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Questioning the merit of meritocracy. (2009)

geekfeminism.org

3 pointsby hammerdrvor 12 Jahren0 comments

One year later, Hyperloop remains a fantasy

cnet.com

3 pointsby hammerdrvor 12 Jahren0 comments

'Habitable' planet discovered circling Tau Ceti star [12 light years away]

guardian.co.uk

2 pointsby hammerdrvor 14 Jahren0 comments

Testing CoffeeScript for Rails with Jasmine

reddit.com

1 pointsby hammerdrvor 14 Jahren0 comments

Feature Branching and Continuous Delivery Are Incompatible

derekhammer.com

1 pointsby hammerdrvor 14 Jahren0 comments

Rails, Coffeescript and Testing

derekhammer.com

8 pointsby hammerdrvor 15 Jahren1 comments

TFS is destroying your development capacity

derekhammer.com

81 pointsby hammerdrvor 15 Jahren27 comments

The American suburbs are a giant Ponzi scheme

underpaidgenius.com

174 pointsby hammerdrvor 15 Jahren167 comments

Ask HN: 280north breaks the mold?

15 pointsby hammerdrvor 16 Jahren6 comments

Ask HN: Hacker News Upvote Bug?

4 pointsby hammerdrvor 16 Jahren3 comments

Ask HN: How would you build the perfect team?

8 pointsby hammerdrvor 16 Jahren7 comments

Just a programmer?

pauldyson.wordpress.com

5 pointsby hammerdrvor 16 Jahren1 comments

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vor 9 Jahrendiscuss

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Caviar is hugely impactful to Square. Take a look at the 2017Q1 Shareholder Letter (https://s21.q4cdn.com/114365585/files/doc_financials/2017/Sq...) and see how much we are featured. We're growing fast and need you to help continue that growth.

Apply at https://squareup.com/careers/jobs?team=Caviar

vor 10 Jahrendiscuss

This.

# Before abolishing time zones

  I want to call my Uncle Steve in Melbourne. What time is it there?
  Google tells me it is currently 4:25am there.
  It's probably best not to call right now.

# After abolishing time zones

  I want to call my Uncle Steve in Melbourne. What time is it there?
  Google shows me a daylight map (First result https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/sunearth.html)
  It's probably best not to call right now.

We are just used to the insanity that is timezones. Of course, I say this because I have to deal with time and timezones every day at work and bugs are always prevalent. Each DST switch there are new bugs we find; every time we change our core date and time code there are bugs. Just painful.

In the end, we'd build new tools and intuitions around time. People would adapt and my life would be measurably better (though not completely solved; scheduling anything across a date boundary is odd. No one thinks of 1am as "tomorrow" but instead as "later tonight").

vor 11 Jahrendiscuss

Oh, for sure. I picked a source that had a lot of opinions that differed from mine as to consciously oppose my bias :) Thanks for the other links!

vor 11 Jahrendiscuss

FWIW, IIT is an extremely prestigious school system in India that has historically been geared toward the upper echelon of Indian society like private and ivy league schools have been in the United States.

There have been some efforts to rectify that through quotas, though from anecdotes of colleagues it sounds like it hasn't really been solved (e.g. no proper support system leads to disproportionate dropout rates)

https://www.quora.com/Do-you-think-Scheduled-Castes-SC-Sched...

vor 11 Jahrendiscuss

Warning: very little knowledge of Rust and Iron

Can someone explain why there is an extra Ok(...) in this? (I want to call it a function, but I'm not even familiar enough with Rust to be sure that it is a function).

Is it something that could be removed? Right now it just looks like boilerplate.

Edit: Thanks everyone! Ok is similar to a Right or Success of a Either/Result type of object.

vor 11 Jahrendiscuss

Just as an opposite anecdote, I find that I run into it all the time. Sometimes, its from people that are outside of the tech industry itself. Sometimes, it is from people that don't realize that they are saying such a thing. Sometimes, its from people of different cultural background (e.g. Chinese developers). I see this in SF, saw it in Chicago, Dallas, Atlanta and in the various countries I've worked in.

