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An excellent link, and great points.
Excerpt from the post that apparently attracted the "social justice warriors":

> I'm currently dating two lovely women, Svetlana and Elise. Unfortunately continuing to date both of them is unsustainable so I must choose one. In order to make such a choice, I wish to construct a ranking function - a function which takes as input the characteristics of a woman and returns as output a single number. This ranking function is meant to approximate my utility function - a higher number means that by making this choice I will be happier. If the ranking closely approximates utility, then I can use the ranking function as an effective decisionmaking tool. In concrete terms, I want to build a function f:Women→ℝ which approximately predicts my happiness. If f(Svetlana)>f(Elise) I will choose Svetlana, and vice versa if the reverse inequality holds.

Yeah I don't think readers who disliked your choice of "models" necessarily count as "social justice warriors." I figured the post itself was just meant to troll people in an attempt to show how superior your powers of logic and math were.
Read ECMA-48¹, which is the free (as in beer) printing of the ‘ANSI’ terminal controls standard. If you want to supply text (like a file name), you'd probably use an OSC command ESC ] Ps ; Pt ST with a Ps that no one else is using. To mark the start and end of a region, you'd probably use a pair of control sequences (CSI) analogous to START / END OF SELECTED AREA, from a private use range.

(The true-color sequence comes from an ITU recommended extension / future version, T.416². It would be interesting for the OP site to list which terminals support the full proposal, including CMY an CMYK specifications, as well as RGB.)

¹ http://www.ecma-international.org/publications/files/ECMA-ST...
² http://handle.itu.int/11.1002/1000/2546-en?locatt=format:pdf
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Glad you like it! And please, definitely let me know if you want to see anything new added or something changed. I don't believe my vision is quite matching up with what people want and I'd like to change that.
Isn't that a slippery slope? Even if you worked a "proper" 40-hour week you could always ask yourself why don't you devote 41 (or 42, 43, and so on) hours per week for work. One could argue that your productivity plummets as you work more hours, but in absolute terms you're still getting more work done.

Also, consider this: instead of having two people work 20 hours a week we're having one person working 40. Shouldn't that person feel guilty about taking the opportunity to contribute and being valued from somebody else?

As for creating contribution through work - are we talking about salaried work? What about volunteer work then? If by work we mean anything that adds value whether we get paid for it or not, it's not always so obvious. The lines between enjoyable hobby and work are blurry at times and an author who writes for fun could end up creating a piece which inspires millions.

In the quest for maximizing collective productivity of the humanity we could start introducing teenagers into workforce as soon as possible and scrap the retirement age. Maybe we could even leave out one or two public holidays and add couple of work hours on Saturdays. Some would complain, sure, but overall we would become more productive.

Personally, I don't think that's the way to go. 40-hour work week is a relic of the 19th century and time is a poor indicator of productive contribution.
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No, that's the thinking that's causing so much of the breakage in today's IT world.

The correct way is the one that maintains backward compatibility while introducing new features, and that is internally consistent. The error is in thinking that it has to be either old and limited or new and backward incompatible. format=flowed is exactly the solution that makes it so that old clients display mails as their users are used to, and allows newer clients to make use of new display capabilities, so both have a good experience. Breaking backward compatibility in distributed systems in order to make progress tends to be a sign of incompetence.
You've described the perfect job for most developers. No one wants to maintain old code. Everyone wants plenty of free time. Everyone wants low pressure with an opportunity to outperform.

These jobs are more common in startups and almost never found in going concerns for obvious reasons (there is no green field).

It's worth pointing out that hopping from one greenfield project to the next with low pressure isn't going to expose you to world-changing opportunities.

http://youtu.be/Ji_me74Xvg0?t=12s
I had the same torn reaction, but upon reading the full text (thanks, Gwern!) I'm no longer conflicted: it's not really a new study, so much as it is a systematic review of roughly a decade of relevant literature. Malcolm Gladwell seems to have based his claims mainly on a widely-cited Hot New Study from 1993, which has since turned out to have been overblown: later studies on the importance of deliberate practice have almost all come up with lower values for the correlation between deliberate practice hours and performance.

So, it looks like ignoring Malcolm Gladwell was the right answer here. It usually is.
I believe he goes by the name Explaino The Clown these days.
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Yep. I really do:

http://www.listnerd.com/erling.loken.andersen
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As a software developer, this is how we view ALL end users
God I hate how people parrot that 10,000 hours rule.

I doubt this study will do anything to stop those people though.
If the strong developer can get the work done properly in two 16-hr weeks, then I'm in full agreement.. I'd rather have the strong developer, and it would probably even cost less in teh long run, with better developer happiness.

