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Exactly. I think the underlying issue, for both bricklayers and software developers, is that managers need to have the competence to accurately evaluate the work of their employees. If they can't do that properly, they're hurting their businesses and should be retrained or replaced. (Unfortunately, these managers' managers are also frequently incompetent at evaluating their work, so the bad managers keep on doing what they do and good employees leave.)
"so the programmer I want (obviously) is one that works nights and weekends but gets shit done the whole time."

The programmer I want/to be is the one who gets shit done the whole time without working nights and weekends and actually spends time doing other things that also matter like family, friends. This way, he/she stays sane and more valuable.
Thanks for trying it out.

I agree there are a lot of things that Excel does that the product does not. We plan to add better grid functionality like sorting, filtering, reordering and saving of those views for later. We also plan on adding charts to better visualize data.

We do not plan to try and replicate all of Excel's functionality. Power users in that system are there for a reason. But there are companies using spreadsheets to run their business because they don't know any better, or don't want to foot the bill for custom development. We are focusing on those users right now.

Some of the things that Excel cannot do well that we plan on adding are things like workflows of data, triggering notifications on field values, and rollup dashboards. We are also currently finishing adding teams for groups to manage data together.

As for an API, we have one in place with how we designed the app. The front end is built in angular and packaged with grunt. The backend is a node API that only talks JSON (except the initial payload). They only look like one entity for the sake of not using CORS.

Exposing the API to the public is something that would be targeted to developers and IT departments rather than end users which wasn't the plan. However if that ends up being where the demand is we will follow it.

Thank you for the feedback, we appreciate it.
Yes, this. Dealing with the upstream is the part of product management that most engineers severely dislike. Also, dealing cross-functionally with all the parts of a product team that aren't engineering (are marketing up to date on the launch? what's our ops plan?) -- and reaching out across teams to collaborate and build new products. I've worked with some great tech leads who were almost entirely PMs in terms of what they did, but that left them with very little time to actually write code.
Right.

When I was living in South America I met hundreds of backpackers from all over the world that were forced to go through the US on their way South. Many of them had hilarious, stupid and scary stories of how customs treated them when they only had a ~2 hour layover and had no interest in the US what-so-ever. They all vowed to never fly through the US again, even though it will result in higher flight costs.
I'm curious if this will help spammers. AFAIK, loading a tracking pixel helps validate an email address as active (since, by design, bounce messages probably wouldn't make it back to the spammer), even if the recipient didn't otherwise respond to the message. AFAIK, "Validated" email address lists are worth more than unchecked lists and if Google is preloading images for valid accounts, then that seems to make validation even easier for spammers.
We went to "first to file" in order to make our system more similar to the rest of the world. As I understand it, there were already very few cases where priority was decided based on inventorship.
"Defense attorneys said the boy suffered from 'affluenza' and blamed the boy's parents, saying they gave him everything he wanted and didn't teach him about consequences."

Which should have been an argument that he needed a life lesson. Even a short custodial sentence would have done that. Now he's learned that his wealth can buy him out of anything.
That's sort of like saying "whether candy is bad for you depends on what candy you eat". Sort of true, but, you're still eating candy.
To an extent - it seems that google indirectly confirms that emails are received (even though additional data is lost).
good one! But I assume its hard to completely banish news. It comes everywhere, on Facebook and daily routines.
That's something I'm really interested in, basically figuring out your own productivity curve. If you work 8 hours a day productively, if you want to maximimize your weekly productive should you work both weekend days?
I kinda like this. More often than not, I never click the "Display Images" link because I know doing so will essentially feed information back to the people who sent the email (the fact that I opened it, my geoIP location, browser, etc). I've been fine with a slightly degraded and less pretty email experience in order to give me some extra privacy and keep my information out of marketer's systems.

With this I guess I can see emails with all the images and other goodies without that worry. Works for me.

On the other hand... There's a good chance Google is caching all this now. But seeing as they're running the mail system I don't feel like it's too major of an intrusion beyond what they already have.
Citation on the 15-30% claim? We see more like 50%, including compilation time. Sometimes much faster on certain benchmarks (Bullet IIRC?) now that float32 support has landed.
The visa types it affects are generally those which allow immigrant intent. Non-immigrant intent visas are OK. The principle is that you're here for specialised training, and have to take the knowledge home before immigrating. But yeah, just check the small print (as with any immigration situation!).
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Short term, you might see increased productivity. Medium term, productivity is going to go down because of exhaustion. Long term, unless programmers are just dying to work for you specifically, productivity will go way down because the best people will leave to work for someone who doesn't abuse them.
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I think the explanation still functions if you also add the belief that work is largely incompressible. If most professional bricklayers take a year to build a passable house and someone tells you they can do it in two days but wants 10x the rate, that would smell a little fishy.
Why would they threaten that? An encrypted laptop would be useless to them without the password. The worst they could threaten you with is denied entry or detainment, so I think it's far more likely that they would threaten with that to compel you to produce the password.

