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by kalkin 11y ago
Didn't mean to accuse you yourself of being a snob. A lot of people take the same line as you. I think the linked post describes some issues that could be addressed by unionizing - arbitrary management and degrading ranking systems. Yo
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by kalkin 11y ago
Don't get me wrong, I'm sympathetic to your frustration. A lot of U.S. unions are pretty undemocratic and mediocre. It's not unrelated to their weakness.
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by kalkin 11y ago
> why this is legal I have no idea It's legal, and in fact normal, under the US labor law regime, because because the union is legally obligated to represent all employees equally, members and non-members, in both collective bargain
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by kalkin 11y ago
Baseball players are an even better example than Hollywood. Here's a list of MLB's best-paid player each year: http://sabr.org/research/mlbs-annual-salary-leaders-1874-201... - can you spot where the MLBPA un
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by kalkin 11y ago
> Unions historically were organized by people that were individually very replaceable, could not find easily another job if fired, had limited education and means to fight for their rights and improve their condition. Not really. It&#x2
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by kalkin 11y ago
> Now it's the golden age for programmers, but we will have to see how this holds in the long term Yeah, the article takes that up a bit: "Since the Industrial Revolution, capitalism has shown a long-term tendency to deskill la
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by kalkin 11y ago
Who's "us"? I don't know you, and I have friends who aren't Americans who have been prevented by immigration policy from taking jobs here that I know they'd have been great at. Why should I care more about you
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by kalkin 12y ago
Not sure that you have to be especially self-righteous to think that there is some level of betraying user trust that ought to actually have some kind of negative consequences for people.
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by kalkin 12y ago
"one of life's lessons is - you pay for all your mistakes" This isn't true though. The people with the most direct responsibility for crashing the world economy, like those with the most direct responsibility for bankrup
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by kalkin 12y ago
Yup, and I'm rooting for them.
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by kalkin 12y ago
Well, I'm a bit of a radical, so I could give a lot of answers to that question. But even in conventional terms, and even after all the economic destruction of austerity, Greece has been running a primary surplus since 2013. At this po
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by kalkin 12y ago
Politicians from parties who now get 3-4% of the vote lied years ago (to the Greek public as well as EU bankers), so let's take Greek workers' pensions, crush their unions, slash their social services, and offer no jobs or future
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by kalkin 12y ago
I knew a very smart guy who got a job like this. After a couple of years he threw it away and moved to Brazil, after teaching himself Portuguese by hanging out in soccer forums and IRC channels. He teaches English now.
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by kalkin 12y ago
As far as I have been able to tell, the public state of the art in academic paper metadata parsing is Grobid: https://github.com/kermitt2/grobid Not quite as simple a commandline interface as you suggest, but not too h
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by kalkin 12y ago
I have a little shell script which tries to do basically this: https://gist.github.com/djudd/1402751e2928cb8ac788 It tries either abiword or OpenOffice/LibreOffice for filetypes other than pdf, ps, and txt, which
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by kalkin 13y ago
Yes. It's not really fair of the OP to say "this is broken in totally obvious ways and would clearly not actually run" and yet critique it as if it was production code. It's fairly obviously (at this point) a hand-constr
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by kalkin 13y ago
Well, it is not uncommon for options to expire after you leave a company if they are not exercised. So if you take a new job and don't want to throw away your options...
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by kalkin 13y ago
The only interview questions I've ever found at all reliable--in the sense of providing good answers to your questions about comparison & assessment--are coding problems. As in, here's a toy problem, you have 45 minutes/3
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by kalkin 13y ago
You beat me to this complaint.
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by kalkin 13y ago
The distinction which is the basis of this article between "commercial" and "strong" encryption seems confused. Kevin Drum in this post makes it sound as if commercial encryption is algorithmically weaker, which as a rul
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by kalkin 13y ago
If no actual surveillance data was leaked, though, that's likely because Snowden is an idealist. It seems that he had access to that data. If the next leaker just wants some cash, things could change. (Or, hell, maybe the previous leak
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by kalkin 13y ago
Thanks for the reminder. If you are ever placed into a situation psychologically and ethically analogous to these experiments--a possibility that in a militarized and capitalist world it seems wise not to dismiss--and you want to acquit you
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by kalkin 13y ago
> he wants to be a part of something larger than himself In fact, you too are part of something larger than yourself and as you work you make decisions that affect it (us) whether or not you think about it. Ignoring an ethical quandary i
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by kalkin 13y ago
What s/he did can be perfectly natural and not imply that s/he's a worse-than-average person, but still be worthy of shame. I don't mean to be an asshole here, but it's important for all of us to recognize that norm
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by kalkin 13y ago
We routinely rely on social codes rather than technology to protect our privacy (as well as our property and lives). There's nothing physically preventing my building super from using her key to go into my apartment and look through or
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by kalkin 13y ago
Really? You don't think of information in your Gmail or Google Drive as personal "papers or effects"? Would you be fine with a Google employee reading through your email or your spreadsheets in order to figure out whether you
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by kalkin 14y ago
It's too bad that this discussion is ending up mostly in language wars, because Alex' talk was about how to improve the situation, not how to prove that your favored technology is always the right tool for the job and everybody else is wron
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by kalkin 14y ago
There's nothing self-flagellating about Scalzi's post. And I say this as somebody who is not particularly fond of the language of privilege. But also, if you've never read anyone more obsessed with privilege than Scalzi, you've managed to l
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by kalkin 14y ago
If she was really in a position of power, she wouldn't be fired. Let me be clear: the power to hire & fire is a serious one. The power to call people bad things on the Internet is not, unless people with the first power choose to say "o
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by kalkin 14y ago
We don't know what SendGrid told her before she made that Tweet. Absent the firing, I'd have assumed they told her they supported her, and even now I think it's a reasonably likely possibility. Beyond that, I'm torn between two responses. O

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