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by ebola1717 9y ago
idk, I studied higher level math very seriously, and even there, practicing computations is pretty key to understanding the underlying concepts. Concepts and abstractions are important, but they don't stick without practice.
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by ebola1717 9y ago
Your links say we can believe these allegations with 90-98% confidence. Actually, multiply that by 6 women, and that's 99.9999% confidence, assuming the low end of that. My request services only have to have a 99.9% success rate.
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by ebola1717 9y ago
Is that really how it works? Stories about Uber typically get high comment rates, and I usually see them near the top.
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by ebola1717 9y ago
California actually: http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/explainer/2...
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by ebola1717 9y ago
https://twitter.com/karaswisher/status/874696738119888896
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by ebola1717 9y ago
Or maybe we just promote more women and gay men to managerial positions :)
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by ebola1717 9y ago
No one's questioning that. Believe != immediately fire someone once you get a report, that's in GP
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by ebola1717 9y ago
Kara Swisher's podcast had an excellent episode on Uber that did a great job surveying this firestorm, and defending Travis' business direction, without exonerating his leadership's many flaws. Definitely worth a listen.
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by ebola1717 9y ago
I don't agree it's quite that uplifiting. The culture had to be absolutely horrible, all the way up to the top, for Fowler's story to have an impact. Uber was already gearing up their lawyers against her, and if their cultu
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by ebola1717 9y ago
It's not just public perception - it's internal perception too. Attrition at Uber is through the roof. Yeah, Travis is one of the best people for the job and his aggressiveness built Uber, but you can't build and maintain U
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by ebola1717 9y ago
> - is it a good thing that press (which it seems is sometimes influenceable) can effectively hire and fire by continued pressure? If it holds people in power accountable for their actions, then yes, it's a good thing. I agree usin
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by ebola1717 9y ago
Dictatorships have that history - to place the blame on communism while ignoring oppressive regimes like Pinochet and Trujillo is disingenuous. Not to mention the article says nothing about communism. Plenty of countries have pro-labor, s
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by ebola1717 9y ago
I'm confused by this title. To the extent the article supports the title, it places blame not on motherhood, but the larger imbalance in expectations toward domestic responsibilities. However, it also notes that raises are lower, and
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by ebola1717 9y ago
My understanding is that's standard procedure for Apple. If you violate the TOS, they'll block app updates, but it would have to be egregious for them to remove the app. At a company I worked at previously, we got hit with a cop
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by ebola1717 9y ago
Given the highly anti-immigration track record of the Trump administration, I doubt any reforms coming from them will be good ones.
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by ebola1717 9y ago
Not to mention that technology has always been a bigger displacer of jobs than immigration. H1B allows 65K immigrants per year. Much more than that is displaced by self-driving cars, warehouse automation, etc.
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by ebola1717 9y ago
It's true though. We talk about the loss of industrial jobs and NAFTA as a white working class phenomenon, despite the fact that people of all races are affected. We pathologized drug use for decades, until the recent opioid crisis h
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by ebola1717 10y ago
At most big companies with a formal title ladder, this is an explicit criteria for being a "senior" engineer.
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by ebola1717 10y ago
Yeah, this policy is very clearly meant to curb immigration , not H1B abuse.
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by ebola1717 10y ago
The 'why' question is my pet peeve too - often because the answer to > Why do I need a monad then, if there are similar constructs in other languages that don't need the understanding of monad? is that you usually don&#x27
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by ebola1717 10y ago
Yeah, this is happening, but other left-leaning outlets are calling it out too: https://www.buzzfeed.com/rubycramer/democrats-confront-lefty... http://mashable.com/2017/02/01/left-wing-co
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by ebola1717 10y ago
What can evil ever mean then? Like by that logic, slave-owners were not evil because they wanted to make a profit.
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by ebola1717 10y ago
Consider that a lot of the talent the US attracts is from China, and they're leaving for economic rather than political reasons. If opportunities open up at home, and the US's standing erodes, that can swing a lot of momentum in
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by ebola1717 10y ago
People who criticize gentrification usually don't excuse the landlord. In fact, most community orgs that fight gentrification target their protests against the landlords. In NYC, for example, it's usually targeted at landlords f
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by ebola1717 10y ago
Worth underscoring that point - these processes lead you to hire worse candidates.
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by ebola1717 10y ago
The alternative is not no technical interviews, but it is important to recognize that different interview styles have different biases. Like a take home problem is biased against programmers with young kids. Whiteboarding is often a skill
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by ebola1717 10y ago
There's a link to their blog post where they describe it in that exact sentence.
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by ebola1717 10y ago
No, not at all. One could argue that analytic philosophy and mathematical logic have some overlap and inform each other, but even then, there are deep differences in their goals and methods.
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by ebola1717 10y ago
HN should really ban throwaway accounts on sensitive threads. In any case, if you don't at least know that the response to your comment will be that allegations of harassment more often result in retaliation against the accuser than p
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by ebola1717 10y ago
Scala carries some baggage from being on the JVM that makes this not-quite-true, but it mostly enforces all of those things in the type system. There's no null-checking required, and if something can fail, the type system should tell

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