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by exergy 9y ago
And where do you propose we find more such "honest people"?
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by exergy 9y ago
Also. Every time object oriented programming gets brought up, people miss a crucial part: object oriented modelling. Object oriented modelling means creating a model of a resistor, or a diode etc., and then using it in a different models.
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by exergy 9y ago
Funny. I just finished watching his Bloomberg interview, where Emily Chang seemed to be at pains trying to ask him why he wanted no women in tech. His responses seemed vastly more nuanced than the transparent questioning tactics of the inte
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by exergy 9y ago
Yeah, my understanding leads me to believe that he used the company's official "Air your grievance here" forum for posting the memo. So, he acted exactly in the manner that the company required him to. Google's case will
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by exergy 9y ago
Which is precisely why debates like these can occur in the first place, it's not an exact science. Which is also why the parent started with "It depends".
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by exergy 9y ago
Wow. This sounds horrifying. I have mild tinnitus that causes me endless grief (a lot of it mental: "I'll never be able to enjoy my music properly", but also trouble sleeping.) This is just many levels worse. And bizzare! Wha
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by exergy 9y ago
The point he's making is that, on that graph, it is clear that many women are better at software engineering than many men. The women closer to the tip of their graph will easily beat men at the tail of theirs. Women can be very compet
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by exergy 9y ago
There are many of us who code in spurts, and spend the rest of the time goofing off on Reddit or hacker news. At the same time, we'd prefer not to get judged on what percentage of time we have Facebook open on our monitors, and more on
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by exergy 9y ago
Fuck, that sounds awful. It's hard for me to believe that there are techies who haven't ever heard of Peopleware, have never heard of Joel Spolsky and his FogBugz offices, and have never consulted even a single authority on what m
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by exergy 9y ago
Your example is laughably contrived, unrealistic, and so full of plot holes that my fingers would tire from typing all my thoughts out. By contrast, the very real privacy invasion damage that invariably occurs in the kind of world that you&
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by exergy 9y ago
Can't say I agree. Markdown looks positively beautiful on atom. Out of the box. Plus you can tweak it, without wanting to kill yourself, to show images in markdown too. Even syntax highlighting. And real time rendering. All this means
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by exergy 9y ago
In fact, I agree with your original post wholeheartedly. You start with an "end date" (say two decades). And you make that date difficult to change, so that the "let's kick the can down the road" option is not easy.
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by exergy 9y ago
That is a fantastic outcome, and the sort of end goal that affirmative action should seek. But it doesn't always end that well. In India, affirmative action has basically served to deepen the lines between castes/religions etc. Mo
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by exergy 9y ago
I believe that was the point that your parent was trying to make; clarify that "Humans are social creatures" doesn't mean that all of us love interacting with people, but that the quote implies that we can come together to do
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by exergy 9y ago
Not even thirty, but every day I understand the world less and less.
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by exergy 9y ago
Excellent point. I often contrast myself against my brother. I'm in STEM, he's a creative. I love Snickers, he can't stand nuts in his chocolate. I don't use social media, he's a social butterfly. Both of us base ou
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by exergy 9y ago
Quite the opposite. Yuval Harari explains really well in Sapiens that one of the keys to human success has been the ability to "do things together" at larger scales than any other species. For example, maritime trade going back mi
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by exergy 9y ago
I sympathise entirely. Perhaps unwarranted, but this causes /r/punchablefaces levels of infuriation in me. The author of the blog post wrote a very level headed opinion piece, was perfectly polite even on twitter, and certainly di
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by exergy 9y ago
The frame of thought I use to think about this is that evolution simply gave humans a brain that is far too big. We cannot help but tinker with things, think about things like science or philosophy etc. Its not whether the steam engine made
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by exergy 9y ago
Yeah but in certain circles, those non-icing-heavy websites might actually signal greater authenticity. I LOVE college professor websites that are full of great technical info, but look like they've not been designed at all.
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by exergy 9y ago
I could spot a mustachian a mile away! :-) Also, I am a big fan of _not_ making your hobby your vocation. The job should not be meaningless, but filing your taxes, looking for gigs, networking etc. when all you really enjoy is getting on st
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by exergy 9y ago
I don't think the idea is the removal of the functionality, just the physical keys. Any half decent laptop will have home, end, page up and page down mapped to Fn+Arrows which to me is a smarter solution.
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by exergy 9y ago
That is an extraordinary claim to make, especially when offered without citations. And especially when taking into account how India is effectively Rape Central. And yet you think he is being will fully obtuse? Plus, it's not the orc
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by exergy 9y ago
Why the vitriol? Forums are as close to being "cult-like" as it gets. They are effectively a subreddit in the form of a website. As to the claim of reddit dying within four years, lol! I'll take that bet.
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by exergy 9y ago
The French have it down to an art form. The difference here is smokers still seem to be outside hiking, walking, snowboarding, biking and doing all manner of outdoor things. I'd be interested in how lung cancer rates compare between th
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by exergy 9y ago
I would take that bet. Mechanical, civil, aeronautical engineering, these fields are notoriously slow at adopting the latest and greatest technology. A lot of our code is still written in Fortran, and C++ libraries might as well be consider
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by exergy 9y ago
In India, we employed a variety of methods that, all combined, did a good enough job of keeping things cool. The first was a stepwell, called Baoli in Hindi. This was basically a giant swimming pool dug out and filled with water. Around t
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by exergy 9y ago
Tbh, if you're getting by fine without it, why deliberately look to find uses for it. Generally speaking, I hate trackpads, especially for things like dismissing message boxes or scrolling. So those two are where I use the touch panel
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by exergy 9y ago
Yes, I run all kinds of distros; Manjaro, Xubuntu, Mint and even Fedora. Fedora is especially stable, but some fiddling is required, and personally, I cannot get stable WiFi. Others can, though, so maybe you might want to read a bit more. T
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by exergy 9y ago
This really just reveals a narrowness of experience, if you don't mind me saying. Desktop PCs are where real engineering work gets done. CAD, FEA, CFD, simulations etc, they arent going to be running on middling mobile CPUs anytime s

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