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by seaknoll 6y ago
> Of course, these sessions were complemented by focus groups and more direct discussion, but in no way was any of this dumbed down by the visual arts. What's your basis for concluding that the visual arts component provided the ben
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Infantilization of women in tech, by women in tech
9 points by seaknoll 6y ago|12 comments
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by seaknoll 6y ago
I think that's an extremely unhelpful oversimplification. There isn't some subset of humans (as a high enough percentage of the population to be considered) that's simply missing empathy. At least in their own minds they are
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by seaknoll 6y ago
This movement is about centuries of unjustness. To me, it is appropriate that the occasional bystander and business is overlooked. That doesn't mean that if you were my sibling, or friend, or business that I wouldn't be entitled t
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by seaknoll 7y ago
Totally agree, as someone that's jumped back and forth between software engineering & data science. Data science programming already brings out my worst habits - mixing business logic everywhere, using libraries with odd APIs (pand
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Millions of Americans are about to lose their health insurance in a pandemic(theguardian.com)
16 points by seaknoll 7y ago|3 comments
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UC Berkeley receives $252M anonymous donation to fund new data-science facility(eastbaytimes.com)
3 points by seaknoll 7y ago|0 comments
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by seaknoll 8y ago
Not to mention the relative cost of student loans, and relative worth of savings that you do manage (ie enough for a decent house elsewhere when you’re ready to gtfo).
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by seaknoll 9y ago
I wonder how much of this is related to parental leave policy versus generic social safety net. Countries with a strong safety net also have generous maternity leave but are behind on paternity. I imagine that at a large scale this does mak
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by seaknoll 9y ago
> Expo and Sharpie go next. They are OK to hold and work. But ladies might find their caps a bit challenging to attach/disattach — it really takes some physical effort. Can't speak to the Sharpies, but Expo caps require a compl
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by seaknoll 9y ago
Kluny's response is correct, but I'll also add - when I see "rockstar programmer" on a job advertisement it reeks of "meaningless corporate BS" and/or "juvenile work environment". If you require
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by seaknoll 9y ago
Hmm I'd put the raincoat-in-the-car anecdote in the "neuroticism" category. I think of resilience as the ability to weather issues that you don't foresee.
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by seaknoll 9y ago
Isn't "ended" the most relevant part of that, wrt this study?
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by seaknoll 9y ago
I'm saying that IMO, the very nature of the job is compatible with the traits that he says are more common in women. I don't think that my company is an outlier here.
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by seaknoll 9y ago
Maybe this isn't the public perception of tech jobs, but as a software engineer at my current company I collaborate far more than I did in my previous career as a consultant, have more opportunities to be creative, and get an extremely
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by seaknoll 9y ago
I don't see how that's relevant to assessing whether someone will be an appropriate hire.
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by seaknoll 9y ago
Why should it be compassionate?
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by seaknoll 9y ago
Integration testing, dev environments, and data sharing. When we started switching over to microservices, originally we were going to have some sort of standardized message format, which would include all of the info that service would need
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Richard Dawkins Event Canceled Over Past Comments About Islam(nytimes.com)
4 points by seaknoll 9y ago|1 comments
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Open Letter from Richard Dawkins (re Cancellation of Berkeley Event)(richarddawkins.net)
4 points by seaknoll 9y ago|0 comments
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by seaknoll 9y ago
I really wanted this to include time spent working.
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by seaknoll 9y ago
> mandatory morning yoga This would enrage me.
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by seaknoll 9y ago
Absolutely these things could be decided on a local level vs. nationwide. Pretty consistent with my speculation that the federal government shouldn't be relied upon to protect a basic standard of living.
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by seaknoll 9y ago
The issue is not whether people will become lazy if they get free money. If jobs are going to disappear they'll disappear, fewer people will be able to work unless somehow the workforce disappears too. The real question is how will we
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by seaknoll 9y ago
and/or making higher offers to developers outside that monoculture.
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by seaknoll 9y ago
I think the difference is that the US has abject poverty at levels that call into question its status as a proper first world country. So many of these people probably simply require some basic mental health/rehab services, but they ju
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by seaknoll 9y ago
It started when our manager gave me a project that this coworker struggled to make progress on (the transition was made in a way that allowed the coworker to save face, if he wanted to). Prior to that, he tried to talk to me as though he wa
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by seaknoll 9y ago
Thanks, I shot off my comment kind of quickly so should clarify that I definitely think that many policies touted as "women-friendly" are incredibly important but I think of them more as family/age-group-friendly or human-fri
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by seaknoll 9y ago
Woman at a ~100 person startup here - Wanted to comment because there are a lot of posts on here that seem to promote some idea that the company has to really push for women-friendly policies/activities to be a great place for women to
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by seaknoll 9y ago
> or is terminated without just cause or laid off. Wait, seriously? One can be laid off but still barred from working for a competitor? Grateful to live in CA but that makes me ill on behalf of the rest of the country.

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