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Nice rant. Not sure how this relates to what you're replying to, so I'm not gonna attempt to rebut it... But for future reference, "people are always replaceable" tends to be a euphemism for "we're gonna treat you like canon fodder" - not really a good attitude, IMHO.

If you want to clarify what you're responding to, I can try to provide a more helpful response; until then, here's some useful references for the "roots" of SO's current policies:

- http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2011/01/the-wikipedia-of-long-...

- http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2011/06/optimizing-for-pearls-...
I use the Gunnar Optiks (mentioned in the lifehacker link). They do seem to make my eyes less strained at the end of the day. I had this issue where I would work on the computer all day, and when I got home, I didn't even want to look at a computer screen because my eyes were so tired. Since I've been using the Gunnars, I've noticed I don't have that issue.

I think it definitely makes a difference, but you can also achieve a similar effect by using f.lux (https://justgetflux.com/). Although, I found f.lux to be a big buggy at times, especially with a multiple monitors setup.
He might mean that he uses Jetbrains' IDEs with git for nearly everything, but feels that using it to merge things is madness.

It seems strange, but I really like having a console-based workflow with my VCS. I can leverage grep, shell aliases, and so on to customize my interface a fair deal, and the forced interaction helps keep me mindful of what I am doing.
You are free to advance an alternative hypothesis explaining her observations. If you go with her thinking "everyone is against her", like the parent comment, you should ask yourself what separates you from all the other people who have defended the status quo by dismissing women complaining of sexism.
But does that really apply in the case of Uber? Honest question. You are agreeing to perform a task, in this case, driving an individual from point A to point B for a set $ amount. You can see that dollar amount and decide to take it or not, correct? So, if you get injured in a car accident you are covered by your or the other driver's insurance. If this is a side job, not your full time work then you could have health insurance on top of that. So where exactly is the problem here? Now, this isn't speaking to the so called "gig economy" in general because I think that each company is responsible for its own rules and actions when it comes to labor. If one company fails to pay an honest wage and exploits its workers, that doesn't incriminate every company that creates a contract platform.
Knowing this I am going to start wearing sweatpants and slip-ons to work. Perhaps I'll stop bathing too. I would certainly hate to have to call my company out on tumblr for judging me on superficial things.
What are the established terms you prefer?
I think the problem is we need to reach world stability. Look at Europe and Japan --economies which had invested relatively little into militaries, they are both reconsidering their previous position due to mainly two factors, the US disengaging, relatively speaking, and a perceived (and by perceived i don't mean imagined) threat from strengthening militaries in Russia and China, which given Europe and Japans previous dependence on the US left them in a era position to respond to growing threats.
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I wonder why are you being downvoted.

This is pretty interesting, and a great way to look at it.
That's not Carrot, that's Victor whatsisname from Moving Pictures.
This has positive benefits such as companies like FN opening up shop stateside thus providing jobs to Americans. If I remember correctly, FN is now the largest small arms producer in the U.S. even surpassing Colt as far as supplying arms to the military and the civilian market.
I didn't downvote, but I would suggest reading Hacker News Guidelines[1], specifically: Resist commenting about being downvoted. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
but we do sometimes call lions cats.

this is 2015 and CEO's are not just men who sit in boardrooms who smoke cigars.

just like there are Chefs at my local diner, and there are Chefs in NYC's greatest restaurants. CEO's can be many different types of people, for different companies.

yes there are business owners, they are normally called founders.
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Careful, this maybe isn't the correct place for telling everybody how easily you can crush them : )

> What you really need are more voters voting. Not sure how you get there, though.

I guess a whole lot of the people who could have helped you left long ago because of your fellow moderators. A reasonable first step would be by adjusting the attitude.

Maybe part of the problem is we just don't see all those "primarily opinion based" and "ugly discussions" questions that seems to be oh such a serious problem.

We definitely see a whole lot of the most useful questions closed, often for technicalities. It doesn't exactly encourage participation, does it?

HN somehow seems to be better at dealing with the problems without scaring good community members away. Of course HN has issues as well but so far the moderation team is doing a very good job of keeping politics and promotion away while leaving to the broader community to vote if something is interesting or not.
Yeah, that might avoid paradox at the cost of requiring a specific kind of judge. But then I think you need to fully specify the judge's reasoning, and that's a very difficult problem, it might be even AI-complete. I don't know of any computer program that would be able to judge the descriptions of current winning entries.

