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by xenihn 6y ago
Most major decisions have unintended consequences. I don't see that as a legitimate opposing point, especially without alternatives. Please keep in mind that this isn't just about men vs. women. There are plenty of women who don&#
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I think Blind overtook HN as the front page of the tech industry during the pandemic.
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It's not clear what you're asking for exactly, but the solution is obvious: give whatever it is that you want to provide to EVERYONE, regardless of their gender, and whether or not they actually have children. Special treatment fo
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by xenihn 6y ago
I think we've officially reached the point where you can stomp lumping all women together. Some companies are now prioritizing interns and junior devs from HBCUs, because they ended up with a new problem where the overwhelming majority
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by xenihn 6y ago
I don't know the details of the platform, but I heard from friends who work for them as realtors that (supposedly) no one on the realtor side actually uses any of it. Compass pays the most, though, at least in the bay.
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AIM was profitable until the day that it was shut down.
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Dat escrow -- this is basically what background check orgs providers, right? Assuming you don't need to provide something like your social.
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by xenihn 6y ago
The story about the guy in the van is so upsetting. Fuck that guy.
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by xenihn 6y ago
I figured it was due to issues beyond your control, and not because you're marking it up or anything. Just voicing my opinion that I think it's too expensive. I hope you don't take it personally -- I'm sure a lot of your
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by xenihn 6y ago
>I kinda get that page count is an "easy metric", but iy seems super shortsighted to chose to not buy a book based purely on page count. It's the best metric currently available for a book that has no reviews, and is from
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by xenihn 6y ago
I'm probably going to buy the PDF. I think the paperback is too expensive for a book that is only 114 pages.
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by xenihn 6y ago
Does anyone else feel that standardized tests are the most egalitarian and meritocratic metric in the admissions process? Removing them and claiming that it makes things fairer doesn't seem true to me. The other three metrics (essay, g
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by xenihn 6y ago
>If the company IPOs or buys back a sizeable chunk of stock as part of fundraising or acquisition, employees with options do just fine. You need to read up on preferred stock vs. common stock, and the shenanigans that startups can do in
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by xenihn 6y ago
what isn't safer than a bike? i feel like even being on foot would be safer
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norwegian, but Lemaitre
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Why not think about it?
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This makes sense. I didn't think about it specifically from a manager's POV, since I'd like to think they're more likely to act in the company's best interests when it's a tiny/small eng org.
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by xenihn 6y ago
Sure, but is it cheaper in the long run when you account for attrition, hiring costs (recruiters, engineer hours spent interviewing), and ramp-up? Let's go ahead and assume that things like code quality and technical debt aren't f
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by xenihn 6y ago
>Now, I have my dream job, my dream location, my own damn house, and my family. -Whole thing feels like a dream I might wake up from if I am not careful... and I feel totally weighed down when it comes to speaking up in a way I would hav
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by xenihn 6y ago
>Bardin also criticizes the organizational culture at Google that hardly allows for the dismissal of an employee who simply does not do his job properly. “The challenge was that, as Google employees, we were subject to all of the corpora
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by xenihn 6y ago
the age of empires 2 remaster has done well
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by xenihn 6y ago
>It’s quite hard for ambitious women in compsci, they have to walk a tight edge between firm and “motherly”. Sounds like you're just projecting your own expectations onto them tbh
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im just trying to get mentioned on n-gate poggers
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The first thing that came to my mind when I saw this headline was not corporations/companies, but administrations for public school districts and universities.
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by xenihn 6y ago
I get that the fracturing of content delivery platforms had to happen for the sake of ~profits~, but I miss the days when having Netflix, Steam, and Spotify completely satisfied consumption needs. At least Spotify still has nearly everythin
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it's conditional and doesn't apply to the entire org, or even to all engs. compare their new policy to twitter and square
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by xenihn 6y ago
Reading that thread, I'm always so confused by HN posters who ask for evidence that would be impossible to provide without self-incriminating. Are they asking disingenuously, or are they just clueless?
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Oakland and SF are especially bad right now. I fear for many of my friends and their families.
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by xenihn 6y ago
Racial discrimination is a legal concept. There is no racial discrimination if you lack the following: - evidence - witnesses who are willing to testify - legal action Whether it actually happened or not is irrelevant.
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2015: White men [Jewish Americans, CIS immigrants, EU immigrants] are not diverse 2020: Asian men [Chinese-Americans, Korean-Americans, Vietnamese-Americans, Japanese-Americans, and immigrants from all respective countries] are not diverse

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