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This is so not true. Suits are heavily discriminated against in our industry. If you wear a suit to a conference you probably won't get much attention.

EDIT: I must go to the wrong programming conferences, never see suits. Wish the down voters would just share their experiences!
Our species would get killed if we had any empathy for anyone who doesn't fit into the top 1%? Your comment certainly conforms to the attitude projectileboy was lamenting...
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I didn't know they had a fixed header. pats NoScript on the head.
"If anyone asks, you're my debugger." ;-)
Which Cloud Technology/Service?
I am a long time desktop developer who is struggling a little to choose a cloud technology.

What I need to do: Periodically spin up a number of machines to run a task that runs until completion. The number of machines and length of task both vary, but 20-100 machines and a run time of 2-30 minutes are good estimates. So I might need a 5 minute task on 60 machines and then 10 minutes later I'll need a 15 minute task on 40 machines, for example.

I've tried researching this but I don't have the background to understand a lot of the websites I've been reading.

It seems like AWS could do this but when I start reading there's "containers" and "event driven compute" and "auto scaling" and "elastic beanstalk" and "lambda". Lambda actually sounds like what I want, but after about two hours or reading it turns out lambda is limited to 60 seconds of run time.

Can someone get me started by pointing me at a cloud technology that would be appropriate for my service?

Thanks.
I tried its true
I've been in the tech industry, and worked with both women and men for 10 years.

I have never encountered toxicity in this industry.

The only place I encounter true toxicity is on forums, message boards and comments, and in these mediums the toxicity not at all limited to the technology industry.

It's also worth noting that the toxicity, even in these mediums, is limited to a tiny (but vocal) minority, in ratios of which correspond to the larger population's percentage of mentally disturbed individuals.
Its true I tried
This line of thinking bothers me.

A while back, I saw mention of someone making (or considering making) a phone app that could take a picture of some product in a store and tell you if the manufacturer was associated for or against your political party. That's horrifying.

We should not make it easy to ostracize anyone you have a difference of opinion with. Boycotts and similar applications of force should not be impulse decisions. Bifurcating society along ideological lines is not conducive to everyone getting along. Stifling unpopular opinions is not good for political discourse.
Richard Hamming discusses clothing, presentation, and the cost of not conforming to expectations in You and Your Research.[1]. It's not exactly analogous to what's described in the article, but related:

John Tukey almost always dressed very casually. He would go into an important office and it would take a long time before the other fellow realized that this is a first-class man and he had better listen.For a long time John has had to overcome this kind of hostility. It's wasted effort!

There are several paragraphs in that section, all worth reading (as is the entire essay).

[1] http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~robins/YouAndYourResearch.html
As a graduate student in astronomy at UCSC (home of the headquarters of UC observatories) this has been really great news. After years of budget cuts there was a very real possibility of Lick closing permanently, aborting several of my fellow student's PhD projects. Hopefully with continued support of private donors and the University, Lick will be available for many years to come for experimentation, technology development, and surveys that do not require 10 or 30 meter class telescopes.
I don't really care if big companies buy up smaller breweries - helps increase distribution and rewards those small brewers who produce a quality product. What I can't stand though is when they promptly start adulterating the recipe - I'm looking at you Miller/Leinenkugels! Before you know it, what used to be a good beer is now nothing but corn and rice filler just like the dull flavorless mega beers. And, you can't move a brewery to the other side of the country in the name of corporate consolidation and pretend you are still brewing the same beer - Olympia wasn't kidding when they said "It's in the water!" and Milwaukee ain't the same as Tumwater!
It would be inaccessible to most. But the stories about the man can be enjoyed by everyone.
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I'll be candid with you: You're probably right. I would also welcome a debugger in the long run, and I'm sure I'd change my tune pretty quickly if I hit a big snag in production. :-)
>For one, the absolute leading researchers are at the top universities, and there is a big gap between these people and merely very good researchers.

I have noticed the opposite effect. Typically the best researchers are the worst instructors, prepare the least for their courses and couldn't care less about their teaching quality. Those that are both solid instructors and researchers are exceptionally rare.

While leading researchers may have a better grasp of their specialized field this is often not applicable in graduate courses. The exception being when those professors develop an entire course around their research and (often) force many of their research students into that course.
Well, as of this morning (after updating to v2.6) all I am able to do with my one other TS contact is send unsecured SMS. No encrypted SMS nor encrypted push. Frustrating to say the least!

I have been struggling for over a year now to get this one contact and I to have a smooth & reliable secure channel. Sometimes it works great and others times it just doesn't exist. And I usually have to jump through all kinds of hoops to get it to work again. Which makes it nearly impossible for me to recommend TS to others who are a little less technical than my one TS contact and myself.

