ar15saveslives

> Of course that made them, for that time, unusable! So he had to toss them.

Honest question: your mother didn't bother to work anywhere, why couldn't she help him?

And I like this "he had to toss them", as they lived apart, and it wasn't a family's loss.

So here's the rules of this brave new world: beyond your house you're a sexless, emotionless creature without family, life outside the office, without sense of humour, without personal interests and preferences.

Be like this, and you'll get free meals, free shuttle bus and goats at company campus. And it's good for your resumé.

Looks like a list for a 12-year-old.

AI for everyone, data is not.

Which image are you talking about? It's a cage without natural light, I don't understand how a glass door makes it better. Actually it's even worse, because it's a depressive as a cubicle, but without "privacy".

> Why don't you post a picture of that, instead of spamming this one?

Sorry, image urls buried deep inside, I had to use dev tools to extract them.

> Or do you promote open work plans in your day job?

Promoting a weird idea that every human being (even if he/she is a developer) deserves a window, fresh air and natural light, is my little personal war.

And there's no "open space" vs "gray cages" dichotomy. Our team works in a quiet room with big windows, for example.

They hid them in slideshows :-)

Behold, in new Apple office, depressive windowless cell is called "a pod": https://assets.wired.com/photos/w_1970/wp-content/uploads/20...

> I have to presume, but it sounds like you didn't read the article before commenting.

It sounds like you didn't.

https://assets.wired.com/photos/w_1970/wp-content/uploads/20...

Guess how individual workspaces will look like. I bet it will be old good terrible gray 6x6 cubicles.

EDIT: To all downvoters: https://assets.wired.com/photos/w_1970/wp-content/uploads/20...

How to be "proactive" with widely accepted discriminatory practices and affirmative action?

D3.js is quite low-level library, it's basically a wrapper around SVG with some sugar like animations and enter/exit/update.

> Is the most apparent benefit less lines of code?

Yes! With "reusable components" you don't need to write (or copypaste) a line chart over and over.

From their demos:

    brushChart
        .width(containerWidth)
        .height(300)
        .onBrush(function(brushExtent) {
        // Do something with the brushExtent
        });

    brushContainer.datum(dataset).call(brushChart);

> I could not use my GI Bill to go to code school. That was the number one roadblock

Nobody needs a "code school" to learn how to write code.

Legal landscape in the US is just bad. Sue-happy country with convoluted taxes, horribly slow customs with crazy policies ("General Order warehouse", fml), 50 different states with different laws, taxes and regulations.

Visit the nearest store, you'll see dozens of kits and couple of yellow "Lego Classic" boxes, somewhere on bottom (cheapest) shelves.

We have ~20 kits at home (gifts, impulsive purchases, etc), it looks like pile of assorted, useless, weird blocks, non-matching wheels. My son started play Lego after I bit the bullet and just sorted out that crap, leaving only 5-10 standard blocks.

Nice summary, but be careful with FB ads. It can easily suck tons of money for literally nothing. Even if you pay per click, you get clicks from absolutely irrelevant people (bots?), with zero engagement.

For me it was "nobody needs my app, except myself"

> Because not everywhere is NYC.

Do I really need to attach links to rooms in all major cities in the world?

But I got the idea: airbnb may be better for longer trips.

Do they really need to combat airbnb? I travel a lot (relatively), but I can't get the idea of this service. It's a bit cheaper, but a) I can't cancel it b) I can't book it without interaction with a host c) I can't move in without interaction with a host d) it ends up even more expensive after cleaning/service/whatever fees.

I've just checked [1]: NYC, a shitty "private" room with shared bathroom for a weekday is $150, with crazy "strict" cancelation policy, that literally says "Cancel up to 7 days before your trip and get a 50% refund plus service fees back."

What's the point and why is airbnb still alive?

[1] https://www.airbnb.ca/rooms/14165373?checkin=2017-05-18&chec...

Define "bastardizing C". Which improvement do you consider as "failed attempts"? RAII, constructors/destructors, so you don't need to write spaghetti code to free resources reliably? Templates, so you can write sort() function once, for all comparable types? Lambdas? Or maybe GLib is somehow better than stl/boost?

C++ saves TONS of time and effort in our projects, thank god that I don't need to write in plain C anymore.

Great argument, can be applied to anything.

> The importance of diversity is beyond reasonable doubt, isn’t it?

Why?

iOS cleans up Caches/tmp directory, it it needs space.

https://developer.apple.com/library/content/documentation/Fi...

> "Note that the system may delete the Caches/ directory to free up disk space, so your app must be able to re-create or download these files as needed."

> tmp: "however, the system may purge this directory when your app is not running."

I've never heard a question from women: "What can WE do to be more suitable for modern IT?" All I hear is that I, /u/ar15saveslives, personally, should act differently, look differently, speak differently to make those vulnerable sensitive shy females enjoy working with me.

Why nobody asks "what women have to do to be more comfortable in IT" question? Learn more, participate in OSS/SO, start your own projects - why doesn't it work for "female engineers"?

> For any Canucks, are there any other decent places with tech jobs, and somewhat affordable housing?

I'm not sure if Ottawa is a "decent place", but Kanata has lots of jobs and affordable housing (in walking distance).

Still want to move to the US, though.

I don't think it's usable IRL (in its present state), as, according to figures, it doesn't work well even on cifar/mnist. Correct me if I'm wrong, but the value of this paper is that you can decouple a model and train layers asynchronously/independently, just first steps to distributed NN training.

The Verge at its finest.

No, I do not see.

I'm 41 now, have two kids and wife, and still work at nights, exploring python/ML stuff and writing my own OS X app for interactive plotting [shameless plug removed].

fucking please, you don't know the story. "guaranteed housing" and "food every day", wtf are you talking about.

That's funny how people with US/Canada/EU citizenship and English as first language and western culture as first culture, love to seek excuses.

Why? If A agrees to pay B "absurd" salary, it's mutual interest, isn't it? Otherwise A would find someone for 0.01x for the same job - no?

What is your salary, btw? 60k for sitting in cubicle and browsing reddit is absurd for the rest 6-7e9 people, that live outside of our lucky wealthy western world.

"Not consider nor try it" means that she doesn't have interest in programming. You don't need anyone's opinion to start programming or knitting, or learning Mandarin. If you like it, you do it for yourself, and then someone starts paying money for things that you know and love.

P.S.: it's funny but I knitted. My aunt taught me and I knitted a scarf. It rolled up and became a tube, and I lost interest after that fail. :-)

> He did eventually realize this and sought employers who would train him

I can't understand that. Modern programming is not like engineering nuclear reactors or driving mars rovers. All you need to learn is a cheap laptop, mediocre internet connection and passion to learn it.

Just apt-get python/R/whatever and start writing simple things, then more and more complicated, then your own projects (make your own home automated, after all), and after a year you'll be able to find an entry-level dev job.

> bought a book on Java but the life of the poor is hard, and erratic bus driving schedules coupled with living paycheck-to-paycheck makes learning programming hard, especially without a decent computer.

Oh cmon. It's the same bs as "girls don't become programmers, because of males/stigma/gender-language". If you have interest in programming, you'll learn it, and won't stop at some "it's enough for resume" level. I, personally, learned C++, being in army, with night shifts, drills, living for $150 a month, just because I loved it and used every hour of my spare time to explore it.