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"Cultural fit" is just a phrase. You need to articulate what exactly you're looking for. I once worked in a Scrum team with a tester who really needed to be in a Waterfall environment. She was an excellent tester, but just didn't have the right mindset for Scrum.

But how do you filter that out? You need to know exactly what you're looking for.

But as soon as your "cultural fit" becomes about hiring young, hip dudes who like unusual food and kite surfing, it becomes a harmful aspect of your hiring process. You'll end up with less diversity, and therefore less represented view points in your company, and therefore less customers that you will understand. Diversity is important.
Not sure where he gets 775km either but the actual length of the railroad between Paris and Marseilles is around 750km: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGV_M%C3%A9diterran%C3%A9e

Obviously you can't always go completely straight when you're building on the ground.
There are locals casinos in Vegas that have video poker machines which pay out more than 100% with perfect play strategy, the problem is that the stakes are so low, say 25 cents, that it would take way too long to make any real money.

These lotteries are obviously a different story since you can buy as many tickets as you want.
Moldbug treats as subhuman

It's really extrapolating hard to infer this from his writings. There's only one part in the Carlyle essay where he throws out a hypothesis about slavery, and nowhere does he imply that (1) this is a good thing or (2) that any persons are subhuman.
For skilled, experienced and dedicated developers - the future will be business as usual.
For all the fakers, the ones who followed the cash into software, the wannabees and their one week bootcamp for ruby on fails, I have a phrase that will help your future careers: "do you want fries with that?"
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Pro tip:

> take a deep breath in and grow tall. Then maintain that height as you exhale.
Proper weight training, to be specific. Learn the movements and be patient, or you really will herniate a disc.
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I have grown to not believe in anything as self evident, anymore.

Directly to this premise. Correct diagnosis is a difficult and often error prone things that a hospital can do. To think you can train someone to be a manager and be good at diagnosis is putting a lot of trust on someone.

Should they be able to help? Certainly. But, at some level, I would expect the manager to be better at knowing which doctor to get you in touch with moreso than how to do the diagnosis themselves.
Does one really need the book to learn the "secrets?" Is the entire book basically "stand up straight and your back pain goes away?"
Heh, I'm looking at React Native with Flex Box precisely because of difficulties I've had with AutoLayout.
> Haskell is a research language

The language standard is from 1998, and is mostly unchanged since then. We now have Haskell 2010 and quite a few compiler extensions, but none of the experimental ones are necessary to be used in production. The researchy ones have their benefits, but they also make it pretty clear that they are things not to be toyed with lightly in production code.
The site appears to be down. Anyone have a mirror?
“I have read and agree to the Terms” is the biggest lie on the web

"not just the web" ;)
Self-driving cars to impact everything from insurance to policing to healthcare
Just getting a black screen with a mute button. Page source is more readable :).
Gah, I'm an idiot -- it's actually made about half that amount ($3,500) because I forgot to subtract the earnings of my other Mac app, Timebar. I really wish I could edit/delete this post. #embarrassed
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Plus look at toddlers and some Asian cultures. They can squat full dept with no problem. My toddler can squat and stand up without issue. I can - but I've retrained myself and opened up my hips/hamstrings and worked on core strength. baby's mama cannot perform a full depth squat let alone with any weight on the or front rack position. The old Asian lady down the street can and does when she does her gardening.

I think that coupled with a lot of people have at least mild APT because of a weak core is the major issue. It causes hip strain.
A pretty good documentary that explores this idea further: https://archive.org/details/The_Corporation_
I'm not close enough on the details so I could be wrong. But it sounds like a) Zenefits integrates to ADP and starts being the flow through for payroll. b) Zenefits decides to become a direct competitor to ADP by launching their own payroll service (ZenPayroll mentioned here) c) ADP isn't enthusiastic about supporting a service that plans to upsell or cross sell shared customers to move away from them.
Banning a specific domain from being part of a user's email address is not a "breaking integration", it's an intentional, anti-competitive action.
> Then the idea that ulcers are just an infection took hold so the psychogenic manifestations of stress shifted.

It may be that treatments have been developed for those ulcer causing infections. That could be why you're not hearing so much about uclers.

I think the situation might be the opposite of what you're suggesting. It seems ailments that we don't understand are put down to stress. Then we find a physiological cause, and then a cure and then we stop hearing about the issue.
This website is a walking, talking advert for open source.
If they have to foist a metric shit-ton of legalese onto you to grace you with the ability to use their offering, walk nay run away, find a freer alternative.
Software wants to be free as in free from eulas ndas and tos!
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I think he means Snowden didn't leak anything to wikileaks.
Done and updated - thank #TheRealLukeB! :-)
From talking with hiring managers and upper-level managers & executives across many different startups and big companies, there's an important caveat to "The big picture is not going to change."

