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by falsedan 9y ago
> They are finding the best female developers. There just aren't that many (for whatever reason) This sounds like you think companies don't have an obligation to improve their environments so that women feel included. Conside
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by falsedan 9y ago
> I don't think the fault lies at the employment level. I think companies can take steps to improve outreach to excluded groups, and set up policies to help reduce exclusionary behaviour in the workplace. I don't really care
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by falsedan 9y ago
> a company should be focused on acquiring the best developers they can, not finding ones of a specific gender I agree, that's why I think companies should consider what is putting off women & why the gender balance in tech is
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by falsedan 9y ago
Two of those are licensees of the other one. The power move was: Baidu/Yandex.
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by falsedan 9y ago
Who owns them now?
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by falsedan 9y ago
I don’t get it: which search engines?
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by falsedan 9y ago
> you voluntarily agree to the agreement and have no right to complain See, that sounds exactly like the kind of thing a standover merchant would say: feel free not to pay the protection fees, sure would be a shame if something would h
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by falsedan 9y ago
Exactly this. The first thing we can do is recognize white privilege. Once you are comfortable talking about it, and accepting it, you may see some steps you can personally take to reduce its affect. fyi I am at the talk and accept phase.
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by falsedan 9y ago
Blocking through-intersections & pedestrianising streets are both ways to break the grid and better manage the flow of traffic, without demolishing anything.
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by falsedan 9y ago
I think the point was, you can choose not to use Yelp and your life will fine and dandy; not so much with google.
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by falsedan 9y ago
> Anyone who can afford a $1 million 5000+ square foot house deserves very little sympathy for their bad taste You are disparaging people who are not as knowledgeable as you (elitist); they didn't design the homes, nor approve th
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by falsedan 9y ago
lol yes, not a code enhancement proposal
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by falsedan 9y ago
I guess you've never had to support someone else's/a 3rd-party vendor's code.
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by falsedan 9y ago
There is a power differential though: white people enjoy many advantages over other groups; black people (for example) do not. I think it's fair and necessary to point out that white privilege gives an unfair advantage, such that a whi
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by falsedan 9y ago
The article makes the point that the founder of the site was a woman and tries to show the parallel between systemic harassment of women in VC-backed companies, and the isolated harassment of Sarah's site by Sam.
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by falsedan 9y ago
I have a horrible time reading the Django-based project we support at work.
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by falsedan 9y ago
> >90% of people (not just beginners) will generally fuck it up somehow and end up living with a really weird app tbh I've seen this plenty of times regardless of whichever framework people choose. At least with Flask the origi
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by falsedan 9y ago
For more along these lines (specifically about The Last of Us ), I cannot recommend James Howell's in-progress critical analysis The Rootwork Bulding [0] highly enough. It discusses the affordances of the level design, and how the ga
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by falsedan 9y ago
CEP (home routers)
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by falsedan 9y ago
Thanks for making my point, but thank you to the undeservingly moneyed lumpenproles who spend their wealth on the wrong things and also in a way which deserves ridicule.
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by falsedan 9y ago
There's critiquing, and there's constructive feedback.
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by falsedan 9y ago
I should have said, session key (not password).
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by falsedan 9y ago
> The blog is sarcastic in nature. What's wrong with that? It's punching down: the builders/purchasers didn't know/care how to make architecturally sophisticated dwellings, which is no reason to make fun of som
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by falsedan 9y ago
Since it uses SSH to transport the initial session password, as robustly as SSH is.
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by falsedan 9y ago
To be clear, I think your original comment is just fabulous and you're 100% right. I'm just curious since I know that controlling the level of E. coli contamination in milk is important from first-hand work on dairy farms, plus
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by falsedan 9y ago
Trying to encourage kind behaviour and inclusiveness?
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by falsedan 9y ago
It will kill the pathogens which cause vomiting and diarrhea: the article mentions e. coli , which the CDC[0] recommend 1 minute at boiling temperature to deactivate. I'd skip that and stop as soon as the water boiled. Note that ster
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by falsedan 9y ago
> I found that with a monthly cancel rate of 50% you need 500 new members each month to sustain 1000 subscribers aka I found out that 500 is half of 1000 . I think it is tunnel-vision & familiarity: algebra requires different tech
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by falsedan 9y ago
> In BSL, for example, [as I learnt it some time ago, at a basic level] the signs for class and group share the hand movement but use respectively the hand-shapes for C and G; they're compound gestures. Same in ASL. But I wouldn&#
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by falsedan 9y ago
> words in this language correspond to holistic gestures […] even though ABSL has a sizable vocabulary. I don't follow: many ASL signs are completely distinct. There are some incorporations, like classifier CL:3 (vehicle) includes

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