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I would prefer that balance only apply to average people. Not maximizing unique and valuable contributions, in return for more of the grunt work that 3.5 billion couples are already covering, is not a win.
Depends on the pundit, really. The Extreme Programming people were pretty clear that local adaptation was vital. Either Kent Beck or Ron Jeffries told me that by-the-book XP was where they encouraged people to start, but the whole point of doing regular retrospectives was to continually improve the process.

I do share your suspicion of management as a generic separable activity. Especially since it creates such perverse incentives. It has rarely been my impression that the more managers you add, the better things get.
In fact, with compiler optimizations such as GHC's stream fusion, the intermediate result may never actually exist at all.
I do not think your solution fits well with Apple's transition to "lifestyle gear."
PostgreSQL has had memcached support for a VERY long time
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Other countries are ahead of the USA in this matter. For example in Norway the parents' money is reduced if the father refuses to stay at home for a certain time.

That's quite an effective measure, people actually do expect both parents to stay at home for a while.
The public school in question is likely one of these:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huron_High_School_(Ann_Arbor,_M...

or

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pioneer_High_School_(Ann_Arbor,...
One thing that keeps me from considering Eventmachine mature is that the built in http clients are very crude and undocumented. Example: to get working error handling one needs to use an external http client library like igrigoriks em-http-request instead of the defaults. In this regard Node comes out ahead with better core utilities to boot. Stuff like that is very confusing for new users and puts the whole framework into question (shipping with a http client that is not suitable for production use).
Not to mention, they're annoying as hell, especially on a 1366x768 screen. I wish I could get rid of them by simply turning off Javascript :)
"Policy Change" emails are terrible ways to address this sort of problem. People hate these sort of policy changes not because of the email, but because of the policy. It is trying to solve a productivity problem by imposing on everyone a new burdensome, non-productive task.

If you think employees are not performing to expectations, their managers should tell them that clearly and honestly in person. If necessary, those particular employees should be limited from working at home, or tasked with additional reporting. That way the "punishment" fits the crime.

As an aside, the second email is long and full of forced friendliness and awful corporate speak. I mean, every paragraph has the work "collaboration" in it, except the last one--which calls the managers knuckleheads. I think emails from the CEO should be short, honest, and clear.

Subject: Falling Productivity

Team,
We are seeing falling productivity, and the pattern seems to be related to working from home. It should go without saying that we must maintain high productivity if we want to grow and succeed as a company. We need to get this fixed.

In the next few days your manager will schedule a meeting with you to discuss in detail the problem and how we might solve it.

Thanks,
- CEO Guy
Interesting to read this article. I used to work for a large bank where we were actually forced to work from home 1-2 times a day since they were running out of office desks for us :).
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you're making claims based upon social convention, but I do not see any evidence that you have authority with respect to making such claims.

The issue with the phrase "data scientist" is that it is overused, is highly ambiguous in what people mean when they say it, and when someone identifies themselves as such does not communicate any clear lower bounds on expectations of relevant background and skill.

This is not an appropriate fora for getting into an argument about what formal training vs autodidactism (i have plenty of both) is sufficient for being a scientist of one sort or another.

I am open to hearing reasoning that isn't based upon institutional validation. There are many scientists whose work is not in the domains which they had formal training, eg Oded Schramm, Cosmo Shalizi. They could be considered amazing scientists, but surely they were scientists by intellectual inclination even before they did their great work, and likewise successfully defending their phd's didn't make them scientists, it merely gave them the title of doctor!

Calling oneself an engineer of software is misleading in my mind, because in many countries engineer is legal certification of reliability.

Calling myself a program developer would be a gross misrepresentation of what I do, so i do not call myself that. I solve hard problems and build better tools for solving hard problems.

As for showing mastery to the world, I care not, open source is great, but ability to self publicize, or have great open source projects, have absolutely no relationship with being a good computer scientist, though they work synergistically together in a wonderfully positive way.

At the end of the day, everything is some sort of social convention, and the folks who I respect would consider me a computer scientist, and thats good enough for me.

have a great rest of your day on the internet good sir.
Haha. The left-side USB port and AC power adapter can't even be used at the same time. Pair that with wonky USB3 drivers for the right hand ports and you have a laughable situation.

