dgabriel

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by dgabriel 7y ago
I volunteer for Black Girls Code, specifically the 9-11 year old age group, and the last thing I did that really blew their minds was build an Obby in Roblox. Almost all of them have watched youtubers go through them. Get one working, mod
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by dgabriel 7y ago
In the last 6 years, my rent has gone up by about 800/mo. It's the same apartment.
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by dgabriel 8y ago
Academic career paths are completely broken, which is why universities can and do get away with it. The problem is not that these instructors aren't "people of talent." This article is mainly concerned with the humanities, b
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by dgabriel 8y ago
Many schools rely on adjuncts and lecturers to teach. They get paid very little, have no job security, no benefits, etc. But because the academic career path is so completely broken, lots of of very smart, talented instructors take on the
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by dgabriel 9y ago
My 8 year old daughter is on the spectrum (diagnosed level 1; normal IQ in the 110ish range), and the diagnosis has helped us get intensive in-school support. She's doing well academically, but needs support in writing and social skil
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by dgabriel 9y ago
But possibly not easy for an Uber driver, rather than a highly skilled tech worker.
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by dgabriel 9y ago
Wait -- you edit your college-aged child's essays??
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by dgabriel 9y ago
I mean, they definitely talk about how the specific demands of modern motherhood are exhausting. Here's a quote: "Feeling trapped or suffocated is a common theme in Donath’s work; mothers felt “as if the metaphorical umbilical
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by dgabriel 9y ago
Adoption is expensive, difficult, and often heartbreaking. I hate it when people casually throw out adoption as a solution without understanding anything about the process.
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by dgabriel 9y ago
The government controls a LOT of what we can buy already. Sex work is highly regulated, and you can't buy people . You also can't buy endangered animals, ivory, or nuclear weapons. In terms of people spending money on what they
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by dgabriel 10y ago
Source?
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by dgabriel 10y ago
Do you know when we'll have docs on the new Router?
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by dgabriel 10y ago
This is commonly known as the Sam Vines Boots Theory of Socioeconomic Unfairness. https://thebillfold.com/to-terry-pratchett-who-gave-us-sam-v...
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by dgabriel 11y ago
I just leave off the education part on my resume. This has literally never been a problem for me, and most requirements I see say something like "BS or equivalent experience ".
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by dgabriel 11y ago
Toy languages are fun, and nothing new. Making your own language is a great exercise.
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by dgabriel 11y ago
Music execs set that expectation, and artists just have to live with it. http://www.billboard.com/biz/articles/news/branding/1559631/... "During those meetings it was Warner executives, not Jo
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by dgabriel 11y ago
Right, "sign this, stay quiet, we'll give you a year's salary." It's hard to turn that kind of an offer down unless you have a lot of money in the bank.
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by dgabriel 11y ago
Some aspects of gender expression are social constructs, but certainly hard-coded gender identity is real. This is a spectrum, and there are many people who don't identify as either gender, but somewhere between. You don't have
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by dgabriel 11y ago
I took three pics of myself with Photo Booth just now, and depending on the lighting and position of my chin got 20, 34, and 47. I'll take the average?
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by dgabriel 11y ago
No one I know who is younger than 50 looks like Ray Kurzweil...
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by dgabriel 12y ago
Yeah. Some people I know got caught up by this, and an app would make it too easy. http://gawker.com/5992924/lamestain-boston-cops-google-punk-...
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by dgabriel 12y ago
You can clean houses for twice that, and the shit you have to deal with is far easier to handle.
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by dgabriel 12y ago
Um, sometimes? HN is big, and there are crossover populations.
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by dgabriel 12y ago
No, his argument is that "major art" is widely consumed by people who do not practice it. He uses poetry -- consumed by a small audience of people who almost entirely consider themselves poets -- as an example of "craft.&quo
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by dgabriel 12y ago
No... that's not true at all. Books like Lolita, Catch-22, Animal Farm, and To Kill a Mockingbird are all considered literary fiction.
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by dgabriel 12y ago
And even now we have spoken word and slam poets that sell out clubs & college gigs, and make ends meet on that. They are profound exceptions. And, also, Shakespeare's profits would be almost entirely due to his plays.
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by dgabriel 12y ago
There's never really been any money in poetry for people who were just published poets. "Great" poets were all subsidized by patrons, worked in odd jobs or other mediums, or died in penury (sometimes all three)! The same is
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by dgabriel 12y ago
I'm not sure I buy this argument. By his criterion, porn is more or less the major art.
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by dgabriel 12y ago
No one has anything else to do tonight, I guess.
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by dgabriel 12y ago
I'm an actual woman in computing WITH kids, and I found the article offensive, as well. There's something in there for all of us to dislike.

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