The problem isn't there... The problem is finding that developer in the first place. As you mentioned, that type, is probably closer to the 10x developer profile, and most developers are cross, are (by definition) closer to the average. So the problem is, as an employer, I have to (despite both yours and my own wishes), prepare for the average case scenario, until proven otherwise that I have a 10x developer on my hands
I wish there was a way to search along the current route for all queries.
Thank you very much for your input :)

That's exactly what we're trying to make; a kind of Buzzfeed 2.0, where the "2.0" stands for improved functionality and quality of lists. That's our vision anyway.

I saw your site, looks very cool. Perhaps I could mail you our story?
Cool idea, pity all the themes look like shit
> Otherwise the same applies to GitHub: If GitHub gets hacked, your application details will also be compromised.

Right, which is why you don't put your credentials in your source code on Github. This is common practice and one you seem to accommodate in your product, so I know you're very familiar with it...

I hope you guys are transparent about these sort of things, it will mean a lot to your adoption rate I think. A lot of people out there who could be interested in a tool like this if they felt comfortable with the security implications.
Well, it's a U shaped slope, because at some point you become less productive, not more productive as you add time.

So it's about finding one's balance. If someone's balance is 16 hours a week, so be it. I just find it a bit unlikely though.
Any name and shame sites do not last due to the overload of fake reviews and opinions.
The only way is to verify that they stayed there, like what airbnb does or other hoteling and hosteling site do.
Thank you for all of this, we'll look into all of it :)
The design is great, did you do all of the design/front-end work on your own?
It depends how good you are, but don't sell yourself short. 44 euros is below market rate for a contractor and probably freelancer around large European cities.
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Thank you. After reading your comment - and many others - we'll look into narrowing down our niché. We're thinking about video games, movies and TV. That's a pretty defined target audience with a clear need for lists (separating good games from bad, movies, shows, etc.)
I'm talking about the change from Gtk1.0 to Gtk2.0 (or that's what I remember mostly). I gave up on Gentoo around 2001 or so. Things were better when I left, but there was still breakage whenever I did a world-update. I had fallen into the lazy habit of not updating often enough which contributed to the problem, but still, the promise was that all you had to do was to do a world-update and everything would work fine. Maybe it does now, but I remember having to run a crippled system for a couple of weeks at a time, while trying to sort through the numerous broken packages. I had used many different desktops including XFCE. They were all pretty good and completely flexible under Gentoo, as the Desktop designers had intended. That part was fine, but the underlying Gtk libraries were a complete PITA whenever there were large changes.
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As an independent, paid hourly, On many gigs over the years I have tried to to get 4 day (28 or 32 hrs) work weeks, but most client companies still insist on a 40 hour week. I work mostly in the northern midwest for mostly large enterprises, and these clients are "conservative", and 40 hours is "what is needed". I don't try to bill fewer hours at a higher rate.
Thanks, I appreciate it! (:

Yup, I did the entire website, front and backend.
Thank you for your input :) We'll look into all of these things, including making the video more prominent!
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Where do you think female interest in jewelry comes from? Are you implying that interest in jewelry is inborn in women? You are begging the question.

The professor is concerned with general culture's image of women, which is perpetuated when female programmers are shown to be printing pink jewelry and perpetually enraptured by childish flowery borders. The existence of individual women who enjoy jewelry for the aesthetics are of no consequence to what the professor is concerned with. You are responding to an assumption that isn't there, but rather one you've imagined as a substitute for an understanding of the her social analysis.

>"It says that the only way you can be interested in technology is if it is girly," said Wheat. "I'm very girly. My room is purple. I have floral bedding. I think I'll probably be a very feminine engineer. I just don't like the idea of being pigeonholed."
The target is wrong. Your mother (and the other people in the EU) should be targeting the newspapers and other places that actually have the information.

Not the search engine.

A newspaper would probably refuse to remove the story altogether, but they might be willing to add a note saying the charges were dropped.

There's a difference between removing false or misleading information (like in your case) and trying to hide your true history (like most of the EU cases I'm hearing about).
Could somebody please elaborate on what that means and how it applies in this context?
The worse thing is totally different interfaces between different mail providers. It makes impossible to have multiple email addresses and manage them in a sane manner.

Do you have any primers to use mutt? I really wanted a terminal-based alternative to Thunderbird in case I need to ssh from somewhere, or if I'm in a hurry, but the man page alone scares me.
Assuming you half their wages, you eat a small bit of admin and hire two of them. In exchage, you now have redundancy in your dev team and are I suspect gaining more than you lose.
Terribly useful to me. For one, I can have vim themes that match my other styles in other programs.

