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by bonemachine 13y ago
It wasn't adjusted to exclude traditional non-working categories of any kind at all. That's what made is such an obviously useless figure, right there in the first sentence.
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by bonemachine 13y ago
The main point is that the evaluations are the University's property. It would be irresponsible of them to entrust their protection to a third party -- especially when that third party seems to have set up their site without obtaining
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by bonemachine 13y ago
Officials also expressed concerns that the site was making course evaluation information available to individuals not authorized to view the information. Sounds like they have perfectly valid concerns, actually. When it comes to protectin
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by bonemachine 13y ago
But you never really substantiate this idea that they're "not looking for work." I mean, yeah, you made a line graph and such. And you cite mysteriously precise figures like $22731 and $23706. But to conclude that people wi
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by bonemachine 13y ago
Yecch. Everyone knows (or ought to know) that the value of most of those perks has to be offset against something in the company's budget. (Namely: your paycheck[1]). (New) startups shouldn't try to compete 1-1 with the handful
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by bonemachine 13y ago
Ah, how I envy the freedom available to political protestors in the former Soviet Union. In NYC (during the Occupy days), those mirrors would have been swiftly confiscated as "potential weapons."
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by bonemachine 13y ago
Monotonic, shmonotonic. You haven't answered any of the main counterpoints people have been raising to your rant so far. Trying to distract us with academic gobbledygook really isn't helping your case.
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by bonemachine 13y ago
You mean the time that the unemployed spend looking for work? It's just another "day off", like the original poster says.
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by bonemachine 13y ago
The point is, if you're going to make not only highly charged, but basically, incredibly insulting assertions about a very large group of people (that also happens to be much weaker than yourself) -- especially assertions that are read
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by bonemachine 13y ago
Ah, I see.
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by bonemachine 13y ago
You put footnote numbers in the article, but didn't include the actual references. Weird, huh? Anyway, since I couldn't readily find substantiation for that 24% number, and the added dubiosity coming from the fact that he doesn
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by bonemachine 13y ago
TL;DR , starting with Line 1: It’s a fairly pervasive myth within the US that the poor work very hard at unpleasant jobs. But this is nothing but a myth - according to the BLS report A profile of the working poor, 2009, as of 2009, only 2
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by bonemachine 13y ago
As it happens, hashes in Perl 5 autovivify by default (rather like defaultdicts in Python). In retrospect, this can seem rather surprising (if not off-putting) to newcomers, so an argument can be made that a more conservative default behav
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by bonemachine 13y ago
In general, with marketing, you need to keep your Message simple. As in drop-dead simple. Especially when you're veyr small. That's why you see food trucks offering tacos, sushi, or organic chocolate-and-truffle-oil-suffused hem
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by bonemachine 13y ago
Finally someone has the courage to tell the Truth about CT. Next up: the idea that the notions of Monad, Functor, and Category (in whatever guise) are even needed or helpful to do strong FP.
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by bonemachine 13y ago
Agreed - major cognitive disconnect there. Preferred identity providers, if any, should be ('GitHub', 'Stack', 'Twitter') followed by None (i.e. independent / paranoid). FB tends to have vibe ranging fro
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by bonemachine 13y ago
Perhaps they terminated the guy because he showed he was too emotional and incapable of dealing with the way the company worked globally ... If so, then evidently they're the kind of company that seems way, way more concerned with em
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by bonemachine 13y ago
They shot the messenger. That's the main point.
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by bonemachine 13y ago
This is not about taking PHP seriously. The point as I understood was that for all of PHP's faults, (almost by accident) it managed to get certain things right, or at least right for the Web in the time in the time of it's heyda
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by bonemachine 13y ago
Because they don't everyone to know how happy you were the day you knew that, soon enough, you'd be leaving.
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by bonemachine 13y ago
No, what we have here is a SV megacorp practicing blatant racism in its hiring (or internal allocation) practices, and then firing the guy who blew the whistle on it . It's not about the Irish guy, or the Indian guy. EDIT: for "
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by bonemachine 13y ago
Even what is written doesn't sound lawsuit worthy. May or may not have been, but sounds like you didn't even read the article, judging from your response. Hint: It definitely was not about a $10k salary difference.
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by bonemachine 13y ago
And? How's the inquiry going, so far?
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by bonemachine 13y ago
In any case, my primary point is that I wouldn't write off an entire company due to what are likely the mistakes of a single individual, Well, actually, I would. Because (being as it seems to keep happening, over and over again, in
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by bonemachine 13y ago
It certainly wasn't anyone in the hiring pipeline who screwed up. It's someone very high up in the Amazon food chain, responsible for failing to create a hiring process that emphasizes the need to treat candidates respectfully a
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by bonemachine 13y ago
Agreed. It doesn't take a conspiratorial mindset to suspect that something's amiss here. It suffices to apply Occam's razor. What's interesting is that the poster above simply keeps asserting, over and over, that it wa
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by bonemachine 13y ago
Note that the ultimate source for this chestnut is a recruiter at JobSpring. Whose livelihood revolves around propagating the idea the labor market is so H-O-T-T, and that it's so impossibly hard to find developers without resorting t
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by bonemachine 13y ago
Whatever the real storage & retrieval costs may have been -- this whole "panic incineration" thing still doesn't make any sense. At all.
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by bonemachine 13y ago
Wow, man. That's a lot of boilerplate.
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by bonemachine 13y ago
Congress shouldn't have that much influence over the SEC. Hate to break this to you, but Congress created the SEC. You also might want to look into Articles 1 and 8 of the Constitution, BTW.

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