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uncensoredon Goldman Sachs Introduces Real-Time Employee Performance Reviews

Substansively? Tons of replies are not substansive at all but they pass thru your filter because they just more words in them. Sad!

uncensoredon Goldman Sachs Introduces Real-Time Employee Performance Reviews

Haven't they learned from history? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_X_and_Theory_Y#Theory_X

uncensoredon Ultra-low-energy consumption ultrasonic clothes dryer

Yet it never does, unless maybe you have a $2000 microwave oven?

uncensoredon Goldman Sachs Introduces Real-Time Employee Performance Reviews

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_X_and_Theory_Y#Theory_X

back to the golden age of terrible ideas

uncensoredon Ultra-low-energy consumption ultrasonic clothes dryer

"denaturing" does sound scary and bad -- It's a dumb way to describe what happens in any cooking process.... it sounds like turning food into plastic before eating it (take the nature our of it) LOL.

Anyway, there are real health risks according to the World Health Organization:

"Food safety: Food safety is an important health issue. In a microwave oven, the rate of heating depends on the power rating of the oven and on the water content, density and amount of food being heated. Microwave energy does not penetrate well in thicker pieces of food, and may produce uneven cooking. This can lead to a health risk if parts of the food are not heated sufficiently to kill potentially dangerous micro-organisms. Because of the potential for uneven distribution of cooking, food heated in a microwave oven should rest for several minutes after cooking is completed to allow the heat to distribute throughout the food."

That sounds like nuking the surface of the food then waiting for it to cook after it has ben microwaved which may or may not fully achieve thorough cooking.

http://www.who.int/peh-emf/publications/facts/info_microwave...

uncensoredon Ultra-low-energy consumption ultrasonic clothes dryer

The logical next leap is to cook food with ultrasound which will hopefully be somewhat faster than conventional cooking and less harmful (no protein denaturing [1]) than microwave cooking

1. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11088227

uncensoredon Princeton’s Ad-Blocker May Put an End to the Ad-Blocking Arms Race

How can anyone prevent me from coding an ML-based ad blocker and releasing it as open source and as something that would install between the broswer and the network?

uncensoredon Programmers are most likely to work from home

Bose 35 noise cancelling headphones (or similar) should be provided to every programmer who is required to work in an open office environment, and even for remote programmers who have to work from coffee shops.

It's a hustle to find remote work at top pay, not impossible but harder than getting top pay for onsite. When will that change?

I've been remote since August 2015, and it's been a challenge to keep getting highly compensated remote work, but I managed it somehow.

uncensoredon The Utter Uselessness of Job Interviews

There are a huge number of coin tosses to guess when evaluating someone for marriage potential. Maybe less for a job candidate. But the candidate is not the coin being tossed. We're talking about the ability to estimate probabilities for a whole range of stuff that combinedly give us a measure of confidence.

uncensoredon The Utter Uselessness of Job Interviews

How do you know that the person you'll be marrying won't cheat on you and won't leave you in hard times? If you apply the methods we use today for interviews you'll end up with a 50/50 chance at best, a coin toss.

Yet why do some marriages last forever (till death do us apart) while others fail miserably or crumble even after 20 years?

The search for the global optimum cannot be performed by asking a set of questions. I argue that it cannot be done consciously. It's gut/instinct thing. If you have a mechanical approach, anyone can game the system and get a job because humans can be like chameleons to present themselves as the right candidate, and they can study for the interview. Only way IMO is to have that 3rd eye or whatever you call it... instinct, gut feeling, etc

The problem with this conclusion is that instinct and sexism/racism are often conflated.

No good answer.

uncensoredon ReactXP – A library for building cross-platform apps

With RN's and Expo's out of the box support for Android/iOS, I find the missing piece is native support for Responsive Grid layout. Till then, I've derived one based on the new support in RN v0.42 for relative dimensions. I've taken the liberty of correcting the mental model for Grid to eliminate the decoherence that results from using both an absolute column count together with relative sizing (!) by letting the developer specify grid column width as a percentage of screen size and allowing the specifying of the width of a given column in the layout as a multiple of that percentage. This way the developer doesn't have to divide the screen size in pixels (assuming they know that for the screen they're testing on, which is not always the case) by some arbitrary number of grid columns in order to get the width they desire per grid column (indirect route.) They can instead use visual intuition about relative sizes to define the column width directly as a percentage of screen width. I also found RTL support (for Hebrew/Arabic apps) generally lacking in RN, so I added RTL layout support to it.

https://github.com/idibidiart/react-native-responsive-grid