Application engineering is getting easier and easier to the point where people no longer need a degree or even extensive training to be able to do application engineering work. Employers are aware of this, startups especially, and often prefer unskilled individuals (or people with only domain expertise) who are willing to work extra hard to teach themselves the skills on the job. They often pay these people less as well. This was explicitly stated as a good strategy by a ycombinator partner, and the executives of several successful, well-known, mid-size companies.

Honestly I hope this isn't true, maybe someone else can shed some light on this.

What will change is who is doing the work, how many people are employed, and how much they're compensated for their work.

I also want to mention that a number of my friends have gotten job offers from Google, and they're much lower than the offers other friends received just a year ago for similar positions (at least $20k less).
cf Mencius Moldbug / Strangeloop
Sorry, haven't seen that one.
Squats and deadlifts are how I cured my back pain. I recognize that I tend to have a missionary zeal about this subject because I think it has had so many benefits for me...but seriously, if you don't have any health issues that prevent you from doing so, you should be lifting heavy weights with a barbell. Your clothes will fit better, people will be more attracted to you, you'll have more confidence, and you'll be amazed at how strong you become. If you're a healthy adult male under 40, 1 hour a day for 3 days a week will get you to "pick up 400 pounds off the floor with relative ease" within a year.
Keep reading; in a shocking display of journalistic competence, the journalist interviews someone else who proposes a sensible alternative explanation for the results the acupuncturist may be seeing.

The aforementioned sensible alternative explanation is currently related to one of my pet theories, which at the moment hasn't got enough scientific evidence to make a call either way, but: My theory is that the reason "standing up a lot" seems to help people is that it builds core muscles up, which do think I have sufficient evidence that at least one American, namely, me, did not naturally have a lot of. This A: suggests that the argument that science is currently in the middle of about "how much standing should one do" is entirely misguided, dealing with a secondary if not tertiary variable instead of the real problems... and there is a LONG history of this in the health field, so it's hardly a crazy idea... B: explains why "too much standing" could be a problem... "standing" isn't "good", it's just that it builds core muscles, and too much of it is independently "bad", and C: if true would suggest that one could obtain the benefits of standing, and probably more, by directly focusing on building core strength instead of indirectly and more inefficiently building it.

I call this a "pet theory" because I believe it to be a reasonable harmonization of several current lines of scientific inquiry, and I don't have the evidence to disprove it, but I also lack the evidence to really solidly prove it.

One can see how it might also relate to this article.

Having had at least my own experience with my own core weakness, it is actually somewhat astonishing to me that my core can become so weak as to be a source of pain even in my mid-30s. It would be natural to assume that the very things causing pain would itself spur the core on to grow stronger, but it seems at least in my experience the core needs "superstimulus" to grow large enough to even competently do its main job. (I'm not saying I'm confused as to why that's the case... if one looks at the history of our species and considers the working of natural selection, it's not an impossible or nonsensical outcome. It just wasn't my first guess.)
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"how could we make it work anyway?".

In this case, you can't. At least, not for practical application.
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Sorry, I picked the wrong term. Not "stop", but "leg".
I'm getting the same thing on Firefox 38.
That's a lot of it, except that it turns out that how to "stand up straight" is very counterintuitive. You will hurt yourself if you just try. Really, the book is not enough; you need the class, or at least the videos. They also teach you better ways of walking and bending.
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On another perspective, life itself is a fight.
Possibly 'succumbed'
It's basically Haskell with unicode identifiers and mixed-fixity. (I.e., _::_ is an infix function of two arguments, and the _'s represent "holes" for the arguments.)
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Programming isn't the hard part - the hard part is communicating with people and understanding the problems they need solved. Master that and you will have a job for however long you want.
How do you define programming? If it's specifying a program that maps some inputs with some outputs, many AI systems are already able to do this, sometime even better than humans.

For example: would you be able to write a program that can recognise people faces with 80% accuracy? Probably not but AIs can do it.
Like you I'm a guy who is on the Linux platform. I know other people have said this already, but don't worry about the platform right now, when you're new to the company. Just use what they use. I think the transition will be better that way. You can always switch back later.
What I'd really like to see is more consumer devices that run on removable lithium-ion cells. I have several flashlights and power banks[0] that run on 18650 cells. I'm thinking of adding a Solderdoodle soldering iron to that and maybe constructing a device to provide power to my laptop's DC port while changing its battery.

