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Looking at your simple example of genders using the same process the article uses to enumerate the combination of gender and days:

Assuming Child 1 is a Boy:

Child 2 can be: Boy, Girl

Assuming Child 1 is a Girl:

Child 2 can be: Boy, Girl

Assuming Child 2 is a Boy:

Child 1 can be: Boy, Girl

Assuming Child 2 is a Girl:

Child 1 can be: Boy, Girl

Combining those gives us the following combinations:

Child 1 | Child 2

---------+---------

Boy | Boy

Boy | Girl

Girl | Boy

Girl | Girl

Boy | Boy

Girl | Boy

Boy | Girl

Girl | Girl

Clearly there is duplication in there we need to remove any exact duplications before we get to the 4 possibilities you listed.

Now looking at the problem in the article again, but using a 2 day week for brevity:

Assuming Child 1 is a Boy on Tues:

Child 2 can be: Boy on Mon, Boy on Tues, Girl on Mon, Girl on Tues

Assuming Child 2 is a Boy on Tues:

Child 1 can be: Boy on Mon, Boy on Tues, Girl on Mon, Girl on Tues

Combining those gives us the following combinations:

Child 1 | Child 2

--------------+-------------

Boy on Tues | Boy on Mon

Boy on Tues | Boy on Tues

Boy on Tues | Girl on Mon

Boy on Tues | Girl on Tues

Boy on Mon | Boy on Tues

Boy on Tues | Boy on Tues

Girl on Mon | Boy on Tues

Girl on Tues | Boy on Tues

In exactly the same way, removing exact duplications gives us 3/7.

There is no ordering over the Tuesdays. "The older child being born on Tuesday and the younger child being born on Tuesday" is exactly the same as "The younger child being born on Tuesday and the older child being born on Tuesday". Just like "The older child being a boy and the younger child being a boy" is the same as "The younger child being a boy and the older child being a boy".
Crazy idea: a course site that is also a dating site.

Oh, and earmuffs made out of hamburgers.
What is really interesting to me at present is the way they chose to make the "The Course" video. All the other courses had a video where the instructor is sort of looking into the camera and directly talking to me. Some even look like they are looking into my soul. But the instructors here chose a more candid way to make a video. The instructors are looking to the right (our left) as if talking to someone else. You can easily say that they are not reading off a prompter so it feels like they are having a conversation with a bunch of students. I really, really liked that. It gave me that feel where I am just being introduced to my faculty and a bunch of us students went into his cabin just to say hi. It feels more of a candid conversation while other videos feel like a one on one interaction. In situations like these the one on one interaction is actually off putting to me. When meeting with a faculty I always find myself comfortable if they are talking to us in a group.
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You're being downvoted, but this is quite honestly something I've witnessed C-levels worrying about -- "does she seem like she might get pregnant immediately?".

I have to disagree with the concern.

There's a cost to hiring humans. People get sick, have babies, attend weddings and funerals and take vacations. Men take paternity leave, women take maternity leave. These are the costs of hiring humans.

In my mind, our company exists to turn a profit, but it also exists to employ human beings. Treating them like human beings is money well spent, not money wasted.
If you had called the office supply chain where I previously worked and I was being very strictly attentive to policy "Is that your best price?" would not have been the magic words but probably would have gotten you the accommodation I'm about to describe from 99% of our CSRs.

Basically, we sell the same stuff via a variety of channels, and the catalog you have in front of you (if you're a regular customer) is systematically above the prices available to other customers like, e.g., schools districts, small businesses in California, people responding to our fall circular, etc etc. The actual software mechanism for this was a three character catalog code, which would cause the system to reprice everything when it was changed. If you were ordering from CAT (the big published book that 98% of orders came from, and you said the magic words -- canonically, "Can you do anything about lowering the price?" -- I would tell you that we had a competitive bidding process and, if you'd give me one second, the computer would come up with our best competitive bid for your business deletes CAT, writes BID ahh, I see we can knock 10% off the order)

There was actually a Bids group, but you'd have to be ordering office paper by the truckload (literally -- some people do) to be worth their attention. The folks in charge of things had long since decided that it was cheaper to just give 10% to anyone who asked than to involve the folks in Bids on $400 accounts or lose business because a law firm secretary decided to do price shopping prior to placing her order.

