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by fdsaaf 10y ago
Exactly. Hardcore languages like C++, Lisp, Haskell, etc. should be safe for a little while longer. SJW presence seems to be inversely proportional to the degree of rigor required to use a language.
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by fdsaaf 10y ago
It's terrifying that Amazon is doing so well despite treating their employees terribly. Behold, the future of software development! Are we sure we want to keep inflating supply with all this "everyone should code" nonsense?
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by fdsaaf 10y ago
Please stop. Invoking race was completely unnecessary for making your point. If you really meant class, you should have said so. I know middle class people of all backgrounds.
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by fdsaaf 10y ago
> old white guys Why did you inject race into the conversation for no reason? I've seen layabouts of every description
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by fdsaaf 10y ago
My understanding is that Twitter's culture has strangled it. I've heard that they developed a culture of blaming individuals when things went wrong, but distributing the credit when something goes right. Consequently, Twitter deve
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by fdsaaf 10y ago
Isn't it sad that every generation of programmers forgets, probably not deliberately, that previous generations of programmers existed and were just as smart and talented as we are today?
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by fdsaaf 10y ago
India needs to get its act together with traffic. I'm heartened that there are anti-honking groups already --- that's a big start. The first step in fixing driving in India is changing the honking culture. Seriously. Efficient tra
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by fdsaaf 10y ago
> systems-level knowledge is seen as much less valuable now Lest aspiring systems programmers get the wrong idea: systems knowledge is still black magic and it's still plenty valuable. Knowing how systems actually work under the h
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by fdsaaf 10y ago
That's why the measure comes across as empty pandering. (Hint: you can tell it's pandering because all the rationale is gender gap bullshit instead of the job application process being shitty for everyone.) If Massachusetts really
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by fdsaaf 10y ago
The public freaks out when they learn that someone might have spliced a salt resistance gene into a tomato, and you think the public will accept the kind of advanced genetic manipulation you'd need to kill HIV dead?
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by fdsaaf 10y ago
An clever-enough emulator can just lie to an application and say, "You're running on a stock device. Everything is fine".
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by fdsaaf 10y ago
It'll be amusing to watch this video on my first hyperloop trip. There's a long history of people saying that innovative things can't be done.
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by fdsaaf 10y ago
Really? I'd love to learn more.
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by fdsaaf 10y ago
The operation of the judicial system is how we establish facts in the scenario where a person is accused to wrongdoing. I'm making a procedural objection, yes, and I'm doing it because accusations are too important to be left to i
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by fdsaaf 10y ago
The pattern I've seen over and over again is you have a core group of creators who are talented, but prickly or obnoxious in some way. The project creators spend years of their lives building the project and making it successful. Then
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by fdsaaf 10y ago
> The victims These accusers only become "victims" after an impartial jury of Appelbaum's peers weighs the evidence and pronounces him guilty.
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by fdsaaf 10y ago
The people who are the brains behind the project can always fork. An organization that's turned inward and primarily concerns itself with rules, codes of conduct, procedures, and investigations will always lose to an organization full
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by fdsaaf 10y ago
> Given two socially well adjusted participants So non-socially-well-adjusted, raised-on-the-internet types shouldn't get to date? Your comment is tautological and merely says that people who are good at dating are good at dating.
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by fdsaaf 10y ago
I'm sick of made-up and ever-more-implausible reasons for women not comprising 50% of the workforce. (Someone once mentioned that a company might be having trouble finding women because an employee had a model of the Millennium Falcon
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by fdsaaf 10y ago
I've considered and thoroughly rejected that idea. If you choose to see the world through the lens of privilege and group grievances, my opinion of you plummets. That kind of thinking pushes us apart instead of bringing us together. Do
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by fdsaaf 10y ago
Beware of runaway retries: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20051107-20/?p=... Personally, I'd rather systems fail quickly, with retries only at the highest (application) and lowest (TCP) levels.
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by fdsaaf 10y ago
And it's sad that acknowledging this reality is something you can't do in the workplace or in polite company. If we're to get ahead in life, we have to say, through gritted teeth, "diversity is our strength".
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by fdsaaf 10y ago
Women's suffrage (and suffrage in general) may be a good idea. When you say that the case for it being a good idea is as strong as that for a mathematical proof, you're discrediting yourself, since you're smart enough to know
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by fdsaaf 10y ago
Genome-wide clustering algorithms that are run with no a priori assumptions about population structure end up discovering human population groups that match almost perfectly with self-identified "race". The claim that race doesn&#
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by fdsaaf 10y ago
Are you seriously claiming that random innocent men deserve to be ruined because of their gender? Are you really claiming that this state of ruin is "living like a woman"? I like to think that women can amount to something. When y
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by fdsaaf 10y ago
That's an excellent policy. I hope more women follow in the example of your friends. I'm tired of hypocritical and self-serving redefinitions of words like "oppression" that allow certain groups to engage in otherwise-un
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by fdsaaf 10y ago
> allowing such behavior to go on where people can clearly hear it is the same thing as condoning it Toleration is what allows people who have different views to work together toward common goals. You can't have civilization without
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by fdsaaf 10y ago
> I think the culture is still deeply sexist What's also deeply embedded in many circles is that acknowledging any difference between men and women is "sexist". I've seen people called sexist for acknowledging that u
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by fdsaaf 10y ago
Policing speech like that just breeds resentment. You not only guaranteed that these people later made the same comments to each other in private, but also inched a bit closer to resenting people like you and your entire cause. Mind your ow
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by fdsaaf 10y ago
A great deal of evil has been done in the name of saving lives and souls. Your good intentions do not excuse the long history of thought policing leading to injustice and misery.

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