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Quoting directly from the first line of your [1]: "Sexual dimorphism in humans has long been a subject of much controversy, especially when extended beyond physical differences to mental ability and psychological gender."

That seems directly counter to your statement that gender roles are based on any sort of clear evolutionary basis across millions of years. Upon what do you base your conclusions?

Certainly the studies I've heard about haven't identified a strong sexual dimorphism in humans, outside of physical differences.

For a recent lay presentation on the issue, covering some of the history of studies trying to identify sexual dimorphism in humans, see: http://freethoughtblogs.com/lousycanuck/2014/02/03/ftbcon2-e...
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He's saying he's cutting 401K matching for people who leave the company during a given year so that the company can continue paying for extraordinary medical costs for its employees.

It's a tradeoff, and morally it looks like the right one to me. Pay less to people who left to the company so you can continue paying more in health benefits to those who remain.
> we have to run the call in the web process

I know you probably have good reason for this, but this smells like an architecture problem. Whenever you are talking to an external service it is a good idea to have your code laid out such that you can do that in the background. I understand that if you didn't plan enough architecture and maybe even product design to make that feasible from the get-go it is an expensive thing to build, but regardless of who is your hosting provider sooner or later you'll likely need to do it.

One thing I've always liked about heroku, at least in concept, is that it forces you to have good architecture. Some times it is a bit of a pain, but I think this pays off quicker than you seem to realize.
WRT boy's club: my main idea was that of all behaviours associated with men, not every one is perceived masculine.

"Boy's club" isn't for example. That programming is male-dominated doesn't imply that programming is perceived masculine.
Private money is obviously not the problem in those cases.

It's like saying "Not everyone has such glowing memories of gold", and you link an article that talks about inhumane working conditions in gold mines.
"you can’t prevent Russians from using Bitcoin"

Haha, tell that to the guys with the jackboots and machine guns.
I had to read your comment three times. 'Think' is the word your looking for.
That situation seems a bit poorly implemented to me. The irreversible block only applies to AT&T's network, and is under AT&T's control... Wouldn't it make sense for AT&T to simply place the IMEI on watch, so that the next time AT&T's network sees it come online, an "alert" is triggered and AT&T can contact the owner to confirm whether or not it's in their possession?
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That's not my understanding of the law or that case, as summarized in the Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberty_Dollar#Federal_Governme.... The relevant section of US code says

> Whoever, except as authorized by law, makes or utters or passes, or attempts to utter or pass, any coins of gold or silver or other metal, or alloys of metals, intended for use as current money, whether in the resemblance of coins of the United States or of foreign countries, or of original design, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than five years, or both.

The creator of the currency was convincted for violating this section of code, among others. This is completely separate from imitating US dollars or counterfeiting. I can find no indication that imitation of official US currency was the primary or only justification for his conviction. Every source I can find indicates that simply competing with official US currency is a crime.
> How is that any different than gold?

Gold has actual use outside of being a currency which is one of the reasons it's valuable. (and before the inevitable "OMG FIAT CURRENCY HAS NO VALUE EITHER" It has the weight of governments behind it. Like it or not they make it valuable.)

I also think gold is a terrible idea for a currency, or a terrible idea for backing a currency - Get that out of the way as well.
tl;dr: Tim Armstrong is a sociopath. AOL is a terrible place to work. Take your skills elsewhere.
Well, at least they should tell _which_ number they picked. They also mention power, so I would expect it's something more than just instructions per cycle.
I'm very careful with advice. Even more so in personal contexts. The challenge is that there's a four square matrix of outcomes: they follow vs they don't follow; the outcome is a success vs a failure.

If they follow and have success they're a genius for evaluating options and coming to proper conclusions. You don't get any credit for the advice.

If they ignore your advice and it works out well then they just remember you're an idiot who can't be trusted.

If they don't follow your advice and things work out well they can resent you for the imagined "I told you so".

But worst is if they act consistently with your advice (or at least believe they have) and have a negative outcome. Your advice can cause people to avoid accepting their own agency in the outcome, and fail to learn key lessons while passing the blame to you.

Giving advice offers little upside with a lot of downside particularly in relationships you value. I like the suggested approach of talking anecdotally about similar situations in my own life or career, and my thinking and choices, and as far as possible some objective accounting for outcomes.

Humility and support is better than overconfident prescriptions.
Old style, hired gun, selfish, cost-cutter CEO with absolutely no original ideas, or any clue how to turn the company around. It appears AOL's corporate culture is as out of date as their products.

