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Are there any Uber competitors in your city?

Every time I hear advice along these lines (which is precisely every single time anyone talks about HR), I always wonder what these HR people are taught in school. I think they have Human Resources related majors in school right? And I'm assuming a good amount of the people in HR have studied that, so then is this what they learn in school? To treat employees like shit and lie to them? I'm really curious.

This is true. Also a lot of grads just think, "I'm not a woman/minority therefore it doesn't affect me if I work there". Others think it sucks but will do it anyway because they want to get a big name on the resume and will take anything they can get.

But if you #DeleteUber won't your money be going to the taxi drivers? I'm not sure I understood your question.

I also hated the permissions increase they asked for about a month ago. They want to know my location for up to five minutes after I've finished taking a ride with their app? F--- that, uninstalled immediately.

Typical Travis. Reacting too late, and pretending to care only when a situation threatens revenue.

Just curious, what happens to employees who don't drink?

Here is a direct quote from Moldbug's blog:

    >> "Not all humans are born the same, of course, and the innate character and intelligence of some is more suited to mastery than slavery. For others, it is more suited to slavery. And others still are badly suited to either. These characteristics can be expected to group differently in human populations of different origins. Thus, Spaniards and Englishmen in the Americas in the 17th and earlier centuries, whose sense of political correctness was negligible, found that Africans tended to make good slaves and Indians did not. This broad pattern of observation is most parsimoniously explained by genetic differences."

The logic here seems circular. How do you get from a world with racism/sexism/etc issues, to one without? Simply by assuming it to be true?

How does acting like the problem doesn't exist solve the problem? If that's not what you mean, then do you mean we should all just suddenly stop being racist/sexist/bigotted/etc? Just like that? How would that work? How do you get your neighbor to go along with that? Or white middle manager, who means well but is uncomfortable hiring people of certain ethnicities or sexualities because of "culture fit"? It seems that anyone willing to do what you are saying, if I'm understanding it correctly, is probably already of the belief that a world without racism/sexism/etc would be better, and already behaves in the manner you suggest. In which case, we still live in a fucked up world and system where these things are actually still big problems.

There is no proof that white candidates are hard to interview there.

That quote sounds like the kind of thing that could easily be an immature employee who doesn't like the idea of a "VP of diversity", or doesn't like the tone of the VP's slides, taking something small and blowing it out of proportion.

Like, they tried to recommend a friend of theirs for an open position and the friend didn't get an interview and suddenly that n=1 case becomes "OMG! They won't let us interview white candidates!!"

This post title is misleading. There is no discussion of machine learning, just eigenvectors.

I've been wondering this for years as well. I don't understand what make IoT a big deal. Why do I want my fridge connected to the internet? Or my toaster, or whatever else? The only device I want connected is my cat feeder, or my coffee machine, so I can remote control them, or program their timing.

What are CB's?

The emails are leaked from the Sony hack. People have been combing through them and they came across the SnapChat ones this week. They came across ones about Angeline Jolie/Kevin Hart/etc last week, and they will probably find others to write blog posts about next week.

Can you give any detail on what the end result is? What kind of data do you end up with in redshift, and what kind of queries? What kind of data do you extract from mixpanel?

Is all this running continuously, or different schedules for each worker? Any of these event based rather than schedule based?

Tantalor, your post would be much better if you simply gave the solutions you think are better rather than being all smug. For example, what tool is he using that's wrong for the job, and what are examples of the right tool(s)?

Yes, radius varies, but the OP's solution addresses that, so what's your point?

10/10 would be drenched in smugness again.

I've found that no matter how good you were, as soon as you're gone you're fair game for being scapegoated.

Maybe, but it could also be calculated: "If we don't apologize, the mob will cry for our blood even more, and we obviously can't do a non-apology apology, because they'd hate us for that too. Just be humble and supplicate to them so we can keep our IPO--I mean reputation intact."

That makes total sense. Somehow I forgot about him, and assumed it was her partner. I was like "OK, i guess they have to boot everyone who was even remotely involved until they can sort it all out and decide on next steps."

But no, your guess makes a lot more sense.

I don't see the sexism here. If you changed her sex to male, people would be just as negative on him/her. A spouse who is not an employee, swinging their proverbial dick around (no pun intended), meddling with the company's employees, and harassing them?

I think people would hate the spouse just the same if it were a man, so I disagree with you on this.

I do EXACTLY this. Another thing I do in addition, is when I break (leave a cafe, leave the office, or stop working for the night), I write down a summary of exactly what I was in the middle of doing when i stopped, and what I should do next to finish that work. That makes it easier to pick back up when I sit down the next morning to work on the project.

The task list in the notes.txt file is also something I add to as I go. Sometimes if i'm doing something that requires a keeping track of more than i can remember in my head, I'll have little lists within the .txt that keep track. It's basically a stack data structure so I can keep track, and when i pop stuff off the stack, back up to a higher node, i have to add more to the stack to keep track of my progress deeper into another branch of the tree.

How do they get rich off the buy backs? Explain like I'm five. Do all the Joe Schmoes who own the common stock as art of their 401k's benefit from it as well?

I'm interested in this too.

The only thing I've read so far is Fowler's "NoSQL Distilled". It's not exactly a hardcore text but it does give a good overview of the different types of databases, and the tradeoffs they make in terms of consistency/availability.

What's your testing setup? Is your app mostly client side js?

Your CEO could care less, so things could be worse, correct?

Is this typical of altucher? This is one of the most poorly written articles/posts I've ever read.

The article is pretty spot on. SV IS stuck on the idea that the only "real" hacker is a white male, no more than 24 years of age (occasionally non-white).

What stuck out to me when reading the various articles about PG's interview that caused the hubbub about gender in tech was actually more his ageist stance than the perceived sexism. I'm glad someone wrote something calling that out.

I agree that these guys are huge tools. Sad thing is the majority of their uses probably don't fall within the tech community, so their negative image within tech won't really hurt them. Most people who use their site won't ever know who the founders are. The VC's backing them don't care if they are insufferable, they just want that money. Traffic = money, if they can generate the traffic, they get funding.

#3: "3) Large-scale article marketing or guest posting campaigns with keyword-rich anchor text links We don’t do this."

That is a flat out lie. Maybe it wasn't large scale, but this is exactly what they were doing by asking people to put the links back to their site to try to rank for Bieber lyrics.

I don't see any issues with it. He's trying to preserve credit for a work he created. Yes, even a blog post like this one is work. In the past, some of Scott Hanselman's has been ripped off. I think it was a talk or post about working from home, or something related to how to be productive.