Reporting your boss to HR on the first day is usually a very bad way to start at a new company for any reasons
WTF? Is there an expectation in Silicon Valley to be subject to some kind of weird hazing when you start a new job, by your boss?
"On my first official day rotating on the team, my new manager sent me a string of messages over company chat. He was in an open relationship, he said, and his girlfriend was having an easy time finding new partners but he wasn't. He was trying to stay out of trouble at work, he said, but he couldn't help getting in trouble, because he was looking for women to have sex with"
This is how Fowler claims the person she was reporting to was propositioning her on day one. She didn't apply to be a sex surrogate for a clueless loser whose own girlfriend preferred to have sex with other people.
Of open source evangelism, just like evangelism for the personal computer became unnecessary within a couple years of the release of MS Windows 3.0. Even CEOs (who previously said "I don't even know how to log in, I have people working for me who do that") and grandmothers got on board at that point.
Even Microsoft is busy trying to figure out how to use open source software as a strategy to attract developers and customers.
It still has to be promoted & nurtured and protected from being co-opted. Fail to do any of those and it won't be long before it's back to being a niche. Perhaps when an opensource desktop OS reaches macOS usage levels in the advanced Western economies we can relax a bit.
Price chart is here. Judging by the drop since late October, when they were at $5.50 USD, they have other problems. Guess we'll find out next week what's the impact of this theft.
Why did the Zcoin team even attempt to identify the attacker? Surely they realize that if they succeed, then no one will believe their claim about strong privacy guarantees and anonymity. This could harm their cryptocurrency by more than 592k$. Catch-22.
Indeed, he profited from a loophole in the system, and it's unclear whether this was illegal. The question of legality probably depends on the terms of service for Zerocoin, and on the laws of the country where the "attacker" resides.
But in human societies, when a lone wolf exploits a loophole, the lone wolf's behavior is usually unacceptable. When a group of individuals who possess social status exploit the loophole, their behavior is often acceptable. Isolated individuals with low social status have very few advantages in society. And when they figure out how to gain an advantage, society goes on the offensive against them.
Faster hardware is not always a boon. Now we have Java monsters that eat up all the performance of even decent hardware. Easy to learn? Nah, with the myriads of different libraries and paths it is a conceptual mess. And it was supposed to be the cure-all for viruses, but that has not materialized either.
The good Lord gave us C, Bash and the CLI , and we frail humans should not presume to improve on His creation.
Paai
Those are tools of the Devil; on the 1st day, the Lord created binary, microcode and logic gates and saw that it was good.
"America is so awesome it lowers CO2 without even trying" There was plenty more than just "without even trying"; there was a frackton of fracking going on, which led to deliberate, accidental & inadvertent releases of METHANE, which is a much bigger deal than CO2 in the short term. And let's not leave out the contamination of the water table nor the staggering increase in tremors in some areas.
But don't bother laying your "*Innocent Gaze*" on any of that. The vast majority of people who care about curtailing CO2 emissions also care a whole lot about pollution, too - in the USA and elsewhere. So don't expect them to cut any country any slack for "meeting their Kyoto goals" by exporting their GHG emissions and environmental damage overseas.
"Natural" variability is subject to the inputs into the system. If you removed sufficient heat from the system, your natural variability would be a giant ice covering, miles deep, which extended very far south, below where New York City now lies. As far as we know, a mere 2 degree change in the axial tilt of the Earth over 10s of 1000s of years can cause this to flip one way or the other.
IPCC projections are rarely worst case; they're pretty much a consensus of the AGW proponents vs the contrarians although the latter are much fewer in number and have been for 20+ years. The cooligans & deniers love to point out when the IPCC warming projections are too high but I haven't seen them readily point out that their Arctic sea ice decline is too low. I have heard a lot of noise about how Antarctic sea is has been increasing (slowly), not so much about the accelerating melt of some important Antarctic glaciers nor about the unexpected decline in the salinity of Antarctic Bottom Water.
"If you cant sort out a buffer overflow then dont call yourself a programmer" Several decades of severe network exploits show that a huge amount of software, commercial, free, open source, obscure, commonplace, whatever was written by people who can't call themselves programmers and used by those who don't have the 1st clue how to use it securely.
