I can name that emerged out of Google in the recent decade that is worthy of being added to that list and only some stuff under the Alphabet umbrella that comes close (i.e. Waymo would be the main success story there that has yet to prove itself as a long term money maker).

In other words, I think of Sundar as a caretaker, not a leader. He's greasing the wheels of the money printing machine that is ads but maybe not really the best for coming up with the next big thing. Maybe now is a good moment to start looking for a real leader to replace the founders that clearly just announced their permanent retirement from the industry and any other meaningful involvement with tech (tu un-sugar coat this announcement).
I think he raises a very important point regarding the enormous risk of WMF being purchased by the current generation of tech-giants. I don't think there is any reason to believe that new management of Wikipedia by a company such as Google, Facebook or Amazon would be the least bit benevolent. The implications that Wikipedia being co-opted would have on freedom of information on the internet would be immense. I don't think that this is idle scare-mongering. Of course, there is already a risk of misinformation being propagated on Wikipedia by bad actors, I don't think that there is a very big gap to jump before we lose control over the online record completely.
Strongly disagree that Craigslist should be held up as an example of a usable website.

The Web 1.0 look is fine.

But if you use CL a lot you'll know how bad the UX is, especially on mobile, especially compared to mobile-first camera-focused apps.

I can think of 5-10 incredibly annoying non-standard Craigslist UX elements off the top of my head.
What's the link to download it on the Play Store?
Agreed, especially if you’re trying to buy weird items Craigslist is still the place to shop
You didn’t actually mention any specific criticisms.
That's because they are two very disparate skills. One is how to create software products, and the other is how to be an effective employee in a specific style of management.

The second is much more unique to the company, and honestly easier to grasp.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.craigslist...

(found both these apps via a banner on the mobile website, btw. No press releases that I've seen.)
Circa the late 50s, I literally knew someone who was told there was only room for one woman engineering student at the school she wanted to go to, so she studied math instead and that's how she became a programmer. Subsequently, she became an assistant to an engineer, obviously being paid much less than him.

Compare to Ursula Burns, who started at Xerox in 1980 and eventually became CEO.

So, of course something happened that wasn't biological - the opportunities for women with the ability to program or do engineering dramatically increased.
The Dangers of Placebos
Our hope with metaflow is to make the transition to production schedulers like Airflow (and perhaps similar technologies) seamless once you write the DAG via the FlowSpec.
The user doesn’t have to care about the conversion to YAML etc.
So I would say metaflow works in tandem with existing schedulers.
That's the smart move right. Sundar is no Elon Musk to get away with gaffes
I think Waymo still has a solid shot
http://forth.works/examples/AddingVectors.retro.html

Here is the retro forth version of adding vector that I was talking about.

Tri@ apply function (2+x)on top 3 items. So get address of the 3rd element of c b a ..
you need more connections than what a single AWS CLI process open to saturate network on a big box. You can achieve the same by doing some "xargs | aws cli" trickery but then error handling becomes harder.

Our S3 client just handles multiple worker processes correctly with error handling.
Um...is this effective overall or does it feel the government's resource is being misdirected at a superficial level. How hard is it to get to the root of evil?
The internet has been acting weird for me since 9:30pm EST. Some pages load, others don't.

HN was not working at all until the last 10 minutes. Now it seems fine. Anyone else experiencing this?
Think about radioactive half-life. Half the atoms will decay in X minutes. Half the remainder in 2X minutes. Half the remainder in 3X etc.

Likewise you'll serve half your customers within X minutes. Half the remainder within 2X, half the remainder within 3X etc.
I remember when "cammed" books were bottom-tier and basically limited to things like 0day releases, even when done with an expensive DSLR. It's amazing how much camera technology has progressed since then; in less than a second you can get a high-resolution, extremely readable image of each page.

I used to participate in the "bookz scene", well over a decade ago. Raiding the local public libraries --- borrowing as many books as we could --- and having "scanparties" to digitise and upload them was incredibly fun, and we did it for the thrill, never thinking that one day almost all of our releases would end up in LibGen.
Google should buy a hardware company and a carrier company to have a big impact on hardware business
Found this issue with other SaaS-like providers too. Eg, a popular email relay/delivery service has a per-email price if you go over your rate plan, with no ability to set a hard limit for the account or per sub-user.

Compromised account or server? It'd be interesting for their spam filters to catch most of it. But an accidental loop or issue in your code? (like another commenter mentioned with a $30k bill). Yikes.

Incredible to lack such a basic feature to better protect an account especially when money is involved.
When a new iOS app is released usually it takes at least a day to appear in App Store search results. (Source: am iOS developer)
So excited for this, between this and the removal of VPC cold start issues recently, avoiding Lambda for APIs because of latency seems to be a thing of the past.
I’m a bit amused because:

1. Their customer support emphatically told me they wouldn’t make this an option AND

2. They didn’t even need to do a new release to turn on the option.

At least their engineering team is still making good decisions :)
Wikipedia's edits rates have been increasing very rapidly. Tools like those must exist in order to vet them and ensure that Wikipedia remains a trustworthy source. Its hard to see the benefits (nor am I sure how to ensure it shows) as the expectation is Wikipedia is always correct, but without them, the misinformation in Wikipedia would be much greater.
Depends on what a host is supposed to do. A mail server is going to make a lot of random DNS queries.