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Works great in emacs.
Nazre isn't being criticized for his consensual relationship with Pao. Its for his reaction to her ending it, as well as non consensual harrassment of other employees.
Doing almost anything is easier when not having to raise children. Travel, entertain, work, etc.
The quiet computing revolution built into Apple’s 12-inch MacBook
> If you check the label on the packaged goods you buy, corn is pretty much in all of them in one form or another.

Well yeah: corn grows really well in the American Midwest; it's pretty cool that we're able to make so many products from it (kinda like the work George Washington Carver did with peanuts, which grow very well in the South).
Urban Bee Lab: The Quantified Hive
Thanks! Alex had been studying getting better compression by repacking the tiles based on a scheme I still haven't quite figured out, but we were getting CPU --> PPU bound in what we could do during vblank. The MMC3 solution let us basically dma our way around the problems and push a much larger screen update far more often. The original version ripped through playback so fast that we had to slow it down to get a decent number of frames into the available 32 CHR ROM banks (it's a mapper 4 NES rom).

The homebrew community was a fantastic resource! Shoutouts to nesdev, Shiru, and the countless articles we googled!
I think the point of the trial is to determine if what happened to Pao is "because she's a woman". If there's enough evidence for that claim, then there's a legal basis for recourse.

If we could sweep any exclusionary behavior under the rug of "just office politics", there'd be no need for anti-discrimination laws in the first place.
Thanks!

There have certainly been times where I could absolutely see how a cash infusion could help us grow more rapidly, hop on certain market trends faster, and so on. But the cost of that capital is high.

Who knows. We could always end up going out of business and kicking ourselves for not going an alternate route.

That's owning a business. 10% utter joy, 90% sheer terror. :)
Many States deflect criticisms of for profit lotteries by advertising that some of the proceeds go toward schools and other 'public' goods.

It is well known that lotteries pray upon the poor and uneducated, ironic really.

Instead of monopolizing gambling, or giving sweet-heart deals to those close to the government, or trying to outlaw it completely so we can see tragedies like cops shooting people over playing fantasy sports, the state should get out of the way, maybe provide counseling and treatment, and gasp let people do what they want with their property.

It's always about power, and ensuring most people don't have any.
I think your bias is showing in your choice of words--"white knight" is never used (outside fairy tales) as anything but a pejorative.

And I'm all for taking everyone at their word until it seems suspect for some reason. Why not?

But the broad pattern you see in web chats like these is, a woman says something (e.g. the kind of thing that could make men feel badly, if they realize they've been making people uncomfortable through their actions), and invariably one or more men step in to tell her how she's wrong about it, no, that's not how it went at all....when these men weren't there, have no skin in the game, and these remarks are just more of some "women aren't to be trusted or listened to" general pattern.

Does everyone do it? No, of course not. Does it happen all the time? No, of course not.

Does it happen enough that we now have a pejorative dedicated to men who listen to and believe women's stories first, and are skeptical later? Yes, you used it: white knight.
> I went through my latest "developer challenge" experience. ~4 hours of work rejected because of a single bug.

Consider yourself lucky. Do you really want to work with such people who don't value your time and are so nit-picks?

Whenever, an employer asks me to do a challenge, I ask them how long do they think the challenge will take. I double the given estimate and if it is more than an hour or two, I ask to be paid. Most employer decline and I decline to further pursue. Simply, if they don't value my time now, they are not going to value my time after they hire me definitely. I maintain a list of such companies so that I can avoid them in the future. I also don't use or recommend their products and as a place to work to anyone.
You're not Australian, so you're not naturally immune to the fear of creepy crawly insects.
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Completely aside from the current politically charged discussion, I recently read an interesting paper by Psychologist Marcio Del Giudice which claims that "pink for boys, blue for girls" is a scientific urban legend. He uses the Google Ngram Viewer of historical books and finds that the relevant terms for that theory never appear in the corpus, while the relation that is currently the societal norm appears back into the late 1800s (the beginning of the corpus).[1]

Of course, the article you reference doesn't claim that there was a reversal as many others do, but that the colors were simply not as gendered in the past, which seems almost certainly true.

1: http://bsb-lab.org/site/wp-content/uploads/DelGiudice_2012_r...
In fact, Steve eventually decided that giving recognition to the designers was a bad idea. Nowadays, Apple has abolished programmer names in the "About Box", and closely guards the names of their designers, allowing only a select few employees to interact with the press at all.

I wonder why he decided giving recognition in this way was a bad idea. It's a shame the thousands of people coming up with ideas, building hardware and implementing software at Apple aren't credited anywhere.
Thanks for the answer!

