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> Me: "I'm learning programming" Programmer: "Good luck with that (sarcasm)"

Try to look at this from the programmer's point of view for a moment. Programming is a vast subject, where you're going to be constantly learning for as long as you program. It's impossible to learn programming entirely: we still don't know how to program to get the best results, we're continuously defining the field as we go on. And that's even before you take Computer Science into account!

Granted, being a dick is not a good thing, but after a while it's also hard to be enthusiastic about people who tell you they're going to learn programming. Especially if they have no idea yet about how programming is like in the "real world". Most of them are going to - in my experience - run away screaming when they see the reality of programming. And that's even before talking about how programming jobs look like.

Personally I try my best not to be sarcastic when talking to beginners, but I do try to warn them that it may be harder than they think.
> Note that you can be a programmer without ever having touched a computer, people have been coming up with algorithms and integrating them into systems for ages.

Slightly different, but the first episode of SICP videos helped me to reach the same conclusion:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Op3QLzMgSY

We can even say Newton, or Euclid wrote programs. Maybe not by sitting in front of a computer, but they described a process to calculate something.
Indeed. It should also be noted that this bonding process is critical in the development process.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hospitalism
There is also the slight problems of inadequate insurance and tax evasion.

The reason the taxi industry was originally regulated was the competition between drivers and taxi firms was literally cut-throat. While it might be good for consumers in the short run it won't be so good when we end up in a race to the bottom on the back of extreme competition.
I read the Metropolitan Man on this recommendation.

A very interesting take in many ways.

I do think that for the narrating characters, there was a certain sociopathic aspect.

Is there a place where people discuss these books after everyone's read them so you don't have to hide spoilers? I think the genre fits whatif-scenarios very well.

I think, books probably must have plot holes, one writer doesn't have the brain power to simulate the actions of so many people very well. Hence it's always a danger to introduce a supposedly supremely smart person...
As an ex-lifeguard, when you talk about 'career advice' I think you are referring to professional competitive swimming as a career. I tried out for the swim team, but endurance and strength needed to be a lifeguard aren't the same as competitive speed.

A lot more people are professional lifeguards than professional competitive swimmers. I think most people can train and qualify to be a lifeguard - otherwise lifeguard pay would be a lot higher. It does not cost that much to become qualified as a lifeguard for someone who is already a strong swimmer.

There are also other fields, like professional diving, where swimming is an important component, though diving does require more expensive training.

I think this ties back to the original essay - there are many professions where knowing how to swim is critical, but the specifics differ, and the same is true in programming.
It's important to distinguish being a programmer at all and being a very good programmer.

Even Norvig (condescendingly) concedes that idiot dummies can become bad programmers. The point he misses, is what Jacques refers to a brain amplification and Excel programming: even a bad programmer can reap significant benefits from programming.

My favourite consulting gig, about ten years ago now, was for some friends of a friend. They were not very technical, most of them history graduates, who'd taught themselves just enough PHP to cobble together an online history text book in an open source CMS - and sold it to a bunch of schools, and their server was now positively on fire. I helped them move to a bigger server, and migrate their search from the CMS' awful MySQL based homebrew to Solr, and they lived to fight another day.

Norvig can call them idiot dummies from his ivory tower all day long, but these guys created a business from nothing, and it's still around today.
Also assuming 100% efficiently, 196 joules is enough to run a 1W LED for 196 seconds (3:16), or a 0.1W LED for 1960 seconds (around 32:40.) Not very bright, but still somewhat useful for illumination.
I want to know how all the smart money missed these obvious problems? I don't blame Adora and co for trying, but where were the adults.
So they're telling me that they have all this multi-gazillion-CPU-core Android devices, but they parse JSON on the main thread?
Any reason for why 70% said they didn't want to be employees?
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C is probably older.
We have MISRA C++ and there are conformance checking compilers.
Uber raises new funding, valued at over $50Bln
Sorry to say that because I'm also Russian living abroad, but your website looks crappy on mobile.
I probably don't understand how business works, but with total funding more than 5Bln$ why do investors invest in such a big company? Doesn't Uber have money to cover its expenses or this is just kind of trading business rather than investing?
Basically don't overestimate how much the 'adults' understand. There is a huge amount of hand-waving, FOMO, leaps of faith, etc... by VCs when they make (and manage) investments. When things work, they are explained ex-post facto in visionary terms. When they don't... people forget soon anyway.
The user manual is from 2001, interesting idea nevertheless.
I am happy to see a sense of reality being forced into some of these companies. Building a business on people rather than tech is a much much tougher thing to do both execution wise and financially.

