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by kevintb 8y ago
Wow, this is cool, especially the tweet import. Can see this as being a vastly improved Jupyter notebook for JS.
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by kevintb 8y ago
That’s terrible. I really feel for low-income cancer patients in the US. I’ve dealt with cancer in the family (in Canada) and found it difficult enough, and never had to deal with insurance paperwork.
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by kevintb 8y ago
But you’d have to live in the Prairies.
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by kevintb 8y ago
100k? You’re either massively underpaid or badly misinformed, or both. Several friends living in Toronto make 120k+ and they’re certainly not senior or management. (All in their twenties). And that’s only for homegrown startups - Amazon, et
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Decision Tables(hillelwayne.com)
2 points by kevintb 8y ago|0 comments
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by kevintb 8y ago
Absolutely agreed, and I think they well-deserve their fame. It's hard to do well in this competitive space.
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by kevintb 8y ago
They're not speaking for everyone. They're speaking for themselves. Of being discriminated.
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by kevintb 8y ago
Impressed someone who doesn’t know how to code has managed to do this.
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by kevintb 8y ago
Yes, it’s surprising people have forgotten this. Her comments about Fowler immediately after she left were also extremely suspect at best.
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by kevintb 8y ago
If you weren’t among those discriminated against, you don’t speak for everyone.
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by kevintb 8y ago
I love Notion, and I also love that they hosted this interview. Great interview.
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by kevintb 8y ago
It’s fascinating how many of those who defend Harvard eventually make some comment along the lines of “unimaginative, robotic Asians”. Underneath their arguments is a racist belief they simply can’t shake.
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by kevintb 8y ago
Yep. Precisely.
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by kevintb 8y ago
Have you considered that sexual harassment has caused the loss of insights from plenty of brilliant women?
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by kevintb 8y ago
great food for thought that applies to any public forum, whether it's infected with these massive secret governmental operations or not.
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by kevintb 8y ago
Not much to add, except that this article makes me sad. My family struggled with housing costs when I was a child, but as a newly arrived immigrant family to a city with a tiny minority population, the lack of social support was felt more k
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by kevintb 8y ago
Very interesting read! I've not heard of "Gidget, Lightbot, Code Hunt, and tutorials provided by Code.org" before, but the paper seems quite comprehensive.
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by kevintb 8y ago
Doesn’t seem like OP is particularly welcome to people “from all walks of life”. For example, he seems to have a clear bias in denying the existience of toxic gaming communities [1], never mind Gamergate and it’s ties to white supremacy gro
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by kevintb 8y ago
Seems like OP has a bias himself thinking toxic gaming communities don’t exist [1] https://gamingreinvented.com/nintendoarticles/no-the-gaming-...
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by kevintb 8y ago
Are you a new coder who is female and in a marginalized group? Given your astonishingly ignorant response, I can bet dollars to donuts that you are not.
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by kevintb 8y ago
Great stuff. I followed the thread when he released the challenge and enjoyed reading the comments and quibbles people had along the way. Also, strongly agree on zero overlap between bulldogs and theorem provers. Those who were assholes did
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by kevintb 9y ago
Most software "engineers" barely think about the societal consequences of their work, and CS students have no "do-no-harm" oath that engineers have to take. I would say that in comparison to engineers who build things fo
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What would regulating Facebook look like?(wired.com)
2 points by kevintb 9y ago|0 comments
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Mark Zuckerberg speaks, but is he listening?(wired.com)
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Zuckerberg Offers the Bare Minimum on the Cambridge Analytica Mess(theatlantic.com)
3 points by kevintb 9y ago|0 comments
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by kevintb 9y ago
> Just because they dominate leadership roles doesn't mean that all, or even most white males have power Read that sentence to yourself again, slowly. And ask yourself why, and how it affects groups who rarely have power.
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Ask HN: Which technical course do you wish you took in college?
2 points by kevintb 9y ago|2 comments
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by kevintb 9y ago
Great resource, thank you!
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by kevintb 9y ago
Thank you. It’s interesting some people are ignoring the heart of the issue completely.
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by kevintb 9y ago
Interesting - like the Socratic method.

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