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Curious to hear more about the grave censorship that ChatGPT and Claude are under. Specifically where non-western models are not.

Excited to be able to share this with everyone today! A lot of hard work has gone into getting M3 to 1.0, so this represents a major milestone. In getting to this point, we've focused quite a bit on stability and resilency, performance improvements (most notably during bootstrapping), and ease of configuration. All of these changes are aimed at ensuring M3 provides you the bulletproof, high performance experience one would expect of a production grade metrics engine. For more information on what went into the release, take a look at the changelog (https://github.com/m3db/m3/releases/tag/v1.0.0).

Thank you to the open source community and everyone who has been involved in getting M3 to 1.0! We're very excited for M3's future!

Sigh, don't perpetuate this. Being an underrepresented candidate may (or may not) help you with getting your foot in the door for an interview, but no one is getting hired if they're unqualified.

Loosely related, how do you pull this off? Given that interviews effectively take up whole days, I feel like it'd be really tough for me to routinely work four day weeks and everyone at the office be OK with it.

To properly prepare for these interviews you have to invest quite a bit of time. At this point in my life (late 20s), my time is one of my most valuable resources. So, the last thing I want to do is spend that time effectively preparing for a data structures and algorithms exam. Each time I sit down to brush up on the details of Prim's algorithm or the exact implementation of quicksort, my eyes glaze over and I start thinking about how I'd much rather be building or tinkering with something. So that's what I end up doing. The interesting thing is that actually building stuff is good enough to get you an interview, and, even though you've proven that you can actually code, you get funneled through the same inane interview process.

And here's the kicker: none of this truly indicates if you have an exceptional software developer on your hands or not. I've seen (read: personally interviewed) people who've aced the current, en vogue style of questioning who turned out to be awful developers and co-workers. Meanwhile, I know several excellent engineers who were rejected. Everyone knows the process only kind of works.

SV loves to complain about a talent shortage. And maybe there are pipeline problems that need to be addressed. However, why not invest more time in finding a process that's more effective with the talent that's already out there? It always seemed like an obvious place to start, IMO.

The openings also aren't very visible (or I'm not looking in the right places, which is entirely possible). I'm surveying the job market after shutting down my own business, and I've seen very few openings from companies that are working on what I would call "big problems." It's a bit disappointing.

Barely. Check out http://www.quakeservers.net/ for server lists.

Seeing this thread actually inspired me to get Quake running on my Mac. Just left a free-for-all deathmatch that I won handily using a trackpad. Still got it :).

Ah, sorry, I wasn't clear in my response. I didn't mean to imply that adding a comma to the original sentence in question was the correct way to write that sentence. I was simply trying to state that without the Oxford comma, according to grammar rules, the intent is clear, as the article implies.

From purely a grammatical standpoint, it does. If one was trying to indicate that George was, in fact, a policeman, then the grammatically correct thing to do would be to add a comma after 'policeman' because it is a parenthetical phrase (i.e. a nonessential bit of detail/information). Without the comma, it is to be parsed as a list.

However, this isn't really a commonly known thing, so it's easy to see how the sentence could be interpreted in different ways.

I think you could do that just as easily without the lifestyle tourism. Volunteering at a shelter/soup kitchen is something that comes to mind.

I see that as a false dichotomy. There are many other options between staying in the ivory tower and playing homeless.

I don't want to be insensitive, but some of these individuals' behavior smacks of privilege. When I think about the fact that someone whose family "owns a major medevac company" is taking up space at a shelter or panhandling on the street, I get really frustrated. These are resources that should be used by those who are really down on their luck and have no other option, not someone/some group who wants to live out their bohemian fantasy.

If I knew I just gave five bucks to someone whose familial net worth trumps mine 100 fold, I'd be irate.

"Stupid college kids" are going to drink in excess regardless.

More importantly, though, I don't think price is an issue that's stopping a substantial amount of college students from getting bombed. Unless something has changed drastically in the 5 years since I've been out of college, there are always ways to get free/cheap booze. With that said, I highly doubt you'd see a big increase in drunk college students doing harm.