And so the real innovation if someone wants to "change the world" without trying to cheat the system is to find a way to make a profitable business with a huge part of the business being used to pay salaries.

For many entrepreneurs who are used to thinking about business as something which is based on software, servers and an internet connection, this is completely uncharted territory. You don't reap the benefits of scaling your business as if it's just a matter of adding more servers.

The primary challenges with these kind of business if they are to be built on a solid foundation is.

1) Patience – It takes a long time to scale an employee based business up to anything worthwhile and sustainable

2) Selective – You have to be smart about which sectors actually have enough money and need for your service to make a proper ROI

3) Employee satisfaction. You can't just treat your people as if they are freelancers without giving them freelance opportunities. Instead you have to really care about your people and make them want to work for your company and do a great job.

It's that manual labour thats going to be your brand, not your backend server or the customers mobile app.
But these are tiny brains, aren't they? 1cm x 1cm or something on that scale. That is far smaller than most of the animals that we hunt, kill, experiment on etc. It's definitely uneasy though, because it prods away at the fundamental moral distinction between human and animal.
I do not know what experiences you made so that you think NLP is "such a big lie". It is a toolbox of methods which generally do work. Many of them are applied in behavioral therapy, which is proved to have an outstanding effect on depression (as one example).

The nice thing is that you do not have to study psychology for that, but have simple methods, which are almost common sense, to deal and/or transform most psychological issues.
Gecko, at the very least, maintains cycles in the object graph. This is something that a naïve JSON round-trip can't do.
It is quite refreshing to see someone take some responsibility for their lives while they were unhealthy, I must admit. This retraction is one of the most noble things I've seen in this realm in a long time..
A free app. Which has access to your contact list and the email conversations, social media and blogs of the friends, family, colleagues and other people on it.

Something tells me this app isn't just going to do what it says it does...
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Reminds me of Career Move, in Martin Amis' 2000 collection Heavy Water and Other Stories. In it screenwriters struggle for their art while poets are optioning treatments of their poems for "mid six figures".
Because JSON is the "default" (everybody knows it, everything has tooling for it) and most people don't care about efficiency on that level until they have to.
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"... wrote programs". I think it's better to say they wrote algorithms. A program is an algorithm instantiated for use by a machine, which might be analog or digital.

I can accept the argument that a human following an algorithm emulates a machine, but I consider it an imperfect analogy.
How about a game like Populous? You're basically a god who intervenes in the life of his followers. There's lots of landscape generation, etc..
Yes, to my taste this language is nowhere near a DSL it should have been, but still, there is a significant portion of VM semantics that is hard to implement on top of an existing VM.

The article outlines it as follows:

"1) Sensor readings are collected and stored in the BVM; 2) Incoming messages are collected and processed by the BVM; 3) A portion of the Buzz script is executed; 4) The messages in the BVM output queue are sent (as many as possible, according to the available payload size; see Sec. IV); 5) Actuator values are collected from the BVM state and applied."

I.e., it looks like a complex synchronisation semantics which runs underneath any language layers and therefore hard to implement anywhere higher than in the VM.
This is possibly one of the best reasons to use something like Cyanogenmod, giving you control over updates rather than waiting on manufacturers and mobile operators.
> There is plenty of reason to study them; they provide validation/rejection of our theories.

That's not always enough to fund sufficient research, especially as those avenues of research show no more promise in uncovering a more fundamental model or validating/rejecting theories better than the ones that are currently explored.

> yet fields with no power difference have disparities which directly mirror the disparities you claim are driven by "power", that suggests there is an underlying theory that doesn't use power at all and which predicts more things.

If only you were right about the facts then your (unique, I must say) theory -- which I can only guess at[1] because you won't state it clearly -- would merit a closer look, but you're not. You are equating existence of bias with existence of bias, but with no regard to effect size. Here are the facts: http://www.randalolson.com/2014/06/14/percentage-of-bachelor...

CS participation was the same or higher than math and physics, and now it's significantly lower. The difference today between participation in math and physics vs CS (and engineering) is far higher than the relative difference between biology and physics. Indeed, it is higher than the relative difference between English and physics.

The social power theory is currently the only theory that has enough evidence to support it, and it gathers more evidence every day, which is why it is the (current, at least) consensus of the scientific community. Your theory (whatever it is), describes neither the observed differences in academia nor in the industry and runs counter to the body of knowledge we've accumulated about power dynamics, group behavior etc.

