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The Tech Industry’s Gender-Discrimination Problem(newyorker.com)
51 points by jdblair 9y ago|7 comments
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by jdblair 9y ago
Corollary: if you are interviewing for a job and there are lots of dried out markers you may not want to work at the company.
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by jdblair 9y ago
JDB's Whiteboard Marker Org Health Metric: The ratio of dead whiteboard markers to working whiteboard markers at an organization is proportional to the health of the workplace culture. Lots of dried out markers signal a workplace cultu
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A new nerve-cell monitor will help those studying brains(economist.com)
2 points by jdblair 9y ago|0 comments
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by jdblair 9y ago
Why don't Wal-Mart and other retailers get into this game themselves? They know their own stock, they could constantly compare their in-store prices to what they could make selling on Amazon. After they develop the processes it would j
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The Uniform Time Act of 1966(washingtonpost.com)
2 points by jdblair 9y ago|0 comments
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by jdblair 9y ago
Deflationary money (a fixed money supply) encourages people to hold money and not spend because the same money will buy more goods and services tomorrow. This leads to a decrease in economic activity. [update: I see this argument is raised
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by jdblair 9y ago
I mean, universal across the universe. There is a common assumption that mathematics is a common language that we could use to communicate with aliens. The notion is that, for example, the concept of prime numbers would be discovered everyw
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by jdblair 9y ago
The book "Where Mathematics Comes From"[1] by Lakoff and Núñez makes a lengthy, detailed argument that numeracy is evolved, not universal. I didn't find myself agreeing with everything in it, but I no longer take it for grant
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by jdblair 9y ago
I don't know Facebook's policy, but many companies employ 3rd party consultants to do due diligence. The IP is not communicated to the suitor until after the purchase is complete, only an assessment of the quality of the execution
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by jdblair 9y ago
For comparison, in Finland all salaries are made public by the tax authority. Annual salaries are printed in the newspaper annually and traffic ticket fines are proportionate with your income.
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by jdblair 9y ago
There lots of places in the East Bay where taking a bus is the fastest public transit. There are Transbay Bus stops in places, like Montclair, that are far from BART stations.
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by jdblair 9y ago
So you actually do want a workplace culture that alienates women and people of color? [edit, but leaving original off-the-cuff comment] I think if your goal is to create an inclusive workplace then editing your communications in ways like t
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by jdblair 9y ago
Noting all this for future research. Thanks!
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by jdblair 9y ago
This is good to hear. I may give rust a shot. I have a lot of inertia, though, because I already know how to set up and maintain my cross-compile toolchain. I've also heard that Go may a viable option, at least on ARM, and I'm con
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by jdblair 9y ago
Yes, I agree with you, but I make this point because C++ gives me the same direct access to the hardware. I can always just write C (or inline assembly, if I really have to go there). That's why my last embedded project was written in
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by jdblair 9y ago
My 2 cents, from the perspective of someone who built a career on writing software in C for small devices. C has longevity b/c its compact and provides a straightforward model of memory on the machine. I understand the desire to use sa
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NOAA Hurricane Hunter Flight into Irma(omao.noaa.gov)
1 points by jdblair 9y ago|0 comments
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by jdblair 9y ago
Yes. I know this is just one person's experience, but I've been continuously employed since 1998 except for a 4 week gap after losing my job in 2002. This is at 8 different companies. 10 if you count name changes due to the way on
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by jdblair 9y ago
Its usually all you get if you are reverse engineering someone else's executable or firmware image.
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by jdblair 9y ago
+1 for the MikroTik routerboard. My 2011UiAS-2HnD has been running great for 2 years. Caveat: the configuration UI complex! It's easy to set up a basic configuration. More complex features (vpn, port forwarding, custom firewall) are ar
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by jdblair 9y ago
This is important nuance that makes complete sense but that I didn't actually appreciate. Thank you.
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by jdblair 9y ago
If by closures you mean "anonymous functions that capture the state of in-scope values," then c++11 shows that a gc is not a requirement.
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by jdblair 9y ago
I started my career in 1996 working in the University mainframe department at UAB (Birmingham, AL) that ran the administrative systems (grades, bursar bills, departmental accounting). Our team was half women, my manager was a woman, and mos
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by jdblair 9y ago
It took me a few passes to figure out that "Things Just Worse" should be "Things Just Work." Autocorrect much?
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by jdblair 9y ago
I liked to drive my cars around my lego creations. Of course, my favorite childhood gift combined the two: Expert Builder Set 8860, the Lego car chassis with working steering, differential, transmission and moving engine pistons. That set i
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by jdblair 9y ago
Yes, if you have a license, follow the limit rules and hunt in-season.
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by jdblair 9y ago
For my current project I'm pulling the cross compiler from Debian and the libraries from Debian:armel. This doesn't work for every project, but it sure is easy when it does. I sure don't miss the days of building my own compi
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by jdblair 9y ago
Long time embedded Linux developer here. This article exaggerates the undesirability of cross-compiling from x86 to ARM. It requires a bit of a conceptual shift, but once your toolchain is set up workflow is practically the same. Debugging
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by jdblair 10y ago
Something else I've learned the hard way - sometimes its better to cut and paste the same short code snippet in multiple places than create an abstraction to put the code in one place. I admit this is probably an indication there'

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