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The millionaire fastlane by MJ de Marco dispite its cliché title is by far one of the best books I've ever read. It shows what it takes to make money by solving other people's problems in a no BS manner.
I said nothing about skin color. I said my ancestors were enslaved.
"master" in Git doesn't have a relationship to slavery and yet it's being changed in repositories around the world.
You can see the planned releases in the milestones on GitHub: https://github.com/ziglang/zig/milestones

I would say at least two more years then.
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Yes, he talks about it later in the video. What's interesting about this Technics is that it's fully integrated - no need for a separate PCM processor and VCR.
I think he means politically connected internally. Ie the VP or Director of your group convinces the higher-ups that theyve won the internal competition even if they don't have the better product. This definitely happens.
I'm just a regular user sand my experience is more like yours. PA used to be terrible but for the last 5 years, at least, I've had no problems with it.

I just started using MS Win last year and sound is such a pain to configure in comparison, for me.
But the problem with white/black isn't the metaphor, it's that we're using those terms for skin colors in a way that is blatantly wrong. If we're going to change the way we speak, is it really better to imply those words meant race all along? Changing the part that was correct instead of the part that was incorrect?
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Agreed. IBM never really lost the mainframe market. And Microsoft never really lost the desktop market. Sometimes the incumbents stay there until their domain disappears.
So I swear I'm on your team but i just realized that Robot=robota=slave
Hence his answer: It has to be a public repo with a README.md in it.

Get your Github repositories to that state.
> This may be precisely the problem. Pension funds have an oversized influence on our whole economy. They deserve much more care and scrutiny than this.

I completely agree on the abstract level, but I have no clue how to get anything actionable out of that.

> Pensions aren't operating in a competitive market, they're typically associated with a particular employer, acting on behalf of the employees.

The funds as institutions probably aren't, but the specific asset managers tasked with the implementation, either directly employed or contracted by the funds, certainly are operating in competitive markets.
While i'm not opposed to this, i do wonder where it will stop. Are financial phrases of "in the red, in the black" also bad? Is the word police bad?

The police one is especially interesting. If the word police becomes banned, wouldn't police themselves simply change their name? Start using Law Enforcement more prominently, etc - and then how long until Law Enforcement becomes a bad word like Police did?

Words definitely shape culture. Using "gay" as a derogatory term like i did when i grew up is clearly wrong, it shapes culture in my view. I _could_ see the argument for whitelist/blacklist also shaping culture, though drastically less i'd imagine. However i think we need to take care not to change things that themselves are not defining culture, like Police. The Police reaction is, i think, effectively an avoidance of a trigger. Of which, the science seems unclear on if even avoiding triggers is healthy (at least, based on a recently study i saw, but did not read).

With that said, if i were to use my comment as logic to decide this.. `master/slave` seems perfectly fine. Slave does not imply who is the slave. If you make associations to a specific group of slaves throughout history, and even currently, the word does not seem to be the cause. Removing it from a dictionary will not help anyone. Compare master/slave to whitemaster/blackslave. The latter would _obviously_ have a .. not so implicit implication. The former, i don't feel implies anything.

On the other hand, blacklist/whitelist could - perhaps - have implied associations in a way that master/slave does not. I could easily support removing that, because the implication seems clear.

We should take care to draw the lines in these complex topics where they might shape our culture. Not removing triggers.
For general purpose computing maybe. For gaming the GPUs contain special operations for texture lookup and what not that would be very expensive in a CPU.
here's an even crazier idea : maybe inequality is part of natural behavior of every single organisation, from animals to vegetables, to cells.
I'm not saying it's a good thing, just that abolishing inequalities is a phenomenaly ambitious goal which hasn't even been proved feasible.
so how successful are you if you read all theese books? 3 commas successful?
master/slave just describes a type of relationship between two entities. there is nothing to feel strongly about. the context is what matters. using master/slave in a technical context is not immoral. using it to describe the relationship between people is.
Of course, it all depends on your background. For me, the only part that took getting used to was the borrow checker.

However, I'm not really sure the learning curve for C++ is lower. There's a lot more to learn, and there's a good chance that you're just writing incorrect programs if you haven't gone through the effort of learning about ownership semantics anyway. Does that mean you've learned the language, or just that the compiler doesn't care?
Exactly, all the more reason to move on from using that language. I'm glad you get it.
Hey, you know what would help prevent police from killing black people? Studying what specific practices, programs and policies lead to police not killing so many people — followed by targeted policy advocacy.

This will never happen. Critical race theory and displays of anger are quite in vogue in the academy; actually engaging with police departments requires patience and working with police departments (which your colleagues will find icky). Meanwhile the politicians just want to take advantage of general outrage for their own benefit and that of their party. We'll get a little reform out of the current protests as they stand, but not nearly enough.