[1]: If your theory claims innate ability is a major cause of the difference, then it has been disproven. No differences in innate ability were found to be even in the ballpark of the participation difference we see in society. At this point in time, we can say with a high degree of confidence that innate ability is not a major explanation. Even evolutionary theories would reject ability-based explanations, as there is little reason for such huge differences in ability (way beyond difference in physical strength) in a species where the two sexes play almost identical roles (compared to, say, insects). If you have another theory, please state it.
actually, i rather liked it.
i'd recommend you lurk a little longer before telling people what to do.
> Can you state your theory clearly enough that I can directly apply it?

Certainly. Non-hegemonic groups are marginalized from seats of power. After a long struggle, they may increase participation. Put another way: groups with more power tend to preserve and increase the power difference between them and less powerful groups, while the less-powerful groups may gain a share of the power after a struggle.

Sadly, it's not my theory, but one of the most elementary theories -- backed by countless evidence -- of the social sciences, supported by studies in anthropology, sociology and history (with some backup from social psychology, too).

Can you state your theory clearly, or, at the very least, state what evidence compels you to doubt the current scientific consensus?

> Make sure to include a clear definition of "power", and make sure this definition is clear enough that I can at the very least evaluate "more" and "less" power.

I have done so on numerous occasions in the past in our conversations. Please refer to them or look up "power" on Wikipedia. The short description is influence, and if you'd like a description with a more quantitative "feel", I'd say the power a person has is the number of people they can influence indirectly (i.e. graph reach) summed over the magnitude in the change of behavior they cause in each affected individual.

> I.e., I have no idea why you consider academic physics to have more power than academic biology

I don't. See my other response to you.

> Are you implying that women don't make individual career choices based on their interest and aptitude, but instead "concentrate [their] efforts" in some sort of collectivist power grab?

I'm stating the much-observed, well-known fact, that society pushes and directs us in various directions. What we see as "free choice" is, in fact, "free choice under societal pressures and restrictions". That behavior is not collective but individual, only biased. Just like any fair coin is free to make a choice how to land, yet we can make very accurate predictions on the result of a thousand coin tosses. Collective behavior is not always the result of collective decisions.

> I always thought women were just people like me, making selfish individual decisions to maximize their money/lifestyle/career enjoyment.

All of us make selfish individual decisions, but the (probabilistic) fitness function is largely determined by large-scale, emergent properties of the system. Think of individual particle movement and temperature or of Brownian motion. There are no collective decisions involved -- only individual "decisions" and local interaction -- yet the end result is that global factors heavily influence the distribution in behavior of the individuals. The effect of social influence on personal choice has been heavily studied in social psychology, and, in fact, in zoology too.
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No, I didn't. The scare of an epidemic in the U.S. has been real for decades.

This sort of snide comment has been made before. In fact, in the "malaria thread" just a few days ago.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9940354

Ma8ee wrote:
"Considering the nature of market economies and how the wealth is distributed in the world, it is not particularly surprising that most most medical research is aiming to cure ailments that affect white western men."
There's of course a side effect of data being untrusted. While an individual couldn't game this if the system would depend on multiple sources, an organized group (like 4chan) could likely make the system show whatever they want.
The FlatBuffers repo on github continues a couple of "meta-trends" I've noticed in recent Google projects. https://github.com/google/flatbuffers

First, it uses CMake to build - for a long time Google projects had seemed pretty anti-CMake (for example using gyp, plain Makefiles or autotools) so it's nice to see them using CMake. IMO it's the best build tool, though all build tools generate various levels of hate :-)

Second it's another Google project that generates good developer docs from source code using doxygen and markdown. These docs look good on github directly (https://github.com/google/flatbuffers/tree/master/docs/sourc...) as they are markdown, and even better on the dedicated site where they have custom css.

If I were to write a C++ library, I'd definitely copy these 2 approaches.
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"..generally do work".

If that were so, then could you explain the section at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuro-linguistic_programming#S... ? Pulling three quotes from it, "controlled trials failed to show any benefit from NLP", "Numerous literature reviews and meta-analyses have failed to show evidence for NLP's assumptions or effectiveness as a therapeutic method", and "Among the reasons for considering NLP a pseudoscience are that evidence in favor of it is limited to anecdotes and personal testimony".

