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by whatyoucantsay 9y ago
> Wasn't expecting to gain karma with this comment, and I absolutely wanted to "derail the thread" Fortunately, this is a moderated forum. Your prejudices towards Greek organizations may or may not have a valid basis, bu
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by whatyoucantsay 9y ago
> No offense to Drew Houston... This comment is a near ideal solution to the problem of "how to derail the thread, fire a shot in the culture wars and likely still gain karma".
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thank you
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Are their recruiters being told to purge applicants from their hiring funnel based on race or sex? Are they getting on social media and explicitly telling people to subscribe to people based on their race? YouTube has really been going the
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by whatyoucantsay 9y ago
I've subscribed. Interestingly, she is a Microsoft Tech Evangelist and uses a Sublime Text on a Mac and targets non-MS hardware. This speaks very well of MS as an open place that optimizes for developer happiness.
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by whatyoucantsay 9y ago
> "Oh, your product will save me thousands of dollars? But it requires a Google account? Sorry, can't use it"... said nobody, ever. You've clearly never worked in China. All people are not living your circumstance.
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by whatyoucantsay 9y ago
Ah, I'd been thinking this was a theme. If it's a site generated with WP, that's completely different. My reaction was largely to the poster's self-righteous attitude about "theft", which has mapped to many GPL
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The GPL is a license. If you don't abide by it, you don't get to download a copy of the software, sell it or create derivative works. The history of WP itself enforcing the GP is instructive. More recently, Panasonic Avionics has
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http://www.jollyrogertelco.com/
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Another factor is very large employers having policies regarding open source and requiring each OSS contribution to go through legal. HN, particularly under a pseudonym, is somewhat more accessible for those under the watchful eye of $BIG_C
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Reid Hoffman has a great answer for this in his book. References are the most important thing there is. Given the choice between not being able to interview and not being able to get references, you'd do better hiring sight unseen base
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by whatyoucantsay 9y ago
Did you also report the employer's "theft", as you put it, of WordPress's GPL'd code?
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> why should they care about real names? Exactly. What is it about technologists that makes them feel so entitled to everyone's personal information? She wants to know the "real names and verified email addresses" of every
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by whatyoucantsay 9y ago
> Yet we all carry a far more capable mobile spying device (with audio recording, video+photo capture, and even GPS tracking all built-in) in our pockets and keep it within arms reach at all times. Some of us have more sense than to do
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" Instead of blaming Slack, why not accept that the open protocols indeed suck? " said FooBarWidget to the world, via TCP/IP, DNS, HTTP, HTTPS...
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And GenXers used to find Metallica edgy.
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It's interesting you bring up Thiel with regards to Google. I haven't ever seen anyone so willing to slam their top leadership directly and on television. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Q26XIKtwXQ&t=35s It&#
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by whatyoucantsay 9y ago
The US sure tries to: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voice_of_America
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>> China leaned heavily on major internet companies when Guo Wengui, a Chinese tycoon in self-imposed exile, went on Facebook and YouTube to accuse a number of Chinese officials of corruption... > Facebook suspended Mr. Guo’s ac
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by whatyoucantsay 9y ago
Masters of Doom . It opened my eyes to how high a level at which some can play the game (of software).
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by whatyoucantsay 9y ago
This is a good point. There's a lot of negative press and truly appalling allegations swirling about Google, but it's near impossible to get an accurate idea of extent or even the truth of the situation from the outside. Based on
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Only if you believe that uni credentials are synonymous with capability.
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by whatyoucantsay 9y ago
San Mateo County is small enough to be distorted by the effects of the very kind of discriminatory hiring the article is about. Based upon the rapid downvoting, I'll work off the premise that I misread the statistics and ask for clarif
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by whatyoucantsay 9y ago
> No company ever got trounced because they followed the prevailing political winds. Let's face it: the top tech companies have sufficient applicants Many companies have been trounced by outsiders unconstrained by their political
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by whatyoucantsay 9y ago
> The thing I hate about actions like this is what it does to talented people who fit some diversity quota checklist, both in the perception they have of themselves and those of other people. If you are a talented melanin-rich woman you
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by whatyoucantsay 9y ago
The article mentions that there was a hiring freeze of white and Asian candidates and shows in a demographic breakdown that 56% of its employees are white. The US is 76.9% of the US "white alone" according to its Census data. The
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by whatyoucantsay 9y ago
> Each element of the sequence is a polynomial, but the sequence of polynomials grows exponentially. Bringing this back to the original comment about nesting loops, perhaps what you're describing is some sort of metaprogramming th
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by whatyoucantsay 9y ago
The confusion here is about math, not syntax. N^2 is polynomial. 2^N is exponential. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4317414/polynomial-time-...
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by whatyoucantsay 9y ago
> If you have a sequence of programs with polynomial runtime, but which grows as N, N^2, N^3, N^4, ..., that's a textbook example of exponential growth No, it isn't. N, N^2, N^3, N^4, ... is polynomial , not exponential. Exp
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by whatyoucantsay 9y ago
> "It is exponential in the number of nested loops, which is what's important for the realization that adding more nested loops is bad." Adding more nested loops is bad, but it's not exponential. It's polynomial.

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