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FYI "because I want the person to suffer" is not a valid reason to lock someone up.

We lock people up as a punishment just like your parents may have sent you to your room when you were acting up. We do it under the thinking of they won't do it again once they've paid their debt but that thinking is flawed on SO many level. Among them are:

1. Prison does NOT reform people in fact it pushes many deeper into a life of crime

2. Even after they have "paid their debt to society" they are still ostracised and disadvantaged

3. Unlike your parents there is no mercy/compassion in our judicial system AFAICT or if there is it's only directed at upper-class white males....
I don't find it hard to believe at all. The simple fact is ideas are cheap and everyone is full of them. Execution matters. The idea does not.

An NDA is appropriate for something that is a bit closer to fully baked than just an idea. If you've got a proprietary algorithm or business database that you don't want to leak, then an NDA is appropriate. If you're demanding an NDA just to talk about an idea that you haven't even started working on yet then you're just wasting time and oxygen.
Yes, I'm familiar with the social contract. There is no such thing in the real world. It's a post-facto justification for what is enforced by other means. It has zero legal applicability.

There are laws passed by legislators who are elected. The rule of law is established by force, not by any sort of contract or agreement. There is no social contract except in philosophy class and books that have no legal standing.
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Does anyone know how non-primary domains are handled?
I.e. JS/fonts/etc from outside the primary domain (analytics services and the like).

There is a 'mixed content' warning when these aren't SSL, but I haven't read anything about a similar warning if they are on SHA1.
I wonder when these "experiences" happened. I went through Google's process this semester looking for an internship position and it was no different than the dozen other companies I've gone through. Things might have changed since the days of random Fermi questions.

Edit: correspondence with the recruiter was no less timely than it was with other companies, and the only major difference I can think of is the host-matching process we went through.
We ended up using some random C library to parse the shapefiles into an easier to read text format of our own design, and then pulling them into packed binary files with an external index that we memory map in the code to maximize the speed. The system is all extremely custom and is highly optimized for write-once/read-many. Making even a tiny change to a single polygon means a full refresh that takes hours to complete.
Do you feel "discriminated" against when people get sick and get paid sick leave?
Elephants and manatees are closely related, as well, but I would not recommend that they look to one another for dietary recommendations.

Speciation can occur when different populations fill different niches. Human physiology (along with still extant hunter-gatherer cultures) indicates that we are opportunistically omnivorous cursorial hunters. The species closest to us genetically are opportunistically omnivorous frugivores. Chimps and bonobos eat fruits and nuts most of the time, and eat monkeys maybe once a month. If you want to consult the animal kingdom for dietary advice, look to wolves for the meat and bears for everything else.

Eat like a bear until you see a potential prey animal, then run it down and eat it like a wolf. When you finish, switch back to bear mode. That seems like a relatively safe diet to me.
actually strategized to mention our infant multiple times when talking to people

I hope you understand that by doing so, you placed your interviewers in a very awkward position. It would be the same if you revealed to them your e.g. religion or sexual orientation, when they never asked. It smells like you were setting them up for a future lawsuit.
It's a real thing, for the person in the tilt-a-whirl.

I disagree. It's not a real thing. If I pretend an acceleration that does exist doesn't exist, and then I realise that the only way I can make the mechanics work is by inventing a force to offset the force that's causing the acceleration I want to pretend doesn't exist, insisting that that invented force is "real" is just plain crazy.

It's a way to make the equations a bit easier. It's not real. There is nothing pushing anyone outwards. No atoms, no electromagnetic forces, nothing. There is no force pushing anyone away from the centre. To say that a force that simply does not exist, is "real", is just plain crazy or renders the word "real" meaningless.
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I find myself truly struggling to get past this point all the time. I think people too often think that having children is somehow granted as given for anyone who wishes to. I am a man but I expect then whenever I decide to start a family I will attempt to spend less time at work. At the very least, I'll be tired from trying to do both. That's not a burden I would "require" a company to bear, but if companies wish to compete for me, they would provide it. Perhaps it's not worth the price of keeping someone on once an employee moves into the family starting part of their life : /
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I think its the opposite. I would much rather had only my and the candidate's 5 minutes wasted, versus a whole hour, when its very apparent in those first 5 minutes they don't have the technical skills we need for the job.
On one hand, startups strive very hard to become more diverse workplaces, believing that by having different kinds of people, more and better work will be done. On the other hand, "culture fit" bars exist so that any diversity achieved by such initiatives is entirely superficial.
If you're interested in a more family friendly workplace when you are done cocooning with your new little one, please drop me a line. My contact info is in my profile.
This is not an actual Github-sanctioned issue/feature request, but take a look anyways for your enjoyment: https://github.com/isaacs/github/issues/9
From the article: "A good rule of thumb is to hire only people who are better than you. Do not compromise. Ever."

