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by throwaway5250 8y ago
Kind of a bizarre title for an article that's really "Our company would like to be more diverse and here's our plan". Regardless of how you feel about diversity goals, not being diverse would hardly seem to make the comp
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by throwaway5250 8y ago
It was like the September burst of freshmen that never ended? LOL. (Not that I'm disagreeing, exactly.) And before #MeToo, there was "Me too!" :-) Maybe the world is just a better place when almost all of us keep our mouth
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by throwaway5250 8y ago
Perhaps because the subset of all possible deals that "seem" not entirely random to human eyes is immense.
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by throwaway5250 8y ago
Theory has it that real typists actually _do_ use the CAPSLOCK key. They seem to be rather rare, though.
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by throwaway5250 8y ago
My take: That's what the spacebar is. Originally the backspace key did the inverse. This probably worked a lot more like what we think of as "overwrite" mode on early terminals. The "delete" character is something
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by throwaway5250 8y ago
Mostly entertainment, but occasionally significant tech announcements or scuttlebutt. Unfortunately, the moderation is mostly unhelpful, I read the raw "new" stream for the good stuff, even though it's noisy.
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by throwaway5250 8y ago
This is just an ad for a talk, not the talk itself, nor a transcript.
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by throwaway5250 8y ago
I'm simply exhausted by it, even though I do pretty well in whiteboard interviews. These days, I stick with places that are happy to see me coming. Desperate even. I'm not getting top dollar, but I have a lot more leverage.
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by throwaway5250 8y ago
Kudos for _Peopleware_. But otherwise, meh. Can you use strace and wireshark effectively? If not, the rest isn't going to save you.
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by throwaway5250 8y ago
Thanks for the answer. Back when it happened, I didn't think Bill Clinton's lying about having sex with his intern ought to be actionable, or even something people should care about. Guess I feel the same way about this.
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by throwaway5250 8y ago
There were a number of candidates, and one was chosen by the head of the Executive branch. The Senate then gets to approve or deny the choice. This is all in the Constitution. If I recall correctly, the bar used to be 60% for approval, by
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by throwaway5250 8y ago
Summary: They "surrendered" by not declaring that Ernie and Burt were now officially gay, rather than asexual or unstated as they had always been. God things are getting grim.
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by throwaway5250 8y ago
For me, it was, apparently. I interviewed for quite a variety of positions without a bite. Did pass a reputedly difficult in-person series at a Big 5 employer, and apparently an executive nixed the hire recommendation for this reason. Obv
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by throwaway5250 8y ago
I'm sorry you went through that. Though I've never attempted, I can relate to a lot of that. Certainly I've spent way too much time thinking about all of this. I do think that everyone should be allowed a humane exit, perha
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by throwaway5250 8y ago
Exceedingly unlikely events can nonetheless very important if the outcomes are very negative. Just brushing them off with a "that will never happen" is not a rational response.
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by throwaway5250 8y ago
Don't get married.
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by throwaway5250 8y ago
That letter seemed almost content-free, and I'm surprised that they didn't try to make a stronger argument. I would be interested in knowing what his specific lie under oath was. (Apparently his accusers have been caught in sever
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by throwaway5250 8y ago
Can you imagine the s___storm if they had named this function "Siri I'm getting mugged"? Wouldn't just "Siri start recording" make more sense?
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by throwaway5250 8y ago
Representative quotes: "Is there any idea so outlandish that it won’t be published in a Critical/PoMo/Identity/‘Theory’ journal?" tweeted the Harvard psychologist Steven Pinker. "Three intrepid academics,"
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by throwaway5250 8y ago
If the people at the top of your discipline can't tell the difference between quality and inane garbage, what do you really have?
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by throwaway5250 8y ago
Breitbart was one of the first, and almost certainly the most complete, with the dumps of internal Google message traffic following the Damore incident. After looking at many other accounts, and considering Google's response, it appea
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by throwaway5250 8y ago
Assume nothing will change, because it probably won't. Given that, consider the pluses and minuses of staying vs going. If the money is awesome, you might want to stay, at least for a while.
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by throwaway5250 8y ago
With due respect, ideology is ultimately the only reason that anything gets done. RMS would never have created GNU, with all of its fabulously useful result, had he merely thought that existing tools were of insufficient quality. The whole
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by throwaway5250 8y ago
There are very few jobs that allow one to be productive most of the day (and almost invariably they are low-paying). This is indeed shocking to discover in your first jobs after college, etc. Rather than goofing on FB, I'd look for wa
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by throwaway5250 8y ago
Isn't there an Aesop's fable about this sort of thing?
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by throwaway5250 8y ago
Could it be because the message is literally from the President, in their ex officio role as the President?
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by throwaway5250 8y ago
I live in one of the most bike-friendly cities in the US (according to Bicycling magazine). The behavior of bicyclists here, as far as riding safely and in a law-abiding manner, is _far worse_ than other cities I've lived in. Every d
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by throwaway5250 8y ago
I was merely pointing out that the parent poster's characterization of bicyclists as third-class citizens is wildly counterfactual.
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by throwaway5250 8y ago
This demonstrates that the outcome isn't entirely a linear function of the inputs. But it doesn't show that the inputs mentioned aren't monotonic and a complete explanation of the outputs. It may very well be that "luck
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by throwaway5250 8y ago
Bicyclists are allowed to terrorize pedestrians with impunity. And indeed, you can easily get a ticket for jaywalking, but you'll never get one for riding a bicycle against traffic, failing to stop at a stop sign, etc.

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