Don't get me started on touchpad drivers.
I can see why someone would disagree with this but downvoting it seems unreasonable - it's a fairly nuanced statement...
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Let me just say this flat out: if the product manager can't change scope and deadlines, then they are not doing anything I recognize as Agile. Fixed scope/fixed date approaches are the exact opposite of what every Agile pioneer had in mind.
Personally, I would be suprised if it was. He probably tripped over some other heuristic (or was flagged as spam by a user for some reason), and they simply didn't reject him after a review. His email may have helped his case here.

Either that or their algorithm really doesn't like you using the same word over and over again (this seems unlikely).

Spam apps are a real problem, and I personally won't be bothered by this as long as the devs that complain (and presumably trigger a human review in the process) don't have their apps inappropriately removed. So far, I haven't really seen any evidence of a widespread problem with inappropriate removals, just inappropriate warnings.
Meh. The long version is massively worse. I got to the end of it and was left confused about what, specifically, I could expect. I definitely prefer the initial "bad" version. (Though I would make it shorter.)

If you want to add explanation, make that short and sweet as well.

Here is an example following the lines of the first that is even shorter.

To: Allhands@CompanyX.com
From: JoeTheHRManager@CompanyX.com
Subject: New Work-From-Home Policy

Everyone,

Our work from home policy is changing next week. Employees wishing to do so must get an OK in advance from their manager. This is to improve progress on projects that depend on collaboration in house.

Managers, if your employee is not currently working on a project where in house collaboration is critical, please be generous in OKing working from home requests.

As always, please send feedback to HR@CompanyX.com.

Joe

That message explains the policy, indicates why, and should leave people with comfort that a favored perk is not simply being eliminated wholesale.

If you want fuller context for my advice, I highly recommend buying http://www.amazon.com/How-Talk-Kids-Will-Listen/dp/038081196... and reading it. (Ignore the bit about that advice being for kids - it works with grownups as well.)
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Ask HN: Is it OK to ask feedback on a business idea here?
I am a new user and I am not sure if I will offend people.

I have a small idea and I want to see what other people think of it. So I want to post the details and get feedback. Is "Ask HN" the right place for it? Or, is there a more suitable place somewhere else on the internet for this kind of thing.

Also, if some of you are wondering: I am not worried that someone will steal my idea since I believe that execution of the idea is infinitely more important than the idea itself. I get 1 new business idea every day.

[Edit]: I have asked feedback on my idea via this posting:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4335201
Everyone always blames it on money. It's more complicated than that. My city (Washington, DC), spent $29,000 per pupil on public schools last year. By that metric, it's one of the best-funded school systems in the country. Test scores here are mediocre at best, to the point that most families with the means to do so move out to the suburbs once they have kids.

There are a wide variety of reasons for this phenomenon, and they'll vary depending on who you ask (urban schools are generally expensive to run, special-needs students are disproportionately expensive to educate, teachers' unions have a lot of clout, etc.).
I just tested this on my mid-2012 MBA, and indeed. Pretty amazing detailed and "small" design feature. Great.
I've been playing warsow on and off for some time now and am extremely happy for the update.
They absolutely need to price it low for their own sake.

The point of the initial surface tablet, and Windows RT itself is to force devs to develop Metro apps so that Windows 8 can have a compelling tablet experience.

The end game is not Windows running ARM, it is Windows on x86, even for tablets. Intel seems to have finally gotten it together and is releasing price/performance/power competitive mobile chips. A year from now I would expect very few Win RT devices to sell for over $400. There just won't be any reason to run an ARM Windows device with its limited app compatibility.

That said, MS can't jump out of the gates and push people to x86 now or there wouldn't be enough of a reason to develop Metro apps instead of traditional desktop ones. And if there aren't Metro Apps, the 'switch-ability' of Windows 8 is of little value.

So I guess my overall point is that the Surface RT had better be cheap or it puts Windows as a whole at risk.
What strikes me as interesting regarding Google's automated approach to community regulation is the effect of focusing on action rather than intent. Making a perfect intent-detector is difficult: much easier to make an action-detector and penalize actions consistent with malicious behavior. This works as long as those actions are a) necessary for malicious behavior and b) are easy to avoid while making good apps.

The experiment is now: how much developers will adjust their behavior to signal clean behavior versus Google perfecting its algorithm to perfectly judge intent. Once Google has a reasonable policy in place, they can sit and wait for developers to conform, and presumably those that can't conform cannot do so precisely because the behavior they would have to change is the behavior that makes their software malicious or undesirable.