In any case, if you are worried about protecting your data, you put yourself in a pretty bad situation if you rely on encrypting that data and hide the password. Bringing a relatively clean laptop will just avoid the issue altogether and will allow you to be cooperative with them.

Remember that they don't _need_ any cause to deny you entry or detain you, as long as you're not a US citizen.
Don't know, it loads for me.

People often forget that it's not the power of hardware that matters, but the power of hardware divided by the crap the software makes it do.
Exactly what I was looking for. Thanks. Hope it spreads, because it's nowhere near my region yet.
Jesus Christ, what the fuck is this toxic bullshit?
No. Given that IE previews support WebGL and typed arrays, asm.js should run just fine on them. This is entirely the point of asm.js!
There's only a fee once the number of claims exceeds a certain number. Having duplicate "means" and "method" patents is pretty common. A general benefit of having multiple related claims is that some can stand even if others are knocked down.
A surprise with mutexes and reference counts
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Also, much of these games is 3D rendering, and WebGL runs at essentially full native performance.
As to the "prettiness" of photography, it is special. If I take a snapshot of a product with my camera-phone and post it, versus a well-staged photo with pro equipment and lighting, I can guarantee as a photographer that the higher quality photo will sell more product, all else being equal.

Decent photography has a real-world cost attached to it. Why should the fact that anyone else can do it be a reason I give it away for free, with no attribution?
Why wouldn't the fuel be electricity which has no weight? And urban areas use considerably less of it (lower speeds etc). I didn't say the delivery vehicles do exactly one delivery at a time.

The point is that driverless vehicles can be different sizes than current vehicles, and are significantly less constrained because of no human driver. Consequently the delivery strategy can better match financials. They can do things like meet you as you get home. Or wait somewhere for 30 minutes to better match delivery windows. Or charge more for priority. Or deliver at 3am. Or bring vehicles from other areas to match changing demand.

Fewer constraints means more scope for optimisation.
This is an awesome phenomenon. Yesterday we had a post re panspermia:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6888412

Now think of an Europa with simple bacteria living in the water under the ice. These events are like cosmic sporulation: long strings of frozen droplets that could contain organisms, ejaculated into space like spores in the wind.
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Affluenza? Seems like a huge teaching moment just slipped by.

My heart goes out to the victims and their families. An unimaginable tragedy compounded by no justice.
This is a step in the right direction. However, please understand that it doesn't really make a difference in forms of real privacy Googlers!

The e-mail spam/list creators are a different kind of adversary than, for example, web trackers.

They will do something like this:
http www theirimageserver com/images/img53.jpg?to=you@email.com
(Obviously they will obfuscate and use some kind of hash instead of cleartext e-mail to disguise their tracking ways).

Regardless of whether
some.google.ip loads it, or your.home.ip loads it, it won't change the fact that you@email.com loaded it and your email is very active, not just active in that it didn't bounce, but active in that you actually read it.

Once again, it's a step in the right direction though, and I'm looking forward to seeing greater innovations from Google in the privacy space, because I'm confident that there are Googlers who understand that privacy is not a feature nor a PR thing... it's the difference between the preservation of humanity and society versus not.
Like what happened in Boston after the bombings?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWsbBhzxYw8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_Gb6i5DF9k
Maybe it is just me, but with a disembodied head rolling around on a segway, we are already rather deep down in the uncanny valley. Removing a bit of humanity might just pull it up the left bank of it.
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Garbage written by an idiot.
Visual watermarks are a deterrent to theft. If I find two similar images, and one has a watermark I'll have to edit out, which am I picking? Unless the one without the watermark is terrible, I'm taking it.
He's used up his "get out of jail free" card. The judge made it quite clear that if he ever gets in trouble with the law again the hammer will come down.
There is the direct method of finding an organization that is helping people and working for them.

Not everyone believes this, but working for the government is/can be a good way to help people. I work for the government and I think our website helps people, in at least two ways.

1. We cut down the number of times people have to write the same information by at least a factor of 3 compared to the days of paper forms. It's small, but I think it's important to be kind to people about their time, especially when you are legally requiring them to do something.

