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by richmarr 9y ago
Developers are fantastic at bikeshedding on our tools rather than focusing on (a) what's important to the broader company and (b) what's actually usable to anyone who hasn't spent months learning to use our opinionated opti
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Absolutely. Something I've had in the back of my mind for a while is the idea of swapping out a regular Lucene tokenisation & analysis for one that treats phonemes as tokens instead of (stemmed/analysed) words being the tokens
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by richmarr 9y ago
Well no. You're right that being clear to avoid confusion is a good preventative measure, but you're wrong that intent to defraud is required. It's enough that the public is (or is likely to be) confused. See Reckitt v Borden
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by richmarr 9y ago
In the UK there's a common law thing called "passing off" that's used to protect unregistered IP from impersonation. It's already used to protect unauthorised abuse of voice actors IP.
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by richmarr 10y ago
Sure. I don't think throwing paint is terrorism either. The comment I replied to generalised the work of these activists as "potential property damage"... which in the case of the Animal Liberation Front's firebombing ca
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> I do not consider potential property damage to be a form of terrorism... So under your definition of terrorism someone needs to be injured? You're diverging from the dictionary a little there.
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Internal politics, personal ambition, hammer-nail syndrome if an team or department has run out of other people to investigate, personal vendettas, jilted lovers, sexual obsession, regular obsession. No idea... but it doesn't take a hu
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> Especially now that the (deeps state) ruling class consists ... Sorry I don't think you should state conspiracy theories as fact without someone calling you on it. There are reasons for police to spy on activists (even illegally)
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by richmarr 10y ago
The trouble is that people are inconsistent and multi-faceted. I might really really value a particular friend's opinion on tech, but constantly roll my eyes and sigh when he live-tweets his hot takes on Eurovision or football.
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by richmarr 10y ago
I was a little surprised by this so looked up how common a word it is. This Google dataset puts it as the 5,109th most frequent word, between cached and slip https://github.com/first20hours/google-10000-english&#x2F
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They're focused on the chronic homeless, so there's still a problem even before proposing migration caused by this.
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> ...performs poorly by whatever metrics you value... And there's the rub. You don't, and won't, have that information. To my knowledge there's one single solitary charity that provides adequate metrics to donors to s
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They are. Mainly from Java, Python and PHP. You may be reading the axes the wrong way around... look down the node column rather than the node row.
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> ...most evangelicals I know... few well-respected Christian theologians or pastors... I've encountered... With respect this argument (as presented) is anecdotal and subjective. There's neither data nor analysis so it's
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by richmarr 10y ago
> No, he is just saying that he does not have to worry about being as good. It is just a choice. Also, being "good" isn't simply a function of whether you've read up on the latest tech fad. A lot of the stuff we chase
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> The entire point of the American justice system is to make people suffer... It's interesting that the comparitively religious-leaning US has a more punishment-centric penal system, whereas the comparatively secular Europe leans to
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> I have one cup of tea in the morning, drink water the rest of the time, and still struggle to get to sleep before 1pm. Try waiting until about 2pm or 3pm when your lunch has properly settled. Then find a comfy chair and change into you
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>... confounding the results that the studies should account for... You're absolutely right that studies should make sure to control for potentially important variables. I don't know which studies you referring to. Not a topic
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> ...token minority... While quotas appear to sometimes be necessary to break some environments open, they're polarising & produce resentment. I wouldn't expect that to be a necessary part of a high performance team if you
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> Do those studies explain why it relates to productivity? Correlation studies... Sommers showed causation. The presence of black subjects in the heterogenous group caused the white subjects in that group to behave more conscientiously
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by richmarr 10y ago
Agree with you. A couple of examples of change in that area; Companies taking advantage by mothers who want to the workforce once their kids are in school by offering flexible working. Companies dropping their long-standing policies of hiri
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Ellison/Mullin (2014) used 8 years of data from professional services firms in 60 locations. Is that close enough to tech? You assert that distributed teams change the relationship between diversity and productivity, but I assume you&#
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> Studies also show that women are paid less than men for similar work. Yes they do, but don't get hung up on women. Studies also show a beneficial effect from racial diversity. As for your other question, is your point that studies
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A mixed bag to be honest, but some do. Example off the top of my head; a study into mixed-race juries (Sommers 2006) showed that not only did the predictive power of the group increase in the presence of black jurors, but the prodictive pow
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> You say you want to promote diversity, but do you? Studies show gender & racially diverse teams perform better. Not aware of any studies into whether diversity of music taste relates to productivity.
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by richmarr 10y ago
> Is there some benefit to giving a fuck? Yes. Studies show diverse teams perform better... (and incidentally they also show that people who believe themselves to be unbiased are actually more likely to make biased decisions).
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> Diversity for diversity's sake is not a real solution. As I've commented above but will summarise here, there are two main points to make in reply to this position (i) You're assuming the status quo is based on merit,
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> to make a more gender diverse working space i would have to sacrifice quality / skills / talent, which I will not do. The main point here I've already addressed in my reply to your parent comment, but there's an a
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A few points to make here: > I can count on one hand the number of women that sent their CV through, and we interviewed two, hiring one. Studies show that: (a) You can create a biased process inadvertently before the CV stage based on
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Many people work in marketing in some way or other, and that work fulfils an important function. I'm not particularly thrilled about it either, but we don't currently operate in a perfect information market and human bandwidth nee

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