manfredo

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by manfredo 7y ago
Who is getting the short or long end of the stick is not something I aim to answer, or even purport to be able to answer. This is a matter of perspective. I'm a Hispanic person that attended an elite university and have household names
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by manfredo 7y ago
There's also the issue of laws that mandate offering equal opportunity on the basis of race and gender. By comparison, I'm not aware of any legislation mandating equal opportunity between candidates with and without referrals. Fur
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by manfredo 7y ago
You're right, it isn't. But are people offended when people say that FAANG gives more opportunity to CMU grads than community college grads? Not in my experience. Speaking as a grad from one of the universities mentioned, I can sa
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by manfredo 7y ago
This is the part of the document that described the motivation: > The Problem Statement > Based on 177 like tech companies in Silicon Valley (market research and EOO-1 Diversity Statistics data), the percentage of diverse engineering
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by manfredo 7y ago
Whether one thinks that discrimination in hiring is justified to offset suspected discrimination in other areas is besides the point. The point is, there exists discrimination in hiring that results in women and URM candidates getting offer
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by manfredo 7y ago
I've sat at company hiring panels, and have taken part in discriminatory policies first hand. At career fairs, Dropbox recruiters had us mark candidate resumes with a star for diverse candidates, two starts for "double diverse&quo
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by manfredo 7y ago
I won't dispute whether you think it's a terrible thing to say, but preferential treatment towards demographics categorized as "diverse" is something I've both witnessed and taken part in during my time so far in te
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by manfredo 7y ago
At every company I have worked at, policies were in place to extend greater opportunity to URM and women candidates. Most large companies are setting diversity targets well in excess of the share of women and URM workers in software develop
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by manfredo 7y ago
The parametric curves don't get transformed into triangles. This isn't tessellation or similar techniques. You aren't feeding the GPU any triangles - you're only feeding it the function that defines the parametric curve.
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by manfredo 7y ago
I don't think DeVos wants to (or even can) repeal Title IX. I think her proposed changes are limited to the "Dear Colleague" letter sent by Obama which, among other things, mandated that colleges use a preponderance of eviden
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by manfredo 7y ago
You keep stating that Susan Fowler can no longer be an engineer. This is not substantiated. Can you provide examples where she is being denied employment? From what I can tell, she was hired by Stripe after leaving google. Did Stripe fire h
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by manfredo 7y ago
> Susan Fowler's career was destroyed twice when she came out with accusations. What do you mean by this? She was working at another company when she published her story, and as far as I know was not fired or otherwise had action ta
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by manfredo 7y ago
Or you can just not define a z coordinate in the vertex buffer object (at least, in opengl). I think the vertex shader might still need to output a 3rd coordinate. But you can always just discard it.
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by manfredo 7y ago
The same could be said of a plethora of other industries that are government funded. Defense contractors, utilities, etc. Furthermore, the last two points would make sense if Title IX only applied to teachers. But that's not the case.
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by manfredo 7y ago
This is from 2007: https://developer.nvidia.com/gpugems/gpugems3/part-iv-image-... Again, the vast majority of use cases for GPUs is 3d vertex graphics. But they're capable of more than that. Modern GPUs are
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by manfredo 7y ago
GPUs can take in way more than just triangles as input. There are particle simulation and even Ray tracing implemented on GPUs nowadays. Support for parametric curves was one of the more recent additions.
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by manfredo 7y ago
What do you mean GPUs don't support them? Most opengl tutorials I've read have people building triangles in 2d to learn fragment shaders and vertices before going 3d. Most of them also support parametric curves, so even hardware a
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by manfredo 7y ago
Charisma that can come off in a 1 hour meeting, vs. ability to communicate and work with a team towards a goal.
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by manfredo 7y ago
Coming from someone who took said expensive prep courses, I can tell you that just taking practice exam after practice exam is easily 90% of the benefit. The test taking strategy they teach is something anyone with serious prospects of gett
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by manfredo 7y ago
It's hard to create an accountable system to identify "smooth-talkers". We already know that perceived charisma is highly dependent on attractiveness, ethnicity, and other innate factors. What we could do is gauge students&#x
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by manfredo 7y ago
I think console still do make sense insofar as that they provide developers the confidence that their game can run on a given set of hardware. Yeah, they're mostly just a PC under the hood. But they're PCs with consistent hardwar
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by manfredo 7y ago
Requests for people with firsthand accounts are things I see from reputable sources like the Economist, and the New York Times. So I don't think it's particularly unprofessional - maybe asking for "tips" is less professi
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by manfredo 7y ago
To produce electricity as part of a state-planned economy. It turns out governments are just as capable of cutting corners and making poor decisions like having a positive void coefficient, combined control/catalyst rods, and a lack of
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by manfredo 7y ago
The energy density of uranium is such that the amount of waste generated is extremely small. The entirety of the nuclear waste generated by the US nuclear power industry could fit in a football field with a depth of 10 yards [1]. Put it in
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by manfredo 7y ago
Fossil fuels produce an estimated > 4 million deaths per year [1]. This isn't even considering the hundreds of millions or more that are at risk of displacement due to climate change, and the conflict that will likely be associated
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by manfredo 7y ago
> Prior to this, and at Kickstarter, there were no high-profile tech unions. Now there is at least two. Now you might not consider that substantially more, but that's still definitely more. https://news.ycombinator.com&#x
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by manfredo 7y ago
Cool so we've gone from "high profile" tech unions to "a small model and symbolic inspiration". I think that's a much more effective expression of their significance (or lack thereof).
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by manfredo 7y ago
> It's illegal for a business to "refuse to bargain collectively with the representatives of its employees". Right, it's illegal for a company to say "we're not going to bargain with you collectively, at all
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by manfredo 7y ago
So if me and my 2 other buddies are the only two employees at an early startup we can unionize and demand immense equity packages, and the company is prohibited from hiring additional employees if they don't like our demands? This does
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by manfredo 7y ago
Correct, firing someone for trying to unionize is illegal. It is illegal to retaliate against workers for trying to unionize. It's not prohibited, to the best of my knowledge, to receive a contract from a union and say, "these t

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