Why would anyone voluntarily work with someone who's obviously such a shitty human being? The board of directors must be as bad at their jobs as he is.
Google needs to reinvent itself too, perhaps even more & faster than XOM. The industry moves too fast for them to sit still for more than a couple years, while XOM has got decades to figure things out.
>Looking at the c3.8xlarge instances, they're specced pretty much exactly like the servers I just built for $9k/each, except they have half the ram (60 vs. 128) and half the storage (2x320 vs 4x320)

Your servers are also likely 2-5 times as fast in the CPU department too.
Nice. And accurate too. I got the same score as on the Android version.

0 points.

Bookmarked, to take a look at what HTML5 looks like.
>I'm surprised the company (not the insurance) had to pay that much for the babies medical bills.

my understanding that AOL self-insures for medical.
I totally understand the viewpoint though that there were 0 solutions in the article. A rant like that is off-putting. Still, I felt it worthwhile to bring awareness to the, ah, malarkey in programming.
I'd imagine the same thing that happens to people who work for the average delivery food place (i.e. most don't mark it a work vehicle for insurance purposes either) and get into an accident.

I'd hardly call Uber immoral for this. It's up to each person to square up with their insurance company.
Private machines are coming soon...
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To me it seems much easier than the iPhone version.
The state of libreoffice is quite good in general, but for academic papers with references it tends to butcher them. I haven't tried wine for MS office, I run in a VM instead because someone else told me that their version of office didn't run well in wine. I guess it's not a very good reason and I should give it a try.
No, I'm not that clever. It seemed like a reasonable time to check back in and see if the revolution happened.
Not quite. Future profits have value, and a company paying dividends probably has good future profit prospects. So the value will be somewhere between $100 and $95, depending on expected profits and the time value of money.
Well, point taken, but when it comes to doing things under the radar on the web, you must admit, Russians are just really good. For a certain slice of the online population, such laws won't change much.
It's a bit strange they sent the letter to wikifi-admin@lists.wikimedia.org, which is not a legal entity and doesn't own the website or conduct fundraising for it. It's just a mailing list of Finnish-speaking people who are sysops on the Finnish Wikipedia (not all of them even live in Finland, as there are speakers of Finnish in other countries, also). The organization conducting the fundraising is the Wikimedia Foundation, based in San Francisco, so it would make sense to address the letter to them.
They will be able to get insurance, but it won't be affordable.
I've been the Ubuntu developer responsible for Wine's packages for almost a decade now.

Over the years I've encountered a lot of skepticism about Wine, with some people even wondering if we'd be better off without it existing. I've never been convinced.

I hear an incredible number of stories about people who wanted to use Ubuntu, but couldn't because of one Windows app. Increasingly, I hear the inverse -- people who are happily using Ubuntu now because Wine works well enough.

Data is hard to come by, but my best estimates put Wine's install base at something on the order of 10-25% of Ubuntu users. That means millions of users of my packages. Most are running games. Some use it for some sort of critical business function like a legacy app.

I've contracted with a good number of companies who use Wine for critical business purposes. Wine is quickly becoming the porting tool of choice for making Mac and Linux versions of Windows software -- often times the game will work without modification, and when it doesn't these days it is dramatically cheaper to improve Wine than to rewrite applications.

I do understand some of the skepticism though. A single bug can render an application completely unusable, so from a user's perspective it's very hard to tell whether Wine is 99% done or 5% done. But in the future, you won't even know you're using Wine -- it'll silently be powering your steam games.
I believe it goes much further back and is much more deeper than 911.

In 1975 Senator Frank Church said the following:

"In the need to develop a capacity to know what potential enemies are doing, the United States government has perfected a technological capability that enables us to monitor the messages that go through the air. Now, that is necessary and important to the United States as we look abroad at enemies or potential enemies. We must know, at the same time, that capability at any time could be turned around on the American people, and no American would have any privacy left such is the capability to monitor everything—telephone conversations, telegrams, it doesn’t matter. There would be no place to hide.

If this government ever became a tyrant, if a dictator ever took charge in this country, the technological capacity that the intelligence community has given the government could enable it to impose total tyranny, and there would be no way to fight back because the most careful effort to combine together in resistance to the government, no matter how privately it was done, is within the reach of the government to know. Such is the capability of this technology.

I don’t want to see this country ever go across the bridge. I know the capacity that is there to make tyranny total in America, and we must see to it that this agency and all agencies that possess this technology operate within the law and under proper supervision so that we never cross over that abyss. That is the abyss from which there is no return." (For verified sources of this quote visit the Wikipedia page on the Church Committee: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_Committee.)

These words almost exactly cover the situation now as they did nearly 40 years ago!!!

If anyone thinks the conduct of the Government in the next 40 years will be different they are dreaming. The United Surveillance Sates of America is an entrenched practice.

