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I totally agree with you. If you're too cold, you can dress up. I can't dress down from my t-shirt because you set up a fucking sauna in the office.
Does Microsoft use OSM data for anything?

They provide a lot of server resources by allowing OSM to reference Bing satellite/aerial imagery, but I've never seen any direct use of the data (they could certainly be using it ways that are not obvious).
Isn't that more propaganda meant for export?
I've seen many times where users have incredibly patience with tedious things --like entering their git password all the time, instead of setting auth keys.

I think it's a mix of both ignorance of better options, and familiarity with the status-quo.
Here's the relevant quote from the article.

> I knew the founders of many other companies pretty closely – their backgrounds, their revenue, their valuations, how much they raised. Sure, it’s comparing apples and oranges, but one company (with a 6’ tall, attractive white, male CEO) that was pre-product and just a few LOIs raised over a million with 3x the valuation. A smaller B2B company that had 10% of our revenue raised the same amount as us, at twice the valuation. Another B2C company, with a quarter of our revenue and much stronger, well-funded competitors, raised 3x what we raised, at twice the valuation. The main difference? They were all run by all male founders.

I don't believe any reasonable person is going to read that and walk away believing the author wasn't implying that white men get funded easier than women.
"Go often prefers pain for the programmer for the compiler developer's life being simpler by about 5 minutes."

Interesting contrast to the philosophy of Perl 6: 'torture the implementor on behalf of the user'.
> Did I ever mention that I fucking hate the fucking Google

Fixed it.

(But I agree with regards to Maps Classic, it is superior to the new maps in almost all ways (for me, at least).)
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Fundraising is hard, for sure. You know what's harder? Having investors want to meet with you, and taking your meeting, not because they see value in your business, but because they want to fuck you.

Can you imagine how infuriating that must be as an entrepreneur? Imagine that there's a 50/50 shot that, every time you have a meeting with someone, they're just stringing you along so that they have the opportunity to fuck you and have zero interest in actually investing. You'd be outraged not only on the creep-factor, but also just the complete waste of time. Moreover, these same people trying to fuck you are also investing in actively shittier companies than you run.

As people are trying to "focus on growth" every single one of these meeting invites for investors could be a huge waste of time, and that alone is cause for outrage. Take the sex out of it -- imagine that for every investor you pitched, 50% of the time the investor stood you up. That's the baseline of what's happening here: the investor isn't showing; in his place is also a dirtbag. That's a really hard fundraising environment.

The only thing I can critique this woman on is why she's not more upset, and why she's not publishing a list of names.
Gah! You're right. In that case POST would be the only acceptable option here.
>but its so very, very common to mansplain womens' complaints as trivial

I'm still undecided as to how I feel about that logic, it's something that you hear rather often. It's also, to some extend, claiming that I don't understand the problem, because I'm a man. That's really a bad starting point for getting male involvement in womens issues.

Mostly I try to avoid getting into arguments about sexism in IT. It's hasn't been productive in the past and I often feel attacked for being male. I get the impression that women, and some men, want me/us to take action while being extremely vague about what those actions might be. For now I've decide that I don't care about women in IT. I won't discriminate, I won't create a hostile work environment, but I won't be doing anything to actively help either.
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It's still a pain if said device doesn't support USB OTG and you have to deal with MTP.
On the London Underground, every single "Open Door" button is a placebo. All of the doors open all of the time (unless the platform's too short). It's not the case on main line trains or the Docklands Light Railway.
Well, I get quite the opposite impression of condescending with them hanging around HN and golang nuts discussing language issues. And I'm actually fine with them making the decisions in the end. Go wouldnt be as clear and productive as it is today if every request for a feature would find it's way into the language in some half-hearted manner.
Another point for large companies is essentially vendor lock-in.

If you had Oracle 8 way back in the day (90's), then the upgrade and pay maintenance path is much easier than even the thought of switching to a different system. Think of how much testing and conversion you would have to do to switch to Postgres. ANSI SQL is a standard but there are little shortcuts and tuning and other things that are very vendor specific. An upper management viewpoint would ask the question of what is the ROI of switching?
after 80 hours per week, stress on your hands is your least problem.
I used Oracle DB for >10 years. After using C/C++/Assembly in my degree course I was trained in Oracle development tools by an investment banking consultancy. Oracle was/is very strong in enterprise companies in Banking/Utilities/Government/Defence/Retail. The database was always really solid and scalable and Oracle was probably the first modern relational database server multiplatform from the 90s onwards with great SQL dialect and PL/SQL enabled very fast data manipulation for ETL and business logic.

Almost all Oracle products are free to download and play with and the tooling for building front end (client/server and web) were very easy to use and could provide useable (maybe not pretty) front end applications easily.