I really want this to work smoothly, Moxie, I really do! If it does, then I can recommend it to everyone.

edit: spelling

edit2: Moxie has quickly replied to my issue on github and will be pushing v2.6.1 soon.
The key takeaway is, as soon as she dressed as a member of "the tribe" everything was fine. So that tells me it's something other than a gender issue.
Well that is worth a try...
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. I'm not even sure whether that part of history is recorded.
Is there any reason in particular this browser from a few years ago is on the front page? Given the number of upvotes, I assume there's some context behind this.
I concluded that in that line, the author was referring to the statistics she had previously discussed. But I have to admit that it's ambiguous.
There is no tax credit if there is no tax in the country you are in.
I heard from my postdoc friends at Stanford a couple of years ago about the pay levels. It could have changed now but I doubt it. Do postdocs at Stanford still pay tuitions? My experience is that UCSF > UC Berkeley > Stanford as far as postdocs' compensation is concerned.
> "..a quarter of all universities account for 71 to 86 percent of all tenure-track faculty.."

I find it funny when people are continually "surprised" by the appearance of the Pareto Principle.

It is everywhere (everywhere!), and that is why you should never stop fighting to become the top 10% of anything you do (that you care about).
Then the writer should give explanations to make it more accessible.
That's an issue for academia in general. One gets the sense that during the boom times, the universities stopped caring about the job prospects of their graduates since they figured the degree would give them an advantage one way or another.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9153786
VR certainly has applications for cheap therapy.
I'm saying that it's impossible to fix. If you're a short white guy, people will always initially assume that you're not a pro basketball player.

Again, as long as you're not overly zealous about your assumptions and willing to accept when they're wrong, it's not discrimination or "systematic oppression". Feminists try to turn this into a gender war, but it's really not. It's the circumstance of any minority in any heavily majority-dominated field.
How do you avoid too many allocations to happen in Java? The GC is certainly slower with more allocated elements but I seldom see any code example in Java which doesn't behave like the allocations don't cost anything. More than that, it seems that the whole language is based on that premise? As I consider the info you already provided a good argument for Java, I hope you can provide some good links.
They do that because their "better" colleagues from the top tier also get the jobs at the top tier. Note that "better" likely includes a healthy dose of luck.
> And the Constitution only mentions these to prevent member-states from partaking in these actions of their own accord.

No, the Constitution mentions them to assign what agents of the government have the power to do them, and the conditions on the exercise and the interrelations between those powers and other powers.

Note that, pieces of the powers related to war, peace, and foreign relations are assigned to different entities in the Constitution (some to the Congress, some to the President, and some to the Judiciary.)
Assume the mind of a potential new Blue Moon consumer in 1995. You pick up the bottle and notice it says "From the makers of Coors Light." Do you: A) think to yourself "This probably tastes like water" and put it down, or B) drink it without an ounce of bias?
Less formal than a ballgown sure, but definitely more formal than jeans.
I'm sure the people who would frequently use VR for their personal pleasure are doing so because they prefer VR instead of the practical reality that it has been really hard to find someone IRL.

I feel like Louis CK does a great job of covering this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqITqRWhpxg
> Realistically, there's nothing that will ever prevent people from making assumptions until the tiny minority stops being such a minority.

These kinds of assumptions create an environment in the field that can make it uncomfortable for these "tiny minorities" to enter and become less of a minority. It serves to perpetuate the imbalance. You are 100% correct that it is natural human behavior to make these kinds of assumptions, but that's why we must try to make a conscious effort not to do so if we want to try to balance the demographics.
What about nerds with fat bank accounts having VR intermediated sex with random "women" on websites? The women would be able to have their clients look like whatever they wanted. They could probably have their partners smell like whatever they wanted.
I guess you have never read a Medium article?
Yes, of course, so do all SDRs which is why they don't come with high power frontends. GPS Signal generators are sold as test equipment, and design for wired connection over coax as you say. Using them with a high powered frontend would be illegal.

The transmitters I'm talking about are designed for the mobile phone industry. This is an example:

http://www.meguro.co.jp/english/product/category/category_01...

My guess is they're pretty expensive new, but I've seen them locally for about 50USD.
That's possible, but when we know that many people who are MIT Professor Good could not get into MIT for undergrad[1], it still requires us to believe MIT's admissions and graduation criteria for PhD students are very loose compared to all their other observed standards.