2. Our website and associated systems are at the forefront of fisheries management. When it comes to actually making a difference in preserving our corner of the ocean's fish, I think we are in the lead.

the tldr; is find a big boring helpful organization and work for them
#2 seems like pretty standard sexism, it happens a lot. #3 I have heard from a lot of sources on the internet, but most people I know actually feel equally about both genders. #4 and #5 are called "othering" and it's like hackers mistrusting marketing people. It's only sexism if you automatically assume that women are in the "other" group.
Yeah I saw a case when sysadmins left an exchange database to grow to crazy size and then it failed, cue days of trying to restore backups which also failed because disaster recovery practices had never been written or tested. After about a week I expected everyone to get sacked, instead they got a literal standing ovation for their ceaseless scrambling around.
I'm a guy, and I will say from time to time, "I hate women". I acknowledge this is because of the crappy relationships I've had in the past, and it's not fair to other women I don't even know.

On another note, it's fucking assholes like yourself which think the rest of us guys think like your small minded dumb fuck brain.

YOU are ruining it for the rest of us beyond the crappy women that do exist out there. Kindly fuck off and keep that egotistical bullshit to yourself. Prick.
This would be a situation where you have to look at the body text, not just the claims, because they could under certain circumstances file an amended claim set, so long as the new claims are anticipated by the body text.

Note: I'm not a patent lawyer, but have a handful of patents and have helped my employer with addressing patent related issues.
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Your analogy fails: There's just not a 100:1 difference in effort to lay a brick wall. Maybe 3:1. But you still have to pick up each brick, no matter how talented you are. This is why bricklaying (and other physical processes) are bad analogies to computer programs.
How can this possibly do anything but enable tracking? They can just embed hmac(secret, your_email).png.
So what you are really saying is that you are a shallow misogynist?
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There is not a linear relationship between technical skill level and "hire-ability". I would describe it as first a step function, i.e. there is a minimum level of technical skill to get an interview and be taken seriously. Then the function is a linear rise, but it quickly levels off to a flat line. Once hired, higher technical skill will correlate with higher job performance and success, but again only up to a point where the curve will flatten out again.

Once you are in the linear portion of the technical skill curve, your hire-ability is much more strongly affected by the "softer skills": verbal & written communication, ability to think critically and express that thought, and the social skills to quickly assess your interviewers and establish a rapport with them.

After you get hired, better technical skill certainly helps, but it does level off. Also, it is not indepedent of the soft skills: I've known individuals with ridiculously impressive technical knowledge and skills, but their utter lack of communication/social skills not only hurt them career-wise, but actually made their high technical skill a liability at times.
Thanks so much for the kind words Visakan. Always a pleasure.
If you wanted to get really sophisticated, you could generate the factory methods, too.
God forbid one ends up working for a boss who insists you put in 8 hours of sitting time in front of a computer, irrespective of productivity. I worked for one such person in my previous company, I have since quit, working elsewhere where all they care for are the results.
Actually i still don't get it. The two described use cases result in a "Accept-Language" header that will be send to the server. So its the best choice to deliver the content in the language that the "Accept-Language" header says to use.

If we are talking about location based content, for example sports news, its a slightly different story and needs a additional user option, or forced user option (like netflix videos that are only allowed to be viewed in US).
But that is hard!

I've experienced management that could only evaluate your productivity based on hours in the office. Now, I generally did pretty well at that one, because I was doing a lot of hours, but if I had to come in late because my apartment flooded he was all grumpy, because the one tool in his toolbelt wasn't working.
Assuming worst-case NSA scenario, even if the images weren't hosted by Google, the NSA would just pull the external images anyway for facial recognition/what not.
I believe they still have an "Ask before displaying external images" setting.
Yeah, look at the rest of this insulting crap. http://mikaschiller.tumblr.com/
So if you send a different picture to each recipient, you can track if they open your message? Or does Google pull all images, whether you view the message or not?
Is it possible that Google also loads images in emails sent to invalid @gmail.com addresses?
Is Google loading these images when a user opens mail? (Have they just automatically opted users in to "read receipts"?)

Or are these images pre-cached when mail is delivered (so that the fact that an image was loaded is just proof of delivery, which you should be able to get anyway?)
You're wrong though, you wouldn't prefer to hire B. A will quote you $2000, $500 up-front maybe, and B will quote you $2000, $500 up-front maybe. When you realize B is talking about two hours of work, there is no way you will ever work with him. You will prefer to find some cheap shoddy solution you can supervise for two weeks. It's just how people operate.

