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Ladder | San Francisco, CA | Full-time | Senior Software Engineer https://withladder.com/company/jobs/4057701003

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Reading her Twitter feed made me shake my head in disgust.

The fact that someone as deranged as her can rise to the level of director of engineering at GitHub is simultaneously hilarious and sad. Not that this is out of line for GitHub (https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2016/02/08/report-anti-white-...), but I wonder how much value Erica Joy actually provides to GitHub's engineering team.

Wouldn't surprise me if they got her in as a diversity hire where she spends her entire day virtue signalling and complaining about racism, sexism, homophobia, etc. instead of actually spending time on engineering. None of her talks or writings have anything to do with actual engineering.
If it were true that people doing job= no exploitation, then we wouldn’t need labor laws. Paying people below poverty wages, and people doing the job because they need the money is exploitation. It is taking advantage of the asymmetry of the power in a relationship between a rich company and a poor employee to set terms that that are exploitative of the employee.
Obviously: PD existing. And most devices, even those that have custom modes (e.g. OnePlus Warp), support PD too.
I was surprised to find the converters I purchased were so big because of the electronics inside. I had imagined a converter would just need to be a micro-USB socket and a USB-C plug with some wires joining the two together.
Apple altering their pro-privacy plans after strong pressure from a federal agency tells a very different story than the one you presented with your initial statement.
Maybe, but they also don't sell a differentiated product.

Give me the option to pay the real cost of a comfortable seat, and I'll pay it.

No, I don't believe it costs 5x as much.

Every single airline sells the same product, more or less. The same 2-3 class system, at the same price differentials, with the same seat width and pitches.
That is really cool and I feel your pain. I've mostly been dissapointed in numerical computing stacks. You've got C/C++/Fortran that are blazing fast, but very cumbersome to use. They are nice in that you can distribute an executable. Python and Julia are good at finding a sweet spot where your scripting language is fast and user friendly, but distribution is a pain I guess unless you have a SAAS product. Matlab, Mathematica, GNU Octave, Scilab...etc have their own problems like cost or performance and also make distribution painful.

I looked at SBCL, but didn't see good ways to use existing numerical libraries. I'll have to look at Clasp again.
>probably

People are well justified in their claims not being comfortable, but convicted people getting a second chance is a must though.
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I guess merely being convicted of a crime isn't that bad compared with being sentenced without trial in the court of public opinion.
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Since Bitcoin is not fundamentally private, any attempt to tumble your BTC is fruitless because the Bitcoin blockchain and every transaction is public and transparent. There are even companies like Chainalysis[0] who profit off this fact and help law enforcement with e-crime. I imagine if Satoshi wanted to do Bitcoin again, she would bake in privacy as a core feature?

[0] https://www.chainalysis.com/
> especially so in a site that doesn't strictly tie with your real self.

I never realized it so clearly, but this is definitely the case for me on HN and probably for more commenters on HN.
I believe here "bijective" is being used with the implicit assumption that we're talking about the same finite sets, "byte-strings up to a fixed length". From the link on BiCom:

> compression with bicom is completely bijective -- any file is a possible bicom output that can be decompressed, and then recompressed back to its original form.
The issue with docks were very non-compliant 3rd party docks which used 9 V for signal lines, which is way to high: https://hackaday.com/2019/08/04/the-not-quite-usb-c-of-ninte...
That video of NYC is breathtaking. I don't care in the slightest that the colors might technically be wrong. The emotional impact of feeling like I could actually be standing on that street is genuinely amazing.

Maybe other people are different but I can't cross the imagination gap with b/w footage but this did it instantly.

10/10 best possible ad for these services.
CFTC charges BitMex with illegally operating derivatives exchange
That is great to hear. I am happy for you. If you don't mind me asking, what kind of tech consulting do you do?
It always seems like constant searches by ifttt might violate tos, so most services I do searches like that on (or use ifttt to search on) I have separate accounts for automation.
> Why is that? If our ideas are good, don't we want the most number of people to know them?

We want that. But notation is for working with and on ideas, not teaching them. You want a tool that maps well to the problem domain, that lets you efficiently operate difficult concepts by proxy of simple symbols, whose relationship maps closely to the rules governing the problem domain.

The task of a beginner isn't to grasp a complex domain immediately (as that's impossible). Their task is to gradually ingest ideas (and increasingly complex notations) until they can operate at the level of the experienced, with the tools of the experienced.

Demanding that a notation used for work is also easy for beginners is just handicapping the experienced, and making advanced work near-impossible. It would be like demanding that every excavator be no larger than 1.5 x 1.5 x 1.5 meters and be made entirely of colorful plastic, because that's what little kids can work with.