Is it only me that sees this as an unsustainable goal that will likely lead to idealist driven results?

While, when interviewing, I tend to be impressed with folks who seem more well versed and smarter than me, but realistically I also feel there's a potential risk that those folks may not be sufficiently challenged in our organization.

Wouldn't the (unrelenting) drive to find people who are "better than you" lead to some of the problems in bias-matching and with first impressions dominating your perception?

Sounds a bit dogmatic and contrary to the entire focus of the article which espouses a more rigorous, measurable and evidence-based approach to hiring.
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A decade is no age for a language, though. Creating a language with compiler can be done very quickly, but creating a good language with a good compiler and a good standard library takes time. And then it needs to catch on. This requires about a decade++.

Scala is 12 years old, Go is 6 years old and Clojure is 8 years old.
What does he mean by "their pitch"? Doesn't this assume they're launching a product?
You have an array of microphones in your phone alone, not to mention the speakers, which are just low-fi mics. But in any case, you can do it with one microphone.

E.g. http://fab.cba.mit.edu/classes/862.13/students/brandon/index...

http://www.extremetech.com/computing/128735-microsoft-create...
> “Plainly said,” Orman wrote in his reply, “the Defendant had no business getting married and starting a family.”

Wow. Just wow...
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Business as usual in the Prison Industrial Complex, aka the New Jim Crowe. Some people make lots of money by locking people up. I don't expect the laws to change anytime soon.
Those are clearly weekend projects that took on a life of their own. Hence the qualifying "in earnest" in my post.
Right now, good parental leave, flexible work hours, and allowing remote work allows companies to have a competitive advantage when hiring. For example, this article (link below) on Treehouse was popular last month which talked about how they have 4 day work weeks because it's not a drag on productivity and people want to spend time with kids.

I work at Trello, and the company has a similar philosophy in terms of treating people like humans who have responsibilities and interests that enrich them outside of work, which only benefits the work environment. A big draw to working at Trello, in addition to loving the product and team, is the fact that these policies exist.

I hope in the future- "perks" like paid parental leave will become something we laugh about as being painfully obvious. Who cares when work gets done as long as it gets done?

Treehouse link-http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/at-some-start-ups-friday...
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People are also locked up to keep them away from ordinary citizens.
Presumably you consider how drastically your whole process has failed if you bring someone in for an on-site interview who demonstrates within 5 minutes that they lack all the technical skills required for the job.
This incident had nothing to do with zero-conf txs. In fact okpay did wait for multiple confirmations, and was still hit by this $10k double spend!

This whole thing was possible because of an accidental fork of the chain which lasted a few hours. This is the only accidental fork that occurred in the last 3 years.

Details: https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0050.mediawi...
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That's not a good explanation. Very few employees will ever see billions of dollars and clearly the people taking jobs at big, established companies aren't doing it out of some hope that they'll suddenly become billionaires (how would that even happen?).
I think the solution isn't to pay someone when they have kids. Allow _all_ employees enough time off or flexibility so that there is a work/life balance.

Whether your life consists of caring for others (children, elderly parents, or disabled relatives) or for your self (fitness, education, relaxation, or having fun) should not be differentiated.

The point is employers need to realize that you need to HAVE a life, and that will in the end make you the most productive and happy employee.

Perhaps what we need is acceptance of part time work in more high earning jobs. People who want to work 60-80 hour weeks and make the maximum money should be able to do so, while accommodating those who want to work 30 hours a week but are okay making less.
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What bothers me most about this article is that it chooses to fixate on the "new" tech industry where 20-hour days, and complete dedication to your job are common. However, why does the author not mention the finance industry? Hundred hour weeks have always been the norm, and new mothers are encouraged to come back to work as soon as possible or risk missing their next promotion. Some would argue that finance is even more male-dominated than tech, and because of this it makes working at a big bank/fund even more difficult for parents.

Same is true of healthcare, and big law. There are plenty of industries that suffer from unfriendly family workplaces, not just the tech industry. I'd love to read an article that attempts to compare how family friendly different industries are for parents, but unfortunately only a large, costly survey can provide the non-subjective data readers can appreciate.
Nevertheless, having actual numbers there provides (by design) a form of operant conditioning, intended to encourage posters to want their numbers to go up, not down, and to associate a posters' credibility with their karma score. It might be a minor issue overall (as the effect of karma would be the same either way) but not having the numbers there at least makes the forum less obviously gamified.

