king_jester

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by king_jester 12y ago
I still see this as a sign of an organizational problem for your startup. Naturally you'll have few(er) people and resources as a startup, but if your business plan requires that you constantly have output or be available to make chang
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> In addition, and this depends on how old they are, you might not want to make your first hire a person who is likely to have children soon. If suddenly half your workforce is on maternity/paternity leave that might sink your busin
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How ageist of you. Teens are savages and not really people, so it is totally cool if we walk all over their autonomy as people and dehumanize them.
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by king_jester 12y ago
Is the 10,000 hour rule even true? I know this was popularized by Gladwell's book 'Outliers' but I had heard the study referred to in the book might not be accurate. Is it that 10,000 of practice is common to experts or that
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> This alone doesn't buy you much, and in fact is quite inflexible when compared to good old ADTs, so let's hope there's more to it. It at least buys you a way of organizing your code that makes it easier to understand no
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> I could name a hundred and you still wouldn't be happy. Why bother. I could support what I'm saying, but that's too hard. The reality is there aren't many examples of someone being unjustly sanctioned by a code of
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by king_jester 12y ago
> You can see this in the list of out-of-scope items. For example, no "apologia for misogynist, anti-feminist, oppressive, or other harmful actions or ideas" is allowed - in practice this tends to include stuff like having an u
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by king_jester 12y ago
> 2) The Geek Feminism Wiki, although simply referring to itself as "feminist", subscribes to a particular form of third-wave poststructural feminism that is not so much concerned with equity, as it is preoccupied with dubious
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by king_jester 12y ago
The answer is yes, you should absolutely switch to the dream job/company. Particularly if where you work is at will, like it is in much of the US. The same things that apply to an individual apply to a company: other candidates intervi
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To punish addicts by denying them health care is extremely cruel and unfair. There is no basis for denying care because of your irrational hatred.
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by king_jester 12y ago
I want to start by prefacing I'm from the US, so my knowledge is mostly based what racism is like in the US. > I was just adding a point that is left out of these discussions more often than not. The point is that "white"
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by king_jester 12y ago
> I do not believe it unreasonable to demand evidence to the extend and nature of sexism in tech (as I have seen no formal study on it at all). There have been so many studies, blog posts, and anecdotes about sexism in tech. Basic search
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> Everybody needs to stop with this "white-male" nonsense, which is inherently racist. There is much cultural diversity among what is considered "white" and that is painfully obvious. The "black" American gu
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> Let's say I have a magic wand which will make all -isms go away in one waving. I waved, -isms went away and now what? Where do I hire skilled black female CoffeeScript developers? This is a bit strange to say. If there were less b
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> We have no way to tell if they're being flagged by users or setting off the automated system for detecting flamewars. This is the fundamental problem. No matter how a story gets made invisible, once it gets in that state nobody k
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> Think about the open source software movement (OSS). One crucial perspective that the OSS shares with D&I is that both view discrimination as an impediment to progress. OSS licenses include several non-discrimination clauses (econo
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I don't agree that lying in business is a requirement to run a business and do so well, although you are right in that lying is common in a variety of ways. But I don't have any intention of lowering my expectations nor should any
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When someone does a bunch of shitty things that directly affects the lives of others, anger is a wholly reasonable response. While it's nice that the OP is being open about mistakes, you don't deserve a pat on the back for telling
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> If you use a service, the service has a right to collect certain data about you. I think this is the crux of the problem. The reality is that no, a service does not have a right to collect data about you. The service provider may ask t
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> Maybe I'm too dumb to understand this, but my intuitive idea is that a card like The Coin gives you various advantages and no disadvantages, since it is an extra card that comes for free and gives you more flexibility. The Coin do
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> Not to put down rape or anything but any woman in your life could say you raped her and if she's a good enough actress you could go to prison without any proof. This is such a myth and I'm really tired of hearing it. The fact
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> So while that IS exploitative, it should be better and i dont condone it at all, its perhaps the first step in a road to a better tech industry. How exactly will a better tech industry come along if that industry is built on exploitati
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Apps that are provided with for free on Google Play, IAP or no IAP, don't have any fear of piracy from being installed from another source. If Google Play is not available when your app runs, if the user could use that app for some pur
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> I would love to have an in-depth conversation about the origins of stereotypes and how they relate to real-world examples, but HN is too politically correct to make an attempt. The problem is the large amount of bad research and eviden
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> At least part of the problem is that we, as a society, have no idea how to fund the development of creative / digital works. We can't find good business models for this in general. Very true. This says something about how we
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> Curiosity: if somebody can give me a good reason why they don't like Joel, OK. But if they have never heard of him, it seems likely they are not curious about programming. You are conflating with what you are interested in with wh
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I've never heard of evidence that auto scrolling behavior is actually better UX as a general design decision for scrollable content. In fact, I've heard the opposite: when users can't control the scroll of content or scrollin
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> There are plenty of historical examples of societies that got eaten from within when they couldn't maintain their culture in the face of aggressive foreign ones. There's an implicit valuation of culture in this statement. Mos
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I understood what you were saying, but that slave owners consider person objects has no merit in this discussion and doesn't provide evidence for anything you said.
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> Taxi cabs in most major cities run on a Medallion system, its an artificial limit on the number of cabs that can exist in the city(sometimes done because of lobbying by the existing cab owners, sometimes to reduce the number of cabs in

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