This comment will not prevent police from killing black people, but there's an outside shot it will help one or two people in the world actually treat the problem like they actually want to solve it, so, I'll chance it.
Nice fake listing, everyone knows this is a ponzi, sergey dumps 2 million stinkie linkies every time it goes up.
Making the conscious choice to continue using these words is also Orwellian. In this case, there is no neutral language.
If y'all gonna hop in this thread with your favorite book it may be more convincing to write something more than just "it changed my life." Apparently Buddhism, stoicism, and the Rust programming language are all equally capable of changing a hackernews poster's life?
I'm not being asked to behave civilly though, I'm being asked to coddle infantile behavior of thin-skinned people taking things out of context.

I'd much rather have a civil discussion about substantive changes we can make to society as whole, not wasting everyone's time with trivial and performative conformance.
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> I was thoroughly dis-interested after that.

Why? The experience and intelligence of the recruiter has almost zero correlation to the experience and intelligence of the people you'd be working with.

Recruiting people / HR are just an administrative barrier to get through. Once you speak to the actual team you'd be working with, you can start being more discerning of the quality of the people.
Realizing that the programming language and compiler can take care of many of the bugs and problems that plague programmers.
"S word" is great for lots of puns...

> All they that take the S word shall perish with the S word. –Jesus

> Never give a S word to a man who can't dance –Confucius

> There never was a time when, in my opinion, some way could not be found to prevent the drawing of the S word. –Ulysses S. Grant

> The pen is mighter than the S word

> I am not afraid of the pen, or the scaffold, or the S word. I will tell the truth wherever I please. –Mary Harris Jones

> There's a huge difference between stage fighting and real S word fighting. –Kit Harington

> So we're living by that S word, and we're going to cut every now and then from it's backlash. –Vince McMahon

> There are other ways to create tension and drama than to have somebody stabbed through the back with a S word. –Mark Waid
How did it change your life? What did it say you should do? How would your last 20 years been different if you had read it earlier?
>> You don't get to feel ...

I don't think you get to tell other people what they get to feel.

I encourage working on your empathy here. Who gets to decide "what's polite"? What if people disagree? Who gets to decide whose opinion counts?
I assume you are also against killing a process right? My ancestors have been killed before so I should be able to decide whether we use the word kill.
> Slavery still goes on today and changing the terminology has done nothing to help that in any way.

I'm aware slavery exists in other contexts and continues. In this case, I was trying to point out the first thing that comes to mind when I hear "slave". I imagine other US born devs might think similarly. I doubt this would do anything to solve slavery, but it would make me more comfortable.

> Is your skin colour relevant to your answer in any way? I have no idea why you included that

Since this is a racially charged topic, I assume the opinion of someone of color would hold more weight. I wanted to make my background clear so you wouldn't be guessing.
I’m happy, healthy, loved, and have a full belly.

Would you like a list of the self-help books that got me to my three commas?
Every book I ever read technically changed my life
it's not even immoral to describe human relationship this way if that's actually what's happening between the given humans.

We've became offended by words, without context. It's just crazy... Master and slave , black and white. are becoming curse words.
Isn’t a engineer “dead weight” if they work on a project that ends of getting canned a year later? I would say that any engineer that worked on one of the many messaging apps that Google has created was dead weight.
I imagine any religious text will change your life if you do what it says, the implication that what it says is good is dubious.
Twitter is already way ahead of curve[1]

> Dummy value => Placeholder value, sample value

Any clues on who this terminology is excluding exactly?

[1] https://twitter.com/TwitterEng/status/1278733305190342656/ph...
No, it's not like niggardly. Blacklist is a common word and 'black' does not resemble any offensive words.
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"because you read in the FT" is a not a fair response. The linked article is not breaking news, it's an analysis of a well known phenomenon.

With great power comes great responsibility. If someone can't be honest, they have no place managing other people's money.
Coming from FORTRAN77, that is indeed quite a leap!
Microsoft's IPO created tens of thousands of millionaires, and that was in the 80's. Microsoft is many things, a lot of them very ugly, but it for sure is impressive, too.
Pursue whats meaningful, not what is expedient.
-Jordan Peterson

Helps me to keep asking, what and how should i do and approach.
> However, I largely kept my mouth shut because I was afraid of the social repercussions.

So, social norms? There are plenty of things we collectively don't say or do because of enforced social norms yet all of a sudden when those social norms start to include the perspectives of traditionally oppressed groups, certain people start acting like Western Society as we know it is collapsing by the hands of the censorship police.
Yes, if you claim it was ‘stolen’, the burden of proof is you to provide proof that the law considers the property stolen rather than forfeited (if you want to avoid downvotes, that is) FWIW, I didn’t downvote you.