(Not to mention we should have drawing support implemented IN the terminal by now).
http://bedbugregistry.com is pretty easy to navigate and it's been around for almost 10 years. In fact, it looks like you're pulling the same data from there as well. Is that legal?
Totally agree. 9-5 (or 9-6) engineering jobs are a bit crazy - no one is able to work productively for 8 hours, that's a fact. Many managers understand that and are cool with people just not doing work while at work...

However, I would still prefer to go home than sitting and waiting for 5 or 6pm so I could do something more meaningful, because e.g. side-projects is a gray area while at work and that's fair. Even so, some non-technical higher-ups might think that the engineer is not working hard and just slacking off because everyone else is at the office till 6 or 7.

Some companies recognize that (e.g. Netflix, Twitter, etc) and they don't care where and what are you do, as long as you get stuff done. In an ideal world, every company would treat engineers like that :)
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Why would you not use A* from the beginning? It's a trivial extension to Dijkstras and is often orders of magnitude faster when an informative heuristic is available.

Also, both algorithms require identical data structures. After all, Dijkstras is just A* with a zero heuristic.

I do agree about the constant factor, though: it's likely that a binary heap would be faster on most data sets.
This page is almost 1MB downloaded, including 5 fonts, bootstrap, angular, and jquery. It does not need to be this complicated. My facebook homepage, including images, is smaller than this site.
You can't refactor your social skills. Sure you can learn tricks such as "keep eye contact", "firm handshakes" and "smile more" but if you prefer solitary activities instead of people, no amount of refactoring will fix that. If you're 35 years old, your personality is unlikely to change very much, you just have to live with who you are. Maybe try for remote positions, work from home or part time work?
"Are you implying that interest in jewelry is inborn in women?"

This is an extremelly important question with regards to history of our species, so if you by some chance have an answer be sure to share it with us along with rationale.
The baffling thing about this argument is that the EU apparently doesn't think that this information is so terrible that it can't be published--just that we have to suppress links to it. And since the ruling only concerns older material, it's built into its logic that these articles are things which the public once deserved to know but now must forget. So your talk of sleazy reporters has no place here.
That other article in the front page: "Clicking Their Way to Outrage", this is exactly what it is talking about.
And it was always blessed greased +2 grey dragon scale mail.
I can think of three main suspicions to keep in mind when evaluating the credibility of a meta-analysis:

1. Are the studies it analyzes picked with a bias? For example, if you're looking for meta-analyses of the effects of gun control on crime, and one was published by the National Rifle Association and the other came from the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence, then you might as well just throw up your hands and go home, because each will probably have suspiciously convenient criteria for what constitutes a reasonable study worthy of inclusion in their meta-analysis.

2. Do the studies themselves suffer from publication bias? A meta-analysis purporting to show a positive effect should arouse some suspicion, because negative results often simply don't get published, and can not be included in the meta-analysis due to their nonexistence.

3. Are the methods of analysis reasonable? There are a horrifying number of ways to pull positive results out of random noise through poor application of statistics.

In this particular case, the authors don't seem to have an axe to grind, their result is negative, and their analysis is very straightforward.
You're missing the most important cases - there are cases where it could go both ways in terms of ISA vs. HASA, in which case (the article says) you should use HASA.

Just saying "use the tool appropriate to the job" dismisses the entire problem where in the real world, it isn't clear what that is.
The property owners dont have time and dont want anything to do with your site. In fact, they are probably oblivious to your site's existence. How are you going to prevent harming properties' reputation without any involvement from the properties? Because, one way or another, their reputation is at risk through your site.

You should look into how tripadvisor deals with hotels. I believe there's been lawsuits, but the tripadvisor is powerful.
Mmmh, coffee.

* "Versand innerhalb einer Woche nach Röstung" -- but how long after I order?
I'm a spoiled Amazon Prime customer, and I can buy specialty coffee locally
at a cafe, and so-so fresh roasted coffee at one of several roasters in my
city of ~300k.

* The mandatory subscription is more of a hassle for me. I like to buy fresh
groceries (and coffee) when I need them. One more thing to worry about when
I go traveling: how many weeks of coffee can my mailbox fit?

On the other hand, subscriptions are great for offices, but which company
orders specialty grade coffee? I wouldn't waste it on the typical fully
automatic Jura.

* It doesn't say "specialty coffee" on the page, just "frisch geröstet" and
"großartig" (everybody can claim that). I was very confused at first, but
spent some time to look closer only because you explicitly said so in the
submission title. Since there are several roasters in my city, "fresh" is
where I start at, it's not interesting by itself.