I also recognized that it has took me a lot of time and a lot of effort to get to a point where I recognize it. 10 years ago, many of the things that would set off the "Hey; that does seem right" alarm bell would be unconsciously ignored and taken at face value.

If I may presume, I'm going to suggest that your experience may be because you're more 'attuned' to racism than you are to sexism. For me, at least, it takes effort and willful learning to come to better grips with sexism, racism, ageism, etc. It's hard work!

vor 11 Jahrendiscuss

I don't disagree with the premise that double clicks are a broken thing on the web. There's too much of a cognitive shift between "the web" and "everything else" where double clicks are either a bad thing to do or a required action to complete tasks. Like the author said, even tech savvy people will double click things that they wouldn't need to.

But, saying that idempotency is hard and thus we should build features to get around it.. that seems wrong to me. The web is inherently a distributed system and you're going to have concurrent requests and weird edge cases that arise in those situations. The right way to handle that isn't to bandaid it with disabling client side behavior. That just hides to problem. Your server is the place to handle it.[1]

And, it really isn't that hard either. It's just a couple extra validations on your input before you do a write. There are places where it is more difficult but still not overly complicated to implement.

[1] Dogmatism alert. Of course, there are exceptions to everything that's a 'best practice'. Here, I'm just talking about disabling double-click as a general solution for the web to a concurrency problem.

vor 11 Jahrendiscuss

The Knowledge is the book that every library and "End of the World" kit should have in it.

vor 11 Jahrendiscuss

Not entirely sure what you're asking, but you should probably look into "schedulers" and other tools built on top of such ecosystems. Here are a few to get you started:

Docker ecosystem: swarm and/or compose

Mesos ecosystem: Chronos, Aurora, Marathon

CoreOS ecosystem: fleet

Hashicorp: Terraform

Amazon Container Service: works with the above, will likely build their own simple one in the near future

This is less about embedding images and about managing/"scheduling" them

Edit: Zikes mentioned Kubernetes, as well.

vor 11 Jahrendiscuss

Your functional test was a test that allowed you to experiment. You designed the parameters and then altered the variables involved under the conditions of those tests.

You probably even "called your shot" and make guesses about what would be successful before you even approached the problem.

Then you wrote a test and saw whether your guess was right or not. If not, then you misunderstood something and you dug deeper.

Software, in some ways, in simulated science.

vor 11 Jahrendiscuss

Writing the test is the experiment, in your example. You're playing with how it is going to be used and interacted without worrying about the details/implementation. You'll take care of that later.

vor 11 Jahrendiscuss

Thanks for the story. It's something to consider when being conscientious about these things.

I think a possible difference is that asking someone to share their experience directly invokes some kind of entitlement on the part of the asker.

But, I don't think that there is anything wrong with amplifying the messages of those underrepresented [1]. Many people with true experience are talking, but have trouble getting that message heard.

[1] With their permission. Don't shuttle around someone's personal story without permission. It can be damaging in ways that you're not aware.

vor 11 Jahrendiscuss

I agree with everything you said.

I was specifically speaking about people that pontificate about things they have no legitimate claim to have experienced. Being a Latin@ in the United States doesn't legitimize your claim to speak about rural peasants of Mexico (though, if your family has roots there you may have lingering first hand accounts that can color the discussion more than those without).

In fact, historians are one of the people I would consider a source, especially if their words are born from the interactions and studies done from interacting with real people. They make it their life's work to understanding the situation in which people live.

Also, everyone makes mistakes and/or embellishments. I make mistakes. People in their own experiences get caught up in those experiences instead of the truth. Historians get caught up in their own narrative of truthiness instead of truth. Skepticism and an open mind are great tools toward enlightenment.

So, yeah, sometimes white men can be more legitimate than others in their viewpoints. But far too often the voices of the privileged and uninformed drown out the voices of experience and truth. That's the tragedy.

vor 11 Jahrendiscuss

This is easy to beat: just go to the source. If there's a howling white man going on about injustice and how he's going to tell you about the struggles of women of color, First Nations and Imperialism.. ignore that person. Go talk to a (well.. several, actually) woman of color, member of a First Nation or a nation ravaged by European and/or American imperialism.