Humans already do this every day in conversation - I adjust my language and tone to signal non-malicious intent when making a statement I fear might be perceived as threatening or rude. But these are relatively easy fixes that do not affect my communication horribly; I suppose it's still an open question as to whether Google's criteria unreasonably hinder the development process.
Does that mean the TLB is flushed with every syscall?
If you approach it with a Rails/framework mindset, it's worse in node.js, but if you approach designing a large realtime system as many separate loosely coupled node.js processes, it's easier.

Whenever I see someone trying to cobble together their own framework by prepackaging a bunch of node.js libraries I see someone who is doing it wrong.

You shoot yourself in the foot in node.js when you treat it like rails. You shoot yourself in the foot with rails when you try to do anything outside the scope of problems for which it was designed.
I had that. It's why I've been a stay-at-home dad for the last 2 and a half years.
Even legitimate businesses are actually paying to be liked on facebook. I see a lot of ads on craigslist asking people to like their facebook page especially if they have lot of friends. I thought the whole point of like was that someone genuinely likes you/your business. Apparently, ppl are gaming fb.
How are you tricked or forced when you're told what's happening upfront and told how to stop it if you don't like it?

It's not like the proverbial hyperspace bypass paperwork, it's literally 3 clicks.

I swear guys, some of you have both very oversensitive outrage modules and a broad definition of deception. That goes to most everyone in this thread.
Some women are golddiggers, but more importantly, all women, as a rule, have golddigging tendency. (There are exceptions, but I am talking of a rule.) This is very well established by now.

I recommend reading David Buss's textbook, Evolutionary Psychology, 4th edition. In particular, Women's Long Term Mating Strategies, where the first heading is Preference for Economic Resources. Women consistently rate importance of economic resources in partner twice(!) higher than men. This is consistent from 1930 to today, and does not change whether most women are in the work force or not. As a textbook, it has lots of references you can check yourself.
I have a MBPR and the connector stays in very well. I just tried "brushing" it and my laptop moved against the pressure. I'm guessing pogue generalized this issue and only has a sample of 1 (his MBA). NYT strikes again..
This problem isn't confined to Facebook alone. A while back we were getting ridiculous CPAs on Google Adwords of under 50c, but quickly realized that literally none of these were converting into paying customers. Notably, we were targeting English-speaking countries only, so I don't know why we were getting hits from India and Egypt and stuff.

After targeting US and Canada only, CPAs skyrocketed but each signup actually became worth something.

I'm confused. Who benefits from these click / like bots that seem to plague every advertising platform, besides the platform itself?
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>feminism is a social movement that only works when it is widely understood

Feminism is widely understood. Feminists, like most cultural leftists, simply assume that anyone who rejects their ideology doesn't "understand it."

Our understanding of your ideology is precisely the reason we reject it.

Leftist ideology clearly has its roots in secularized Judeo-Christianity. We all have the "original sin" of racism/sexism/etc. we must be redeemed of, and the world is "torn" and must be tikkun-olamed to be "fixed" by a priest class of activists.

No thanks.
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Is the pursuit of equality really something you think of as strange or outdated?
Short version is the video at http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/384590180/an-events-spac...

The city of Mountain View has shut down more than half of Hacker Dojo, stopped all classes/events/conferences of more than 49 people, and is still threatening to shut the rest down unless the Hacker Dojo does about $250,000 in upgrades and fees to the city. Their concerns are primarily zoning, permitting, and ADA.

Almost everything that isn't raising the money to keep the space open has sadly been put on the back burner for the last 6-ish months so we can keep the city from shutting us down.
You are tired, fair enough, but then don't try to make it a fanboy case, just let it slide.

I have my own perception about these things and that is that if this was an Apple case instead of a Google one it would have been overanalyzed and exaggerated ("devgate" or whatever other stupid name attached to it) and that one-sided stories would be welcomed instead of questioned.

This is probably coming across as a pro Apple statement, no doubt (and I do'nt really care, i don't make a big deal about what technology i decide to put in my pocket), but I also think it'd be against users and developer interests to say that the problem is not there or that is only a matter of perception based on your ecosystem preferences.

If there something wrong, or that needs improvement, it should be said regardless on what phone you use or your personal preference.
I believe the age thing is more about them not having an accrued history of personally-attributed content on the internet and how that weighed into making this decision.