The "barrier" that a notation creates isn't there to keep people from crossing it. Building ramps over that barrier is a good thing to do. But the barrier has a purpose - it's there to contain and control the forces of thought that are unleashed inside it.
An argument could be made that the justice system should be about rehabilitation but in its current state can't be expected to provide that. I'm not sure I'd make it, but I could see that perspective.
Raw pointers for ownership are a bad idea, one of google's 30,000 programmers doing it doesn't change that. You are the only one pointing to google as an authority.
Because inclusive culture is an unachievable goal.

What about older developers? What about different race developers? What about cross-gender developers? What about Ahmish developers who only use pen and paper? What about Indian culture vs Korean culture vs Chinese culture vs American culture?

It's a slippery slope.

The goal of management should be tolerance and fairness and objective measures of employee value and the 'culture' problem will sort itself out.

Management attempting to engineer employee culture non-organically is super creepy and unacheivable.

Also, the idea of 'culture fit' is in itself exclusionary because it implies theres a pre-set culture to fit into...even if it includes women...what other cultures are excluded?
This is the more noteworthy as it is currently not exactly easy to find a job as software engineer, even if you have one or two decades of experience in the field and no criminal record.
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But only about 10% of prisoners are in Federal custody.

Among those in state prisons, drug possession is about 3% of cases (about equal to DUI plus fraud cases). Other drug charges make up about 10%.
Typically 3-5 months I think. It's not like it just turns on and off either, it flares up then slowly fades over time.
Specifically law enforcement, which seems to attract a lot of “bad apples.”
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Rather then reinvent a GUI library for each language, what about creating a stateful open GUI Markup Language? Then you'd use XML to communicate with the GUI browser (or browser plug-in).

That way any language can do real GUI's, and without screwy bloated buggy JavaScript libraries.
What? Rust has both early return and unwinding, which interact with destructors the same way.

Further, Rust has destructive move, making drop even more flexible.
> "Anonymous tracking is fine with [Mozilla]..."

that seems to be a reasonable and consistent stance, but it's also reasonable for users to be skeptical of their anonymity claims as well as the implicit claim of being undeanonymizeable (what a mouthful) or having strict safeguards on potentially fingerprintable info.

i think branding around privacy (and secondarily security) is a good strategy for them (apple is effective with it), but mozilla really has to nail the messaging, not only for the public but for more-discerning technologists as well. so far, the compromising stance they've taken doesn't seem to be hitting the right chords all around.

my take is that they're messaging is too broad and diluted right now. for example, diversity and inclusion are great, but not for the mozila/firefox brand at its current (smaller) size. it just distracts from a core brand that should be laser-focused on privacy and security to set it in stark contrast with google & chrome (and to a lesser extent, apple & safari). that creates real market segmentation and shifts user choice-making to dimensions that favor mozilla/firefox. other (potential) brand values just don't do that for them.

and, they don't have the resources and reach (and reserve brand equity) of companies like google & apple to effectively deploy broad brand ideals. instead, they really need to focus narrowly on just privacy and security if they want to survive their mindshare/marketshare drought.
Cf. "revolutionary conscience": [0]

[0] https://www.history-of-emotions.mpg.de/texts/revolutionary-c...
"Cops used data they had easy access to in way they weren't supposed to."

Obviously this is really bad but I feel like it would have been more unusual if they hadn't used it.
In the USA? I've never had an offer letter that made a statement like that, nor did I ever sign an offer letter. I interviewed for the job, got a verbal offer over the phone, received a written letter with one or two sentences confirming the start date and salary, and that's it!

EDIT: I'm referring to highly compensated professional jobs. In two such positions, I only received a verbal offer, and there was nothing in writing. Normally, I'd insist on something in writing, but in these cases, I was hired by someone I trusted.
In our case I googled the email address that was left in every folder and read forums on how their users dealt with it. We negotiated $2k to $400.

My company bought a small business and it happened next day. A hole in RDP that was simply open to the internets. No backups, no failover, just a regular business, you know. Partially my fault, as this thing should have been evaluated/fixed before the deal. Convincing the owners that it wasn't me (I just got an administrative password) was a separate fun.
This is an interesting story, but if I had the choice to hire a felon (yes, once you commit a felony, even after serving time you are still a felon) or a scrappy coding bootcamp grad I'd take the bootcamp grad every time.

Especially if I'm a founder with significant skin in the game, why would I risk my money, time and hard work on someone with a recorded record of making poor choices when there are hoards of others who haven't broken the law?
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> On the other hand, people perceived as racist are permanently marked as being ideologically dangerous.

This is pretty demonstrably untrue. Cenk Uygur comes to mind, off the top of my head - he's lost out on opportunities from things he said in the past that were perceived as racist, but nobody in good faith / nobody who matters considers him to continue to espouse those views. It helps that he quite vocally criticizes those views.

What is probably actually true is that, statistically, many people who were racist in the past are still racist, and many people who murdered in the past and went to prison commit no further violent crimes (for many reasons).
Paint executives, tobacco executives, shortening/margarine executives all retired to their yachts scot-free, not held to account for millions of deaths caused directly by their choices.

