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by pcstl 7y ago
Web apps being slow has next to nothing to do with not understanding networking.
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by pcstl 7y ago
Bananas are dependent on a chemical (ethylene or acetylene) in the air around them to ripen. If you keep bananas in an acetylene/ethylene-free environment, they stay green. Green bananas are quite hard and sturdy, which makes transport
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by pcstl 7y ago
iq was single-handedly responsible for most of my early interest in computing.
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by pcstl 7y ago
As far as I can tell, it's rendering a triangle mesh using a shader in order to create the illusion that there are no triangles. There are algorithms for rendering smooth surfaces, but for a series of reasons they tend not to be used
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by pcstl 7y ago
I was talking more about 'people being fired for not using HR-approved language' as a justification for why people were being so coy around what exactly happened.
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by pcstl 7y ago
No problem at all. I am not attempting to change your opinion (which I understand is well-reasoned), but to explain my own.
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by pcstl 7y ago
And now I feel like I have something to go on instead of just arbitrary vagueness and claims that I should be able to discuss the issue without knowing what the issue is. Thank you!
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by pcstl 7y ago
I agree that discussing #1 beyond what is strictly required to be able to assess DC's response would qualify as derailing, however I respectfully disagree that "It is totally fine to discuss #2 without discussing #1". I belie
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by pcstl 7y ago
"HN is here to pass judgement on whether a organization in our industry responded with an appropriate process when an accusation was made." How can it be determined if judgment was appropriate with absolutely no reference to the
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by pcstl 7y ago
I constantly feel like American workplace culture is evolving very fast in order to avoid people ever having to sit down like adults and have potentially difficult and stressful talks. (Of course, "sitting down and talking" might
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by pcstl 7y ago
Is the original offense not relevant, though? I mean, how many of the people crying foul on DataCamp's treatment of the issue actually _know_ the details of what happened and how many are just forming a pitchfork mob anyway without pro
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by pcstl 7y ago
Can DataCamp fire instructors, though? My understanding was that DataCamp instructors signed a contract allowing DataCamp to use their material for a given span of time (and that this did not make them DataCamp employees) Since these people
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by pcstl 8y ago
There weren't. The Greeks had a legend about a tribe of warrior-women who lived in the forest and were known as the "Amazons", and when the Spanish first found what we now know as the Amazon forest the natives tried to fight
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by pcstl 8y ago
Amazonas is a state in Brazil (which does, admittedly, contain most of the Amazon forest - but is not the forest itself) and the Portuguese name of the river. The forest is called "Amazônia" in Portuguese.
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by pcstl 8y ago
People will care about earning a degree because the rat race never ends. When you devalue university degrees, people will start earning degrees just because they can and because clueless employers grasp at any straw they can use to differen
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by pcstl 8y ago
I don't have data for the whole of Europe, but bachelor degrees in Germany are much less common than in my country despite the fact that higher education there is much more accessible. This seems to correlate to the fact that Germany a
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by pcstl 8y ago
You are assuming that higher education institutions still have an incentive to actually make people able to make "meaningful contributions to the development of new technologies" and all that good stuff after a college degree beco
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by pcstl 8y ago
You do realize that the point of the study is not that every single woman who has a male twin will not be successful, right?
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by pcstl 8y ago
I am not saying they do not work hard or that their work is not inherently worthy. All I'm saying is that society tends to value professions based on how much they fit into and uphold the idealized social hierarchy, and that is much mo
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by pcstl 8y ago
I like the idea that anti-free market thought pervades academia so deeply because people who succeed in academia tend to see the modern school with its strict hierarchical structure as the ideal model of society, missing the fact that they
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by pcstl 8y ago
Of course you haven't seen swipes at these kinds of people. All the professions you mentioned are strictly hierarchical and highly regulated, and rewards to them come much the same as they come to schoolchildren - due to the benevolenc
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by pcstl 8y ago
I love this, but it's a lot less uncanny than thispersondoesnotexist.com due to the number of vaguely cat-like blobs it generates.
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by pcstl 8y ago
They are listed in the final section (s2016)
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by pcstl 8y ago
Sure, same here. However, I’m not talking about that tradeoff. I’m talking about organizing all the text a little better.
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by pcstl 8y ago
Too much documentation is definitely better than too little. But throwing all the documentation you have up front at a new user instead of having it tucked away where it can be easily browsed when needed can make for an intimidating first c
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by pcstl 8y ago
The way it is described (especially the emphasis on how variable substitution is used as the single primitive instead of many different techniques which can take years to learn - a phrase which is repeated many times on the website) suggest
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by pcstl 8y ago
This seems very interesting and something which might catch a lot more interest than it probably will if its homepage didn't look so dated and text-heavy. I'm very much in favor of initiatives to make math more accessible to laype
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by pcstl 8y ago
While this seems very nice, I'm a bit disappointed to see that it seems focused only on C, Fortran and PHP. Since it seems that ROSE operates directly on ASTs, I see no reason why the project couldn't be language-agnostic if given
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by pcstl 8y ago
Talking to a former colleague that way just makes you seem like a very unpleasant person.
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by pcstl 8y ago
People from some demographics are less likely to have the option to spend all their time grinding. Spending all your time grinding means that you don't need to work toward supporting yourself or others.

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