GFK_of_xmaspast

Oracle does:

"Oracle's clout will come in part from the presence of its CEO, Safra Catz, who did not join the pro-Hillary Clinton chorus of other Silicon Valley honchos, and who is now working on Trump's transition team. " (http://fortune.com/2017/01/17/oracle-trump/)

No reason they can't rename something more appropriate after Calhoun, like a dumpster or sewage plant or something.

Sounds like someone needs a whole lot of collective labor action.

> does this maximize overall welfare

I'm not a utilitarian.

Oh wait mysticlabs appears to be the same person as the author, or at least a serious fan.

Boy there's nothing half as exciting as reading a dude's blog post about getting banned from a web forum. (Same guy apparently wrote this : https://medium.com/@trentlapinski/the-berkeley-riots-were-a-... )

Individual, one license.

Turns out an excellent way to improve your skill is to actually implement things.

I have both intellij (paid edition) and clion open right now.

Why would someone go to a Michael's when there's no shortage of independent framing shops pretty much everywhere?

> don't know how to patch a file or attach a diff to an email

How many minutes does it take to learn those skills?

I sell my labor in exchange for money, and so it's in my interest for wages to be as high as possible, if not higher.

First one I thought of and also you can write it directly.

Looking at those slides and watching the first part of the talk, it sounds as if he's re-invented LLVM IR, and poorly.

20 years ago when I was in grad school I did use octave to do my research, and it was 'mostly fine'. (Also I discovered that a couple of the matlab toolboxes I needed were just .m files and there was no technical reason that I couldn't just copy them into a local directory for octave to find; I consider this no worse than 'morally iffy' considering that we had a matlab site license)

> I'm pretty sure I have more in common with vagina-loving women (i.e. bisexual women and lesbians) than with only-penis-loving men (gay men).

How many of either do you know and / or call as friends?

> Do you ask them if they have a penis, or do you just let them use the bathroom

And in case anybody thinks this is just hyperbole:

http://www.dallasobserver.com/news/self-appointed-bathroom-c...

What's a genetic algorithm going to get you that a traditional numeric solution won't?

> retarded

Hey. Hey.

If they don't believe in the company why would they loan their shares instead of selling them.

Octave is basically a not-as-good-but-free version of matlab, and matlab is an abomination. See forex: http://archive.is/tCo6B

How much do you know about the history of Africa and relations with Europe over the past few hundred years?

White male here, I've never felt anything but welcome in SV.

It costs more to employ someone than what they're actually paid.

They do a lot of really shady stuff. See for example: https://www.thenation.com/article/how-spy-agency-contractors...

There's no reason to use awk or sed when perl exists (a2p and s2p have existed for decades)

Systemd's approach here is the kind of thinking that takes away 'on error resume next'.

Palantir, because being able to look at myself in the mirror is a thing I want to remain able to do.

If you add it all up though? I'd say I've probably spent as many as several person-days dealing with dynamic linking nonsense over my career, let's round that up to a week. Fifty weeks a year, 80 years in a life, if there's just 4000 people like me in the world that's a human lifetime right there.

(No pedants please, if you don't like "fifty weeks a year" then change "80 years" to "76.9 years")

There's no such thing as "simply" in numerical linear algebra.