jomamaxx

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by jomamaxx 10y ago
Almost 100% of the interviews I've had in tech in business were borderline condescending, and I'm a dude. I would suggest this has nothing to do with gender, and that wanting 'less condescending interviews' is merely a g
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Curious to know what company that is - I've never witnessed more than a small ratio.
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"It’s important to me that recruiters and interviewers are respectful. Nothing is worse than a condescending interviewer." What does this have to do with 'female'? This is the norm in high tech for everyone - sadly. Am I
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by jomamaxx 10y ago
'web stack' is a natural entry point for newcomers because 'they can do stuff', i.e. make web-pages that do things they can touch and feel. So it makes sense on some levels ... But for programming proper ... no way. I wi
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An amazingly reasonable thread for what could be just ignorant mud-slinging.
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I don't mean to sound negative - but the HTML stack is the worst thing on earth to start leaning to program in. HTML, CSS are not 'programming', and both they and javascript are a convoluted, dysfunctional mess. Yes - they ar
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by jomamaxx 10y ago
+1. It's inevitable that we have to do non-obvious and quirky things, slightly hacky sometimes, or have some complex algorithsm, and a couple of lines here and there can really help.
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Do political board leanings influence CEO pay?(knowledge.insead.edu)
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"The choice is that if you're going to develop software for sale to the public, you can choose to develop software for sale in another market which is not so restrictive and oppressive." The smartphone 'market' is a
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"a proper social science" Is 'social science' even a 'proper science' ?
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He made an overt assumption that Westerners do not have a grasp of Rome vis-a-vis Asian cultures, and admittedly and deliberately applied 'spin' - which is wrong. I have a lot of interest in learning about historical issues that a
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by jomamaxx 10y ago
The Greeks call Romans 'barbarians' because they are culturally bereft. It's the same reason Liberals might call Conservatives 'barbarians' or France might call Germany 'barbarians'. I.E. The Greeks saw th
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by jomamaxx 10y ago
There are hardly any medical procedures performed more than 100 years ago that are actually medical. Amputations. What else? Later on bladder stone removals ... child birth ... setting broken bones. Even today, if you have something wrong t
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In other words, he's specifically trying to inflict an ideology on a group, making bigoted assumptions about their perception of the world because of their ethnicity. "Dear White People, Since You Are Racist, So Here's How Yo
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"that's exactly how the non-western major world civilisations are called. " Everyone called everyone else 'Barbarian' - that does not mean they were. The Germanic tribes at the time were objectively, probably '
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It's not unreasonable for cops to be concerned by it - a lot of people were 'up in the cops' face about it - not just casual recording. When you work in very difficult situations, and there are people filming you it can get d
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by jomamaxx 10y ago
The later part of your point is salient: the weird hipster 'magpie' culture in front-end programming has a lot of drawbacks.
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It's considerably worse in Javascript. This is because: + HTML/Dom limitations + Browser fragmentation + It's used on the backend as well + Nobody is in charge. When someone is in charge, they usually provide the basic toolin
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This is all fine and good - but it would be nice to know which one's work well, which are robust, and which one's are 'pro level' - without have to experiment with each one. It's really hard to tell these days. Afte
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Many cops welcome the cameras because it's their vindication and get-out-of-jail ticket for people making false claims. If I were a cop, I'd want one for sure.
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"intervening in the UK" You probably should not be 'intervening'. Because it's pretty hard for a regular civilian to judge what the 'appropriate amount of force' is within certain limits. I mean - obviousl
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I have had numerous encounter with police and never, ever had a problem, nor witnesses bad behaviour on the part of police. Conversely - cops, as a normal part of doing their jobs have to deal with drunk, crazy, wild and violent people quit
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by jomamaxx 10y ago
While it is odd that a sheriff might lack some self-awareness on this issue, it's not really an issue WRT police cameras. That the cops have a 'bullet proof vehicle' is not necessarily a problem in and of itself. It's pr
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by jomamaxx 10y ago
"False equivalence. We wouldn't have billions of users if there were no other agents than users. You can't create an iphone using an iphone." It's not a false equivalence at all. The necessity of lower-level technol
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by jomamaxx 10y ago
"GUIs and "UX" are generally antithetical to making a computer do what it does best (automate things instead of creating more busywork)." Except for helping the 6 or so billion people in their daily lives, but hey, the i
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by jomamaxx 10y ago
"the startup has a promising cure for cancer in trials" A) First, I would ask what they likelihood they have in making through trials, what is the real 'cure rate', what is the operational cost of the therapy, what kind
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by jomamaxx 10y ago
"Just the PR value from Alphago is probably worth more than $400mm. " No - it's definitely not. Go and walk down the street in any part of the world and ask how many people know about this acquisition? Nobody will. Even the v
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Not $400 Million dollars.
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Admittedly, that's pretty 'cool' (pun intended) but not $400M kill. I think we still have a long way to go to see AI reap direct rewards for consumers. Payoffs have been minimal/incremental for now.
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by jomamaxx 10y ago
"So can it be reversed to become the ultimate porn-finding neural network?" They have that, it's called 'Google' :)

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