US law enables prosecuting individual corporate officers. The only time I have heard of it used, in living memory, was to prosecute JPMorgan metal futures people for manipulating prices in ways bad for business. Killing people (slowly enough) is just good business.

Certain companies have asked and been allowed to flout the ban on trans fats in foods, until at least 2021. "We still have poison in the pipeline we would like to sell first." Trans fats have been known to be deadly since 1957.
Github is non-free.
you're trying to be clever, but statutory crimes are often either ridiculous (drug offenses) or can be put behind you and forgiven (if they were a product of circumstances or culture at the time.)

whereas what you're calling "thought crime" is more analogous to saying "i intend to commit statutory crimes in the future".
Yep, docks are known not to request 4 lanes for DP even when there's only a display plugged in. In fact even dongles that don't have anything other than a display output on them sometimes only ever request 2 lanes, sadly.
You seem to believe fewer farmers is better. There are people out who would like to be farmers but can't pull it off because the current system makes it hard to start small and build up.
The Army Rolls Out a New Weapon: Strategic Napping
I've never bought a "smart" TV, and i never will.

It's not smart to buy "smart" appliances, since any intelligence they have will work towards the interests of the companies that made them, not the purchasor.
I spent most of my career working in restaurants. We had a server who literally lit someone on fire. I had drug addicts who didn't show up for work, causing a panicked chain reaction among all the other people from their halfway house. Half the cooks were violating some sort of immigration or labor law.

It's fine. Most criminals are fine most the time.

What's your alternative? If you go to jail it's just for life because creampuffs can't handle sitting near someone who did something bad? Why is society comfortable with white colar criminals working when they cause more damage (both to the companies and to society as a whole)?
The selfish hypocrisy of champagne lockdownism is demolishing our society
I'll just say that I paid $14,000 in property taxes alone last year
On the Atari side the 410 cassette recorder was popular with the "I cannot afford the disk drive" crowd. I can imagine hooking up a record player instead. After all, I had a lot of story records including some Godzilla stuff so why not programs.
There's a problem though:

- The standard of proof in criminal law is very high. There are very specific definitions of most criminal acts and these must be proven "beyond reasonable doubt"

- The definition of "racist tweet" on the other hand is as fuzzy as it can be. Usually it drills down to "someone whom I don't like said something that I have interpreted in the way I don't like"

If we think that racist tweets should bear harsh consequences, we need a bit better criteria of what "racist" actually means.
Actually, the checkbox does nothing. It's just for show :-)
The difficulty is that you need to do nothing from the start and forever, to not be noticed.

As soon as as you start doing anything or replying to an email (definitely don't send any email), people will notice you and they might come back to you for it or for something else.

This also precludes working for some high visibility projects or parts of the organization. Better be on a pet project that nobody uses or cares about.
Indeed, and then when you check the specs, it says USB-C!

https://www.nintendo.com/switch/tech-specs/

I was not pleased with it being an outside warranty issue, but I paid up just to get the thing fixed and back.
>Traditionally these are questions for philosophy, but philosophy is dead. Philosophy has not kept up with modern developments in science, particularly physics.

I'm sorry, what kind of non sensical bias is that? That's like saying that science doesn't care about truth, or is more important than truth. After all, "Truth is one of the central subjects in philosophy. It is also one of the largest." [1]

[1] https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/truth/
Short term management greed has destroyed long term shareholder value.
Using the logic of some people in this thread, the day after a convinced child molester gets out of prison, he should be able to start working at a day care. Why not? He served his time- you don't want to punish him indefinitely, right?

Also a convicted fraudster can start working again immediately in a bank, or as a financial advisor for your parents- after all, he served his time, right? And a convicted Mafioso or gang member can become a cop. Etc. etc.

I agree society should help reintegrate prisoners, and find them work. That work might just be as in construction or retail sadly. Unfortunately, if you did something absolutely horrific, the consequences of that may last your entire life. As an employer I am not 'society'- I'm not obligated to hire a violent felon because society in general owes him or her something. As an employer I'm free to make my own decisions, and I personally wouldn't hire someone who did 13 years in prison, likely for homicide. If you disagree, that's fine- it's a free country, you can hire them or even let them into your home, up to you.

If you really disagree, tell me how about how daycares should hire pedophiles after they get out of prison. They did their time, right?
There's a lot of telephone garbling going on in a lot of the replies to this thread about the switch.

There's a really detailed post from one of the third party dock makers (genki) about all the specifics of the switch's usb-c PD implementation, including the fact that the switch uses a (nearly) bog standard usb-c pd controller chip: https://www.reddit.com/r/NintendoSwitch/comments/ckaiiv/an_e...

Just because nintendo won't warrant use of third party docks or claim compatibility doesn't mean it's not compatible. Nor does any anecdotal experience of a usb-c charger frying a switch (I've fried a dell laptop's battery with a busted usb-c cable, does that mean dells aren't conformant?).