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> the ones who don't have a degree but got a job have been through some sort of selection filter

Very true. Its all about signaling (hence "or equivalent experience" although I believe that to be bullshit; each year of experience should count as 2-3 years in school).

I have no college education, and dropped out of high school in 1999/2000 to pursue my career. I had to sell myself hard to get in the door, but once there, I've never been asked for a degree after my first job (junior admin->senior admin->built/sold webhosting company->managed hosting division for consulting company->data taking for LHC->director of technology->news network startup).

I don't think I'll see it in my lifetime where companies value experience more than a piece of paper when the amount of experience is <5 years. The whole education process, at least for the technology field, should be revamped towards apprenticeship.
"Success hides failure" comes to mind here. A company can do 9 things right and one thing wrong, but if they're a hugely successful company, then outsiders will assume that all ten things should be emulated. People will also latch onto anything with novelty value (like structurelessness) as being a prime differentiator vs. the competition, so it will get a disproportionate amount of attention even if it's one of the wrong things the company does.
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"Who can access private company data, why, and for what reason?".

But the cloud. The cloud!
Certainly, but the object is not to make them absolutely attack proof but to make attacks more difficult and expensive, and thus easier to deter, detect and interrupt.
>I remember when I was playing with Common Lisp, I would always have trouble keeping the code on disk and the code loaded into the REPL synced.

Then you're doing it wrong. Most people doesn't type directly into the REPL, they open up a separate buffer in Emacs and play in that. The REPL is just for small tests. There is no such thing as 'keeping the code synced'.
Yet people wonder, mouth agape, why I prefer staying up in Seattle.
Sure, people want different facets of themselves on different apps/platforms. But those apps/platforms get bought and sold along with the content and the facet of yourself that you put there.

Ergo, I disagree that we don't have a problem. It's just in a different form and involves the business models both companies and users have become used to (e.g free, ad-supported, etc). For the moment, there are still no viable systems people could move to so they just have to deal with what they get (or disengage).
No, it's a euphemism for concerted political action.

Perhaps I should have said 'capture the flag'.
I've been to both Germany and the Czech Republic. At no point did I think 'Hmm.. people here appear to be staring at things at an above-average rate'. Maybe where I come from (the UK) we also stare at a particularly high rate (whatever that is) but I'm unaware of this being the case.

What on earth are you talking about?
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I think you hit the nail on the head and this is really region specific.

There was a mall next to me when I was growing up and it was dingy, just poorly maintained. Then the area became hot, Whole Foods moved in. Then Target. Then a bevy of smaller upscale retailers. Now that dingy mall is unrecognizable and filled to the brim. Not a single vacancy. Not a single open parking spot either.

Malls aren't dying. Some malls are, but that has nothing to do with the mall paradigm and has more to do with the local population. A mall can't get up and move. It's like a tree. It is where it is and it either thrives or dies.
Looks like there are other addressable issues with the situation that could avoid saying "because she's a woman" completely. The author almost said it at the end of the post.
I think they're going for the supercar segment. We're talking selling a few units to rich collectors, etc.

Greyp [1] is their mass market product. Saw one this afternoon in town, they've given a handful of Greyps to a few lucky bastards who are going to test them for a few months...

[1] http://www.greyp-bikes.com/
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I don't disagree about the rationality of students aiming for those schools. But it's a vicious cycle. The complaint that "college is too expensive" is only true if people only go to expensive colleges. But "college" in general isn't really all that expensive. Some colleges are, and the problem is that this has been where top-companies have been traditionally recruiting from. My assertion is that if top companies stop using "expensive schools with gamed USNews rankings" as proxies for "places to find good employees", then students won't feel as much need to go to those overpriced schools in the first place.
What would be a better source for this information?

I am more likely to read a Wikipedia article than I am to read either marketing material or the same info incompletely rehashed into a more subjective blog post.

I often find myself visiting Wikipedia for the real story behind HN links.
It may be unremarkable, but that doesn't make it honest.

Nothing you get from prime is actually 'free'. Unmetered is honest, 'included' would be honest. 'Free' is not.

Another example would be broadband with no cap. We call that 'unmetered' not 'free', for a reason.
Anecdotal, but: I have linux installed on two machines with UEFI, and neither was much harder than a BIOS install. An extra step or two, but it didn't require more than a couple additional minutes.

Sounds like the Ubuntu installer might just suck for UEFI.
Try cling (http://root.cern.ch/drupal/content/cling) for just one example based on LLVM.
Cool: Really interesting command line utility to record what I'm currently doing. I'd love that. task warrior is nice to track my tasks, but to track what I'm doing/what I've done? So far it's not a good match.