"But what can I do as a white man/white women/generally privileged person?" - Amplify. Your voice unjustly carries more weight than that of other people. If you can be the "Retweeters" of Social Justice, you'll be doing a lot of good. Just be sure to retweet the people with firsthand knowledge.

vor 11 Jahrendiscuss

Thanks for the insight. Do you know anything about "downward" shots. That is, bullets that go from the head towards the toe in line with the body. There were several in this case (and a couple in the case of Mike Brown).

Also, why do medical examiners often conflict when looking at the evidence? Is it open that much to interpretation? Are the primary medical examiners motivated in the wrong ways somehow? Or are the alternative opinions coming from quacks?

I realize you may not know all these answers, so I apologize for lobbing them all at you. It is hard to get genuinely balanced knowledge in these things and I want to be as informed as possible.

vor 11 Jahrendiscuss

The point is less about the specifics of the shooting (I think it was probably justified.. though 14 seems excessive) and more about the context surrounding it. Community dynamics change whenever there is a large influx of people. When that large influx is wealthy, strongly tied together, not a part of the existing community and commands the respect and deference of community officials, then those struggles become real.

I have no idea if this is true, but it may be that a community of neighbors that knew Alex well would have been less likely to call the cops, to give the police more information about his mental state, etc. and that those measures would have saved his life.

"Class warfare" is an apt term. Wealth is only a part of it.. this is the Old San Francisco (Hippie/Transient/Outcast) class and the New San Francisco (Techie) class. I'm a part of the latter (and live on the edge of the Mission and Bernal Heights). I'm part of the problem. But, I think I can also be a part of the solution.

There was a group dedicated to solving these problems called EngageSF. They met and discussed at local mission restaurants. I can't seem to find any information on them now, though. http://missionlocal.org/2014/02/new-and-old-residents-engage...

vor 11 Jahrendiscuss

We actually use slack (and hipchat, and jive, and whatsapp, and groupme, and skype, and who-knows-what-else.. ugh) for communications that we would consider sanitized for public consumption (so, no discussion about client IP, for example). The only approved chatroom/im tool that we use is GChat, though. The reason for that is that our internal team is comfortable with Google Apps as a (relatively) secure platform for communication.

They also approved of screenhero (I can guess why, but it would be a guess).

They have not approved of slack, hipchat, etc. for client-related communications because they are nervous about having that much liability not under our control. It also makes it difficult for our contracts team that would then be required to explain that client data could now be in either Google Apps or Slack.

I would say that these decisions are going to be SOP for a consultancy of a certain size.

I don't necessary agree with all of these decisions, but I understand and try to empathize with the other parties that would be inconvenienced.

Edit:

I think what happened is that screenhero got a verbal and passionate following within our consultancy that the decision to use screenhero was 'encouraged' into being adopted. We started using it under-the-radar when it was free and when it became paid, the organization realized how many people were using it successfully. It was a ground up effort.

It makes me sad that a tool we found so useful across our organization (which you can see above is incredibly fragmented) is being made inaccessible. I know you're trying to do right by your users and we're just a weird edge case, so no bad feelings. Just wish it were not so :(

vor 11 Jahrendiscuss

This saddens and frustrates me as a user. I love screenhero and it does its job well. I've used it for all of my remote interactions over the past year or so and was a happy paying customer (through our company).

Unfortunately, due to other concerns about paying for Slack[1], we probably will not be able to continue to use it. We'll be a once-happy customer that falls victim to this acquisition. It leaves a bad taste in my mouth :(

[1] It is expensive especially at our scale, we already pay for a couple chatroom-type/irc-like services, and the big one: long-lasting offsite chat logs present a difficult hurdle in client negotiations, a headache we just do not need

vor 11 Jahrendiscuss

Not entirely sure, but I think that's because it's a self-signed certificate.

vor 11 Jahrendiscuss

This team is attempting to fix just that for email:

https://pixelated-project.org/