There is a lot more competition now from SQLServer and Postgres but for a while Oracle was miles ahead. I'd still choose to use it as I have a greater knowledge of it than other db servers. It doesn't need to be that expensive if you have a small server especially for internal use APEX is great and it's all freely downloadable to evaluate.
I think a lot of us have had thoughts like these, but damn man, reading that was like watching Lewis Black - you think you're witnessing someone having a stroke/heart attack.
You used a throwaway because you knew this would be downvoted to oblivion, and it should be. It has no value and is intentionally inflammatory. No one is suggesting shooting them. Only that their unacceptable sexist behavior should be stopped.
I'm curious, now that you've mentioned it.

There's clearly evidence to support us not having nice things because of childish pranks.

Where's the evidence to support Google's goal was just to extinguish free services?

Do you have any links or anything to show what you mean?
My phone and computer are on the same wireless network, so the cable is a little silly. I use an ftp server on my phone, and my file browser just deals with it like a normal folder. Adverts in the ftp server, though, a little ridiculous.
What are you asking for, here? Documented cases...but not anecdotal evidence? Aren't documented cases all individually anecdotes?

> Can you share some of them?

Do you really want the parent to start listing cases of sexual harassment?
You don't actually know how it happened.

quoting from the article:

> It’s extremely intimidating walking up to older men, getting them to make eye contact, and then convincing them to fund you through a quick convo. It’s also extremely easy to confuse these approaches with flirting – which is exactly what happened.
Heh, I see your point but he does move on a little bit to other things :)
In what way? Ardin and Borgström are well know people in Swedish public life and their reputation as well.

And if Assagne is guilty or not, I can't tell. I hope the court leaves out their personalties and opinions, otherwise both are doomed.
I find it sad how much our industry obsesses about working crazy-long hours. It's a hard thing to criticize, since I think most of us (myself included) have found ourselves passionately working on a project non-stop for extended periods of time, and found it fulfilling. But I worry about the mythologizing that happens where we take this behavior as a source of pride, either to make heroes of the famous programmers who locked themselves in their room for a week with Red Bull and pizza and, or use this as a status symbol to brag about how awesome a hacker we are.

Who am I to tell someone to stop working if they choose to do so? But I do worry that this just normalizes expectations by companies that every dev needs to be a rockstar ninja 10x hacker that lives and breathes code 24/7 and has no life outside the company.

I guess what I think is that when we see things like "working 80-hour weeks continually" we shouldn't be defaulting to "wow that's so impressive!" but rather "wow that's not healthy."
Many phones make this harder than it needs to be as well... my experience with a Motorola phone I had a few years ago:

Install driver X, restart your computer, unplug and replug the phone, shut down auto-starting "image manager" BS which came with the driver, look for (and fail to find) the raw mounted USB device, reload the propitiatory image manager, import the files, look for an export which actually exports the files and not a degraded version, and...
He's just saying what we're all thinking, people!
got an indian working on it no wonder.
Or even better: https://syncthing.net/
Did you try these https://www.google.at/search?q=grown+up+diapers&source=lnms&... . You can save some time by not going on bathroom.
It's a bit complex. Basically only graphic card drivers are a bit problematic. But it's the binary driver compatibility that makes ReactOS unique.

Windows XP and 7/8/10 supports several driver models (incl. legacy) and drivers models are in user- and kernel-mode. So for most devices it's not a problem. The display driver model changed with Vista; Win2000 display driver are still supported. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Driver_Model , http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Display_Driver_Model , http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Driver_Frameworks
This is insane, I am under the impression my best work is done in 2h max bursts when my other necessities (physical, social and intellectual) are somewhat fulfilled.

The long hours are a necessity if on a tight schedule, but working long hours is very very different from being productive. And of course, as everyone else is probably saying in this thread, this is not sustainable, not without serious health impact AND a greatly reduced work quality.
Code should not be magical. Magic is bad engeneering. Magic involving a whitespace is madness.
Sorry, but I can't find what you're referencing with the "as mentioned above" on math; could you clarify?

My biggest problem with the math library was, IIRC, everything only takes float64s, which makes dealing with any of the other number types more difficult than it should be (I shouldn't need to cast an int to a float and back in order to get the max of two numbers).
Looking forward to the government-mandated Windows update cache servers implemented by every ISP. I'm sure surveillance agencies are thrilled at this decision.
Ah, yes. One winter bout 25 years ago we wondered why the thermostat seemed to have no relation to the temperature of the office. Then somebody noticed that there was a LaserJet immediately under it. Moving the printer worked nicely.

