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Over 60% [1] of Republicans oppose gay marriage

[1] - http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-gaymarriage-i...

Classic false dichotomy fallacy. You can go to moon AND at the same time have a debate about bathroom (which is essential btw)

Yep, it's a data problem.

Looking at Jasper, it uses AT&T or Google or Facebook (wit.ai) as backend (forget the other two, offline speech recognition is hard because it's a data problem and training your models is hard and your performance will be prohibitive).

If you intent is privacy, then using the backends offered by AT&T or Google or FB doesn't fly.

Keep in mind though - if you do this pull this off there's a chance you may be permanently blacklisted by the company. What's the guarantee you won't pull the same move next time around?

I don't fault with the recruiter's pressure move at all. I mean the company probably has taken the job listing off and preparing for your orientation.

I understand the sentiment about at-will employment and companies can fire you at any time... but whenever there is a question of "Can I do this in a non-bridge-burning way?" you should take that path.

PC gaming (Windows) is a huuuge market. The GPU drivers support for Linux is poor.

All at the same time? The context switch you have to do will end up being a counterproductive factor. I'll guess the burnout rate would be high too (few weeks down the line and you'd focus on only one or two)

It's ugly

  import math
  
  def sqr(x):
      return x*x
  
  class VecMag:
      def __init__(self, comp):
          self.comp = comp
      def __enter__(self):
          self.comp = map(sqr, self.comp)
          return self
      def __exit__(self, type, value, traceback):
          print  math.sqrt(self.mag)
      def sum(self):
          self.mag = sum(self.comp)
  
  comp = (1,2,3,4)
  with VecMag(comp) as squared:
      squared.sum()

  $python test.py
  5.47722557505

Reminds me of Python's "with". I use it a lot for the "open the file, read, close it" idiom.

Why round wheels may be better than square ones.

It certainly can, but IMHO it won't maximize his/her prospects of getting hired. And (anecdotal) most of the jobs have boring periods in them and you hurt your chances.

If the company asks you what you look for in a job, frame it in a positive way.. like "intellectually rewarding" without going into the negative part i.e. "I hate getting bored/working on boring projects".

Unfortunately, yes. Your recruiter and/or hiring manager are definitely going to ask you this and make sure you have a ready-made answer for this question which doesn't involve "boring".

Were the deliverables fixed by the management or you were responsible for the estimate? If you are the one who consistently underestimates the time, maybe that's a legitimate point.

Ultimately, it is stupid if they'd favor giving a project to an intern over you despite your results/writing maintainable code etc. The company will pay for shit code accrued over time.

But it seems he also includes iOS App Store figures. The original article is about Mac App Stores.

I took it to mean mirroring? It has an elegant recursive answer.

A scathing attack because their business model doesn't depend on privacy, but if Apple is in a business like Google/Facebook, would he still feel icky like this?

Well, from what I understand, they have a Whatsapp package for example where using whatsapp doesn't count towards the bandwidth cap. This is what opponents of NN want.

Money and low taxes. Reason why thousands of people from Asia work in the middle-east despite piss-poor conditions.

EDIT: Sorry, I didn't read "well-off". Still, more money is the answer.

I opened this page in Chrome and a file 2048.cdf got automatically downloaded. Hardly the best practice.

Linkbait headline

There was a free lunch for the first movers which was the impetus for these guys who moved in late and started losing money.

You had the best intentions and at some other place and time, what you said would be taken seriously by the upper management but it looks like your position is expendable despite the good work you did and at that particular moment, your interjection may not have the best idea.

It sucks that companies can get away with all this but they have been that way for long. I am sincerely hoping you make it to a better job where they are 1.ethical and 2.don't want to lose you and you look back at this and shrug.

But considering GvR works for Dropbox and tweeted this out a few minutes back, they do have his backing.

But his point is not about Apple being different but about Google's fans eating the kumbaya thing up.

-- snip --

Now, Apple pessimism is even stronger. No matter what they release and no matter how well it sells, they won’t win over the press, the pundits, the stock market, or the rhetoric. Not this year. They could release a revolutionary 60-inch 4K TV for $99 with built-in nanobots to assemble and dispense free smartwatches, and people would complain that it should cost $49 and the nanobots aren’t open enough.

-- snip --

https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/strawman

"You misrepresented someone's argument to make it easier to attack. By exaggerating, misrepresenting, or just completely fabricating someone's argument, it's much easier to present your own position as being reasonable, but this kind of dishonesty serves to undermine honest rational debate."

Great catch.

Here's my blame attribution

10% - The guys. Yea, a bit moronic to make a private adult joke that can be heard by others in a professional setting. But even in a real job setting, they'd just get a reprimand from HR and that'll straighten most of them out.

40% - Adria. It's getting evident that she went out of the way to take offense and sees herself as Joan of Arc (superiority complex?). She tries to make herself the center of the story. Extra credits for implying in her twitter feed that every criticism she's getting is from trolls.

50% - The company which fired the guy. Are you kidding me? Unless there's a backstory or a history of such behavior from the guy, it's awfully cruel to rob a guy of his livelihood without weighing all the facts. Yea, do an internal reprimand.. but FIRING?! Crazy people heading the company.

0% - PyCon organizers. 0% - Adria's employers.

Before you put your data in this, make sure there's a way out because Google has the nasty habit of discontinuing its stuff.

I feel sick to my stomach. There's are openings in my company but I can't get your case past HR. They wouldn't want to be associated with a red flag. Hope you land on your feet.

Wall of text from sources I have subscribed. When I press 'f' it embiggens that text to cover the whole screen. j/k for navigation. If he had spent a couple of minutes on Google Reader he'd know.