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by xixi77 13y ago
It's easier to change bosses if the current one happens to be a jerk than change spouses. Independent career helps in both cases.
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by xixi77 13y ago
> Why is that bad? Why is it that women are the worst when espousing the idea that life isn't about career ambition? Because this is not their life that they are talking about.
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by xixi77 13y ago
I love this GUI. Gives a clear view of what can be changed, and so much more user friendly than having to remember where each of the nested (often so many times!!) options goes. "Advanced..." buttons everywhere are the worst, and
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by xixi77 13y ago
While we should avoid premature optimizations, it is quite important to keep efficiency considerations in mind from the beginning. If we are talking about internal workings of one isolated function, fine -- but quite often a data structure
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by xixi77 13y ago
"real investors" do have an option of going to dark pools :)
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by xixi77 13y ago
All intermediaries -- be it floor traders, or HFT's -- earn money from the same source: the difference between prices that actual investors buy and sell stocks at (lower difference is also referred to as higher liquidity). Now, the res
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by xixi77 13y ago
As I noted in another comment already, kitchen playset was one of my favorite toys, and I kept bothering my parents to get more of those :) No, I'm not a woman. They are just fun for a lot of kids!
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by xixi77 13y ago
Seeing success in the family certainly helps. You are right that not every woman (or man) has had that opportunity; however what Sandberg tries to do is to exactly help them by providing an example that they were lacking when growing up. I&
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by xixi77 13y ago
In fact, she is completely misrepresenting the study, it's easy to check the link for yourself. The traits studied were "neuroticism, extraversion, agreeableness, and conscientiousness", the differences were quite small, and
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by xixi77 13y ago
I used to like my cooking playset too, and I am not a woman :) And the question is whether "woman's propensity to seek stability over excitement, security over competition" is socially driven, perhaps exactly because it low
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by xixi77 14y ago
There is some truth to that, as it does not do all optimizations that it could; however, in my experience, even on AMD systems, ICC beats MSVC hands down.
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by xixi77 15y ago
argument for the sake of argument is fun. Even better if it is about something we don't care about. but yes, provoking someone who does not want to have an argument usually only leads to mutual frustration, so it is indeed a pretty stupid t
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by xixi77 15y ago
Not all fields rely on grants -- but in all fields the careers depend on results. Which is not a bad thing in itself; but it would have been nice if "results" were not quite as narrowly defined.
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by xixi77 15y ago
It will never be possible to credibly predict financial crises: if you learn that in a month your stocks are going to drop 50% you will try to sell them now. But, since other people have heard the same prediction, they will do the same, and
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by xixi77 15y ago
Those (regional or generally crappy) places can actually be better for some people -- true, bullying for the select unlucky few can be far worse, but on the other hand in my experience the rest of the students tend to be less cliquish compa
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by xixi77 15y ago
there may be no similar words, and indeed the social structure is different, so transistors would not get you into immediate trouble; but, my guess is that you have been rather lucky -- either due going to somewhat unusual schools, or due t
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by xixi77 15y ago
This is so very true.
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by xixi77 15y ago
There is definitely a pattern in these answers -- we see people who think they missed socialization because they were homeschooled, or didn't go to preschool like you, or those who didn't miss any of that and still didn't learn the "101 thi
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by xixi77 15y ago
I've met quite a few people who enjoy arguing about something far more than discussing favorite sports teams, or comparative benefits of different restaurant chains (eww!!), or the color of someone's socks (no, I'm not inventing this), or w
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by xixi77 15y ago
> Live-to-workism and California Ideology Wow, I haven't realized that libertarianism and Austrian economics are now such an integral part of the Left Coast ideology! things must have been changing fast there lately. Interesting perspec
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by xixi77 15y ago
You are absolutely right, and Tesla has no liability for these batteries. That does not change the fact that the thing -- and especially its' handling -- is an absolute PR disaster that WILL greatly (likely fatally) hurt any wider adoption.
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by xixi77 15y ago
IMO, this was horrible, horrible PR. They basically confirmed all allegations, while still coming out as snotty jerks (talking about "unfounded rumors"?!). Linking the ad-hominem attack was just low. They are in a difficult situation, as
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by xixi77 15y ago
Mean would be a better choice if a typical real-world application were split approximately equally between each of these tasks. Which is of course patently untrue, particularly so because writing number-crunching code in Fortran does not pr