I don't think you should completely rebrand the beans. Bonanza Coffee is
well-known among your target audience, whereas you are some new guys that
I don't know if I can trust yet. I'd try to build more on the credibility
of the established roasters. A Bonanza bag in the hero image would have been
an instant signal.

* The espresso in the hero image has zero crema. Not every coffee gives lots of
crema, but for the title image I'd pick one that does, and extract it properly:

http://www.home-barista.com/knockbox/lets-see-your-tiger-str...

* As others have already stated, the registration step is too early in the
order flow. I don't want to register before I know that a) I want your stuff,
b) the product is on stock and c) I'm okay with all the terms and conditions.
Maybe the one coffee that I wanted is sold out, maybe you ship with Hermes or
require Paypal. I'd like to know as much of this as possible before handing
out my data.

* Phoenix Coffee from Dresden is pretty good
I haven't seen a mobile device that doesn't do IMAP/CalDav and/or Exchange. Why do you need to go to a website on a mobile device to read your email?
Native skill is largely a myth.

According to Matthew Syed in Bounce (a very good read) there are numerous fields in which native or genetic skill is considered the norm (sports, chess, math) but no studies support that hypothesis.

Conversely a number of studies actively disprove that native skill exists. Ultimately, barring true genetic freaks (Michael Phelps wingspan for instance) anyone could achieve any level of any pursuit with enought focussed practice and a degree of luck.
Yes but no eu company offers it as a inexpensive package.
It's hardly Gladwell's rule. He just happened to be a writer who popularised it.
From the guidelines: "Otherwise please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait." I think the original title qualifies as at least one of those.
It's about time that something is done about taxation. It can't be that US companies earn billions of dollars in EU nations but pay almost no tax (either in the EU or the US).

As a simple employee I cannot evade taxes (and might have to pay double taxes in the EU and US if I am a US citizen/perm resident working in the EU), yet large corporations can.
>Flax looks cool. Why Android 4.0 requirement?

Why would anyone want to run an older Android version?

That's a 3 year old version already.
The only person who caught on to protectionism, and yet, so many down votes. My one insignificant upvote to you sir or madam.
Consider how these things get stored. In the inheritance model, you might have a big quad tree or some other data structure of PhysicsObjects, and just run through and call updatePhysics() on all of them.

In the composition model, we now have multiple classes (Character, Pickup, Projectile), each with an unrelated updatePhysics(). This means code duplication to call the relevant method on each separate class.

We could relate them all via an interface, instead of inheritance; now we can store IEntity or whatever. We will soon discover three needs that are awkward to address:

1. Whenever we want to add some new method (say `fall`), we must go back and implement it separately in each class.

2. Different classes will want to share implementations. For example, both Characters and Pickups bounce on fall.

3. Some classes will want to specialize an implementation to do more. Characters bounce on fall, but also take damage.

In practice you may end up with both: an interface that your engine talks to, but also a common base class that provides sane defaults.

So while interfaces allow uniform interactions with disparate classes, inheritance provides that and also the ability to share and specialize the implementations. So inheritance solves some problems that interfaces cannot.

See also default methods in Java, which makes an interface more like a class, and implementing an interface more like inheritance. The documentation even says that a class that implements an interface inherits its default methods.
Would you say that's true of the Cochrane collaboration?
Why is it so unusual that employers compete with less hours rather than with larger wages? Is it because granting someone with less work would probably make other employees require the same?

I feel that after a certain amount it would be much more enjoyable to get less hours rather than a raise. However the latter seems to be much easier, if not the only one, to get.
Unfortunately, if I'm trying to get an idea of the trustworthiness of a person, I'm probably just going to skim the search results and reject them as soon as I see something related to a crime. It's an imperfect filter, but dismissing someone who has done nothing wrong is less costly than trusting someone you shouldn't.
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I am wary of anyone who makes blanket statements like "anything Malcolm Gladwell says is bullshit."

You simulataneously discount his entire canon of work and also every single underlying scientific paper he has quoted, cited or referenced. That is a lot of work to label bullshit.
How does it benefit GV to have that list of videos presented but inaccessible to the public?

Why not outright filter those videos and only show them to the people with the right permissions?
Try being a lawyer.... 16 hours days standard and when you are being charged out at $500 / hour (and receiving maybe 20% of that) your boss isn't expecting 4 hours of real work and 12 hours of admin... they want 16 hours of extreme concentration. Gotta be one of the worst careers you can choose.
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People complaining about nonexistent sexism on the interwebs are, almost by definition, social justice warriors.

If you read the post, you'll find it answers a strange math puzzle. That's it's purpose. The example is given simply so that a reader can more easily understand what's going on.