When I first got serious about computing, 2 decades gone, the common wisdom was that we had not choice but to keep on using the old (mostly very insecure) software because so much depended on it, it would be too costly to rewrite in more secure languages and in time it would all get fixed by better programming practices. We are also only 2 weeks away from the 15th anniversary of Bill Gates' "Security is Job 1" e-mail https://www.cnet.com/news/gate...
If we knew then what we knew now, how much damage would be caused by exploits, what it would cost to fix, remediate, the secrets exposed, the privacy intrusions, would that advice still hold or would we have been better off to say damn the torpedoes and rewrite all of it?
The most hilarious straight porn was -- wait for it -- "Walking Small", of course featuring a midget as the male star, but borrowing from "Walking Tall" as its backstory.
Sounds like a role Peter Dinklage was born to play, right down to his surname.
"We used to run reports near close and there were some nights where we made 80% of our revenue on porn movies. 75% of that gay porn" In the 80s, I worked at a magazine chain that also rented movies. Several locations would rent adult films but the revenue champ was the main location downtown that included gay porn. All employees with less than 5 yrs seniority were required to rotate among several locations; the worst part of working downtown was when a customer wanted a refund because of problems with the recording - we weren't allowed to issue a refund without verifying the customer's claims. I swear some would complain, pardon the pun, just to fuck with us.
...as much as I'd like to strongly disagree with him, I'm simply not going to go after something a parent says after losing a child. No matter how dumb or self-destructive the child was, etc.
That person is grasping at whatever straws they can to maintain their sanity. They're out of bounds.
Now, I would take to task the editor(s) of the Indianapolis Star for printing that shit. At a certain point, morally, one would have to say "You know, maybe that doesn't need to be in our article."
While I wouldn't cut him any slack for such a stupid statement, I don't hold it again anyone who would. But if he files a lawsuit against Tesla because of this, then both he & his lawyer are a$$holes$
Promises in advanced batteries are borderline worthless. Everyone has a superior battery.....that they can't deliver one. Ambri / Sadoway "dirt-cheap, made from dirt" / Japan Power Dual-carbon / Phinergy's aluminum-air/Sakti3/ Sumitomo low-temp molten , etc.
Hal's Battery Blog has notes on battery announcements going back years. Many, many promises, not many tangible advances.
"There are special cases where 4th and 5th Amendment protections do not apply, and the border is one of those" The "special cases border" is also a moving target and now extends 100 miles inland from the physical border. https://www.aclu.org/other/con...
So if you live in Seattle, San Francisco, ALL of Florida, 2/3rds of New England, New York, Charleston, Augusta, Washington, DC & Philly - among many other places where up to 200 million Americans live, you're a "special case" at any time.
"If anything, the financial motivations for climate science researchers are stronger" The strongest motivation for a climate scientist would be to prove everyone else wrong; the one who did that would become extremely wealthy.
"personal loss of going from a respected academic researcher to a barista is arguably greater than going from a double digit billionaire to a single digit billionaire" I imagine there aren't (m)any earth scientists among your circle of friends if you think their career choices are limited to either (potentially) lying about global warming or spraying foam on top of hot liquid.
"Even without the Model 3, Tesla will most likely hit the 200,000 US sales mark in Q4 2017 or Q1 2018 (probably 2017). That means the phase out period for the $7500 tax credit will start in either April or July 2018" I'm quite sure they'll try to shift deliveries to overseas markets to delay the tax credit phase-out as long as possible.
I think those figures are optimistic. I'll be happy to see 10,000 properly built Model 3s in 2017. And i'm hoping Tesla will hold off on the big reveal until they can really showcase something impressive, such as a fleet of them self-driving from Fremont to Sparks.
"and as I recall the Model 3 is designed to be much faster/easier to produce than its predecessors" That's was the stated *goal* but we have, as yet, no idea if they've succeeded. I imagine it takes building hundreds or thousands of cars to get a new production process running smoothly. And your supply chain has to be managed precisely.
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Reporting your boss to HR on the first day is usually a very bad way to start at a new company for any reasons
WTF? Is there an expectation in Silicon Valley to be subject to some kind of weird hazing when you start a new job, by your boss?
"On my first official day rotating on the team, my new manager sent me a string of messages over company chat. He was in an open relationship, he said, and his girlfriend was having an easy time finding new partners but he wasn't. He was trying to stay out of trouble at work, he said, but he couldn't help getting in trouble, because he was looking for women to have sex with"
This is how Fowler claims the person she was reporting to was propositioning her on day one. She didn't apply to be a sex surrogate for a clueless loser whose own girlfriend preferred to have sex with other people.