Not for me: Uses a format of some application that I've never heard of, on OS X which I don't own.

Since this is the first time I heard about TaskPaper: Are there alternatives for the other two big operating systems (or at least one of them)?
It's certainly something to aspire to. But think about it this way: if someone is claiming that you are already a meritocracy, but their upper management are almost entirely white and male, what subsidiary claim does that seem to be making?

Essentially, use of the word as a description (rather than an aspiration) packages up a whole bundle of problematic claims of the form "we're not sexist, we would have more women rise to the top if only they {tried harder | were smarter | had the technical ability | ...}" (and similarly for minorities).
I saw one of those in town this afternoon. They really look cool and easy to ride...
For me it was mostly the contrast, but tweaking both could help.

By the way, I love love love TWIR. Thank you so much!
> Whether you're getting free drinks at the Golf Club or watching free videos in Amazon Prime, it would take a mental invalid to not realize the inherent cost of that 'free' item, and the fact that you already paid for access to it.

I suggest you do some actual research into behavioral economics.
Here's a picture of where I went to college: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6f/Courtyard...

You can think of it as Caprica from Battlestar Galactica, or the FBI HQ in the X Files. Brutalism in its full glory.
Even crazier is the library: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Library-SFU-Burnaby-Britis...
The news article being, well, a news article, is devoid of information like the actual time and path. Here:

http://occultations.org/regulus2014/
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Just to be clear, you're suggesting that the best VR is one where we overlay our new constructs on top of real world constructs that already exist? Not disagreeing, just making sure I'm understanding your point.
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... then it still makes sense for students [who specifically want to get into the startup scene and/or want to get a shot at very specific employers] to try and go to top schools.

That's not the same as saying it makes sense for all students across the board to try for those schools.
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I'd be more interested in a heat map of Political Compass[1] results or something similar. It's not a great model, but it's slightly less terrible than a bunch of pre-globalization labels.

And ultimately, I've stopped caring about how people define themselves politically. No matter how deep into activist milieus I got[2], my politics were always consequentialist. And to actually be a consequentialist you have to shut the hell up, strategize, build and iterate. Introspective and social identities are no exception to that.

[1] http://politicalcompass.org/analysis2

[2] Note the strict past tense.
> Your only source on this story is Horvath's recounting of it, and she says it was inappropriate. By what means do we have to question her assessment of the events?

You are using "inappropriate" like it's an objective word. Which is false. If she said something like "they were wolf-whistling and throwing dollar bills", that's an objective statement that we can either think is true or false, and form certain opinions about it. The only objective word we have heard so far is "staring". She is saying, "Ah, they were staring at a bunch of women hula-hooping in the middle of the office at a tech company, how inappropriate!", I am not being sexist when I say, "No, that's not inappropriate, stop with your 1800s attitude."

It is just a difference between Horvath's rather prim definition of "inappropriate" and my more liberal one, and I don't see how that is sexist, or marginalizes her opinion. My grandfather would probably agree with Horvath that staring at a bunch of women hula-hooping in the office is "inappropriate", and I would disagree with him too.
No one is dismissing Horvath's account as related by TechCrunch. Critically reading that account and then discussing the gaps in the internal logic of the account itself is the opposite of dismissal.
I think you're on to something with the 'flirting' thing. Unfortunately, most of us probably don't know how to very well- especially when it comes to reading the other person's intent.
It’s obviously "anti-male discrimination," by definition. It’s just not evil or unwarranted. Discrimination is not a synonym for hate; it basically means selection criteria or bias, which obviously applies. For pete’s sake. Are you so eager to prove you’re a good guy that you’re going to paint everyone else as a bigot?
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What about the people who buy it for the streaming video? Does that make shipping 'free'?
People always want to give literature students a hard time. But do you know where they end up by the numbers? One answer, law school... they love to read old incomprehensible stuff and are obsessed with research. I'm in software development I make a good living, my significant other makes way more than me... what did she study in undergrad...

>18th century Russian literature
Anyone with access to Expert Flyer can see exactly how many seats are being sold for any given flight.
I don't think Marco knows what lock-in means. Not to mention, his concluding sentence is a string of absolutes that almost makes me think he's writing a satire of some sort.
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Women can absolutely be sexist towards other women-- as in a jealousy scenario. Sexism is being targeted because of your gender. The fact that this is not obvious explains a lot.
> keep pull request comments professional

Actually, this struck me as purely a "remember who you're talking to" problem - the team were used to a more aggressive level of language than the new hire was, so what should've happened is that the team should've learned to make the same strength of point with less aggressive words and the new hire should've worked to take aggressive words less to heart. Being as I'm a blunt bastard, I've been through this a fair few times with employees and contributors.

