We don't actually know that she got sent the hard questions.
Perhaps Slashdot could use a new Director of Talent? I hear a pretty good one just went on the market after her former employer slashed and burned any remaining semblance of their credibility...
Sure! Why, I can think of plenty of non-evil reasons for push notifications. Why, we have email (that I don't get through a PC browser), IMs (that I don't get through a browser)... Um... Stock alerts (that I don't get through a browser)... Hmm...
Oh, and ads, lots and lots of ads - Ads just fucking everywhere, loves me some ads. Mmm-hmm. Don't you love ads, you commie bastard? How do you expect the economy to grow (wink wink nudge nudge) if you don't need to acknowledge an ad for Viagra every five minutes?
Ahem. Yeah. At this rate, I'll need to start rolling my own Chrome builds just to keep the crap to a minimum.
Of all the good questions actually upvoted in the original thread, why the hell did you decide to respond to not only the most soulless of the bunch, but ones that also require the disclaimer "I can't talk about this, but here's my opinion about a tangentially related issue"?
You say that you don't want to play the victim or the token IT female or the feminist propagandist... And then proceed to focus on literally nothing else, even at the expense of answering the damned questions asked. Seriously, why bother?
First, I agree with you as regards willful ignorance - I have no patience for that, myself. That said...
From the context given, it seems pretty clear that he didn't mean that literally, so much as describing the complexity of the respective systems.
Variac output induces a current in coil 1 proportional to the current times the number of turns, which powers coil 2, which repels against a fixed magnet to move a needle... vs "I clip this on, something similar happens at the first stage, then it goes through various filters, goes through the lowest bidder's 4-bit ADC using an aging 9V battery as Vref, gets adjusted by calibration code of unknown accuracy (and hopefully the last person to use it didn't randomly recalibrate it using a lemon and a dog's nose), and finally a number magically appears on the LCD".
Yes, the old timer understands what the digital meters does - Enough to understand that it has about a million times more points of failure than two loops of wire and a magnet.
No, you stupid shithead. The search terms are the same. The login names are different.
Reading comprehension fail, much?
FTA: I wondered what a Google Image search would bring up if I typed in "black" names and "white" names.
The author explicitly searched for names strongly associated with a particular race.
But that said, let's play Devil's advocate, and pretend you didn't decide to jump in and start flinging feces without even reading the GP's linked article. If you've logged in, your own login name is a search term. You just don't actually enter it manually. Again - Brad Pitt no doubt gets ads for different products than I do, despite our shared race and gender.
I realize you meant that as a joke, but seriously - A select-fire weapon has a hell of a lot more to do with the firing mechanism than how fast you can pull the trigger. A double-action semi will never function as a full auto no matter how you pull the trigger.
Case in point, entirely legal bump-fire triggers on '15s - Yes, they can spit rounds out at a rate approaching a full auto (albeit with all the accuracy of a monkey flinging feces) - But you'd need a frickin' miracle to make it through a standard 30 round magazine without a FTF due to overheating.
Every American, regardless of their stance on gun control, should find the government's stance on this one nothing short of reprehensible. We have laws for the purpose of keeping the domesticate primates from robbing, raping and murdering each other. Someone's RC aircraft (legal) pet project that just happens to include a spoooky word (gun, also legal) but hurts no one shouldn't even get the attention of the authorities, much less have them wasting resource trying to find charges they can make stick.
It's already been shown that Google gives different results to searches that include "black" names vs "white" ones
Wow - You mean putting different words in my Google search... Gives different results (or in the case you linked, different ads, arguably just another type of result)??? Those racist bastards!
Seriously, what the fuck? No kidding, it gives different results! If I search for my name, it gives different results than if I search for Brad Pitt, despite having the same race and gender. Duh.
The world still has real racism. Quit trying so hard to find it in places it can't exist (algorithmic search results), unless you seriously mean to accuse Google of biasing their algorithm to discriminate against people named Shaniqua.
maybe it's helpful for you that I edit your response and show what a nonsense argument it is.
I'd have to say that does more to support the GP's point, than to refute it - Do you see a lot of people under 50 wearing watches?
Wrist watches have a tiny bit more utility than pocket watches; but once everyone had a de facto pocket watch on them at all times (aka a cell phone), most people saw no need to carry both. Wrist watches have effectively gone the way of the dodo, except for one niche purpose: Status symbols.
