That's a good question. I don't use Github, so didn't know folks there tended to use actual photos of themselves as a matter of course. Most folks in the environment I'm in have avatars that are not portraits of them- if they bother with one at all.
I suppose the following additional analysis could be done: 1. Do men who look like women tend to statistically match women or men? 2. Do women who look like men tend to statistically match women or men?
Also perhaps interesting- do men whose gender are not made apparent statistically do better than those who do?
And, as per the post about sports teams, is there a general correlation between providing irrelevant information with lower acceptance, or is it specific to providing information that makes the provider seem different than the majority of the culture? This tries to get to more info re: the theory by Perens.
Finally, if one takes in to account the gender of the person deciding whether they want the code, do women and men accept code the same way, or is there statistical significance in whether the gender of the person whose code they are considering matches theirs?
Is it possible that those women who don't feel it necessary to point out their gender in situations where gender doesn't matter tend to also be those more likely to communicate well?
Is it possible that those women who make it a point to draw attention to their gender in situations where there is no reason to bring up gender at all, are also more likely to be less convincing regarding the usefulness of their work?
Yes, I know you're not supposed to read the article. You find out all sorts of interesting things like the fact that noone was actually fired, they were re-assigned to other stuff. You also find out why some of the stuff they were doing was interesting.
But the thing that caught my attention with shades of "we have to pass the bill before we know what it does" was that one of the reasons given not to transfer the people was that they were needed to figure out what the recent climate agreement actually meant.
So apparently the climate agreement was so badly expressed that the several people who were not transferred away from basic climate research are not sufficient to figure out what it actually meant? Didn't Kerry block the language change that would have made it require anything?
You're not the only one, but you are not the point of maximum profit that is being targeted.
You are basically saying you want to buy less stuff. This is not the path to more profit, unless you are also willing to overpay as much for less stuff as target market is willing to pay for most stuff.
I think it is smart to have a 30 year mortgage rather than a 15 year one because my rate is much less than I expect from my investments, and the difference in payments is being invested.
Yes, this does mean that I am somewhat more leveraged, but if the house value really drops enough to be less than I owe on it, well the reason the bank is charging me more than prime is because they are taking the risk of getting the house instead of the money in that case.
Paying off a loan is only a good return if the loan is at a higher rate than you can make using the money, with appropriate risk adjustment
I applaud you for being more honest than most about the fact you are willing to let your already reached conclusions influence your feelings about methods of analysis.
One thing about ticketing an autonomous car when it is not breaking the law, is that there is likely to be plenty of recorded telemetry fight the ticket in court. Google doesn't infractions on the record, and would likely put all necessarily legal effort into fighting it.
Would you really want to be the cop who went through all that hassle to not have a ticket upheld? Not the good sort of fame either.
In this case at least, the $1 coder has made his name known to everyone who RTFA. Those of us curious enough looked at his code.
It would not surprise me if the coder got some work from this.
The next $1 coder might not be as successful. Alternately, enough folks might look at code from successful bidders and hire the good ones that it is a worthwhile approach going forward.
I am interested to see how this turns out after more iterations.
Programming, by itself, is a technician skill. It's possible to be what I'd call a Software Engineer (NOT necessarily congruent to what the job descriptions for that title currently say). But just like Engineers in other fields have folks who help with the grunt work without having to think of larger issues, there are plenty of folks who turn out code to assist people doing the actual Engineering side of the work. There are also plenty of times that Engineers do the technician stuff and the engineering side (and I'd argue that to stay good at the engineering side it's healthy to do the tech side of your profession regularly).
Aside: Part of what is wrong with the industry is that the people assigned to do the Engineering side of the work are often idiots or non-existant, as the role is often poorly identified and assigned. You might for example having PHBs making what should be Engineering decisions. And it falls to Programmers to fill in the holes, or the project fails. Or both. This blurs the line more than in a lot of other fields.
I got sick of fighting 10 attempting to go in on my gaming box, the last straw being when it decided to fill up the SSD I use for the OS (programs and data on other drives).
I called Microsoft Support. It took them some time, but they not only got rid of about 4 gig of windows 10 junk that had been downloaded to my drive, but adjusted my registry to indicate that I was not eligible for the 10 upgrade.
I'm guessing that the registry change is the way to go for stopping 10 nagging and such.. For a few days I have been blissfully free of such things.
Had an international call to scotland drop a few times last week (landline my side, some sort of microsoft PBX/phone thing on the other). Rarely see this sort of problem in the US aside from stuff like cell phones in elevators or other bad coverage. Don't know where along the way the issue was, but it was frustrating.
I didn't realize Martian citizenship was quite so open as Canada's.