There’s an entirely separate moral/ethical argument aside from the legal one where one may decide they should return it based on their own morals/ethics.
I don't really feel like this falls under the "self help" category of books, which imo are more generalist.
If you are expecting perfection then the world is going to be disappointing, in general.
How do you see the forest when you’ve been born into it? You chop down all the trees around you. Using master/slave casually in a discussion is a tree. I’m sorry I’m just trying to see the forest.
It's a shame that your reading comprehension is so low that you've convinced hundreds of other readers here that Feynman was egotistical and other engineers should follow. You've butchered his quote and misrepresented him to an incredible degree.

Re-read his letter, specifically the quote about problems close to the gods, the word 'seemed' is present and shifts the tone dramatically into humble.
> 'Vec' is a bit awkward from that POV, but then again 'Vector' would be a lot worse

They should just have called it a List, and stopped the propagation of the erroneous belief that a variable-length sequence of things is a vector.
Modulo the necessarily sequential (as mentioned by rayiner), you are correct in terms of absolute speed achievable. But you achieve that speedup at a roughly linear increase in $$$ cost. When you have idle cores sitting around, maybe it was opportunity cost you were already paying, but that's bounded.

On the other hand, reductions in the amount of computation needed mean you get a faster build for the same resources, or a similar speed build for cheaper.

Depending on your circumstances, one of these things (speed vs. cost) might be much more important than the other. We cannot forget about either.
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...okay? The US doesn't own the English language, either.

And the word "slave" in English refers to slavery throughout history and in various cultures, anyway, including slavery that still exists today, "wage slavery", etc.
> surprised to see a comment pool that is completely negative

You should see the Slashdot thread. It is amazing how hard people will fight for the status quo, even if it's over a small change that doesn't really hurt anyone. It's always a good time for a code review, anyway.
Clearly you are missing the point. The context of the language in the Kernel has nothing to do with race or slavery.

Where do we stop? I’m assuming next we want to remove the words entirely from the dictionary?

Because we wouldn’t want to prevent anyone reading the dictionary would we?

If removing those words from the dictionary helps even one person more read it, then that’s a win.
This is not exactly visual programming language. I would say rather mixed language. Only some variables, statements and data structures have photo representation. Still there are instructions with letters and numbers.
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Lol I guess. Perhaps we should just all link our Goodreads profiles at eachother?

There's limited time in life. A thread like this would be fun if people said a bit about why a certain book is absolutely worth reading...
I really don't get it. You want to add thousands of lines of code and complex data structures with tons of edge cases so that I can interrupt you while you write??? It's just not desired functionality. Poor network connectivity is not an excuse to break your workflow.

You simply do not assign 2 people to a task that can only be done by a single person.

It is like a system where 2 people can poor coffee into the same cup at the same time. We deal with the cup overflowing with some drainage (marvel at our creation of course!) but then 12 people put sugar in the cup. Solution: we overflow the cup further to dilute it! We solve the mobility issue by spilling a bit more coffee out of the cup and whip the bottom with just the right type of towel or napkin. The only problem that remains is both drinking from it at the same time.
Life on earth is literally everywhere. Life even alters the planet's chemistry to suit more life. I cannot see "life" living in a microbiome under a rock or in a lava tube, totally disconnected from some other life 100m away in another tube. If life exists, even if only as microbes, it will have taken the entire planet. It will have adapted itself, or the planet, as it did earth.

So stop spinning ideas about how it may be in some fine layer between one dead zone and another. Such possibilities are interesting but not very inspirational. Let's break out the telescopes and start seriously looking for biosignatures in alien atmospheres. I don't care if an amoeba is found on Mars, resulting in a decades-long debate on where it came from. I want to find a jungle of life. I want a Degoba.
It makes no sense for India to be at war with the US, I'd say. Not that these things are always logical.

From a strategic point of view, India should be allied with the US as India is quite naturally at odds with China.
Seniority really isn't worth much on a software team because no matter how high you climb, there's always someone above you who can override your decisions.

Once you have stayed at a company for more than 3 years, leaving for greener pastures is never counted against you. If you think it's good for your career, do it.
Thanks for this. I've always hated noise cancelling headphones - they make my ears hurt. I'll give these a shot.
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I would recommend Superbetter. Self help from a game developers point of view. Tons of interesting information.
I was in his boat. "Is this really going to matter to anyone?"
It is comments like yours that made me realize that it does.
I was wrong, he is wrong.