There's pretty easy proof of this. You would spend weeks of time, $8000 in recruiting expenses, trying to get a web marketing manager who can increase your conversion rate.

But if there is a web site that you could allow to A/B test some change to your layout - that its operator somehow comes up with very quickly or even programmatically - you would not give them $5000 for a few minutes of work. It doesn't matter what the 'results' are, or if it's in escrow or tied to the results: you just wouldn't. You would prefer to spend weeks of time and double the money on a web marketer who doesn't work as well.

And for that reason, such sites just don't exist.

There is no place on the Internet you can pay someone $10K for 20 minutes of work, even if those 20 minutes are objectively quantifiably better than the results you would otherwise spend 6 months and $100K trying to achieve.

Human psychology just doesn't operate like that.
Wow, that's a mind-boggling false equivalence. Tips, being optional, incent a waiter to excel. Bribes, not typically being optional, only incent the corrupt policemen to catch as many drivers as possible, whether they have committed an infraction or not.
Perhaps they have the billions of dollars to spare _because_ they don't overwork their engineers... Food for thought...
SysAdmin/DevOps here. My current environment is "Everything works, but unless you're at your desk 8-10 hours a day minimum, you're not working." Also, expected to be on call 24/7.

Not every place is like that. But I find it to be the majority.
They can mitigate that by downloading all images that come to any address @gmail.com. That way spammers won't know if you@gmail.com is real or not, and still be at step 0 (and hopefully taking some bandwidth/processing time/log space from the spammer at the same time!).
On the other hand, if the people working hard to fix the thing expect to get sacked, they will probably leave before they finish fixing it.

Management is really really hard.
Since images usually contain tracking information, I wonder how this helps? Maybe the proxy automatically gets and stores the image as soon as the email is received? So in this manner, they will not be able to tell if/when a user actually clicks on a link?
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At a place like that right now. Its unpleasant to say the least..
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The key word in the title is "teen", not "wealthy". Light sentences are common in the juvenile court system.
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But surely ALL emails to @gmail.com are received.
However, if they make requests (that they don't necessarily have to keep) for images for all accounts (preloading on receive and not read), it does the opposite, which is a good thing.
There's still an "Ask before displaying external images" setting, and based on the description in the article, it looks like images are only requested when the email is opened, not when it is delivered to the inbox. But, this new system looks to be enabled by default, so more people will have images enabled, which means the web bugs will mostly get through now.
The most theoretical part of such a scenario is the police force that follows procedures perfectly and aren't ever overworked.
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Yeah, yeah it is.
I see my job as not to just deliver a product, but to help my client be successful. If I do not believe that my help will help make my client successful -- e.g. make money, get investment, or satisfy a contract with one of their customers -- then I typically pass. An idea validation project is not good or bad by itself, but it is often followed with other problems with the project. For example, I have had first-hand experience with the following:

+ If a project is unsuccessful in a business sense, many clients will blame you, even if you deliver a perfect product.

+ If a client is bootstrapping with his own money (or friends/family), then the client will often try to get as much out of you as possible for as little as possible.

+ If a client does not listen to your recommendations and you feel it is irrational, you may find the client hard to work with.

+ If a client wants a "kitchen sink" product and often tells you things will be "easy", then the client may have unrealistic expectations for you too and/or continually want revisions.

Note that the core problem with many of these is that the client has a small budget and/or does not respect your time/work. If you can ensure that these are not problems, it is probably safe to proceed hourly/weekly but not for a flat rate.
That is very true. Hopefully, that's what is going on!
That's why you need to find a bricklayer with a O(1) bricklaying technique.
I completely agree with your conclusion that almost everyone would like to hire Bricklayer B, but I think the disconnect in most work situations comes in rewarding the value provided by that person. If for example both workers would charge 5000 dollars to build the wall, people would be much more skeptical of paying Bricklayer B, because after all, it was only two hours of work. Basically people still have trouble evaluating the value of the work done vs the effort expended to do that work.
It gives a fraction of the performance that Firefox gives you.

quick google, this guy[0] got

IE10 = 11900,

chrome = 22500,

firefox = 40000

[0]http://www.beyondjava.net/blog/google-adds-asm-js-test-octan...

If IE is giving you half the performance of the nearest, free, easily downloaded competitor in your favourite online game, you might be tempted to switch. And this is for the few users that are on IE10!
Yes they can. All I need to do is

<img src="image.jpg?userid=123456"/>

and I can tell whether you opened it or not. Google could strip out query strings in their proxy, but I'm not sure that's a good idea.
What is expected to happen when the money supply becomes fixed?
Looks like a great way to get swiped out.