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Computer Game Reveals 'Space-Time' Neurons in the Eye(news.sciencemag.org)
3 points by amputect 12y ago|0 comments
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by amputect 13y ago
It's absolutely trivial to meet male engineers. Many, if not most, of his daughters role models will end up being male engineers. The effort isn't to exclude men from being involved in her career choice / education, the eff
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by amputect 13y ago
The average man in an engineering discipline can trivially meet other male engineers, and will be pretty much surrounded by them anywhere they work. This would be true at the grade-school level up through the pinnacle of their careers. This
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by amputect 13y ago
That seems like a git anti-pattern. On the other hand, one or two repos where I work have developed some, uh, interesting network graphs, as various branches have merged and evolved.
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by amputect 13y ago
> Why do you need a woman? Because role models are a great thing thing for a young person to have. Why is it a problem for him to want a female role model for a female child? Why do you think that "wanting his daughter to meet a fem
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by amputect 13y ago
> which declare opinions like cells declare osmotic pressure I got a good laugh out of this, well put! Brendan Eich has the right to hold those opinions and whatever other opinions he wishes to hold. He has the right to publicly express
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by amputect 13y ago
> If anything the people criticizing Brendan Eich are trying to take away his freedom... Freedom of speech isn't freedom from criticism, and criticism isn't censorship. Freedom of speech isn't freedom from social consequen
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by amputect 13y ago
Racism/Sexism/Bigotry can end up in logical fallacy territory pretty easily. "If women were unsuited for tech careers, there would be few of them in tech; there are few women in tech, therefore women are unsuited for tech car
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by amputect 13y ago
Yeah, this is absolutely going to hurt people posting opinions that run counter to groupthink. The fact that the contrary opinions only start showing up about halfway down the page should give you a pretty good idea of how this is going to
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by amputect 13y ago
"whatever is necessary for survival" might include not wasting a ton of time applying to a startup incubator with a demonstrated track-record of not funding women or minorities or southpaws or whatever. Doing -anything- to change
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by amputect 13y ago
> when they were offered a choice between hard Agile and easy Agile, they bought easy Agile. This touches on what I believe to be the real, underlying issue: you (as a company) can't manage yourself out of a hole you've managed
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by amputect 13y ago
It was a little front-loaded, but the phrase "this might not even require geographic changes." at the end of his reply implies that it's less "move to a better country" and more "stop hanging around with people
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by amputect 13y ago
It's not great satire; it's lazy, thoughless satire that punches down and does it poorly. You think it's great satire because you agree with it. This has all the wit and charm of a Ramirez global warming cartoon.
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by amputect 13y ago
Yeah the difference between the headline's implication and the content of the actual article is really jarring. This is objectively a good decision.
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by amputect 13y ago
You were by your own admission 17, which implies (since you were a minor) that you were living with relatives and debt free. Can you think of any important differences between a 17-year-old with a support net (even a shitty one) working for
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by amputect 13y ago
The problem is that these companies are not bringing in scrappy 17-year-olds with a hoop dreams, they're bringing college-educated professionals, and then refusing to actually pay them in exchange for producing valuable work. This is creati
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by amputect 13y ago
Because studies have shown that people who think they are evaluating conference papers (or pretty much anything else ever) on technical merit alone often are not doing anything of the sort, and are reinforcing their existing gender biases t
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by amputect 14y ago
No
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by amputect 14y ago
Heck when you put it that way, this guy actually did them a FAVOR. He ONLY wiped out the User table. The company was able to learn the value of backups, and they had enough data left to be able to partially recover it from the remaining tab
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by amputect 14y ago
They usually won't let you on a plane if you're having a heart attack.
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by amputect 14y ago
My IP address is a calming shade of green. That's not really a thing I expected to learn today, but I'm oddly pleased by it.
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by amputect 14y ago
Neither the OP, nor a woman, but I'll take a shot at this one since it's a fair question respectfully posed. I think that one aspect of this problem is that, due to a combination of cultural factors, women do not feel welcome at industry ev
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by amputect 14y ago
For what it's worth, I've never seen that before, and it was really interesting. I'm glad someone posted it :)
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by amputect 14y ago
Interviewer#3: We are willing to accept 8 years of education with a Master's or equivalent on the subject of 2010 Escort navigation systems in lieu of 10 years driving experience, for otherwise qualified candidates Completely off-topic resp
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by amputect 14y ago
I enjoy the writing in the Atlantic as much as the next guy. (Edit: and to their credit, here is a slightly more interesting story they did on Scientology in 2011: http://www.theatlanticwire.com/national/2011/02/scientology-... ) That sai
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by amputect 14y ago
I was being sarcastic, to highlight what i viewed as the absurdity of the parent comment. I'm sorry if that didn't come through. Unless YOU were being sarcastic and -I- failed to get it... Oh god I don't know what's real anymore. Help, I'm
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by amputect 14y ago
Please forgive me; I do not think that hacker culture is a bad thing. I think that hackers are, for the most part, wonderful people. I think that the aspects of hacker culture you mentioned are good, positive, and praiseworthy things. I jus
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by amputect 14y ago
I too disagree with a posted link, and therefore earnestly believe that it should be censored so nobody can see it. Sincerely, the church of scientology
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by amputect 14y ago
You're right; his lazy, incurious dismissal of the news article didn't make Aaron kill himself. EVERYONE's lazy, incurious dismissal of the news article and the surrounding circumstances (Myself included; I am ashamed that when I read that
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by amputect 14y ago
Bordering on off-topic, but that's a really cool tip. Here's a link, for lazy people: http://www.instructables.com/id/How-to-extend-the-life-of-yo...

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