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makoz··on Google Employee Writes Memo About ‘The Burden of Being Black at Google’
Can't this logic be spread to a bunch of other injustices in the world? If I interact with some party who is contributing some injustice to a group of people, whether in terms of work conditions, lack of political voice and so forth does that mean I'm collaborating/supporting their regime?

An example is the current situations happening in Hong Kong and Uyghur. And the fact that everything we buy on a day to day basis is "supporting" this oppression.

makoz··on Amazon offered ‘Amazon’s Choice’ to vendors who bought ads and lowered prices
Disclaimer: Work at Amazon Not sure? I built a new PC recently and didn't run into any problems with counterfeits when I got everything from there
makoz··on Hypothetical Indexes in PostgreSQL
Out of curiosity have you looked at pg_hint_plan? http://pghintplan.osdn.jp/pg_hint_plan.html

Or is it not advanced enough?

makoz··on Chinese companies rally around Huawei after CFO arrest
Couldn't he pardon her?
makoz··on Amazon’s consumer business has turned off its Oracle data warehouse
Disclaimer: Work at AWS.

He has?

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/10/22/aws-ceo-jassy-follows-apple-...

makoz··on OpenAI Five at Dota 2 – The International [video]
Watching the match there seemed to be a crazy amount of instant Euls and what not.

I doubt a player is about to react to a blink initiation and click Euls/Hex in the same amount of time. It'd be a lot more fair for them to calibrate against the reaction time of pro-players across the same scenarios. (I doubt pros can hit 200ms consistently)

makoz··on Amazon Workers Facing Firing Can Appeal to a Jury of Their Co-Workers
It might be slightly mitigated since the panel has the opportunity to bring back the employee if they have follow-up questions but I'd agree and would want to experiment with the ordering.

The manager isn't present during the employee's presentation either though, and I'd imagine it would devolve into a circus if both parties are present during both presentations and able to interrupt/rebut directly. (Might also not be beneficial to the employee)

makoz··on Amazon Workers Facing Firing Can Appeal to a Jury of Their Co-Workers
Disclaimer: Work at Amazon and participated in the appeal process as one of the jury a while back.

The article clearly doesn't go into the process beyond what's on surface. When I participated both the manager and the employee wrote an initial document that would be shared with each other. These documents are the basis for the presentation. The employee had time to go through the manager's document and rebut each of the points their turn (as did the manager), so it seems slightly disingenuous to suggest that neither party has access to the other's claims.

During each parties presentation, they would go through the document and bring in supplemental evidence (which the other doesn't have access to).

The format I went in was: Employee presents their document -> Employee rebuts manager's document / Q&A -> Manager presents their document -> Manager rebuts other presentation / Q&A

The panel then has the option to bring back the employee for additional questions.

I'd be interested if/how the ordering of the presentations affected the panel.

makoz··on How SQL Database Engines Work, by the Creator of SQLite (2008) [video]
There are some tools to force specific hints/plans on the engine depending on the database e.g. SQL Plan Management in Oracle
makoz··on Zuckerberg Takes Steps to Calm Facebook Employees
Seeing as he's the majority shareholder, you seem to be out of luck.
makoz··on GitLab Database Incident – Live Report
Go sleep man, shit happens
makoz··on The internals of PostgreSQL
What resources have you been using to familiarize yourself with Postgres?
makoz··on Canada’s $6.9B Wildfire Is the Size of Delaware and Still Out of Control
Out of curiosity do you really think the prime minister just made a decision to reject help without consulting other people in the field?
makoz··on Amazon Reports Surge in Profit
Transit pass is partially covered as of last year in Vancouver. Unless something's changed, you might want to double check on the benefits for Vancouver. If I recall correctly you get approximately 80 dollars give or take.
makoz··on Amazon open-sources Ion – a binary and text interchangable, typed JSON-superset
Amazon's mainly a Java shop, not sure if that helps you.
makoz··on Lee Sedol Beats AlphaGo in Game 4
Some pretty questionable moves from AlphaGo in that game, but I'm glad LSD managed to close it out.
makoz··on GM to Acquire Autonomous-Vehicle Technology Developer Cruise Automation (YC W14)
Wasn't Twitch around one billion as well?
makoz··on AlphaGo beats Lee Sedol again in match 2 of 5
I think people in the Go community wants to see AlphaGo play against the top ranked player. Otherwise I hope they'd at the very least release it as an AI for people to play against.
makoz··on AlphaGo’s ultimate challenge: a five-game match against Lee Sedol
Thanks for this! Loved the discussion.
makoz··on From non-technical to hired developer in 5 months
For their graduates. What's the attrition rate from people initially in the program to people graduating? I've heard of other local programs that kick people out of the program and refund the prorated difference if you can't keep up or fail tests. For reference, the program I'm talking about boasts of a 100% placement rate for graduates.
makoz··on A Course on Automata Theory
Only really matters for certificate.
makoz··on Inside Amazon: Wrestling Big Ideas in a Bruising Workplace
Do you know of any distribution warehouses that have air conditioning?
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