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Anecdotal 'me too' story:

I am 6'2" and on my last flight I had a not so friendly interaction with an older 'gentleman' in front of me - no tray or laptop involved.

This 'gentleman' quickly/forcefully reclined his seat, driving the supporting rail into my kneecap...

I immediately made an instinctive "Owww" sound/cry and moved my legs due to the pain of the impact - which could have been the end of it... Instead, he immediately turned around in an aggressive manner and demand I quit 'kicking' his seat.

When I retorted that I hadn't kicked his seat and that I merely was attempting to prevent my legs from being further banged against, he became irate, yelling to the attendant 1/2 a cabin away that I was kicking his seat - all the while, continuing to recline his seat in a bouncing manner (because we're in kindergarten?).

Fortunately, an attendant behind us witnessed the interaction from the start and intervened - offering the 'gentleman' flying solo a new seat with no one behind him or to not recline. After relocating the guy to his new seat, she came back to check on me and apologized, indicating that the seats were too cramped already (and indicating that the guy clearly had a bit of an attitude from the start of our interaction).

I agree with the popular sentiment expressed here and in the comments of the article - "just treat each other respectfully and you'll likely come to an amicable resolution"... This said, there are always those out there who really aren't concerned with an amicable and friendly resolution - those who are more concerned with just doing what they want without challenge or compromise, regardless of the impact to those around them.

In the end, this is a problem with the airlines and their ever obsessive pursuit of the bottom line - more sardines in the can... As someone who started flying as much as I could as a young man, I can say that in recent years the airlines have reduced my air travel to only required business travel where no suitable alternatives exist. Factor in the TSA with the hassle of dealing with the above and I'd rather just drive - even if it takes me 3 times as long to get to my destination.
So don't call it "team fit" or any such vague terms. The problem with these generalities is that they can be (and are often) used to hide personal biases and discrimination.

You work on educational software for teachers and students, so evaluate your candidates based on clear, specific complaints. It's not "bad team fit", it's "this candidate doesn't care about education software".

Eliminate these vague generalities in favor of specifics. This is useful for yourself and your team, since people are forced to be more introspective when they must be articulate about why they dislike someone.

"Bad fit" is a cop-out that allows people to dismiss others without having to issue specific complaints that might cause their brain to go "wow, these words make me sound like a dick".
This is many times more readable, simpler and safer than what Martin Fowler wrote. I wonder if he will ever grow out of the OO hypnosis. Maybe he just carved too comfortable a niche for himself that he needs to keep peddling it. I say this becaue I think it is harmful that he uses his fame to keep outdated programming techniques around, contributing to overtimes, bugs galore, and loss of productivity.
It's not a small chance at all -- and it only comes after a conversation where I have done basic vetting and where I have explained why the problems that we're solving are exciting to me. (That is, if you're not ginned up to do the homework, I haven't done my job -- or it's not a fit.)

And as an aside, your test for ethics is entirely asinine, as it renders anything of sub-infinite scale unethical. (Among its more obvious failings, anyone who chooses not to have children is behaving unethically -- as is anyone who has children, for that matter.)
What are they smoking? It could be hilariously funny (like this http://www.theonion.com/articles/microsoft-patents-ones-zero... ) if it wasn't so crazy but true.
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I never described the motivation as being "sinister." I simply described the situation as it is, which you apparently are in agreement with, but for some reason believe I am attaching negative connotations to.
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It really isn't. That's a heavily controlled environment. Airlines condone reclining. Therefore, reclining should be expected by people paying to enter, unless the terms of service state otherwise.

The only idiotic part of this equation is the person who misdirects intolerance and anger at the recliner rather than at the airline's environment. On an individual level, money is one form of compensation to give up a feature one would expect to use. Asking to be paid isn't the same thing as expecting to be paid. Try negotiating with honey (dialogue), not vinegar ("Knee Defenders"). Or pay up. Or boycott the airline. Use something else. Air grievances.
Our sales are growing but we are not both serving the same area. I guess most of the investors we have talked to are concerned about the future when we want to expand to the areas that they are already serving.
You need to consider the fact that we still strongly believe that the market and demand is a lot larger than all the major competitors capacities combined.
You feel it is simple, but gone35 gave no argument for it. Neither did you. Just a weak attempt at bullying ("your name is on it chris stucchio").

