mcavoybn

13 ms·

1.
by mcavoybn 4y ago
I like using codewars.com for learning new languages. Just pick a language and start running through problems. I think the best part about it is that you can review other solutions after you solve the problem. Usually there are some really
2.
by mcavoybn 4y ago
Very snarky response. I think the poster you replied to was trying to point out that the reason this happens is because the government prints money and if they don't take the money out of circulation via taxes then inflation becomes an
3.
by mcavoybn 5y ago
None of the things in this article are specific to programming, they are all just the potential downsides of being an employee. In some situations you are an inferior, replaceable tool that is a burden on the company, whether you are a prog
4.
by mcavoybn 5y ago
Probably not, I think there is utility in relating two similar things, especially when someone is likely to be more familiar with one over the other. Someone who knows networks really well could find it useful to model an engineering team a
5.
by mcavoybn 5y ago
The takeaway is that the deaf man could be you. Cops and judges are flawed, and you should be wary of them. Also, you aren't being forced to read the news, if you don't find the information valuable then don't click on it.
6.
by mcavoybn 5y ago
Many of the replies in this thread talk about empathy, and I get where they are coming from. The problem is, if your priority when hiring was empathy you would just offer the job to everyone you interview. It's true, everyone has the a
7.
by mcavoybn 5y ago
Maybe it is normal in your country, but where I am from in the US, parents want their kids to be self-sufficient as soon as possible. The author herself said it was embarrassing. I'm not sure what the economic situation is in your cou
8.
by mcavoybn 5y ago
Yeah I was waiting for the point in this article where it became about "outdoorsy types" and not the author but it never happened. I'd be embarrassed too, mismanaging money and relying on my parents support at 34 years old. I
9.
by mcavoybn 5y ago
>We do like drinking and eating together though, so we got that! Regardless of the details of your argument, or whether my paraphrase of your original comment was accurate, it is an infeasible solution to suggest that everyone needs to g
10.
by mcavoybn 5y ago
>the secular regular get-together groups for people without any unifying interests or socioeconomic status Unfortunately, I don't think what you are describing ever existed. Every "get-together-group" I can think of has so
11.
by mcavoybn 5y ago
Everyone is attacking the overall theme of this article, and I agree with many of the points made, but nobody seems to be focused on the actual solutions provided in the article which I think are good. The article isn't about software
12.
by mcavoybn 5y ago
I don't think the point of lowercased's comment was that devs don't underestimate tasks to the same degree that "outside-of-technical-people" might. They are saying that "outside-of-technical-people" don&#
13.
by mcavoybn 5y ago
Just because there isn't a top-down solution that eradicates the source of the issue doesn't mean it shouldn't be observed and discussed. You pointed out that you can't "beef" with the gravitational constant, b
14.
by mcavoybn 5y ago
Ahh yes, arguing about semantics.
15.
by mcavoybn 6y ago
It's up to the reader to decide what is worthwhile for them. Also, whether that quote is relevant or not is not what is being argued. The original dispute (on a surface level) was about a "rhetorical technique". Now you say i
16.
by mcavoybn 6y ago
Given the degree of your outrage, I think something other than "rhetorical technique" has triggered you here. Then again, maybe you are just really really opinionated about "rhetorical techniques" and following strict de
17.
by mcavoybn 6y ago
Great point. Another subtle aspect to this kind of rhetoric is that it's about an issue so pervasive that it's disingenuous to present this as new information. Even as a boy you have to be careful what you say to girls, and vice v
18.
by mcavoybn 6y ago
I had the exact same thought. I skimmed through the rest of the article. The author's frustrations seem to center around the fact that she is a diversity hire, which is made even more evident by the discussion in the comments. The excu
19.
by mcavoybn 6y ago
The part about "doing everything" for someone hit home at first, but it took a turn when you mentioned leaving that position. Sometimes I've had managers come in and just take over a project because a client/investor wan
20.
by mcavoybn 6y ago
>having kids and the threat of potentially having kids undermines female income on a regular basis The only reason you see it this way is because of your previous point regarding women and children being a "package deal". Ther
21.
by mcavoybn 6y ago
>You might have missed it I did miss that. Would love a citation. >You are disingenuous It doesn't make sense to say that I might have missed something then accuse me of being disingenuous. If what Apple is doing is really ground
22.
by mcavoybn 6y ago
>You're uncharitably assuming this Why should I be charitable towards apple? >Apple's custom silicon Sounds like more marketing for Apple.
23.
by mcavoybn 6y ago
I'm sorry but when the solution to your research paper is consumer technology sold by the company you work for, you are just advertising not innovating. Nothing about the apple watch itself is particularly useful for this, its just the
24.
by mcavoybn 6y ago
>While Wells, Huxley and Orwell invented flawed worlds, the Soviet writer was living in one. Forgive me if I am reading too much into this, but the tagline for this article feels weird to me. It feels weird because it implies that the &q
25.
by mcavoybn 6y ago
>Absent tooling to detect dead ode I'm not sure if this is a pun that is over my head or a typo. Thanks for the article. I think the most difficult issue to solve is the meetings one, especially now that so much work is being done
26.
by mcavoybn 6y ago
Is not the 'free market' when google/facebook have been propped up by US institutions like the CIA, NSA, and Stanford. Google and Facebook are as established as institutions as the US Army or Dept of Homeland Security and sho
27.
by mcavoybn 6y ago
I was upvoted for this comment at first, then harshly downvoted. Let me expand on what I meant: Leveraging consumer data (and marketing that process in a blog post) is an insidious affair. This article is just a rebranded, simplified versio
28.
by mcavoybn 6y ago
no
29.
by mcavoybn 6y ago
I don't think that this issue is specific to the food service sector. I think the reason healthy food is hard to find in America is the same reason that the only way to have a healthy social ecosystem online is to painstakingly develop
30.
by mcavoybn 6y ago
1. American education isn't 'amazing' by default just because other countries do things differently 2. The article is about the interrelationship between high-level education and the economy. There is cause and effect at play

More ›