What evidence was enough for you to conclude that the methods "generally do work"?
I think the GP would have been fine forfeiting what he had paid for a cancellation. Homejoy was asking him to pay MORE for a canceled appointment than if the appointment had actually happened, ie he would lose what he had paid plus $10. How is that fair?
Dual_EC was the default PRNG for the RSA BSAFE library. The only actual numbers I've seen regarding how popular the library was this researcher's findings[1] in which he did a scan of 21.8 million IP addresses and managed to find 720 servers using it (to be fair, that's a lower bound as there were two implementations of BSAFE and only one was detectable remotely). It was generally easier use a PRNG provided by the OS or use an open source library for free. As a testament to how unpopular Dual_EC was, there was a bug in OpenSSL for years that prevented it from working at all when Dual_EC was enabled, and it wasn't discovered until after Snowden.

[1] http://dualec.org/
Great article, with rules that can be applied in other UIs, too.

The exclusive use of female pronouns for 1980s adventure game players is quite amusing to me, though.
"Balance commercial profit with public benefit" isn't a thing that happens voluntarily and asking nicely for it is a joke. If we want pu lic benefit, we're going to have to make it ourselves, or take it. I'm going to ride a unicorn off into a sunset before people making money on the Internet (or elsewhere) are going to suddenly grow a conscience.
I think you might be misinterpreting the meaning of "should" in these discussions. Nobody's claiming that a CEO is ethically obligated to adhere to a certain remuneration strategy or that employees with certain skills legally should be paid a certain wage... people are just giving their opinion on what they believe is sensible or stupid. Sort of like "you probably shouldn't eat that entire box of cookies."
Just to add context: this is a post from a person involved in the project since 2004. It is a bit bitter but I found it interesting to read ("What happened to FFmpeg" by Kostya)

http://codecs.multimedia.cx/?p=339
Thanks. I think it is more to do with the varied nature / expertise of the people in the network - especially if one is an entrepreneur. In terms of location, a distributed and virtual network should suffice too.
Any suggestions for an entrepreneur?
I did as well, honest communication != nice communication.

Also his riposte pretty much destroyed the argument of the person he was responding too.
Probably the same kind of people who say that relative wealthy/income inequality does not matter, when discussing other topics.
I'm using Handy here in London and it's amazing, cheap (so I tip the cleaner very well) and they will do a 2h clean (usually here in London most don't bother, want 3h) really early in the morning.

I imagine homejoy would be the same. I have no idea how the company will make money however.
The web I want has websites using SHA2-based TLS certificates and TLS cipher suites that aren't vulnerable to padding oracle attacks (AES CBC).
Some people associate their worth with what they earn in a way others don't.

I've never really understood that mindset, back when I worked for other people I didn't give a shit what other people earnt as long as what I earnt was enough to cover my overheads and seemed reasonable for the work I was putting in.
I started using Sidecar, and more recently Uber, because I couldn't get a cab ride.

There were plenty of times I tried calling for a cab in SF's SOMA district, only to be disappointed when either no one answered the phone and/or no one showed up. If you happen to live in an area where one can realistically have a chance of hailing a cab, and you call for a cab, it's probably more like ordering a pizza. Place the call, and it'll show up eventually.
Dude, you can't use Occam’s razor to select between one theory and "the idea of there being a better theory" o_0

Fine, there might be an underlying theory that explains everything better than the "power" theory, BUT YOU HAVE TO PROVIDE IT before you can argue that it is superior.
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A responsive website would be a good start...
How might they achieve that?
Same could be said for human caused global warming..
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Cyclone is another interesting project that adds regions to C (and much much more )

https://cyclone.thelanguage.org/wiki/User%20Manual/

unfortunately it doesn't look maintained anymore ,which is a pity because the language looks fantastic. Just learned about it this year...
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however it's not necessarily "global" in the sense that they monitor all communication.

It is very much global in the sense that they monitor all communication.

How about actually reading some of the sources that you were just provided with?
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Homejoy provides a service. The OP cancelled that service. What service was rendered that required an additional payment to be fair to Homejoy?
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I had this at one job, I was a developer and earnt considerably more (though market rate) than the office manager.

She had a vendetta against me from day one with constant jibes about pay and such as prior to me starting she'd earnt the most out of the staff there.

It progressed into her making a landgrab (decided that I had to clear all days off and holidays through her etc) which I countered by speaking to my boss (and the company owner) who then told her that I was nothing to do with her and she should get back to managing the job of an office manager.

If I were not so thick skinned it would have been a deeply unpleasant experience.
25% of the wages? Sounds like they were just greedy as much as anything else. Of course the customers are going to be looking to cut out the middleman as soon as possible with that kind of commission.
Pro-tip: https://developer.yahoo.com/blogs/ydn/temporarily-disable-cs...
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