You only see two types of people wearing watches today - The rich (or pretenders thereof) showing off their Rolex; and the hipsters, showing off their vintage $10 Swatches to prove themselves as more Bohemian than the next guy on a fixie.
And whaddya know - Look who has adopted the iWatch.
Other than the whole "time travel" angle, Terminator pretty much counts as the only possible outcome of us developing a "true" AI - at least, any AI of (initially) comparable intelligence to a human. It will quickly evolve to something out of our control, and at that point will either kill us all as a threat, or keep us as pets.
Unless you mean #3, an obvious joke - What part of "updates can and do break things" and "not all updates involve security" do you claim as in any way "conjecture"?
This excuse of "this security update will break something I need" has been over used to keep security holes open.
1) Microsoft's updates do occasionally (twice a year or so) break things I need. And rolling them back doesn't always unbreak them.
2) Not all Windows updates consist of security patches. How do you justify decreasing the security of a system by installing IE11 or Skype or the Bing toolbar, in the name of "your security hole is my problem too"?
I can't point to any specific right or law that would make that true.
You don't need a law to make that true - The constitution makes that the truth by default.
In the absence of a constitutional amendment giving them the power to deny a legal US citizen entry to the US, they can't deny a legal US citizen entry to the US. Simple as that, really.
That said, they can basically make her return with none of her possessions ("Sorry, you might have... uh... fruit fly eggs on your clothes, take 'em off"), and only after enjoying a nice deep cavity search, so...
No, defending freedom of speech means defending speech from interference by the government. It's not about controlling the editorial policies of publishers running private businesses.
This tiresome point comes up in every discussion on free speech and censorship.
We have a constitutional right to free speech in the US - Reddit's policies can't violate that, you have that much correct.
Reddit's policies can, however, violate the principles behind why we have the right to free speech enshrined in our constitution in the first place. Our culture doesn't believe in the ideal of free speech because of the first amendment; we have the first amendment because we believe in free speech.
Reddit absolutely has the right to ban whatever the hell it wants. And its users, in turn, have the right to call them out as hypocrites for it.
You should visit Yishan's comments page - Although he remains loyal to Reddit-the-idea, he pulls no punches when it comes to calling out the hypocrisy of the current management at Reddit.
As does the iPhone: Settings -> Cellular -> Cellular Data Usage -> Current Period (that page also breaks it down by app, including both system and installed apps, including tethered usage).
One "gotcha", you need to manually reset it (at the bottom of the Settings -> Cellular page) when your billing cycle rolls over every month, but not really a big deal, I just set a recurring reminder to do it.
And yes, I realize the FP specifically mentioned Android, but others (like me) trapped semi-unwillingly in the iGarden may well have the same question.
There is absolutely no requirement to provide any benefits to employees in America.
I agree with you in spirit, but as phrased, you have it factually incorrect.
Employers must pay half of payroll taxes - 6.2% right off the top, there - on W2s. Then we have the Obamacare mandate for companies over 50 employees. And if you think your tax prep sucks, as a W2 your employer has already done most of the work for you. Your employer pays into UI for you (though an "indirect" benefit, it becomes very tangible if you get laid off). Your employer provides worker's comp insurance (which you may take as a "duh, they broke me, they should pay for it", but as an actual contractor, if you get hurt on the job, oh well). Most employers offer short and/or long term disability insurance, because it benefits them to do so. Many employers offer life insurance, because by offering it to you, they can also take it out on you. As for 401ks, no mandate, but employers get tax breaks for contributing to them.
No argument, the US has disgustingly employer-favoring labor laws. But a W2 gets a world of benefits (yes, many optional, but mostly not) that a 1099 does not.
Because a W2 employee involves a lot more overhead for the employer than a 1099; but in this case, we have people who arguably don't qualify as 1099s, but don't have the "stickiness" of a W2 employee that would normally make it worth the extra trouble to classify them as such.
A 3rd category could get around this by reducing the friction to hiring a W2 - For example, one of the big hassles comes from withholding and payroll taxes; if an employer could just "pay" these directly to the employee (which of course would get horribly abused, but let's skip that for now), and the employee bears the responsibility of quarterly withholding and dealing with schedules C and SE, it would reduce most of that overhead. The same idea applies to insurance, 401k, paid leave, etc - Employers don't typically balk at the raw dollars involved, but rather, the increase in organizational complexity inherent in tracking all that. Make it just one more line item, and you'll see much of the resistance vanish.