Whether or not that's related to their age is debatable, but one would assume that people who have been publishing on the web for awhile -- bylined or anonymously -- would understand the negative impact this would have on their community or at least would have learned from previous companies' mistakes that just isn't something you do (both the deploying a global change that opts users into something they didn't initially sign up for and the very concept of making previously private things public). There are separate services out there that one can use if they want others on the web to know where they are and what they're doing. I'll use those if I want to be transparent.
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Has SpaceX gotten a contract to manufacture the ship according to NASA's preset specifications, or has it been hired to design and manufacture a ship that fulfills NASA's requirements?
Totally ok. Go ahead, ask HN.
Non-anonymous passive sharing discourages curiosity and experimentation by giving them boundless potential for embarrassment. It's hard to imagine worse long-term damage to users' humanity.
If you do any research on this topic, please keep me up to date with your results. I am crazy interested to hear what you find.
>Where is the independent verification?

How would you suggest getting it?
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And they released it in brown first. If there's one thing Microsoft should know by now, its that the tech-savvy folks will take every chance to ridicule any slight flaw in their products. They should have learned this after their driver disaster in Windows ME. The same driver/hardware compatibility issue shouldn't have happened in Vista, but it did. The same lack of benefit awareness shouldn't be happening with Windows 8, but it is.

Microsoft needs to realize that they're selling in a crowded space now. They're not the only players, so they can't rely on a lack of choice forcing people to understand their products. Before anyone is ever told that there's a new Microsoft product, Microsoft needs to get their marketing people to explain what the product is, how users will benefit from it, and why it's better than the competition (or their previous products.) And this needs to extend to their hardware/software partners. I had problems with Vista originally because Creative kept telling me that the XP drivers for my soundcard would work. They didn't.

Microsoft seemingly releases a product and hopes the market will get it. In the past, it was adapt or die because MS was the only real game in town. Today they need marketing first, then engineering. If enthusiasts decide they don't like the product, that's what they're going to tell non-enthusiasts. That's the problem Microsoft doesn't seem to care about.
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I am having the same experience with my new Macbook Air. The connector feels way stronger than on my previous machine. Then again my last mac was a 4 year old original unibody, so the magsafe connector might have weakened a bit with age.
I don't know, most people are only going to buy one, so if random units are bad... that's not really much better than if only some units are bad.
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We have something similar at Microsoft... but only on the SQL team. It's called 'No Meeting Wednesdays', while it's not really a goof off day, it does let you focus entirely on whatever you want to focus on for an entire (relatively) uninterrupted day.
He's trying to manage through policies. Not gonna work. If you have 50 people under you, there are 50 different situations to consider.

For example: Joe has been working at home because his wife just had a complicated labor and needs help at home for a while. Better leave that one alone. Frank has been working at home because yeah, he's slacking. You should already have fired him, but you're a coward. Eric has been working at home because he's depressed about his carer arc and hates the office environment, and he's one of your best employees. Go talk to him and fix it before he quits! Lisa hasn't actually been working at home at all. She's on the road this week helping a third party integrate with your system, and you even knew about that but forgot when you saw a bunch of empty desks in the office and snapped.

You can't abstract away the heterogeneous nature of your employees. You have to talk to each one and deal with them individually. Yes, it's hard.
I'M crazy? When I went to YOUR schools, I went to YOUR churches, I went to YOUR institutional learning facilities? So how can you say I'M crazy?
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According to http://www.nasa.gov/centers/kennedy/about/information/shuttl... each Shuttle launch cost about $450 million.

This contract amount seems to suggest that SpaceX launches will come in significantly lower than the Shuttle - a very good sign for continued space research.
I am aware of those settings, but they behaved unpredictably last time I tried to use them. They may have improved since.

Further, it just plain doesn't handle the case where you want to have hash urls and push-state urls in the same page. [1] The History object is a singleton, so you can't have different routers for different tasks, without getting into the embedded backbone stuff, which is complicated enough that just writing your own router for pushState and keeping the default hash routes for Backbone routers is simpler.

[1] Yes I know someone will come along and tell me how horrible my design must be, but here's the thing: hash urls are great for some things, particularly when you DON'T want the server side to know about WTF is happening with internal page state, while at the same time you want to be able to handle the back button nicely. Different tools, different jobs.
Where I live, there is a school district with exactly 1 elementary school, in the richest part of town that is funded at a rate of nearly 2x the dollars per student as the other school district (where the rest of the schools are).
I have yet to see any good evidence that shows FB will be able to create an honestly sustainable revenue model.

I am sure the "pay for a less spammy ad riddled FB experience! Only $1.99 per month!" is in the near future. And I'd bet a fair number of users would pay for that.
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