mklim

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by mklim 10y ago
>If group X is as effective as group Y but you can get away with paying them 20% less, why would you NOT hire group X? Hypothetical possibility: members of group X are not perceived as 100% as effective as group Y because of pervasive bi
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by mklim 10y ago
>there are some really obvious things we could do which would cure a lot of people I agree with a lot of your bigger complaints re: the labor market, but I don't think this is necessarily true. Let's say that for a lot of peopl
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by mklim 10y ago
The fundamental problem is how cripplingly little we understand about neurobiology. "Depression" is a label given for a common cluster of symptoms, not a single disease originating from a few well-understood causes. We aren't
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by mklim 10y ago
Maybe there should be a widget that biases for less dense areas or does it proportionally, but the results aren't necessarily wrong as-is. A 2M+ population city with 20 <special interest group> meetups on a given weekend doesn&#x
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by mklim 10y ago
I'm saving much more month to month after moving out to SV than I was making in the Midwest, even though my rent doubled. My compensation is >2x what it was, and all my other expenses outside of rent stayed around the same (my auto
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by mklim 10y ago
And the Bay Area is roughly 6,900 square miles vs the 3,806,000 square miles of the US as a whole. Put another way, Silicon Valley is where you can find 10% of the total number of US developers despite it being only ~0.002% of the country&#
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by mklim 10y ago
Term taken from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pomodoro_Technique meaning a short period where you're working hard. The basic idea of the technique is that you dedicate 25 minutes to strictly working, and then expl
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by mklim 10y ago
As a counter anecdote, I'm from the Midwest and one of the biggest boons about moving from Metro Detroit to the Bay Area is that I don't get harassed in the street for being visibly gender non-conforming anymore. I very much agree
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by mklim 10y ago
In my experience, yes. One of the biggest boons about moving from Metro Detroit to the Bay Area is that I don't get harassed in the street for being visibly gender non-conforming anymore. Detroit consistently votes Democrat but that&#x
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by mklim 10y ago
It's really interesting how much the writing process differs among people. I could never see this working for me. 95% of my writing is getting to know my characters and accurately recording what they do, 5% is actually having a plan on
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by mklim 10y ago
> It may not have hand tracked controllers yet This is a huge technical difference. "VR" without being able to reach out and touch the thing in front of you is barely VR at all. The difference between roomscale + motion control
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by mklim 10y ago
Whedon's "Dollhouse" series was a pretty good take on this topic. The show opened with the premise that brains could be saved, generated, and overwritten digitally. The focus of the show was on a company that hired people to
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by mklim 10y ago
Really? That seems weirdly low, even with a lower COL taken into a account. In Southeast Michigan a new grad would expect to start somewhere around 60, and that's enough to buy a decent to huge house depending on where you end up livin
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by mklim 10y ago
Some games purposely designed for both or originally designed for monitors and then ported to VR might be able to, but the vast majority of them are going to rely on the headset's position in real life to move the player character in t
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by mklim 10y ago
It's an extremely complicated peripheral, but it's still a peripheral. It's a monitor with an intricate tracking system that allows it to tell the PC powering it its exact location and orientation within a limited area. Playi
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by mklim 10y ago
VR headsets aren't platforms in their own right with their own operating systems like consoles are, they're hardware peripherals. It would be like a company refusing to launch their game unless it detected the "right" co
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by mklim 10y ago
>I (maybe I am wrong) have been intending to treat team-members as "some dudes with bumps on their chest that may have various after hours habits that are none of my concern". FWIW, this is personally my ideal working environme
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by mklim 10y ago
No problem, glad my anecdotes are interesting/helpful! To be fair, the internship and his mentorship were both invaluable to me, I was very lucky to be hired, I don't want to make it sound like a sob story. Firing over sexual orie
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by mklim 10y ago
I couldn't tell you if I was irrational or not without knowing the number of tech bosses conservative enough to listen to Limbaugh at their desk and strike up pro Tea Party/anti liberal discussions as a way of making casual conver
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by mklim 10y ago
If you're in the US, there are already several universally protected classes (race, gender). Why would a parent knowingly disown and put their gay child out on the street, risking criminal charges and effectively wasting however many y
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by mklim 10y ago
>I guess my question is this: Is ignoring gender when interacting with co-workers wrong? Should I be doing something different when I interact with female co-workers? Me being sexed female doesn't really qualify me to answer this qu
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by mklim 10y ago
>anecdotally I happen to be an extreme introvert, and the excessive socializing and advice or notion that if we have an environment where we can all be super girly like omg together is the vibe I get from alot of female focused events in
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by mklim 10y ago
I wouldn't compare it to mobile. IMO, current gen VR is best described as a new content medium. VR is to video what video is to recorded audio what recorded audio is to written language. Written language describes an event to an audien
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by mklim 10y ago
I disagree with the idea that the musical is painting Hamilton as a blameless hero of the people and glossing over his Federalist policies. For an example off the top of my head, you've got Jefferson (who is not portrayed as a villaino
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by mklim 11y ago
Disclaimer: I'm definitely onboard with motion controllers in general, and would hesitate to definitively say that Vive > Rift+Touch without trying more things for both of them (that being said, I cancelled my Rift preorder and do h
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by mklim 11y ago
Seconded. I've been lucky enough to try the Vive Pre with the Trials of Tatooine demo, Rift Crescent Bay + Xbox controller on a seated experience, and Rift + Touch on a standing experience. Vive was far and away the most compelling for
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by mklim 11y ago
The title is correct. That sentence just means that they're predictors, not necessarily that they're positive predictors. As in, if you know one you can predict the other. In the results section: > There was a negative correlat
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by mklim 11y ago
That was a deeply informative read, thank you for linking it.
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by mklim 11y ago
The current presenter just said (paraphrased): "Sorry, we don't have any huge announcements this year on the scale of React Native."
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by mklim 11y ago
Yeah, this is a common problem in genre fiction unfortunately. The best one I've read is "The Magicians" series by Lev Grossman. The writing is clean, concise, everything is shown and nothing told. The series is a great decon

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