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by lhnz 13y ago
One thing that annoys me, re: permissions - when you signup for a service through Twitter, and the next time you try to login you forget that you used Twitter to sign-up so you click on LinkedIn. And the process continues until you've
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by lhnz 13y ago
Please slow down and be careful when you read. You've misunderstood my core point while also parroting back other things I said back in a highly patronising way. >> You do realize that brains change in response to their experienc
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by lhnz 13y ago
>> It may not be obvious to you, but there is a huge amount of uncertainty about the actual amount and severity of differences. Is severity the right word here? It seems like you entered the conversation with this implication that het
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by lhnz 13y ago
Our brains are physically different [0]. As much as I believe in the 'nurture' argument, given that our brains are wired very differently based on gender, I find it difficult to believe that this won't cause differences in bo
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by lhnz 13y ago
>> You've discovered intersectionality I read about that years ago and I don't take kindly to others trying to humiliate me with condescending statements like that. >> doesn't mean male priviliege and the patriarc
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by lhnz 13y ago
>> morbidly afraid of having members of the opposite sex approach them for their substantial wealth That sounds a lot like counter-signalling. Do these people avoid buying Ferrari's or are they all wearing second-hand clothes?
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by lhnz 13y ago
>> only to find that mainstream Americans don't share his disability. It looks like you just got down-voted by almost everybody that read your comment. I guess when you look at yourself you should now say "here is a man that
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by lhnz 13y ago
1. Line-height needs to be increased as lines are almost touching. 2. Colour scheme is terrible: green, orange, grey, pale yellow, orange on dark blue, dark blue text with orange shadow, green text on black terminal style popups, black text
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by lhnz 13y ago
You really need to improve the design of that website.
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by lhnz 13y ago
Quite right. I was simply pointing out that the word "patriarchy" is often used to imply that all men are extremely privileged, and the reason why this word doesn't even begin to negatively effect the real male ruling class.
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by lhnz 13y ago
There's a massive difference between high-status men and low-status men. High-status men are almost certainly part of a patriarchy, but as you've probably noticed are loved and admired by millions of women. Low-status men in contr
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by lhnz 13y ago
I don't think he's saying that. I think he's making an abstract argument about the symbolism of blocking access to sexuality.
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by lhnz 13y ago
You miss the point. They don't care about a 10% of elite children which will find ways around it, they want to censor and restrict the majority. Also, quite importantly it's about delegitimising and criminalising whatever future c
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by lhnz 13y ago
So, according to this, User-Centred Design (UCD) is going to decrease the status of software engineers and make their working conditions closer to that of blue-collar workers by completely separating conception from execution. I guess desig
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by lhnz 13y ago
Something which doesn't seem clear to me is whether the team is able to properly evaluate the pay of their colleagues. Surely the people that are most friendly and fit most of the in-group traits of the group will benefit most? What ab
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by lhnz 13y ago
Why It’s a Good Idea to Be a Front-End Developer That Markets Themselves As a JavaScript Developer (clientcide.com)
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by lhnz 13y ago
>> A sure path to mediocrity is to glorify all round generalists. Single purpose tools will win over them any day! Except the days in which they don't.
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by lhnz 13y ago
Why do people take LinkedIn so seriously? I will accept stranger's requests if I think they could provide some kind of useful service to me now or in the future. I'm not maintaining a list of important relationships on it. It&#x27
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by lhnz 13y ago
When I think about the practical skills that I learnt in my education, years later there were only a few key concepts which really mattered: rudimentary arithmetic in Mathematics, good writing/reading skills from English, understanding
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by lhnz 13y ago
I've read the John Minford translation of the book [1]. Does anybody know whether this is any good? [1] http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Art-War-Penguin-Classics/dp/0140...
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by lhnz 13y ago
Not true. There are upsides and downsides my friend and these biases are adapted to evolution where heuristics thrive.
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by lhnz 13y ago
The bias here is the belief that bias is a bad word.
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by lhnz 13y ago
I could teach a student with good language theory to program faster this way, but other students probably not...
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by lhnz 13y ago
>> The moment you sign a contract, specially for the military, you agree to keep your word. It's actually possible to lie or break a promise. Sometimes the ethics to do so are stronger than the ethics to not do so.
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by lhnz 13y ago
My point was that if you are making a decision explicitly on salary and interesting technology it was a good choice. I'm sorry if this was not clear. Were you asking me to explain my point because you find the existence of a rational e
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by lhnz 13y ago
The Daily Mail position was paying upto £100k for their permanent software engineers. That + being able to offer people a greenfield project using Clojure and Node.JS probably attracted great engineers.
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by lhnz 13y ago
How would a work of sardonic fiction affect this man's reputation?
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by lhnz 13y ago
That's nothing: break open many brands of low-quality leather shoe and you'll find a 3-5 inch sharp metal blade [1]. I know this because my shoe fell apart a couple of months ago and one came out: I'd been through multiple ai
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by lhnz 13y ago
Often there's no difference.
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by lhnz 13y ago
This was fairly similar to my experience - 4 months into my time off I received a letter from the government saying that due to a problem with my employer last year I owed them thousands of pounds of tax. I might not be that risk adverse bu

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