cantastoria

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by cantastoria 11y ago
Bingo! Coming from C# and C++, I had exactly the same realization using Python (before I switched back). I always ask Python programmers "but are you just keeping track of the types in your head?" because it's impossible to k
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by cantastoria 11y ago
Was I the only disappointed that the game play description didn't include having to use an "Ok to go!!!" audio command to start each mission?
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by cantastoria 11y ago
I think they made the right decision. I've seen way too many open source projects run by academics die a sudden death when the two or three professors that were maintaining them decide they didn't want to do it anymore (or retired
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by cantastoria 11y ago
I'm curious what HN readers think the yearly UBI would be (in US dollars) if it were actually implemented?
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by cantastoria 12y ago
Good night gents.
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by cantastoria 12y ago
No. I simply refuse to adopt his/your standard of proof. If that makes you think you've won the argument then so be it.
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by cantastoria 12y ago
I'm not concerned about how often it happens. I'm concerned about the potential for it to happen. The Richard's example shows that potential. Your insistence on more examples as some metric of proof is none of my concern.
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by cantastoria 12y ago
What are some others? Why is the one example not enough to prove my point? I could name a hundred and you still wouldn't be happy. Why bother.
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by cantastoria 12y ago
Thank you for taking the time to address my concern. I'm glad we both think it's an important issue in spite of what some other commenters have said.
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by cantastoria 12y ago
I'm doing nothing of the sort. The code of conduct was clearly cited as one of the steps taken. I have issue with that step. And I have as much right to comment here as you do. You're free to ignore me. Please do.
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by cantastoria 12y ago
Can you cite any examples of people who have been silenced or shamed by a conference harrassment code? You mean besides the Adria Richard's example? At a professional conference, it should not be that hard to control your behavior.
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by cantastoria 12y ago
Ah in gallops tptacek on his trusty steed. Dead horse indeed. As usual, any submission concerning improving the ratio of women to men in our industry immediately becomes a coatrack for digs about "radfem". Just because they don&
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by cantastoria 12y ago
Harassment includes verbal comments that reinforce social structures of domination related to gender, gender identity and >expression, sexual orientation, disability, physical appearance, body size, race, age, religion, sexual images in
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by cantastoria 13y ago
Fine. You could have made that point without bringing his race, class or gender into your argument.
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by cantastoria 13y ago
So if Evan Speigels had been female, black and poor (i.e. not privileged) he would have taken the money and that would have been the right thing to do? Why because people without privilege are incapable of being stupid or greedy?
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by cantastoria 13y ago
This is the typical response (and there is evidence to back it up) but then are these people really deserving of long term unemployment benefits? If you've been unemployed for five years and I say to you "hey there are jobs in xyz
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by cantastoria 13y ago
Ok but if your problem is that no one will look at your resume because you haven't worked in five years surely one of these jobs will solve that at the very least.
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by cantastoria 13y ago
It would be interesting to see what the socioeconomic/educational attainment breakdown of the long-term unemployed looks like (Link anyone?). I think the assumption is that most of people in this group are unskilled high-school drop ou
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by cantastoria 13y ago
I wonder if it's because ResearchGate is not based in the U.S.?
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by cantastoria 13y ago
I'd love to see their business plan. Academics on the whole are not a good demo for advertising and don't want to pay for anything related to their jobs/research unless they have absolutely no other choice. How are they going
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by cantastoria 13y ago
So? If his argument for why this is good is that it's "killer" and from "legendary engineers" then he deserves it.
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by cantastoria 13y ago
>You are a threat, remember? You are Schrödinger’s Rapist. Aaannd scene...
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by cantastoria 13y ago
Depends on the record you're looking at. If you look at the temperature records from ice cores you can see that the entire 21st century has so far been within the historical range at this point in the cycle. http://www.wmich
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by cantastoria 13y ago
It's funny whenever I hear someone say "We only hire people who went to X" I always just assume that person is insecure about their own abilities. Hiring based on credentials doesn't require you to be good at the job yourself.
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by cantastoria 13y ago
-ism implies institutional bias of a society Sexism/racism et al. can exist outside of institutions no? "Hate crimes" for instance clearly do not involve any recognizable institutions yet clearly involve an -ism of some kind. Nor do -
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by cantastoria 13y ago
But the author is stating that "woman are x" by stating they bring more "cognitive diversity" to a team. In order for this to be true, woman in fact "must" approach problems differently than men or there would be no diversity benefit (whate
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by cantastoria 13y ago
I would think it's controversial when applied to engineering. This implies that the basic tools of software development are somehow viewed/used differently by people of various genders/ethnicities/etc... solely because of this "diversity" w
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by cantastoria 13y ago
Want cognitively diverse teams? It’s not as simple as hiring more female technologists. I'm sorry, is the author implying that men and women approach engineering problems differently (i.e. they think differently)? Is there any evidence of
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by cantastoria 13y ago
Great, another guilt ridden diatribe against John Scalzi from John Scalzi. I've never read someone who is more obsessed about being a "privileged white male" than he is. I wish he would take his own advice or at least the first part of it.
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by cantastoria 14y ago
Are there really that many dev teams that use Mercurial and git at the same time? Honest question....

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