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by brandonhsiao 9y ago
I always enjoy reading your thoughtful comments on this topic. What do you think about the indirect rebuttal to some of your points made here — http://slatestarcodex.com/2017/08/07/contra-grant-on-exagger...
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by brandonhsiao 9y ago
My totally unrigorous theory: you don't have to be obsessive to be a reasonably successful employee, but you probably do in order to have a $1b exit. Those people then set the culture, because a bunch of the next wave of ambitious 20 y
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by brandonhsiao 9y ago
This is the sort of convenient take on things that incites immediate curiosity. Forced to its conclusion, you're arguing that people who code for fun in their spare time don't see any substantial increase in their chances of succe
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by brandonhsiao 9y ago
There's a real problem where people see the social context in which a document is being discussed before the document itself, and the two become inseparable in their heads. From the start the discussion was framed around lossy compress
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by brandonhsiao 9y ago
Nice. Maybe kilo? https://github.com/antirez/kilo
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by brandonhsiao 9y ago
There should be one of those awesome-* Github repos with a list of lightweight, readable implementations of various protocols/technologies.
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by brandonhsiao 9y ago
Oops, I missed your point. I still think your summary is not what people are fighting as the threshold issue, but, I agree with your last sentence.
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by brandonhsiao 9y ago
What? Sure it is. You say he said "Women are, in the the large, excepting some outliers, biologically disfavored to become programmers" when he didn't.
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by brandonhsiao 9y ago
His claim: across various traits, men and women have distributions that differ in mean but still largely overlap. This is a possible non-bias cause of the gender gap in tech. Specifically to ward off the concern you're about to raise
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by brandonhsiao 9y ago
You want to lump (a) people who simply think, as a technical opinion, that there are population statistical differences with (b) people who desperately want an excuse to cleanse society of black people. They are not the same thing, and to p
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The Rhetorical Trap at the Heart of the “Neurosexism” Debate(quillette.com)
2 points by brandonhsiao 9y ago|0 comments
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by brandonhsiao 9y ago
It's weird to claim you're simply using a technical term to categorize someone's views, but then choose such a charged phrase. Edit: rethought comment
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by brandonhsiao 9y ago
This is unfair. You want to call people white supremacists based on the literal, objective content of their views, i.e. using the phrase in a narrow, technical sense, while knowing full well that calling someone a white supremacist will ral
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by brandonhsiao 9y ago
* I've always assumed "frogs are bigger than toads" has "on average" implied, and that obviously some toads are bigger than some frogs. * If the real goal is to find overlooked, qualified people, we should expect to
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by brandonhsiao 9y ago
Imagine for a second that, controlling for all environmental factors, the average IQ of men was shown to be 3 points lower than women. (Totally hypothetical.) Additionally, women in this world outperform men at chess by a noticeable margin.
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by brandonhsiao 9y ago
This is an interesting point. A harsher way to phrase this is, judging by empirical evidence thus far, it takes controlling, illiberal attitudes in order to hold the gap closed.
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by brandonhsiao 9y ago
I guess I don't understand this passionate need to immediately call statements sexist/racist simply because they relate to sex and race. Like, is the statement true or not? If not, why not first call it false (something we can all
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by brandonhsiao 9y ago
How is that "being cruel to strangers just to enjoy their suffering"? Also, you've commented in this thread about six times now with snarky remarks, unsubstantiated vitriol, and essentially "Martin Shkreli is a monster.&
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by brandonhsiao 9y ago
When an American company says they support free speech, everyone assumes they mean the American version. Which, incidentally, does not include exceptions for "hate speech": https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/
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by brandonhsiao 9y ago
That's technically true, but the Patreon CEO has claimed that they're committed to free speech, which is false if they're going to kick out screaming lunatics who are protected under the definition of free speech. If so they
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by brandonhsiao 9y ago
The problem is deciding who gets to define those concepts in edge cases. Otherwise motivated parties try to push everything they don't like into those categories. "Hate speech" is a common example.
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by brandonhsiao 9y ago
I've followed Maciej Ceglowski's advice to moderate success at work: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14033638
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by brandonhsiao 9y ago
"CEOs should be honest. That seems obvious enough, but it turns out “be honest” is easy to say, but amazingly hard to do. Let’s look at some scenarios to understand why." I don't really see a paradox/conflict here. All
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Ask HN: Add .user-{username} class to posts?
1 points by brandonhsiao 9y ago|2 comments
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by brandonhsiao 9y ago
I signed up and played with the app. I think this would be better implemented as a library or wrapper on top of one. The "code using a mouse" idea has been tried and almost every time the verdict is: code is the preferred interfac
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by brandonhsiao 9y ago
Loyalty on a large scale requires threat-backed enforcement. Mafia members were loyal to each other not just because family was sacred but because they'd be killed otherwise. Big megacorps of the 20th century basically worked by vestin
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by brandonhsiao 9y ago
I like the UI a lot. Were the jobs currently listed posted by the companies or you? Really cool if former.
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by brandonhsiao 9y ago
What is the 1-to-1 mapping between the Erlang concurrency model and neural networks?
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by brandonhsiao 9y ago
You are technically correct, but unless you are building something where the technology actually doesn't matter much (e.g. a relatively simple web app where most of the business is done in the physical world), it will mostly be technic
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by brandonhsiao 9y ago
SEEKING WORK - San Francisco - Remote OK I'm a full-stack developer. Skills: Node, Django, Rails, React, GraphQL, Relay, Reagent http://brandonhsiao.com/resume.pdf My rate is $100/hr. Currently available 40 hours

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