RodericDay

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by RodericDay 7y ago
"Men have different distribution of extremes, more dumbasses but also more brilliance, eg. autistic savants, which explains more CEOs and Nobel Prize winners, and therefore systemic sexism is a myth to deny biologically determined outc
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by RodericDay 8y ago
It's funny how you guys take some kind of pride in maneuvering what to an outsider obviously sounds like a dystopian-style bureaucratic nightmare of unevenly applied laws and insider-connections. Rather than fight to change or improve
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by RodericDay 8y ago
I interned for SNC Lavalin Construction in my undergraduate, and a finance guy gave a presentation where he literally laughed out loud in this evil way about how much money SNC was going to make out of it and what a stupid deal it was for t
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by RodericDay 8y ago
As a newcomer to the field, parent post is far more welcoming than the bevy of trash Ninja flavor-of-the-week bullshit that makes it seem impossible to catch up. I only actually got my bearings and self-confidence as a programmer when I rea
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by RodericDay 8y ago
it's just as much your responsibility as it is theirs to insist on ethical standards engineers don't get to go around running saying "i was gonna put some basic safety procedures in there, but they just wouldn't pay for
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by RodericDay 8y ago
I find it incredibly easy to follow. In fact, the thread on Twitter itself is even easier to read than this ThreaderApp link that some people demand. The incessant bloviating from people who refuse to learn how to use Twitter is far more an
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by RodericDay 8y ago
I don't want to send all my calls to google
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by RodericDay 8y ago
"The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins" by Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25510906-the-mushroom-at... It's all about how in
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by RodericDay 8y ago
...that's not what wage theft is
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by RodericDay 8y ago
It's funny how bloodthirsty people are when it comes to someone being ultra-punished stealing a consumer product, but I bet when people talk about wage theft and capitalist malfeasance this guy turns into a corporate lawyer.
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by RodericDay 8y ago
> Boys Thankfully girls, poor smooth-brained things that they are, don't have to deal with the issue of passion, or genius, right?
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by RodericDay 8y ago
Honestly, the way flagship american news corporations publish fawning hagiographies of people like McCain and Bush and Obama and Bill Gates, justify and promote wars, etc. it's really not meaningfully distinct from "statist"
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by RodericDay 8y ago
all of that + global warming and ecological devastation
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by RodericDay 8y ago
fetch() + response.text() is usually two. add a user-defined third and you're there.
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by RodericDay 8y ago
I usually find the issue, point it out, then they make sure they implement the fix in a way that is not alien to their codebase. It's not many hands on one project but everyone taking care of their own projects, so it's a bit diff
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by RodericDay 8y ago
Second this. Mithril.js is absolutely incredible, and my coworkers are often surprised at how quickly I can dive into a React project and fix an issue because I don't carry the baggage of doing things "the react way". Every n
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by RodericDay 8y ago
now apply this to Google and Facebook's "free" offerings
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by RodericDay 8y ago
If the flowchart is so good, they should expose it in clickable form online.
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by RodericDay 8y ago
Mithril is my favorite by far. It's not even close. It's depressing how little-known it remains.
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by RodericDay 8y ago
Mandela never renounced violence. In 1985, Mandela was offered a conditional release if he were to renounce violence; he refused. Rick Stengel on Mandela, via FAIR: > One of most interesting things he ever said to me was this idea of non
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by RodericDay 8y ago
Labor markets are extremely uncompetitive, because prices (salaries) are not public information.
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by RodericDay 8y ago
Price transparency is the crucial reason why markets can claim to propagate information quickly and lead to efficiency. The opacity in the labor market and the drug market is not an accident.
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by RodericDay 9y ago
Let's not forget the role "political data science" played, as well. You have an unlikable candidate in Clinton, a campaign strategy based on voting against Trump, voters debating whether to commit against Trump or to cast a p
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by RodericDay 9y ago
"one of the most energy efficient" + "safe"
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by RodericDay 9y ago
I don't know if it's just the money. I vastly prefer Montreal to SF, and I willingly took the paycut + taxation trade-offs because I prefer the way society works here (entertainment, health care, education, social status of non-
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by RodericDay 9y ago
I much prefer GitLab to GitHub.
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by RodericDay 9y ago
Ludwig Wittgenstein: Duty of Genius was a great ride, as well as a fantastic introduction to powerful ideas about communication and non-scientific disciplines' wish to imitate science. The Autobiography of Malcolm X makes a brilliant c
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by RodericDay 9y ago
I'm hellbanned so you probably won't see this, but it's already there! The default key is F12.
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by RodericDay 9y ago
"It's not race, it's poverty!" is a pretty well discussed idea in philosophy circles. The concept is called "Intersectionality", and you may want to read up on it ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&
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by RodericDay 9y ago
It's interesting how many tech guys consider this guy some kind of martyr. People are upset about his odious "Google Memo" because it's not their first rodeo with a dude who weasels around and justifies his racism/s

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