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by kgu 9y ago
Edit: never mind, silly question
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by kgu 9y ago
I can't find it viscerally in me to take moral issue with the guy releasing the code. I understand it belongs to Blizzard, but I just don't feel sorry for them. Not defending that, just stating a fact about the absence of an emoti
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by kgu 9y ago
Sorry for the downvotes; I upvoted you to correct. I think it's an interesting question. There are probably fields where it's possible and fields where it's not. Some students certainly outperform others by a factor of ten. I
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by kgu 9y ago
Arguing that 10x developers don't exist strikes me as the extraordinary position requiring extraordinary evidence, rather than the inverse. People vary; why wouldn't they here? Some people argue, essentially, "programming i
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by kgu 9y ago
The gradient covers all the hypothetical programmers that could exist but happen not to.
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by kgu 9y ago
> However, as soon as you have a slightly larger team, these decisions will usually not be made by one single person. If you have a large project with dozens or hundreds of engineers, you'll have dedicated teams for some of these ta
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by kgu 9y ago
I support!
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by kgu 9y ago
I hear what you're saying and actually agree. The somewhat pedantic point I was making earlier was just that the author could've more conservatively written, "here are some possible dangers down this path which we should thin
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by kgu 9y ago
I found the thread interesting and informative up until she drew her conclusion: Elon Musk doesn't strike me as an innovator when he talks about building tunnels and subways. He strikes me as Robert Moses. Who are these tunnels going
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by kgu 9y ago
That disagrees with the Twitter thread you linked to, which claims: > Robert Moses weaponized Civil Engineering and Urban Planning to suppress marginalized communities. Engineering is always political. Words like "weaponized" a
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Ambient noise could be your next multi-factor authentication token(techcrunch.com)
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by kgu 9y ago
Well, fair enough, you're right that SJW can be used as a label too. My original flagged comment was actually "The invigorating fervor of social justice"; I didn't use the term "SJW." It was a sassy thing I wro
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by kgu 9y ago
I think it's needlessly mocking, but it is not a label: it has an actual definition, and I'd consider anyone who used the word outside that definition to be using it incorrectly. It refers to a specific set of behaviors. Bigot and
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by kgu 9y ago
Yeah, that's true.
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by kgu 9y ago
I don't mean to be sensitive; is the suggestion that I did this somewhere, and am thus missing the irony?
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by kgu 9y ago
I probably shouldn't have posted that, but "social justice warrior" is a pejorative for actual good reason. It refers specifically to people who don't genuinely care about justice, and are rather interested in shoving ev