> Keeping someone's salary low because they're bad at asking for raises is not a good long-term strategy, especially in consulting.

Yes, in consulting the distance between money made and each individual employee's efforts seems shorter than in a big tech company. So keeping salaries in line with impact of contributions should be easier.
Oh I noticed my mistake, now corrected.
and I'm Guy, the other guy ;)

Forgive me, it was a Monday morning when we reshot this. I think the final cart was the original PRGROM + MMC3 / 32 CHRROM banks, so it was probably more like 270k total. The video playback I was commenting on entirely fit into the 256K. In my cursory understanding of the MMC3, I think that's the limit that still fits into a normal mapper 4 and will run on device - I know you can up the PRGROM (add PRGRAM), but that would kill our direct cart --> PPU path for the fast playback.

As for the processor, we were definitely pushing the limit with the design we were coding - we had to back off from glitching quite a bit due to busting the number of cycles we had before PPU. I'm sure we could do better with what we know now, or a lot more assembly tuning, but there was the hard limits on being ready by hackday!
Leaving "to spend more time with my family" has become such a cliched euphemism for getting fired were I Mr. Pichette I would have searched high and low for some other title even if it describes his situation perfectly.

Or maybe it's supposed to be irony. Sometimes I miss that.
I mentioned it specifically because the grandparent post emphasized her "non-technical" otherness.
Mate, many of our servos sell straight 91 RON fuel. Check your local Caltex, United or 7-Eleven.

http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/archive/2224794
New ISIS video claims to show child killing Palestinian captive
Mozilla's documentation does a good job explaining prototypal inheritance:

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Inhe...
No argument here; I work in HR myself. But people dread a lot of things that the law requires them to do, like fill out income tax forms or stand in line at the DMV for a drivers license. That's just part of being an adult.
I don't think "advising" is the best description of what happens. The players do not have to select which cards to turn in based on the "advice". That is done for them.
I blame it on the people voting for the Australian governments.
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The successes tend to be quiet. And folks who are happy don't take to the internet to defend their choices.

I've been on two straight projects where Mongo has been fine, no better or worse than an SQL database, but certainly nowhere as bad as one would assume reading all the negativity around here. I have experience with it being stable in two different contexts in production (social games, a very common use case, being one). A search for "social games mongo" should show you some success stories.

The thing that makes it a good choice for me when starting a new project is that you don't really think about it, especially if you're following lean startup methodology where the goal is to get a product into the hands of the users as quickly as possible & you anticipate changes to your models. Mongo is pretty fantastic for this. And when things stabilize, moving data really isn't that bad or expensive if you modeled based on this assumption (which you should). And now that PostgreSQL has a pretty good JSON datatype, it presents a pretty painless path if and when you outgrow Mongo.
Not really recent. They've had that design since Oct. 2013.

https://web.archive.org/web/20131004002539/http://www.ikeaha...
FIRST EVER HANDSHAKE MONTAGE
Frankly I'm only thinking about moving to the US because my girlfriend is American. She has a lot of debt from her studies and she works in education, and education pays a lot mainly in the US. Basically she needs to rip some other students off to pay her debt, it's a pyramid (I hope she doesn't red this).

But I'm not attached to my country, the country I was born in is an accident, they are conservative and short sighted, I don't care leaving (albeit, I don't think the US is really the best place to live).
To expand your quote a little:

Unwelcome sexual advances, requests for sexual favors, and other verbal or physical conduct of a sexual nature constitute sexual harassment when

1) submission to such conduct is made either explicitly or implicitly a term or condition of an individual's employment,

2) submission to or rejection of such conduct by an individual is used as the basis for employment decisions affecting such individuals, or

3) such conduct has the purpose or effect of unreasonably interfering with an individual's work performance or creating an intimidating, hostile, or offensive working environment.

Pao discontinued the relationship, then Nazre started cutting her out of work. It's pretty easy to see a case that submitting to the sexual relationship was implicitly a term of her employment in the same role, or that after the relationship was discontinued her working environment became hostile.
I don't laugh at bootstrapping at all, and have tons of respect for people who can do it all the way. But sometimes some runway is needed. But by all means you should bootstrap as far as you can go that way. The more you de-risk and get traction bootstrapping, the better the terms will be if you do raise... By a huge margin.

I too do not understand some of these things that raise millions on nothing. Don't get it at all. The only thing I can figure is that they have some connections, or there is something funny going on.
They use it to generate leads for products, store it indefinitely, and will ask permission before sharing it.
It's not quite as simple. Oil companies are interested in making money, not in your burning oil. If they could make more money with your burning less oil (eg by raising oil prices high enough without damaging demand too much), they'd go for it.