Maybe this quote from the googology wiki will set you on a more productive track:

Googologists generally avoid many of the common responses such as "infinity," "anything you can come up with plus 1," "the largest number that can be named in ten words," "the largest number imaginable," "a zillion," "a hundred billion trillion million googolplex" or other indefinite, infinite, ill-defined, or inelegant responses. Rather googologists are interested in defining definite numbers using efficient and far reaching structural schemes, and don't attempt to forestall the unending quest for larger numbers, but rather encourage it. So perhaps a more accurate description of the challenge is: "What is the largest number you can come up with using the simplest tools?"

http://googology.wikia.com/wiki/Googology#History
To be fair, the pre-ordained script was put together to utilize the resources that were brought in to run the challenge after General van Riper wiped the floor with them. Yet, even with the victory accomplished by General van Riper, the military had to suffer losses in Iraq before it changed the leadership to handle the asymetric nature in 2005.

The issue with militaries is that unless they lose, there is no need for improvements. The Romans troddled along until Hannibal wiped certainty off their face, the Romans retooled, focused around a military society, and learned sailing from captured triremes to beat the better adversary. Prussia lost to France and the professional soldiering class was built up that is still reflected in German society today in their cultural approaches with bureaucracy.

Without the political will to go in a different direction, the entrenched forces within a military will avoid the hard choices needed to changes its system.
Can you expand upon this? I was recently introduced to DDD and had the same gut feeling, although am having trouble articulating exactly why. It does feel like a lot of what Evans is saying has already been said in design patterns books.
This is the most important point here.

For my meals out, I prefer to eat at restaurants which publish nutrition information, but I'm under no illusions that these values are anything more than rough guidance. The core of the problem is in employee training. I find that even restaurants which make an effort to publish nutrition info don't bother to adequately train employees to serve the expected amounts of food.

Your cheese example is a good one. Based solely on anecdotal evidence, I'd wager most people who order cheese at Chipotle end up being served 1.5-3x the intended serving size due to generous and unmeasured portions. I love cheese as much as the next guy, but an extra few hundred unexpected calories adds up very quickly. This also renders any analysis of nutritional value misleading if not useless.
I take crap at work for wearing sport coats and pants made of wool. I've given up on ties and suits unless there is a customer visit. A workplace has a culture and though you can exist at the edge of it, you'd better not go outside the lines.

Also, I compliment other men on their outfits when they look especially well put together. No HR complaints yet...
Yeah, FWIW I had to google the terms and found this:

https://gist.github.com/cspray/1689430
There's a difference between winning the war and winning the peace.

In Iraq, we won the war hands-down. We went in to effect regime change and bring Saddam to justice. We did exactly that. We toppled Saddam's regime, established a new one in its place, and then captured and executed the man himself.

However, we lost the peace badly. We failed to anticipate the rebels, the influx of al-Qaeda, the sectarian civil war, the rise of ISIS, etc.
If that happens, you revert the changes. Editing to change the nature of the question is definitely not a valid edit. If people do it consistently, a mod should intervene.
Go to your local university then, talk to an older physics professor.
Fellow Shopify app developer here.

How do you attribute the value of a backlink to an order: same-session or something smarter?

You rightly highlight that Google Analytics is your competitor, and from speaking with many stores I can confirm they find it difficult to pull insights from there. However your claim on the app page that:

"If you try to implement this yourself, you could spend thousands of dollars trying to configure google analytics or hire someone to try to do it."

is completely unrealistic and at odds with the quote on your homepage that:

"Finding an engineer to do this for you will take at least 30 minutes to an hour".

Your screenshot on the app page sucks. The only rows with revenue data are $direct and google.com! The others have $0 and you've blurred the referrer out. Mock something up which gives me a taste of the value your app provides.

Best of luck.
We're not losing wars. We're winning them very quickly.

We're losing the aftermath -- policing and rebuilding foreign countries after we win the wars. That's a much more challenging problem, and we aren't good at that at all.
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And as Sir Harry Peirce says Mi5 (Spooks) " I like the niceties, they protect us from tyranny"
>You really need to be able to open a file without file opener

What if you had read/write access to /home/user/music and /home/user/video ? Once we start adding blanket access like this we would probably need to add a /home/user/secret folder that no application can access unless invited to a specific file by a file opener.
> The world changed. The British and French couldn't control those colonies anymore. Guerrilla insurgencies are very hard to beat.

In the case of Britain, they spent so much on WW I and had barely recovered by WW II. They were literally a fortnight away from having to surrender during WW II. The US played a masterful hand in helping the UK out, and the one of the post-war prices was US pressure to decolonize so the US could expand its sphere of influence.

The fact the Britain was also reduced, financially, for relying on ex-colonies like New Zealand and Australia to send free food and pay down its war debts[1] meant that they didn't have much choice. Less a straight military loss - the British had plenty of experience putting down rebellions as brutally as needed, after all - and more having dropped from a superpower to a US client state.

