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by Nutella4 11y ago
Besides looking for different topics as many have suggested, look for different authors. If you find that everything you read is written by people from your own country, search out readings from authors of other nationalities. If you find
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by Nutella4 11y ago
There's been plenty of affirmative action related to Asian Americans in university admissions. What often happens is that strict reliance on grades and test scores gives an oversupply of people who are of Asian descent or Jewish and w
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by Nutella4 11y ago
Hey, there's another thing that's very, very predictable: That a person whose argument is making bigoted remarks and claiming they're neutral statistical results very quickly devolved into saying 'liberals are stupid!&#
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by Nutella4 12y ago
Yes, his name has been carefully kept out of public discussions. This is the patriarchy protecting his reputation while repeating the complainant's name as often and as widely as possible to make sure that anyone who dislikes what she
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by Nutella4 12y ago
When I was very new to Rails, I heard a talk Ezra gave at a RailsConf about the work he had done setting up and configuring servers for EY when they were just starting out. He spoke about the technical details with great enthusiasm for a f
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by Nutella4 12y ago
Tax avoidance. Always a red flag.
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by Nutella4 12y ago
Nope, the Yotel in New York is a hotel. They rent for overnight stays only.
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by Nutella4 13y ago
Apparently feminism is political and anti-feminism is neutral in your world.
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by Nutella4 13y ago
If you ask your current company for higher salary/responsibility/etc and don't get it until you quit to take another offer, you have learned that your current company is reactive and only responds to threats. In other words,
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by Nutella4 13y ago
Yes, Soverain is the quintessential patent troll. It did not acquire the original company that came up with the shopping cart idea. That thing had been sold at least four times before Soverain came along. No, shopping cart is not and neve
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by Nutella4 13y ago
And I hope the many companies that caved to this patent troll and paid it millions for claiming it owned the shopping cart now go after it to get all those millions back. With interest.
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by Nutella4 13y ago
Depends on what you mean by religious. Most Uruguayans are from Catholic backgrounds but they (at least the ones in Montevideo) behave in a secular way: No church on Sunday, and instead of having Carnival followed by Lent like all the oth
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by Nutella4 13y ago
Not strange at all. Neoliberals are for big government everywhere except government regulation of big business. They want government and big business to work together as one organization of plutocrats to control everything.
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by Nutella4 13y ago
There is no difference unless you frequently hire the people you've put at the back of the line because of their lack of GitHub presence. "I hired the other guy because I screened out the non-GitHubbers" and "I hired the
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by Nutella4 13y ago
Druckenmiller is lumping Social Security and Medicare together, which is obviously wrong. Medicare is definitely a problem that needs to be fixed with more health care reform so we're no longer paying double what every other first worl
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by Nutella4 13y ago
I hope when you say you will make comment thread "more civil" you're not just talking about commenters calling each other names but are also considering the comments here in favor of sexual assault as unacceptable.
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by Nutella4 13y ago
Amazon claimed it had no physical presence in California so that they would fall under the existing laws. That's not true, though. Lots of Amazon employees work in California. They got very creative with the definition of "Amaz
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by Nutella4 13y ago
Good idea to put "guarantee" in scare quotes. If Airbnb had an actual guarantee that landlords or tenants could depend on their terms and conditions would not be as scary as the are: https://www.airbnb.com/terms
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by Nutella4 13y ago
Protection for consumers and tenants?
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by Nutella4 13y ago
Nope, intent isn't magic. http://genderbitch.wordpress.com/2010/01/23/intent-its-fucki... And puerile male humor is often intended to drive women away from the boys' club.
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by Nutella4 13y ago
I love the buy-to-own policy at PeepCode, too, and have had the annual unlimited subscription there for several years. I just looked up the individual plan at PluralSight and it's horrible. For 3 times what it costs at PeepCode you ge
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by Nutella4 13y ago
Possibly he got this article from the Economist. http://www.economist.com/news/technology-quarterly/21572914-...
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by Nutella4 13y ago
To me, it reads like the conclusion and summary of a big statistical paper but ... there's no statistical paper. When I saw "Pair programming costs about 2.5 times as much as one programmer working alone" in the abstract I w
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by Nutella4 13y ago
Yes, the schools are trying to make college teaching into a hobby rather than a profession.
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by Nutella4 13y ago
I should have said that median faculty salaries are much lower. A few stars get big salaries and more than half get starvation wages.
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by Nutella4 13y ago
Examples of bloated salaries for non-faculty: The president of Penn State who was fired made $3mill his last year and could only be 'fired' to the extent that he now makes $600k as a professor who does no teaching at all. And col
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by Nutella4 13y ago
Bigger, newer buildings. Lots more administrators paid much higher salaries. Tuitions subsidizing very expensive football teams. Gourmet food and single rooms for students (so they can attract the best and brightest!) rather than hash-sl
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by Nutella4 13y ago
And Wikipedia is missing what is, to me, his best known book from 1991: Rapid Application Development. You can get it on Amazon, though.
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by Nutella4 13y ago
Then make plans to do this shitty job in as kind and professional manner as possible. That means NOT stringing people along. Sit down and figure out whether you're going to be able to keep people employed at 100% of their current pay
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by Nutella4 13y ago
Here's an example: Conspiracy to commit a crime is a crime. Sometimes the conspiracy alone, that is just talking about breaking the law without ever doing it, is considered a crime.* So an email suggesting something illegal with a re

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