cantastoria

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by cantastoria 14y ago
...where my read of a particular situation is that it is a subtle form of sexism, sometimes probably not consciously intentional but there nonetheless. Can you give an example of this?
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by cantastoria 14y ago
Much to my annoyance, the men who most often play this sexism-neutral role tend to be polite enemies rather than allies: Men who don’t much like me or who are subtly trying to keep women out of a male-dominated area or some such but who ar
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by cantastoria 15y ago
Does anyone know what they used for the GUI? Is it QT?
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by cantastoria 15y ago
Damn it, I didn't click on the link at the end. I've deleted my comment out of respect for raganwald's mother. Even I have lines I won't cross...
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by cantastoria 15y ago
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by cantastoria 15y ago
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by cantastoria 15y ago
Has there been any study showing that fields that went from being dominated by one sex to having a more balanced ratio benefited in any significant way. No seriously... For instance, has there been an explosion of new ideas and research in
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by cantastoria 15y ago
Thank you for your compelling and insightful argument.
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by cantastoria 15y ago
But none of those companies are "twitter-like". They all have fairly low-risk and clear business models. The lede of the article is essentially why aren't there more businesses like Twitter starting in the Midwest. If a number of high-risk
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by cantastoria 15y ago
I've never heard anyone refer to Texas as the Midwest. And Kansas is working out for me just fine wise-ass...
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by cantastoria 15y ago
I think pinning this on a "Midwest mentality" is really missing what is probably the biggest reason. _There is no tech industry in the Midwest_ If your starup fails there isn't another cool startup down the street you can work at instead (a
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by cantastoria 15y ago
>...we didn’t anticipate such a strong visceral “no time tracking is a deal breaker” reaction. This was definitely a blind spot for us. >...Plain and simple, this is why time tracking isn’t in the initial release of the all new Base
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by cantastoria 15y ago
That comment wouldn't scare off female developers just feminist developers which isn't the same thing.
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by cantastoria 15y ago
Who cares? The point is not that he's calling women names. If you want to say that then fine but you should read the rest of what you quoted which makes a different point entirely. So if he had left out "Golden Uterus Complex" then it would
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by cantastoria 15y ago
>It dismisses all women who have real life experience of things men don‘t go through first hand—like child birth or sexism. Putting these out there as exclusive only to women is absurd. I shared the experience of child-birth with my wi
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by cantastoria 15y ago
>When you complain about annoying people by making their gender the primary >basis of identification, you are most definitely making a sweeping >generalization. Not if the people you are complaining about are doing the same exac
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by cantastoria 15y ago
But a return to the "bad old days" is exactly what the education establishment wants. I think the reporter here buried the lede. This was the most interesting paragraph for me: "People were stunned because they were always led to believe t
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by cantastoria 15y ago
After working in academic research for 10 years I can't see this ever working. I don't a single scientist that would trust another lab to run their studies for them. Unless it's something completely routine or just controls where there's a
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by cantastoria 15y ago
I think the main reason accusations of "privilege" are easily ignored is that it's impossible to quantify exactly how much privilege any one person possesses. For instance, I (white, male, college-educated, Sagittarius) am offered a job at
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by cantastoria 15y ago
1. Increase taxes on the rich. 2. ??? 3. Better wealth distribution. I have yet to see a good explanation for what happens in step 2. Raising taxes on the rich is the easy part. How exactly does that money get redistributed? Are we supposed
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by cantastoria 15y ago
Six years in graduate school... going into debt to get a bfa..., 20k in debt and still paying tuition... At what point do we say "these people just made or are making bad decisions". What job did the bfa think they were going to get? Is
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by cantastoria 15y ago
whois reports it's owned by adbusters (edit: or at least someone using an @adbusters address). There's a name and address listed as well. Look it up.
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by cantastoria 15y ago
Maybe but nothing like 2004. The RFK Rolling Stone article, HBO documentaries, hell Black Box Voting was founded that year. In 2008, the NYT was publishing opinion pieces about "The Myth of Voter Fraud" http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/13/o
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by cantastoria 15y ago
Ah I see they're already gearing up for their "Republicans stole the election (again)" series when Obama loses next year. Although I think this is jumping the gun a bit. Funny how these lab tests never seem to be done when it look like a De
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by cantastoria 15y ago
I think another factor is that it's really, really hard to get your products into hospitals. Most hospitals are part of large networks and can't make independent purchasing decisions. The entire network has adopt your product in many cases.
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by cantastoria 15y ago
This is a pretty abrupt way to start off an interview. And I don't understand the point of this question w.r.t assessing someone's coding ability. Though I'd be curious to see if the success rate on that question and on a fizz buzz correlat
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by cantastoria 15y ago
Ok in that case then they're a no hire as that's just a fundamental part of developing software. Although I must admit that this problem surprises me more than people's inability to code. I mean if you can't break down problems you're just
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by cantastoria 15y ago
Hmmm.. I see. Is this done on a whiteboard? If you let them use an editor and run it and they fixed it right away would that be acceptable? I wonder if people are getting such bad results on this because it's always the first question they
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by cantastoria 15y ago
Ok fair enough, but I'm still curious where the sticking point is. Can they at least code the loop? I'm wondering if it's just that peoples' math skills are typical pretty rusty and if using another set of conditions would give you better r
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by cantastoria 15y ago
I'm curious what candidates are getting stuck on. Is it the testing for divisibility that's tripping them up?

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