Of open source evangelism, just like evangelism for the personal computer became unnecessary within a couple years of the release of MS Windows 3.0. Even CEOs (who previously said "I don't even know how to log in, I have people working for me who do that") and grandmothers got on board at that point.
Even Microsoft is busy trying to figure out how to use open source software as a strategy to attract developers and customers.
It still has to be promoted & nurtured and protected from being co-opted. Fail to do any of those and it won't be long before it's back to being a niche.
Perhaps when an opensource desktop OS reaches macOS usage levels in the advanced Western economies we can relax a bit.
Price chart is here.
Judging by the drop since late October, when they were at $5.50 USD, they have other problems.
Guess we'll find out next week what's the impact of this theft.
Why did the Zcoin team even attempt to identify the attacker? Surely they realize that if they succeed, then no one will believe their claim about strong privacy guarantees and anonymity. This could harm their cryptocurrency by more than 592k$. Catch-22.
Wow, the ACs are in rare form today
Indeed, he profited from a loophole in the system, and it's unclear whether this was illegal. The question of legality probably depends on the terms of service for Zerocoin, and on the laws of the country where the "attacker" resides.
But in human societies, when a lone wolf exploits a loophole, the lone wolf's behavior is usually unacceptable. When a group of individuals who possess social status exploit the loophole, their behavior is often acceptable. Isolated individuals with low social status have very few advantages in society. And when they figure out how to gain an advantage, society goes on the offensive against them.
I think we need an AC Insightful mod
when a change is made to the *proceeding* statement
Did you mean "prEceeding"? If you, that's another 1 character bug you've created :-D
Faster hardware is not always a boon. Now we have Java monsters that eat up all the performance of even decent hardware. Easy to learn? Nah, with the myriads of different libraries and paths it is a conceptual mess. And it was supposed to be the cure-all for viruses, but that has not materialized either.
The good Lord gave us C, Bash and the CLI , and we frail humans should not presume to improve on His creation.
Paai
Those are tools of the Devil; on the 1st day, the Lord created binary, microcode and logic gates and saw that it was good.
Delphi.. Ohhh such wonderful memories..
I've heard its latest incarnation as Embarcadero Delphi is quite good but I'm no judge of programming environments
Between making SpaceX & Tesla profitable - or cutting the cash losses - and raising 5 kids, don't you have enough already on your plate?
"America is so awesome it lowers CO2 without even trying"
There was plenty more than just "without even trying"; there was a frackton of fracking going on, which led to deliberate, accidental & inadvertent releases of METHANE, which is a much bigger deal than CO2 in the short term. And let's not leave out the contamination of the water table nor the staggering increase in tremors in some areas.
But don't bother laying your "*Innocent Gaze*" on any of that. The vast majority of people who care about curtailing CO2 emissions also care a whole lot about pollution, too - in the USA and elsewhere. So don't expect them to cut any country any slack for "meeting their Kyoto goals" by exporting their GHG emissions and environmental damage overseas.
It's not a problem. It's natural variability.
"Natural" variability is subject to the inputs into the system. If you removed sufficient heat from the system, your natural variability would be a giant ice covering, miles deep, which extended very far south, below where New York City now lies.
As far as we know, a mere 2 degree change in the axial tilt of the Earth over 10s of 1000s of years can cause this to flip one way or the other.
IPCC projections are rarely worst case; they're pretty much a consensus of the AGW proponents vs the contrarians although the latter are much fewer in number and have been for 20+ years.
The cooligans & deniers love to point out when the IPCC warming projections are too high but I haven't seen them readily point out that their Arctic sea ice decline is too low. I have heard a lot of noise about how Antarctic sea is has been increasing (slowly), not so much about the accelerating melt of some important Antarctic glaciers nor about the unexpected decline in the salinity of Antarctic Bottom Water.
https://phys.org/news/2017-01-...
"If you cant sort out a buffer overflow then dont call yourself a programmer"
Several decades of severe network exploits show that a huge amount of software, commercial, free, open source, obscure, commonplace, whatever was written by people who can't call themselves programmers and used by those who don't have the 1st clue how to use it securely.