Of particular note: there is literally nothing you can say, starting from "You're placing an order in CAT", that would cause you to pay more money than the CAT prices. Savvy purchasing managers understand this, which is why purchasing departments almost without fail spent the extra 5 seconds asking for a discount.
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Obviously, there's disadvantages, like having no idea who you are applying for but that can be fixed with a bit of research.

It's a legal requirement in the UK for a recruiter to have your explicit permission to submit your CV to a company. The law is black & white but unfortunately most recruiters tend to be ignorant of it and those whe aren't simply ignore it as they know most candidates aren't aware of the fact. Never ever let an agent submit your CV to a company before they tell you who the company are.

Salary negotiations are incredibly simple. When you are offered a salary, simply push back and say you would be comfortable with 10% more. The worst that can happen is they will simply say that the budget won't allow it. The offer is still on the table and you've lost nothing.
*for some value of "Literally"
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I have not validated the idea yet, that's what I need help with doing. I think the best way to validate it is to build a prototype of some sort (it's really shouldn't be too complicated to build a simple prototype, I just don't have the skills).

I am planning on validating the idea at a startup weekend event next month.
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There are a couple of differences that make your reasoning invalid:

- Women having a lower salary isn't as visible or as visibly wrong as men hitting their wives

- Hitting one's wife is an action, while not negotiating salary (well) is a non-action

Both things are wrong, and we need to try to inhibit both on the society level (by trying to raise responsible men, and women to negotiate salaries).

Though, I'm very certain that I, as a man, also need lessons in negotiating salaries - I'm quite gullible/trusting.
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Could not agree more. My salary isn't indicative of my ability, my experience is. Judge my worth based on my experience and its value to your business and we'll take it from there.
It's likely due to two (or more) automated pricing scripts duking it out. Here's how it works:

Seller 1 is a well respected seller. They've got thousands upon thousands of good reviews. As a result, they never price themselves the cheapest, but maybe pretty close to that. Their script finds the cheapest price, makes sure that it's above their cost, and then prices it at 15% above the cheapest.

Seller 2 is not as entrenched in the market. They try to undercut their competitors. They have good reviews, but not as many reviews over all. So, price is their main weapon. Their script seeks out well reviewed sellers and prices at 5% below their competitor.

Both scripts update every 15 minutes or so. You can see where this is going if both scripts don't have an upper bound. Each script is designed to make the most profit, and not be the lowest by too far. For example, if pencils suddenly had a shortage, you'd want your prices to automatically raise to match the perceived demand. You wouldn't want to be the sucker who sells all his pencils at a tiny profit while everyone else gets far more money.

Or, you know, it could just be a data input error. :p
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This may be slightly off topic, but for solving #1 a standing desk is a great idea. My energy levels have improved dramatically and I've also lost some weight since I got my standing desk.
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...or the trigger for a gmail exodus
Why would editing, cover art, etc. be something that can be best done by a middleman though?

It seems more logical to me to see this as a service provided by separate agencies, paid for by either the author or the publisher. Such agencies could be of various sizes and compete on price or a reputation for quality work.
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I thought that dates of employment and salary were the two things that even the most secretive employers are willing to confirm?
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I could see myself using a "daily list/meetings/to-dos" with something like this. Like when I wake up I will have my little note with things to do today / tomorrow.

I have way to many bookmarks/read later/todo-websites,apps etc. In the digital media that is, computers etc.

Then again I don't have a smartphone and I think the iPhones lockinfo solves this problem for me. I just need to have things set in stone where I look 1000 times a day.
But I much prefer physical media.
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I knew about the ASMR subreddit, but the frisson one is new to me. They are both strange. I do get chills/euphoric sensations from certain music and certain sounds, though. It would be cool to know exactly what's going on.
We do also blame society in the first case, don't we? We don't exonerate the man in question, but there is quite a bit of general hand-wringing about whether our society raises boys to be violent, even to the extent that some people propose questionable solutions like banning violent video games.
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The linked Ars Technica article in fact agrees with you, but retains the term to describe competing design philosophies.
ajanuary explains the duplicates problem nicely here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3290185 so I won't double up.