This is not a gendered problem, this is a 'loud brash people' versus 'quieter nicer people' problem. The reason people try and make it gendered is because, at least on average from the people I've worked with, women are more likely to be 'quieter nicer people' - but the truth, honestly, is that rather than anti-women this is a 'no structured group exists to stand up for the quieter nicer men so they go unnoticed' situation.

I've had to unpick these issues with all combinations of people.

> have management review reverts

Actually, just having a manager take him aside and say "dude, you're being a dick and either you stop it right fucking now or there will be consequences that you're really not going to enjoy" should be sufficient. Shadowcat is a relatively flat org but we have just enough hierarchy that there are people who can absolutely do that.

Sadly, the article goes back to the founder's wife problem (which, omgwtf, but that's been analyzed to death upthread) so we don't know whether it was reported (of course, dependending on who she'd've needed to report it to, that may've been difficult ...)
We are trying our best to show that cryptocurrencies such as Dogecoin can actually do quite alot of good in the world. If you have "a newer protocol" that will be "more broadly accepted" and help more people, we are all ears.

Also..."Idiots to say the least"

Pretty strange tangent on a posting which has nothing to do with miners. Most Dogecoin miners autosell to Bitcoin to make money. They assuredly weren't donaters.
This is an incredibly uncharitable reading of what @steveklabnik wrote.

His intention is clearly that people should get rid of the claim that we live in an equal society. Not to get rid of people.
As an architect myself, I'm sure that some of the decisions I make look like bikeshedding - and maybe they are, but they're born out of a desire to make our services easier to implement and manage at scale. I do try to avoid arguments over trivia, but it's a fine line to walk. When you have a small system, the kinds of convention, indirection, and abstraction you'd see in large ones don't make a lot of sense, except when it comes time to scale out.
Taskpaper is as much a plaintext file format as it is a piece of software. As an example, here's a plugin for Sublime that supports it: https://github.com/aziz/PlainTasks - and here are assorted plugins for other editors, as well as other pieces of software: http://www.hogbaysoftware.com/wiki/TaskPaperRelatedProjects
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> There is severe survivor bias at play. Massive profitability allows you to get away with just about anything. ... For every Valve and Github, there is a Microsoft or an Oracle.

That's a very interesting point, because Microsoft used to be the darling of the business press.

In the 1990s, we saw all sorts of business books about Microsoft, which was held up as the example to follow for the digital economy. People even found praise for Microsoft's tendency to have multiple teams working on competing products. Better to have the competition inside the company, they said, so that the best product could face external competitors.

This was just cargo-cult management. Just because Microsoft did it that way doesn't mean that it results in success. Maybe, just maybe, Microsoft was successful despite those characteristics.

We humans are very good at rationalizing things, after the fact. We can come up with a reason for things that are actually random and uncorrelated with success.
Yeah, because the NSA can't do anything about the service run by 2 guys in Germany.
> Education and college aren't synonymous

Especially now, when you can cover a lot of ground on your own. As a programmer at least. And I'm not even talking about MOOCs, but other resources that are available to a lot of people for either free or for a fraction of the price.
Postgraduate courses like (US) law school and business school are much further gone though; undergraduate ones aren't as bad, yet at least. If Eric Schmidt had said that law school was worth it I think his audience might have been incapacitated with laughter.
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Yeah. I think everything up to that point was inexcusable. Horvath wasn't really doing any justice to an already strong case by feeling offense for the sake of others. If it was just basic hula hooping, I'm not quite sure what would be interesting, but both music and movement are distracting. If it wasn't an attempt to perform, it was probably a distracting display. Hell, I'd probably be on the bench too, waiting for my turn! There's no need to assume this was sexual and I think Horvath may have been projecting her horrible experiences onto these new colleagues.
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> Absolutely correct. In essence, everyone simply looks at the winners and then redefines the 'path to success' to be 'the path they took'. That sounds ridiculous but it's what many arguments boil down to.

Honestly, I think its more often worse than that, in that what is actually presented as a path to success is an self-justifying mythology that has been created by those who have succeeded in the current system to explain their success, rather than teh actual path they've taken.
Well I was using it as more of a 30 out of a 100 outliers.

I'm saying (and this is where the parallel breaks down a little) that if people want to have an epic nerf gun fight it should probably be scheduled, and out of the work place/time (like during launch, or after 5pm or something. And this is where it breaks down. Nerf gun fights are fine, but creating an environment that discriminates or (equivalently) encourages discrimination is never ok). They both distract many of the employees trying to work (i.e. the ones not involved in the discrimination/nerf gun fights), and it being able to break out randomly at any time is a massive continual distraction.

