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by cllns 11y ago
"[Caitlyn] Flanagan is a self-described anti-feminist" [1]: http://www.msmagazine.com/winter2004/backtothekitchen.asp
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by cllns 11y ago
Consider using more inclusive language (re: "Rails guy", "right guy")
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by cllns 11y ago
Yes. The post was also heteronormative.
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by cllns 11y ago
> Singer himself donates about one-third of his income to charity, he says, and I admire his commitment. Still, I wonder... where do we draw the line? Peter Singer himself wrote, in the New York Times Magazine, nearly a decade ago, an ar
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by cllns 12y ago
Companies with a female founder: 25 (21.93%) Companies with a Black founder: 9 (7.89%) Companies with a Hispanic founder: 6 (5.26%) They should release the stats of the number of people overall, not the number of companies wit
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by cllns 12y ago
That's not true. I've gotten better, more detailed feedback from other companies. Things like: your approach for this coding challenge was X when you should have been doing Y.
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by cllns 12y ago
I mentioned it because the company itself was plugged in the post. Also there's a bit of irony involved, where they're extolling the virtues of data, but failing to provide proper interview feedback.
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by cllns 12y ago
I had a lackluster interview experience at the company the author works for and mentions. After completing a coding challenge, I got a generic: "After deliberating, we have decided not to proceed with your application." I a
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by cllns 12y ago
Don't forget about ethical veganism, whose reasoning doesn't involve health. Almost every vegan I know is so for ethical, not health reasons.
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by cllns 12y ago
Ah, I see. Cool. Another idea: you could add a little box to the bottom of each section that says "Add your own", which would gradually lead into a sign-up, as well.
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by cllns 12y ago
Since this is a UX site, here's my impression: I found the landing page a little confusing. "Edit my Free Checklist" I don't have a checklist to edit, I think this should say Create a Free Checklist? Also once I clicked
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by cllns 12y ago
The author of this piece, Stephen Marche, has a great essay that appeared on the Los Angeles Review of Books site last summer, called "The Literature of the Second Gilded Age" [1]: https://lareviewofbooks.org/essay
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by cllns 12y ago
"One of Marx’s greatest insights, delivered in an early book known as the 1844 Manuscripts, is that work can be one of the sources of our greatest joys." [1]: http://www.thebookoflife.org/the-great-philosophers-kar
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by cllns 12y ago
Link to the project homepage: http://amberlink.org/ GitHub repos: https://github.com/berkmancenter?query=amber
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Amber, a new tool to prevent linkrot on websites, is out in beta(niemanlab.org)
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by cllns 12y ago
"If you're poor, stop being poor." from http://bit.ly/1AnVNuh about 5:30
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by cllns 12y ago
I'm just finishing up All About Love: New Visions by bell hooks. In it, she talks about love as an action. She frequently quotes Erich Fromm's The Art of Loving , which seems good as well. [1]: http://en.wikipedia.or
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by cllns 12y ago
I'd like to read this, but I don't see why I should have to share my email address with y'all to do it.
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by cllns 12y ago
For an example of what can go wrong: the 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer' HD Remaster has a few ruined shots. [1]: http://www.vox.com/2014/12/12/7385261/buffy-ruined
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by cllns 12y ago
> every year we take the company overseas for a month (on your own dime, sorry) and work incredibly hard while having a ton of fun. "On your own dime" sounds terrible. Is it optional?
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by cllns 12y ago
For those interested in learning more about why Haiti is so impoverished, Junot Díaz wrote a great and powerful piece a few years ago in the Boston Review. "Haiti’s nightmarish vulnerability has to be understood as part of a larger tre
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by cllns 12y ago
Re: "Fight the FOMO" This app is seems to be feeding the fear of missing out, rather than fighting it.
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by cllns 12y ago
> To my knowledge no one seriously teaches abstinence only sex education. If only this were true!
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by cllns 13y ago
This option on facebook (and the news of it right now) will also be great for gender awareness. Most people don't know there's a difference between sex and gender.
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by cllns 13y ago
This is awesome! Diaspora did this a few years ago too (more or less) http://www.sarahmei.com/blog/2010/11/26/disalienation/
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by cllns 13y ago
I'm referring to white supremacy (racism) as a societal institution, not merely the actions and beliefs of individuals. I wouldn't call policies which lessen the power of the white supremacy 'racist'. Racism is an ins
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by cllns 13y ago
White supremacy is an oppressive institution that reaches throughout all of society. Unless it is actively fought against, it will prevail.
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by cllns 13y ago
Jeez, firebug shows this site as being 64.7MB for me. And 'onload' occurred after 36 seconds.
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by cllns 13y ago
> It is a free country, right? People are still free to live anywhere they can pay the rent, right? That's true, if you're white. http://www.propublica.org/series/living-apart http://www.urban.o
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by cllns 13y ago
I liked Potluck a lot before the pivot into bite-sized news discussions. For those who don't know, it used to be a place to share links and discuss them with friends.

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