[1] -- http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=2003
No, if your computer is offline, we keep data for 6 months, this is primarily for externals that are plugged in and out.
Nah, I've noticed it in men. The stereotype is this like, laid back hipster douche. It's even more noticeable and annoying when coming from men!
No, it's not a very good point. These dudes are paranoid, they don't carry smartphones.
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That really depends on the dress. Dresses can range anywhere from the peak of formality (equivalent to white tie attire for men) to somewhere in the neighborhood to nearly the level of informality as athletic or sleepwear, and anywhere in between.
Very interesting, thanks for sharing! It made me think about how we could improve our process.

Couple questions for you. How do you go about choosing which metrics go into a grade when designing the work sample test? Should the process of grading it be completely automated, so as to eliminate bias? What's the ideal length of time for a work sample test, in your experience?
I think this article says more about the mind of a quick-to-judge consumer than the corporations that brew and sell the beer.
Or Dickbutt...
>New York Times, 2032: waifu's rights organization want new laws regarding piracy of their members
DEC got it's official start making their own versions of these (well, from the TX-2 computer a couple of the founders worked on as graduate students): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Equipment_Corporation#...

So many computer companies had gone bust by then that, per their own observations and the advice of the legendary Georges Doriot, "the father of venture capitalism", they changed their business plan to doing that first, and if they got enough business, to then do a computer with them. Hence the names "Digital Equipment Corporation" and "Programmed Data Processor", no "computers" here. Or indeed no mainframes or 1401 class machines.

Heh, per the Wikipedia article, they sold a lot of these to other computer companies who used them to test their own stuff. I suppose it doesn't necessarily hurt to sell shovels while you do your own gold mining.

And, yeah, I remember these IBM modules. I obtained an decimal addressed (units 0-9) very fast, like 124 inches per second 7 track IBM tape drive for a computer center. It was filled with these boring, beige cards, DEC's looked much better ^_^.

Hmmm, and the PDP-6 was a ... less than stellar success because it's CPU wasn't made with these in the old fashioned way and was very hard to maintain (see this PC board: http://ljkrakauer.com/LJK/essays/pdp6plaque.jpg). Something they corrected with the first PDP-10, the KA-10, which used diode-transistor logic and huge wire wrapped backplanes.
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If you're transmitting your own GPS signal in an Urban area someone is going to notice pretty quickly and angry pretty fast. You will interfere with both law enforcement and emergency services, and likely cause a bunch of trouble.

Thinking about how much trouble you could cause, I'm actually surprised that GPS transmissions aren't signed. I guess if you were implementing it today, that would be a logical feature to add....

After a little googling, it looks like the DoD did think of it, it's just not for the like of us:

"The Precision (P) code, sometimes called the Precise Positioning Service (PPS), is modulated onto the L1 and L2 carriers allowing for the removal of the first order effects of the ionosphere. The P code is referred to as the Y code if encrypted. Y code is actually the combination of the P code and a W encryption code and requires a DoD authorized receiver to use it. Originally the encryption was intended as a means to safe-guard the signal from being corrupted by interference, jamming, or falsified signals with the GPS signature. Because of the intent to protect against "spoofing," the encryption is referred to as "Anti-spoofing" (A-S). A-S is either "on" or it's "off;" there is no variable effect of A-S as there is with SA."

http://www.csr.utexas.edu/texas_pwv/midterm/gabor/gps.html
The butterfly effect of education pack promotion abuse?
How many articles like this do we have to have before we collectively learn to ignore $X is killing open source?
Hopefully you would use it anywhere you needed a db driven website... Let me know if you have any questions about it.
I remember the uproar about a guy was on the team that landed a spacecraft on a comet, but who then came out of his den with tattoos and a t-shirt that seemed to depict women clothed in lingerie engaging in BDSM. The accomplishments were brushed aside as the guy was reduced to a tearful apology.

I think both sexes should be able to wear whatever they would wear in real life. Depending on the job of course. But when programming, that seems reasonable. I would probably prefer a woman who presents as feminine, as a developer. Maybe that is because I am comfortable with traditional gender dress and think it looks better. But maybe it's because I think the nerdy dress is actually downplaying the feminine qualities in order to fit in with men. Either way, it seems anything you say on the issue can always be spun as sexist, because your preferences can be explained by a lifetime if conditioning.

