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Isn't it the case the stacked ranking exacerbated the backstabbing issue?

I see this move overall as a positive one for Microsoft - without removing the perverse rewards to screw over your teammates and other teams, the actual cultural fix can't take place.

I think the culture will shift soon - Microsoft, for more than a decade, had no real competitors. They made more money each year whether they executed (see Win2k) or not (see Vista). Consequently, their biggest threat was actually internal. Stacked ranking enforced this, and prevented internal response.

Now that situation is changing (or has changed). Microsoft is looking at actual competition in the form of Apple and Google as mobile and search erode the desktop. On the datacenter side, Amazon and other cloud provider are threatening Microsoft's server profits.

When the heat gets strong enough, there will be a unifying force within the company (or it'll just crumble - personally don't think that's the case).
>If John gets thousands of orders how, when and where take on all the growing pains, not just cutting out panels. Unless John is an industrial process engineering genius, Asian manufacturers could do this for 1/10 of cost and in 1/5 the time.

If the point isn't to strike it rich, but rather to spread knowledge; John might consider that a quite satisfactory result.
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Wow, that's a flashback to the <applet> days!
You seem to be straining the analogy well beyond the actual comparison being made, to the point where I have no idea what you're talking about. The point is that one party in a fight stopping shooting does not constitute peace and one person giving a small amount of money to one other person does not accomplish the same goals as a basic income.

I do give to charity, but the net effect of this is not a proportionally scaled down version of the effect of a basic income.
A grand per year, no thanks.
Update: Microsoft is now removing stack/rank from employee evaluations (as of 12 November), and looks to be valuing collaborative effort and teamwork more.

If any MSFT recruiters are reading this, I'm now available for your consideration. ;)
More details on the design process are available here: http://www.chromium.org/nativeclient/pnacl/stability-of-the-... (there's a link to a nicely formatted PDF in the bottom).

TL;DR: a lot of thought went into it :)
what about the comment from his mom that he glossed over about random reboots?
Yeah, the sulfuric acid was just the first thing I noticed. Looking around that same picture shows a plethora of chemicals that can do nightmarish things to the human body.
All open source projects are not the same. All the people running open source projects are not swayed by money. Some projects are much more complicated than a web framework. These projects need funds for progress to be made. Case in point - OpenBSD. I love the project and their approach. I also feel they genuinely need funding to keep improving the system. Another example - LuaJIT. Great project, does not have a load of contributors - so I won't mind funding Mike if it means he spends more time on LuaJIT. Another example - SQLite. I'll just send in a donation because its so damn good.
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and this whole time I thought it was deprecated because it allows you to cheat with yield since it's undetectable on 1H NMRs.
Just use the $10 specials off Zenni myself, although never ran into any problems. Found it kind of bizarre anyone thinks glasses are expensive any more. Probably the same people who get contact lens exams every year instead of just ordering international.
Microsoft is having a horrible time hiring anyone due to the stack ranking. The rot is now too deep.
Most asm.js is generated using Emscripten, which is also based on LLVM. I guess the backend optimizations will be different.
They are related in that Dart and PNaCl are approaches to addressing the same problem domain, or at least problem domains with substantial overlap.
Something like GLSL Hacker you mean?

http://www.geeks3d.com/20131031/glsl-hacker-0-6-0-0-physx-3-...
PDF pp 2-3:

http://www.hms-beagle.com/PDFs/BenchMark_Legacy_Chemicals_Pl...

Any bio&|chem know what's likely to do singe eyebrows or suffocate?
Another vote of confidence for Zenni. Insurance is a massive distort for the glasses market. While my glasses would have been covered upto $250 under insurance the local retailers have everything priced that I'd still end up paying more. For $39 from Zenni I got an untinted pair with the same frame as my brand name glasses. As a bonus this new pair does not have an unsightly "designer" logo.

The pricing for extras is also much better. The brand name dynamic tinting cost one third at Zenni what the local glasses shop wanted.
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Ok, you're the 3rd person in this thread who thinks I'm making an accusation. What accusation am I making? What motives am I imputing to swombat?
I hope you do not. How will you find out that things are real or not?

It makes you really skeptic and a little more cautions, but also open to risk than you would usually be. Maybe a good attitude for an entrepreneur, but all your logic and fear induced by that logic mostly fades away at some times. That's when you think it could be a dream subconsciously, at that time you start doing things you never would. It's twisted, it could also make you overly cautious, because you start valuing real life as something more wonderful than you thought, a unique thing, something you are deadly afraid of losing control of. The worst is: "What if you understand your multi-level dream as bad as you understood Inception?" Just like some friend of yours who had trouble getting Matrix in example. Could that mean you see draw a pattern and believe reality is the 5th dream? Could that when you really wake up, make everything make appear surreal? Would you try to jump from a window or do something to find out if you're dreaming?