As an obvious example, tptacek is sitting on 200k+ karma right now. What purpose does that number serve to anyone? How does it make the site better? I don't think it does at all.
So what's your argument? He should actually work late? Working sixteen-hour days actually reduces productivity so much that someone who does it regularly gets much less done than someone who's in at 9 and out at 5.
They added 2d support in 4.3 a couple of years ago, but it was still really clunky then. Like, you still had to texture wrap 3d objects behind the scenes and it made 2d GUIs painful to use with no native pixel measurements.

Is that fixed in 5.0?
You people are everywhere pushing ZenHub for this +1 stuff. The vast majority of people who want a +1 feature want it on Github natively and not on some third-party for-profit browser extension.
For a bunch of reasons:

1. Having children was until very recently (probably still is) the norm

2. Children are net-benefit for society (otherwise you have problems of lack of young people to support an ageing population)

3. The government should at least partially subsidise [pm]aternity leave - the rest is just part of the cost of doing business (along with all the hundreds of other laws business have to deal with)

4. Parental leave attracts more experienced staff (as they're older and more likely to have children)

As a european, I find it almost inhumane not giving statutory parental leave. Having children is a normal part of life, and in the current economic climate having a full-time job is basically a requirement for most people. You shouldn't need to be rich to afford children
You are discriminating ... if you are hiring for a job
that requires javascript and don't hire people
who don't know it. Is that a bad thing? I dont' think so.

You might be overlooking good coworkers or employees, especially older ones who have experience in other languages. I knew zero Python or Javascript before I started this job, and now write in it 100% of the time. (My previous job was Lisp + GWT.)

Similarly, I recall an article from Matasano that said that some of their best candiates did not have prior experience with something that one might have expected to be a prerequisite: "Some of the best testers we've worked with didn't have a formal security background." [0].

If you only hire people who "know" $Language, what will you do if six months down the line you decide to rewrite in Clojure, or find that Haskell is the best way to move forward?

0: http://matasano.com/careers/
The article is somewhat confusingly written (or maybe I was just confused by "killing it" colloquially meaning "doing well"), but even a cursory glance shows that it is not arguing that non-distributed high performance computing is relevant. I'm not sure what your post is responding to.

It is instead arguing that traditional HPC is being made irrelevant because traditional HPC uses MPI (the first successful distributed/parallel computing library), which is increasingly irrelevant in favor of newer libraries for the same task.
Amazing. The solution of "give out less PhDs" is not even broached.
I don't see the parent suggesting anywhere that employers should be forced to do anything. I kind of dislike how most conversations on these topics quickly turn into regulatory or philosophical ones.

I'd much rather have people discussing what can be done by companies, people and other agents.
> Too shy? Too loud? Too uncultured?

Yes, yes, and yes, it can mean all of those things and more.

> The concept of "cultural fit" is so vague it can easily be used to mask actual discrimination

No kidding? Really? Wow, I hope no one else realizes this.

It means whatever they want it to mean. It is a general, hand-wavy no that you can't really question.
I fully agree! What I see is a rush toward quantifying everything that's quantifiable and discarding everything that isn't, which is terrible.
So it's ok for a company to say "he's not a culture fit", but not ok for an employee to say "that company is not a culture fit"?

The reason every startup asks "so what do you like to do for fun" in interviews is that kind of "cultural" fishing. The OP is just flipping the game around.
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And while we're at it, I'm not currently ill, so why should I have to pay for disability benefits for others? I'm not old, so why should I have to pay for Social Security?
This is a pretty good example of what does it mean to be good at shipping. Sometimes you have to acknowledge that what you are doing right now is not the best solution architecture/design/whatever wise, but it provides the best quality/cost ratio.

Of course, it shouldn't be used as an excuse for releasing simply crap solutions. Experience comes handy when it comes to deciding whether it should be improved or it is good enough and should be refactored some time later.
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The way you compare them, you make it sound like increasing the prison term will decrease the time the loved ones spend mourning.
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Yes, Bret has a nice home, expensive stove, and kids. It sounds to me like he's doing the right thing by not pressuring his employees to appear like they are "putting in the hours."
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We could go all the way down the list, parent-unfriendly, sexist, agists etcetera, but it's way simpler to describe SV culture as what it is: an immature frat boy culture. Amplified by the lack of government regulation in the US in general.