My conclusion is that technologists hold the key to hope in what would otherwise be a hopeless situation. The hackers here can create technology that can subvert the Government's tyranny.

Civilian counterintelligence starts with counter-technology.
I've never met these elusive mysterious men in the software industry that are negative towards women, or towards the idea of women working in the software industry. I have however met plenty of women (high school era mostly) who were very negative about the software industry because it "is not about people" and involves "sitting at a desk all day". So I guess these same women today just work some other desk job that just pays half as much, so they complain about gender income inequality.

Don't want to be sexist here; I would strongly encourage anyone (male or female) to work in our exciting industry. I just don't think men are more to blame for the imbalance than women.
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I completely agree with you. If I were an employee of AOL, I'd personally start looking for a way out.

When a CEO of a company becomes so petty as to point out the medical problems of a few employees (exactly two), he deserves zero respect or loyalty from his employees.
It might seem like it, but it's actually not that different from a lot of REST APIs I know of. Most REST APIs return a status (in our case "this":"succeeded"), and some sort of wrapper for the actual data (in our case "with":{}). The only thing that might be redundant is the "by" property, but I think it's useful to have in cases where you want to make doubly sure that the API did what you thought it was going to do.
I am thinking this is probably an artifact of copying the assets from the game, not having access to the originals.
Well said. For most problems in the world, people are quick to point to a certain country, race ethnicity, religion, etc. as the most glaring example or source, when in fact people are the problems. No part of humanity can boast the largest amount of any vice or virtue. As a species, we're just faulty.
That was my main take-away from the article. Especially because the presentation seemed to be, "this is the future of employment". I fear for that future.
Total war refers to how a society mobilies resources for war, not the casualties it sustains. The UK shipped children out of London, introduced rationing, blackouts, sustained and conducted bombing runs against civilian centres to strike at production, engaged in conscription, sustained and conducted sinking of merchant vessels, and used its political power to pull in every ally it could find. Just because an army didn't land on Great Britain and lay waste to the land doesn't mean it wasn't total war.
I'm really pleased to see the activity level in Wine.

It's clearly a long struggle with a horrible beast but they are brave souls for doing it.

I think this will all be increasingly significant with Steambox coming along so nicely.

Wine, for example, can play Planetside2 which is probably the one game that would keep me from getting rid of Windows over the longer term.
That's mostly the difference between large, highly efficient internal combustion engines, and the small, less efficient but extremely portable, performat, and actually-obscenely-sophisticated internal combustion engines in cars.

Electricity is simply efficient-enough of a transmission medium that it does not eat up all of the savings.
No, it wasn't that. There used to be (maybe still is, I didn't check) a core group of reliable servers. I remember having a client idling on them for weeks without reconnections.

What was missing, I think, was lack of client development and adoption. There was default CLI client which was a weird fork of Irssi, then there was plugin for Irssi, and not much else.

There were of course few small client projects, but few of them got past early alpha stage.
>But in the future, you won't even know you're using Wine -- it'll silently be powering your steam games.

Do you mean it'll be powering Windows-native Steam games, or that Wine is somehow related to the Linux version of Steam?
He's also touting record profits. The morally correct decision is to do both.
there are differences. For example, the profit from the grant date to the date of exercise is ordinary income - taxed at your bracket rate, while any profit coming from holding for longer than 1 year after exercise is at long-term capital gain - 15%.
There's nothing inherently wrong with software being old and outdated, that may just mean the software was designed well enough to be long-lasting.

However, the problems come when you're working with software that's decades old, has no master feature list, sparse documentation and no unit test coverage for countless feature enhancements and business rules that were tacked on over the years, so no one understands everything that it does and no one can touch the code without breaking something unpredictably, plus it's monolithic and not modular or portable at all, so it's really hard to migrate any part of its functionality. And it's in a language no one learns anymore, so it's really hard to hire developers. Meanwhile your business has become so dependent on it that you can't continue to make money unless the program continues doing its job. So the software will only continue to get older and more outdated, because it's irreplaceable for all the wrong reasons.

Sure, it's fine to still be on a COBOL system, but in reality I bet that most companies that are still on COBOL would migrate to more modern and maintainable systems if they could. But they can't, they're locked in by the amount of technical debt they've accumulated.
The entire episode was CAUSED by Levison's failure, and
flat-out incompetence, to implement a simple SMTP archive
feature and then his attempted fleecing of the American
taxpayer by charging $2000 to provide that information.

Why does this feel like a personal attack?
JavaScript Promises: Thinking Sync in an Async World
This Man Is Representing AOL on Live Television
>But and that a honest question: What would you do when you see that thing X will break in maybe a year and there is no way to scale it and the manager is ignore that it will break in the near future?