The question that reality is a dream is supported by the Simulated Reality Hypothesis and that is also factor that makes this film a great one. Because there is no answer to that question. You could wake up when you die, or you could die. Using stochastic maths and game theory would suggest to die, but that speaks against everything that makes a game, a dream or life out. Playing is winning. Not playing is losing.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ironic_process_theory

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simulated_reality
I agree that the objection is unconvincing as phrased.

However, if we all agree that "Someone Should Do Something About X", then why does it necessarily follow that government should decree that "Everyone Must Do The Following Things About X: ..."?

There are some gaps in logic there that (commendable!) fervor about poverty does not cover. It's fair to ask whether poverty can be helped by channeling that fervor towards less coercive and bureaucratic (and possibly more effective) outlets.
I haven't seen much backstabbing either, but what I have seen is plenty of people acting way differently than they would if the stack ranking curve doesn't exist.

People are constantly doing stuff to make them "visible" instead of doing what is best for the project. How many features do people fight nail and tooth for, that should be cut, just because if they aren't in the product they won't have anything to show for their work when review time comes around?

People are terrified of making decisions, because if they make a bad one, it's going to look poorly when they're ranked. I don't know if you've noticed this, but our managers tend to give "guidance" rather than outright telling us what to do. That way when something goes wrong, it isn't their fault. They didn't say we had to do it the wrong way and it's our fault for not bringing up that it was wrong sooner.

The first year I was here, I didn't think anything of the stack ranking. It was just one of those evils of working at a huge company. Then I started to notice that people were just doing weird stuff. Calling pointless meetings, making big stinks over small things, and just doing weird things just to create more work for themselves. I realized all of that was just so people could have more bullet points on their list of accomplishments at the end of the year.

Sure, killing the curve won't solve everything and I think there is a lot of truth to what you're saying about not valuing teamwork. I just think that killing the stack ranking is a BIG step in the right direction.
Well then perhaps instead of downvoting just do a quick search. It takes 10 seconds.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6677481
It's a good question, but really, his government is already taking his money and giving it to the poor in the form of existing (means-tested) social programs, that have an additional effect of creating an extreme disincentive to work, since you get disqualified from those as your income grows.

Replacing all means-tested government aid to the poor with a simple check to everyone would dramatically cut program costs and abuse, and quite likely actually result in more people getting actual jobs. It would also be a good reason to repeal the minimal wage laws, since there would be no rationale for them any more. To me, this seems like a pretty good tradeoff, even if overall tax rates go up a little to pay for it.

The main danger I see in this is that with the system in place, there would be continuous public pressure on the politicians to keep increasing the basic income level, until productive employment becomes not profitable any more and the economy collapses. Of course this problem is inherent in any welfare society, but I think it's more dangerous here, because of the sheer transparency. But if anyone can make this work, it's probably Switzerland, and we would all learn a lot from the experiment.
Hyperbole. No, not evil. But there are exactly zero times when it is ok.
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You're not criticizing the idea swombat is proposing. Instead, you're questioning swombat's current actions.
if by balanced you mean completely random, then sure. Fun game but I wouldn't call it perfectly balanced.
Link for a quick test:

http://www.humanmetrics.com/cgi-win/JTypes2.asp

As an INFP, I guess it makes sense that money was never really a motivating factor for me. Progress and self-actualization, the human endeavor, equality, all that stuff is always at the forefront of my mind, and the tedium of the daily grind just sucks the life out of me like nothing else. Unfortunately I have trouble communicating ideas to others, because I can't convey the whole context of what I'm considering, so my arguments sometimes sound scatterbrained even when they are solid. It's difficult to explain how/why the concrete is more difficult for me than the abstract, so I just tell everyone my short game stinks.
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This was communicated already at Google IO 2013, that it was on their plans to make it so.

It was in one of the Chrome sessions if I am not mistaken.
just a guess, but it may be http://www.roybiv.net/
I've been waiting for this for a year; the idea of having a language-within-a-language is extremely powerful.

Take our product: we have javascript, typescript, XML and SQL stored in strings in our C# codebase. As you can expect, these are really hard to maintain, and just has hard to move to separate templates.

Oh, did I mention that we also have our own templates, our own DSL, handlbar templates, jQuery templates and templates used in various libraries.

Nitra can support that all in one tool.
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Sorry, the words coming out of my fingers didn't match the thought in my mind. The channel can dispose of them.
Get your facts straight. Miljöpartiet is NOT considered left-wing, but centre-left, closer to the conservative-liberal block than the labour part.