Unmarried women out-earn men now, but the situation switches when they have children. Is this bad or good? That would imply a goal. For my part I don't understand why or when the goal became for "all women" to start knocking themselves out for 10 hours a day at a corporation and be paid more than their husbands who would share child rearing duties just so women could move up a corporate ladder. Since when is this forcefed as "success" to women? I think, if anything, the agenda itself is sexist. If some women want to do it, they can - there are plenty of opportunities for women who want to work long hours and engage in corporate culture. But in this economy, I think it's actually an exploitative myth being sold to men and women alike, and I don't think many women actually want to maximize their "success" in this dimension, once they consider the trade offs.
"quite possible, nee probable, that"

vs

"...quite possible, nay, probable, that"

I always thought it was the latter. Are these the same? i don't think so, but i'm not great with language rules.
Stanford has always been pretty good with postdoc pay, and postdocs never paid tuition. Pretty much all of these schools and mine (UCLA) are on similar levels. At all UC's postdocs are unionized as well given additional protections (like 1yr contracts, limits on training time, etc).
What crime would they be investigating?
The previous one fits much better here:

http://dilbert.com/strip/2015-03-06
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No, "nee" is a French import meaning "born" used to introduce someone's birth name when it differs from their current name (and, sometimes, by analogy, to introduce the original name of a product, etc., when it differs from the current name.)

"nay" was the word that was almost certainly intended in GP.
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Evernote Web Clipper: a must-have for anyone using Evernote - https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/evernote-web-clipp...

Speed Dial 2: yet another new tab screen replacement - https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/speed-dial-2/jpfpe...

LastPass: Switched to LastPass from 1Password, and I never looked back - https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/lastpass-free-pass...

Extensity: A quite useful extension to quickly enable/disable... other extensions - https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/extensity/jjmflmam...

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The more people emphasize the differences between men and women the less likely the bad stereotypes are to go away. People whine and repeat about gender differences.

I'd prefer we all just disagree when someone says something is girly. Man up and stand up for men and women's rights to be judged as people not gender without whining when someone fails to do so.
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It's not happening as far as I know (I'm faculty at UCLA and employ several postdocs).
What are the pros and cons of register-based VMs versus stack-based VMs?
Yes, I think so. I mean, it is ridiculous and horrible, but ... After thinking through it for a few minutes and pairing it with an XSL schema translator, this could enable some integration on systems where there is no code and it's all pure XML data driven.
No inheritance. I’ve personally come to view inheritance-based OO as somewhat of an antipattern in many cases, bloating and obscuring code for little benefit

So everywhere you would use inheritance, you use composition instead? The stuff you'd have stuck in the superclass, you stick somewhere else and stick in your struct?
It ends up being pretty useful. The number of times it catches problems is pretty high. Also, the more you annotate, the greater the efficacy.

Is it inferior to a full static route system? Yes. Are there benefits to dynamic type systems? Yes. Success typing is a way to get a bit a both.
Me too, partly because it was one of my favorite movies about the dangers of "intrapreneurship". I really enjoyed Mamet's mantalk in this one.
Funnily enough, I was fooled by the marketing, but only around two years ago, when it first started being sold in Ireland.

I did find out from a friend (who's a brewer) that it was produced by Coors, which I didn't like.

I still kept drinking it though, as its a nice beer. Honestly though, if I had known it was Coors before I tried it, I probably wouldn't have.

So, yeah, marketing works or something, I guess? :)
This is funny because, it wasn't that long ago in history, that the characteristics that made a person successful were how all about how well they could hunt. How many of the new geek kings of the startup scene, would be kings in that world? You might be successful in your niche, but never forget the sheer good luck that had you born near (spatially and temporally) a local maxima.
This fraud has now moved to LinkedIn under the guise of Middle Eastern Investors. They have websites that they copy from legitimate websites but with no deep linking in the site. I actually think that this is a serious problem for LinkedIn.
My guess is because Vivaldi was mentioned a few days ago
I've been dealing with this kind of existential anxiety myself lately. Nothing anyone does matters on a universal scale, and I realized that was only painful because I had expectations for myself that were incongruent with reality. It's okay to not be a genius or contribute something significant, you only need to look for happiness and stability, which could be fading into obscurity and enjoying your time with friends and family. Personally, the times when I feel most relaxed are the times when I am most creative and do some of my best work anyway.
i was hoping it was more of this work: http://concuerror.com/

:(
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My glider club just had our annual safety meeting, and one of the things we repeat every year is that it doesn't matter how new or inexperienced you are, if you see something that looks unsafe, call it out or put a stop to things if you think it's necessary. Doesn't matter if it's your first day at the airport, speak up.

I imagine the same thing would be true here. If you think the airport needs to be closed, then close the airport. Doesn't matter if you just got hired five minutes ago for the lowest position in the whole place, if you think the airport is no longer safe then shut it down.
Lots of small maps becoming little arrays. The more things change, the more they stay the same. (There is production Smalltalk code from the late 80's running in large multinationals that's basically what you just described.)