biocomputation

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by biocomputation 9y ago
First, a pitch meeting with a venture capitalist is generally accepted by our culture to be the kind of professional environment that is inappropriate to sexualize in any fashion. While I understand your basic point, you seem to be very int
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by biocomputation 9y ago
>> The accusations can be true, and at the same time it seems possible that the VC didn't take advantage of his "position of power", but genuinely believed the women liked him for his looks and personality, not because
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by biocomputation 9y ago
I am the very close relative of two women in tech. One of my relatives was on the receiving end of repeated, unwanted advances over the last several months, none of which were reported to HR because she didn't want to destroy her caree
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by biocomputation 9y ago
>> main IDE to "a total step backwards", for some reason. Cargo cult is the reason.
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by biocomputation 9y ago
I also wasn't that impressed by the fact that I had to wait a few seconds for it to work. A font demo -especially a parametric font demo- really should be instant.
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by biocomputation 9y ago
<< Technical writing is dead as a profession. Hmm, I couldn't disagree more! << Too many companies expect technical writers to be as savvy, or more, as their developers, but for lower pay, less respect, and zero political p
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by biocomputation 9y ago
At work we spend a ton of money keeping our documentation up to date, searchable, and available on the web. Worth every penny, and that's just if we count the productivity boosts for internal users of the docs.
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by biocomputation 9y ago
Bing user here. I switched a few years ago when I finally got sick enough of Google's many creepy abuses of power. It's just as good. As others have noted, Google's search is only good when you're signed in. Because they
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by biocomputation 9y ago
Are you referring to the line in which I asked to be spared the PR? Note that I didn't mean to insinuate that the author of the comment to which I replied was a paid PR professional or shill of some sort. Thanks for your remarks.
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by biocomputation 9y ago
No, I don't believe it. I believe that they sat on it, during which time their salaries were being paid by the taxpayers. It's a bit horrendous because the NSA would have us believe that they're supposed to work proactively o
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by biocomputation 9y ago
It's even more horrifying that, as a US citizen, I'm one of the people who paid for this work.
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by biocomputation 9y ago
It won't be long before this is actually used very successfully against a company like Google or Amazon or Facebook.
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by biocomputation 9y ago
> You must work for one of those other companies with 340,000 employees that always makes the right decisions, always puts people before policy, always maximizes shareholder value, always engages positively with the community, and always
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by biocomputation 9y ago
Except it's just a fact that your company punishes its employees for getting sick or pregnant. https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/2291301-aclu-ad.html Other workplace abuses - especially at warehouses - are v
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by biocomputation 9y ago
How is he over generalizing? It's just a very simple fact that 90% of the bootcamp grads can't program their way out of a paper bag. In fact, most self-trained programmers are vastly better than even the best bootcamp graduates. T
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by biocomputation 9y ago
You should be able to do this easily. Go consult a trainer and try working out 3x a week for 3 months. Learn how to eat enough and lift heavy stuff safely.
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by biocomputation 9y ago
Most people, including programmers, are not used to building numbers from numbers past basic arithmetic on digits from 0-9. Floating point numbers use scientific notation which is rarely used by anyone, even programmers. When was the last t
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by biocomputation 9y ago
* Also, lists are a reasonable way of managing unrelated types.
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by biocomputation 9y ago
Just wait until you turn 40. It's very difficult for some people to gain weight, even if you eat enough, and even if you lift hard. How tall are you? How much do you weigh? How much do you want to gain? Who/what do you want to loo
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by biocomputation 9y ago
I was the same when I lived alone. My pants were nearly affixed to the back of the chair in my living room.
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by biocomputation 9y ago
Don't see how something like this will be good for morale, but I suppose that's what the enormous bonuses are for.
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by biocomputation 9y ago
* India is sovereign and can do whatever it likes. It can ban American companies at will. * There are hundreds of thousands of H1-Bs in America right now. * Most, if not all, of these jobs should go to Americans. * Non-profits ( virtually
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by biocomputation 10y ago
Which is why people say that the pioneers end up with the arrows in their backs.
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by biocomputation 10y ago
Yes, it's a huge injustice. Foreign nationals should not be allowed to own property in the US, period. They're turning our housing markets into private casinos, to the detriment of American citizens.
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by biocomputation 10y ago
Gay man here. In a long term relationship. Also have lots of straight friends, so I've heard about that side of things as well. I think the trope of a happy marriage requiring sex is just as harmful. The truth is that a marriage needs
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by biocomputation 10y ago
Yeah, inheritance is the best tool when I want a derived class to implement all the behavior of the super class.
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by biocomputation 10y ago
>> but also provide implementation inheritance, which is bad. Inheritance isn't bad. Abusing inheritance is bad. For the record, you can also abuse composition, polymorphism, operator overloading, free functions, interfaces, reco
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by biocomputation 10y ago
First class!
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by biocomputation 10y ago
In light of all the technical problems with regular VR, it should surprise no one that Magic Leap is in trouble. Consider all the information about reality you need in order to pull this off at scale ( as shown in the video at least ). Yeah
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by biocomputation 10y ago
Yes, forcible suppression by a state actor is definitely censorship, but not all censorship is bad. I am generally in two minds about this because there are convincing arguments for both sides. In the US, some people have a terrible time ge

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