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Gmail is awful regarding false positives. People discount it because: a) it's a free service; b) false negatives are more frequent and thus more annoying.

What is difficult in spam classification is having no false negatives and no false positives. Any decent CS graduate can create a spam classification system with no false negatives given the leeway to introduce false positives. That's what Gmail did.
Personally speaking I downvoted your comment because I often downvote things that smack of conspiracy thinking - never ascribe to malice that which can be explained by stupidity.

Another issue I have with your argument - I don't believe Gmail has the market share to make such a fiendish strategy viable.
Parent is wrong though. Nobody is granting anybody power.

Hank's employer had the power to shrug off the episode and keep employing him. Instead, they ceded their power to a minority/controversial view.

Adria's employer, on the other hand, was actually being attacked over the situation. Maybe they could have withstood it, maybe they bucked early. Still, it's not like anyone granted 4chan users power - they already had it and decided to use it against SendGrid.
I'm glad the "rigorous testing process" was mentioned. The facade of "we only hire superninja-kickass-hyperexperts and we will verify that you are such a programmer before we hire you" attracts a certain type of person, and intimidates another. And it may be that it intimidates more women than men.

But the article seems to glide past that and presents the idea that five years of experience might change someone's willingness to apply. And it probably will help, but that amount of experience is unlikely to change someone's basic perception of their ability to succeed in a high-stakes one-chance prove-yourself situation.
How much extra food does it take? It's not that strenuous to use a bike, just takes time. Also, if the compost is used to grow food, it doesn't take much oil to feed the biker!
Does anyone know if this captures loopback traffic? Wireshark wont do that out of the box, you need a separate utility.
Classical Chinese.
The "collector's edition" (DVD, not sure about BluRay) includes a really wonderful 83-minute documentary, "The Thing: Terror Takes Shape", about the making of the film, along with several other great extras, including a clip of the original ending. Highly recommended. Seems the whole film is on YouTube [1].

Also highly recommended is the site by one of the producers, Stuart Cohen [2]. It's a treasure trove of behind-the-scenes info, photos, rambling gossip and old-fashioned war stories from the set.

[1] https://youtube.com/watch?v=B48Yp00LitE

[2] http://theoriginalfan.blogspot.com
>so more false positives, but less spam in the inbox

This is a pretty strong understatement. The spam filter in gmail is incredibly aggressive. My secondary email is a gmail account and anytime I have a registration email from a service or anything with a couple URLs in it, it goes straight to spam. Meanwhile, the product we use at work is tons smarter, but gives the occasional spam into the inbox.

I guess someone at google decided that people seem happier when there's no spam in their inbox. People seem to drop 20 IQ points when they see spam. They either instantly rage about it or send the email to the helpdesk demanding an explanation on how someone dared email them something they weren't interested in. Its a bizarre behavior. Yet, when they're forced to fish through a spam folder or an anti-spam web interface, they seem to mind that less. Which is bizarre as its tons more work.

I think the guys at gmail realized this and just erred on the side of caution by giving people as much as a clean inbox as they can handle. Even if they don't like it, who are they going to complain to? Google? Who at google gives two shits and even if someone did, how could your reach them, and if you did who has the power to change policy? Meanwhile if you run mail servers, you get complaints about how your email goes into spam, even when you have all your DNS ducks in a row and have a good reputation. When you tell gmail users to talk to google about it, they scoff and tell you to piss off.
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Your reply seems to have gotten some downvotes (probably from people who can't take everything seriously enough), so I'm making a point of giving you the one upvote I have. I did something to deserve this reply so you shouldn't be punished for it.
This was not the point i was making.

Btw I hate to destroy your little made up world where all your stereotypes and what you think are a reality, but I don't live in the U.S., my company has under 10 employees and is self founded...

P.S.: Ofc there are a myriad of definitions of 'working class', but personally I believe 'middle class' is just an invention to make people who earn slightly more while being used for their surplus feel slightly better. And it's working pretty well.
I don't like the loss of privacy with phone payments, but otherwise, it might be a good option to have available. With credit cards, I never give out any personal information, such as my phone number or zip code. With a phone, you don't really know what is leaking out, at least I don't. That being said, I would probably use it in a bind.

I like cash when possible. Convenience (other than making sure you have it with you) and privacy are great. Security is a concern, but with most people carrying credit cards it's gotten better. Everyone assumes that no one carries a lot of cash any more, so thieves are less likely to be aware that you are a lucrative target if you look prosperous. If you lose it, you have to physically track it down to get it back, so that's a bad part. I don't like to lose things, so I've never lost any significant amount of cash yet.
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Common Core doesn't really have much to do with the glut of standardized testing. Common Core is more about setting a guideline for lesson planning, allowing teachers across the country to share lessons and techniques to teach. It was developed by teachers for teachers.

