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by trowawee 9y ago
And fall into the exact same issue that people have brought up with cabs forever - they just won’t go to some neighborhoods/pick up some groups of people. That’s a very real selling point for ride share companies to people who live pla
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by trowawee 9y ago
I would suggest exploring the cuisines of cultures that are predominantly vegetarian. I was very much a meat-and-potatoes person growing up in the American Midwest, and I haven't moved completely away from meat-eating, but I eat far le
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by trowawee 9y ago
This may very well be true, but I'd rather make an argument against this idea by pointing out that the relative worth of a field of study is not related to whether or not majoring in it will get Facebook to pay you $200k out of college
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> The education system used to work fairly well in this country several decades ago. That is...a pretty remarkable claim. I think there are a fair number of people - lots of women, lots of people who grew up smart and poor, lots of non-w
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by trowawee 9y ago
Actually, a lot of people have called for Equifax to be shut down as well. It's just a lot harder to kill a company, even ones that have engaged in wildly irresponsible or illegal activity, than it ought to be.
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by trowawee 9y ago
I think what attracts people varies widely - I grew up watching Michael Jordan, drifted away from basketball in the late '90s and early '00s (although I loved Allen Iverson), and came back to the game in college. I still like the
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by trowawee 9y ago
I think this is where I fall. I know a lot of tech people who are also sports fans, and I know a lot of non-tech people who really couldn't care less about sports. I think the "STEM professionals are pasty nerds who know nothing o
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by trowawee 9y ago
But if they're representing body language, then they're representing the human body that's communicating the body language. When a family member had some health issues and a friend sent me a text that said "I hope they&#
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by trowawee 9y ago
My experience has been that people who are black, Hispanic, Pacific Islander, and some Asian ethnicities use them pretty much constantly. My Japanese, Chinese, and Taiwanese friends generally just use the yellow ones, whereas my Indian in-l
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by trowawee 9y ago
Yeah, that's what I was trying to get across. I think the revealed preferences of most people using adblockers is that, while they say they would be ok with unobtrusive ads, they really don't want any ads at all. And to be honest,
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by trowawee 9y ago
So, I don't have a formal study saying that techies are the most likely to ad-block/least likely to click ads. What we know: - Ad-blocker users skew young and wealthy.[1] The developer community as a whole also skews young and wea
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by trowawee 9y ago
It's pretty easily integrated. The big pain point will probably be moving to an ASGI server like Daphne.
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by trowawee 9y ago
Boxing went from the most popular sport in the country to being a niche sport. A large part of that was a shrinking talent pool; parents who, in earlier times would have let their kids box prohibited them from doing so. Muhammad Ali's
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by trowawee 9y ago
The highest levels of popularity and fan support in college football are mostly focused on high-level play - i.e. the schools in P5 conferences. Are there rabid fans at lower levels of play? Sure, but it decreases. Far fewer people are lini
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by trowawee 9y ago
...do you realize that the story you linked to explicitly involved purging Democratic voters? This really isn't a "both sides do it" problem.
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by trowawee 9y ago
There is no documented evidence[1] that any veterans were spit on. This is a pernicious myth. 1. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/13/opinion/myth-spitting-vie...
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by trowawee 9y ago
I mean, as long as we're trading unverifiable anecdata, I've known high performers who were being underpaid because they were recently out of school or came out of non-traditional backgrounds. I suspect they would have appreciated
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by trowawee 9y ago
> How much money you make is, properly, strictly a conversation between the parties in the transaction. If one party in a negotiation has extensive knowledge of the market and the other has a deliberately obfuscated view of the market, t
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by trowawee 9y ago
Ok, but that's not really my problem. That's bad management, because they're apparently carrying around a bunch of dead weight and not doing anything to correct that problem.
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Sure, that might happen. But you're invoking a potential problem that might happen, when we have problems (gender and racial pay gaps) that are A. more severe than the potential problem you're invoking, B. already demonstrably occ
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by trowawee 9y ago
Something like Buffer's formula ( https://open.buffer.com/transparent-salaries/ ) isn't really "gameable", as far as I can tell. And the counter argument might be that you'd attract talent that a
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by trowawee 9y ago
Personally, as a bootcamp grad (not from Flatiron), I wouldn't necessarily call the fine bullshit. If you scream the manipulated numbers and stick the details of the manipulation somewhere where very few people are likely to ever look,
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There's an interesting concept I saw a few years back of the mushroom body suit: http://grist.org/living/mushroom-burial-suit-turns-dead-bodi... . It's essentially a bag laced with mushroom spores. You put it
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I mean, I can. It's just an annoying pain in the ass, now, rather than a simple toggle. Which was a stupid decision on Apple's part.
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I...don't want my phone to automatically connect to random open access points? I live in a city where there are at least 5 separate open networks available at nearly all times if you're just walking around, most of which I do not
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by trowawee 9y ago
This has been easily the most obnoxious change of iOS 11. It is super annoying to have to dismiss the list of available WiFi networks every single time I open my phone while walking around the city, no matter how many times I turn my WiFi o
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by trowawee 9y ago
"How does somebody new make a good project choice, when taking into account everything that would actually be impressive and help land a job would require years of experience to know? You can't without feedback or validation, so d
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by trowawee 9y ago
Why would I believe, as a bootcamp grad, that you're going to be able to put aside your already-admitted bias when I make it to the table for the interview, or if I make it through the hiring process? Why would I want to work with a co
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by trowawee 9y ago
90% of jokes at DBC are programming word play jokes, so...I would not be surprised to learn they are building a storefront that sells single jacks for playing jacks.
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"But the coding boot-camp field now faces a sobering moment, as two large schools have announced plans to shut down this year — despite backing by major for-profit education companies, Kaplan and the Apollo Education Group, the parent

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