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by pekk 12y ago
That depends on what actual results you can deliver. If it's not very much, that's not a fallacy, it's a demonstration.
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by pekk 12y ago
The future is years ago: jobs on many of the contracting sites require you to install software which allows employers to monitor your activity at all times. It can't get worse until every typo is put onto a Jumbotron as you make it, an
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by pekk 12y ago
Do people at your workplace actually have anything to get done, or is their performance entirely based on hours spent in a certain fenced off area?
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by pekk 12y ago
What did you think about Twisted?
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by pekk 12y ago
Testing obviously takes time. The problem with not having tests is that it takes time, but you don't necessarily know that it's taking time or how much. Lots of people think they are too smart to need tests, and it's just a w
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by pekk 12y ago
You still haven't offered a shred of evidence that he actually made the cut for that lab. Why is he entitled to work there?
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by pekk 12y ago
I read it. This has nothing to do with Slashdot. You keep making statements as if you knew the situation better than the woman directly involved in the decision.
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by pekk 12y ago
Research labs have limited space, therefore they select candidates similarly to any job. I can't imagine anyone here would have the same response if a startup were hiring two Senior Developers, considered many candidates and then got h
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by pekk 12y ago
How did you determine that the male in question was competent (i.e. that he actually made the cut) and that the woman in question was not competent?
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by pekk 12y ago
Indian males aren't a dangerous subhuman race and everyone knows that. It isn't abuse if he didn't make the cut.
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by pekk 12y ago
The reason he was rejected was that they had limited room and he didn't make the cut. I'm sorry, but being of a certain race does not ENTITLE you to declare you made the cut even if you didn't make the cut.
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by pekk 12y ago
Who said that you are a rapist, or that being in favor of large families means you are a rapist?
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by pekk 12y ago
I'm pretty sure it is illegal, but nobody in this thread is a lawyer providing legal advice so that's moot. What is the point of arguing that blackmailing people into sex isn't rape?
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by pekk 12y ago
What I'm asking is: what is the point of trying to argue that certain kinds of coerced sex are not rape? I wonder why HN is so sensitive to this line of questioning that they want to censor it outright. Are people emotionally attached
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by pekk 12y ago
"relationships where one person is financially dependent on the other." Suppose a couple lives together, and one tells the other: "let me sodomize you right now or I kick you out of the house and you can live on the street.&q
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by pekk 12y ago
Are you arguing that blackmailing someone into having sex with you, or threatening them with consequences like having your career ended, isn't rape in the state of Illinois? Why?
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by pekk 12y ago
Why is asking about particular facts considered a reliable way of finding bad candidates?
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by pekk 12y ago
Men can try (and take their lumps along with the women trying to do something about these problems). But there are some fundamental cultural splits across which men certainly don't listen to each other. For many, it matters much less w
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by pekk 12y ago
If one employee sexually harasses another employee in a one-off incident, maybe it's an exception and not a culture of sexism. If it's one executive, that executive is contributing to a culture of sexism - though it's possibl
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by pekk 12y ago
Saying these things to strangers on a cruise ship would make you pretty much a creepy greaseball, unless you already had a good idea this kind of discussion was welcomed by your audience. Even just thinking about it, I want to cringe and fe
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by pekk 12y ago
It isn't that you have to pretend to be asexual. Just don't sexually harass people who work under you as subordinates; that's abusing your position.
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by pekk 12y ago
Which makes it just like Wave, App Engine, etc. until it's proven - early adopters take the risk
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by pekk 12y ago
This should probably have a (2010) in the title or so
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by pekk 12y ago
Get a monad, you two
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by pekk 12y ago
I think about old Apple and Amiga games like SimLife... the Sims wasn't really in character for Maxis, it was a perfect EA game
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by pekk 12y ago
This is a myth. Python supported classes close to the start of its existence, way before it became popular.
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by pekk 12y ago
Windows itself phones home, so the difference is arguable.
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by pekk 12y ago
About "Lenovo applications," the first thing I think of is the apps for things like running diagnostics, installing new firmware and notifying users of updates from the manufacturer. These are a Thinkpad tradition going back many
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by pekk 12y ago
I'm a Linux user paying for good hardware. I don't use Windows, so I don't have to deal with its issues. It wouldn't help me at all to buy hardware that doesn't support my uses, so I'll continue to buy what wor
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by pekk 12y ago
They have already apologized several times, and the wording you quoted directly parallels one of the previous apologies.

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