Vänstetpartiet is a classical leftist party, there's nothing "extremist" about them.
I had no idea that Microsoft did that kind of research. Maybe this is connected to Bill Gates's philanthropic work.
If you live somewhere where the police literally tell you "burglary is a civil matter", you need to either start a revolution or move to a civilized country.
I actually this could be quite a fascinating question.
It's just garden variety libertarianism - whereby all laws are just excuses for violent thugs to point guns at you.
Stack ranking is just one part of the many problems in MS's corporate culture. Once it's gone it won't end the politics, they'll just find other outlets (of which there are many). Another big problem is the review system in general, regardless of stack ranking. MS prioritizes highly visible and easy to complete work over more important and more difficult work. This creates perverse incentives to, for example, avoid fixing things that are known to be broken, or even assuming responsibility for them. It's far more beneficial to spin up a new project of trivial value than it is to take ownership of some broken or long abandoned system or tool that desperately needs improvement.
So the original article title of "Notes on the Resolution and Other Details of the Human Eye" might should be used here.
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Indeed, I spent so long refusing to watch it because everyone I knew was harping on about how great and cerebral the movie was - which has a tendency to cause me to want to find flaws. On a whim, I finally watched it a few months ago and was completely shocked at how poorly it was executed, and how much of the plot I had to gloss over to keep up with. I ended up enjoying it as an action flick, but being angry that it was sold to me as an intellectual journey.

I suspect the rarity of filmmakers with talent at the level of, say, Cocteau, drags down the standards of what people are able to comprehend as truly cerebral.
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The guy with the Kickstarter runs a science supply shop/museum called the "H. M. S. Beagle," in Kansas City. He's already no stranger to risk.

I need to do some more research to make sure I'm not supporting some sort of kook, but I like what I've read about him (and from him) so far. If he checks out at face value I'll participate in his Kickstarter at a higher-than-strictly-necessary level, just to support what he's doing.
sendgrid, iirc
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> Thousands, collaborating for a decade, to produce an astoundingly accomplished framework and ecosystem available to anyone at the cost of zero.

Well, I am sure DHH means "nominal cost", but the cost is certainly not zero. But it degrades economic discussion when people misuse the word "cost" to mean "currency transacted". Inevitably one of the interlocutors wanders down the trail and marvels, "the cost is zero, so much resources were saved!"

Well no, the cost is not zero. Things other than currency were transacted.
In order to make a meaningful impact on society, you need mandated programs

The contrapositive (logically equivalent) statement is: If you don't have mandated programs, you can't make a meaningful impact on society.
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Interesting concept, but how will it work with more dynamic content? You can train the model on a fairly static corpus such as Wikipedia, but what if you content changes with a greater frequency?

Since MapReduce is used, perhaps the model is already being trained on small batches making incremental updates possible.
The full list of chemicals can be found in the final section of that PDF, excluding the 8 additional mentioned in the Kickstarter.
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This is so important because if you just read the original model and accept the way that frames the language it seems they are opposed.
Yes, Dart 1.0 will get released soon, so I presume this is a way to get attention.
The general idea, as I understand it, is that as child survival and education rates go up, population growth will eventually reverse itself as it has in developed countries. Check out Bill Gates' favorite TED talks for some Rosling, as well as Melinda Gates on birth control:
http://www.ted.com/playlists/35/bill_gates_my_13_favorite_ta...
If the ring indeed indicates dream/reality, why does Cobb bother to spin the top .. since he already knows whether he's wearing the ring or not? .. or did he take off his ring even in his dream by that point?
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At the moment, PNaCl supports pthreads-style threads and asm.js does not.

Also, Native Client, but apparently not PNaCl, supports SIMD, while asm.js does not.

Of course, both PNaCl and asm.js are evolving, so asm.js may be able to eventually support those features somehow, and PNaCl may get additional features.

Some information about features PNaCl supports are here:
https://developers.google.com/native-client/dev/faq
We've had other languages running in browsers for quite a while now. eg.:

http://mozakai.blogspot.com/2013/05/lua-in-javascript-runnin...
Is there a human organization of any size that doesn't have politics?
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No, the whole point is that it goes to everyone, and is not means-tested, so that there is never a disincentive to work.

But, since it will eliminate poverty, it would also eliminate existing government programs to help the poor, such as unemployment insurance etc., and that would be a major cost saving.
How much of that is realistic for including in a set designed for beginners who have zero to little formal chemistry experience though and have a budget in line with that.
My point was that no, I don't think stack ranking provides a greater impetus to backstabbing your coworkers than this sort of vague compensation model. In fact, I think a continuous model may lead to more backstabbing than exists now.

