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Offhand it definitely sounds like the clean room concept basically distills what they want to steal/"reinvent" into a requirement document.

I guess it gives the employees plausible deniability, but the company knows what it's doing.

I suppose this might be useful in situations where you are querying an API(s) with multiple requests and some will certainly return seconds before others.

This way you could have the same reducer handle the results and begin updating the UI as the results come in.

An example real-world app might be a price comparison tool or social media aggregator.

A lot of "zen" wisdom is vague and even illogical. Koans are a great (if not the great) example.

They don't intend to teach you anything. Instead, they create doubt in your beliefs so that you can see possibilities you were previously blind to.

In this instance perhaps the difference is using the "objective" as a starting point rather than a desired end result.

That's a major flaw in people's thinking about autopilot programs.

An autopilot doesn't have to be 100% safe, it just needs to be significantly safer than a human pilot and in the long run it will save lives.

I think the fallacy is thinking that it's okay for humans to be flawed but machines should be infallible.

Personally I'm kind of burned out on the topic.

If someone wants to propose a method of leveling the field similar to blind orchestra auditions more power to them and I'll interview however you like, but that's not what these articles are about.

These sorts of articles tend to stop short of providing any recommendations and instead focus on the workplace gender equivalent of white guilt.

Millions of people, most likely.

One thing I'm not sure about is how this breaks down as to people who paid Equifax or signed up for some service through them compared with people who involuntarily had their credit tracked through Equifax.

It's funny, until recently I thought boot camps were for people who already were working in a field who wanted to sharpen a particular skill in that field.

At least, the few my work paid for some years back were essentially that.

From the sounds of it though a lot of places are abusing these to create micro IIT Techs that hand out near worthless certificates.

Thanks; I also had to double back and change DoD to the more accurate "federal government", which includes other branches that used OPM services.

Exactly. People complain about how the lawyers who managed the case (sometimes for years!) take most of the payout, but so long as the company's risk/reward math is tipped towards the safety of their customers I have no issue with not seeing much of the settlement.

I suppose a proper government issued ID number that doesn't double as a password would also be useful.

I'd like to think OPM employees are reading this headline and thinking "Yeah we'll see!"

The entirety of federal government SF-86s being dumped to a foreign government has diplomatic and economic repercussions that will last for decades.

To be clear, they are depreciating the Google Drive desktop application and replacing it with the Backup and Sync desktop desktop application which performs the same function.

Said another way, the new version of Google Drive is called Backup and Sync.

The way some of the comments in this thread are written they are ending their Google Drive cloud storage.

Which is strange, because didn't they just get a lot of flak for having "editors" that they subsequently had to let go?

Enterprise apps and data visualization if you prefer, but I was actually curious about the broader answer for web.

A bit off topic, but what skills should front-end web developers be working on right now?

Seems like a bit of projection here... The method isn't intrinsically persuasive.

It's often used to find the root of a problem or set of values when the questioner doesn't know the issue with enough precision to fairly discuss it with the subject.

And most of the time the theoretical "goal" is to examine a belief or potentially invoke doubt on a belief previously considered solid rather than reach any conclusion.

Anecdotally I recently fell into this line of discussion with an anti-vaxer friend of mine. Instead of trying to persuade him he's wrong I asked questions about his beliefs and asked him to justify his decisions. Questions like "You were vaccinated, did that negatively impact you?" or "Do you worry about your children getting those sicknesses?"

Questions meant to clarify or examine, not persuade. In the end neither of us changed our positions on the topic, but if we're honest that was never on the table.

At least now I have a clearer understanding of his perspective and he was willing to share some of the more vulnerable details of his beliefs that he wouldn't have admitted had I come at him persuasively.

You definitely want to review that page, especially the working conditions and health insurance sections.

I'm not generally in a rush; if they can get it here in a week or two that's fine as long as they tell me what day it'll be here.

I'm not saying it's a great deal for the company, but what can you expect consumers to do if Amazon has the cheapest price AND prime shipping you already paid for?

That said some companies at least raise their prices on purpose when posting to Amazon in order to meet their standards for things like returns and Prime shipping.

A lot of people don't realize (or maybe care?) that Amazon makes up a fair amount of that loss from screwing over distributors and third party sellers.

The Walmart of the Internet, I suppose.

FWIW I usually try to find more direct sources before buying on Amazon. If the other source can drop a few bucks off the Amazon price and offer free shipping I'll buy it direct from them.

To be fair, the vast majority of people feel they should vaccinate their children.

And I use "feel" explicitly because often on more subtle issues there wont be a clear answer, even from your doctor.

I'm not sure this kind of policy even has whatever the intended effect is, seems how it appears to be a reaction to Charlottesville events.

Take "music that incites racism" (what do you put into Pandora to get that genre?) for example. If you have users listening to it (because before Charlottesville you thought it was okay!) and you remove it telling them their music is basically banned aren't those users just going to listen to it someplace else and feel more empowered by its message?

The more persecuted these groups feel online, the more justified they will feel in their real-world actions.

Not just these days... Not long ago breast milk was considered distasteful/inferior to formula and newborns were forced on their stomachs so they didn't choke to death on their own tongues/vomit.

The latter by the way led to a dramatic increase in incidents of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome causing us to roll out the "back to sleep" movement.

Many still disapprove of sleeping next to your baby despite it being as safe - safer in some instances - than sleeping in a crib and providing a protective effect against SIDS via the parents breathing/heartbeat as rhythm keeping and carbon dioxide that triggers regular breathing.

You basically have to take all parenting advice (even from a doctor) with a grain of salt and at the end of the day do what you as the child's guardian feel is best, especially because no one style or technique will work for all children.

I suspect people on extremely limited plans know to screen their calls or manage in some way.

If not that is unfortunate but hardly justification to upend cellular calling because a few people paid $0.10 / minute extra answering calls from spammers.

There are advantages and disadvantages to those types of plans, and that is one of the disadvantages.

From a pragmatic standpoint, what do you gain by switching to DDG?

According to the article that is indeed the case because they almost targeted with people who had subprime/no credit.

And... Surprise! There was a reason they didn't have good credit ratings.

It's a bit ridiculous he was fired, but by the same token I don't buy the biology story he's telling.

I feel like if he had skipped that and simply made his suggestions then the memo would have firmer ground to stand on, because then others could say they support them without giving the impression they are sexist.

What's that sort of service cost? What's the length of the stories?

Note they actually acquire the rights to the gifs they show.

That applies to most of what's being said in this thread as well.