I've spent the last hour and a half wrestling with the same clash between maths and intuition that you're experiencing so I understand your frustration - 13/27 really is the right answer though.
"Sorry, that information is covered under my previous job's NDA." is a more direct, less bullshitty version of patio11's suggestion. It's also probably true.

Alternately: "My previous salary has no bearing on this discussion."
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The position I'm attacking is the claim that it's just obvious that imperative programming is more intuitive, not that it is more intuitive. By exhibiting counterexamples to this supposedly obvious assertion, it's shown that it is not in fact obvious. Whether imperative or declarative programming is in fact more intuitive is, of course, not something to be settled by the anecdote give in the link.
"@" is an alias for "this.", so "@foo" is the same as "this.foo".

{foo} = bar is using destructuring assignment, it means, take property "foo" of bar and put it in variable foo, so

{foo} = bar

compiles to

var foo = bar.foo;
Hi. You mentioned in the GH desciption that you'd like some help with a name and logo.
Logo-wise, how about something that resembles a door-chain? The concept is that while it allows you to talk to the person on the other side, it restricts their complete access to your property.
With this in mind, you could call the plugin something like Book-chain (or something better ;) ).

Either way, I'd be happy to help with the design.
Computers are such a broad topic these days that assuming your expertise will simply translate to any problem domain is the height of foolishness.

Easy file versioning and sync are only solved for a very specific use case that corresponds very poorly to most people's lives (photo library?) There's a priceless rant from John Siracusa about his sister ignoring Time Machine's warnings tha the backup device had failed for months because it didn't actually incapacitate her computer.
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As an employer, I would do my utmost to attend to these human problems, especially it's a valuable employee. However, the costs, opportunity-wise, still exist and we pay them, willingly or not.
Except you are not actually supposed to remove the duplicates!! It is a very common mistake, but it's simply incorrect, it leads to incorrect results.

Also, why are you numbering the kids as child 1/2? There is no such distinction made. If you changed your list so that the fixed child is always listed first, and removed duplicates you would have 4 possibilities.
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There have been tons of books written on negotiating, most of which contain more useful content than any advice thread or blog post. Given the huge difference negotiating makes, these books pay for themselves hundreds of times over.

I'm a big fan of anything written by Roger Dawson. Yes, it's written in sales-y self-help style, which you'll probably subconsciously resist, but the content is gold. Here's a link to his 'Secrets of Power Salary Negotiating':

http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/secrets-of-power-salary-nego...
>> What _is_ true is that for a VC's business model to work, it's necessary for _you_ to give up _your_ life in order for _him_ to become richer.
> Isn't this more or less the case for any profits-go-to-owners business model?

Not necessarily. There are plenty of businesses where the principal owners are working just as hard as the "regular" employees, and don't just sit in on a board meeting once a month.
Thats quite a nice improvement you got there. Care to elaborate on what happened (who said what, etc) between walking out and getting the offer?
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Minimal and fantastic.

I could absolutely imagine getting one of these for my grandparents, for example.

Or a parent with young children.

Or a local shop owner that doesn't use a smartphone.
He explains it, and he's wrong.

Look, I understand your intuition wants you to remove duplicates "They are the same!". But you should resist, because doing that gives incorrect results.
Warning: this is geographically specific advice.

Here in the UK, when you start a new job, they are going to want to see your P45 so they can deduct tax correctly. There is zero point in trying to conceal your salary. And if you have, ahem, exaggerated it, that will be spotted too (and counts as lying in your application).
I remember butane being mentioned in the article. I was more or less spitballing an idea on how future technology would make more sense. I don't think sun free PVs or solid state batteries are where they need to be yet to make this work, but you know more about it then me, maybe it will never be feasible.

Speaking of which, are you familiar with this work?:

http://www.geek.com/articles/geek-cetera/8-grams-of-thorium-... - it was another

Hacker News submission, so you may have seen it.