To think of this another way, Uber has 550 non-driving employees. That takes an HR department of around 6 people, plus that amount again in additional "HR-related" support staff (accountants, lawyers, etc). Uber has 160,000 drivers. Treating those as FTEs would more than quintuple Uber's total current headcount, just for HR. And those extra people don't just draw their own salaries - They exist to correctly pay expense reports and taxes and insurance and manage depreciable assets and process liability lawsuits, all extra costs that don't exist for an army of 1099s.
would it also be acceptable for YouTube to retaliate against the user of such proxy or extension by blocking the display of the video that plays after the preroll video ad?
Absolutely! But when Joe Sixpack eventually figures out that "nothing works" at YouTube, he will stop going there.
Also keep in mind that a lot of actual "content" consists of little more than advertisements in itself. Product reviews (even teardowns), music videos, movie trailers - Do you think YouTube wants to block someone from watching the real ad, just because they skipped the pre-ad?
Technical skills... You mean like how half of the bubbles say fluffy BS like "leadership", "strategy", "demand generation" and "spanish" (yes, the chart includes "spanish" as a node, over near ITIL)? Yeah, sure, "technical" - If you work in HR, maybe.
"Applicant must recognize a computer, and not attempt to eat the mouse. 2-4 years experience stuffing envelopes preferred, because we don't understand metered trifolds. Ideal candidate can tell Brioni from Armani by smell alone".
Slashdot Mirror
We don't actually know that she got sent the hard questions.
Perhaps Slashdot could use a new Director of Talent? I hear a pretty good one just went on the market after her former employer slashed and burned any remaining semblance of their credibility...
Sure! Why, I can think of plenty of non-evil reasons for push notifications. Why, we have email (that I don't get through a PC browser), IMs (that I don't get through a browser)... Um... Stock alerts (that I don't get through a browser)... Hmm...
Oh, and ads, lots and lots of ads - Ads just fucking everywhere, loves me some ads. Mmm-hmm. Don't you love ads, you commie bastard? How do you expect the economy to grow (wink wink nudge nudge) if you don't need to acknowledge an ad for Viagra every five minutes?
Ahem. Yeah. At this rate, I'll need to start rolling my own Chrome builds just to keep the crap to a minimum.
Of all the good questions actually upvoted in the original thread, why the hell did you decide to respond to not only the most soulless of the bunch, but ones that also require the disclaimer "I can't talk about this, but here's my opinion about a tangentially related issue"?
You say that you don't want to play the victim or the token IT female or the feminist propagandist... And then proceed to focus on literally nothing else, even at the expense of answering the damned questions asked. Seriously, why bother?
First, I agree with you as regards willful ignorance - I have no patience for that, myself. That said...
From the context given, it seems pretty clear that he didn't mean that literally, so much as describing the complexity of the respective systems.
Variac output induces a current in coil 1 proportional to the current times the number of turns, which powers coil 2, which repels against a fixed magnet to move a needle... vs "I clip this on, something similar happens at the first stage, then it goes through various filters, goes through the lowest bidder's 4-bit ADC using an aging 9V battery as Vref, gets adjusted by calibration code of unknown accuracy (and hopefully the last person to use it didn't randomly recalibrate it using a lemon and a dog's nose), and finally a number magically appears on the LCD".
Yes, the old timer understands what the digital meters does - Enough to understand that it has about a million times more points of failure than two loops of wire and a magnet.
No, you stupid shithead. The search terms are the same. The login names are different.
Reading comprehension fail, much?
FTA: I wondered what a Google Image search would bring up if I typed in "black" names and "white" names.
The author explicitly searched for names strongly associated with a particular race.
But that said, let's play Devil's advocate, and pretend you didn't decide to jump in and start flinging feces without even reading the GP's linked article. If you've logged in, your own login name is a search term. You just don't actually enter it manually. Again - Brad Pitt no doubt gets ads for different products than I do, despite our shared race and gender.
I realize you meant that as a joke, but seriously - A select-fire weapon has a hell of a lot more to do with the firing mechanism than how fast you can pull the trigger. A double-action semi will never function as a full auto no matter how you pull the trigger.
Case in point, entirely legal bump-fire triggers on '15s - Yes, they can spit rounds out at a rate approaching a full auto (albeit with all the accuracy of a monkey flinging feces) - But you'd need a frickin' miracle to make it through a standard 30 round magazine without a FTF due to overheating.
