JesperRavn

5 ms·

1.
by JesperRavn 11y ago
It seems like a borderline example. I feel that the "brogrammer" stereotype was invented up mainly because the nerd stereotype was too sympathetic. I'm genuinely curious if there are examples of the kind of stereotypes in
2.
by JesperRavn 11y ago
Did I say that persecuted nerds have the right to cordon off CS as a refuge for their culture? I thought that I said the opposite. Your later comments suggest that you break things down exactly as I do: it's ok for nerds to be nerds,
3.
by JesperRavn 11y ago
Note I'm submitting this article with with its title unchanged, but the story is more notable for having been removed from Forbes as a violation of their terms of service. I think its relevant given the recent discussion around intern
4.
There Is No Diversity Crisis In Tech by Brian Hall(techraptor.net)
4 points by JesperRavn 11y ago|3 comments
5.
by JesperRavn 11y ago
This was a very well written and balanced article. I want to contribute a reason why I think that many men in tech hold back from fully endorsing this viewpoint. The reason is that there is a very fine line between saying that you don&#x27
6.
by JesperRavn 11y ago
It makes sense. Advertising is inefficient, wasting people's time and attention for the gain of the advertiser. Advertisements have long been used as a form of micropayment, to fund first TV shows and now websites, where a monetary pa
7.
by JesperRavn 11y ago
If one looks at GDP per capita or life expectancy, progress did not stop or slow in the 50's. I think the main difference is that progress is now made in much smaller increments. E.g. smartphones have transformed our lives, and yet th
8.
by JesperRavn 11y ago
I don't go out of my way to modify my language (although I can see how without extra context, like the fact that I met these people at a social event not a professional event, you might object in this particular case) because I don&#x2
9.
by JesperRavn 11y ago
I thought the principle you and the other poster were arguing for, was to minimize conflict. In the case of "bro" the conflict arises from a feminist critique of the word's usage in the context of a male dominated industry.
10.
by JesperRavn 11y ago
I agree. The intentionally prevocational logo (a Menorah) has put me off CLISP[0], I would guess many others too. [0] See the explanation at http://www.clisp.org/impnotes/faq.html#faq-menorah-why which starts off with
11.
by JesperRavn 11y ago
Sounds like the real asshole is the person who instead of trying to understand and critique people with different opinions, simply lambasts them as "assholes". A great example of the author's inability to engage with opposing
12.
by JesperRavn 11y ago
The worst stories of sexual harassment I've heard have always been from women in the social sciences. I commented on this to two girls doing PhD's in social psychology, who were describing harassment by their faculty, and they ag
13.
by JesperRavn 11y ago
I would like to see nerd elitism and nerd bashing both stop. Some people claim that to be a programmer you need to have a certain personality or hobbies, and this is wrong. But nerd elitism is also a reaction to having been excluded, ridicu
14.
by JesperRavn 11y ago
But people complaining about "corporate censorship" are smart well informed people? How is internet.org controlling what website people get to see different from, for example, YouTube controlling which videos people get to see?
15.
by JesperRavn 11y ago
I wasn't saying that Facebook should be regulated like shopping malls. I was saying that people who say that private censorship is not problematic, do not have an answer for things like internet.org. Facebook are legally free to se
16.
by JesperRavn 11y ago
I hope this gives some pause for people who advocate the XKCD line on free speech[0]. While not every platform should be required to host every kind of content, when a platform becomes sufficiently dominant, its ability to censor content b
17.
by JesperRavn 11y ago
Article reposted here: http://techraptor.net/content/there-is-no-diversity-crisis-i...
18.
Forbes article arguing tech is not biased removed for violation of TOS(forbes.com)
5 points by JesperRavn 11y ago|2 comments
19.
by JesperRavn 11y ago
Unqualified as I am, I feel compelled to give some commentary. This is the real deal. As the article describes, the Nobel Prize was awarded for a discovery of facts that are inconsistent with the (poorly named) Standard Model of particle
20.
by JesperRavn 11y ago
>countless new techbros with no respect for Seattle culture who spend 11hrs/day at work and don't have time to develop a personality romping around town give it a real bad reputation. I think you do a great job summarizing th
21.
by JesperRavn 11y ago
And creating "fragile" models because they don't have the tools to reproduce their own experiments. How many authors of academic papers in ML could reproduce the exact same results a year later? I would guess around 10%.
22.
by JesperRavn 11y ago
In my high school they didn't know the word "techie" so they had a different word for kids they considered quite and boring. Ironically it was the same word they used to describe people like John.
23.
by JesperRavn 11y ago
I'm guessing that he means that his work is closely related to arithmetic geometry (which I was once told was one of the hardest fields in pure math), and so someone with no background would have a lot of trouble getting it. Presumabl
24.
by JesperRavn 11y ago
The people in the article are Jewish, not Christian, so I'm not why a critique of Christianity is relevant here. What is your opinion on Judaism?
25.
by JesperRavn 11y ago
No guarantees, but in general it does. Look at, for example, graphs of GDP vs life expectancy.
26.
by JesperRavn 11y ago
OK, how about this for starters: do you agree that the following two statements are inconsistent: 1. Increasing tax dollars does not benefit the world by increasing the services provided by the government. 2. Rich people should pay more tax
27.
by JesperRavn 11y ago
Also whenever you earn more money, some the tax you pay goes towards programs like this whether you donate anything extra or not. So getting a high paying job alone helps.
28.
by JesperRavn 11y ago
Technology is the main driver of growth in GDP per capita. Technology is what makes wealthy countries wealthy in the first place, and gives them enough surplus that they can afford to help poorer countries (whose problems may not be lack o
29.
by JesperRavn 11y ago
I'm sorry, I'll stick to using "you must be an ugly loser" as an argument in future.
30.
by JesperRavn 11y ago
Are you seriously saying that ugly people aren't able to form a reasoned opinion on dating? That's a horrible thing to say.

More ›