lliamander

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2011.
by lliamander 11y ago
Agreed. Heck, I need to work on not being offended so easily. As someone once said (paraphrased): "We all have existential fears; that if you do or permit certain things, bad stuff will happen. If the center doesn't hold, we&#x2
2012.
by lliamander 11y ago
You can have a type-safe fluent Builder, but it requires having one or more static nested classes with private constructors. The outer class will not have a build() method, but rather that method will live in one of the nested classes. Yo
2013.
by lliamander 11y ago
Ah, well I stand corrected. Thanks for the pointer!
2014.
by lliamander 11y ago
it is true that the president may have no special expertise in assessing whether private schools are better than government schools, but it strikes me that any support he expresses for public schools is going to ring hollow if he isn't
2015.
by lliamander 11y ago
While I am by no means one to claim that typical geek behavior is always correct, could it be the case that geeksplaining is ultimately inseparable from the positive aspects of the geek personality (even if we can mitigate it to some degree
2016.
by lliamander 11y ago
Citing a google search is a bit lame. Suffice it to say that I am familiar with the concept (hint: it is a lot older than Victorian England) and that I am asking you to defend your statement about ianferrel's comment. So again, what do
2017.
by lliamander 11y ago
I don't presume to speak on his behalf, but from what I can tell, he is saying that some poor are helped by direct cash payments, and some are not. How does that lead to a distinction of deserving/undeserving? I guess my question
2018.
by lliamander 11y ago
ianferrel is not perpetuating the meme that poor people are poor because they lack decision making skills. He acknowledges that there are poor people with good decision making skills, and that giving them money will help them. Pointing out
2019.
by lliamander 13y ago
I think the main part of what it comes down to is that people are generally their own worst boss. Which makes sense, because when we are employees who work in the same office as our boss, we have become accustomed to delegating the managem
2020.
by lliamander 13y ago
It is actually interesting that you should bring this up. I am opposed to slavery, and I am for the civil rights of all, but what about those people who are opposed to certain outcomes of the civil rights movement, like affirmative action,
2021.
by lliamander 13y ago
Thank you for the clarification. Would it be legitimate for me to rephrase your position as "stating generalizations about peoples' behavior, based upon sex, is sexist"? For example, if I were to say "men, in general (
2022.
by lliamander 13y ago
I am genuinely curious how this qualifies as sexist. My understanding, based upon my own experience as well as some of the research I have read, is that there is something to the distinction Atwood brings up in this article. Whether or not
2023.
by lliamander 13y ago
I think there is actually a meaningful distinction between the two. "Specification Driven Development" refers to the artifact you are creating; whereas "Test Driven Development" refers to the activity you are using that
2024.
by lliamander 13y ago
The problem is that the fields in which he is an expert have failed to provide sufficiently better predictive power over the judgement of a well-read or experienced layman[1]. I do not mean that as a criticism of the OP; this is merely a c
2025.
by lliamander 13y ago
>At a very fundamental level, religious and secular people might never be able to have a meaningful discussion about the nature of the world. It's probably for the best that we usually maneuver around these black holes on HN. There
2026.
by lliamander 13y ago
This pathologizing of religion is too self-serving and deserves some skepticism. For one thing, it lacks a sufficient explanation for the scientific/mathematical contributions and intellect of people with religious/supernatural be
2027.
by lliamander 13y ago
>Also, assuming the author does live there it seems a little hypocritical that he's criticising other's life choices I believe it would only be hypocritical if he were also making those choices and not owning up to it. Saying
2028.
by lliamander 13y ago
> Again, you're begging the question. You're assuming that the original admission process measured "merit" in the first place. He (that is, yock) did not beg the question. I quote "If gender is to be elevated ab
2029.
by lliamander 13y ago
You might also be interested in the work of Dr. Mark Guzdial on the subject of introducing students to programming/computing ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wIkRUW6BEBc&list=WLF05B05A86... ). Now, he argues that l
2030.
by lliamander 13y ago
I prefer to avoid uncharitable interpretations, so I am hesitant to jump to such a conclusion. However, I will admit that judging admission based upon "non-academic strengths like leadership" allows personal biases and political