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by amw 8y ago
It's supposed to rely on not-fraud because its incentive structure is not supposed to reward gaming the system (the way that "you get money" incentivizes fraud in a market system). A certain amount of good faith is presumed b
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by amw 8y ago
If they had those results, they would have put them front and center. Just like if the TSA had ever caught a terrorist, it would be on the 24-hour networks for days.
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by amw 8y ago
While your point about racism is kind of tautologically true from a purely semantic standpoint (in the same way that "primate" is a more widely applicable term than "human"), race and class are inextricably linked in the
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by amw 8y ago
I went upstairs to find the machine where I was already logged in so I could hunt down and upvote this comment.
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by amw 8y ago
We do it and it seems to work out. Our system is based on assigned mentors, which we do for everyone who wants it, but explicitly do for newbie engineers for their first <insert period of time here>.
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by amw 8y ago
Meetups, dance classes, community outreach, church, RPG message boards (speaking theoretically, not personally for every single one of those).
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by amw 9y ago
Note that there's also a difference between work-mandated communication channels (for which there is no "opt-in"--there is a directory with your email address, you're on the list of Slack users, etc) and channels outside
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by amw 9y ago
I replace all line-endings with "Bee Movie" as binary in avi format.
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by amw 9y ago
When we hire (we are a 100% remote company), our questions focus on conflict resolution and communication. We like to be able to see assumption of good faith by default, and red flags are things like "automatically blames X for issue Y
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by amw 9y ago
He didn't say anything that was contrary to that. Note that it's the "manager" that didn't "provide a method" in his framing, and note that "manager" is a shorthand for "the teacher's b
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by amw 11y ago
One cool thing about crawl is building conducts into "banners" during their tournaments: http://dobrazupa.org/tournament/0.17/banners.html
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by amw 13y ago
I keep being surprised this isn't common knowledge, but then I remember I married a Quaker
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by amw 14y ago
> What privilege is this that she wants to keep? Women are already bombarded with sex jokes. The fact it's such an outrage she spoke up is testament to that. This times three million.
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by amw 14y ago
> Then I get out of the bar. I don't feel that wpie's example was the best or even a good illumination of what he/she's trying to say, but the concern is legitimate. And saying, "If you feel uncomfortable, get out of the bar" is exactly
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by amw 14y ago
Signal to noise ratio. If your noise is at some average amplitude X, and you have signal at two levels, Y and Z (and both average above X, because otherwise you would just perceive X distorted a bit), then the lower of Y and Z will have mor
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by amw 14y ago
This is an amazing reply.
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by amw 14y ago
He has played with outsourcing work--all the SDL conversion was done by a third party. He hated the experience. Which goes back to the "he's a programmer, not an engineer" thing. I would personally love for this project to be tackled by a g
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by amw 14y ago
Amen to that. Where does everyone find their sense of entitlement?
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by amw 14y ago
And just because it can be reproached doesn't make it any less tiresome to the people who have been hearing it for years.
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by amw 14y ago
Seconded. The sheer fact of the matter is that the state-of-the-art on offense is outpacing the state-of-the-art on defense. These guys didn't expose any password data, and evidently, not even the contents of the support cases (just the sub
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by amw 14y ago
Not that this guy said "evidence" either ("data" was the word), but otherwise I agree
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by amw 14y ago
It 404's. Here's a cache link: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache%3Ahttp%...
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by amw 14y ago
Just for what it's worth, and speaking as an Olark employee, we don't, and don't plan to. But I totally get your concerns, and healthy skepticism is valuable.
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by amw 15y ago
Already covered, not irony. Neeext.
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by amw 15y ago
Why the [sic]? Customers' is plural and possessive in this case.