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by cauch 2y ago
I would say that recalling a memory does not imply sharing something deep and personal. It's like the difference between these two questions: "what is the answer of 2x+4=12" and "what's your favorite movie". I
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by cauch 2y ago
The majority of the examples have nothing to do with sharing memory of your not-long-dead parents or things like that. And again, usual questions like "what have you done last month" are also as "dangerous", because you
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by cauch 2y ago
I think that my point is that the questions in the article don't provide much more ammunition than the "usual" questions, or even other usual things that we usually share. If they want to hurt you, they can easily laugh at so
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by cauch 2y ago
> What is the risk of just having the conversation naked? I would say there is intrinsically no much risk. Naturists cross paths with perfect strangers while totally naked, and it is not a big deal for them. Some population lives (or liv
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by cauch 2y ago
I don't disagree with that, but your comment made me realize something. What is the real risk of answering these questions? I perfectly understand the discomfort, and I have it myself, but is this discomfort justified by anything concr
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by cauch 2y ago
You reacted to my sentence: "But unfortunately, you cannot force a dev to get implied in the business aspect if they don't want to" What you say is that you cannot force them, but you can replace them. So you just say my sent
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by cauch 2y ago
Well, technically, if you show them the door, you failed to get them implied in the business aspect. But also, the bad scrum situation exist EXACTLY because it's a strategy to push devs to get implied in the business aspect. Or rather,
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by cauch 2y ago
That's correct and that's the point: the bad scrum situation is sometimes in place because the TL does not do it all, either because they don't want to or is not able to. Sometimes, it is because the owners or the managements
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by cauch 2y ago
I think the link is that it is not at all uncommon to see someone who cannot play nice with consensus or be humble to blame everything on the company ownership. It is possible there is a company ownership problem sometimes. But the article
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by cauch 2y ago
I agree with that. But unfortunately, you cannot force a dev to get implied in the business aspect if they don't want to. Bad scrum practices are, in my experience, very often the consequences of the devs themselves. I'm a scienti
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by cauch 2y ago
On top of what is said in the other comment (indeed, "gender" is perfectly fine, there is no real confusion), it's also worth noting that the "more aggressive" and "more nurturing" sparrows have a differen
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by cauch 2y ago
Your initial claim is that learning math is more "people oriented" because you can discuss with the professor and "errors" in math are subjective, while learning coding is more "thing oriented" because the debu
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by cauch 2y ago
Did you just saw the word "meet" and your brain directly when into the usual rant without understanding at all the message of the sentence? Firstly, I have a news for you: avoiding interruptions is not something special to develop
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by cauch 2y ago
I think you still don't get my point. Indeed today there is a lot of devs that don't engage directly with people. But my point is that "not engaging directly" IS A CHOICE of these individuals, not a fundamental character
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by cauch 2y ago
Women don't study math to become teachers: if they want to become teachers, they can study literature, language, history, chemistry, ... If they study math is because they like math. I strongly suspect that the large majority starts in
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by cauch 2y ago
> I learned how to do them in college ... I have the opposite experience: when learning physics, math was really difficult to negotiate with the professor, because it is mathematically correct or not. They had their table that said &quot
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by cauch 2y ago
We are talking about the STEM biology field. Biology students don't go to medical fields. There are more people going to medical fields from computer science, due to the need of medical software, or from physics due to radiology.
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> No, this does not track. It could also be that some fields in STEM are more people oriented than others. And I'm saying that I have taken that into account and I cannot see, in practice, how mathematicians, statisticians or biolog
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by cauch 2y ago
Writing code require talent, but writing code itself does not mean you are a good developer. Writing a software and not understanding the business and the partners is just totally equal to not writing any software at all. A good developer i
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> Math proofs only need to convince other people Wait, what? A math proof does not need to convince anyone: the proof exists or does not exist. If I prove X, then I don't need to convince other people that X is proven, they just hav
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by cauch 2y ago
I agree with that. My comment here is about the idea that the disparity can be explained because "computer science is more thing-oriented and women are more interested in people-oriented activities". If it was true, we would not s
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Statisticians are working less with managers than developers. Developers are supposed to be constantly fed back from the product users, and in practice, it means they interact with a bigger surface than statisticians. They may find ways to
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by cauch 2y ago
But it is as human-oriented as other science fields that are typically considered as more people-oriented and these fields attract a bigger proportion of women. Also, one of my point is that the "non human oriented" is also part o
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by cauch 2y ago
I find that interesting because I see more and more successful developers that explain that a successful developer is someone who has good people skills. If you think about it, there not intrinsic ground to support the idea that computer sc
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by cauch 2y ago
Nobody is asking the justice systems to answer these questions. I think the problem in the discussion here is that some people see that _in some cases_ we cannot tell what is true or not, and conclude, incorrectly, that the law we are talki
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by cauch 2y ago
Answering now to your edit, with the example. The politician said that "[the Welsh government is] dishing out £1,600 to anyone who wants to rock up and claim they are crossing the Channel illegally". As your article states, on the
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by cauch 2y ago
In Wales, the place this law is discussed, it is not true that the winner has all power: the system is designed to give a lot of power to the opposition too. It is just not true that in Wales the opinion of the opposition is not heard or is
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by cauch 2y ago
Again, then this law is totally harmless: if indeed people are biased when they decide if someone lies or not, it does not matter if there is a law on it. Again: if you are claiming that this law will harm opposition, then you are not sayin
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by cauch 2y ago
You know that "they" refer to more than just "the politicians in power", but to the whole people involved, including opposition, small parties, independent law specialists, ... Maybe you see that from the US point of vie
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by cauch 2y ago
That's quite a reversal when you are steel-manning your argument by pretending that the large majority of politicians and legalists in Wales are so much uneducated that they did not notice this obvious misuse that you, you have notice

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