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Not to get political, but I thought as far as name anagrams go

Rex Tillerson -> Risen Ex Troll

is pretty amazing. Not sure how it would score with the OP's metric though - typing this as I'm on the ski lift lol

One of the issues is that modern source control practices weren't really in play for 90s game development. The code for many Origin games, for instance, were stored on floppies that are long gone.

The most effective and proven way to deal with "fake news" is to establish a Ministry of Truth.

>Getting no feedback, not even a rejection, after an onsite.

This happens all the time even when you are senior (10+) years like me. It's maddening and I think one of the rudest things an org can do.

$381 million in 2015. I'd be interested in seeing where the 81 mil goes

Craigslist has nearly $300 million in profit and only around 30 employees.

Why on earth would they ever want to go public?

this is awesome, thank you!

Just use elasticsearch. It's easy to set up, fast, customizable, and has a lot of dev / community support.

At my last company, we used kafka as our log to handle the incoming messages and then we just forwarded everything to Elasticsearch with logstash (super easy to create and read from new topics).

For your storage, Elasticsearch can store the source of all documents and basically act as a persistent DB (with kafka as backup for replay). Use well-defined mappings for the data you know is structured (logs, forum posts, already schematized data etc) and dump the rest into their own indices and lets ES' implicit mappings do their work. You can use dynamic templates to drill down any specific things you want to transform, such as converting dates, not tokenizing certain strings and so on.

I've done a lot of search and text extraction work and this is my go to for the past three years.

Thank you for the clarification. I was told by my manager that new projects could only be written in the three above-mentioned languages so I was just going by that. And yes I was part of the Clojure lobby haha.

I really do hope they streamline a bit of the bloat in tech. It's a real shame. So many dev hours wasted in meetings. So many PMs who know more about the intricacies of Kanban and JIRA ticketing but nothing about the product. There's a lot of talent there, though. I think it can be done.

Because it wasn't a widely-used language in the part of the org the decree applied to. It was purely chosen to seem cool and trendy and also because it's one of the higher ups favorite languages.

Hahah thankfully the usage and number of DSLs has dropped significantly. I still had to write stuff using Drools (https://www.drools.org/) tho which was the worst thing I've ever had to do in my dev career

I believe the Holy Three are Python, Go, and Java. Personally the fact that Go is on there totally invalidates the list for me. It upset a lot of other people, too, because it's not very widely used in the org and is just a pet favorite of one of the higher ups. Was a serious source of friction.

I worked on cross platform services, essentially building out APIs and data delivery for both the newsroom and other tech orgs. I'm happy to answer any questions people might have about the Times - it's an interesting place to work (socially speaking, I found their tech to be pretty boring).

As someone who worked for the NYT until recently, I can tell you a major thing holding the Times back is the sheer amount of bloat and middle management in the business, especially tech, side of things. Useful, even revenue-generating projects are sidelined for political reasons (such as encroaching on another manager's 'territory') and months of work had been negated because a higher level 'architect' decided that only three languages can be used internally. Legacy projects are held on way past their sunset - that means literally months of dev time devoted to projects used by maybe a dozen people. Don't even get me started on the architectural inefficiencies that rack up tens of thousands of dollars a week to AWS (soon to be Google because the tech org loves to switch providers every year, also resulting in massive amounts of redundant work). The NYT online search is one area that is just bleeding cash - it requires a lot of machinery for very little. That's money that could be used to hire journalists and finance deep investigative dives.

The NYT does incredible work. It just needs to take a hard look at it's digital side and trim a lot of the fat. There's a lot of churn and little long term vision. Unfortunately layoffs / firings are rare in the tech org but buyouts and their ilk are widespread in the newsroom.

Some might say thats a downward trajectory

>To get the embarrassing statistics out of the way first, the survey found that 51 percent of respondents believe that stormy weather can interfere with cloud computing.

To be fair, power outages at data centers caused by storms and hurricanes are a serious problem. Being on-call in NYC during Sandy was not fun.

Look into Google's SyntaxNet - https://research.googleblog.com/2016/05/announcing-syntaxnet...

Should help you break down sentences into their semantic parts. The transformations are then made by walking the syntax tree and modifying the tagged parts of speech as you see fit.

"Threat"

Lol, did you even read the article? He used it during your typical anodyne corporate speech at some event in Australia. This sentiment is as old as trade itself - "If goods don't cross borders, armies do." Ma was speaking to the unifying power of globalization and trade, not some ultimatum he was giving the Trump administration.

