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by smadge 12y ago
Why does it have to be a girl/woman? Why would it be any different for a boy/man to say they love Coq? This actually happened to me. A classmate said something about Coq, and I did a double take. He explained it was a language, bu
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by smadge 12y ago
> academics, teachers and other govt bureaucrats occupy a strong position in the social order Those are some of the least paid and least powerful professions in society. Academics just have loud voices that no one listens to. > Right
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by smadge 12y ago
One possibility: You have a JS interpreter running your React code. You generate a virtual DOM and hand it off to React. React sends the virtual DOM through a message bus to native code. So far, nothing crazy here, this is how frameworks li
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by smadge 12y ago
A monad is a programmable semicolon.
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by smadge 12y ago
"web-app war" threw me off for a second, because the file type for java server applications is .war for Web Application aRchive.
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by smadge 12y ago
> Unionism has done good things, but I don't believe it has a place in a high tech industry. Since when was driving a car a high tech industry? Every industry uses high tech, but that doesn't mean they should be subjected to Si
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by smadge 12y ago
>Please do not ever mail me a file larger than 100k without asking me first. Quote from an email that is 50k of pure text.
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by smadge 13y ago
What's with all the hate for brutalist architecture in this thread?
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by smadge 13y ago
Every google doodle is telling you google's stance on something. Google's doodle of MLK the other week told you their stance on black rights. How is this any different, except for the fact that gay rights make you uncomfortable?
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by smadge 13y ago
Ok. I'll drop the feigned outrage and state my point objectively, without indicting PG. Women aren't in technology because gender norms enforce at a young age that technology is not for girls. The industry perpetuates this norm by
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by smadge 13y ago
The dominant American stereotype of Asians is that they are intelligent and hard working. It's called the "Model Minority" theory. It makes sense that the industry would be inclusive of Asian Americans.
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by smadge 13y ago
He said woman cannot be in technology because they aren't interested in computers from a young age. But rather than seeking why women are excluded from technology even as children, he just blames women for not being interested in hacki
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by smadge 13y ago
There is a pretty easy solution to your problem: get informed. Your opinion is worthless if you don't know what you are talking about enough to not infuriate people who do.
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by smadge 13y ago
But women chose not to join the tech industry because it is not an appealing option. It is not an appealing for any reason intrinsic to either women or the tech industry, but because the tech industry is currently dominated by men who are u
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by smadge 13y ago
That's what I'm advocating, that the government spend more money on science and technology. The government is able to take risks in investing in unproven technologies and sciences where industry can't, because they aren'
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by smadge 13y ago
Are you seriously saying that government wont consider Hyperloop because they are averse to innovation? On the contrary, "big government" has been the largest engine of innovation the past century. NASA has put people into orbit,
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by smadge 13y ago
First of all, the "market distorting regulation" you mention that causes Goldman Sachs to shuffle aluminum around is not a government regulation, it is an industry standard set by the London Metal Exchange. The article suggests th