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I agree that many officeplaces are "intense" or downright toxic. But keep in mind that the diversity initiatives you are concerned about are actual attempts to make the workplace less intense and toxic -- for women, people of color, anyone in the LGBTQ+ community, people from minority religions, people with disabilities and anyone else who hasn't typically been welcome in offices.

The depictions of goofing off and office romances make for nice sitcoms, but a full picture would also show you the people who were sexually harassed, verbally abused, denied promotions, denied time off to care for loved ones, and more.

Are the diversity initiatives sometimes awkward, sometimes uncomfortable, and sometimes possible even ineffective? Sure, it's a difficult process and there's no guidebook. But it's certainly far better than continuing to ignore the real problems because some voters aren't aware of them (and some are downright hostile to change because it affects their economic interests or perceived status.)

Hey, I was there, too! It was a long way to go to end up watching the catch attempt on monitors in a hangar.

If I remember correctly, the problem was that the deceleration sensors were drawn upside down.

The composite video output on the back of a computer at a time when many televisions didn't have composite inputs was pretty advanced. At the time, we had to use a converter (I believe to UHF) that screwed on to two terminals on the back of our tv set.

The fact that, 36 years later, I can plug the //c straight into the composite input on a modern LCD tv and have everything work just fine is impressive to me.

But the //c has color if you plug it into a color display!

Where are you sourcing your film from, and are you developing on your own in a darkroom or sending it out to a lab?

Apple //c from 1984 (with the original receipt!) The composite video output means I can plug it right into my 50" tv without any special hardware and everything looks great.

I removed the disk drive cable from the motherboard and plugged a floppy EMU in, and now my kids play Lemonade Stand, Dig Dug, Oregon Trail, Carmen San Diego, and dozens of other classic games. https://www.bigmessowires.com/floppy-emu/

I covered a Texas Tech study that showed how perchlorate can be passed to babies via breast milk. That was in... 2005. The EPA's recent decision is extremely disappointing. https://www.wired.com/2005/02/rocket-fuel-fed-to-newborns/

(An aside: Reporters don't usually choose their own headlines. I fought and lost a battle with my editor on that one.)

Or maybe what he's saying is, "I would rather my kids learn that they should explore and enjoy the world, rather than never take any big risks."

There are a lot of parents in the world. Once you start judging them (for actions other than abuse and neglect), you very quickly realize how limiting that is. Do we need to look down upon astronauts who have children? What about pilots? People who travel for work for days or weeks at a time? Someone who commutes an hour to work each way in a car that has a poor safety rating?

The good news is that once you become a father, you'll get to decide (possibly with a partner) what the acceptable level of risk is for you and your family.

Not sure why you got downvoted. But the point is that if you weren't planning on solar in the first place, the long-term economics of a Tesla roof look even better. Your 30-year net cost is $12K + maintenance on the standard roof you got quoted on. Tesla is saying their 30-year net cost is -$50K or -$100K or whatever, to be paid to you in what is essentially credits against your electricity bill.

In either case, you can finance the costs. Given how Solar City usually operates, I imagine they'll roll the costs in a lease or power purchase agreement where you send them a check each month for an amount less than your current electricity bill.

I'm not saying it's the best deal around. You could come away with an even better net total by re-roofing and putting on traditional solar panels. But then you've got an uglier roof, if you care about that sort of thing -- and there are definitely people who do.

You got a $12K quote for tile? How long is the warranty? Remember that the 80K quote includes solar, so you'd have to add a standard solar install of the same KW capacity to your initial quote to really compare apples to apples. You'll probably still pay a premium to go with Tesla, but the no-profile solar integration and lifetime warranty really look attractive. Some people are probably willing to pay for it, similar to people willing to pay a premium for the cars.

Yes, this is an important comment. While it's a virtue for Silicon Valley organizations like YC to adapt quickly, adapting in this case means clearing the way for the administration to solidify its haphazard immigration policy. Hopefully the YC staff is using its connections to Peter Thiel and others who have the president's attention to lobby hard against a policy that will directly and indirectly hurt many people and businesses in Silicon Valley.

"The fact is there are women doing great work and talks. Make noise about them."

And here is a woman who did great work, and Google is making noise about her. Why is this particular case not valid, when it's doing exactly what you recommend?

It doesn't claim to be "journalism." This was published on Medium, which is pretty clearly for essays and opinions. I'll grant you that some of the speculation is pretty far out there (like the Rosneft sale being tied to Trump). But the author is trying to put together a cohesive theory that might explain the chaotic moves being taken by the new US executive branch. If you want to disagree with the theory, point out where it's faulty. But claiming it's "not real journalism" is a non sequitur -- it was never intended to be a reporting of the facts.

For me the most eye-opening lesson about the business world was the realization that you are not an entrepreneur just because you can build something. You become an entrepreneur when you build something that people are willing to pay for.

You may be good at writing software, but are you writing software that solves a problem for anyone? If not, you're going to be hard-pressed to find external validation.

You don't say what your family business is, but is there something there that can be made better -- more efficient, more profitable -- with technology? Some aspect of billing? Shipping? Inventory control?

