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by nilkn 6y ago
First, I feel you misrepresented my comment. “Saying something at work” doesn’t quite convey the same thing as “given a platform in front of hundreds of employees at a formal event with full support and endorsement by HR and company leaders
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by nilkn 6y ago
I think this is a very simplistic take. The reason we’re seeing a crackdown on this is not because companies are making a political move to support the status quo. It’s because they’re trying to weed out and get rid of legitimately problema
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by nilkn 6y ago
Isn’t there a pretty clear power imbalance if one side is being given a platform to espouse these views in front of hundreds of employees while they get endorsed by HR and company leadership?
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by nilkn 6y ago
It's really not a crazy idea at all, though. It's certainly less crazy than how much of established scientific canon would've appeared to the world when it was originally proposed. I would argue most of quantum field theory i
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by nilkn 6y ago
Just downvote and move on if you feel that strongly about it.
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by nilkn 6y ago
This page ranks it 18th in that regard: https://cityobservatory.org/most_segregated/ Of note, LA is measured as being more segregated than Houston.
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by nilkn 6y ago
Not to mention Houston, for instance, is one of the most diverse cities in the entire country -- more diverse than much of CA. It's also one of the largest and most iconic cities of the South.
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by nilkn 6y ago
There's at least one person who shifted the discussion from the former to the latter (you). If you did so intentionally, knowing fully well the regions are completely distinct, perhaps you should consider your own role in generating no
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by nilkn 6y ago
What's reasonable is that you're doing both things simultaneously and probably in the process getting a lot of complicated reactions because of imprecise use of terminology.
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by nilkn 6y ago
It's important to clarify that you are mixing up two geographic regions here. You seem to mostly be referring to the deep south (especially since you refer to Atlanta in a later comment), which according to generally popular definition
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by nilkn 6y ago
Engineering managers at large companies in the Bay Area can make $600k. (And I don't mean directors or VPs, which are over $1 million.) Engineering managers in the Midwest are generally lucky to reach $200k. That's a basic new gra
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by nilkn 6y ago
I have to say most companies I’ve worked for have subscribed to the policies in Armstrong’s blog post, and it has worked very well. But these companies were mostly outside the Bay Area. I suspect the Bay Area is extremely nondiverse and hom
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by nilkn 6y ago
That's perfectly in line with expectations for a new inexperienced hire at a FAANG. If anything, it's a little high for entry-level even at these companies. Obviously much higher numbers are attainable via career progression or al
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by nilkn 6y ago
This is why Python is my dedicated coding interview language. You could do something far more impressive in C++ or Rust, but if you don't quite finish the full implementation it's an automatic fail with some interviewers even if y
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by nilkn 6y ago
Here's my slightly unusual take on performance management as a manager. If I'm doing my job well, reviews should mostly feel like a formality. They shouldn't take much time from me or from my reports. If I'm doing my job
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by nilkn 6y ago
I don’t believe that is accurate. Harvey’s winds caused little to no damage to Houston. Harvey was a rain event, not a wind event. Laura would have been a wind event, not a rain event.
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by nilkn 6y ago
It’s narrowly sparing Houston. The biggest risk to Houston at this point is probably mass power outages but even that is looking unlikely. Thousands of homes are likely to still be destroyed along the coast. If the dice had rolled just slig
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by nilkn 6y ago
I interviewed for an internship as a quantitative researcher at Jane Street in college, and I can confirm it was the most technically difficult interview I went through -- certainly more difficult than Google.
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by nilkn 6y ago
Disclaimer: I’m not a pilot in real life. In MS Flight Simulator so far, I noticed that I quickly developed a habit of flying almost 100% from instruments even when there’s great visibility outside. I don’t know if that’s because of what yo
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by nilkn 6y ago
I doubt the point is to offer people a playground but rather to find a way to write new code in a language that is memory safe by default. Browsers are notoriously plagued by bugs related to memory safety so there’s quite a lot of motivatio
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by nilkn 6y ago
I would enjoy a Reddit clone that had a simple sitewide ban on politics. The problem with politics is that it’s infectious: either a site keeps it highly contained and controlled or it slowly takes over most communities over time and domina
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by nilkn 6y ago
There’s actually no need to use race as a proxy. For instance, you could just help poor folks regardless of race. If certain races tend to be poorer than others due to historical circumstances, that gets automatically taken into account. If
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by nilkn 6y ago
It depends on whether the reader feels diversity should be reduced to a PR tool and a mechanism of distraction, which seems disconnected from whether you’re for or against diversity as a goal for the organization. In fact, I’d think both fo
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by nilkn 6y ago
In many ways the borrow checker is a tool for enforcing safe mutation of values. As a side effect it happens to prevent entire classes of memory bugs, but it also prevents many bugs that aren't related to memory safety. Historically th
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by nilkn 6y ago
While this is possible, it's relatively unlikely. Top performers can generate enormous amounts of value for a company. As a hiring manager, I absolutely believe in the existence of 10x engineers. The reason the term has been so mired i
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by nilkn 6y ago
Isomorphic codebases. I would much rather use Rust on the back-end than ReasonML/OCaml.
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by nilkn 6y ago
I am hopeful that Rust can achieve what Elm did not. I really fell in love with Elm early on, back when it was an experimental language for functional reactive programming that just happened to compile to JavaScript. It was an outgrowth of
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by nilkn 6y ago
You can definitely already do that in Rust, although I'm not sure how mature all the tooling is yet and rather than using a single framework you'd be using a few different toolsets (e.g., Actix/Rocket, Diesel, Yew).
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by nilkn 6y ago
It's the reverse of what happened with JavaScript. In other words, JavaScript started on the front-end and then spread to the back-end because it was advantageous to have one language for both. One of those advantages is that folks who
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by nilkn 6y ago
Reels isn’t going to compete with TikTok in any real way for a few simple reasons. First and foremost, as a non-Instagram user, I flat-out can’t use it. A while back, when I was curious about TikTok, I downloaded it and was instantly swipin

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