(for those who didn't know, Canada is one of the easiest western nations to get citizenship- it's pretty common for folks who want to live somewhere dangerous to secure Canadian citizenship so they will get a free evacuation if things go to hell where they actually want to live)
Don't tie your email account to your ISP. Decide how you are going to get your email independently, then your ISP is just the pipe.
Two benefits: - You can change your pipe without causing problems- your email address doesn't change - You have a lot more options for email providers than most people have options for ISPs.
A very simple solution, which will of course never be passed: Require each company to pay an extra $100k tax/year for each H1B worker on their payroll. This tax not to be offsetable by deductions or credits.
This means that except for cases where the H1B actually has a special in-demand skill that can't be found otherwise, it will not be wise to hire H1B instead of others.
Of course, it doesn't fix the problem of simply moving the jobs out of the country.
My parents bought a house at the top of a hill with the lower story mostly underground, and because the do-it-yourself builder didn't plan drainage properly still had water issues with heavy rain until reworking some things (which isn't easy after building). You need to be very careful with drainage.
It's not like there is one single standard DC voltage that everything runs off of. Switching between different DC voltages incurs a loss just like switching between the current AC standard and a given DC voltage incurs a loss.
If one were deploying everything from scratch, one could pick a standard. Right now, everyone is going to want to run the stuff they have, and the AC to DC converters on that stuff, even when they are exposed (i.e. wall-warts) instead of embedded in the device, are converting to a variety of different DC values.
Noone who cares about security and keeps themselves informed is using Internet Explorer anyway. Microsoft therefore doesn't have any bussiness need to deal with this quickly.
I wonder if it hurt them in jury selection- whether anyone paying enough attention to notice what samsung did for the town was removed to avoid bias, having an incidental effect of removing folks who pay attention.
If you read the article, that is exactly what they suggest. If failure rates are too far above predicted, they say to replace with new array. At least they are upfront about it.
Normally a pirated item does not equate to a lost sale.
But when a company shits on their paying customers, those customers may either avoid the company's games entirely in the future, or decide that that company is an exception to their usual practice of paying money & pirate the game.
You are right that some people seem to enjoy abuse. Those people probably bought the game on the first day out at full retail and will continue to do so. Most of them probably paid enough that their keys didn't get canceled and from them the whole thing is moot.
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That's a good question. I don't use Github, so didn't know folks there tended to use actual photos of themselves as a matter of course. Most folks in the environment I'm in have avatars that are not portraits of them- if they bother with one at all.
I suppose the following additional analysis could be done:
1. Do men who look like women tend to statistically match women or men?
2. Do women who look like men tend to statistically match women or men?
Also perhaps interesting- do men whose gender are not made apparent statistically do better than those who do?
And, as per the post about sports teams, is there a general correlation between providing irrelevant information with lower acceptance, or is it specific to providing information that makes the provider seem different than the majority of the culture? This tries to get to more info re: the theory by Perens.
Finally, if one takes in to account the gender of the person deciding whether they want the code, do women and men accept code the same way, or is there statistical significance in whether the gender of the person whose code they are considering matches theirs?
Is it possible that those women who don't feel it necessary to point out their gender in situations where gender doesn't matter tend to also be those more likely to communicate well?
Is it possible that those women who make it a point to draw attention to their gender in situations where there is no reason to bring up gender at all, are also more likely to be less convincing regarding the usefulness of their work?
Quoting from the article
"Marshall has said that no one would be fired and the staff would be redistributed."
Yes, I know you're not supposed to read the article. You find out all sorts of interesting things like the fact that noone was actually fired, they were re-assigned to other stuff. You also find out why some of the stuff they were doing was interesting.
But the thing that caught my attention with shades of "we have to pass the bill before we know what it does" was that one of the reasons given not to transfer the people was that they were needed to figure out what the recent climate agreement actually meant.
So apparently the climate agreement was so badly expressed that the several people who were not transferred away from basic climate research are not sufficient to figure out what it actually meant?
Didn't Kerry block the language change that would have made it require anything?
You're not the only one, but you are not the point of maximum profit that is being targeted.
You are basically saying you want to buy less stuff. This is not the path to more profit, unless you are also willing to overpay as much for less stuff as target market is willing to pay for most stuff.
I think it is smart to have a 30 year mortgage rather than a 15 year one because my rate is much less than I expect from my investments, and the difference in payments is being invested.
Yes, this does mean that I am somewhat more leveraged, but if the house value really drops enough to be less than I owe on it, well the reason the bank is charging me more than prime is because they are taking the risk of getting the house instead of the money in that case.
Paying off a loan is only a good return if the loan is at a higher rate than you can make using the money, with appropriate risk adjustment
I applaud you for being more honest than most about the fact you are willing to let your already reached conclusions influence your feelings about methods of analysis.
