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Many of the "social justice" crowd get off on the moral superiority they feel from engaging in rabid political correctness.

Unfortunately for them, moral superiority is by definition a positional good, a good whose value rapidly diminishes as PC concepts become increasingly mainstream. Thus they seek increasingly extreme levels of political correctness to signal their status as being above the common rabble.
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Side observation: He created two repositories with hundreds of fake commits so his Github activity chart would spell out "tom."
I agree that it's incorrect to say that right wing politics are specifically about maintaining the status quo, but that does tend to be the effect of their policies, regardless of how much they change the law "lines of code" style, as pointed out by a sibling post.

But what right wing politics are about is maintaining the social order. Ensuring that wealth stays with the wealthy, power remains with the powerful, and making people content with both their own place in society and the places of others (particularly their 'betters'). Dismantling SS, keeping illegal immigrants illegal, cheap, and vulnerable as well as avoiding a flood of legal immigrants who will take 'native' jobs, and controlling education policy all achieve these goals. As does advocating for less progressive taxes to avoid distribution of wealth away from top earners.

Making right wing politics all about shrinking government is putting the cart before the horse. Shrinking government is not in itself a useful goal, it's the outcomes of that shrinkage, and what you shrink, that are the goal. Starving the beast is just how you get there.
If you bought the Civic instead, and invested the difference, you'd be able to buy a lot more than a Porsche.
It requires a high IQ to comprehend.
If you have a specific project in mind and think Julia would be a good fit, go for it. That said I think it would be more valuable to you to build up a reputation as someone who can analyze data in any language, than to brand yourself as a Julia hand specifically. Sure 80% of the world might be converted to Julia someday but it will mean nothing if your current project involves translating a code base in Stata or SAS, or working with a bunch of web devs who want to use Python for everything, or collaborating with a research professor who just has to have his Matlab since that's what he used for his thesis... Invest in becoming a data whisperer first and in becoming a coder of specific languages second. Happy stats-ing!
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> What's the basis for the great distinction between the two

Chait thinks that traditional liberal values of free speech and free thought are threatened by political correctness. DeBoer thinks that anti-oppression movements are undermining themselves by alienating their own members.

They both see political correctness as harmful, but are very different in every other way.
"They seem to speak with a single voice"

This is something that even casual observation of the real world as opposed to rhetoric will show you that it's not true.
Pretty sure I heard them say exactly that it was at WWDC. I wrote it down in my notes anyway. ~04:30 in the WWDC video "Introducing the Modern WebKIT API"

It was stated it used 4th tier LLVM JIT (FTL) [0]. Do you have evidence to the contrary? What did you do to test? If you can outline what you did I will be happy to help out and investigate.

[0]: https://www.webkit.org/blog/3362/introducing-the-webkit-ftl-...
The slides are from a talke Ray Cromwell recently gave at the gwt.create conference. Hopefully, the recordings will be available soon.
There is nothing inherently leftist about feelings of moral superiority. It comes with various ideologies and is poisonous all the same. I can only recommend Altemey's excellent book on the topic. (By the way, my short definition is that if want to reduce social injustice and inequality, then you are a leftist.)

In fact, yesterday I just had a debate with my Czech coworkers (we work for an American company). In Europe, the ideology of "political correctness" is not so followed (and in fact many from minorities would find it plainly annoying), and in Czech Republic specifically is mostly ignored. Yet in many respects Europe could be considered more "leftist" (take employment law, for instance).
elon recently tweeted a video of people experiencing P85D "Insane Mode" acceleration for the first time

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1qFV5i8tBhs&app=desktop
Thanks for the story. It's something to consider when being conscientious about these things.

I think a possible difference is that asking someone to share their experience directly invokes some kind of entitlement on the part of the asker.

But, I don't think that there is anything wrong with amplifying the messages of those underrepresented [1]. Many people with true experience are talking, but have trouble getting that message heard.

[1] With their permission. Don't shuttle around someone's personal story without permission. It can be damaging in ways that you're not aware.
I have to imagine their software testing processes are absolutely ridiculous and touch every possible permutation of the code.
To the person who doesn't share the progressive political viewpoint, the flood of stories about diversity in tech, always written from a pro diversity viewpoint, is itself a form of political activism to be resisted.
This goes in all directions.
"Intersectionality" is the observation that your status/lack-of-status in society is the result of not just single systems (black/white, rich/poor, native/immigrant, male/female, hetero/homo, cis/trans) but a combination of all of these.

