ergothus

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by ergothus 8y ago
I'm shocked at many of the responses here, when people will also complain about hostility towards remote workers. Slack is a vital part of my working, PARTICULARLY when one of the parties is remote. Sure, as this article is saying, ha
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by ergothus 8y ago
> the training data needs to be a fictional, idealized set, and not based on real world data that already has bias slants built in Thatd be great, but in this case (as in most ML cases) the idea is not "follow this known, tedious p
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by ergothus 8y ago
> Obviously that's meant to act as a proxy for learning That is the INTENT, sure. But does it work? If you have someone that graduated from a school A and someone that failed to graduate from school B that is in an entirely differ
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by ergothus 8y ago
Google+ was successful.in limited groups, where others were more likely to be also involved (for example, tabletop RPGs have a much stronger g+ community than many other hobbies). This inevitably leads to confusion about popular/compet
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by ergothus 8y ago
Your honest position is that I want to "precondition" you to accept future refugees rather than that I actually trust the overwhelming scientific consensus and want to try and prevent the need for refugees at all? Even if you thi
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by ergothus 8y ago
> Obviously we need some students to become programmers, and we should start them early, but do we need all students? I've always viewed the current use of programmers to be temporary - in the future, most people will so a little p
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by ergothus 8y ago
> but I personally have never seen it. I have. That said, I think we are on the same position on the issue. When I've seen such comments, it's when someone that didn't understand the value if comments is responding to a
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by ergothus 8y ago
The above comment indicates lack of surprise. Are you surprised unhappy workers will do illegal/immoral things, _even when the contract says otherwise_? Expecting people who feel cheated or abused to behave accordingly is not a judgme
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by ergothus 8y ago
What is a reasonable hoop to jump through and what is unreasonable is very subjective. Consider...on the east coast, interview suits are the norm. Even for a coding job where you will never wear a suit, it is reasonable to wonder why a can
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by ergothus 8y ago
> you're quick to assume bad faith, which would seem to support the first point you quote I don't think that follows. If you start with "there's no point in good faith" (paraphrase), you can't say that some
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by ergothus 8y ago
> Because open, good-faith conversation around topics of identity such as gender, race, and sexuality (and the scholarship that works with them) is nearly impossible, our aim has been to reboot these conversations. ... > a clear reaso
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by ergothus 8y ago
With partisanship rising to bitter, angry levels in the US while trust in just about every social group on the decline outside of the record defenders, my nightmare scenario has been a contested election result. Having no way to establis
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by ergothus 8y ago
I recall a story from long ago: user is requested to boot their laptop by airline security. They boot, which drops to a linux (bsd?) command line. Agent is not pleased. User sets PS1 so the prompt now looks like DOS. Agent is satisfied (
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by ergothus 8y ago
> People make a lot of assumptions about employment lawsuits that I, as something of an insider, don't see IRL Yet US based HR decisions aren't based on informed awareness, but instead fear. Consider what people "know&quo
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by ergothus 8y ago
> Too many equate "legal" with "moral" and defer to the authority of the state when it labels someone officially as a "criminal," no matter the offense. This is s huge point, and not just in drug convictions
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by ergothus 8y ago
snippets here and there keep trucking, but I think it's fair to say Usenet in it's entirety is not what it used to be.
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by ergothus 8y ago
Sorry - that was a mostly removed sentence, because it wasn't very interesting: "Another is a new job, so we will have to see how well they sustain it".
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by ergothus 8y ago
"absolve" is not the correct term (I think) - I don't find ads particularly offensive, I just don't ENJOY them, and I was looking for a job I'd enjoy and enjoy telling people about. I'm perfectly fine with ads
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by ergothus 8y ago
I've been in this industry for 23 years. A LOT has changed...but I expect I'll be in in for 20-25 more, so I occasionally freak out about how much I know that will be as irrelevant as what I learned in '95 was. (A lot carri
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by ergothus 8y ago
I have zero disagreement here. I have a similar reaction when someplace tries to attract me to the "challenge". Finding hard, interesting work is EASY - I'm looking for interesting work (often but not always hard) that als
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by ergothus 8y ago
I'm all for trade schools, but I feel like that's a slightly orthogonal issue. There's no immediate reason to expect a company to help train up employees (not just juniors, but moving people from every level to the next step)
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by ergothus 8y ago
recently interviewed at Facebook (didn't pass the in-person) and one thing I was looking for was a job that WASN'T based on ads. I didn't want to come across negative so I was circumspect in my asking ("Tell me about th
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by ergothus 8y ago
I've heard this distinction before, and I think it's a difference in the base quality of the place. My last three jobs all put "passion" as a major hiring criteria, but all maintained a strong work/life balance (a
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by ergothus 8y ago
This is why phrases like "IP" are tricky: copyright is not in danger of going public if undefended. Neither are patents. Trademark is, because trademark is about preventing consumer confusion, not about encouraging you to innova
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by ergothus 8y ago
"Passionate" in programming is shorthand for "cares for quality" AND "will improve on their own". Companies are unwilling or unable to train on the job (because it requires tech mentor resources they dont have
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by ergothus 8y ago
And when we have a formula that can express developing a user base and market trust, particularly in the face of a company that already has it, may be we will. Until then, it's not terribly accurate to say "A team of 5 can write i
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by ergothus 8y ago
Thus my "in our understanding" - I personally believe our view of intelligence, sapience, and self-awareness is pretty limited even from what we CAN relate to. It is easier to go through life we if assume the status quo of unders
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by ergothus 8y ago
FWIW, the article also claimed that workers tried to resolve differences using arbitrations less often. Assuming that's true, hard to prove the direction of causation, but it's another point to consider.
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by ergothus 8y ago
If you don't like the Uber terms but are trying to make money driving people, you have severely limited options as to your alternatives to drive for, and I'd not be surprised if they all had arbitration clauses as well. saying &q
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by ergothus 8y ago
> Thus if intelligence is a factor at all in survival (and it seems like it should be) your ancestors may not have had a choice but to select for intelligent. And this explains the large collection of (in our understanding) not-terribly-

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