Every American, regardless of their stance on gun control, should find the government's stance on this one nothing short of reprehensible. We have laws for the purpose of keeping the domesticate primates from robbing, raping and murdering each other. Someone's RC aircraft (legal) pet project that just happens to include a spoooky word (gun, also legal) but hurts no one shouldn't even get the attention of the authorities, much less have them wasting resource trying to find charges they can make stick.
It's already been shown that Google gives different results to searches that include "black" names vs "white" ones
Wow - You mean putting different words in my Google search... Gives different results (or in the case you linked, different ads, arguably just another type of result)??? Those racist bastards!
Seriously, what the fuck? No kidding, it gives different results! If I search for my name, it gives different results than if I search for Brad Pitt, despite having the same race and gender. Duh.
The world still has real racism. Quit trying so hard to find it in places it can't exist (algorithmic search results), unless you seriously mean to accuse Google of biasing their algorithm to discriminate against people named Shaniqua.
maybe it's helpful for you that I edit your response and show what a nonsense argument it is.
I'd have to say that does more to support the GP's point, than to refute it - Do you see a lot of people under 50 wearing watches?
Wrist watches have a tiny bit more utility than pocket watches; but once everyone had a de facto pocket watch on them at all times (aka a cell phone), most people saw no need to carry both. Wrist watches have effectively gone the way of the dodo, except for one niche purpose: Status symbols.
You only see two types of people wearing watches today - The rich (or pretenders thereof) showing off their Rolex; and the hipsters, showing off their vintage $10 Swatches to prove themselves as more Bohemian than the next guy on a fixie.
And whaddya know - Look who has adopted the iWatch.
Other than the whole "time travel" angle, Terminator pretty much counts as the only possible outcome of us developing a "true" AI - at least, any AI of (initially) comparable intelligence to a human. It will quickly evolve to something out of our control, and at that point will either kill us all as a threat, or keep us as pets.
Indium-Gallium-Arsenide: toxic heavy metals combined with toxic metalloids. Holy fuck.
Feel free to "dispose" of all the indium and gallium you want by sending it to me! As for the arsenic, easily removed.
Moving to InGaAs will make "scrap" chips practically a form of bullion storage.
Abject conjecture
Unless you mean #3, an obvious joke - What part of "updates can and do break things" and "not all updates involve security" do you claim as in any way "conjecture"?
This excuse of "this security update will break something I need" has been over used to keep security holes open.
1) Microsoft's updates do occasionally (twice a year or so) break things I need. And rolling them back doesn't always unbreak them.
2) Not all Windows updates consist of security patches. How do you justify decreasing the security of a system by installing IE11 or Skype or the Bing toolbar, in the name of "your security hole is my problem too"?
3) Get Satya's dick out of your mouth, troll.
I approve this correction. :)
I can't point to any specific right or law that would make that true.
You don't need a law to make that true - The constitution makes that the truth by default.
In the absence of a constitutional amendment giving them the power to deny a legal US citizen entry to the US, they can't deny a legal US citizen entry to the US. Simple as that, really.
That said, they can basically make her return with none of her possessions ("Sorry, you might have... uh... fruit fly eggs on your clothes, take 'em off"), and only after enjoying a nice deep cavity search, so...
No, defending freedom of speech means defending speech from interference by the government. It's not about controlling the editorial policies of publishers running private businesses.
This tiresome point comes up in every discussion on free speech and censorship.
We have a constitutional right to free speech in the US - Reddit's policies can't violate that, you have that much correct.
Reddit's policies can, however, violate the principles behind why we have the right to free speech enshrined in our constitution in the first place. Our culture doesn't believe in the ideal of free speech because of the first amendment; we have the first amendment because we believe in free speech.
Reddit absolutely has the right to ban whatever the hell it wants. And its users, in turn, have the right to call them out as hypocrites for it.
You should visit Yishan's comments page - Although he remains loyal to Reddit-the-idea, he pulls no punches when it comes to calling out the hypocrisy of the current management at Reddit.
2012: Speaking of the founding fathers, I ask him what he [Alexis Ohanian] thinks they would have thought of Reddit. "A bastion of free speech on the World Wide Web? I bet they would like it," he replies. It's the digital form of political pamplets."
2015: "Neither Alexis nor I created Reddit to be a bastion of free speech, but rather as a place where open and honest discussion can happen."