Make a good argument and identify your axioms (fairly crucial) and I'll give a more intellectual response. Simply tell me to change my style for "socially accepted" but "questionable" reasons and I feel quite justified in ignoring and mocking you.
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Big Idea, Mobile App device that allows any user to award themselves their own "points" based on good deeds they done each day, Deeds get publicly listed on users profile. Merchant/other Users accept these "points" for products/services; By essentially giving everyone an possible printing press (and purposely not implementing a check-stop against abuse), we are allowing them to determine for themselves their point "needs" in life, as well as eliminate the "time value" of assets (due to inflation in points as well as an the removal of the incentive of storage for under or un-utilized assets).
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Step 1) each person gets an theoretical printing press by allowing for each user to decide how much each of their karma actions are worth, note that what is considered karma action and said action awarded will be public info, but up to each user to decide
step 2) merchants and 3rd parties are allowed to accept or reject points from the user-group for services/goods as well as participate in scenario 1
Step 3) by doing so we create an "social safety net", (make-up jobs, half-assing jobs, survival jobs)

I had some questions in my previous thread about how this will never work but those seemed based on certain assumptions and decided to do an repost as it seems the "real questions" are as follows
Do you believe that humans, are inherently self-serving?
Do you believe that given the chance, humans have an infinite appetite for consuming?
Does an item has to be both desirable and scarce in order for it to retain value?

I believe not, for much of history human credit was extended, many people in villages and local communities still do, for example in India and even rural America; shop-keepers will keep an ledger or an tab, (extending credit to locals and regulars).

This is simply the individuals trust or credit in another, and this is infinite in quantity and desirable and in my opinion, has great value.
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I've been a daily user since before it was called Expandrive... I can't even remember the old name now, SFTPDrive? Anyhow it's been about 7 years that I've been using it. Definitely worth the money.
I'd like to know what company you work for so I can apply there. My email is in my profile.
He's stating facts about his startup. It's not like he's giving some opinion on something he's not qualified for. It's like saying we shouldn't ask Woz we he made Apple Basic.
To clarify, the difference you aren't seeing between the groups is the incompetent managers define "sit next to" as "sit next to at the nudie bar" or gaming table or harry potter movie premier or frat house or pretty much any place other than work. AKA young inexperienced white frat boys only need apply.

In comparison, competent managers define the same "sit next to" as "sit next to during an emergency bug fix" or while hashing out a new feature idea or optimizing a slow task or automating a process or just gossiping about a new technology. These are the kind of managers who "dare" to hire non-white people or women or older than 25 yrs old etc. Usually their company is much more successful for obvious reasons.
This is nothing like Google CRLSet. CRLSet is just a way of collecting the CRLs from a ton of different CAs and having a way to push those out to Chrome browsers easily without users having to individually download them all from the CAs.

Chrome has its own TLS pinning implementation that basically works the same way as Firefox's. See https://src.chromium.org/chrome/trunk/src/net/http/transport...
Thanks ! I think every book that worked for the lowest common denominator like myself should be pushed in school and highlighted.
The book that was pushed in class for us was the most pathetic excuse for a book.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Modern-Engineering-Mathematics-Prof-...
I really hate this book. Its the bible for "wall of text" syndrome. The thing that really made me angry is one of the author of this book was my prof ! I think such conflict of interest should be made a crime in classroom.
This book is much better if you are interested in everything applied mathematics related (besides stats ) the author is dead but damn is this book timeless. Everything is explained in a twitter like way. every page is made up of 4 slides.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Engineering-Mathematics-K-Stroud/dp/...
I would also keep to hear you response to the following questions,

Do you believe that humans, are inherently self-serving?
Do you believe that given the chance, humans have an infinite appetite for consuming?
Does an item has to be both desirable and scarce in order for it to retain value?
Amazon investing into the Firefox OS would be super beneficial for both companies long term. With AWS, Amazon is already powering a big chunk of the web so supporting Firefox /OS and help it become the best mobile web client makes sense and will make a ton of developers happy, which is all they need to do for now if they want a larger piece of the mobile market.

And you know, makes sense branding-wise. A Fire phone runs Firefox!
I probably don't agree with Sandvik about Google's complicity, but that doesn't matter. Silencing her to accommodate a company sponsor is both unethical and counterproductive.

There are forms of criticism that are intrinsically not compatible with being a director. If Sandvik was criticizing Google's participation with "Code Club" or making claims directly relevant to the project, that would be germane to the board. But that's not what happened here.

Silencing project members also doesn't help Google. Instead, it contributes to a perception that any support Google has comes from the barrel of a financial gun.

If Sandvik was given an ultimatum to stop criticizing Google to avoid annoying a sponsor, that was a terrible mistake on the part of the project. They should do what they can to correct it.
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I think I agree with you. Your professional platform is not the same as your personal platform.

