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by themarkn 7y ago
I was laid off as part of the last financial crash in Ireland. I’d been working as an administrator at a well known mortgage broker business at the time. We were told the housing bubble wasn’t going to affect our jobs because we did so much
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by themarkn 7y ago
Meetup works really well in my city. Recently a few friends started a meetup group for a taco night with other folks in the tech scene- no speakers, no frameworks, just some people getting together after work. Some of the group that set up
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by themarkn 7y ago
Not a JS solution but if memory serves, setting the font size of in an input to 16px or greater prevents the mobile auto-zoom. At least on iOS.
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by themarkn 7y ago
Luckily the young dude has no need to prove himself to you, and hopefully he never reads this comment. Being engaged enough as a teenager to win stuff, have a job, become actually fluent at languages (Irish high school does not make you flu
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by themarkn 7y ago
> Happy people don't make great art. This is kinda just a myth as far as I can tell. There is a often romanticized relationship between art and suffering, because sure, some art is created as a way to relieve suffering. But it'
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by themarkn 7y ago
The basics are not what make them hard. But they are vast in how they can be used and combined to achieve various results. Writing semantically correct, accessible, maintainable markup and CSS is websites that often have thousands of eleme
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by themarkn 7y ago
We aren’t being rewarded for how hard we work, we’re being rewarding for having skills that are in high demand while supply has not caught up yet. Salaries may well go down in future when the need for developers is less or the pool of talen
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by themarkn 7y ago
Sure, I just used medical as the example because that’s what the parent comment talked about. There are many other industries with problems maintaining a good work/life balance for people who work there. Often those gigs are lower paid
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by themarkn 7y ago
I’m not sure that the lesson to be learned from the medical profession’s overburdening of its professionals is that other well paid industries should follow suit and overburden their own professionals.
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by themarkn 7y ago
The meaning of 10x has blurred considerably - when coined, as far as I can tell, it seemed to mean that sometimes the most productive developer on a team is 10x more product than the least productive developer, not the “average hire“ -
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by themarkn 7y ago
It’s safer to assume that any code you write will at one point be maintained by somebody with a visual impairment even if there’s not currently a team member with an impairment.
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by themarkn 7y ago
Definitely not wading into specific methodological arguments. All studies require interpretation is context of their methodological strengths and weaknesses in terms of what was actually measured, and how much weight to give the study'
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by themarkn 7y ago
Three were linked in the same Washington Post article you referenced.
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by themarkn 7y ago
> This inequality of result, and the inability to attribute such to intrinsic factors, is the great "gender bias." Ok I don't have the energy to keep this conversation going, the distance between us is too great.
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by themarkn 7y ago
It's based on things I've listened to women say about working in male-dominated fields, and on the many other studies that contradict the one in that article. Even the author of that study doesn't go as far as you, she admits
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by themarkn 7y ago
Not arguing that you didn't admit the assumption was incorrect ... Just that in saying it was based on the editorial bias in the articles you're ignoring your own participation in making the assumption. You admit you were too qu
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by themarkn 7y ago
Social, historical, and cultural factors undoubtedly make the level of effort required to be successful as a woman in tech or science spaces higher than the level of effort a man has to make for the same level of success (if you could contr
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by themarkn 7y ago
No need to avoid your own responsibility and bias in making that assumption. It's not accurate to blame it on the media coverage alone. Strikes me as more like confirmation bias around what your expectations are for academics, women, o
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by themarkn 8y ago
Money is still the biggest problem if you are poor. It blocks out all the others. You spend all your time thinking about staying ahead of financial ruin. Calling time and discipline the largest factors, to me, misses the point entirely. You
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by themarkn 8y ago
Hey friend. Sorry to hear about this. It's a real predicament and in your shoes I'd probably do what you are doing. Hope you can find that time.
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by themarkn 8y ago
Flu and complications related to flu kill thousands of people each year. How is it not serious?
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by themarkn 8y ago
Just jumping in here, but if detecting accidental triggering of irreversible actions is a challenge, maybe the overall approach is problematic. You could, though, temporarily introduce a confirmation step and see what % of users choose to
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by themarkn 8y ago
> arguments like men being physically stronger and faster solely due to upbringing and not biology. Is that a real example? It seems obviously untrue and I’d be surprised if people really think this. Especially the word solely .
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by themarkn 8y ago
... no it isn’t. It’s saying the differences that do exist are related to sex, not gender - any statistical relationship to gender is mediated through the relationship to sex because gender is often correlated to sex ... but there are man
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by themarkn 8y ago
Well, they wouldn’t be gender related because gender and biological sex are different ideas. To many people, anyway.
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by themarkn 8y ago
Yeah this is a fair point, didn't mean to suggest that easy security wins that dont't inconvenience the user or add cost in some other way aren't worth making.
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by themarkn 8y ago
I guess I'm projecting that then. The opening "Have you ever noticed that nobody is allowed to be successful on the internet?" struck me as very silly and I must have gone on from there and filled in my own thoughts about why
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by themarkn 8y ago
Not sure what you mean. Nothing is secure, ever, in a binary sense of being just one thing or the other. It's all a balance between level of security and level of practical usability. Often we've made things easy to use but hard t
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by themarkn 8y ago
It's ok for it not to pass the smell test, because what you have stated is not actually the argument being made. The number of languages and dialects was (presumably) brought up to emphasize the many differences in scale and culture (e
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by themarkn 8y ago
Hmm. I disagree with this overall assessment that that's what's going on. I think people some people (especially hn people) are rightly suspicious of advice that is related to that one specific time success happens. Though of cour

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