jmromer

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by jmromer 12y ago
Thanks for the tip! I'll check it out. Given our ignorance, though, and the likelihood that along some margin or another this becomes a zero-sum game between the atypical and the typical, I'd rather see a little less swashbuckling
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by jmromer 12y ago
Sometimes discrimination is rational. That doesn't "excuse it", nor is it necessarily so in this case, but I rarely see anyone go through the trouble of ruling it out. Which is a pity, because greater cognizance of that fact
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by jmromer 12y ago
Sweet. This'll make it a lot easier for an emacs-noob like me to give it a fair shot. The hours of yak-shaving necessary to get a vanilla command-line editor into a state where it's halfway productive has been the biggest roadbloc
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by jmromer 12y ago
I wonder if anyone has done a longitudinal study of children raised in environments where they were strongly incentivized (to put it mildly) to favor activities that we typically see taken up by members of the opposite sex. No IRB would app
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by jmromer 12y ago
The thing about being fashionably late is you have to be fashionable about it. Meyer apparently disclosed to someone that she was late because she had "fallen asleep." She wasn't late because she had, say, decided to take an
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by jmromer 12y ago
Perhaps. I think it'd be beneficial to have more women in CS, but there are ways to go about effecting that kind of positive social change that also corrupt or blunt social feedback mechanisms in such a way that vulnerable people will
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by jmromer 12y ago
"Sort of like writing"?? That's pretty funny. Are you under the impression that there's a writer shortage, or that most people who "write for a living" can easily sustain a middle class lifestyle?
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by jmromer 12y ago
My pre-theoretic intuition is that it's plastic up to some fixed degree determined primarily by genetics and secondarily by early life experiences. Given the degree of ignorance and uncertainty involved, though, I think a more interest
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by jmromer 13y ago
To be fair, "ability to learn, process on the fly, and pull together disparate information" is indeed "indeed distinct from IQ", but only in the pedantic sense that it'd be more accurate to say such capacities refer