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by trowawee 8y ago
I started to develop similar issues when I moved from the iPhone 5 to the 7 Plus. I sold that and got the 8 the next year, and I started using Popsockets and swapping hands and fingers more frequently, but I still have some numbness and pai
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by trowawee 8y ago
I don't actually think your second point is correct on either a historical or practical level. Historically, humans had a lot of what would now be considered downtime, especially in certain societies. And practically, nothing actually
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by trowawee 8y ago
Do you have any counter argument to the actual article? It cites a study of events that could be described as censorious and evaluates the political stance of the people being censored. Can you produce evidence showing that this is untrue?
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by trowawee 8y ago
Weird to write this article without citing any actual numbers. Here, let's help with that: https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/8/3/17644180/po... . Some key takeaways: - There just aren
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by trowawee 8y ago
Yeah, American policies around this are incredibly bad. Even the nominally "good" ones are pretty terrible compared to other developed nations.
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by trowawee 8y ago
It's almost like...there's some sort of gendered power imbalance in society? That might make men comfortable disregarding this? But that might not afford women the same privilege?
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by trowawee 8y ago
There's an enormous gap between calling someone a sex worker and calling them a coal miner. There's an even-more-enormous gap between calling most of your team "bros" and calling the one woman on your team a sex worker.
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by trowawee 8y ago
Virtually every woman I know has stories like the ones in both this blog post and the original big Kotaku piece. The sheer pervasive depth of Riot's misogynistic culture is less common, but it's a difference in degree, not in kind
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by trowawee 8y ago
For me, it's less about the ease of starting one thing than it is the ease of juggling a lot of things. I've got docker containers on my machine for multiple work projects and a few organizations I do volunteer dev work for. Betwe
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by trowawee 8y ago
Your first point alone would make Docker worth it for me if that was literally all it did. I've on-boarded junior devs on several projects over the last few years, and being able to give them pull access, send them the instructions for
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by trowawee 8y ago
Generally speaking, most instances of wage theft rely on an implicit threat that if workers complain about it, they will be fired, frequently from a job that may be the only thing keeping them fed or in housing. How is that not a threat of
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by trowawee 8y ago
I don't really care about the loading, I know that HN traffic can overwhelm sites. The scrolljacking, on the other hand, is infuriating, especially replacing the standard "swipe to go back/forward" with "swipe to go
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by trowawee 8y ago
Yeah, it's mostly thinly veiled discrimination and/or "won't put up with a wildly toxic culture".
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by trowawee 8y ago
Yeah, my brain tends to categorize things a little differently than Google does, so being able to tag something in Pinboard makes it much easier for me to find it later.
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by trowawee 8y ago
Take-home tests. Lower-stress environments for coding tests - working on their own hardware, working remotely, no panel interviews, no actively combative/aggressive interviews. Also, cool aspect of that: all of these options will make
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by trowawee 8y ago
I mean, they're people. I'm still close friends with a few of them, and I didn't like some of them. It's no different than working with anybody with a disability or an illness (or kids, or elderly parents, or any of the
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by trowawee 8y ago
I think that we "benefitted" in some sense, because interviewees sometimes came up with better ways to solve some of those problems. Generally, we extended offers to those people, tho. I think it's just a slightly easier appr
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by trowawee 8y ago
I know several really, really good programmers with pretty intense anxiety. Automatically ruling them out because of a poorly-formatted interview process would be a big mistake.
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by trowawee 8y ago
The best option I've seen were recently-solved small problems. We would roll back a few commits, take that code into the room with the candidate, and pair-program a solution or partial solution in a fairly tightly-scoped time period, a
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by trowawee 8y ago
I mean, programmers also don't go through a medical school equivalent or residency. We don't take boards. I'm married to a doctor and we were together through her time in medical school and residency. If I had to choose betwe
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by trowawee 8y ago
Also a teacher-turned-dev, and I completely agree. Teaching is such a labor-intensive, poorly-understood process that the idea of effectively automating it anytime soon is ridiculous. We still don't really have any consistent metric th
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by trowawee 9y ago
I'm less worried about explicitly unethical people than I am about somebody just out of college in their first job whose boss asks them to build something ethically dubious. Professional ethics instruction would A) help determine if so
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by trowawee 9y ago
My wife and I spent seven years going to school and working in Omaha. It's a nice little city, but if someone valued the benefits of urban life (restaurants, sports, social events, public transit, etc.), I think they would eventually b
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by trowawee 9y ago
I mean, there are social codes in any group. It's not unique to rich people, it's just how humans are. There are middle class equivalents to some of these. Growing up, we didn't shop at Nordstrom, but we certainly didn't
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by trowawee 9y ago
Really? I grew up in the Midwest where chicken fried rice from the local Chinese place was about as exotic as it got, and our standard meals were some form of overcooked meat, potatoes, and a token green. The evolution of the food and resta
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by trowawee 9y ago
I read that back in high school. I'd be interested to see how it holds up today, given the massive increase in overall inequality and the hollowing out of the middle class in the US.
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by trowawee 9y ago
Not the author of the parent comment, but my family shifted from solidly middle-class to members of the 1% over the course of a few years in the early 2000s (my teenage years) as our family business became significantly more successful. Her
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by trowawee 9y ago
I am 100% certain, based on 5 years of observation, that there is a significant portion of users on this site who absolutely believe that racial disparities are genetic and immutable.
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by trowawee 9y ago
Not sure I'd take that bet. Finding some way to get drunk appears to be one of the few real constants of the human experience.
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by trowawee 9y ago
There'll be an investigation, he'll be cleared, and he'll be back on the street in a few months.

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