Standardized testing is a completely different problem. There's this strange desire at the state and district level to boil everything down to a single metric that says "this kid was taught something" without looking at any of the data that can be provided by their day-to-day instructor.
I agree that lack of gender diversity in tech is an obvious problem, and I laud Fog Creek for trying to address this problem.

However, I'd like to strongly emphasis the fact that one of the main problems Fog Creek identified as hindering the most talented female developers from applying to Fog Creek, is also a huge problem that prevents many of the most talented male developers from applying to Fog Creek. Ironically, these companies, with their legendarily difficult and arduous application processes, are selecting for mediocre developers:

1) We all know that the Dunning-Kruger effect is real: there's an abundance of quantified and repeatable psychological research that demonstrates that the least skilled individuals are on average the most likely to estimate their skill to be above average. Likewise, the most skilled individuals are the most cautious in estimating their skill level.

So who applies for more of these types of jobs? Well, based on what I've heard, Google, Fog Creek, and many other top employers receive a huge number of grossly unqualified applicants. And while I'm sure they'd like to think they're getting the majority of their desired candidate pool to apply, research on Dunning-Kruger, as well as anecdotes like the one on the article, all suggest that's probably not the case.

This isn't the first time I've read about a top employer asking a highly-desired employee why they'd never applied in the past, and receiving as an answer, "oh, I didn't think I'd make it through your interview process". (btw, I love watching these kinds of interactions)

2) The most qualified developers can make a nice consultant salary without ever having to go through the headache of a demeaning 5-day interview process that often treats developers like disposable commodities. Why would you want to subject yourself to that kind of process if you're making $100,000-200,000 a year as a contract software dev (which is the range my colleagues working contract tend to make, depending on their hours and expertise)? So whenever I get an email from employers like Facebook, I say thanks but no thanks.

This is not to say that these employers never get highly-skilled employees. That's obviously not the case. But they get a very specific type of highly-skilled applicant: from top CS departments, coming right out of college. They're much less likely to get a highly-skilled dev to apply who has taken an alternate route to the top of his or her profession.

So what happens on average? "Top" employers like Google, Facebook, and smaller "desirable" employers like Fog Creek, effectively scare off a large number of the devs they want the most, both male and female. And they simultaneously attract a large number of unqualified applicants.

Yet again I ask: maybe the software developer interview process is completely broken? Are employers in enough pain yet that they're willing to revisit their hiring process? Or does it need to get worse?
I'm not. Dismayed, but not surprised.
Personally, I condemn anyone who is a vocal activist in the "gender debate" in tech who does not speak up on topics such as this. If you are female and want to genuinely be treated as an equal in tech, you don't freak out over minor jokes, and when "one of your own" does, I believe you are obligated to voice your disagreement with the behavior, assuming you even think it is wrong, which might be an incorrect assumption. If you don't think it's wrong, I never want to work with someone like you. And if this mentality is at all common (I have no idea), purely from a risk management perspective, I would only hire females when they are massively more qualified than any male counterparts.

I don't like feeling like this, but with what little I know of the public female sentiment on these types of issues, fear and avoidance is the wisest stance.

Hopefully situations like this are vast statistical anomalies.
Where can you hang out to find out about all the cool Windows stuff?
I've been using Windows forever. Oftentimes you feel like certain things are so so much harder than on a UNIXy system and then BAM it's actually simple but nobody seems to talk about it.
Seems like Windows has a big discoverability problem with dev/admin tools.
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Thanks! Yes, it was a funny experience and let us know more about our potential customers.
I said it could be an accident in the original post.

And try doing business with small businesses and then tell me what market share you perceive GMail as having.
Such abuses do not foster equality, they validate discrimination. When you make a lot of people afraid of your group, they won't suddenly start being nice to you. They will start to hate you.

It was visible in case of the wave of antisemitism in Europe. People weren't hating Jews because the Jews went around demanding equality and talking about "misoabrachamism". They were hating Jews because overarching narrative was that they're the cause of evil, they're out there to get you economically, to take over the world, etc. etd. Being afrad breeds hate.
That was marvelous. Makes me want to try learning Haskell again.
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Someone once posted on the film's IMDb forum a blog post by one of the movie producers. Lovely and juicy behind the scenes details.

http://theoriginalfan.blogspot.com/
By all means, if New Zealand is worried about Fiji military coups, then it's the duty of New Zealand's intelligence service to monitor the Fiji military.