Currently, I go into a bucket - let's say I'm a two, for instance - and all the twos get the same compensation. Can I backstab somebody so that I get a two and they get a three? Maybe.

But if we remove the buckets and we have some continuity, where now if my coworker outperformed me and we were both twos... now this coworker just straight up outperformed me. I'm more inclined to want to stab that person in the back so that I'm better, since being almost as good isn't valuable anymore.

Now, it's possible that we'll end up with stack ranking all over again. The previous compensation before the current stack ranking system put you in a bucket from 5-1 where 5 was good and 1 was bad. So... it turns out that we don't change this very much even when we do change things.
They do a different tradeoff here. There is no need for a hardware raid if performance is not your main concern (and even if it is hardware raid is no panacea), if they save everything to disk before acknowledging it they don't need a battery and I'm not sure what you refer to as cap.

Their hardware design is specifically geared towards their use-case and I applaud them for knowing how to optimize for their use-case. I wouldn't use it for mine but only because it's not a good fit.

They can open-source the hardware because the real secret sauce is the software and the hardware open sourcing gives them a nice edge in marketing.
On first run it complained that I didn't have permission to <do something>, then quit with "could not initialize data store". A reboot fixed it (and hence the reason I don't have the exact error message).

I'll give it a whirl. It seems like Mavericks is all too frequently popping something in my face and my magpie tendency is to go see what it is. (Yes, I know how to turn it off in stock Mavericks; I don't like how that works, either.)
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He is talking about the same thing, which can be summarized as control of the many by the few. "We, the privileged, decide what's best for everyone else."
"a piece of magnesium dropped in water"

You probably mean sodium for the first, or vinegar for the second. Although neither are harmful the way carbon tet is.

As far as letting noobs play with dangerous stuff for training (or maybe Darwinian selection?) thinking back to my undergrad years the worst stuff we messed with for training purposes was various ionization states of chromium, lead, and mercury. We did at least have multiple marked hazmat buckets, didn't just flush down the drain. That was a long time ago and that kind of stuff might not be acceptable labwork in 2013.

If you ever get to work with aqueous chromium some of the ionization states are beautiful. Incredibly toxic, sure, but you can see why people wanted to use them in paints.
I do, and it is awesome, I cannot back to JS after using Dart.
I agree - this is 'culture'.

If I look at these sites (picked because I have seen them in use, because I know they're 'important'), I'm having trouble understanding the design decisions as well

http://www.ynet.co.il/

http://hot.co.il/

So .. isn't this just these sites catering to their local culture? Who cares about people from overseas shaking their head?
Yeah - as a manager, he probably knew about the changes a day earlier and hence decided a pen a post criticising other companies' ranking systems.
The question of Neoliberalism versus The Soviets is a completely false dichotomy. In the real world, Western-style social democracy has appeared to work best when tried, and that is not, by any means, a pure market system.

(Indeed, in a certain sense, neoliberalism can no longer be called a "pure" market system, since the government becomes property of the financial and landowning rentier classes, and is used to fight a class war by actively suppressing all other profits and wages in order to increase rent and debt.)
Taken in context, his statement does not appear to me to be a universal positive claim, so inverting it to a universal negative seems unfair. His point appears to be that this particular idea as well as some others are such that they cannot be effective when the scale is too small.
Not any longer, Miguel lost interest.

http://tirania.org/blog/archive/2012/Aug-29.html
> 'That innovation is the key to a bright future'

The road to innovation is a minefield of patents and lawsuits.
Thanks for your comments. That's along the lines of what I'm thinking of, but want a few objective opinions as a sanity check.
They are basically approaching the same problem from two different directions (PNaCl is the older project, despite having a later stable release; asm.js was a response to PNaCl.)

EDIT: And pepper.js is essentially a response back to asm.js and its "run, albeit with less performance optimization, on any modern JS engine".
The demos are cool, but are there any among them that can't be done in JS? I know I've seen Voronoi polys in JS that were way less janky than the one in the PNaCL demo.
haha, no I tried to start (above) agency earlier but that crumbled. We applied with an eyewear concept http://frameri.com knowing YC doesn't really accept physical product companies so it's not a surprise we got rejected.
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Good luck stopping religions that don't believe in birth control, which sadly the largest part of the population seems to follow, regardless where in the world they live - one of our last major presidential candidates has FIVE children.
As someone else said, it's around 25% of GDP -- and while I am not sure how costly are the programs it replaces in Switzerland (such as unemployment benefits, etc.), eliminating those would go a long way towards paying for this.
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