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by externalreality 8y ago
I'm going to put this to bed by just calling you a (non-racist) bigot who wants to see things your non-racist but bigoted way. On the one hand you admit there is a huge problem but on the other hand call "sensitivity" to this
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by externalreality 8y ago
> killing cops and beating up bitches we listen to some nicer things, they get called ignorant racists. I think some conversation should also go into maybe changing that. Here you present a hypothetical (people are are getting called rac
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by externalreality 8y ago
> Can you provide some examples? Google Dr. Robin Diangelo? She puts it best. You'll likely disagree with everything she has to say because you want to. However, I challenge you to at least listen to her. After that look for some mo
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by externalreality 8y ago
> Is this the only way in which you think her uninformed? Your comments seem to come back to this one point repeatedly, It not that I keep revisiting the same topic. No, in contrast , its just that I keep getting asked the same question
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by externalreality 8y ago
> "Race relations" is kinda wide topic What I mean by race relations is directly related to how the teacher did not know why it is not OK for her, as a white women, to use a particular word. Her stance: "why can't I u
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by externalreality 8y ago
Its sad that people can treat each other in such a ways based on criteria that should not matter. Many nations are guilty of similar things.
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by externalreality 8y ago
That you for "respectfully" disagreeing. > What do you mean by "uninformed"? I mean that the author doesn't seem to be very informed with respect to race relations or social equity issues. > What you mean by &
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by externalreality 8y ago
Um, no.
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by externalreality 8y ago
I don't agree with this article. The article presents the very narrow perspective of an apparently uninformed person who thinks that invoking the names MLK or James Baldwin will help their case. People like the author of this article a
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by externalreality 10y ago
Depends on what you are developing. Right.
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by externalreality 10y ago
I like how the author puts the burden of the quality of being ethical on those being trained in computer science after admitting in the first paragraph that they, like everyone else, leave school looking for jobs because they need to eat. P
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by externalreality 10y ago
A new (old school) way of saying that "The Gods" are messing with us. The Matrix is 1998. Shadow Run (which describes an early Maxtrix-like system called "The Matrix") is 1989. To say that we live in a world that is comp
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by externalreality 10y ago
Wow, you really have been out of the loop for 8 years. These days all you have to do is read a Rails/Ruby tutorial and go find one of the infinitely many jobs available out there. Once you get the feel for writing code again and get yo
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by externalreality 10y ago
You are 99.999% a clone of every other human being. You are physically incapable of having an original idea. However, all human beings are blessed with creativity and have strong BS engines. Use your creativity and BS engine to make your id
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by externalreality 10y ago
Some are arguing that the court has no right to order him to do so. 5th amendment and some case rulings are mentioned.
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by externalreality 10y ago
How appropriate to post this on hacker news. In my time as a software developer I have seen code and software architectures that would surely give even Reuben himself a chuckle.
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by externalreality 10y ago
Doesn't this boil down to the "I am willing but unable" situation? The man in this case was the "unwilling but able" situation. My question is wouldn't the man be shifted into the former situation if he just cl
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by externalreality 10y ago
Bogus defense IMHO. Acquiring the ability to query a database is enough to constitute surveillance. I wonder if my land lord could use the same logic to legally record me in the shower. We have to understand that, much like it's a mili
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by externalreality 10y ago
Why do we find it fascinating when open minded researchers show us what we all know to be true anyway, that is, our view of history (and the literature their in) are horribly skewed by extreme ethnocentrism. Yes, the first mathematics comes
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by externalreality 10y ago
Pay me not the statistician! I'll just take a survey and talk to a sample of individuals over coffee and will likely be able to give you a better estimate of who is most likely to quit. No need for a machine learning algorithm here. Co
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by externalreality 10y ago
Not sure what the man's crime is here. Does he even remember his keys after sixteen months in the slammer? I don't even remember my Gmail password after 16 days of vacation. Basically, like the article says, it like not opening a
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by externalreality 10y ago
Brilliant! I often tell myself I was a better programmer when I was sixteen. Back then I would code directly to the problem only stopping to re-factor when things got so out of control that I couldn't make progress without getting dis
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by externalreality 10y ago
All developers think they are smart and have skills that are hard to acquire. Reality Check - anyone can be a programmer. If you want to be a part of an exclusive club go become a doctor or a lawyer or take up some other career that require
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by externalreality 10y ago
The article describes something more akin to communism than socialism. Socialism and capitalism are not mutually exclusive . The (fictitious) professor's class room already ran much like the United States does before the (fictitious) e
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by externalreality 10y ago
I was debating whether on not to put that last sentence because I knew that it would lead to a technical discussion that was aside from the meaning of the question. My question is more -- why choose an `IO ()` as an example of something bei
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by externalreality 10y ago
I tried to ask the author the follow: (kept getting deleted as spam). Perhaps he will see it here but its unlikely due to the fact there are many comments as it is. Hi John, Are you familiar with Jackson Structured Programming? https:&#x2F