So a specific person in a specific place is privileged/oppressed as the sum of the advantages/disadvantages provided by each of the identifiable systems. As an example, being a man is usually a net positive in terms of societal privileges, but being black at the same time? Being female is a disadvantage, but if you're also rich, you're still coming out ahead.
This is also a reason why some high-achievers don't make good managers. When the game switches to things that don't involve hard work, they flounder. The more introspective high achievers make the switch.

This fellow talks about it too ->
http://www.marshallgoldsmithlibrary.com/cim/What-Got-You-Her...
I'm guessing self driving cars will be here or on the horizon when Tesla's get into the affordable range.
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When right wing types poison-pilled Bush's amnesty bill, they didn't try to protect the current democratic makeup. They merely tried to shift the balance of new immigrants to be more conservative (more educated, more Eastern Europe, less Mexico). And again, reducing dependency on the state and radically changing the education system is hardly a matter of preserving things the way they are.

Put it this way - given a choice, which would you prefer? Allow no new laws to be passed for 8 years, or give Republicans an 8 year supermajority and a mandate to make any changes they liked? If you are right that they merely want to keep things static, you should be indifferent.
I think this impression is mainly due to the original background assets being unavailable to be re-rendered at a higher resolution, which is unfortunate. The textures though have been remade, a new lighting engine added, and the music re-recorded. A three part behind the scenes featurette details some of the process [1].

[1] (Part 3) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0g6ub2-E8eY#t=61
Ugh. So annoying to see journalists ignore the obvious in their obsession with writing a "balanced" story.

So yes, Apple's iPhone is like Microsoft's Windows. Both are hugely successful products that accounted for the bulk of their creator's profits. Microsoft was unwilling to threaten the enormous revenue it gets from Windows, and now that the focus of innovation has shifted away from PCs it has lost its dominance.

Will Apple make the same mistake? No. Its first attempt to one-up the iPhone was the iPad. For a while, it looked like it might succeed: iPad sales took off even faster than iPhone sales had. But then they plateaued, while the iPhone kept growing. Nice try, but no dice. The iPad is nice little business, but it won't eclipse the iPhone.

Next try: the Apple Watch. It's not out yet, so we don't know what will happen. But it's clear that this is Apple's next big move. This is not a hobby. They'll be putting all their weight behind the product line. It might flop or it might be another (multi-billion dollar) side business that lags behind the wild profitability of the iPhone.

Mr. Stewart ends with a quote from analyst Robert Cihra: “The question investors have is, what’s the next iPhone? There’s no obvious answer. It’s almost impossible to think of anything that will create a $140 billion business out of nothing.”

Well, maybe investors can't think of anything, but it's clear that Apple thinks the next iPhone will be wearables. And they sure as hell aren't killing promising products for fear of cannibalizing iPhone sales.
Enthusiasts tweak performance parameters on ICE computers all the time.
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Traditional vendors are not willing to give the general public those kind of improvements not because they can't, but because they feel it will hurt their bottom line by not being able to sell more new car. Customer are left on their own - and so they resort to patch their car with parts that drop their warranty - sometimes for good reason, sometimes not.
For example some vendors are famous for selling the same engine at different price point, throttling the low end - a bit like what's done on some CPU/GPU in the computer world !
I would have said the same thing about Apple, then they released an update that make the iPhone 6 unable to make calls. Mistakes happen, and your car could be bricked by one.
Never, not once. The thing is that when I became a mod, I thought for sure I would see offers or have people try to bribe me. I'm kind of disappointed it hasn't happened because it sounds interesting (I have a boring life). It would allow me to stroke my ego a bit when I got a chance to turn it down. I could say, "See how much integrity I have?". But it's never happened. It's something I would brag about.

As far as wikipedia goes, that's an entirely different ball game. There's significantly less oversight. On reddit, the admins and other mods are always watching. They will see the PMs and requests and watch how those mods respond to them. If one of my co-mods started acting strangely and approving or removing things they shouldn't be, me and the other mods will call them out on it. It would be made public if we couldn't just immediately dismiss them. That happens all the time already, but it's not related to "shill" stuff. It's usually just internal mod struggles and policy disputes.

People, for whatever reason, imagine that all the mods know each other and are friends in real life. That everyone is close-knit. Nope, quite the opposite. A lot of the backroom politicking goes on is between mods within the same subreddit. You can bet your ass if someone was "bought and paid for", they would be outed by their co-mods, especially in a large subreddit with lots of mods (lots of mods = more eyes). They would do this if only because it allows them to gain more power themselves. Again, it's all about the checks and balances that are inherent to reddit's system. Those same checks and balances are absent from wikipedia's editing system. Most actions are quite public (it's easy to see when a front page post disappears) and it's also visible to the users themselves. Changes and edits on wikipedia aren't as visible and its editors aren't listed in the sidebar of every wikipedia page.
I believe javajosh is implying that a number of people failed to grasp the position in question, rather than anything about agreement.
One of the most annoying places to be right now is to have sympathies with both sides of these issues and to try to discuss things rationally and evenly.

