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by fruzz 8y ago
I created/deployed a system to track a fleet of aircraft in real-time, that then messaged individuals when anomalous conditions (plane crash) was detected. It was inexpensive to run and reliable. In terms of what's most gratifying
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by fruzz 9y ago
That's a really interesting way to frame it. Glad you posted that comment.
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by fruzz 9y ago
I don't know if he had a choice. He has been incarcerated. He might have faced further incarceration by not disclosing. He was also hardly alone in his view. Chelsea, meanwhile, knew that what she was doing had risks. She ended up havi
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by fruzz 9y ago
They want to get costs down to $4,000. You can already build a home of that size for $4,000. The lack of permanent shelter for the world's poorest isn't a technology problem.
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by fruzz 9y ago
Both are incredibly complex (I am a developer on an air traffic control system.) There are thousands of requirements for voice communications alone.
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by fruzz 9y ago
These individual decisions aren't in a vacuum. There are other inputs, including society's expectations around women doing more labour around raising a child than men.
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by fruzz 9y ago
Yes. You just need to look as far as this thread.
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by fruzz 9y ago
Creating an online space that empower women, like Leap, is one example of a solution.
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by fruzz 9y ago
Those experiences are awful. I do not dispute that there are male victims, including in the workplace. I absolutely agree that "People shouldn't do this to other People". That said, women as a group are disproportionately o
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by fruzz 9y ago
Work isn't the place to proposition people for a romantic relationship. At all times, but especially when there's a power dynamic. When that happens, along with a gazillion other little things women are disproportionately on the r
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by fruzz 9y ago
So here's the thing. No space is being taken away. A new space is being created. This space is to give a voice to a population who reports, as a group, being silenced and undermined in other spaces by the dominant group. This allows vo
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by fruzz 9y ago
Yah. One thing I learned works are men who aren't recipient to the behaviour standing up. There was an employee like that at my last job who would speak up. Not forcefully. I was really appreciative of what he was doing. He was treated
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by fruzz 9y ago
I really wish your experience was unique. A colleague was groped. She didn't report it. It would have likely diminished her future prospects. A friend was asked out on dates, unsolicited, multiple times by coworkers. She just had to la
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by fruzz 9y ago
Thank you for doing this. I've definitely noticed a dynamic at play in male-dominated soft eng spaces online that silences women. It has to do with men's behaviour and shitty comments in those spaces. Not all men, of course, but e
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by fruzz 9y ago
Most of my growth has been emotional. When I moved out from my parents place, I was pretty emotionally stunted, equivalent to a 13 year old. I was repeating the cycle of violence that I had experienced at home, displaying anger in the same
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by fruzz 9y ago
Sexism hurts men too. Nor am I saying men don't have problems specific to them - they do. However, I'm saying there's a problem in terms of how women are treated in tech at a group level that create obstacles specific to them
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by fruzz 9y ago
There's sexism in tech, and to address it you have to call it for what it is. I'm glad her experiences are such that she hasn't encountered these barriers, but other people have, and they need these words and spaces. Take my
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by fruzz 9y ago
It takes a special kind of entitled to destroy people's things and to then blame others (the manufacturers) for it.
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by fruzz 9y ago
Oh yes, I'd agree - it's improved my understanding of where HR / mental health professionals / emergency department / health care workers are at. I personally define growth as emotional growth, and in that way this
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by fruzz 9y ago
I am currently on a table with local health care organizations to improve trans-related health services in the area. I also give workshops to trans/non-binary/gender-diverse individuals as well as cisgender individuals that work w
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by fruzz 10y ago
It takes money to save money. People seem to think that poor people can't manage money; but the fact is that they're maximizing quality of life for the income level they have.
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by fruzz 10y ago
The best part for me is the money, benefits, the flexible hours, the free food, the mental stimulation, and the occasional expression of creativity. I don't believe that we change the world, or that we contribute to society any more th
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by fruzz 11y ago
The response is also abrasive bordering on condescending. The tone is very much along the lines of "what are you, stupid?" Even though they answer the question in quite some detail, that's really not the kind of thing that ma
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by fruzz 11y ago
I'm not aware of a good-looking unified font that handles English, French, Cree/Inuktitut. It's really unfortunate that the government did not make it available as an unrestricted download.
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by fruzz 11y ago
I work as a software developer on a product that provides a remote desktop environment whose activity is recorded. This isn't the main business of the company I work for; they do contracting work and use this environment for auditing p
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by fruzz 11y ago
I passed the interview process and was offered a position at Amazon. I was lucky enough to be offered another position the same week. I went for the latter, for many reasons, but a big one was the documented lack of work-life balance at Ama
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by fruzz 11y ago
A coping mechanism I have is to work from home. Tracking time in-the-moment (as opposed to waiting until the end of the day) also helps. And having a boss that's been a programmer and is aware of how context switching can hurt producti
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by fruzz 11y ago
I'm noticing in these posts that those who view Chelsea Manning's actions favourably use the right name and pronouns. Those who do not view her actions favourably use the wrong name and pronouns. That suggests that there's ov
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by fruzz 11y ago
I'm partially colourblind (deuteranomaly), and stopped after I hit 30 with 0 errors. I normally do very poorly on Ishihara or Farnsworth-Munsell tests.
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by fruzz 11y ago
I feel that concurrency is something used by far more than 1% of programmers. That it will be built-in the language itself, rather than through libraries, is pretty important in terms of delivering simpler code. The Python 2/3 divide i

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