The courses of action should have been

1. Resign from company and then air personal views (as explicitly personal)

2. Air personal views separately but say explicitly these are personal views.

3. Discuss matter in the board and come up with company approved policy statement - we will no longer do business with Google etc. because ...
Outwith very senior C level roles you should need no more than 2 interviews to decide which candidate to make an offer to.

Spending an entire day with 5 or 6 different interviews is just a waste of the candidates and the company's time.
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This was wonderful. Thanks for posting OP.
You know you could just drop all packets with destination of any valid address coming from an external interface. This isn't BGP, you're not going to really be routing the entire internet.
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I've left a similar comment below, but out of interest: in light of what you just said, what do you think about Mozilla-Eich debate?
> they have more 'loss leaders' than they do revenue sources

But they make up for it with volume!
Pedantry:

That's because teeth and eyes have predictable and often high maintenance costs that general medicine doesn't. It's hard to cost-effectively insure teeth, for instance, because you're almost certain to incur routine and expensive costs. Expensive general medical interventions are much less predictable and frequent and so that risk pools nicely.

That's also why private dental insurance is often not a good deal.
Uh, just hit tab, or at worst Meta-/
A developer's phone would operate as a modem.
Children born without cesarean sections? Check. Children nursed by mother for months after birth? Check. Children played outside in dirt and wild plants every day? (Largely) check. Had living plants at home? (Occasionally) check. But the children in my parents' families (including eleven who were brought up on a farm) and the children in my birth family and the children I now have (and their cousins in another country) still have quite a few problems with allergies. There surely is some family history involved in our susceptibility to allergies, as well as childhood environmental factors from our upbringing. Learning about the environmental factors is helpful, especially for understanding whole-country-scale epidemiological trends, but full understanding of the causes and treatments of allergies will have to come from studies with genetically sensitive designs.
If it helps: when I interview, I really really want the candidate to succeed because he or she is solving a problem for me. I need more competent hands. I don't know if this helps, but it's true.
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You've missed the point, which was that it's lamentable such clearly immoral business practices have to be made illegal to keep people from engaging in them. Disallowing such practices brings benefit only because employees and business owners were being so unscrupulous to begin with.
mm so that billing system I worked on for BT didn't bring in revenue or the fix I and the company accountant did to fix the broken BACS feed
Having just had a 3h long technical interview for Google Deepmind, I cannot agree more with a lot of points raised in this post.

Deepmind being a machine learning/statistics/maths/computer science fuelled company, it made sense for the interview process to follow this simple organisation.

I was however very disappointed by the questions asked for each part. Not a single one of the ~100 questions asked during these 3h of my life demanded some "problem solving" skills, only encyclopaedic knowledge (describe this algorithm, what is a Jaccobian matrix, define what an artificial neural network is, what is polymorphism, give examples of classifiers, what are the conditions to apply a t-test...)

So what if someone doesn't remember every definition of the stats/ML/CS/Maths respective bibles as long as they're clever enough to look it up and understand quickly what's needed?

I mean, I get it these are very basic questions but as a highly qualified interviewee who necessarily has other offers given this set of skills, this fastidious, back to school, time wasting process does not reflect well on the company and makes me consider my other options even more seriously.
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Oh thank god I'm not the only one who thought this.

"Lightweight" is a term that gets used a little too much these days, to the detriment of actual useful functionality.

If smartphones and Docker/LXC are teaching us anything, it's that the solution is to improve our operating systems and make them better at the things they were intended to do.
This was done satirically in an episode of Community (Season 5 MeowMeowBeanz). Where people interact with one another to gain "MeowMeowBeanz" a score, in a phone app.

Also within a 2 days society starts to look like something out of running man or hunger games.
This is going to sound sassy, but it's not _entirely_ meant to ---

Follow the thought experiment:

1) valarauca1 comments on rump

... [stuff goes here]

n) valarauca1 is dies

Is there a point to _anything_, if you use "following to logical conclusion" as measuring stick? We can't tell what will come of this work yet.

-bch
There is a term for the female equivalent, namely the elusive 'legbeard'.
ag is often faster when you're using it interactively, replacing "grep -r" (in particular in version controlled dirs). It's also faster in the sense that for interactive use it will often DWYM.

But has too many weird quirks that it can replace grep for data munging. E.g.

$ ag verb fullform_nn.txt >/tmp/verbs
ERR: Too many matches in fullform_nn.txt. Skipping the rest of this file.

Man ag says there's a --max-count option. Let's try that.

$ grep -c verb fullform_nn.txt
206077
$ ag --max-count 206077 verb fullform_nn.txt >/tmp/verbs
ERR: Too many matches in fullform_nn.txt. Skipping the rest of this file.

