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by postnihilism 9y ago
The part where he implies the massive disparity of representation between men and women in tech (17% percent of technical roles at Google, 15% at Facebook) is due to small and inherent physiological differences, which make women inferior at
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by postnihilism 9y ago
Diversity programs are not about lowering the bar, they are about outreach. Nobody is being insulted by this. Nobody is being illegally discriminated against. His argument is that the under-representation of women in tech can be explained b
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by postnihilism 9y ago
Putting a disclaimer at the beginning of a long misogynistic rant that we should "Treat people as individuals, not as just another member of their group," doesn't nullify the rest of the document. If you say "People aren
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by postnihilism 9y ago
This feels like the blue and black (white and gold) dress. It boggles my mind that people don't see the fundamental and toxic misogyny in this 'manifesto'. Please have a woman you care about in your life, preferably one in te
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by postnihilism 9y ago
This is eerily like a scene from Player Piano, Vonnegut's first novel. Some smart engineers find the best machinist at a factory, use some machines to record his movements and process and then use them to program the robots that replac
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by postnihilism 9y ago
After HR I stayed on for three months as part of their Hacker in Residence program. During that time I prepared and delivered lectures on various algorithms and data structures, which was great preparation for whiteboard interviews. I also
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by postnihilism 9y ago
I went to Hack Reactor in 2014 and have kept in touch with many members of my cohort. Just about everyone has been and continues to be employed as a developer. A few have started companies. Three members of our 30 person cohort joined Googl
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by postnihilism 9y ago
Hi Luke. What cohort were you? I was also Hack Reactor 2014 and have been at Google for a few years. Just transferred from SF to SEA though.
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by postnihilism 10y ago
I think you need to read both woopwoop and amluto's comments again. woopwoop is saying that the equity compensation given to CEOs is a disincentive for taking risks and that it needs to be offset by a promised severance package in orde
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by postnihilism 11y ago
Many build tools will allow you to simply annotate functions that are meant to have their dependencies injected so you can avoid explicitly typing out the verbose array syntax. (e.g. https://github.com/olov/ng-annotate
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by postnihilism 11y ago
There is an entertaining book by PKD called Counter-Clock world with exactly this premise. The mores around eating and digestion shift drastically... [ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Counter-Clock_World ]
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by postnihilism 12y ago
I was inspired by this to create my own a few months ago. It uses a quadtree to optimize nearest neighbor lookup to ideally reduce complexity from n^2 to nlogn on each tick. http://jrhdoty.github.io/SwarmJS/
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Show HN: Predicting Reddit Post Popularity Based on Comment Thread Structure(github.com)
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Show HN: JavaScript/CoffeeScript Project Euler Command Line Tool(npmjs.org)
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by postnihilism 12y ago
It's not as though students won't dive deeper after their introductory CS course.
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by postnihilism 12y ago
On HN yes, but if this were reddit you might negate.
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by postnihilism 12y ago
Any update on posting the results? I'm currently enrolled in a bootcamp type program and really curious to hear about the perceptions of people in the workforce.
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by postnihilism 13y ago
Do the consequences one suffers at the hands of another agent for performing an action affect the moral quality of that action?
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by postnihilism 13y ago
It's the latter. Lyft and Sidecar started in SF, a city in which it is notoriously difficult to catch a cab. The goal isn't to help the environment but to create a marketplace to allow drivers and passengers to easily connect. When they
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by postnihilism 14y ago
"I'm sure you realize the asymmetry in the financial resources of our respective companies when you say: "We will both just end up paying a lot of lawyers a lot of money." Sounds eloquent to me.
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by postnihilism 15y ago
As an investment fund, your trading algorithms are essential IP. I realize YC does a lot more than simply put money in companies but the statistical analysis used to determine what early stage startups to bet on is probably something they'
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by postnihilism 15y ago
It probably also functions as a powerful disincentive to ever do it again.