This is definitely a good idea. I think a lot of talented groups struggle with finding an idea because the two easiest means of doing so -- solving a personal pain point or uncovering an opportunity in your current domain/job -- are bearing no fruit. After those avenues are exhausted they may not be sure of what path to take to find an idea. As a result, these otherwise talented folks are meandering around until they stumble upon something, which can take quite a bit of time.

My co-founder and I were in a similar boat until we found a process that worked for us to uproot unmet needs, but, if we hadn't, we'd definitely be exploring this track.

Anyone up for organizing one out here in the Bay Area for the same weekend (or the near future, if Nov. 12th is too last minute)?

I have an iPhone app I've been trying to finish for a while now, but real life keeps getting in the way. This would be the perfect final push to get it over the goal line.

OK, you are correct.

Though I still think the statement, "any state where nonhispanic whites are a minority (e.g., CA), they are typically an underrepresented minority" is very much hyperbole, which was the point I was trying to make.

Non-hispanic Whites are not a minority in California [1]. And even if they were, I'd be very interested in seeing any statistics that show them as underrepresented in any context of significance (i.e. not prison).

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_California#Raci...

I think this is a bit disingenuous. I highly doubt Michigan's unions are fighting him tooth and nail on plans to lower taxes and ease the burden for smaller companies.

They are, however, fighting him on the ability to deploy to cities in financial disarray state appointed "emergency managers" who can override elected officials and, most importantly to the unions, cut union contracts. [1]

Now, you could argue that the emergency financial manager plan would eventually result in lower taxes and an easier path to success for smaller companies. You could also argue that there are better ways to achieve that same result rather than said plan.

[1] - http://www.wxyz.com/dpp/news/region/wayne_county/governor-ri...

Here's a fun one:

http://www.gonegoogle.com/presentation/63a3f4b2b8a546a481447...

Strangely enough, this is actually true. One of my ex-girlfriends used to use mayo as a conditioner every now and then.

Although, I still don't buy mayo as a bedroom lubricant...

I desperately want to drop cable, but I'm a huge sports fan which means no viable alternative to ESPN really hurts. Anyone have any suggestions?

Maybe that's because you haven't really tried looking?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-lrVO3pPDP4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zc80CmGOR9o

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FqeRvZO8HmQ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AT6iUz0rCuE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAebS16KplY

This is just a random sample of rap songs from my recently played playlist.

Honestly, I'm super jaded by the types who listen to top 40 radio and think that's all there is to rap/hip-hop. It's an extremely diverse genre and the vast majority of what you hear on the radio or in clubs is just one part of it.

Unfortunately, it's broken in Chrome.

This type of comment has always bothered me. I'll admit it, I don't really understand what the guy has against spell check. However, is it really THAT big of a deal that this guy's work may contain some misspellings? Furthermore, neither his lack of a willingness to use spell check nor the mistakes contained within the message (as long as it is still coherent) says anything about the quality of the actual content. It just seems dismissive for the most trivial of reasons.

EDIT: With all that said, I'm not vouching for the quality of the post one way or another. I'm just saying, judge the content by the content and nothing else.

I missed the one about his dog. Thanks for sharing. Awesome read.

I don't want to hijack this thread, but I'm in the same boat. Does anyone have any recommendations for podcasts or audiobooks that discuss/teach various concepts in computer science or software development without being impossible to follow while in a car?

I tried listening various lectures, but at some point it becomes too difficult to follow because I'm unable to write down/work through anything as I'm driving. I found a few podcasts, but the content was largely hit or miss.

Any suggestions would be awesome.

Just a quick note, the exact command is ':TOhtml' (lowercase h). Tripped me up the first time I tried to run the command.

Google cache for those who hit the "pageview limit exceeded" nonsense:

http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&ct=clnk...

It's definitely more convenient than writing the XML by hand. I can recall more than one occasion where I couldn't get the positioning of my UI elements quite right because of some attribute/value I was missing or had set incorrectly. I HATE wasting time trying to chase down what I did wrong just to move a button X pixels. It also seems faster and much less annoying than editing XML by hand.

The really great thing, though, is that it's not tied to Eclipse, which is fantastic for people who don't use it for Android development (i.e. me :) )

In other news, water is wet.