But there was no such easy fix one summer when the techies with a south window were cooking and the boss with a north window was just right. The boss resisted all efforts at a compromise.
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The crowd he is moving with. Hes relation to Snowden smells, because of the Russian connection.
Assuming there's nothing fishy going on, he would almost certainly have been a free man today had he gone to Sweden and gotten convicted - typical prison sentences for much more serious rape charges are usually shorter than this.

That to me indicates that at the very least his reluctance to go to Sweden is not mainly about the risk of being convicted, but that he sincerely believes in the concerns about extradition (legal or otherwise) to the US. Whether or not those concerns are justified is a separate matter.

Personally I think most of the odd things about this case can be explained by political ambitions on behalf of the prosecutor rather than US involvement - she's known to have long wanted to tighten up Swedish rape legislation even further and could very well have been looking for a case that would be high profile to try to push the envelope without having realised how Assange's fear of the US would make him react. (This doesn't imply anything about whether he's guilty or not)
Same with OSM based routers, there are several websites and apps available. OSM is fantastic for walking and biking routing.
Three of four years ago GMaps used to display as open and operating a highway linking my city (Bucharest) to another city 40 miles away. The problem was that that highway was in no way open nor operating, as it was still under construction. I completed that "this-place-is-wrong"-form describing the issue and received a message back saying that bla-bla-bla the map is correct and I am wrong. That only increased my reliance on trusted paper maps from that day on.
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Sometimes USB isn't an option:

The USB interface on my old Samsung Galaxy S2 broke (seems to be a common problem), now the connection just charges, data transfer is borked under Windows and Linux.

So I thought it would be "easy" to use WLAN for that - Samsung itself wants you to use "Kies", proprietary software which works only under Windows. Once I had located the right old version for my apparently-too-old phone, I started to back up my photos. But Kies decides to be super-duper-slow and downloads with 1 kb/s, so it predicts about 48 hours of copying.

Luckily there's sftp on the play store, with that and scp under Fedora it took 5 minutes.

It's like they want you to hate them.
Did you use Google drive too?
The cheaply part puzzles me. If it takes X hours to build something, it doesn't matter if you work D hours per day for X/D days, or D/2 hours per day for 2X/D days -- it's the same amount of hours, therefore the same amount of money. The client will pay less per day, but the same amount overall. You could charge on a curve, i.e. 8hrs/day is X, but 10hrs/day is 2X, but we all know overtime doesn't work in the long run.

It seems to me, that that saying works for only the small set of tasks that can be worked on in consistent overtime. Can someone clarify?
And just recently, I couldn't. The presence of the option to download pictures is random and seems to depend on whether this is your album or it was created by someone else and shared with you. Most of the time I need to download something it's the latter, and the option to download doesn't show up there.
Why?

If any corporation were to ask this from me, I would sue them out of this world. Why do it to yourself as your own boss? Do 40h/w for double the time or hire someone to help you.

Seriously, why?
I'm sorry, but to suggest that it's 50/50 whether potential investors are only meeting you to bone you is just ludicrous. I find that quite insulting.

You come across as sexist, and with a chip on your shoulder that big (and an ego to match), I certainly wouldn't want to invest in you.
It's not the case, it's actually less than 5 minutes. For reference: http://www.ninds.nih.gov/disorders/brain_basics/understandin...

Your entire post reads like satire, but I don't think that was your intent. You're fall prey to the illusion of progress, the belief that by doing silly life-hacks and pushing yourself, you're increasing your productivity. That might be partially true in the (very) short, but enough research has been done to verify that all you're doing in extreme harm to your body and mind, and you're setting yourself up for a major burnout.
> Having said that - all his points are valid, though I'm not sure I'd bother to get that angry at stuff that is out of my contorl.

Part of the problem I think comes from feeling like you are in control in one moment then having that control taken from you for stupid or selfish reasons.

For example, I was listening to music with PowerAMP the other day on my android phone as I walked home from work. Spontaneously, my phone just switched over to playing a completely different playlist. It turns out some Google music app had taken over my phone out of the blue.

I tried to shut it off. I could not. I could stop the music, but there was no fucking "close" option anywhere in the app that I could find so that I could go back to listening using the app I had already fucking chosen to play my music with. I found a "send feeback" option (I sent a message "fuck this app how do I shut it off"). Eventually, I found the place in the Play Store where I could completely remove the "Google Play Music & Movies" app, which finally worked.

Seriously? In what fucking world does it make more sense to design an app that's easier to uninstall than to simply terminate. Yes I was mad. I was enjoying the music I was listening to on my walk home, when some fucking Google bullshittery interrupts my walk for no reason at all other than they are either incompetent or complete assholes.
That $DOLLAR fix isn't just some "issue" at the beginning as though it was a design mistake or architectural oversight. It is flat out sloppy work.