To continue the analogy. Consider an employee is doing their own thing to relax (as opposed to nerf gun fights), perhaps they aren’t quite a company culture fit (since they don't like nerf guns) and they choose to do some hoola hooping, but almost every time they go to do that, they get pelted with crossfire from nerf guns, making it difficult to do their own relaxing thing.

Now the other side (with the github environment with hola hooping women): Consider an employee is doing their own thing to relax (as opposed to hoola hooping), perhaps they aren’t quite a company culture fit (since they aren't interested in women. And for that matter, are a woman) and they choose to do some yoga, but almost every time they go to do that, a bunch of guys start gawking at them, making it difficult to do their own relaxing thing.
That's a fair question. I think the biggest benefit would be the recognition of commitment, both by the partners, their families, coworkers, etc., zooming out ad infinitum. It can make a lot of things easier, from a practical perspective--for example, in my line of work there are a lot of couples (shared drive and passion, assortative mating), and employers will often create a second job for the spouse of a person they really want to hire. I think that sort of similar things can apply in other situations. If you, say, want to see your partner in the hospital or have certain other rights it's easier if you're legally bound to said partner.

See the recent arguments about same-sex marriage for a fulsome discussion...

I chose marriage, because I was really f'ing excited about calling my partner my wife. Now, I am really proud to call her that. Note that financially, she is far more well-off than me, but we have similar lifetime earnings potential. YMMV.

Edited: grammar.
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It is extremely rare for malls to be housed in brutalist buildings.
Uncomfortably close to DOXing. If there's a reason why Horvath chose to leave the names anonymous, we should respect it.
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my confusion is the term "partner" has a completely different meaning in a a business context. I am just saying that it was confusing to me. For much of the article I thought every time they said "partner" they were referring to an employee who worked with her in some sort of group or buddy system. It can also obviously mean a partial owner in the business.
Please don't do this! Give people some privacy. Now it's a search, next it's a witch hunt.
Yeah Tysons is still a warzone right now. But they're on something like year 5 of a 35 year restructuring plan. I still have high hopes. There's lots of weirdness left over from the previous "design", like stations letting off into low density areas like next to a bunch of car dealerships. But the overall plan I think is still promising. If they can convert those low density areas into high density housing, offices and mixed-zone shopping.

I do wish it was more revolutionary like your examples, but there's not much reason to think that Tyson's won't look a bit more like Chicago's loop in 20 years.

I'm actually on the side of wishing our local politicians had gotten their heads out of their asses and buried the lines, but we get what we get and I'm of the ilk that still thinks elevated lines look retro futuristic and cool.

http://cooldcre.com/image_store/uploads/8/6/5/6/4/ar13436975...

http://dcmud.blogspot.com/2011/02/tysons-developers-plan-40-...

http://thetysonscorner.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/Tysons...

TBH, it doesn't affect me at all, except that Tyson's, being so overly car centric, is a place I don't go because it's such a grind to get around right now. That and I'm still hoping they extend the line out to Dulles so we'll finally live in a fully connected urban area that befits the density of NoVA and D.C.
Would be interesting to see one, but my own view is that geography may play a bigger role.

I know people without any college degree at all making > $80k in software (in lower COL areas), and others with degrees making anywhere from $50k - > $100k.

There are probably some correlations, but income seems pretty decoupled from college degree in the software field (moreso than in other fields). Pure anecdotal observations though.
I wasn't aware there were grown supposed-professionals that talked like you say you do in a workplace setting. If I ran into this personally my opinion of that coworker would drop by a huge amount and I would do my best to avoid them. Frankly if you have many friends (who know you talk like this) I'd be surprised.
You don't have to pay the monthly subscription to use Amazon Video's pay-per-view catalog (which seems to be what you're boasting about). Moreover, pay-per-view is a commodity. I have Android and Chromecast, so I buy from Google Play, but when I had an iPod, I'd buy from iTunes.

Device integration is the killer feature in pay-per-view streaming. The catalogs are all interchangeable. I don't know of any device (aside from maybe a Kindle) where buying from Amazon will yield a better experience than buying from {Google,Apple}.
You just described Nashville, TN perfectly. I don't know where you are describing, but you just gave a fantastic breakdown of the fall of the Hickory Hollow Mall and the rise and plateauing of either Green Hills or Cool Springs. It was a little uncanny. If it isn't Nashville, TN then this is a spectacular repeating pattern and now I hope I can find some good data sets regarding mall occupancy somewhere that I can visualize.
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Who the people are is not as important as the story and what it means. Horvath was correct for not revealing names and I have a lot of respect for her for not doing so.

Anyone who wants to guess who the people are can google for themselves.
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> NumPy is a crappily designed library

I don't think you know what you're talking about.