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evil rich white men article though an evil rich woman was the power vacuum filler.

github can keep their managerless system, they just need to adopt a shop steward system like unions have. This is somebody who can advocate for employees during disciplinary meetings with management, arbitrate petty disputes that don't need heavy handed management involvement with threats of termination, and anonymously bring problems to management if the grieving employee doesn't want to be identified. This person is elected and wields zero power.

It's the only thing I remember liking from being in a union once and would work for github. This girl could have gone to the steward, then the steward could complain about the founder's wife harassing employees to HR without identifying the employee to management for silent discipline, when they try to get rid of you for complaining or whatever personal vendetta (it can happen).
The truth about false: How == works in JavaScript
Developers cannot upload new APKs to Google Play for the last 22 hours
“This presentation can’t be opened because it’s too old”
Holacracies still have a vested management power structure.. Basically you still have owners / top-tier management who's goals may not align with workers.

Want to be a really progressive start up.. become a COOP.
Sounds interesting. Do you have any links to information about how they use machine learning?
Hierarchy may be superior but I think it might be a bit early to declare holacracy a failure. Presumably there are a multitude of successful holacracies that we aren't hearing about because they are actually working.
I wonder if package depositories will become as ubiquitous as regular mailboxes in time.

I sort of have this already. I'm in a newly built neighborhood, and the mailboxes are all in groups. There's a bunch of big boxes each containing 12-15 small mailboxes, one per house. Each big box also contains one or two larger mailboxes for packages. When I get a package that doesn't fit in the small letter box, the mailman puts it in one of the package boxes, then puts the key in my mailbox. Some clever mechanical design makes it so that the key can't be removed from the package lock once inserted, and so it stays there to be recovered and reused by the mailman.

There are two problems with this approach:

1. The package box is still fairly small, so bigger items have to go the more traditional route.

2. Much more importantly, since it's with the mailboxes, only the USPS can use them. UPS, FedEx, and others are stuck with the more traditional approach.

Still, it's a start. With the massive increase in packages being delivered perhaps it will become more common.
> I was one of those 12 year olds hanging out on usenet and slashdot about 15 years ago. I was exposed to [goatse] at a very young age, and it is most certainly a part of my core identity.
That's odd, because I have the OneDrive client for Mac and iPad. But I'm using the consumer version tied to my outlook.com account.

I've been an Evernote user for years, but now that it's available on all my platforms, I'll at least give OneNote a test drive.
And smart phones, public GPS, public TOR, hybrid cars, HDMI, blu-ray, Wikipedia, widespread broadband, the Human Genome Project, etc.

To pretend that no good tech innovations have come out since the 90s is just willful ignorance.
yep cannot see a pricing page. i'm wondering if they will be a pro offer. I guess for agencies it's important to know that you have a real business behind.
Aum Shinrikyo aerosolised and released anthrax for a week. They were caught. They didn't make any announcement about it. Announcing it a few days afterwards would have caused significant panic and distress.

(Luckily they used the "wrong" anthrax, so not much harm done).

The same organisation also did odd things in Australia. They made sarin and VX gas, tested that on sheep, and the. Used the gases in several assassinations.

They released sarin in Matsumoto, killing 8 people and harming 200. They didn't claim that attack.

Aum Shinrikyo are well funded, have smart people working for them, and are happy to murder people.
Right I get that, my job is diverse and it scratches that itch, but it does it for someone else's bottom line, I just collect a paycheck that doesn't reflect profits.

My point was even when you find that job, burnout is a thing and diversity between your work and personal projects seems to make pursuing your interests a sustainable process.

We work in an industry where we have the luxury of skinning cats in 1000s of ways, so get out of your comfort zone and sharpen your knife, it's quite enjoyable and rewarding.
I like this!

I'd love to see a post about how you personally decide what to try out next - a sort of thought process. I've always wanted to do something in the moment, right after a long day. It starts off with a helluva lot of zest, but my pace falls when I have stop and think of what to do, at which point I just say f&%! it and go home to read HN.

EDIT: reddit.com/r/adventures is a nice one.
I think that a "no managers" system can work either with a very small number of employees (<15) or in a company of very, very talented people, but if you need to hire fast, you're going to sacrifice hiring quality, and wind up with people who may not be the best.

The "GitHub Debacle" seems to be more an issue of a lack of professionalism and an unwillingness to confront serious problems (a bully non-employee spouse in the office creating trouble for what sounds like a good employee) before they came to a head.
I recently changed jobs from one where I felt underutilized and bored to one where I get to code more and I feel much more satisfied. I've found that my interest in coding after work and on weekends is actually gotten higher since the switch.

