LockeWatts

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by LockeWatts 14y ago
Sure, I can't tell you what you should be offended by, but I can tell you your offense is unimportant and selfish.
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by LockeWatts 14y ago
The ideas behind libel and slander laws apply here. The larger your public profile, the less protection you have from libel and slander. Mr. Romney was saying politically relevant things at a politically relevant dinner while running for a
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by LockeWatts 14y ago
The distinction really matters?
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by LockeWatts 14y ago
It was Defcon, but I can't see how what happened there is any way related to what happened here. "People have treated women badly at tech conferences before, thus it's perfectly valid to overreact and ruin the career of a guy who did nothin
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by LockeWatts 14y ago
DDoS = terrorism? What?
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by LockeWatts 14y ago
>Isn't that ok? No, why in the hell would that be okay? What makes one act of discrimination better than the other? >Every single time I think about this issue I feel guilty as hell just for being male. Every time I see a cultural n
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by LockeWatts 14y ago
On what basis?
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by LockeWatts 14y ago
Are you saying that that's a good thing? I'm not quite sure of the intent of this post, so I'm not sure with what tone to read it.
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by LockeWatts 14y ago
Except that doesn't make sense. Given the assumption that it's a meritocracy, then qualified women won't be turned away. If women are being turned away, then they should be being turned away at a rate equal to men, relative to their applica
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by LockeWatts 14y ago
> 1. high male/female ratio + blind meritocracy => self-sustaining male culture Based on what, the assumption that women are self-selecting against wanting to be programmers due to it being a male dominated profession? In that case,
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by LockeWatts 14y ago
First, nothing is necessarily wrong, as that would imply an absolute rather than relative morality. All morality is relativistic. Secondly, I would argue that your list, from my point of view, denoted 'racism, sexism, etc' is more rigorousl
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by LockeWatts 14y ago
How about we argue instead that discriminating is wrong, and we shouldn't actively promote it.
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by LockeWatts 14y ago
>The difference is that girls have an immediate re-enforcing explanation for that sense of being out of place: you don't belong because you're a woman How is this different from guys who go, "They're so ahead of me. I'm out of place, be
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by LockeWatts 14y ago
>Or are you saying that these programs need to scientifically prove their value before existing in order to exist? Your wording is disingenuous. It is possible to run a case study and study on a limited scale a program that would be dep
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by LockeWatts 14y ago
>So your dichotomy about "meritocracy" is short-sighted. There is nothing "meritocratic" about indulging male culture to keep a field male-dominated. Indeed, that's anti-meritocratic I don't see how a blind meritocracy is indulging male
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by LockeWatts 14y ago
The problem with this though is the meta-strategy of interviewing. Unless your interviewer tells you up front whether or not it's okay for you to ask an unlimited number of questions, you're basically guessing at it. I know several companie
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by LockeWatts 14y ago
Doesn't this violate the HN etiquette?
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by LockeWatts 14y ago
"On the other hand, if I'm hiring someone for a high pressure job I don't want them to fail when under pressure." But those are in no way the same kinds of pressure. The pressure of being able to meet a release date, design incredibly safet
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by LockeWatts 14y ago
"Choose the next best move in chess or go for example (or design a simple sudoku solver). " You make the assumption that your candidate knows anything about those games. If you placed me in front of a chess board, said "these are what the p
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by LockeWatts 14y ago
It also widens the already massive gap in the legal defense the poor get versus the legal defense the rich get. Let's not make class warfare easier.
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by LockeWatts 14y ago
That could be due to the diminishing returns of working longer hours after a certain point. They work fewer hours, so are more productive per hour, but sacrifice overall production to do so.
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by LockeWatts 14y ago
I'm in a class using MIPS, and I don't find it fun.
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by LockeWatts 14y ago
I wasn't really thinking about the legality of the issue so much as the social acceptability.
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by LockeWatts 14y ago
"I'd say being able to overcome adversity, i.e. being able to do more with what you've been dealt than others believe you can, is usually going to be a stronger indicator of future performance than is a test score." Well you can say that, b
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by LockeWatts 14y ago
"how there are exclusive events for female staff where female leadership is advocated." Can someone on HN give me a level headed explanation, for why this is more appropriate than the opposite (An event exclusive to men)? It's never made se
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by LockeWatts 14y ago
I'm in college presently, and to get into the tech world, it's a requirement from where I'm sitting. Good candidates have multiple ones with big name companies\hot start ups.
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by LockeWatts 14y ago
Well A) How do you plan on quantitatively measuring that so that all candidates are equally considered? and B) What does that have to do with writing software?
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by LockeWatts 14y ago
Do you have a better criterion with which to measure?
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by LockeWatts 14y ago
My classes are 15 weeks, but I've been told we have abnormally long semesters.
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by LockeWatts 14y ago
Only when you consider that California on the whole is a lot richer than most of the rest of the country.

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