I'm not suggesting that you acquiesce and go to work for your father if you don't want to. The fast track to misery is following the path that some else chose for you.

But at 26, you don't have a lot of years of hands-on experience in a profitable business. So your father's company may be a quick way to get your foot in the door and expand your skills for a while.

Could it be done better? Sure. But to be fair, the fields aren't all required. If you want to unsubscribe from emails, you only enter your email. It's pretty clear this is a low-tech solution that just sends the unsubscribe request to someone in marketing who then manually scrub their various list (hence the 5 days).

For unsubscribing from print mailings, this is actually not bad. It's much easier to enter my address than it is to go find some ID printed on the label of a recent mailing and enter that in, as some places require you to do.

I have yet to come across a healthcare provider -- physician, dentist, optemetrist -- who does NOT have a binding arbitration clause in their agreement. How do you avoid signing one when it has become the de facto standard?

I'm an independent developer. The majority of my clients are on Drupal. Here's what I've learned:

While it's true that someone looking at Drupal's architecture for the first time is likely to say, "Whaaaa? Why, why, why?", the truth is that a lot of the decisions start to make sense once you need a CMS for more than a basic blog.

For example, the reason there are so many joins just to retrieve all the fields of data for a page is that Drupal allows each field to be shared across different content types, or to have different revisions, or even to have different translations from other fields on the same page.

Yes, this is going to feel awkward and slow if all you need is a simple blog post table with one post per row. But if your site is complicated enough or has enough traffic, chances are that you're going to start relying on caching to help out, no matter what CMS you use.

Drupal's no different. There's its own internal caching (which bypasses most of the queries for anonymous users), PHP's APC caching (which gets over the PHP loading hurdle), memcache (to bypass queries for logged in users), and Varnish (bypassing Drupal altogether for static content.)

> But people are not being locked up just because they are black, or poor. They are committing crimes, and pleading or being found guilty.

The US is locking up very, very large numbers of young black men for minor crimes that people of other races regularly commit -- i.e., for activities that are only crimes when blacks are found to be doing them. Recent studies have shown that whites use more drugs than blacks, and yet are charged far less. Even the sentencing on perceived "black drugs" (drugs more readily available to the poor) such as crack is far more punitive than sentencing for the equivalent cocaine.

For a good book on the subject, see The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander. It illuminates, with facts, just how disproportionately our system of laws punishes young black men while young whites are given second and third and fourth chances.

> I've got to ask. If a builder of websites was looking for something that wasn't horrible and built by smart people, which one would that be?

Looking for one CMS or platform that can fit every kind of website seems strange to me. It'd be sort of like recommending a TV-DVD-DVR combo unit to both your mother who just wants to watch some TV, and to your developer friend who wants a high-performance gaming display.

I've worked primarily with Drupal for the past 8 years. But the clients tend to have very complex needs, including multiple roles and workflows applied to varying content types.

If a client were to come to me and want a blog or a simple brochure site that will be edited by no more than a couple marketing staff, I will tell them Wordpress might be a better option.

RE ring votes: There are a suspicious number of one-sentence / add-no-value comments on this all posted about an hour ago.

Amazon's Kindle Fire naming is equally painful. There's a Fire HD 7 and a Fire HD 7". Try buying accessories for the right one.

For those of you feeling nostalgia for Turtle Logo: http://turtleacademy.com/

Guess who uses 80% of the water in CA? It's not the poor and middle class, it's agriculture, typically run by large corporations. Guess how much agriculture contributes to CA's GDP? 2%.

It's possible to alter the way water is used in the state in ways that benefit the residents and don't screw the poor and middle class.

Have you actually received quotes for $10K/year? I was able to get a good amount of coverage for about $1500/year. I signed up several years ago, in my early 30s, and I'm fairly healthy and don't smoke. So if your situation varies, the quotes could be different. But shop around and you should be able to find something more reasonable than $10K.

Why is current salary relevant? In most cases, revealing your current salary will be used against you by the new employer, as it allows them to lower their offer if they had planned on offering much more.

For those who are interested, (and for those who think this is some half-hearted project fulfilling various conspiracy theories,) the New Yorker wrote a good story about the origins of the Aadhaar project and its goals a while back: http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2011/10/03/the-i-d-man

Pantheon (hosting) provides a lot of tools for managing Drupal sites like this. Now that they also support hosting Wordpress sites, they may offer similar tools. Might be worth a look: getpantheon.com

I imagine that sports plays are not copyrightable. Web design and code are.

Or, you know, you spent five minutes to apply the free, open source patch when it was released in mid-October and your sites were protected.

Or are you arguing that any software that has ever required a patch is horribly insecure?

Even if we're talking about such a massive roll-out to millions of machines, with various versions of the OS running on various hardware? I don't know how easy or not the actual patch is to produce, but it's not out of the realm of possibilities that they did run into a compatibility issue that they wanted more time to sort out. Think of the outcry and damage to their business if they rolled out a patch that accidentally broke some installations.