The problem isn't that some nation is spying on some other nation, it's a problem of scale and scope. Fearing a military coup does not warrant "intercepting and storing content and metadata of all communications" happening on that island.
Ah, good catch, I didn't see the Firefly until you pointed it out.
Which is presumably part of the reason why the person who started this expressed surprised at the lack of a governor to limit the top speed rather than surprise at the lack of restrictions on total engine power.
She claimed at the time that she tweeted to defend women in tech (which is a perfectly fine cause to defend).
No, you would have to make everybody else stop using it.
It doesn't have to be a very fishy macro at all to be problematic. How about

#define Sum(a,b) a+b

This of course fails in any context where the precedence of '+' doesn't match your intent e.g. Sum(1,5)7 becomes 1+57

Do you remember to always define your expression macros with parentheses? Any time you didn't do that, you have a bug.
Very poor article. I think I understand what the author was going for, but I expected much better from The Paris Review.

Fans looking for more behind the scenes stuff about the movie should check out "The Thing: Terror Takes Shape", about the making of the film, with much of the cast and principal crew included. The whole film is on YouTube [1], and also on several releases of the movie.

Also highly recommended is the site by one of the producers, Stuart Cohen [2]. It's a treasure trove of behind-the-scenes info, photos, rambling gossip and old-fashioned war stories from the set.

[1] https://youtube.com/watch?v=B48Yp00LitE

[2] http://theoriginalfan.blogspot.com
The bar isn't responsible.

They don't need to make sure that people don't get drunk.
They don't need to supervise people and ask them where they live and how the intend to get home.

There's zero responsibility from my pov. If he wrecked havoc in the bar, attacked people or whatnot, then they have a reason to throw him out. They can always refuse to serve him the xth drink, but that's not responsible, that's mostly "making sure that people don't vomit all over the place".

The single responsibility for drunk drivers lies with the drunk driver. Not the bar, the system, society in general or whatever. Cars are not the problem either. It was one person's act.

(Too harsh? I lost my license for the better part of a year about a decade ago - for crashing my car on the Autobahn returning drunk from a party. Cannot recommend that, it was a highly expensive - in monetary terms, at that time - but luckily otherwise harmless, mightily effective lesson. So when I say that this person was an idiot I state that from the position of having been that sort of idiot in the past)
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Animations on the site work very slow on my office PC. Maybe velocity.js will help :)
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I am glad to hear that I am not the only one who doesn't think "happy hour with your coworkers every week" and "we all vacation together" is a perk.
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>We have found that a significant number of users will just quit the app if presented with a "sign up or login" with Facebook screen at the beginning of the flow.

thats me 90% of the time.
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Did you just seriously compare being a Lisper to being a minority?

So, if I try to understand your choice of comparisons, do you live with oppression because you're a Lisper?
Go's error handling is honestly the best I've ever used. No errors go unhandled. Period. get an error? Return it or deal with it. Makes much more sense than exceptions suddenly breaking the behaviour of the language.
Cynical but perhaps right.

All the sales shit I see is about conversion rate. If its only a tiny step away from accidental to make a purchase then your effort to make that sale is low. Also if the value is low, impulse purchases are likely. Small purchases have little concentration on totality so you end up making lots of simple purchases effortlessly.

Result: Profit.

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Maxis has been owned by EA for 17 or 18 years no? As part of the ownership by the public company EA, the studio was able to release and have sequels for one of the best selling games of all time. Further, said game was distinctive in its business model in comparison to other games released at the time (it being very much about after day one profits). That is, at least on the surface, evidence that being owned by EA does not preclude long term stewardship of a game/studio.

As far as the stockholders go, I can assure you that A) stock holders have no ability to influence the release schedule of a video game or B) care how profits are generated, only that they are. There is at least a passing argument that the massively successful franchise of the studio would not have been possible without those stockholders, and the studio certainly did not turn down the money when they were acquired.

Whether EA mismanaged Maxis specifically or their management is in general too fixated on short term profits is not the issue. "Wall Street", whatever that is, does not demand that and would more happily not be involved in those decisions. So is it possible that EA is mismanaging their studios in a misguided attempt to cook their books? Maybe, but if so that has been true for Maxis for going on 2 decades, 1 of which was hugely successful.

