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That's interesting the ones I remember were literally rings of static links, coordinated by the webmasters, presumably over email. I see what you mean now.

Duly noted

Hopefully hes just ending his career now.

Google shouldn't be soaking up all these ignorant young college boys if they're not mature enough to handle a workplace.

Not much about that memo was "factual", whatever that means.

If you distribute material like that, it will get leaked. That should be taken foregranted. If I got that memo I probably would have leaked it to the press, too.

But aren't web rings just composed of vanilla hyperlinks? Why does that need to be added as a feature? What's stopping people from making them now?

Is this a joke?

If you're interested in this, I highly recommend the author of EMACSPEAK's blog [1]. Very interesting, innovative stuff (at it least seems that way to me, I'm not an expert on TTS systems or anything).

[1] http://tvraman.github.io/emacspeak/blog/articles.html

iOS users are more affluent/more valuable to advertisers.

They're not even available where I live, can't say I'm surprised.

It's unsurprising that a Google engineer would believe that gender balance can't be addressed without fixing the college pipeline, but the fact is that virtually none of the software engineering we do in the industry --- very much including most of the work done at Google --- requires a college degree in the first place.

Bingo, Google could train a bunch of SWEs no problemo, but they'd rather externalize that cost. I figure most positions wouldn't require much more than 6 months of on-the-job training.

But people socialize in ways that are very different from apes. Humans are so deeply social by nature that we make other monkies look psychopathic by comparison. Show me an ape that performs charity to save other species. People clearly have a much deeper capacity for altruism, and form much much larger better integrated colonies than apes. We don't necessarily need to pick losers, humans are naturally willing to make sacrifices for the group even at the expense of their own individual reproduction.

Groups of people are more like insects than apes. Millions of apes could never coexist together the way human cities or ant colonies do.

Say what you will about the "frat boy monoculture" - for all of its shittiness at least it's mostly made up of people who are passionate about code, largely self-taught and self-motivated, and enjoy what they do.

Having worked at companies that employ tons of recent grads, I haven't found this to be the case at all. Pretty much everyone I've worked with who has a college degree (so almost everyone) is more "brogrammer" than "hacker" and didn't write code until they went to school. Many don't know their way around a UNIX environment and have never written code outside IntelliJ on a fancy macbook. They'll tell you lisp is scary because it has too many parens, and call software "apps". They don't use or are actively hostile to Free Software and uncritically consume marketing. This is the "frat boy monoculture", I find little redeeming about it, to say nothing of the bigotry.

I find the opposite is true of the weirdos, slackers and dropouts, who taught themselves for fun and were working when their better educated but less cultured peers were in school, but that is a small cohort.

It's not, the real business model here probably looks a lot like rapidshare.

Not any reason, wrongful termination lawsuits happen, and companies usually have processes for firing people, reviews to document performance etc..

VSCode has a built-in debugger which takes it dangerously close to being called a full-fledged IDE rather than just a text editor with plugins cough Atom cough

Is that a bad thing? I like debuggers.

Grow up, it's a workplace. People go there to make a living, not to be subjected to your half-baked political opinions. It's unprofessional.

And you believe those differences to be meaningful? To programming? And appropriate to discuss with coworkers?

I know what neuroticism is.

This article doesn't say anything about citations, unless I'm missing something. I've read the memo, "citations" (some of them hardly qualify) and all. "Anti-diversity" might be a little hyperbolic, but it's hard to argue it is anything else in good faith.

The author feels comfortable making the claim women are biologically more neurotic, in a professional setting, no less. His "citation" for this fact is Wikipedia. This is unimaginative sexist bullshit that everyone has heard before. That people feel the impulse to defend this is disgusting.

Whatever innate differences there are between men and women are small and nowhere near as big a factor in the gender-ratio as say, arrogant weirdos sending credos to their entire company declaring women unfit to work in their industry.

most television apps have adopted the annoying "play the next episode unless the user opts out in X seconds"

To be fair, this is how broadcast/cable TV always worked.

No, but everyone keeps telling me about it, it's on my TODO list.

Rhode Islander checking in. I'll share a story I heard from someone downcity many years ago, before this law was reversed in '09.

Buddy's (7-time wiseguy mayor of Providence, and 2-time convicted felon) usual driver was unavailable, and a detective was assigned to escort him. The mayor gives his new driver an address. The detective recognizes it, bit can't quite place it, and gets on his way.

When he gets there, it hits him. "Buddy, this is the address of a known brothel".

Buddy quips back "you must be a detective" and disappears into the building.

Extended stay hotels will offer rooms with a kitchens, and can accommodate a family of 5, maybe just not for a price you like.

Just be honest and say you like it cause its cheaper and you think your vacation is more important than the needs of residents.

The delay is lower for "partners" on Twitch I think, so they can technically support it, just not for every stream.

Hard to play a real-time game with a 7 second delay...

Find a more interesting career.

I just define a queue class which extends a blocking queue and overrides offer to call put and provide that to the executorservice.

Seems like a sorta horrible thing to say imo, 6 years is a long time to spend in prison.

Jeez, that is kinda concerning, how old are your friends kids?