Of course, I don't have my hopes set too high for this, as there's a certain degree of liability risk in handing lithium-ion cells to consumers; they don't take as kindly to abuse as alkalines and have been known to explode on occasion when severely mistreated.

[0] I'd rate the Miller ML-102 power bank as a best-in-class product for running on removable 18650 cells and putting out 1.8A on a single cell. It costs $6.
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Actually if you are in for the money, feeding your family and if your life depended on it you will more likely succeed at doing it. Because the sheer focus, seriousness and commitment you will throw towards it will make it happen.

If you in for tinkering, you will move on to something else once the clots of curiosity are gone.
This article has some details:
http://www.salon.com/2014/10/03/secrets_of_the_star_wars_dra...
>Both sites look like they were made in the IE 5/6 web development drought.

Complete it old Java Requirements and everything...
It's telling me I should turn on my sound for a better experience.
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This seems like very good idea to me. It is good enough that I will try to remind people in-person and online about it.

I have given eulogies before. I have focused on only things I wanted to remember and perhaps things I thought others would want to remember--not that there's anything majorly wrong with that. It is not easy to devise guidelines about what should and should not be communicated. But, I do think it is a disservice to someone's life with a disease to be summarized with a single word or short phrase--ESPECIALLY if that time frame is many years.

In summary, I see the issues as:

- Individuals summarizing another person's experience with a disease or condition using single words or short phrases such as "battle" or "long fight"

- Focusing only on periods of their life prior to to their diagnosis

- The ignoring of accomplishments, day-to-day realities of life, significant persons, significant places, etc. after their diagnosis
Shannon's original paper, titled "A Mathematical Theory of Communication"[0] which basically founded Information Theory as its own coherent and well defined field is also very readable. Some of the concepts were well known before he published it, some were original -- but the coherent formulation, notation and concentration in that paper is what established the field now known as "Information Theory".

[0] http://worrydream.com/refs/Shannon%20-%20A%20Mathematical%20...
I'm not a native speaker and it was quite hard to understand everything. Reading the sentences aloud made it a bit easier though.
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Every 10 years or so there's a discussion on if we've reached the point when programs can program other programs, or the WYSIWYG is so good anyone off the street can do it.. It never turns out to be the case.

The problem is that software developers are largely detail managers, we work out the finer points of everything and translate it into something someone who doesn't need to think or care about the finer points can use.

For example, you could design a building yourself - but at the end of the day you could just tell an architect what to do and he/she will manage the details for you. A good one will even stop you making obvious mistakes, and save you cash by suggesting better materials etc.
You really wouldn't want to use this approach with rechargeables, as they degrade pretty quickly if discharged too far (which is what this would do)
Works fine on Chrome.
The article isn't loading for me right now, but I thought I'd mention co-inductive types and how they relate to "interaction".

In Coq, co-inductive types are used to model infinite objects like (never-ending) streams or (non-terminating) program executions.

Inductive List (A: Set): Set :=
| Nil: List A
| Cons : A -> List A -> List A.

CoInductive Stream (A: Set): Set :=
| SCons: A -> Stream A -> Stream A.

Fixpoint len {A: Set} (x: List A): nat :=
match x with
| Nil => 0
| Cons _ y => 1 + len y
end.

CoFixpoint ones : Stream nat :=
SCons nat 1 ones.

If you want to talk about how systems interact with the world, you can use bisimilarity relations to prove "these two systems interact with the world in the same way".

You can also use co-inductive types to embed the temporal logic of actions (TLA) in Coq; TLA is the language Leslie Lamport works with for "Specifying Systems".

* http://www.labri.fr/perso/casteran/RecTutorial.pdf

* http://www.amazon.com/Specifying-Systems-Language-Hardware-E...

* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bisimulation
There was a massive decline in diagnosis of peptic ulcers. People just stopped getting them so often in the first place. It's not the case that medicine cured the problem.
And (this might be obvious), but read, read, read! That's what works for me at least. Articles, books, blogs, IRC, IRC chat logs, Github issues, etc. When I am learning something new I might spend a few days (or even weeks depending on the subject) reading around about it before I take that first step to build my side project.
He seems to interpret "praising bubbles, popcorn, and sand castles" and other acts of goodwill as feeding entropy to God, who will in turn yield more meaningful responses through the RNG as a reward.