Maybe I'm just in a better mood now, or maybe it's some sort of "productivity momentum". It used to be that when I got home from work, the thought of looking at a computer screen made me feel sick. Now it's fine. It's not that I rush home and code every night (I still take the time to unwind and relax), but I actually feel like I can go home and code now whereas I just couldn't bring myself to do it before.
> I made an analogy with food.

But electronic gadgets aren't food. One of my points was that they are (to the extent we spend money on) not necessary. It's indicative of an attempt to derail this that you chose an analogy with, of all things, food (which is kinda necessary, don't you agree?).

> You don't know if a guy making 500 dollars a week needs a tablet for some reason, but you at least appear to think he doesn't deserve one if he can't afford the apple model.

If had meant to imply that, I'd have written it that way. I made a broad, general statement because that's exactly what I was trying to communicate: we (that includes me) spend too much on gadgets, the cheaper, the better, without thinking about actual need and quality first (before price). I'm not going to judge individual decisions without looking into them, so don't insinuate that I would.
I'm not at all an expert on the topic but I would guess that people who are willing to commit suicide are emotionally troubled and may not act in predictable or rational ways.
I've thought that Bitcoin (or more likely, a future crypto currency) might be better served as a transaction backbone for payment processors, banks, and the like. It could still be used for transactions between two individuals, but the bulk of transactions would be for routine inter-bank processing.

This would have an effect of stabilizing the exchange rate, and could replace Fedwire/ACH for a large portion of transactions. However, I'm not convinced the current mining structure is optimal, and would certainly not be suitable for this usage.

I'm sure many Bitcoin advocates would disagree with me, but I believe that there should be some mechanism a la the federal reserve to stabilize the market and allow for reasonable inflation. I have no idea how this would be implemented from a technical standpoint, but I believe with some refinements, cryptocurrencies can serve a place in the economy, but I do not see them replacing the "fiat" by any means.
Somehow I am sick of people taking this up all the time when some project is written in C / C++.

C for example isn't really that complex language and using C++ well isn't that hard. Somehow I feel that users of the "easier" languages decide that c++ is impossible to learn before they even bother trying it.
This is James from Microsoft. ericcumbee, that's exactly why we decided to prioritize the create APIs. But we have already started working on extending the API feature set to fill out the rest of CRUD. We will be blogging about our progress at blogs.msdn.com/b/onenotedev/
There is plenty of memory management in C that has nothing to do with malloc or free.

More accurate (on POSIX systems), although not terribly useful, would be:

There is mmap and there is munmap and there is brk.

Anything you do above that (including malloc, static allocation, and the stack) to make your life easier is probably built upon things provided by libc and the C runtime.

On an embedded system, all you might have is "there is RAM".
I understand what you mean but physically the screen is one of the major parts of the design. What really needs changed about the rest of it? It's incredibly thin, durable, attractive. I agree it's a stale design but I'm finding it very hard to think of anyway they could change the appearance that would be an improvement.
Apparently, the autopilot can put it into a holding pattern:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helios_Airways_Flight_522

Whether or not it would, I suppose, would depend on how it was programed.
khash is in part 2: http://lonewolfer.wordpress.com/2014/03/17/benchmarking-hash...
In theory if one plane ghosted the other by staying quite literally behind it (in relation to the radar, not behind it front to back) there would only be one blip.

Difficult to the point of high improbability? Methinks yes.
Easy to fix with a macro.
Google issue https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=67226
I agree with your characterization. That's my point, really. Amazon is preferable because it's better. It's not that there are no alternatives, it's that Amazon is the best one.

That's a radically different situation, though. If Amazon makes their experience vastly worse, then everybody will leave. If there were no alternatives, then we'd be stuck. But we're not stuck, we're just using them because they're the best.
Just 5 sigma confidence...
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> When you allow a power vacuum to emerge someone will fill it, and it’s usually the people who have traditionally held power

I've never really given this issue much thought, but it sounds reasonable. Illusions can be dangerous, including the illusion of equality.

I was instantly reminded of the famous commandment in Animal Farm : "All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others". It now seems almost naive to pretend that there wouldn't be people in the organization with vastly more power than others.

All that said, until very recently I was someone who admired GitHub's flat hierarchy from afar. If they were being naive, then so was I.
Valve is a prime example of this.

Though, I'm guessing Gabe Newell has a ton of defacto power, and you hear plenty of complaints from people that minor bugs and issues go unhandled because they aren't sexy to work on.
So what do you actually believe? That this was a false flag operation and that the plane is fine and parked somewhere, perhaps it never took off?

It's hard to believe to say the least. If such scenario does exist what makes you think that you can figure it out by yourself?
Exactly, Scotland (and most other parts of the UK) won't ever get as much attention in Westminster as the South-East of England, and our parliamentary representatives are that much further away from us.

You could say that your vote's power is inversely-proportional to the size of the democracy, but if you look at how the complexity of communication scales, then surely smaller democracies are able to function much more effectively than larger ones (cf. small vs. large [software] teams).