In this case, the conclusion might still hold. But the proper argument has one more step.
Perhaps the tone-deafness that led to ignoring the original issues also applies to taking a lawsuit seriously.
I wonder of that's actually the origin of the "like a girl" idiom. "Girl" didn't used to be gender-specific, after all.
"Uncorrupted", not "exclusive".
> The question is are they obligated to give the best advice?

I didn't get this from the article.

I understood the issue to be:

1. It is undisputed that the lottery is required to display odds (return $$s per $$s spent).
2. It is undisputed that the lottery displays the theoretical maximum return given optimal play
3. The lottery supports a feature that does not play optimally
4. The issue: Should the lottery be required to display the rate of return given the use of auto-play?
Why is cash flowing to people who can afford lawyers a good thing?
For whatever reason the implication is that "one of them must quit". It's not clear why that is necessary beside (and this is a big one) it being an HR issue, which implies that people cannot operate within proscribed behavior at a workplace --which to me seems goes against people's right to work, but given this implication (where one of the couple must quit) a rational couple would choose for the one with more earning potential to stay and the one with less earning potential to leave. But that also assumes that the one staying would not have greater earning potential elsewhere.
Why sympathize with them? Because you would undoubtedly appreciate me second-guessing decisions you made in complex, nuanced situations to which I was not a party, just as much as they likely appreciate the way you've reduced their dilemma to a ridiculously over-simplified, cut-and-dry model of reality that is no more fair than it is accurate. That's why. Don't excoriate these people based on your assumptions.

Do we currently have the ideal balance between the need to protect our citizens and national interests, and the need to protect the rights of our citizens that our Constitution guarantees? Hell no, we obviously don't have it. Is that something most NSA employees have control over? No. You may be the one who is deluded if you think someone can just raise their hand at the NSA and say, what?, "I think we should re-think how we're doing business, because we might be infringing on the rights of everyday Americans." It's a bureaucracy. To address these issues, we need to be suggesting solutions instead of perpetually yelling at each other like opposing fans at a football game.

I don't want to live in a panopticon anymore than you do. My point is that we don't live in a perfect world, and that none of us are perfect (I hold myself up as a prime example). We need to recognize the difficult situation we've put the people who serve our country through the intelligence community; we've asked them to protect us from our enemies, but we expect them to accomplish their mission without encroaching on our privacy or violating our rights. And WE SHOULD expect them to do both; that's the nature of the job. I'm just pointing out that we should recognize and acknowledge the position this puts them in and stop demonizing them. It's counter-productive at best.

I do not accept that all of the communications of every American must be surveilled and stored in order to accomplish the mission. We need to find the right balance between security and citizens' rights. But that's not something that can be accomplished by software engineers at the NSA, nor even by the head of the NSA. We need to elect political leaders who we trust to work towards finding that balance. And we need to recognize that not only will it be an uphill battle, but a long one: we will always struggle to find the right balance between privacy and security. It's been going on since the Declaration of Independence, and I'd bet my money it'll still be going on at the quinticentennial.
What's the point of these restrictions?

They're not strange/crazy enough to make it a fun programming challenge, and for something that's intended for use (even non-production use) they make the code less usable.

"No namespaces" and "no new functions or classes" in particular don't make any sense. Anonymous functions are just like functions, except they're harder to identify in a stack trace.
Video games <> gambling machines.
Starting a startup is hard and requires sacrifice no matter who you are.
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Then get involved.

It's easy to sit back and act like government's all corrupt, hur hur, but guess what--you can talk to your elected officials and try and shape government more to how you think it should work.

If your elected officials don't give you access to them, work to put in office, some who do.
Well thanks for the conversation. I think we're pretty close done at this point though. Sad that we haven't resolved much of the disagreement.

I don't think the current system is comparable to slavery. Slaves in the US really had next to zero power. They were not part of the same society. The oppressed groups today do have some power. You could say we're halfway to fixing the problem. It's terrible but it's less terrible.

I just think you're wrong to view it in black and white terms. There are people in privileged groups that have been treated terribly anyway. There are people in oppressed groups with massive power. There are (not common enough) privileged people that work extremely hard to make things more fair. There are (rare) oppressed people that work extremely hard to perpetuate oppression. There are certain groups of men that have far less privilege than certain groups of women, because of other factors like race and orientation.

>You cannot morally obligate the oppressed to fix the system that oppresses them.

I obligate anyone that perpetuates oppression.

