hagan_das

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by hagan_das 12y ago
Lots of books I want to reread but hard to justify when I already have more books on my "to-read" list than I can read in a lifetime. I do, however, try and re-read Dune once a year. Off-topic but since I've got books on the
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by hagan_das 12y ago
Indeed. Tons of kids' shows have adult-themed subtext sprinkled in. Kids wont catch it but it makes the shows more bearable for parents. Spongebob has some good ones.
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by hagan_das 12y ago
>I suspect this plays out in the dating scene as well (e.g., a small percentage of men sleep with a disproportionately large percentage of women) I've seen studies that say 20% of men get the vast majority of women and sex.
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by hagan_das 12y ago
Care to elaborate? I don't see anything wrong with this and can't imagine how it "sums up everything that's wrong with programmers and the community in general". It's a very clever and interesting piece of auto
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by hagan_das 12y ago
Exactly. The diversity hand wringers could be targeting any industry they want right now but are lasering in on tech. They smell the blood in the water.
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by hagan_das 12y ago
Many of the "social justice" crowd get off on the moral superiority they feel from engaging in rabid political correctness. Unfortunately for them, moral superiority is by definition a positional good, a good whose value rapidly d
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by hagan_das 12y ago
The slide share only attempts to address difference in ability, not inclination. If women are just as capable programmers, but, on average, tend to have a natural inclination towards more social and nurturing roles (teacher, nurse, etc... f
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by hagan_das 12y ago
Or the skewed gender ratios in various fields are due to innate biological differences. Sexual dimorphism, which includes psychological traits, extends to humans as well. We are animals too after all. What an age we live in. Nearly every an
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by hagan_das 12y ago
You do see also occasional diversity attacks against the really high earners (managers, sales, finance, corp. law, certain posh local FD/PD, maybe some doctors?) but since they don't seem to flinch much, they're pretty much
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by hagan_das 12y ago
"Gang-Bang Interviews"? Really? SV tech is getting the diversity shakedown hard these days. Plenty of other fields have sex ratios just as skewed. Why is tech getting the brunt?
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by hagan_das 12y ago
I had the same reaction. If I'm going to be in interviews (however informal) all day for multiple days I'd need to lock myself away in the evening to recharge. I get the impression dinner, drinks, hanging out in the evening would