I'm voting yes because, although I plan to travel after I get my degree from Edinburgh, independence would give me more (and potentially better) options for living in the EU in future.
I don't think they are really outside the norm for corporate life. If people were productive at work, we'd need less web proxies to handle the load.
Managers aren't powerful people. Their job is to see powerful people's will is done, in a way that will minimally piss off the workers. So a good manager is one that can pull the wool over your eyes enough that you do the things those in power want.
They definitely need to work on things, but I don't think that this debacle means GitHub's decentralized model is invalid. They experienced rapid growth and there are bound to be some aspects that slip through the cracks, doesn't mean they should give up trying to retain a flatter hierarchy as they expand. I hope they don't anyways, it's a core reason GitHub is one of my favorite tech companies.
I'm very curious of how, if we now presume this to be true, if and how that may effect the "Are we living in a simulation?" question.
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Not to change the subject: Having just come out of a totally flat org that was pushing hard for 100% Holacracy I have to say if I didn't leave for other reasons it would have been that. It can be incredibly incredibly difficult to get things done in this environment and sadly made me feel like every day I had to wake up and battle my coworkers because everything was by committee. I'm all for collaboration, but I also believe at the end of the day someone has to be accountable and responsible for actions taken or not taken.
A classic example is Boswell's first encounter with Johnson in 1763:

"Mr. Davies mentioned my name, and respectfully introduced me to him. I was much agitated; and recollecting his prejudice against the Scotch, of which I had heard much, I said to Davies, 'Don't tell where I come from.'--'From Scotland,' cried Davies roguishly. 'Mr. Johnson, (said I) I do indeed come from Scotland, but I cannot help it.' I am willing to flatter myself that I meant this as light pleasantry to sooth and conciliate him, and not as an humiliating abasement at the expence of my country. But however that might be, this speech was somewhat unlucky; for with that quickness of wit for which he was so remarkable, he [...] retorted, 'That, Sir, I find, is what a very great many of your countrymen cannot help.'"

Had Boswell been more thin-skinned or less stubborn, we might have had no Life of Johnson, and so no Johnson either.
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Your comment just put a big goofy grin on my face.
There's no fundamental reason why LINQ to Objects should be any slower than say a foreach over a set.

There's no fundamental reason why LINQ to Objects should be any faster than a foreach over a set. Which is precisely the point. LINQ has an amazing way of hiding details in a manner that allows for massively inefficient code to look completely innocuous. For throw-away, one-off "command line utility to convert A to B" type code, it is absolutely golden. For long-term use code that may be called millions of times, it can be disastrous.

You have no interest in a reasoned discussion, and your argument style is best described as defensive. That is all. Have a nice day.
The problem with management isn’t managers, the problem with management is bad managers.

Which you have an incentive to keep, as you do not want to immobilize your good engineers, as per the Dilbert principle.

The problem is not holacracy itself. Plenty of companies are doing just fine using decentralized and autonomous organizational methods, including Valve and Flying Wild Hog.

The problem lies in having a culture of apathy and immaturity. Not having managers doesn't mean one should not be able to forward complaints to an appropriate person and have the situation handled.

Also, ironically, in the GitHub debacle, it was a woman who rose up and disrupted the power balance.
The problem with management isn’t managers, the problem with management is bad managers

I agree with this. However, in my experience, bad managers are really good at politics, and their aptitude with politics biases many organizations towards bad management. Holocracy isn't so much a knee-jerk reaction to bad managers, it is a knee-jerk reaction to bad politics. I would posit that if bad managers were never promoted, people wouldn't have the same holocratic ideals. They would just switch teams or switch companies, and be done with it. They can't do that, because sooner or later, Bad Manager Bob comes back as Bad Director Bob.
Two benefits that makes it all worthwhile: 1) you can transfer it to someone else (e.g. an heir) cost free, tax free, paperwork free, without the gov't even knowing you did it. Illegal, but you can do it and probably get away with it. 2) It can't be devalued by gov't action.
Agreed. I won't hold them up as a paragon, having only heard anecdotes, but Valve seems to be an example contrary to Github. Could be completely wrong - would love to here from some Valve guys about how traditional HR issues are dealt with there (the answer may just be, "through HR" :) )
I don't know that it's "vile and hateful", but it might make things uncomfortable.

Revealing that you have sexual feelings for a person with whom you're nominally supposed to be forming a sexless, professional relationship will either lead down a path to sexual or romantic connection, or else make things tremendously awkward. That's not a sexist act, necessarily, but it could lead to a conversation with HR.
>What can I do with bitcoin that I can't with paypal or even a bank account (many let you instantly transfer money these days for no/low fees to pay friends, landlords, etc.)?

