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by deviationblue 8y ago
> Maybe they should make a stackoverflow for women. The answer doesn't have to be right, it just has to make you feel good. You're being a shithead. This isn't about men or women, and feelings are not exclusive to women. F
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by deviationblue 8y ago
The problem is that there is already such a wealth of information that exists on SO, that some of the beginner questions I had starting out never needed posting. So I can imagine a similar scenario for someone else, and hope that they do a
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by deviationblue 8y ago
An extension of the idea behind the article here, if maximizing share holder value is the goal: https://www.newyorker.com/cartoon/a16995
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by deviationblue 8y ago
> Apart from getting a candidate to actually pump out some code, even trivially, we don't really have a way to de-facto verify that the person says they can do what they say they can do, short of a personal reference from someone, s
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by deviationblue 8y ago
Everyone wants a Ferrari, but most work is ordinary enough that all they really need is a Kia. It's very unlikely that you're the next Google etc., better to hire according to your needs and stature. Maybe you know what you'r
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by deviationblue 9y ago
>If it makes MIT feel better, I don't think "ethics" when I think of MIT. You and every Tom, Dick and Harry. And that's okay why?
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Aldous Huxley Tells Mike Wallace What Will Destroy Democracy (1958)(openculture.com)
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by deviationblue 9y ago
I don't think #deletefacebook is a backlash against the results of the 2016 elections. To me it seems that it's more about it now being socially acceptable to dislike Facebook and social media in general. Some may have always inna
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by deviationblue 9y ago
Funny thing about "declining companies", some of these will see more money in their bad times than the sexiest startups in their heyday. It's cruel, but true. I wouldn't look down on a manager who comes from such a compa
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by deviationblue 9y ago
Most times I posted on stack overflow, my question got downvoted and/or there were snide comments (sometimes). But I got the answer I needed, and my work got done. I don't really care about anything else- why would culture matter
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by deviationblue 9y ago
> Either way, ancient Northern Europeans had to mutate into pale-skinned milk drinkers, because their land is not very sunny. A (perhaps pedantic) correction: it's more accurate to say that mutants who were pale-skinned milk drinker
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by deviationblue 9y ago
> a $3,000 fine for a billionaire isn't unreasonable This sounds ridiculous to me because the idea of laws, and by extension fines, is that they apply uniformly, regardless of class, gender, whatever.
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by deviationblue 9y ago
> people still need to be obliged to go to the city hall to issue their vote, in person! And you can also then police the undesirables by putting them through onerous identification processes. /sarcasm
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by deviationblue 9y ago
Why do we think we'll succeed at "detoxifying" the internet? To me it seems like wanting everyone to say things that don't differ from what everyone else says. That doesn't happen off the internet. Off the internet,
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by deviationblue 9y ago
Kinda related to this, probably a good idea to re-evaluate EQ while we're at it. Although, my gut feeling is that a healthy mix of IQ and EQ makes good worker bees (if that's the metric we're interested in). https:/&#x2
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by deviationblue 9y ago
In a way it is. Look at what some actors/musicians and athletes get paid, it depends on what people want to buy the most/what entertains them the most. The fact that society doesn't pay more for sculpture, writing (unless you
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by deviationblue 9y ago
>you can reasonably work under PhD level people and write code to test, scale, and deploy their ideas. Which phd, though? All PhDs are not equal (see politics vs computer vision). Also, PhDs are hardly the holy grail of demonstrating cap
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by deviationblue 9y ago
I have a very unpopular opinion on this: if someone is overweight, and isn't sick or malfunctioning in any way that negatively impacts themselves, their loved ones, or society, then who gives a shit? The libertarian and contrarian in m
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by deviationblue 9y ago
> but I've had my account since 2006 and despite the company's terrible practices, I'm really not interested in disconnecting for good at this time This behavior does not encourage FB to self-correct.
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by deviationblue 9y ago
Use other sites to compare, like Paysa.
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by deviationblue 9y ago
The pay data on glass door is almost always lower than the market.
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by deviationblue 9y ago
Seems like you could have just avoided the headache by just replying to reviewer from the get-go? It clearly seemed like a mistake. > "Don't attribute to malice what can be explained by ignorance/stupidity" More ignor
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by deviationblue 9y ago
I have such a visceral dislike of this. I don't trust algorithms to be fair (see multitudes of examples in Weapons of Math Destruction), or for algorithms to consistently work without interference from malicious actors. What something
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by deviationblue 9y ago
Interesting, but is there something for spam callers? It's not enough to block them or report them.
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by deviationblue 9y ago
Personally, I don't think Weinstein, and the after effects on other public figures, would have blown up to this level without Susan. Actually, going even further back, people like Ellen Pao and their stories have been consequential as
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by deviationblue 9y ago
I've noticed an alarming uptick in articles around job titles and what people call themselves, so I feel compelled to say something. I couldn't be bothered what someone calls themselves as long as they can actually get shit done.