One thing about ticketing an autonomous car when it is not breaking the law, is that there is likely to be plenty of recorded telemetry fight the ticket in court. Google doesn't infractions on the record, and would likely put all necessarily legal effort into fighting it.
Would you really want to be the cop who went through all that hassle to not have a ticket upheld? Not the good sort of fame either.
In this case at least, the $1 coder has made his name known to everyone who RTFA. Those of us curious enough looked at his code.
It would not surprise me if the coder got some work from this.
The next $1 coder might not be as successful. Alternately, enough folks might look at code from successful bidders and hire the good ones that it is a worthwhile approach going forward.
I am interested to see how this turns out after more iterations.
Programming, by itself, is a technician skill. It's possible to be what I'd call a Software Engineer (NOT necessarily congruent to what the job descriptions for that title currently say). But just like Engineers in other fields have folks who help with the grunt work without having to think of larger issues, there are plenty of folks who turn out code to assist people doing the actual Engineering side of the work. There are also plenty of times that Engineers do the technician stuff and the engineering side (and I'd argue that to stay good at the engineering side it's healthy to do the tech side of your profession regularly).
Aside:
Part of what is wrong with the industry is that the people assigned to do the Engineering side of the work are often idiots or non-existant, as the role is often poorly identified and assigned. You might for example having PHBs making what should be Engineering decisions. And it falls to Programmers to fill in the holes, or the project fails. Or both. This blurs the line more than in a lot of other fields.
I got sick of fighting 10 attempting to go in on my gaming box, the last straw being when it decided to fill up the SSD I use for the OS (programs and data on other drives).
I called Microsoft Support. It took them some time, but they not only got rid of about 4 gig of windows 10 junk that had been downloaded to my drive, but adjusted my registry to indicate that I was not eligible for the 10 upgrade.
I'm guessing that the registry change is the way to go for stopping 10 nagging and such.. For a few days I have been blissfully free of such things.
Had an international call to scotland drop a few times last week (landline my side, some sort of microsoft PBX/phone thing on the other). Rarely see this sort of problem in the US aside from stuff like cell phones in elevators or other bad coverage. Don't know where along the way the issue was, but it was frustrating.
"Stupid" is what one would have called them if they haven't made sure they will be protected when these things happen.
As long as they've made sure that if their algorithms screw up, it's other people who pay for it, it's simply greed.
I didn't realize Martian citizenship was quite so open as Canada's.
(for those who didn't know, Canada is one of the easiest western nations to get citizenship- it's pretty common for folks who want to live somewhere dangerous to secure Canadian citizenship so they will get a free evacuation if things go to hell where they actually want to live)
Don't tie your email account to your ISP. Decide how you are going to get your email independently, then your ISP is just the pipe.
Two benefits:
- You can change your pipe without causing problems- your email address doesn't change
- You have a lot more options for email providers than most people have options for ISPs.
I first thought it was "Still Unstable In 25 Years Time?" and wondered how the developer failed to notice Windows..
A very simple solution, which will of course never be passed:
Require each company to pay an extra $100k tax/year for each H1B worker on their payroll. This tax not to be offsetable by deductions or credits.
This means that except for cases where the H1B actually has a special in-demand skill that can't be found otherwise, it will not be wise to hire H1B instead of others.
Of course, it doesn't fix the problem of simply moving the jobs out of the country.
My parents bought a house at the top of a hill with the lower story mostly underground, and because the do-it-yourself builder didn't plan drainage properly still had water issues with heavy rain until reworking some things (which isn't easy after building). You need to be very careful with drainage.
It's not like there is one single standard DC voltage that everything runs off of. Switching between different DC voltages incurs a loss just like switching between the current AC standard and a given DC voltage incurs a loss.
If one were deploying everything from scratch, one could pick a standard. Right now, everyone is going to want to run the stuff they have, and the AC to DC converters on that stuff, even when they are exposed (i.e. wall-warts) instead of embedded in the device, are converting to a variety of different DC values.
It appears to me from the kickstarter that shipping is $5 in the US.
Noone who cares about security and keeps themselves informed is using Internet Explorer anyway. Microsoft therefore doesn't have any bussiness need to deal with this quickly.
I wonder if it hurt them in jury selection- whether anyone paying enough attention to notice what samsung did for the town was removed to avoid bias, having an incidental effect of removing folks who pay attention.
If you read the article, that is exactly what they suggest. If failure rates are too far above predicted, they say to replace with new array. At least they are upfront about it.
Normally a pirated item does not equate to a lost sale.
But when a company shits on their paying customers, those customers may either avoid the company's games entirely in the future, or decide that that company is an exception to their usual practice of paying money & pirate the game.
You are right that some people seem to enjoy abuse. Those people probably bought the game on the first day out at full retail and will continue to do so. Most of them probably paid enough that their keys didn't get canceled and from them the whole thing is moot.
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