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by phasmantistes 11y ago
You're presenting a false dichotomy. Yes, it may be true that people whose lives are made worse by their internal need to make their chart all green have deeper problems to deal with. But that doesn't mean that GitHub and the rest
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by phasmantistes 11y ago
I'm not sure the analogy holds. Yep, some people have difficulty building boundaries between their work life and their non-work life, or between their coding life and their non-coding life. (Some people don't want to build those b
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by phasmantistes 11y ago
There are actually tangible rewards: multiple people in this thread have talked about how they've had discussions with recruiters who examined their activity history and commit streaks. So maybe having longer streaks helps you get a jo
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by phasmantistes 11y ago
Because now you're gaming the system. If the incentives put in place by the system are so perverse that the best advice is to -- for lack of a better word -- "cheat", then the incentives need to be changed.
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by phasmantistes 11y ago
Valencia (between 14th and 26th) is timed at 13mph northbound in the morning, and southbound in the evening.
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by phasmantistes 11y ago
Yes, the starting kernel of its learning this time was a collection of human games. This has caused the Policy Network (which says "given this board state, these moves are worth investigating in more detail") to be biased towards
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by phasmantistes 11y ago
Given the 78 was a "divine inspired" move, and Demis tweeted that AlphaGo's mistake was move 79, my guess is that Black 78 was not in AlphaGo's search tree at all. It had pruned that move as being too "unlike what a
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by phasmantistes 11y ago
With the exception of two classes (Clinic and Large Software Development, which are both explicitly about learning to work in large teams), all the group work you do in the Mudd CS program is pair programming. The groups are 2 people, and y
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by phasmantistes 11y ago
> If it's admitting women it would not otherwise in order to meet its CS quotas, then it is lowering the standards. I disagree. Say your standard is "I will only date people that are over 6 feet tall". Statistically, the
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by phasmantistes 11y ago
Ugh yeah that sentence made me cringe. It doesn't do the intro courses justice at all. As someone who has both taken and graded those courses, I'll try to clarify. The intro courses don't consist of homework like "write
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by phasmantistes 11y ago
> Were admission rates loosened to accomplish the goals, or were they not? They were not. The class of 2014 (admitted in 2010) consisted of 101 women and 95 men, having more women than men for the first time in the college's history
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by phasmantistes 11y ago
The school primarily offers only STEM majors: Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Engineering, Computer Science, Math, and combinations of the above. It is associated with 4 other neighboring schools (Scripps, Pitzer, Pomona, and Claremont-McKenna
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by phasmantistes 11y ago
Yep, and Mudd actually does this as well. The example that comes to mind is that a bunch of students work with local FIRST Robotics and LEGO Robotics teams, including teams consisting entirely of women or of minorities.
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by phasmantistes 11y ago
First, you present this statement as though all the other conversations on HN about Harvey Mudd have come to the same conclusion. This is demonstrably not true. Second, I'd like to encourage you to not describe recruiting and admitting
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by phasmantistes 11y ago
That's actually not what blinkingled said. They said that some people here are using it as marketing for Apple, not that Tim Cook or others at Apple intended for it to be taken that way.
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by phasmantistes 11y ago
I was actually shocked two weeks ago when I was talking to someone about Gerrit and they complained that their comments were never addressed. Turns out they hadn't been hitting the "Publish Comments" button, and had been assu
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by phasmantistes 11y ago
Oh, that's absolutely true. There are far too few people stepping forward to fill non-technical roles in OSS. And that's a shame, because I think it would really help get some projects off the group, and help others keep their com
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by phasmantistes 11y ago
Yes, I've read both the full comment thread in the OP and the dear-github letter. GitHub adding those features would be a huge boon for teams like this. And honestly, it may be that switching to a different system is the best move for
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by phasmantistes 11y ago
Believe it or not, there are professional PMs who are just as interested in open source in their free time as some professional software engineers are. I'm not one of them -- I'm an engineer -- but I know some.
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by phasmantistes 11y ago
> If we move off GitHub, we will immediately eliminate the random noise we get through issues. > At the same time, we'll eliminate drive-by pull requests that also need reviewing. I don't think these are good reasons to move
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by phasmantistes 11y ago
Keep in mind the perspective of the people trying to ship Firefox: * The bug does not break the vanilla (and therefore vast majority of userbase) firefox experience * The bug is easily worked-around (as opposed to completely unfixable) * Th
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by phasmantistes 11y ago
Aha, that actually makes a lot of sense. I was only thinking about which numbers should have unique names, not whether the names we've given them make sense for their positions. Thanks!
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by phasmantistes 11y ago
In regards to the difference between American and European billion/trillion/etc: // These number terms were described by N. Chuquet and De la Roche in the 16th // century as being successive powers of a m
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by phasmantistes 11y ago
Honestly I use ChromeOS + SecureShell and connect to a workstation from wherever I am. No Crouton or SSD necessary.
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by phasmantistes 11y ago
This is both cool and disappointing. I'm sure this is more challenging than it looks, and it's cool to see emergent complexity from a (seemingly) simply set of conditions to satisfy. However, the reason I think about elevator prog
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by phasmantistes 11y ago
That's not really an accurate representation of the old proof. You've turned it around to make it look like the new one, but that's not how it is originally laid out at all. The fundamental problem (for constructivists) with
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by phasmantistes 11y ago
I was discussing copyright last night and proposed this exact same idea -- declare intellectual property to be, well, property, and subject it to a property tax. Require disclosure of what percentage of your revenue was due to that IP (or w
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by phasmantistes 11y ago
Does anyone know what the "anthropometric requirements for both the specific vehicle and the extravehicular activity mobility unit" are? I assume there are both maximum and minimum heights, but weight probably isn't a direct
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by phasmantistes 11y ago
That's the beauty of relativity, and why it is called relativity: it's all relative. When you go fast, and look outside, it looks like it is the outside that is moving fast (unless you are experiencing acceleration, at which poi
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by phasmantistes 11y ago
Which is, in fact, exactly the model of Google Contributor. Puts $5 each month into a bucket, and then each time you visit a site you pay a few cents in order to have an ad-free experience.

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