Straight white men have the most obligation to fix things, but if they all ceased to exist one day there wouldn't be a single type of oppression fixed. Sexism, racism, everything else would still be there.
Extracting Keywords from Text, Inspired by Quantum Mechanics
Wasn't clear from the description or FAQ how the solutions will run. Are solutions suppose to run on top of App Engine or something?
Has Advertising Stopped Advancing?
How does calling people 'brogrammers' in a derogatory sense make us any different than the supposed 'cool kids' that rejected us? Shouldn't we strive to be better than that?

(not saying that you are using the term 'brogrammer' like that, just posing a more general question).
Lindsey Graham Isn’t Alone: 9 Percent of Americans Have Never Sent an Email
The Oregon commission is clearly in the wrong but I'm not sure determining the losses is very straightforward. I'm guessing the lower payouts mostly result in more time spent at the machines with nearly the same losses.
Respectfully disagree. There are other places to seek refuge, even if it has to be done on the down low and within the same industry.

Also, great article.
Configuring Spacemacs
The fact that they're successful is selection bias. Of course the examples he give will be successful, because otherwise they would be obscure and readers wouldn't no what he was talking about.

But while he argues that focusing on data is probably not the most effective way of running a startup, the main point of the article is stated in the title: that even if a data-driven startup is successful, it'll have no character.

Obviously not every startup needs character, so take from that what you will.
Ethanol is "environment friendly" when compared to gasoline, the latter having no good environmental aspects making it a bit of a low standard to beat.

The fact that rain forests are destroyed for corn plantations is probably independent of ethanol consumption, the ethanol driven investment mostly just increasing the existing rate at which deforestation happens. Corn is not only used for ethanol after all.
Humans have weaknesses that can be abused. This is clearly the case in gambling. The government must protect in some areas. For example with financial advice, there are countless cases of people giving inappropriate financial advice to the elderly, even getting them to sign away their property while dying in hospitals. Sure it easy to say 'and gasp let people do what they want with their property'. But what about this scenario? Would you be OK if that was your relatives being manipulated on their deathbed to give money to a previous stranger cause it is what they want to do with their property at that moment in their life. Or, back to gambling, is it fair on the children of the father/mother who gamble away their pay check each month leaving the family destitute?

Above is more extreme but real examples to clarify a point. In my mind saying people can do what they want with their property is overly simplistic and assumes a more perfect world than the reality.
Nice to get a glimpse at their work environment.

Ableton, please fix your piano roll (make it like FL Studio's)! I've emailed you guys before, and even made a Youtube video showing why I hate it.

I love Ableton Live, but I really hope the open source community for music software matures to a point where it's comparable with Ableton.
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> Well it would be condescending to those of us who know the history of the two at KPCB to point out the obvious.

Just going out on a limb, but it sounds like you might be trying to say: I know this to be objectively true, but there is no way for me to prove it to you.

That is a common situation that we as humans don't seem to have a name for, but probably should.

(FYI, I did not downvote... in fact I upvoted your comment.)
> Well, although these things are somewhat true obviously Java didn't start out that way. It started out looking more like Go. The JVM got this way because it is so heavily used for so many things. To paraphrase jwz, the JVM is big because your needs are big.

I did say that JVM is the way it is due to its wide spared use and that GO team is setting expectations of GC overhead. There are too many java programmers without any thought of GC.

> That statement lacks too much context to mean anything. Most JVM GC pauses are young gen only and those take virtually no time at all, 10ms would be very high for such a collection. Other pauses can be just a few milliseconds as long as you don't actually run out of memory (this will force a full stop the world collection), but it tends to depend on how much free RAM you have and the sizes of the heaps, etc.
> State of the art collectors like Azul's and Shenandoah aim to collect heaps that are hundreds of gigabytes with pause times in the few milliseconds or less range.

I was expecting that anyone who knows generational GC already knows how fast most young gen GC pauses are. When you talk about pause time goals you talk about worst case times which is old gen GC. And for a big and complex heap getting to 10ms pause time is not at all easy in my limited experience. CMS and lots of memory helps but it is still no way trivial.

Azul's is completely different and Shenandoah has big expectations and some nice design but only time will tell if the theories works well in practice (I do hope so).

You commented on G1 in another place and while I was highly anticipating G1 in my own latency sensitive server G1 performed much worse than CMS. I didn't try to tune it much but the point remains its not as easy as just use G1, set the pause time goals and you are done.

All GC (in JVM world at least) seem to start with good theories than you find it doesn't work for all kinds of realistic usage pattern and adjust. G1 had to change a lot of their assumptions once it met the real world (from the JavaOne talks of Oracle people).

> I don't know why Go would be more allocation friendly than Java, but I'm not a Go expert. What features are you thinking of?

I'm purely a Java guy but I think someone already gave some answer.