If you are creating a programming language that wants to maintain backwards compatibility surely every check in you make would be as close to perfect. No ?
Such an inflammatory troll... Do you you even know who is involved in the Go project?
> It's similar to the patience people have to put up with ads, or crapware

People actually BUY computers bundled with those (Windows loaded with crapware). And work their way through it. It's so painful.
Sort of. Here's their list of edits: http://www.google.com/mapmaker?gw=66&ptab=1&uid=200619129451... (should be page 3), the Apple at the bottom would be reasonable to expect a human to catch. Not so much for a logo seeking algorithm, but it's not a clean simple shape. On page 4 the android head stands out too, again a human moderating could be expected to spot that.
First, it is two alleged rape victims.

Second, you can have consensual sex one time and then rape the second.
+1 "Programming is way more art than science" :)
Excel is fine for what is intended to do. However, too many people use it as a database.
Sometimes I use the classic version of Gmail just because it loads the whole page in less than 1 second and I can read my e-mail in another 0.5 seconds. With the "modern" version I have to stare at a blank screen with a stupid progress bar for about 2-3 seconds before seeing anything.
Who says that does not happen? As men I am 'lucky', woman has privilege to get offender fired. My friend works at bar, he has even better stories to share.

Also in this case this does not happened as you described. In this case offense is "personal invitation". That could be anything from date to job offer. Guy with bad product would not even get response.
>While the points the author makes are valid, the fact that it gets bandied about as an out-of-context sound bite results in a lot of code getting written with a complete disregard for any optimisation whatsoever.

This is still preferable to premature optimization.

What I really can't stand is developers who tell me that this piece of code that already runs in production with no complaints is 'slow'.

And I ask them "well, did you profile it?".

"Well, no, but..."
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My employer has a history of using CDFs (Comma Delimited Files) for lots of things. They're just like CSV, only not. It works great right up until someone wants to know if they can store data with internal commas in it like "Acme, Inc." Then we have to reinvent CSV anyway.
> less features and control

Oh there is more control. Just not for you, the user.
How awesome would it be if all the big players contributed their effort to one open source platform. Much like how WC3 works. Everyone would benefit from the work they do and they can instead compete on the features or the front end they provide to their users. If google moves their data to openstreetmap then everyone stays up to date including google.
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Behringer: 300W
YBA: 70W
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A rather unfair competition.
...I have to keep cranking until bugs are fixed, features are out or demos are ready.

No you don't. You could just take longer to build the features, or share the coding jobs with someone else, or cut something that's not really necessary. No one has to do 60+ hours of coding a week.
> After 2000, South African local governments were restructured. New municipalities were created by amalgamating formerly separate towns. [..]

In France, administrative boundaries are updated in Openstreetmap about as fast as the government publishes them. Don't wait for Google !
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And the web is completely "open" and unlike "walled" proprietary platforms you have no choice of a programming language whatsoever (PS: fuck your transpilation).
The Swedish authorities don't "just want to talk to him", they want to do the equivalent of interviewing him under caution with a view to probably making an arrest afterwards. They have now eventually indicated they'll visit the Ecuadorean embassy in lieu of other alternatives, but it's fairly rational for a judicial system to try to avoid setting the precedent that fugitives get to dictate how and when they can be questioned, especially when said fugitive also has an expensive legal team trying to get the case thrown out on every conceivable technicality going.

If police ever indicate that you're wanted on suspicion of a crime, try telling them you'll agree to help them with their enquiries so long as they agree that you set up the interview environment and they can't take you into custody afterwards. I guarantee they won't accede to your request, even if you've never leaked a diplomatic cable in your life.

Now provide us with a rational answer as to why those same Swedish authorities let him walk around freely and even leave the country after tipping him off about the allegations if their primary motivation was a one-way ticket to the USA?
Not sure if she was only a designer, but the founder of Poptip had a design background.
Well we don't do that because of economics, but if you could have a cheap envelope that only the receiver could open, who wouldn't opt for the secure envelope?
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I use throwaway because I have a children and dont want to face public execution. Men dont even have right to complain.
This should not be advocated, surely. 40 hours alone is too long for most people to be sat in front of a monitor, let alone double that. There should tips on how to avoid this.

And, for those of us who do not partake in this craziness, you're no less of a programmer. In fact, you're probably thinking straighter (not saying that the author isn't compared to most, but you're surely more alert).

I actually gave a talk (https://james-brooks.uk/staffs-web-meetup-video/) entitled "Programming is Awesome", where I spoke about dealing with anxiety and depression as a programmer. You're probably in need of some words like this if you're near to this...