Simple example:

I've got two good friends, one of them on one side of the GamerGate nonsense, and one on the other. I have to be very careful chatting with them, because while they each separately are very articulate and reasoned in their arguments, I cannot even pretend to identify with any of the other side without risking very strongly being labeled and shut out of further discussion.

You'd think you could get these people to agree to sit down and calmly hear each other out, maybe critique each other's positions, and perhaps agree to disagree--but no.

No, instead one side will immediately feel like they are being judged and condescended to and set up for mocking, and the other will feel that they are probably tempting a campaign of harassment and stalking and abuse. Neither can talk openly and freely because they assume that the other person, once flagged as the opposition, will be doing everything disingenuously. One cannot have reasoned discussions in such an environment.

And if you do agree with the people who are either side of GamerGate? You're either siding with people who use threats and really sloppy language ("SJW" as a catchall for any goddamn thing that even is remotely related, good or bad), or siding with people who bully and pander and conduct successful mass-media campaigns belittling their opponents. Like, nobody deserves to win this.

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The thing that's most annoying to me, though, is that one side you can kind of reason with, because you slowly wittle away the crazy into an admission that "Well, yeah, we should treat them with some class, I guess. Death threats aren't actually okay."

The other side, though, has made central to its position a sort of victimhood, and that is a position very hard to navigate somebody out of. And so, even if you try and work on things, they'll acknowledge a small portion of why the other side has its issues, and then immediately revert to "But, think of the fear and the suffering and blah blah blah".

And it's annoying, because if you try to stand on that side and argue back with the jerks making deaththreats and doxxing and doing nasty shit, you look over your shoulder to see your allies and they're automartyring and being downright mean and just clearly not acting in any sort of productive way.

And if you're on the other side and trying to support the nerds who are getting picked on and made fun of and made out to be manchildren and whatnot? Your allies are busy calling in bomb threats and making the most puerile gestures and getting so damned emotional in their trolling they losing sight of the big picture--and playing right into the hands of their opponents.

It's just so goddamn frustrating.

The exact same thing plays out in politics: one side will make fun of and harass the other side, and that side will continually play the abused and purge anybody who doesn't fall in with them.

And between the two of them, there's simply no place for anybody who doesn't want to look like a buffoon or an opportunistic victim.
Yep, and I still use my desktop once every day (or couple days at the very least)..

Meanwhile I'm using my cell phone dozens times a day and a tablet at least 3-4 times a day.

Man this must be terrifying for Microsoft. To have a dominant position on a form factor that is quickly becoming irrelevant.
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Both left and right wing ideologies have a propensity to develop into destructive cancer-like singularities.
On the contrary, right wing politics seem to be about replacing the current social order. Currently academics, teachers and other govt bureaucrats occupy a strong position in the social order. So do government dependents. This is the status quo.

Right wing politics wants to reduce the position of those groups and elevate the position of workers, business leaders and those who embody traditional christian values. That's a real change in the status quo.
Exactly. The diversity hand wringers could be targeting any industry they want right now but are lasering in on tech.

They smell the blood in the water.
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Question: if it came out that Eich had donated to, say, the KKK, would you feel the same way?

I have mixed feelings over the way he was treated, but your argument actually seems the opposite of nuanced: the blanket claim that someone should never be fired for their political views (particularly, from a public position where their politics could have an effect on the company they represent both on internal culture and on externalities like boycotts), no matter how repugnant their politics are, seems pretty reductive.
The idea that your behavior is excusable because you're resisting something is a cornerstone of populism and the problem with political correctness in the first place.
+1 for OC meetup :)
Actually, some other manufacturers do provide such free improvements, though they would require a visit to the dealership. McLaren provided performance improvements for the 12C, even after the model got discontinued.
This is how a lot of Chinese and Korean streaming services operate. And integrated donation system can allow for more interactive options between streamer and audiences, or even between audiences. (Like streamer present the audiences with two options, and the option that getting more donations will be chosen by the streamer.)
Sorry, you probably misunderstood me – WKWebView runs in a separate process and does have a JIT (discussed in that video); JavaScriptCore runs in the same process and does not.
That privilege (and the lack thereof) is a highly complex system that is more than the sum of its parts, and therefore cannot be easily separated and evaluated in isolation.

