oddlyaromatic

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by oddlyaromatic 9y ago
I have a more detailed response about lack of coherence here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14957553
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by oddlyaromatic 9y ago
I have a more detailed comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14957553 but basically since he gives no sense of how much he thinks the biological stuff actually matters, he has made the range of possible interpr
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by oddlyaromatic 9y ago
We were talking about a starting point. I'm saying maybe the edges could be knocked off in some kind of orderly way so that the company-wide message he ultimate sent might not have blown up in his face so badly. He clearly thought he w
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by oddlyaromatic 9y ago
> I’m simply stating that the distribution of preferences and abilities of men and women differ in part due to biological causes and that these differences may explain why we don’t see equal representation of women in tech and leadership
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by oddlyaromatic 9y ago
Thanks for the link to the article... it'll take me a little bit of time to get into the detail. But, the second scientist in the article says the following: >But it is not clear to me how such sex differences are relevant to the Go
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by oddlyaromatic 9y ago
Perhaps get a little feedback from somebody likely to be affected by it, or HR, before blasting it to the whole company? That's a better way. Separating out the legitimate issues from the speculation about potential reasons (which to m
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by oddlyaromatic 9y ago
>But it's a lie to say Google's culture supports free speech when the cost of that speech is compliance with the tyranny of a Code of Conduct. I think people often expect 'free speech' in situations where I wouldn&#x2
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by oddlyaromatic 9y ago
The memo itself was incoherent. Many of its statements made sense for debate, and the author himself pointed out that you can't tell much about any individual from the general data, which I think has not been focused on enough. He seem
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by oddlyaromatic 9y ago
Makes sense. I would think, even without testing, most people would expect vue etc to render their content on various browsers, rather than render nothing. I myself am sometimes surprised/confused when code that runs elsewhere fails on
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by oddlyaromatic 9y ago
Not to be that guy but: This loads as a blank page on Windows Phone 8.1, just FYI :)
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by oddlyaromatic 9y ago
Indeed! And I'm not trying to argue that you should have learned programming earlier. Just that you weren't "nudged" away from technical topics as many times as a woman might have been. You would not, for example, have r
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by oddlyaromatic 9y ago
Wait could there really be two nerdy dudes interested in complicated stuff who never saw themselves as possibly working with computers? Like how could they have avoided the countless examples of famous male computer-related millionaires? Do
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by oddlyaromatic 9y ago
That makes sense. So that WAS me projecting ;)
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by oddlyaromatic 9y ago
You make many assumptions here, on many different levels. Regarding parent's comment: 1. Iran was but one example of the uneven rates of participation in science. Of course there may be many interesting reasons for this. There are many
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by oddlyaromatic 9y ago
Also your blog has some good points (like fixing the VCR or tracking down the malware in the PHP). BUT the hiring process is what it is, flawed and stupid as that may be. Most companies will not take the time to assess us as entire people w
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by oddlyaromatic 9y ago
So much of any job is the discipline to do boring but important routine tasks. You will probably not be fortunate enough to find interesting and challenging things to work on, especially at the start. If you can have the discipline to show
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by oddlyaromatic 9y ago
Age is one point that some people might consciously or unconsciously weigh against a candidate. But there are many such points, and there is no reason you have to reveal your age early if you think it hurts you. It sounds like you are looki
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by oddlyaromatic 9y ago
I have used Codeanywhere from a chromebook over the last couple of years. Not for heavy duty stuff but it gets me by in a pinch if I'm not at my own computer and need/want to edit stuff on my own server. Otherwise codepen etc is f
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by oddlyaromatic 9y ago
EDIT: Rereading parent comment I realize you already know all the below, but maybe parent doesn't quite?? Original comment: That's kind of fundamental expectation within JavaScript, though: 0 is a falsy value. The || doesn't
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by oddlyaromatic 9y ago
I've sent my portfolio to recruiters as part of an introduction and had them call a few times. I write maybe 4 sentences about how I think I fit the job they posted, then a portfolio link and a phone number. I'm very early in the
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by oddlyaromatic 9y ago
Isn't this just normal evolution of language? Like how terms like "uppercase" have meaning even though we don't keep letters in cases (most of us anyway!). It's not like every domain extension has to match a game ge
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by oddlyaromatic 9y ago
As somebody who regularly ships orders from an independent web store, I can confirm we are just not going to be as quick at getting stuff out as a full-time warehouse. It's a part time job and I ship a few days a week. We don't se
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by oddlyaromatic 9y ago
I have been deceived by their flashy marketing it seems! Thanks for the link.
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by oddlyaromatic 9y ago
Good to know - thank you, the link was just a quick grab!
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by oddlyaromatic 9y ago
But you would put just any old solar panels on a road: See what is happening at http://www.solarroadways.com/ - it addresses at least some of the issues you mention.
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by oddlyaromatic 9y ago
>don't really know what they went from the person they're hiring I think this is spot on in terms of those incredibly long lists of skills you sometimes see. If they don't know what is important, they just ask for a Swiss
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by oddlyaromatic 9y ago
I think writing job descriptions for ads is crappy work that nobody wants to do and they are often rushed or out of date. Granted, selling idea that your 8-week bootcamp puts you up there with 8 years of somebody else's experience is n
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by oddlyaromatic 9y ago
You need to assume that all requirements are basically soft if you can persuade somebody that you can fill the role. Especially if you can explicitly match your real world skills and experience to compensating for specific requirements. One
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by oddlyaromatic 9y ago
An example of this is Chinese guqin tablature. It can be centuries old and includes a lot of detail on where to place fingers and how to strike the strings, which can give you hints about pitch and timbre when combined with knowing the tuni
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by oddlyaromatic 9y ago
Agreed that this sentence is silly and represents a mistake that far too many people make.

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