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by facepalm 11y ago
There was a link to a programming advent calendar on HN a while ago: http://adventofcode.com Solve some of those puzzles once in a while, no tooling necessary. Or if they are too easy, go to project Euler. I also feel the same f
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by facepalm 11y ago
Certainly a horrible ad. But it is for buying a machine. If such ads were the culprit, women shouldn't be driving cars either? I don't know what the ads were like at the time, but I am pretty sure they made similar ads for cars. A
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by facepalm 11y ago
Why is that likely?
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by facepalm 11y ago
That's what they claim, not sure if they provide any evidence for it.
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by facepalm 11y ago
I don't believe this narrative of "it's because home computers were marketed only to boys". At least, I would like to see some more evidence for it. It seems more likely to me that the story starts sooner, there must hav
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by facepalm 11y ago
What a weird ass article, I mean from the guardian - writing paragraph over paragraph of gossip from somebody who barely knows the man (their landlord), because somebody has not paid their taxes on time?
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by facepalm 11y ago
So Google without good AI would be still as good because of the neat interface? Self driving cars would be just as good without good AI? I get what you mean, and it might be true for a lot of products. But there are also products were good
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by facepalm 11y ago
Yes, but did you hire the recruiter? I think they are usually hired by the companies, or "loyal" to the companies, because that is were the money come from. Would be a fun experiment to hire somebody to sell yourself. Then again,
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by facepalm 11y ago
Imagine going on a date and after the fourth time being like "I still don't know if I like you, need more tests". I tend to get impatient with companies who ask for yet another round of interviews because I think either they
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by facepalm 11y ago
"interest in ML as a negative signal" Why, though? Is it because a candidate would be too interested in other things than focusing on mundane web development? Passionate about programming doesn't square well with passionate a
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by facepalm 11y ago
That must be a joke?
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by facepalm 11y ago
Yeah I mean why should they assume he has a forged ID? How common are forged IDs for small time criminals?
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by facepalm 11y ago
They don't know that you aren't a serial killer either. Should they surround your house, just in case? I think you need to multiply P(is a criminal) with <severity of the crime>. If they suspect somebody of being a serial ki
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by facepalm 11y ago
"If I'm committing a small burglary, I doubt I'm very attached to my current address." That is exactly what I am saying. If he has a solid address, it is unlikely that he is a small time burglar. Not sure how IDs work in
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by facepalm 11y ago
Not to take away from his experience, but being surrounded by cops is always scary. I was never under suspicion for anything serious, but got stopped for running traffic lights or cycling on the wrong way of the street. That was not that sc
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by facepalm 11y ago
So you would give up your home in exchange for the proceeds from a small burglary? I would just expect some Bayesian reasoning, and "has a home at a reasonably expensive address" and "has a car" and "has MIT ID&quot
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by facepalm 11y ago
What comes to my mind: if they receive an valid ID, they could just note down the address and let the person go. They could expect to be able to get hold of them if the suspicions become more substantiated.
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by facepalm 11y ago
That seems a bit one-sided. It is not all or nothing. My son (age 5) gets to use a tablet from time to time, mostly to watch "Sendung mit der Maus" which is a famous German educational show. They cover various topics in 10 minute
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by facepalm 11y ago
Come to think of it, supposing a company is OK with remote workers, why would they hire somebody in an expensive location?
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by facepalm 11y ago
You think it means everybody should be paid more. It could also go the other way round, everybody being paid less. Then again, what is the difference between "remote workers" and "offshore development"? The latter doesn&
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by facepalm 11y ago
There is a mounting problem with OS sometimes, too. I don't remember all the occasions, but I am very careful with ejecting the disk (at the moment OS X forces me to shutdown to "eject"). Still, I'd understand if the las
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by facepalm 11y ago
While at university I attended a "learn Scheme" summer course and it was taught by implementing your own Scheme interpreter (in Scheme). It is not that hard to implement a programming language, but making it perform well might be
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by facepalm 11y ago
I've had the same experience, TM backups were suddenly broken several times.
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by facepalm 11y ago
Maybe you have also read that the distribution of men is wider spread out - more rich men, but also more poor men compared to rich women and poor women. I think the pressure on men in society is simply higher. Women at least have their womb
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by facepalm 11y ago
It's only a feminist narrative that men worry about "what it means to be a man". Usually men just do the things men have to do. It is not just a fantasy that they have to do them. Simple example: somebody has to earn money fo
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by facepalm 11y ago
Men don't work because that is their "image of masculinity" yadda yadda yadda. They work to put food on the table for their families. There also is no "morality tale" for what women supposedly owe their husbands. Bu
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by facepalm 11y ago
Non-American, don't know how the system works - how come they can eliminate people from the jury pool? I would have expected the jury selection to be completely random? There is no way the system can be fair if they get to select the j
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by facepalm 11y ago
I sometimes ponder a bot-rental startup. Like if you want to attend a conference somewhere, you could rent a robot for the occasion.
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by facepalm 11y ago
Good to know - I was almost ready to consider Lenovo again after Superfish, but no...
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by facepalm 11y ago
Shouldn't this be a criminal offense?

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