For example, while women are disadvantaged in our society in many ways, the ways in which this disadvantage works is remarkably different for black women and white women - or women from higher-class backgrounds vs. lower-class backgrounds.

Ditto, while "white men" are commonly perceived to be privileged, this privilege works differently (and to varying degrees) depending on if you're wealthy or poor, urban or suburban, jock or nerd, etc.

And the effect in totality is not the simple sum of all the properties of the individual. Therefore, attempts to separate the discussion of privilege and disadvantage into discrete "women/men" "rich/poor" "white/black" "straight/gay" variables is doomed to failure - the way an individual is treated in society is the complex intersection of many attributes of who they are.

A straight black woman faces different discrimination than a gay white woman, who faces different discrimination than a straight white poor woman - and the dynamics of the privileges they hold and lack cannot be simply isolated like an algebra equation.
Funny, I can't seem to find Microsoft's file formats for Excel and Word published anywhere. Microsoft is open source where it doesn't really matter, as far as the market is concerned.

Btw, Apple has never been open source. And they only have 5% desktop market share worldwide. Pretend that mobile doesn't exist. The "PC" world hasn't changed much in 20 years. Mac is more accepted but they're just a rounding error compared to Windows.

Finally, iPhone is Apple's big money maker. However, they have less than 20% market share in the global market. They're doing pretty well in some markets, but Android is the dominant mobile OS.
Thanks for writing this. I think I'll try reversing Fitbit beyond Galileo. Also, for those who don't know, Wireshark can sniff the Fitbit dongle using usbmon module incase you don't have a BTLE enabled device. MITMProxy is also great for making dumps to be studied.
How about right here at HN? Earlier this week someone commented on using shame as a tool for "positive change".

I once wrote a comment on a thread here on HN but after considering past reactions of HN of similar comments, I didn't bother submitting the comment and closed the tab instead.

I don't necessarily care about karma but I use it as a way to figure out what kind of stuff the community wants to hears from me. When I get downvoted I make a mental note to keep such opinions to myself next time. I rather have some of my comments be visible than have them greyed out or dead.
I don't think that MS hates Google so much, at least they are releasing Office for Android. Google on the other side, tries not only doesn't support Windows Phone, they also try to prevent MS themselfs to offer Google Support, like being seen on the Youtube App.
There are mechanical failure modes for these things, as well as multiple electronic ones.

I'm not saying your comment is ungrounded, I'm just saying that a process locking up or sending wrong information is not likely, or even possible, to net you 100% loss of use in your brakes.

Cars are the most highly regulated consumer product on earth. Brake systems nor Tesla fly under the radar here.
> Imagine getting into your car and having it say “Oh! Hey. I’m faster now than I was yesterday. You’re welcome!” Because that’s what’s happening.

Yes, that is awesome.

But on the other hand, in the past I've had updates to my TiVo and my PS3 where I turned it on and it said "Oh! Hey. I'm shittier than I was yesterday. Suck it."

And someday, that could happen with Teslas, too. Updates are a mixed bag.
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> Apple had the hardware and were providing the software thus locking out any competitors from their platform.

Lockout is one way of looking at it. Another way is that it gives them the ability to make things integrate extremely well. Seamless integration like Apple does is extremely difficult to achieve without complete control of the ecosystem.

> Not to mention, they were focusing on the design aspect of the devices themselves which others were not.

This is where Microsoft still falls hopelessly short. They make ugly, geeky looking hardware. Everything Apple makes looks and feels beautiful.

> It seems the iPhone is their meal ticket, if the iPhone eventually fizzles out, where will that leave Apple

I'm not sure which other phone I could buy that would integrate with the rest of the Apple ecosystem? Unless they lag really badly in whatever technical advances mobile phones make, this doesn't seem likely. Some people like myself don't keep buying iPhones because of its technical specifications.
If you're a google employee and you see a gag order and disagree with it you almost certainly have the skills to leak it undetectably such that you can't be prosecuted because there is no evidence.

I wonder, is that the right thing to do? How would you do it technically if you thought it was? Who would you leak it to?
The tutorial does a great job of explaining why this is interesting: http://hackage.haskell.org/package/turtle-1.0.0/docs/Turtle-...

For example, the pwd function returns a FilePath type rather than a String:

Prelude Turtle> :type pwd
pwd :: IO Turtle.FilePath

The datefile function is also typed:

Prelude Turtle> :type datefile
datefile :: Turtle.FilePath -> IO UTCTime

So this really does seem to structure the data passed between commands, instead of the "stringly typing" unix shells have historically been known for.
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Maybe I'm missing something obvious, but http://www.ecma-international.org/publications/standards/Ecm...
But why "turtle"?
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