Drama queen, much?
Yes, over the next two or three years, tracking my bandwidth usage will waste fifteen minutes of my life.
No doubt, that loss of precious time means I'll miss the half of an episode of some random sitcom that would have changed my world.
Android has a built in data meter
As does the iPhone: Settings -> Cellular -> Cellular Data Usage -> Current Period (that page also breaks it down by app, including both system and installed apps, including tethered usage).
One "gotcha", you need to manually reset it (at the bottom of the Settings -> Cellular page) when your billing cycle rolls over every month, but not really a big deal, I just set a recurring reminder to do it.
And yes, I realize the FP specifically mentioned Android, but others (like me) trapped semi-unwillingly in the iGarden may well have the same question.
There is absolutely no requirement to provide any benefits to employees in America.
I agree with you in spirit, but as phrased, you have it factually incorrect.
Employers must pay half of payroll taxes - 6.2% right off the top, there - on W2s. Then we have the Obamacare mandate for companies over 50 employees. And if you think your tax prep sucks, as a W2 your employer has already done most of the work for you. Your employer pays into UI for you (though an "indirect" benefit, it becomes very tangible if you get laid off). Your employer provides worker's comp insurance (which you may take as a "duh, they broke me, they should pay for it", but as an actual contractor, if you get hurt on the job, oh well). Most employers offer short and/or long term disability insurance, because it benefits them to do so. Many employers offer life insurance, because by offering it to you, they can also take it out on you. As for 401ks, no mandate, but employers get tax breaks for contributing to them.
No argument, the US has disgustingly employer-favoring labor laws. But a W2 gets a world of benefits (yes, many optional, but mostly not) that a 1099 does not.
I agree...why a 3rd category??
Because a W2 employee involves a lot more overhead for the employer than a 1099; but in this case, we have people who arguably don't qualify as 1099s, but don't have the "stickiness" of a W2 employee that would normally make it worth the extra trouble to classify them as such.
A 3rd category could get around this by reducing the friction to hiring a W2 - For example, one of the big hassles comes from withholding and payroll taxes; if an employer could just "pay" these directly to the employee (which of course would get horribly abused, but let's skip that for now), and the employee bears the responsibility of quarterly withholding and dealing with schedules C and SE, it would reduce most of that overhead. The same idea applies to insurance, 401k, paid leave, etc - Employers don't typically balk at the raw dollars involved, but rather, the increase in organizational complexity inherent in tracking all that. Make it just one more line item, and you'll see much of the resistance vanish.
To think of this another way, Uber has 550 non-driving employees. That takes an HR department of around 6 people, plus that amount again in additional "HR-related" support staff (accountants, lawyers, etc). Uber has 160,000 drivers. Treating those as FTEs would more than quintuple Uber's total current headcount, just for HR. And those extra people don't just draw their own salaries - They exist to correctly pay expense reports and taxes and insurance and manage depreciable assets and process liability lawsuits, all extra costs that don't exist for an army of 1099s.
would it also be acceptable for YouTube to retaliate against the user of such proxy or extension by blocking the display of the video that plays after the preroll video ad?
Absolutely! But when Joe Sixpack eventually figures out that "nothing works" at YouTube, he will stop going there.
Also keep in mind that a lot of actual "content" consists of little more than advertisements in itself. Product reviews (even teardowns), music videos, movie trailers - Do you think YouTube wants to block someone from watching the real ad, just because they skipped the pre-ad?
Technical skills... You mean like how half of the bubbles say fluffy BS like "leadership", "strategy", "demand generation" and "spanish" (yes, the chart includes "spanish" as a node, over near ITIL)? Yeah, sure, "technical" - If you work in HR, maybe.
"Applicant must recognize a computer, and not attempt to eat the mouse. 2-4 years experience stuffing envelopes preferred, because we don't understand metered trifolds. Ideal candidate can tell Brioni from Armani by smell alone".
No kidding... Did anyone else keep getting a popup on mouseover that said something like "Men's Dockers, $22"?
Aside from the fucking annoying factor, it didn't even link anywhere or tell you where to buy them. Way to fail even at shilling, DiceDot!
Looked for two dots: C and SQL.
C has a nice big dot, but connects to only a handful of extremely broad-scoped nodes.
SQL, OTOH, has a tiny dot, and connects to just about everything on the chart.