lordCarbonFiber

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by lordCarbonFiber 6y ago
Im firmly in that demographic. Working from home has been pretty awful; don't have space for a secondary office in my 500sqft of nyc apartment, and have found the whole experience to be terribly isolating. Maybe it's different f
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by lordCarbonFiber 7y ago
My bad for the previously missing source that's on me. Ive expanded on the thought below with references. (and despite calling me out you still can't find a single source for your claims (short of a vague, go read a document I cle
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by lordCarbonFiber 7y ago
The amount of just unsourced vitriol of your comment is unapproachable. Like, jsut, do some basic math. If you assume roughly even distributions of talent across gender and compound the fact that people tend to not like working in environm
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by lordCarbonFiber 7y ago
Stale links is something that plagues pretty much every language though. Hell python2 documentation still tends to be higher ranked in search results and that's a decade out of date. Then for frameworks or somethign like php you migh
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by lordCarbonFiber 7y ago
This line of reasoning doesn't hold up. It's just as easy to flip your conclusion on it's head currently; any given member of a majority group could be viewed as only being hired because of internal biases, not merit. To cont
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by lordCarbonFiber 7y ago
If someone wants to build and train their own model that assigns a binary gender based on pictures that's their own choice, and because of that freedom they can't force google to do it for them.
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by lordCarbonFiber 7y ago
Not the best example, given google lets you toggle your ad segments when they get them wrong and isn't baisising that guess based on physical presentation; the ad segment "male" is just a comment on the things you search and
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by lordCarbonFiber 7y ago
Red heads are less than 2% of the population and yet if you built a classification system that failed to identify them as people that wouldn't be seen as acceptable either. Trans people have been around forever, and aren't going a
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by lordCarbonFiber 7y ago
I have no idea where you're from that computer science has a "stereotype for geniuses". And I'd also go so far as to say computer programming still isn't a high prestige position. My best friend's mother stil
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by lordCarbonFiber 7y ago
You can't deny the drop in women entering the field. The touchy feely "oh it's man's field, something something society" explanation isn't really supported by data (or by other similar fields). I'd say th
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by lordCarbonFiber 7y ago
NPR had an excellent piece on this a while back. https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2014/10/21/357629765/when... tldr: home computers were gendered male (because video games) and cs 101 curricu
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by lordCarbonFiber 7y ago
Sure, but now you're eating the same thing for a week. I lived that way in college, it was great for saving money. Now i can afford to do a combination of delivery and blueapron style box'o'ingredients and enjoy the increased
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by lordCarbonFiber 7y ago
That's super cool, do you know if any of those results / methodology were every publicly published? I've been trying to find prior art in interview analytics and data driven hiring in general to try to improve things at my c
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by lordCarbonFiber 7y ago
To put more concretely, I've observed, especaily among tech circles, the tendency to assume "if the system works for me, it must work for everyone". I'd propose that that kind of mindset is what is what drives a lot of
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by lordCarbonFiber 7y ago
As someone that lives in a "small nyc apartment" I'd say the blanket statement around vr and small spaces doesn't hold. There's potential for extremely immersive experiences even in the Vive's smallest play are
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by lordCarbonFiber 7y ago
Have you seen the lowest common denominator facebook feed? Plenty of people will post plenty of garbage of their own volition even if you ignore just sharing other sources of clickbait and that's under their own name and face most of
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by lordCarbonFiber 7y ago
By that logic there should be no progressive programs at all because "someone" wealthy might also benefit. Especially in the current system, a college degree is overwhelmingly income positive[0]. Progressive programs don't i
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by lordCarbonFiber 7y ago
It's not a 0 sum game; it's very possible to have subsided education and meaningful social services; hell you can even deliver on economies of scale and do both academic out reach run by the local school with the intention of prep
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by lordCarbonFiber 7y ago
i know you're just being needlessly flippant, but, givenmost hs curriculum don't cover classical philosophy how is a student supposed to know they're interested in the field if not exposed to it during higher education ( i kn
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by lordCarbonFiber 7y ago
I also went to a large state school (although to be fair, one that's fairly highly rated for STEM). Access to people, both socially and academically, access to information, access to opportunity (I did not get a degree in CS yet here
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by lordCarbonFiber 7y ago
First off you just stated that 63% of the US population 25-34 is either illiterate or non consceintious, so, yikes. Secondly, I'd love to see some real data on college as a misallocation of resources. Everything ive seen would suggest
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by lordCarbonFiber 7y ago
There's a whole host of systematic reasons why women (as a group) might choose not to pursue a CS degree. As a hiring manager I can choose to complain about the ~pipeline~ (which i conveniently can't change nor appreciably effec
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by lordCarbonFiber 7y ago
Ignorning the fact that many engineering orgs can't hit 10% let along 18%; you've already lost if you've restricted your pipeline to "has a CS degree". Statistically your company isn't actually hiring for jobs
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by lordCarbonFiber 7y ago
Seconding this recommendation. This was the first book in maybe a decade that my first instinct after finishing was to start again.
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by lordCarbonFiber 7y ago
Which is great, right up until you work with people that aren't straight cis white men. Nonaction is and always will be political; it's just the politics of upholding the status quo. When a regular political talking point is whe
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by lordCarbonFiber 7y ago
Well, first off, the claim is not increasing violence towards trans people it's just there exists violence towards trans people and framing the debate as "let's talk about whether you exist" does little to help that.
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by lordCarbonFiber 7y ago
Misgendering isn't about your ability to name someone's gender; it's just having the basic decency to use the pronouns they prefer and core empathy to realize some people may experience the world differently than you. Just th
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by lordCarbonFiber 7y ago
Not to mention math so bad he wouldn't pass a high school stats class. Sampling from a highly cross correlated population expecting to see population-wide gausians; amateur hour before you even got to the phrenology and the misapplicat
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by lordCarbonFiber 7y ago
How can you "mildly criticize" what people are? By definition debating about people's identity implies there's a possibility said identity doesn't exist/can't exist. There's no rational argument th
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by lordCarbonFiber 7y ago
An aside, but that sentiment "Those who trade liberty for security deserve neither" makes no sense. Every person in every civilization has made the trade off between liberty and security to some degree. All but the staunchest anar

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