SamUK96

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by SamUK96 10y ago
Oh, no, I don't feel oppressed. I am pointing out the ironic nature of a museum, and a general culture, that has the mindset of trying to "account" for past racism with treating one race differently to another, far since the
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by SamUK96 10y ago
Thing is though, "polish" and "irish" correspond to, clearly, the country's history only. "Black" refers to literally anything about black people, which is a totally different idea.
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by SamUK96 10y ago
But, do you think that black people really still suffer from such "post-racist-society" effects nowadays, like in your hypothetical country? I doubt.
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by SamUK96 10y ago
Okay, so what about a "White History Museum" in Africa? Or China? Or Brazil? That is definitely perceived differently, and also it's content would not represent the "normal" history of the parent location.
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by SamUK96 10y ago
> Racism is a sociological system that transcends the intentions of any one individual I think that's a rather ambitious definition of racism. Racism is the discrimination of some person/group due to their race. You are either
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by SamUK96 10y ago
Okay, still doesn't really explain how a "museum about the history of white people" doesn't exist, and is perceived differently.
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by SamUK96 10y ago
Well, yes, because those countries / continents are historically white. Just like an African museum would be "black people", since Africa is historically black. And, okay, to really shut this one down, what would you say to a
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by SamUK96 10y ago
Really? Wow. Well, still, I do see examples of things called "Black X thing", so the point still holds, just not in this case. Talk about a misleading article. HN these days :/
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by SamUK96 10y ago
But read my reply further. I'm okay and I'm sure most are with an "African Museum", or something like that. That museum would be dominated by POC, just like an "American History Museum" would be dominated by Wh
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by SamUK96 10y ago
Bad article written badly. Firstly, concrete isn't a weapon, it is a defensive utility, not an offensive one (weapon). Correcting that, the best defense is people. More specifically, "civilians". You can now easily defend you
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by SamUK96 10y ago
How is it disconcerting? Lower prices are good for the consumer!
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by SamUK96 10y ago
> actually-there-is-a-correct-answer situationals Ugh. The worst step of interview process. Remember that guy who wrote a post about Google's hiring process, where they outsourced the asking of technical questions to untrained call-
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by SamUK96 10y ago
Thank you. Spot on. I've found that most seniors have gained their place because they made sure nobody could become better than them. How seniors usually do this is by restricting training, keeping knowledge of things they designed t
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by SamUK96 10y ago
Surprised you didn't try C++ if you found C quite difficult. C++ teaches memory management but without the insanity level dialed to 11 like with C (or more so with Assembly). I've always discouraged learning Python first. Python d
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by SamUK96 10y ago
Since it's seniors who hire, i'de say it's pretty important whether they value it or not. And a lot don't, especially for networking since CS has almost no networking in it (by the 2nd year most undergrads still have d
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by SamUK96 10y ago
I've got the same sentiment about Node and PHP. Both are just an eyesore for everybody but the person who wrote it. Heck, even the very experienced JS/Node developer who works at my place says that they sucks in teams, and I total
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by SamUK96 10y ago
They are the people hiring us all, so, uh, kind of?
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by SamUK96 10y ago
A new dimension of passive aggressiveness. Honestly though, that's hilarious.
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by SamUK96 10y ago
Little tidbit: Degree in CS is totally useless nowadays, surely you know this already? I work for a tech/telco company in London and all the seniors agree that CS degrees now are totally useless and don't make you any better at
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by SamUK96 10y ago
Sorry to be off topic here, firstly. Current intern at a tech company here. Glad to see Angular there, I've just started delving into AngularJS 2. Could I ask which Angular version you are on? Considering migrating to 2? ng2 looks pret
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by SamUK96 10y ago
Isn't constructive dismissal supposed to protect you from being put on a failing project/team just so they can fire you?
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by SamUK96 10y ago
This is what happens when you allow uncontrolled and unregulated asset transfers. There's a reason that pretty much any index/stock in the world freezes when the daily drop exceeds a certain threshold (i.e. Japan, JPX, has a limit
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by SamUK96 10y ago
I agree with other posts. It's the increasing prevalence of short-termism. Most companies in the world now are going through a big consolidation process on a scale unheard of in the past, in preparation for when things go very bad in t
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by SamUK96 10y ago
Isn't that the line with the Core M chips? They were a travesty for Windows 10. ~1000p on Passmark lol. Compare to an i7 6500U CPU, which has ~4500. TBH, 4K laptop screens are a total scam.
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by SamUK96 10y ago
Not sure if this is anecdotal or not, but the Dell business-laptop lines (Lattitude et al) have been having hard-drive corruption problems at the company where I work for ages. As for Razer, I hear their products are excellent (laptop wise)
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by SamUK96 10y ago
True. Apple makes a disgustingly large margin on each, so I suppose less volume doesn't neccessarily mean less revenue. Having said that, decreasing volume, something which is now never-ending for Apple in the last few quarters, conse
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by SamUK96 10y ago
To be honest, the zenbook line has been a big hit. Good value and very sexy. Wish I had enough money for the UX390UA. It's basically faster, thinner, lighter, sexier Dell XPS...
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by SamUK96 10y ago
I was talking about price as another comment said. Although Razer are well built, you do pay the price. Personally I think their products are worth it, some don't however. Apple though...they bring poor value to a new level. A new
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by SamUK96 10y ago
>Radeon 460 AMD GPU. Inefficient / power-hungry. This means that battery life will be destroyed. Also, have fun with those endless driver issues. Also, the configuration you quote costs around £2,500+, which is a total rip-off. You
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by SamUK96 10y ago
To be fair, Apple's last 3-4 Quarters have been huge consecutive disappointments, and this line up was their last chance to turn that around I believe. And they've clearly failed. Who will pay $1,500 on a laptop that has second-gr

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