richmarr

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by richmarr 11y ago
To play devil's advocate a bit (because I personally have no clue what might happen)... > Look at where the world's population goes for higher ed... Assuming your point is that US universities are huge drivers of economic growt
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by richmarr 11y ago
Yep. I remember waving my arms and crying for ES6 to have '?.' back when the spec was open, but there was a lexical issue. It's frustrating to have such useful features blocked by such seemingly small problems as ambiguous pa
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by richmarr 11y ago
I'm curious, what proportion of readers here think that the US will be able to compete against China over the next, say 50 years?
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by richmarr 11y ago
Groovy's predates this one, but yeah, looks similar.
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by richmarr 11y ago
> I try to stay away from comparing issues... I'm not comparing issues; I'm criticising your "it's reality" argument that implies that it can't be changed. Those are examples of sucky things that were chan
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by richmarr 11y ago
> Not all that hard or complicated. A checkbox isn't complicated in itself, but there are a few things about it that are complicated. (1) All the thinking the customer needs to do once they see the checkbox in order to understand
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by richmarr 11y ago
Agree with the kind tone, disagree with the defeatism. People being sexist/racist online is reality in the same way that apartheid was reality, the way the Berlin Wall was reality. Sometimes we get to change shit.
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by richmarr 11y ago
> They should have the opportunity to decide. "Opportunity to decide" implies that end users are prepared and waiting to make that decision, which I'd suggest is broadly untrue. When you say "have the opportunity to d
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by richmarr 11y ago
> I think you're overestimating the amount of times that data needs to move across borders to complete a transaction. The word need in this context is an oversimplification. For example, if I want to build an app where data doesn&
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by richmarr 11y ago
> At that point the individual agrees to be bound by the rules of the country where the data is going or no transaction is done What does this look like? Another section in a EULA? A popup/banner thing like for cookies? An extra tic
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by richmarr 11y ago
Yeah, searching on a mobile keyboard is a pain. Hence the huge push to intelligent agents (Siri, Now, Cortana). We're currently in the unfortunate position to be using mobile devices heavily but not yet having decent intelligent agents
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by richmarr 11y ago
So, one of the issues I have here is that a lot of interviewing is done without structure, and judgements are so often made based off woolly ideas like 'culture fit' which often just mean rapport. It's actually often the inte
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by richmarr 11y ago
> But how should that affect a hiring manager? Reverse/positive discrimination is a choice that you can make if you want to. I don't know what evidence there is to support or refute its effectiveness, but there's both appe
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by richmarr 11y ago
Yeah, same. My Nan looked at me in horror when I suggested giving up Sharepoint; she said it reminded her of Terence (her old cat, RIP)... and she thought I was joking when I suggested trying Slack. "But that's just Yammer" s
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by richmarr 11y ago
Yeah, I think you're right. I should read more slowly :) > You can either argue for ignoring all labels or for special label-based treatments, not both. So, your question is how to square the value-add of diversity against the idea
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by richmarr 11y ago
> Doesn't this just promote the idea that people of different ethnicities really are that different? This is pretty much the "but we're a meritocracy" argument, and it's unfortunately wrong. Having worked extensi
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by richmarr 11y ago
To be honest I don't think technical people are above this either... either as civilians or as service designers
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Also, how resistant to compression and moisture is this paper? Because zombies might be trying to climb it to get to me, and they might have wet hands.
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by richmarr 11y ago
Also, how embossed is the lettering?
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by richmarr 11y ago
> Also, I don't want to live in a place where the availability of a treatment is determined by some government committee that determines what the value of a month of my life is. This is Sarah Palin's "Death Panel" arg
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by richmarr 11y ago
> Seems to be with your standard of posting. I gave up with you If you start calling people names I have to assume it's because you've run out of proper arguments but still feel agitated enough to keep posting. > The PDF by
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by richmarr 11y ago
> A lot of money has been going into fusion for many, many years now Sure, but if you're going to holistically include the cost of the science in the comparison price per KWh you should also balance it against the cost of dealing wi
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by richmarr 11y ago
Good question. There's been a significant change (at least from my perspective) in the awareness of inequitable treatment of women in tech in the last few years, and I'd like to think that's one of the contributing factors to
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by richmarr 11y ago
I think discodave is asking for evidence that quotas are in use for these courses, as oppposed to evidence that quotas increase numbers of otherwise-underrepresented groups
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by richmarr 11y ago
What is this, high school?
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by richmarr 11y ago
This is great & inspiring and all. I just can't help pausing at the apparent tension between "we embark on this journey for all humanity" and "strengthening America’s leadership on Earth and in space". There&#x2
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by richmarr 11y ago
Oh sure, I'll read an 84 page PDF. While I'm reading that, why don't you have a read of this: https://en.wikipedia.org
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by richmarr 11y ago
> It is a serious point. We'll have to agree to disagree there. It satires a position I don't hold. You both seem to assume that I believe immigration to be a 100% clear and unambiguous benefit, which isn't the case. I&#x2
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by richmarr 11y ago
> I put it in quotes because these people aren't interested in following the standard asylum seeking procedures So it's illegal immigrants you're talking about, rather than asylum seekers? > Not many governments in the
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by richmarr 11y ago
Good point and good links. Thanks.

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