Have you approached him about using sun-free PVs instead of mini steam turbines? Or wouldn't the Thorium generate the heat quality you need?
Is this the offline device that will allow those who scorn technology (for to do lists, calendars, etc.) in favor of print to move online, or is this just for techies?
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It's attitudes like yours that are pushing the prices down. Your view is also wrong. There are lots of jobs and lots of workers to fill them. You could also just go abroad. There are lots of nice places to work and with English you can work in pretty much any big city in western Europe.
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I think Charlie's worrying about Amazon putting him out of business, meaning he won't be able to afford to write books any more and will have to find alternative employment. If you like Charlie's books - like I do! - that's definitely against your interests
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I've hired dozens of developers (in the UK and elsewhere), and I've never taken an offer off the table because a candidate has asked for more. The worst I've ever done is not offer more than the initial offer.

There's almost always wiggle room - personally I've never accepted the first offer, and typically I've gotten 30%-50% more. Conversely, because I know there are people like me out there, I never offer the maximum I'm ready to pay - nobody has ever just quietly walked away if the offer wasn't good enough.

The only exception would be if I was hiring for specific very high level talent when the market is totally overheated.

> That's why I like recruitment agents, when you apply for a job, you already know the salary (or at least the salary range)

Recruiters are not your friends. While it is in their interest to get you the highest salary possible because it increases their commission, it is also in their interest to hire as many people as possible in as little time as possible, which means getting you to accept a lower offer if that's the quickest way there.

I am not saying not to use recruiters - I have successfully gotten got jobs via recruiters - but be very clear with them about salary expectations, and remember that just because a recruiter is involved does not mean the offer isn't negotiable.

On the contrary, if, when you get an offer, you make it clear you need more to accept right away, they will bat for you because they want that commission. Conversely, realize that they will at the same time bat for the employer if they think they can get you to sign right away. What matters to them is which side is most likely to cave.

Be nice to a recruiter and they also often will give you an indication of how far the potential employer is likely to stretch. I've several times had recruiters tell me "the instruction we got says X to Y, but I think they'll stretch to Z" where Z was a number I thought would've been outrageous to even ask for. In one of those cases, the company did in fact come back with an offer of Z after some strong hints + a very significant (far above normal levels) guaranteed raise at a specific later time.

Do practice interviews. Apply for a job you're not that interested in, and be actively unreasonable about what you ask for. You might sometimes find they don't think it's so unreasonable.
We do, but the carriers will want $20-25/month from you if you try to enable the feature. It's rather lame, wanting to charge you again to use data you're already paying form especially in this era of data plans being capped anyway,

This nonsense is easy enough to get around with on Android (many third-party ROMs have Android's built-in tethering feature enabled) or BlackBerry (this Tether company makes a BlackBerry app that worked well for me in the past.)
As a manager, I thought this initially too. But here's the kicker - the employees sit there and take it. Sure they may complain about being underpaid, but few will move to another job.

I remember in my previous job, I had a senior sysadmin who had been with the company for 10 years and earning $70k ... we were hiring new sysadmins off the street for $100k. He complained about it and I tried everything I could to get him a payrise because he was a good performer - but company policy was that pay rises could not be more than 10% without exec approval. So the best I could offer him was $77k - in my justification for more, I compared market rates, how much it would cost the company if we had to replace him ($100k in salary alone let alone recruitment costs) etc - but the reply back from HR was 'we bet he won't leave'. And sure enough he didn't. It really saddened me - the fact is he could get a job elsewhere that paid way more, but he was too 'comfortable' in his position.

In my experience, people tell themselves all sort of stories why they don't leave - I'm still learning lots, I like the people I work with, I need a little more experience etc - all of this may be true to a degree, but going by the number that complain about being overworked/underpaid, a lot of them simply are excuses.

Companies know and understand this - and hence people often may get underpaid.
The concept and implementation is nice. But for the sake of the planet I would not get one, nor would I recommend it either.
I couldn't get iProxy working right under iOS 5, and I couldn't find anyone else even trying. Worked great for me last year on iOS 4, though.

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I don't like this advice personally. If you want more money you need to change jobs. Asking what progress you need to make to get the raise you want is normally just going to get you strung along doing extra work for nothing.
I would much prefer your to say "that doesn't matter." It's more honest than trying to invent a reason why I can't tell you, and it's true - it doesn't matter. The question is how much are my services, with my current skill set and experience, worth to you in your unique business. What my skill set of a few years ago was worth to somebody else in a different business is irrelevant. Apples and oranges.
I think the same statement could be made about introverts. Not quite sure if this is a gender issue or just a personality/mentality issue.