With bitcoin, you don't have to have a third party such as Paypal or your bank to transfer money over the internet. You don't have to trust a third party. It's very close to a face-to-face cash transfer, albeit with possibility of being traced by various methods, so not perfectly anonymous. Still far more anonymous than almost any other method.
They have evidence of gravity waves, but cannot prove causation (i.e. big bang), right?
As someone who would like to write his javascript in Haskell, how do you put text on the page without interfacing with the browser's DOM?
She clearly felt he was threatened, whatever that is worth.
Lookup Silk Air 185. Pilot went to lengths to disable CVR and FDR so that there was no record of him incapacitating the FO and directing the plane into the ground. He had an insurance policy he took out that day. Some people don't want to have a wikipedia article saying they murdered 238 people. So, fly it into the middle of no where and no one will ever know. It's working so far.
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This public spat is good for the investors (a16z) at GitHub. Investors want structure and accountability, and holacracies don't have that. They may get better results (I'm on the fence) so GitHub is probably on a long leash, but this will be a topic when Ben Horowitz and the executives at GitHub sit down for their quarterlies. Wait, holacracies don't have executives...
I too have a T430, and love it. Can't imagine that a lighter laptop would be able to achieve 8-9 hours(largest battery 9 cell i think) in a text editor with a 14 inch screen. I also swapped out the HDD for an SSD and removed the DVD and put the HDD in it(they make special caddies for HDD in DVD drive) which I take out sometimes because I like to thow my laptop around and dont want to worry about breaking the HDD. Myne was $820 from lenovo.
Edit: also runs Linux Mint like a champ, all hot keys keys(FN) work, but I too get the problem with putting my computer in sleep mode for more then a month.
To me, Github's structure is largely an overreaction to the culture flaws elsewhere. Belief that managers are more valuable than doers, and thus paid more. Belief that engineers are infinitely replaceable. Belief that one should be paid proportionate to the number of people below them in the org chart.

Management has a purpose - but companies poor treatment of engineers over the years has blinded many engineers to this. A great manager ensures their people are pointed in the right direction, makes sure that they're not running into roadblocks, and frees up their people from dealing with bullshit so they can be the best they can be. This really doesn't have anything to do with "oppression", or whatnot.

Managing is orthogonal to engineering - and saying either is worth more than the other is simply wrong. If we can decouple the ideas of "managing" and "building" with systematically being valued / paid more or less than others, we'll have progress. Right now, most are erring on one side or the other.
I think the point is more that bureaucracy exists, in the best case, to distribute power throughout an organization. Delegation of authority necessarily means a reduction in power at the top.

As an ideal, picture a "separation of powers" system - you no longer have a co-founder managing HR disputes in which they are the defendant, for example.
Particularly, I think Totem is a better choice.. you are backed by giants like Freud:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Totem_and_Taboo
> ...very, very talented people...

But what does that mean? People who are very, very good at building software aren't necessarily good at interacting with others or following basic social rules. Same goes for any field (replace "building software" with "practicing law", for instance).

Tricky to hire only people who are very, very good at everything necessary for a healthy culture.
> instantly calculate taxes due on income

Uh, sign me up? The political complications of tax reform aside, return free filing would save millions of hours required for tax preparation, and it is estimated that between 8 and 60 million taxpayers would not need to file a return at all. And for the rest it would streamlined.

Of course, the IRS already knows 90% of your income information, without Bitcoin, because of 1099s, W-2s, etc.
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also known as Tim in German and Tintim in Portuguese... [1]

[1] http://www.tintinologist.org/guides/characters/names.html
The problem with bitcoin is that no one is using it for its intended purpose - to buy things. People are using it as an investment or are speculating on it, which is not the purpose of a currency.

What you end up with is the anemic system that exists right now, where no one is advancing the actual bitcoin cause, everyone is just setting up exchanges to make money from transactions.
I think Patrick McKenzie (patio11) was sick for some time and sent an email to his list after a hiatus. I can't seem to find it now, but I remember it was on his training[1] e-mail list and was worded pretty well. It could serve as a good reference. Apart from that, I would just send out a short update on what you've been working on with a confirmation/unsubscribe link at the bottom. Then I would send out a longer, more detailed write-up of your progress a week or so later.

[1]https://training.kalzumeus.com/
>more efficient way to transfer money

In addition to your stated issues (which actually are probably fixable), there's the computational power requirement. That cannot be fixed. Bitcoin requires thousands of times (or more) more computational power to do a single transaction than any centralized currency system I can think of.

I remember before bitcoin people would say "Oh, I have a couple spare computers... I just threw folding@home on them for now". Now, people are going out of their way to throw cycles at this currency instead of problems that help scientific progress, and thus humanity.

Bitcoin is a cool idea and well implemented for what it is, but I think attention should be drawn to its exceedingly inefficient use of computational resources.