FT_intern

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by FT_intern 9y ago
Many people who speak about diversity in tech don't actually have experiences in engineering so they don't understand that race and gender are not that important in engineering. Engineering is very multi-cultural and people care m
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by FT_intern 9y ago
No hate on teachers but generally speaking, teachers are not the ambitious type. The school of education at many universities is seen as a joke for people who wanted to party all day.
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by FT_intern 9y ago
Is it even a benefit to work instead of taking these hiatuses? Parenthood can be a vacation or hard work depending on whether you are a good or bad parent. Just being a parent does not mean that it is difficult work. And if it is hard work,
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by FT_intern 9y ago
It's not ridiculous because the alternative is almost impossible to quantify and calculate
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by FT_intern 9y ago
The onus is on the person claiming sexism to prove that the disparities in promotions are the result of sexism.
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by FT_intern 9y ago
I hope companies uninterested in the data go undercover as potential buyers and expose these extensions. Maybe we can crowdsource a purchase to expose them.
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by FT_intern 9y ago
The tech industry shouldn't aim for perfection. It should aim for the average level of negative experiences across all industries, meaning it should have as many of these cases as other industries. It is not really a travesty or an ind
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by FT_intern 9y ago
Meta: What do we think about this type of native advertising? Is this allowed on HN?
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by FT_intern 9y ago
I'm not sure if creep is the best word to use here. Creep is a gendered term like slut or bitch.
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by FT_intern 9y ago
Yes because tech is much more culturally diverse, with large amounts of immigrants and second generation children of immigrants. If you've ever worked at a large tech company, you would know that the average team is very quiet because
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by FT_intern 9y ago
> This is people being assholes because they know they can get away with it. The sentiment among many men working in the tech industry is that you can get crucified for making even a small compliment to a female. This idea of invulnerabi
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by FT_intern 9y ago
The most logical and clear answer for me (assuming I didn't already screw up by making assumptions about the data format, problem definition, etc.) is: 1. Figure out which appointment starts first 2. Check if first_appointment.end >
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by FT_intern 9y ago
Has anyone thought of a good redundancy scheme for yubikey? Physical object authentication is great except physical objects are less durable than brain memory (or at least, if my brain memory is gone then I probably would have no use for th
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by FT_intern 9y ago
Engaging in identity politics opens up pandora's box :). Men have a more difficult time obtaining social, emotional and physical intimacy with other people (in both romantic and platonic contexts). For the purely romantic context, ther
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by FT_intern 9y ago
That's not really relevant since both situations most likely have similar ratios of occurrence when comparing tech to those fields. I can imagine that bosses in the business development/marketing/real estate fields make advan
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by FT_intern 9y ago
Don't work in tech? Business development/marketing/real estate fields are full of young people who boink all the time. It actually happens much less frequently in tech because of the language/cultural barrier from the hi
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by FT_intern 9y ago
Anything that isn't scientific or technical in nature gets downvoted, including posts from the other end of the spectrum like false rape accusations and gamergate. The exception is news from the large tech companies and unicorns. I app
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by FT_intern 9y ago
The sales tax in canada is brutal
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by FT_intern 9y ago
Or any company with a low % of Americans. Many big tech companies and unicorns have a high immigrant %. There is very high cultural and background diversity in these companies despite low racial and gender diversity, (gender and race aren&#
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by FT_intern 9y ago
Attacking someone for ignorance is very unproductive
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by FT_intern 9y ago
In most tech contexts, diversity means racial and gender appearance-only diversity. There is very little to no thought put into background or cultural diversity. The different groups (immigrants and 2nd generation children of immigrants) th
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by FT_intern 9y ago
Specifically getting a CS degree might not be worth it but most bootcampers have a college degree. The selective bootcamps give a priority to people with STEM degrees from good schools
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by FT_intern 9y ago
It's still very trivial to tell a customer rep that you lost your SIM card and have the rep send all new communication to the phone number to a separate SIM card with a pre paid phone.
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by FT_intern 9y ago
I remember looking up a list of the cost of tuition + room of colleges somewhere and there were at least 100 colleges that were > $55,000.
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by FT_intern 9y ago
Whatever works for you but these questions are very rude and unnecessarily intrusive. Imagine the questions with the genders reversed.
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by FT_intern 9y ago
I don't think many people in tech feel "normal" at work because of high cultural diversity. Racial and gender lines are less significant compared to nationality and primary language. Tech has massive language and nationality
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by FT_intern 9y ago
The implication/undertone of most of the diversity discussions is that minorities and women have worse experiences than white men. The discussions are centered around women/minority experiences compared to those of white men, with
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by FT_intern 9y ago
I am very skeptical of these types of stories about tech companies. The outrage is generally misplaced. People see one bad incident and think that there is an issue with the entire company. The fact is that there will always be bad incident
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by FT_intern 9y ago
No I think it depends on when you went to college. IIRC, it was 7.5% for 2006-2008 and was around 3.8-5.0% in 2010 - 2015
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by FT_intern 9y ago
> Why not spend the next 50 years just maintaining Windows 10, just the way it is? The best developers (the ones with the most choices) will leave because nobody wants to maintain a project.

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