rockmeamedee

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by rockmeamedee 12y ago
First: The fight _is_ against the top. 'The top', more precisely the structure that enables 'the top', is the patriarchy that feminist have always been fighting against. Second: Even thinking of it as 'the top'
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by rockmeamedee 12y ago
Assuming no difference isn't Politically Correct (by which I take it you mean a social lie that nobody actually believes). Really, there are no differences (cf Delusions of Gender http://www.amazon.com/Delusions-Gender-
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by rockmeamedee 12y ago
What? There is a strong bias against hiring women. Read about it and steps to reduce it here: http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/wiki/Reducing_male_bias_in_hir... Everyone (including women) is biased against hiring women in
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by rockmeamedee 12y ago
This is not a good article. It's badly written and shit for nuance. It divides things into a "Global Gender War" purely for the sake of heightening the mood."Look at these terrible gang-bang interviewers!" is all it
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by rockmeamedee 12y ago
> Ms. Meyers-Levy’s studies have shown that women are able to process information more comprehensively and to do so at a lower threshold. Men are more selective and tend to focus on the essentials. I was expecting a cool, UI/gender
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by rockmeamedee 12y ago
I sense some antagonism on your part against Women In Tech groups. Here's a piece about how they are actually useful http://geekfeminism.org/2014/03/04/in-defense-of-women-in-te... (Also all of those thi
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by rockmeamedee 12y ago
It's not unacceptable to say it. To say "We should have men only events because of that"(or for any reason to benefit men) is mean. The reason it's mean is that we've had thousands of years of men-only events in pla
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by rockmeamedee 12y ago
edit: forgot a word in 1) insert 'say' between the word 'to' and the racial slur.
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by rockmeamedee 12y ago
The reason I don't want to think of everyone as human beings first is this: Everyone is part of an arbitrary collective of traits (most of us here are white, male, American, etc) and each trait affects how we see each other. For exampl
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by rockmeamedee 12y ago
I argue that a good hacker would be interested in these things. First, hackers care a lot about issues of justice, power and bias. Here people are being strangled on camera and their murderers are getting away with it. And, even the 'b
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by rockmeamedee 12y ago
I disagree with your argument. Here are my thoughts why. We have been 'looking beyond our superficial differences' for a while and it hasn't done anything. I actually think 'not seeing race' is itself a form of rac
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by rockmeamedee 12y ago
I don't think anyone discredits qualitative data. All of PG's essays, the rest of the startup club's stuff about 'starting a great company', and all business books are qualitative data. HN/we eat that up. Also,
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by rockmeamedee 13y ago
This news makes me happy. Not that much, because I'm still using my DX from 2010, but it shows Amazon still cares about it. My kindle is my favorite device. I've probably read at least 50 books on it, mostly for free. I'm getting into Dosto
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by rockmeamedee 13y ago
How do you write something like "The mining rate has been faster than expected over the last four years. This trend will probably continue as ASICS enter the market." and then proceed to draw a chart covering the next 130 years!?! This tren
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by rockmeamedee 13y ago
I'm another guy on the internet, and I just want to tell you, you don't have to be mean to people on the internet. You don't have to write nice things to everybody, but mean things just suck. Writing mean things just makes the world more me
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by rockmeamedee 14y ago
Everybody's saying contact your senator. Call them, write them a letter... Is the problem the disconnect between the elected officials and the public? If so, can we make the communication a bit easier? My grandparents write me letters. I b
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by rockmeamedee 14y ago
A bit off topic, but I've been learning about languages like ML and Scala, and what does everybody have against static typing? I feel like if we used type systems better, we'd have a lot fewer problems. You can prove that your programs have
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by rockmeamedee 14y ago
I don't think so. I used to think I was a huge introvert. I'd stay quiet in social situations and being in groups exhausted me. But now I've started to make some deep friendships with people around me, and it's almost the other way. Sometim
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Beyond Digital (1998)(wired.com)
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Show HN: My first image filter, Voronoify(amedee.daboville.com)
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by rockmeamedee 14y ago
These aren't actually 'books'. They're mostly business reports, which I hate to say, are already programmatically compiled by interns repetitively applying formulas in spreadsheets and building graphs from database queries. That's why they
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by rockmeamedee 14y ago
There is an attitude towards politics that seems to belong especially to liberal arts graduates, and even more, to B authors pushing their next book. You pick up whiffs of it on the discussion threads, in the blog posts and talks. It expres
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by rockmeamedee 14y ago
I found this very cool! I clicked on the article thinking it would be about crowdsourcing, but it's actually about a cool machine learning technique I didn't know about. Plus, it was very well explained. Thanks for writing it!
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by rockmeamedee 14y ago
I found it insightful. Why can't you write down 1/10 in binary? What is 1/10 in binary? OP calculates it, and then explains that any fraction in reduced form in which the denominator is a power of 2 will terminate in binary. (Powers of 5 an
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by rockmeamedee 14y ago
Yeah, ok. I completely agree with everybody else. The BOM is basically a LED, a USB connector, and an ATTiny chip. It looks fantastically useful, but at their price point, just knowing who easy it is to build makes me feel ripped off.
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by rockmeamedee 14y ago
For all the self-deprecation in the post, I think we can all empathise, at the very least with: > and so here I am: still standing in the arena, in hand-to-hand combat with demons mostly of my own > making, aiming to make a small de
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by rockmeamedee 14y ago
I think the recent, cool web stuff has made programming look easier, even though it isn't. Maybe we're closer to to the tech, maybe we can expect more from software. We don't really appreciate any of these 'simple' web services that solve a
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by rockmeamedee 14y ago
I dunno, it's on Wikipedia: "Techne, or techné, is a Greek term..." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Techne
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by rockmeamedee 14y ago
This begs the question. Websites are basically databases connected to servers through some controller logic. And isn't that the point, that now we're in an information age?
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by rockmeamedee 14y ago
A browser isn't just a "feather in the cap". It's a big, complicated machine. There isn't really a point in the article, except that facebook should buy opera "to feel like it has come of age". What would facebook do with a browser? Provide

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