While the policy should happen whether or not he supports it. I think it does matter how he feels though. He should feel that these words shouldn't be used in this context. Because, we're not going to solve non-whites being second class if a white people can't see the pain cause by the use of the terms. There are so many bigger problems that should be easier to see and acknowledge that seem to just be over looked, because we don't see the pain.

I am with you SambalOelek. I may not understand everything you and your ancestors have gone through so forgive me when I'm ignorant and tell me about it. That said I don't want you or random people like you to have to do all the work, so I'm reading.
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English has been host to a lot of slavery of many kinds of people. The racial implications are much more of a US thing.
I find that an important point.

I think a bunch of people want to be helpful and do anything that they believe would be more inclusive for others.

What irks me is it comes across more as an expression that their worldview is the one that matters, others aren't to be tolerated.
When social norms say that you're not allowed to share a dissenting view, we get to call that an "orthodoxy" and should be consider the extent to which it is damaging and repressive, rather than simply taking the merit of the orthodoxy for granted. Such consideration should be all the more important when we happen to agree with those norms.

(You've been punished for questioning geocentrism? Should have respected those social norms, Galileo my friend.)
> Why? The experience and intelligence of the recruiter has almost zero correlation to the experience and intelligence of the people you'd be working with.

It shouldn't. A well-run company should refuse to work with recruiters who lack experience and intelligence.
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It's more memetic than either of those, by design. You can easily incorporate other videos, sounds, and ideas (memes) into your own videos.

The videos are also very short compared to YouTube and to have a new video play is as simple as a swipe down.

I don't have much experience with Instagram, but Instagram doesn't seem to have the memetic component. It's more just traditional social media. Users don't really build off of other users content as much.
If you take out the "equally" and read it more like "all 3 are capable of being being catalysts for dramatic change (presumably good) in someone's life", then I don't see how that's unreasonable. Philosophy books for what I would guess most people would say are obvious reasons; a programming book possibly for teaching a person to think differently about a thing they spend a large percentage of their life doing.
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I'm happy to move on from the word "slave". I'm more attached to using the term "master", a useful term associated with various and sundry forms of authority and responsibility, whether that be the master of ceremonies (e.g. MC Hammer), the quartermaster in the Army, or simply "mastery of your craft".
I’m glad to see Millionaire Fastlane at the top of the list. I make money effortlessly in large part due to the mindset of value creation that this book talks about.
This book is on my night stand I try to read it a couple times a year. I feel like you can’t just read it once. You have to be reminded of its principals constantly.
This is so painfully accurate. The company will also say you need to be “passionate about their mission” and “ready to disrupt the future” - for a company that makes cell phone cases or an app to subscribe to your favorite candy.
Some great commentary here :)

I for one am enjoying being not so efficient this morning.
It does. Not sure why it shouldn't since it gets digitized on the mic ADC anyways.
But do they put one at the end of every sentence like it was punctuation?
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I've got no problem with removing master/slave, especially in cases where you could use more descriptive terms.

On the other hand I'm just not a fan of the proposals for blacklist/whitelist. I've nothing against changing them, but denylist/allowlist or blocklist/passlist just doesn't "sound right". Blocklist sounds fine, but whitelist and passlist just sound... awkward?
There are no slave branches in Git though.
Bingo. As a GSUITE admin, they are still far behind competing on the business front, and too many of their enterprise solutions are very google-specific, so few CTOs are willing to commit to them.

On the investment front, we had equity positions in Google for a while, but these days I see a lot more upside in Microsoft equity positions than Google.
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No, never this. If the hiring manager won’t be your manager or in the same tree, run. If they cant be bothered to read the job description they put out, run. If the technology is critical enough to need previous experience managers should know enough about it to not make this mistake.

Hiring is the most important thing managers do. If they suck at that it really doesn’t matter if they are great at other things.
> What kind of projects are a best fit for Rust, for those who are experienced with it?

Anything that you're using C++ or Go for.
I had a physics professor who liked to point out that Feynman (who we all idolized as college students studying physics) used to solve hundreds and hundreds of classical mechanics problems for fun, in his spare time. These were the same homework problems that we hated doing and always complained about.

The professor's point was, being great at something isn't just a matter of having a big powerful brain, it's also a result of putting in the work, and that work is not glamorous. A lot of people want to go straight to the big, fun, "important" problems, the big job titles and pay checks, while skipping all the toil that gets you to that level.
no one reading this is gonna 'swing to his side', the people aren't already trying to control the pandemic are already too hard-headed to even consider swinging, at least until them or their family members start dropping dead.

the implication that america is unable to respond to the pandemic because A Guy Was Mean in a Medium Post is ridiculous