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by aiiane 13y ago
$75k is about what the typical new college graduate with no industry experience gets as a salary for any major CS company in the bay area. For a program that does 9-6 PM 5 days a week for 10 weeks, that's ~8 hours (not including lunch)
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by aiiane 13y ago
I'll believe it when I see it.
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by aiiane 13y ago
What is a "wart" is subjective. C-like languages also have this "wart" and it's used to great effect, enabling different idioms that would be messier without it.
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by aiiane 13y ago
Logged in to post basically the same comment, then saw you already had. Essentially, no one who knows what they're doing in Python would write the function that way.
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by aiiane 13y ago
Honestly, if I were in a better mood today I'd probably put it differently, but this thread...
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by aiiane 13y ago
tinpages. That way the tools do what they say on the tin.
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by aiiane 13y ago
"Did you consider" that by using 'bro' as a pun on 'man', it inherently makes it about gender?
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by aiiane 13y ago
> No I am not ignoring sexism, I am saying the only reason we have sexism is because we are so conscious and so paranoid about it. So if we just stop complaining, things will magically get better.... because that has worked so well for m
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by aiiane 13y ago
Here's a recent example. http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2013/09/business-inside...
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by aiiane 13y ago
I can think of a number of my colleagues who specifically avoid HN because of that very reason, so, yes.
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by aiiane 13y ago
You rang? I normally avoid commenting on crap like this because people like you are a pain to talk to, but since you seem to want to take advantage of me not engaging with people like you to argue that I don't exist... hi, I exist. Now
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by aiiane 13y ago
It happened at one point. Turns out it's kind of superfluous, and a fairly noisy data source.
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by aiiane 13y ago
Would data help you change your mind? http://advance.cornell.edu/documents/ImpactofGender.pdf
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by aiiane 13y ago
"some" people always seem to jump up to make this pedantic argument when men are generalized about, and yet somehow talking about women as a general group never seems to invoke the same.
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by aiiane 13y ago
Doing doughnuts and other unproductive driving for the hell of it.
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by aiiane 13y ago
It's a due diligence kind of thing. If you're asking people to make significant monetary contributions, it makes sense to provide a clear picture of what you're using that money on.
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by aiiane 13y ago
Which is why you set your editor to use something other than the same number of spaces as your indent levels. It works especially well if one isn't a multiple of the other - e.g. having the editor display tabs as 5-space width.
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Why I still contribute to StackOverflow(medium.com)
2 points by aiiane 13y ago|0 comments
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by aiiane 13y ago
Not quite. Same complex, but we're the building next door.
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by aiiane 13y ago
Good weather except for hurricane season.
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Why we're stuck with PHP(medium.com)
6 points by aiiane 13y ago|1 comments
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by aiiane 13y ago
People seem to be bringing up Go, Dart, Android as things to debate over, but there are some other potential things to consider, like MapReduce. In fact, I'd argue that MapReduce has had a far more profound impact than any of the previ
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by aiiane 13y ago
There is an option to turn it off.
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by aiiane 13y ago
"Who" here is referring to things like IP data - e.g. a mapping between email address and actual physical entity. Yes, you can know that an email sent to a certain email address was opened (hence the "this specific email&quot
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by aiiane 13y ago
How Gmail's Image Caching Affects Tracking, short form: * Loading images is now enabled by default rather than disabled by default, meaning that a larger portion of emails will be tracked, because it's more likely tracking images
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by aiiane 13y ago
Actually, the most serious reason (and the reason why not displaying images was introduced in the first place for unknown senders) was the potential for exploits triggered via embedded images, e.g. http://news.netcraft.com/a
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by aiiane 13y ago
+1
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by aiiane 13y ago
Parking lots? In SF? Surely you're joking.
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by aiiane 13y ago
Yeah.... I think I browsed through the SO top users list a year or so ago and at least at the time, I was the only one with a visibly female name in the top 100. The next one I found was around position 500-something.
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by aiiane 13y ago
A giant collection of FUD, essentially. "You'll no longer need a crowbar and screwdriver, just access to the computer plugins under the hood or dash." ... and how do you propose getting that access, good sir author, given tha

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