France was different, since De Gaulle had preserved a great deal more autonomy for France in the post-WW II era (hence a lot of US hostility). But France was a lot weaker as well, even if it wasn't a US client state. They did, however, hang on to more of their colonies, even in the face of persistent opposition in places like New Caledonia.

[1] For sentimental reasons, not particularly well repaid with the manner of the British entry to the EU.
I don't deny they matter. I am just wondering what kind of mattering they do.
Oh, I'm aware of the idea's genesis and purpose. I just happen to not think much of it.
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We have allowed the word "War" to be bastardized in everyday usage with things like "The War on Drugs" or "The War on Poverty" and now the "War on Terror" but "War" is something very specific.

The United States of America is not at "War" unless there is a Declaration of War from the Congress. The Congress of the United States of America has not declared war in over 70 years.

It's not likely to happen unless this country is facing a very real, existential threat. Declaring war is like flipping a switch on our Constitutional and economic systems.
Infinity is Not a Number, so 17/0 is NaN.
And razed to support mercenaries, as well! Not a good look hearts-and-minds wise.
Maybe you are missing the point here. Heated seats in cars do not replace the heating system in the car. Hand warmer, heated jackets are for outside, not inside. Do you want to walk around, inside your house in a heated jacket and hand warmers? It isn't nearly as convenient as having your house be 70 degrees, or whatever you deem comfortable.
The system and culture is against her, not necessarily the individuals.
"Squeezing the people doing the work was probably not the idea from the outset"

Looking at some of the companies that are popping up, it's looking more like the case where the "contractors" are getting squeezed more and more. So yeah, in answer to your question, a lot of the gig economy is looking like exploitation.

On another note, Uber started off as a fantastic opportunity for "gig work." But a lot of Uber's latest changes are definitely exploitation.
Me neither. Maintaining a set of features that will be unused by most users is definitely more convenient than maintaining a whole separate build that will be used by a small subset of users.
This is the wrong question to ask. What blocks people from switching isn't some specific MS Office feature missing in LibreOffice. It's a lack of compelling features in LibreOffice that are not available in competing products to justify the cost of migration.
The truth is that the book was not very good and didn't really have much of a point.
What you don't quite understand is that there are inherent costs of inefficiencies of monopoly from a militaristic system like ours. Sure, all the people "employed" by defense contractors and military are funneling money into the economy, but it's so grotesquely inefficient and wasteful of a process, let along there are those huge losses for inefficiency and unnecessary management and corruption that comes with it, not even to mention that the smart guys who take a job with a defense contractor to pump out some shitty code or manage a shitty project as a result of corruption and congressional micro-management; could have developed a new technology or started a business to contribute something positive to society.

What you seem to be missing is that military expenditures beyond self-defense are mostly inefficiencies. Squandered money and efforts and potential all because our form of warlords are siphoning off trillions of dollars from our economy and collective efficacy. It's really not any different than the same thing warlords to in the places you think of when I say warlord like Somalia or Afghanistan or the DR Congo; just far more sophisticated and devious in their effect.
Oracle killed it. Why not MariaDB or PostgreSQL?
I delivered papers once a week as a kid. I got paid 3 cents per copy by the company. I worked approximately 2 hours per week. I was officially an employee. It didn't break the company to classify me as an employee. It wouldn't break Postmates to have you classified as an employee either.
GWYNNE DYER: 1 April 2008

Suppose an Arab military force was currently bringing peace and freedom to the oil-rich, violence-torn country of Texas. What would they be reading in the Arab newspapers five years after the occupation of Texas?

They’d be learning about the minute doctrinal differences and the irreconcilable rivalries between Catholic Hispanics and Protestant anglos, and even between Southern Methodists and Southern Baptists. They’d all know about Texas’s long love affair with guns, explaining why Texans were killing Arab soldiers. They’d constantly be reminded that the dominant minority in east Texas is African-American, while in west Texas it is Hispanic.

Everybody in the Arab world would know far more about Texas than any sane non-Texan should ever want to know — without understanding anything at all.

If you don't understand, it's dangerous to convince yourself you do.
"I’ve had middle­-aged coworkers ... GChat me pickup lines"

She is also kind of age-biased. Age doesn't matter, all kind of gender/legal-age/race relations are accepted by modern society.
Wish all this iOS app development would result in similar apps for OS X.
That does require that F-22 fighters are fungible with wheat production. It's possible that at the margin wheat productivity will be far less than the average price of wheat -- that is, that you'll have less productivity.

