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by tomlock 12y ago
Personally, I wouldn't call this an unambiguous case since the dean reached an out-of-court settlement. Have I misunderstood this article? In the opening paragraphs there is unambiguous personal support for the professor in question.
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by tomlock 12y ago
But why? What tangible impact has it had on conservatives?
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by tomlock 12y ago
Is this really presenting a fair picture? Really, if I had two candidates who were identical and the only differentiating factor I had was that one liked Candy Crush and the other one played Age of Empires, I don't think I'd take
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by tomlock 12y ago
He was widely considered a genius so I think he could do at least alright in the role :)
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by tomlock 12y ago
If you remove the "6 month feminist coding bootcamp" line, this post could be mistaken for a summary of the career of a young Steve Jobs. Hopefully this developer has found a company where she isn't harassed by sneering bros
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by tomlock 12y ago
It is quite interesting to me that you say we don't know what we'd expect the interviewers to do in this scenario. The applicant didn't either (and they state that), and in this case, the interviewer's lack of knowledge
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by tomlock 12y ago
We may very well find it very difficult to come up with something that has no possibly offensive cultural baggage. Do you think soccer was one where someone made even an attempt to mitigate that baggage?
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by tomlock 12y ago
Whether you like it or not people make assumptions about other people based on their gender. Companies that are sensitive to that fact are less likely to pose code challenges that align with a common assumption about gender, which aligns w
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by tomlock 12y ago
Unfortunately, our culture generally views sport as a male domain. While you and I are probably aware that there's nothing intrinsically "male" about sport, it can feel a little weird for someone to treat you as if your unde
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by tomlock 12y ago
I'm a long term enterprise user of Excel, and I taught myself to program using VB6 and have now moved onto Postgres/Python etc. For any serious data application, CSV is a must, because navigating data types in Excel is a nightmar