Wtf? (and running those two commands with "time" gave ag user 0m0.770s while grep had user 0m0.057s)
The ironic thing is that the Vijayanagara Empire in India (Peak 1500s) had extensive water management and sanitation. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vijayanagara_Empire). This was 300 years before London had its first severs.

And now, the situation is reversed. While Colonialism is an oft repeated cause whereby everything of native ingenuity was systematically destroyed, what is depressing is that even 65 years after Independence, Poverty & Public Health are still issues that affect India.
The abstract was intriguing. It's a shame you have to pay to read the rest of the paper.
As reported, Snapchat currently has no revenue but 100 million monthly users. I'm assuming the opportunity here is to somehow extract value from those users? Data mining? Ads? Behaviour profiling?

What do you guys think?
Thanks, we will be adding more and more to make the site feel better. I apprecieat your input. We won't be holding anything for ransom. We charge you exactly what you choose as a reward, and you only pay if your item is successfully returned. So we don't make any money unless you get your stuff back. We just take a small percentage of the payment. To keep it going. Thanks again!
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Looks like it's alive and well to me. The "Old Friends" hypothesis by Rook mentioned in the article appears to be from 2003.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hygiene_hypothesis
This was in the US. It's not cheap here for medical care, and there's really nothing that we get that's an improvement to justify the costs compared to the EU or Canada or, really, most other developed countries.

Also, this was 8 years ago. The numbers stuck with me because I was trying to explain why, a couple years later, I was paying out of pocket from my (at the time) meager salary for health insurance to my coworkers. They had grecy's attitude. And then one of the idiots broke his ankle jumping down some stairs. His parents bailed him out financially for that cost, which was small in comparison, and he failed to learn the lesson: Debt for unexpected medical costs is not worth the short term savings of skippig health insurance (in the US).
Are there a lot of companies/organizations out there that would be comfortable with employees (or directors) publicly criticizing the organization or its partners? Outside of journalists (who should expect/demand this sort of freedom of expression), I suspect the answer is no. It's not clear to me that Code Club's request was unreasonable.
Well dang. I'm 5'6''/5'7'' as well, but I never really thought I was that short until now.
Another shameless plug, for my git-hooks project I wrote a few years ago https://github.com/icefox/git-hooks It is a single small bash script with no external depenandancies so it just needs to be in your path.

git-hooks provide a way to manage and share your hooks using three+ locations:

User hooks, installed in ~/.git_hooks/
Project hooks, installed in .git/git_hooks/ in a project.
Global hooks, specified with the hooks.global configuration option.

Another very real problem with any hooks solution is that it must be enabled in each repository. Users frequently either don't do it or forget to do it in all of the repositories. Running git hooks --installglobal will force any new git repository or any git repository you clone to have a reminder to install git hooks. (It can't be on by default for security reasons of course.)
Almost every investor has been impressed with our growth but they are still concerned about the future and how we want to get customers when we expand our service to the area that is already covered by our competitor.
The irony is conventional scientists forgot was it was to be scientists ! the best science was created without knowing what you were creating.
I know and deeply respect people on both sides of that controversy and also believe that the tide of equality for LGBT people is one of the great civil liberties success stories of the last 25 years.

Without inadvertently casting aspersions on anyone who holds the opposing opinion, I think running someone out of a company because they hold a political opinion incompatible with your ethics is itself an unethical act. I wish I could be sticking up for someone with a more apparently ethical opinion (I don't really know the details of Eich's politics), but that's where I'm at.

During the Eich debate, it was helpful for me to remember that I am not --- contrary, I know, to all the signals I generate in public --- required to hold an express an opinion about every controversy.
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The program can not be disabled or uninstalled once it is locked, even if you are an administrator. The only way to disable or uninstall the program is with the password that was set to block the webcam.
In other words, thesis -> antithesis -> synthesis.
In a hypothetical world with no privacy and perfect information I'd just make my nuclear launch system (which also has perfect information) only launch when the right people ask them too. You can't pretend to be those people because you can't lie because the launch system would know because there's no privacy.

I don't know of any way to actually implement this in practice -- there probably isn't one -- but it's an interesting thought experiment. It's possible that privacy isn't a moral right and perhaps isn't necessary at all. The argument for privacy seems to be predicated on other people being immoral. If you could identify immoral people 100% accurately then perhaps the need for privacy goes away. In fact, if that were the status quo you might claim that keeping something private is immoral.
This isn't a game of three generations of punishment. The problem is with Rice and her role at Dropbox, not everyone connected to Dropbox.