Very, very strange, interesting cosmology he has.
Blank screen for most, try going to
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You're not missing much imo:

http://i.imgur.com/yN0f3Sf.png
So start light. I mean really light. Like lying flat on you back working your core by tensing only specific muscles light. This is how rehab programs start. Then progress. Slowly. Even body weight squats will improve your posture when applied consistently.
I remember fondly the days when Google web sites could be relied on to be usable, well-designed, and easy to read. The Nexus page has been a bit of a canary, every time a new phone was released it got worse and worse.
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The paradox these days is "people who build applications by gluing libraries and APIs" are ending up more highly paid/rewarded/recognized than the developers who create the glue and APIs they are actually using.

So, all the "two week programing camp" developers launch their 12-hours-from-idea-to-launch apps on top of the work of _actually_ skilled people, and all the reward goes to the final layer, not the underlying support.

Right now we're in an environment where, if you do build a better mouse trap, you get $1 while people using your better mouse trap to build Social Mice Death Sphere get $1 million just for adding fancy graphics on top of other people's work.

Is the only reason our entire zero-reward open source system stays alive is because nerds are economically irrational and just want to have fun while turning a blind eye to being exploited?
Agreed, communication is key to effective development. It's also much harder to find a teacher/mentor for the communication part of the skill set than it is for the technical end.
Huh, interesting. Our company switched from Paychex to ADP last year. In the last month or so their online portal went through a redesign and now looks fairly similar to most modern-day web content. We also have the ability to see our paystubs, request time off and sign up for health coverage all from the same portal.
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Fascinating. I'm not sure how long this has been around but feels like a nice counterweight to Tim Cook's critique last week about the importance of privacy and making the world a fairer/safer place.
> Do companies really try to pigeonhole developers into "tech stacks" so much that you'll be forced to revert to junior status to change?

Yes, they do. Moreover, you don't even get a junior position because you don't have adequate education and/or experience.
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I am not a member of the mafia, nor have I used any of their services. I do not owe them any money, therefore it would be wrong for them to demand any money from me.

I am a member of a society which has a representative government which acts on its behalf. I have used their services and therefore I owe them money. Therefore, it is legitimate for them to demand that money from me.

And both these entities can do so legally. It would be entirely legal for the mafia to use the legal system to demand money from you in the same way the government would (or that any business or organisation you used services from would). The very fact they choose not to, suggests their claim is illegitimate.
> The problem is the same as that for insider trading on the stock market:

Nope, not at all. These people are playing by the rules. The lottery officials are aware of their play; and yet don't consider it illegal. There is nothing wrong with using your superior skillset legally to make some money.
So basically yes, you are saying they do not exist, because if tissue damage or fategue don't show up in an X-ray (they won't) it must be being created by the person themselves.

Next time you get a pulled muscle, just drink some tea and calm down, it didn't really happen, you're just too stressed.
you're missing a lot if you're into web design. of course, content is king and google fucked up big times by not having a proper fallback. but that parallax scrolling is the best I've seen so far https://www.google.com/ideas/products/digital-attack-map/
If you stipulate that argument then you agree that it is only for the group to judge what is right and wrong with regard to its members. Outsiders opinions are irrelevant.
I'd intended to concern myself entirely with why the responses in the parent comment were bad counter-arguments against the arguments/sentiments it quoted: the question of whether or not Yarvin's disinvitation might have a chilling effect on other types of speech did not even enter my head.

I'm sorry if what I wrote was unclear. I'll took another look at the first section and try to see how it ended up resembling the slippery slope fallacy you describe.
But it does affect people directly, through tax dollars, which is how I talk about it. Conversley, there must be a lot of jobs created by the program, jobs which would be lost if the program was cut.
I don't think that has anything to do with software, but business in general. People who have trouble feeding and clothing their children aren't going to be good customers for your food and clothing business, but people with disposable income and 'first-world-problems' make great customers for your dating site.

So the complaint is really that capitalism doesn't solve societies problems, but it does a great job at solving middle-class twenty-something males' problems.
> If you're a healthy adult male under 40, 1 hour a day for 3 days a week will get you to "pick up 400 pounds off the floor with relative ease" within a year.

I hate to nitpick because I share your enthusiasm, but this claim is not true across the board. Plenty of healthy males won't be able to come close to building that kind of strength in a year. It depends on so many factors like body type and genetics.
I once had COBRA benefits administered by ADP and they everything they could to boot me off, and once they did they made a mockery of the appeals process (this was before the day of the Affordable Care Act when getting health care could be impossible otherwise).
Koverse: any experience with company or product?
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