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No. There are several roles one can play in a meeting.

- Audience

- Prepared speech speaker (usually 5-7 mins. They speak on topics from their manual.)

- Table topics speaker (1-2 mins impromptu. Usually audience & non-role players are picked.)

- Prepared speech evaluator (2-3 mins)

- TMOD (The host of each meeting)

- General Evaluator

- Timer

- Ah-counter

- Grammarian

Usually, most clubs adjust according to guests. If guests are nervous, clubs are very encouraging. If guests are confident, clubs try to improve their speaking skills.

Usually first time guests are asked for their introduction and encouraged to speak on an impromptu topic. They are heavily applauded for getting over their stage fear. Most times, they are also voted as the best speaker of the day to encourage them.

Toastmasters. Attending my own club meetings, other club meetings, contests and conferences have been fun. We insist that speakers share their own original content and they usually share stories from their lives. Lots of networking offline via WhatsApp, Facebook and phone calls as well.

I had the same question and I found this: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxS98ISZNcuaJRCvy6JV6Fw

Ark Neo Finance | Chennai, India | Onsite | Fulltime | UI & UX Designer, Flutter Engineer, Full-stack Engineer

At Ark Neo Finance, we are on a mission to build the next generation of Finance products for Indian consumers. Our team consists of experienced online financial services professionals who have extensive expertise in building large online retail financial services platforms.

Our tech stack is Elixir+Phoenix for the backend and Flutter for our mobile apps.

UI & UX Designer: We want creative designers to build beautiful apps for our consumers. We expect you to envision new ideas and come up with wireframes, mock-ups and high-fidelity prototypes for Desktop web, Mobile web, Android & iOS.

Flutter Engineer: Can you build the best experience for our mobile app users? We expect candidates to have experience building cross-platform apps in Flutter and also enough knowledge in building native Android & iOS apps.

Full-stack Engineer: If you love solving problems at scale and believe in the value of a well-designed functional programming language, you are bound to love working with Elixir. We use Phoenix, a web framework built on top of Elixir, for our Web and API layer. We believe that a Full-stack developer loves challenges and can pick up new tools & frameworks easily. Do you also believe so?

If you are interested in working with us, send your resume to anirudh [at] arkneofinance [dot] com.

For anyone wanting the scientific paper being referred to in the journal Geology (without opening the NY Times article) here is the link: https://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/gsa/geology/article/doi/10....

I have been using Brave on macOS for more than 3 years now. I used Brave on Android for a while and I am currently using Brave on iOS as my daily driver. I don't use their BAT system or anything associated with that. I like their default vanilla experience and the fact that I can install Chrome plugins on Brave. I still use uBlock origin on top of their default blockers. I use the built-in Tor experience time-to-time as well.

To me, Brave is what Firefox should have been. Good UI, good defaults, fast enough, support for Chrome plugins, etc. I am slightly concerned about their future direction though (if they enforce the BAT system down users' throats).

Is that a reference to the Black Mirror episode?

I recently stumbled upon something similar but probably more light-weight: http://ncase.me/loopy/

Previous discussion on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8716538

Does this affect remote working in any manner? I am from India and have considered working remotely in later stages of my career. I have no intentions of leaving India and moving to the US, but I might be applying to organizations within the US.

I think there are 2 sides and both sides are important. I think that the author was focussing on the half of our awake time that we spend doing our job, while you are focussing on the other half.

The author is probably talking about naive remote job seekers who focus on the job but don't consider the team culture. I was one such naive job seeker and used to think in that manner until a few years ago.

I think yes. But I'm not sure if non-technical people understand the implications. They'll probably take it more seriously if Windows-collecting-data has a direct impact on their lives. For example, if their browsing history gets posted on their social networks, or something like that.

Personally, I think there are only 2 advantages (over something more polished like OS X):

i. Doomsday scenario: Competing platforms do something awful like direct spying on users, making it unaffordable/inaccessible or generally taking terrible, permanent decisions. Then, a free/open source OS will become The only feasible option. The counter point to this is, competition ensures very few companies will take that route.

ii. Learning & contributing: As a developer, I can understand and improve any part of the stack. Counter point: This doesn't address non-developers, who are a majority in today's world.

I think you're referring to Marshmallow, which was released last year. N is still in Beta Preview and Vulkan support is landing only in N.

"HTC originally stated that the Vive X program would be held in three cities – Beijing, Taipei and San Francisco – however have now added that this is just the beginning. The company is aiming to ‘rolling out across other global hubs in the near future’."

as stated in this article: http://www.vrfocus.com/2016/04/htc-comments-on-vive-x-accele...

I think Facebook, as a slightly younger company, seems to be on the same path as Google. Brilliant engineers, concerns around privacy, similar business models, big acquisitions, huge ambitions, etc.

What would prevent Facebook from taking Google's path in a few years (assuming a similar scenario continues)?

> and their core services have been stagnating

I don't think some core services like Android & Chrome are stagnating. They may not be much superior to their competitors to blow them out of the water, but they do seem to be moving ahead in those sectors.

I agree with the fact that they didn't come out with new products/brands that stuck, but their progress with existing products seems to be in the right direction.

I remember reading a PaulG essay[1] that explains why the above scenario happens. Willingness to take big chances might not hurt a small company as it does to a big company. Big companies try to maintain their position in their market rather than take big chances again & lose their position[2].

That essay goes on to say that this creates a chance for startups to make their presence felt, because big companies don't want to take risks anymore.

[1] - I can't find the link right now. Will update this post, when I do

[2] - This is slightly related to Gambler's fallacy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gambler%27s_fallacy

They did try the tablet space. https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox_OS/TCP

I signed up for the contribution program, received a tablet, built and ran updates on it, participated in Discourse discussions and wanted to do more. Sadly, builds started breaking, they weren't attended to, and the program died a slow death.

I had an urge today morning to try my hands at 3D modeling and rediscovered Blender and began using it just today. Quite a coincidence that HN front page has a post on Blender.

I've got a huge learning curve ahead of me, though.

How will a code-checking engine get past infinite loops?

while(earth_has_not_blown_up) {}

"Hey, I need the earth to blow up to solve this problem!"

What the article says: Go down the stack in a linear format and check everything

What a Sherlock Holmes story is: Seemingly-unrelated characters could be responsible for the crime

How the story would've been if it was really similar to Sherlock Holmes:

- Check your own software (Already done)

- Go down the stack and check all dependency, platform issues (Already done)

- Check if your clipboard works properly (New)

- Check if the monitor outputs pixels properly (New)

- Check if your eyes see clearly (New)

That would be Sherlock Holmes debugging!

On a serious note, I like the story. I also like the way things are done but I assumed that's how every developer works. I looked at the link to the Scientific approach and IMO, that shouldn't be considered as the de-facto Scientific approach. This should be the Scientific approach.

Can you let us know the other services you have migrated to? Would help.

I would put it this way. Some positions affect the money-making capabilities of a company more than the others. Senior management has more control over the business-aspect of a company and hence this situation.

In an ideal world for programmers, the only thing a company would be bothered about is the cleverness and the programming complexity of the product and would reward its programmers more. Such a company is bound to fail in the real world.