But yes, it's a tremendous expenditure of treasury.
The French and Indian War wasn't the French fighting against the Indians. It was the Americans and British fighting against the French and the Indians.
One of the things I find ironic is how many people in tech, as we as those who leach off tech like the tech press, both hailed this new "sharing" economy as it was framed. Disrupting the old antiquated regulations was good, reducing friction was good, democratization of resources was good. Now suddenly its a surprise that the value of these companies was misplaced. That they arguably bring harm. That in the end they don't care so much about the the resource they are facilitating --all they cared about was making the customer happy. And the customer selfishly will not think that this might have an impact with the potential to bite them back.

Basically let me get mine while the getting is good.
You said yourself that you can believe that sexism is worse in tech than in other professions. That is already a problem worth discussing. Why is it worse? What can we do to correct that discrepancy?

I will go so far as to say your suggestion to "focus on the problem in full generality" -- which is to say, to completely encompass an impossibly complicated issue -- is just a way of trying to pass responsibility and to avoid admitting that there is a problem. Of course, trying to resolve sexism everywhere is admirable. But to use the existence of sexism in other fields as a reason to avoid addressing it in our own is little better than rejecting its existence altogether.

edit for your edit: I think there are specific reasons that sexism is more prevalent in tech, which are not necessarily related to "software people are ignorant". In our culture there appears to be a general bias against women in pretty much all STEM fields, perhaps for historical reasons. I suspect (although this is just my opinion) that this is largely responsible for any greater bias that exists in tech as well. There is a mistaken perception that women are less capable in highly rational pursuits, which affects how women in tech are viewed by their colleagues. I think this is a big reason that women have a hard time in tech.
I fail to see how a bug in a development branch that nobody should be using in production is worth discussing, from a security incident perspective. Perhaps ways of catching that category of bug in an automated way would be an interesting topic.
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As a minor example we might mention the Internet, which basically grew out of projects funded by DARPA. DARPA by the way was originally started up by Eisenhower, who someone mentioned in another comment.
Here you go: http://labs.systemone.at/retrievr/
Thank you for sharing. Love the infographic and 500 is totally badass...Global, diverse, forward thinking. Love the HustleCon concept - "a kick-ass conference focused non-tech startup founders."

Got my link ('cause I'm a hustla baby)
http://prelaunch.hustlecon.com/?ref=37a9a7ecc3
It's a horrible and distracting convention. Made the entire site distracting and I gave up trying to read halfway through, only to find people talking in HN about... the diamonds. :-)
A lot of the things you listed are losing money for MS. Yes, they're neat and from an end user perspective, nice toys, but the reality is that cashflow only come from a handful of sources and MS really is screwing up. I think maybe it just needs to find its footing, but at the end of the day, someone needs to pay the bills. Meanwhile Apple and Google are making money hand over fist in those spaces.
Here's the IRS's basic test for "employee"[1]:

* Behavioral: Does the company control or have the right to control what the worker does and how the worker does his or her job?

* Financial: Are the business aspects of the worker’s job controlled by the payer? (these include things like how worker is paid, whether expenses are reimbursed, who provides tools/supplies, etc.)

* Type of Relationship: Are there written contracts or employee type benefits (i.e. pension plan, insurance, vacation pay, etc.)? Will the relationship continue and is the work performed a key aspect of the business?

Uber drivers are employees under all three tests. Uber tells them where to go and when to go. Uber controls the pricing and payments. Uber has an ongoing relationship with their drivers and it's a key aspect of the business.

Mechanical Turk could argue independent contractor. Anyone can take a Mechanical Turk task when they want, and Amazon doesn't control how they do it. Amazon doesn't set the prices; it's more of a bid system. Whether the relationship is ongoing is a question.

If the US had enforcement of labor law that was anywhere near as strong as traffic or drug laws, Uber would be out of business by now.

[1] http://www.irs.gov/Businesses/Small-Businesses-&-Self-Employ...
Not my domain of expertise; can someone explain why this is problematic?
Except for internal links are indicated by small caps.

I find both of these conventions very irritating. If you want to be edgy with your link styling, I find Wired's use of a thick, light underline (e.g. http://www.wired.com/2015/02/microsoft-third-party-cloud-ser...) to be both pleasant and not confusing.
I do see the issue with it. Perhaps nobody complimenting anyone is the lesser of 2 evils? Or maybe the trick is to keep comments about attire left up to HR. Managers and coworkers should not comment on an outfit, but HR can if a manager or coworker complains to them. Surely not bathing would get you a talking to from HR =)
No, that's not their defence. Their defence is that the customers entered the contract in bad faith.
If you can read the private key from just one of these machines then you can impersonate any of them.
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Only if the firmware is compromised before you install the OS. It adds a significant hurdle to any malware gaining write access to your hard drive's firmware.