Similar to mine, tho I usually have my smoke at 16:20

>There is no excuse for it in 'cooperation'

Yes, there is. A) it is a perfectly grammatically and orthographically correct usage of the di B) There is no prescriptive body which governs usage of American English - there's no need for an "excuse" to use an orthographic feature of the language as if it is some clause violated.

The reason they do it is because it's the New Yorker. It's their house style. It's what their readers expect and understand and it has become a tradition and perhaps even emblematic of the magazine and its brand. Complaining about the "pretentiousness" of the New Yorker is like complaining about the convoluted commands in eMacs or vim - it's not a problem, it's a feature.

Lol typical hacker news blowhard going off on something they have no idea about . "Orthographically" speaking there IS a justification and you would've found it if you spent three seconds of effort:

diaeresis ‎(plural diaereses)

1. (orthography) A diacritic ( ¨ ) placed over a vowel letter (especially the second of two consecutive ones) indicating that it is sounded separately, usually forming a distinct syllable, as in the English words naïve, Noël and Brontë, the French haïr and the Dutch ruïne.

It makes perfect sense to use the diacritic in this way and it is part of their style guide, has been for some time.

You couldn't even spend the time researching what you're complaining about. Talk about pretension.

But people...run corporations! And since we live in a country has decided that corporations are persons and have rights to free speech and participation in the political realm, why not use this privilege to advance civil rights?

Politics are involved in everything. Each business decision made by a company the size and scale of YC has political ramifications. Even something 'innocuous' as funding Scribd is a political move - why? Think about copyrights, the lawyers needed to handle trademark laws and to challenge them. Or Soylent - they circumvent the FDA and do direct food testing on people, resulting in contamination outbreaks. Are these not political moves, this policy of 'disruption' i.e. grey-area skirting of existing so-called 'burdensome' regulation(s)?

There are no vacuums anymore, if there ever were (which I doubt). If something is 'about' startups then it is by necessity also about the politics those companies are involved in, especially considering in the US companies are persons with certain rights of expression.

Thanks to the intertwining of capitalism with our representative democracy by way of lobbying, our everyday lives are politicized. Should we suppress these notions or engage with them?

Indeed, but there is research underway to find evidence:

<< Black holes are extremely dense and compact objects from which light cannot escape. There is an overall consensus that black holes exist and many astronomical objects are identified with black holes. White holes were understood as the exact time reversal of black holes, therefore they should continuously throw away material. It is accepted, however, that a persistent ejection of mass leads to gravitational pressure, the formation of a black hole and thus to the "death of while holes". So far, no astronomical source has been successfully tagged a white hole. The only known white hole is the Big Bang which was instantaneous rather than continuous or long-lasting. We thus suggest that the emergence of a white hole, which we name a 'Small Bang', is spontaneous - all the matter is ejected at a single pulse. Unlike black holes, white holes cannot be continuously observed rather their effect can only be detected around the event itself. Gamma ray bursts are the most energetic explosions in the universe. Long gamma-ray bursts were connected with supernova eruptions. There is a new group of gamma-ray bursts, which are relatively close to Earth, but surprisingly lack any supernova emission. We propose identifying these bursts with white holes. White holes seem like the best explanation of gamma-ray bursts that appear in voids. We also predict the detection of rare gigantic gamma-ray bursts with energies much higher than typically observed. >>

https://arxiv.org/abs/1105.2776

A one hour strike at one of the busiest airports on the East Coast with NO taxis available? Probably a lot.

The point is you hold a strike to STOP work, not work for less money. That's called scabbing and is the opposite of solidarity.

It's not a show of solidarity - it is in fact the opposite. It's called scabbing.

Everything uber does is about money and they aren't afraid to flout the law / custom and "disrupt". They swooped in during a strike. They are scabs. They are obviously doing it to grab money. Their CEO is buddy buddy with Trump.

Bannon is not a founder of Breitbart, but came on after Andrew Breitbart's death. But yes, he is a terrible danger to the states. This is like a bad movie.

A library card is free in many cities.

And in a democracy such as the US, there are certain inalienable rights to peacefully assemble and protest against perceived injustices.

Blindly supporting a president isn't what a democracy is all about. That's called a dictatorship.

Lol you mean the candidate that got more votes than Trump?