You can blame "Wall Street" all you want, but it seems a simpler explanation that in a blockbuster driven market, Maxis failed to deliver blockbusters. This isn't surprising in the least given most software projects fail and even more so with games. I find it surprising that Maxis lasted as long as it did quite frankly. An independent studio would probably not have survived Spore, and I think Maxis did largely because they were backed by "Wall Street".
I've been coding Go professionally now for about 8 months. Interestingly, it has made me appreciate C++. The reason is while the Go compiler is fast, it is mostly because it doesn't do very much work. By contrast, a C++ program takes a long time to compile because the compiler does a lot. It's obviously not as black/white as I've portrayed it here for brevity, but it is nevertheless an apparent trade off.

I like Go overall, but on balance I would prefer a slower compile-test cycle to have more language feature support.
Since it's an island, a trap/neuter/release program could be fantastically successful.
I didn't know that phone payments reduces fraud risk. That's a very good benefit. Do you know how it works for charge-backs?

To point #2, if you're absent-minded, don't you ever leave home without your phone? I hate those days. Worse than a bad hair day, IMHO.

I like the idea of fewer fees for merchants. Being a merchant myself, I think those fees are out of line with the service being rendered. Since cc payments are kind of a monopoly, it's nice to see some competition.

I think I'll have to set up an account and try it out.
> To her it's not 800+ people, it's 800+ men where you are one of the few women. That's not something I can say I've ever experienced. Personally I can't see how the joke is threatening, but I can't dismiss her feelings over this just because I find it tough — or even impossible — to imagine.

I think there's a reality here outside of anyone's feelings, which is that the jokes mentioned in the article are neither sexist nor threatening. If she feels attacked or threatened, well, that's her problem.

To be clear, I do believe there is plenty of sexism in the software industry. If there's a joke that we don't know about that Hank made which was actually sexist, then I'm happy he got fired, and I don't think Adria was overreacting. But if the jokes in the article are the full story, then she wasn't even overreacting--she was reacting to something which she shouldn't have reacted to at all. The jokes aren't sexist.

> You claim it's histrionics, but it might be real things she is feeling. What if she really felt this way? Shouldn't we try to understand Adria as well as we understand Hank? By dismissing her so easily we make our field more exclusive. We say, "I can't imagine that so you mustn't have experienced it. It's not a problem because I can't see it."

She probably does feel that way. I have no reason to doubt that she feels the way she says she feels. But just because someone feels threatened doesn't mean their feelings are right. Certainly there are people who would be threatened by a black woman at a conference: and those people can go fuck themselves. It takes more than someone feeling threatened to justify firing someone. I'd have to see some joke that they made which was actually sexist or threatening.
She would have seen that he was in the phone, but she wouldn't have known what to do with that information. In any case, he had her call George because he knew what to do in that situation. I think her remembering George was just fortuitous.
One of the giveaways of her character was when she wanted the HN post about him losing his job removed.

What is the reason for that. Seems just like such an irrational move.

Except it isn't.

It isn't because she recognized Hank was using (perhaps inadvertently) her tactics. In her eyes he was telling the world he was a victim. There is nothing more frustrating than having her own methods turning against her.

If anything, that cuts directly to her motivation and is a window into her character.
This is the correct answer if you live in the US. Tokenization is massively more secure than stripe and signature. As long as the phone isn't notably less convenient than your card, you should want this.
How can you consider Python as Harry Potter? Maybe because they are both slow as hell in actually doing stuff.
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As a guy who attended an AdaCamp, which was a women-only main event with a small side event for guys, I say this is horseshit.

For the first time in my life, I was the visible minority at a tech event. And it was fucking intimidating. Even though everybody was perfectly nice and tried to be inclusive, I felt the odd person out.

But despite my personal discomfort, I could see how amazing this event was for the women involved. Suddenly they were in the majority. They felt safe: nobody was going to hit on them, stalk them, or stare awkwardly at their breasts. They were no longer women in tech, they were people in tech talking with other people in tech. From the Ada Initiative's reports and from talking with attendees later, it's clear the events make a huge difference.

After that experience, I am a huge supporter of events that are exclusively for minority groups. I think it's a great way to increase diversity in tech.

Oh, and as to your analogy to Jim Crow: you're trying to frame yourself as a virtuous anti-racist. But by trying to prevent minorities from meeting and organizing, you are replicating the behavior of the white people who helped build and maintain the Jim Crow regime. E.g., the slave patrols, a main job of which was keep blacks from revolting by breaking up meetings.
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Agreed, this article is fantastic and so are interpol_p's comments.
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