Polish your resume.
I don't see that at all. It's not that humans are replaceable as much as the fact that each driver's performance (and corresponding rating) is crucial to their continued employment.

I have no problem with that at all given the fact that Uber's image and product both rely on having good customer experiences.

If Uber were more concerned with providing a living to its employees, then they likely wouldn't last very long as a profitable business. $21/hour is a fair wage (a living wage in most locations, in fact), and that's all they really need to provide to be good corporate citizens.

Not to mention the "people are interchangeable" concept actually dates back to at least the Industrial Revolution, and is not only not limited to startups, but is probably less prevalent in startups than in manufacturing or corporate jobs in general. So I'm not sure what you're complaining about.
Well, apparently it is not clear, because it seems "clearly" to me to mean the other. You are taking "I had no idea that X" to be a claim of "not X"; I think it is a claim that they had no idea that X - and the pragmatic purpose of this in the conversation was "... and therefore, I don't think having no idea is crazy". I think your interpretation in this context is - at least - uncharitable.
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Some of the memory ideas are similar--Itanium had some good ideas about "hoisting" loads [1] which I think are more flexible than the Mill's solution. In general, this is a larger departure from existing architectures than Itanium was. Comparing it with Itanium, I doubt it will be successful in the marketplace for these reasons:

-Nobody could write a competitive compiler for Itanium, in large part because it was just different (VLIW-style scheduling is hard). The Mill is stranger still.
-Itanium failed to get a foothold despite a huge marketing effort from the biggest player in the field.
-Right now, everybody's needs are being met by the combination of x86 and ARM (with some POWER, MIPS, and SPARC on the fringes). These are doing well enough right now that very few people are going to want to go through the work to port to a wildly new architecture.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_load_address_table
Holy shit, I've read some ignorant "internet expert" posts about Lavabit but this one is, by a wide margin, the dumbest one yet.

If the moron who wrote this article had bothered to spend 2 seconds to scan over the whitepaper (and other security details that have been published since) he would realize that the email files were stored in encrypted form in the Lavabit database, and decrypting those records would require the password for the relevant account. Lavabit DID provide the FBI with a dump of the records they requested, but without Snowdens personal password the records were useless. To retrieve his password they would need to snarf it of the wire as he logged in, which would require specific code written by the server administrator or access to the SSL keys and a listening device installed between the router and server. Ladar offered to do the former, the FBI refused to pay him for his work and demanded his SSL keys instead.

I don't know what this guy is talking about SMTP archiving, that has nothing to do with any of this.
Cars have ridiculously much electronics in them and you cannot "print" those just like that in a small shop. Have you seen how big wnd expensive a wafer fab is?
Actually worldwide oil usage peaked in 2005 and has been gyrating around that level ever since. About half the months since then have seen decreases and half increases, so it's not a long way off. It's almost a decade ago.

Eventually heroic measures will start to fail and usage will be dropping every month for the next century as the oil fields slowly dry up.
> EDIT: Given that lutusp is bizarrely distancing themselves from their own claims (or rather holding their comments as ever mutable and ethereal all-encompassing statements that mean everything yet mean nothing), this thread is futile.

Sincerely, get professional help. As things stand, people who reply to your posts might be temporarily misled into thinking they're communicating with someone who recognizes the existence of people other than himself.
Awesome work btw, thanks!

Seems like Wine will actually be even more relevant if increasing Steambox support allows more people to ditch windows (I still have a windows gaming only box).

Thoughts on integration? Wine can run steam but I wonder how far this could be taken in having a clean dual installation of native and wine based.
I think he's referring to developers making a quick port using Wine as a wrapper similar to Cider.

Cider sucks, though.
OpenBSD 5.4 firewall/router comparison to Vyetta, etc
This seems more like a political statement than an actual explanation.

Armstrong pissed away $200 million on Patch, and is still blaming the $7.1 million in Obamacare costs for reducing employee benefits.
This is an article written by someone who clearly does not know what the fuck. It's pretty remarkable that someone can be so profoundly ignorant with the amount of information literally available at his fingertips.
Ahh, but he offers the pro as well as the con: you work whenever you want, without having to tell anyone when you plan to take an hour, a day, or a week off.

Naturally this is predicated on your ability to earn enough to take some time off, and it sounds as though he could (for a certain lifestyle).
> "Interesting, the architecture looks greatly simplified compared to even standard RISC"

Depends on how you define simplicity, really. Writing a good back-end for this architecture is likely to be very challenging.
I would make it work with the spacebar.
What if he's trying to humblebrag?