When I first got serious about computing, 2 decades gone, the common wisdom was that we had not choice but to keep on using the old (mostly very insecure) software because so much depended on it, it would be too costly to rewrite in more secure languages and in time it would all get fixed by better programming practices.
We are also only 2 weeks away from the 15th anniversary of Bill Gates' "Security is Job 1" e-mail
https://www.cnet.com/news/gate...
If we knew then what we knew now, how much damage would be caused by exploits, what it would cost to fix, remediate, the secrets exposed, the privacy intrusions, would that advice still hold or would we have been better off to say damn the torpedoes and rewrite all of it?
and I not sure learning C will help much with that.
The most hilarious straight porn was -- wait for it -- "Walking Small", of course featuring a midget as the male star, but borrowing from "Walking Tall" as its backstory.
Sounds like a role Peter Dinklage was born to play, right down to his surname.
"We used to run reports near close and there were some nights where we made 80% of our revenue on porn movies. 75% of that gay porn"
In the 80s, I worked at a magazine chain that also rented movies. Several locations would rent adult films but the revenue champ was the main location downtown that included gay porn. All employees with less than 5 yrs seniority were required to rotate among several locations; the worst part of working downtown was when a customer wanted a refund because of problems with the recording - we weren't allowed to issue a refund without verifying the customer's claims.
I swear some would complain, pardon the pun, just to fuck with us.
...as much as I'd like to strongly disagree with him, I'm simply not going to go after something a parent says after losing a child. No matter how dumb or self-destructive the child was, etc.
That person is grasping at whatever straws they can to maintain their sanity. They're out of bounds.
Now, I would take to task the editor(s) of the Indianapolis Star for printing that shit. At a certain point, morally, one would have to say "You know, maybe that doesn't need to be in our article."
While I wouldn't cut him any slack for such a stupid statement, I don't hold it again anyone who would.
But if he files a lawsuit against Tesla because of this, then both he & his lawyer are a$$holes$
Great news but I live in Canada. Any battery tech needs to be testing at -30 Celsius before I care.
Is the interior of your igloo usually that cold? I doubt that very much.
Promises in advanced batteries are borderline worthless. Everyone has a superior battery.....that they can't deliver one. /Sakti3/ Sumitomo low-temp molten , etc.
Ambri / Sadoway "dirt-cheap, made from dirt" / Japan Power Dual-carbon / Phinergy's aluminum-air
Hal's Battery Blog has notes on battery announcements going back years. Many, many promises, not many tangible advances.
https://halsbatteryblog.wordpr...
"There are special cases where 4th and 5th Amendment protections do not apply, and the border is one of those"
The "special cases border" is also a moving target and now extends 100 miles inland from the physical border.
https://www.aclu.org/other/con...
So if you live in Seattle, San Francisco, ALL of Florida, 2/3rds of New England, New York, Charleston, Augusta, Washington, DC & Philly - among many other places where up to 200 million Americans live, you're a "special case" at any time.
"If anything, the financial motivations for climate science researchers are stronger"
The strongest motivation for a climate scientist would be to prove everyone else wrong; the one who did that would become extremely wealthy.
"personal loss of going from a respected academic researcher to a barista is arguably greater than going from a double digit billionaire to a single digit billionaire"
I imagine there aren't (m)any earth scientists among your circle of friends if you think their career choices are limited to either (potentially) lying about global warming or spraying foam on top of hot liquid.
Prison numbers have been driven by minimum mandatory sentences for drug offenses since the 90's, not a "lock 'em up" mentality.
It's the same thing
"Even without the Model 3, Tesla will most likely hit the 200,000 US sales mark in Q4 2017 or Q1 2018 (probably 2017). That means the phase out period for the $7500 tax credit will start in either April or July 2018"
I'm quite sure they'll try to shift deliveries to overseas markets to delay the tax credit phase-out as long as possible.
I think those figures are optimistic. I'll be happy to see 10,000 properly built Model 3s in 2017.
And i'm hoping Tesla will hold off on the big reveal until they can really showcase something impressive, such as a fleet of them self-driving from Fremont to Sparks.
"and as I recall the Model 3 is designed to be much faster/easier to produce than its predecessors"
That's was the stated *goal* but we have, as yet, no idea if they've succeeded. I imagine it takes building hundreds or thousands of cars to get a new production process running smoothly. And your supply chain has to be managed precisely.