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by ebola1717 9y ago
Only on the internet. I really don't think anyone in the real world is paying that much attention, and besides Brooks, I haven't seen many mainstream writers come out against the firing.
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by ebola1717 9y ago
Developing is communicating, especially at a large company like Google. Anytime you're building a new feature, you have to reach out to stakeholders, write docs, and build consensus. I've been working as an engineer for years, a
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What scientists think about the biological claims made by a Google employee?(quora.com)
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by ebola1717 9y ago
That's a nice theory, but I fail to see any evidence of it. I see lots of people cap out at senior engineer, cause that's how far you can get without having strong technical skills. Staff engineers, tech leads, and managers all g
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by ebola1717 9y ago
Yeah, I mean, HN trends conservative, especially on issues of gender, race, diversity, etc. so not surprised Douthat is considered a sensible, middle-of-the-road writer here. Him and David Brooks are among the more reasonable conservatives
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by ebola1717 9y ago
? Understanding the psychology and thought process of your target is what empathy means.
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by ebola1717 9y ago
And after the CEO of YouTube called you out, no less
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by ebola1717 9y ago
This tweet was unsurprisingly prescient: https://twitter.com/campster/status/894749657091284992
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by ebola1717 9y ago
If all this science were the end all be all, the low level engineers would be men, and men with their evolutionary handicap for empathy would be none of the managers, leaders, designers, product managers. That's how it is right?
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by ebola1717 9y ago
Yeah, this is the 8th article about the manifesto this morning, and adds nothing new to the conversation
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by ebola1717 9y ago
This isn't an admissions criteria. This is just a commitment to helping kids that come in with weaker backgrounds get up to speed faster, without having to spend credits on remedial classes.
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by ebola1717 9y ago
I mean I don't know if Oxford and Cambridge should be considered "public" the way the UCs are, but UC Berkeley and UCLA are in that tier, and like, does changing that line from "in the world" to "in the US&quot
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by ebola1717 9y ago
Those studies are based on high school students... Yes lower-ed degree mills are a huge issue, and need regualating, but that hardly applies to CalState, which is a top tier public school: https://www.usnews.com/best-college
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by ebola1717 9y ago
Every time an article like this pops up, I see the same sort of response. It's always - Women don't negotiate - Women get pregnant - Women work in lower pay professions And 90% of the time, the article already accounts for the nu
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by ebola1717 9y ago
Did you just try to say that MLK and his jailer did the same amount of good for Civil Rights????
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by ebola1717 9y ago
Yay for nuance and social & historical context! I'm always seriously surprised by how easily convinced people are of flimsy equivalencies. Every debate on the Internet, it feels like there's a swarm of people that believe that
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by ebola1717 9y ago
https://mobile.twitter.com/dril/status/473265809079693312
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by ebola1717 9y ago
In the textbooks, you'll see firehoses turned on protesters, bus boycotts, marches on Selma and Washington, not to mention all the bloody resistance required in South Africa, India, Algeria...
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by ebola1717 9y ago
Also, it's a HUGE controversy in the scientific community that he and Crick got the Nobel prize and most of the credit for discovering the structure of DNA, and Rosalind Franklin gets none. I thought that was well known.
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by ebola1717 9y ago
Asians are overrepresented because of the way immigration laws shifted in 1965, combined with rapidly changing economic conditions in India and China. 50% of Asians in the US hold a college degree, compared to 1% in Asia, so this is not re
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by ebola1717 9y ago
Yeah, Hacker News is a nightmare any time an issue like this happens, but I'm glad at least that some people out in the real world see this for what it is. This engineer deserved to be fired. I mean there's hundreds of of bro-y a
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by ebola1717 9y ago
I'm sorry, but it really feels like you just said this: https://mobile.twitter.com/dril/status/473265809079693312?la...
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by ebola1717 9y ago
I think the value of debating it is overrated. This thread on Twitter summarizes why I don't think debate on this issue is valuable: https://twitter.com/drnerdlove/status/894200932489146370 I'd also add
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by ebola1717 9y ago
If there's one thing decades of arguing on the Internet has taught me, it's that debate is highly overrated. And if there's anything decades old social science research has taught me, it's the Overton Window: https:&#x2
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by ebola1717 9y ago
> In 2012 there were 2712 voting precincts in Virginia... So to sway one state, you'd need most likely thousands of people working together and not one of them can reveal the whole plan.
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by ebola1717 9y ago
> controlling for all variables, including worker performance ratings, men's promotion rates were still 2.2 percentage points higher than women's.
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by ebola1717 9y ago
Did you even google it http://www.nber.org/digest/feb07/w12321.html http://www.nber.org/papers/w20761 http://www.wsj.com/specialcoverage/women-in-the-workplace
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by ebola1717 9y ago
> job responsibilities Job title* Which means that there is still a well-paying-job-title gap between the sexes
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by ebola1717 9y ago
Yeah, their videos are for entertainment (as food porn) and for inspiration. You'll look up a real recipe later.
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by ebola1717 9y ago
Yup, Sarah Mei had some good thoughts on this, in the context of bootcamp grads vs CS grads: https://twitter.com/sarahmei/status/862569071631491072

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