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by wsy 7y ago
Nobody forces you to use Visual Studio Code, vim and emacs are still around. As VSC is vastly successful, the analogy with manufacturing or gaming industry obviously does not hold: the software development 'industry' does not only
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by wsy 7y ago
No, as the case at hand shows. Actually, the prosecutors seem to have done an amazing job, given that usually top management manages to isolate themselves quite will from shady practices of their corporation.
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by wsy 7y ago
Logically, one would disclose as soon as the value of disclosing is larger than the value of non-disclosing. I hope we can agree that after 5 years, the benefit users have due to non-disclosing is near-zero, because virtually nobody will st
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by wsy 7y ago
If you ask "which new species will evolve next", then my answer is that species is a human-made category system nature doesn't care about. Specifically in the area of bacteria, you can constantly observe evolution (e.g., pa
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by wsy 7y ago
Not the OP, but I think ad blockers do 'destroy ad tech'. Not literally, but as outcome, if everybody would use them.
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by wsy 7y ago
To everybody who wants to tackle this challenge: start by considering how you would protect your 'new internet' against SPAM and SEO attacks. For example, if you build on a decentralized network, ask yourself how you can prevent S
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by wsy 7y ago
Voting, equal rights, courts, published laws and regulations, just to name a few.
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by wsy 7y ago
Part of many personal issues is that you "cheat yourself", or simply avoid tough topics (psychoanalysts call that resistance). A good therapist uncovers these topics, helps you to face them, and supports you in finding ways to dea
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by wsy 7y ago
The human is only a second-level control in case the confidence level is too low, or the system can't match the face with the passport photo. Also, the face is matched against the photo stored in the electronic passport, not against a
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by wsy 7y ago
Soon, "running on Kubernetes" will be like "running on Linux", i.e., it won't add any operational complexity because you anyway have a Kubernetes cluster running. So maybe you are not there yet, but for a future-ori
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by wsy 7y ago
It reflects well on the individual taking the initiative and giving the money, it reflects badly on every country where this is needed to give disadvantaged children equal opportunity. Every rich person in almost every country in the world
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by wsy 8y ago
My example is about supply and demand, in particular if you are willing to pay a higher price than the supplier asks. Fungible or not doesn't matter at all, the only relevant factor for the discussion is the difference in price you are
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by wsy 8y ago
If you read the company's web site, and are a curious and interested person, then you should pretty quickly stumble upon things you would like to know which aren't written there. So if you come up empty, either you are not interes
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by wsy 8y ago
I never compared you or anyone else to coffee, and I'm not an employer. My post was about viewing the employer-employee relationship as a business relationship _when you are the employee_.
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by wsy 8y ago
The funny thing is, you really need to be willing to leave. HR and management can sense that. If it is only meant as bluff, it won't work.
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by wsy 8y ago
A work contract is a simple supplier-consumer relationship. You are the supplier, and you essentially set the rate at which you offer your work hours. When someone suddenly offers you the double rate, you should not feel insulted, but you s
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by wsy 8y ago
These women were much more into 'things' than 'people'. It would be your turn now to explain which biological characteristics of men cause a 90/10 distribution in coders today, and do not apply to coding in the 1950
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by wsy 8y ago
Yes, in the context of a program to educate women specifically about how to code. Comparable to what? I mentioned programming in the 1950s because all traits labeled in this discussion as "boys/males biologically have more of it t
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by wsy 8y ago
If there was a program exclusively for men to support male primary school teachers, it would be a really great initiative. Male software developers are already well off, that's why a program "men can code" already sounds a bi
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by wsy 8y ago
We are talking about software developers. In the 1950s, most programmers were female. It doesn't seem to be a profession where male biological characteristics are essential to be successful. All the examples you mentioned are non-essen
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by wsy 8y ago
I agree that your hypothetical is possible. However, in a field where men occupy 90% of all positions, I still find it hard to imagine that they discriminate against their own group, i.e. treat their fellow males "in a worse way from t
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by wsy 8y ago
It is an empirical experiment, it only expects you to acknowledge that girls will become interested in male-dominated professions when getting in contact with the right role models. That is a fact, good/bad does not apply. Now, indeed
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by wsy 8y ago
You are right, the selection/motivation mechanics for students are very different from the ones for faculty.
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by wsy 8y ago
It seems that we mainly disagree about what constitutes discrimination. In my opinion, it is about opportunities. When 90% of the developer jobs are performed by men, it is really hard for me to see how men as a group can be disadvantaged
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by wsy 8y ago
Yes, I think it is conceivable. But at the same time, I have a hard time explaining a 10%/90% distribution just with biological differences. It seems to me that the biological differences are too small to explain such a huge skew. In p
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by wsy 8y ago
Ok, then let me ask differently: if upper management in all companies were mostly women, and they would justify this fact with the argument that they are naturally better with people, would it be ok for you if these women would prefer other
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by wsy 8y ago
I also see balancing out the disadvantages of children, teenagers, and young adults from poor families as way more important than balancing out the disadvantages of well-off women. I totally agree that we have a long road ahead of us in thi
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by wsy 8y ago
It's also only anecdotically, but I think your art history example doesn't fly: https://art.stanford.edu/people/faculty
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by wsy 8y ago
There are so many initiatives out there supporting poor people. True, this one does not. But it seems a bit far-fetched to conclude from this one example that the poor are not supported at all.
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by wsy 8y ago
I'm working in tech as a man, and spend more than half of my work time in talking to people. Actually, the higher you go up in your career, the more you will spend time interacting with people, and the less with things. So should we ai

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