When it comes right down to what really matters, when you see through all the fancy "perks", what remains is a business culture that is not just immature, but downright conservative to the point of being reactionary.

I mean, what kind of 21st century Western company that employs highly educated middle class people doesn't facilitate parenthood?
I read that as "Simplicity in life allows you to focus on what's not important".
I'll give you your paid leave, as long as you don't get to draw on the social benefits my kids will be paying for when you are retired.
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No it hasn't been a problem so far, just an update that gets pushed via the normal pre-ansible methods and requires a restart. Regarding XP... unless it's embedded get that shit outa there!
Well, not exactly. At one point you were able to, but the flaw has been fixed for over 5 years now. It affected cameras on some Macs sold between 2006 and 2009 I believe.

Here's the paper describing the flaw: https://jscholarship.library.jhu.edu/bitstream/handle/1774.2...
As a software developer, I know enough to realize that this is in fact the only solution for this particular problem.

Apple and others have decided they will happily save 1 millionth of a cent for a proper hardware solution and instead relegated camera LED indicator control to software. And obviously, it is impossible to prove that software will not activate the camera without also activating the LED.
It's not just what you traditionally think of as "welfare." Our whole economy is predicated on the assumption that populations will not collapse. This is especially true of Silicon Valley. Baked into the $50 million investment round that values your company at $500 million is the assumption that the company, if it succeeds, will have customers in the future. If, e.g., the whole world became sterile tomorrow, VC, the stock market, property values, everything would collapse.
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> You can/have to "rewind" files.

This isn't necessarily a Fortran-specific thing. The standard C library includes a rewind(fd) function, equivalent to lseek(fd, 0, SEEK_SET).
Because the OP seems to suggest you overcome lack of motivation by pretending you have motivation, but he calls this discipline and consistency. Also, the comments about fake it till you make it support that interpretation.

I've also gone to meetings.
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Which is entirely the whole point of the article; welcome to the US tech scene :)
No. The state of the art has advanced well past Java. And besides the kinds of bugs that a good type system can fix, there's also bugs borne from usability problems like switch fall-throughs that are trivial to fix with a better syntax.
Yeah good point. I just felt it might be a misleading of the author to suggest Chapel as an alternative when you cannot possibly write a useful program with it.
Good Friday comes around once a year. It's not like he's taking off at 3:00 every Friday.
There's a difference between starting a new surveillance of a suspect of their public activity starting on a given date with resources dedicated to that specific task and going back through a surveillance network (that should never have been established) that spies on everyone.

Not to mention scale... having a few thousand police officers patrolling a city is acceptable... Having several battalions of a hundred thousand soldiers, not so much.
This comment is akin to the farmers who tell us we need to subsidize them because without them we will all starve.

There are hundreds of millions of people who would very much like to come to the United States. They are ready and willing to start working and contributing taxes now. We can pick and chose the skills we need, not invest for 22+ years and hope for the best.

We only need the product you are selling because you use your political power to prevent your competitors, with a superior product, from entering the market.

That's predatory behavior, not altruism.
While I'm sure there are other projects at NSA and GCHQ that actually break into targets and records without user knowledge, the Optic Nerve project was meant to simply grab unencrypted video stream data from Yahoo Messenger from people willfully recording themselves while "tapping" parts of the Internet.

Yahoo only decided to provide the option to enable encryption sometime in 2014 after they found about it and it's pretty shameful on their part.

There's mention of MS too with Kinect but I'm not sure if it was sending out encrypted video or simply using weak encryption.
If you think about it in Germany he would have gotten a 9 year sentence for something like this.
It worked, he was rehabilitated and became an integrated member of society again.

This guy is a good argument against these long sentences, it doesn't make any sense for a society to keep this guy until he dies in prison for taxpayer money (not even considering the cruelty of it). Especially when he didn't commit a murder.
Can you describe the differences in product management positions at Google? Which ones are technical and non-technical?
The issue is not with founders, but the rank and line employees.
Keep in mind that "You aren't going to need it" comes from evidence gathered over decades of the craft. And it focuses on premature effort. Optimize and make things generic where possible, just don't do it prematurely.
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There is a monthly "Who's Hiring" post that always hits the front page, you might have better luck posting there.
Which deceased is that? This person was convicted of robbery, not murder.
>I really don't see the advantage of trying to sell clojure and emacs as a package

Because Emacs is the best Lisp editing environment, hands down.
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