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by cplanas 7mo ago
The American occupation of Japan may have been less punitive than Germany’s, but it was arguably more invasive: Japan’s postwar Constitution was largely drafted by Americans, with minimal Japanese input. By contrast, West Germany’s Basic La
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by cplanas 9mo ago
Nice! I haven't read Axiomatic yet, but this has been my "Greg Egan year". I have read Permutation City and Diaspora: maybe the two most stimulating scifi novels I have ever read.
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by cplanas 1y ago
Not totally related, but I wanted to make a question. Iam sure this post will host quite a lot of Culture fans. With which novel should I start with The Culture? The main two candidates are Consider Phlebas and The Player of Games.
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by cplanas 1y ago
That quote from Banks only tells us that The Culture is his personal utopia. Fair enough, but Banks does not have authority over interpretations on his work. One man's heaven is another man's hell.
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by cplanas 1y ago
Location: Barcelona, Spain Remote: Yes. Also open to hybrid. Willing to relocate: no. More than happy to make periodic visits to any office, though. Technologies: Ruby, Rails, Javascript Résumé/CV: https://drive.google.com&#
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by cplanas 1y ago
Location: Barcelona, Spain Remote: Yes. Also open to hybrid. Willing to relocate: no. More than happy to make periodic visits to any office, though. Technologies: Ruby, Rails, Javascript Résumé/CV: https://drive.google.com&#
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by cplanas 2y ago
> I’ve noticed lots of rails developers optimize so heavily for making things DRY, they make the most hard to debug monstrosities full of meta programming all so they could write a thing one one line of code instead of 3. I think that wa
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by cplanas 2y ago
Your experience is very different from mine. I rarely interviewed white candidates, but they were still more common than Hispanic and Black ones. The majority of the candidates were Asian.
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by cplanas 4y ago
I don't think that most of proponents of DEI share my opinion, but for me, the endgame of DEI (and antiracism in general) is the destruction of race as a social concept. IMO, race is basically a casta system, particularly given how it
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by cplanas 4y ago
Could you share which supplements?
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Zendesk goes private in $10B deal(finance.yahoo.com)
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by cplanas 4y ago
It must be terrible to live with this level of self-hatred.
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by cplanas 4y ago
Author of the presentation here. While you are right that sharding is an incredible tool that makes our lives much easier, not everything in our system is/can be sharded. Also, we do handle more than a billion requests/day, that w
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by cplanas 4y ago
Author of the talk here. Thank you, you made my day by sharing my presentation. :) One thing I would like to add after reading some of the comments here. The "1 billion requests/day" is actually an understatement so the title
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by cplanas 4y ago
I think he meant particularly Ginny and Clarence Thomas, not people of different races in general.
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by cplanas 4y ago
Spaniard here. Over 50k is definitely possible, particularly now with so many remote opportunities available. Unfortunately, those positions are highly-coveted, so prepare for long interviews with multiple stages. I think becoming a softwar
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by cplanas 4y ago
I'm sorry, but exactly which "medium-sized European city" has more expensive housing than SF? I'll be moving back to Europe this year, and I find your comment quite funny, given that I am moving to a city with significan
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by cplanas 5y ago
I think that the racialization of Hispanics as a group has been pretty bad for "non-white" Latinos too. 1. You are right that someone that doesn't visually appear "white" will be racialized in the US. However, the m
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by cplanas 5y ago
I read that book when I arrived to the US: really interesting. IMO, the activists that pushed the idea of the "Hispanic" race/ethnicity into the American mindset made a huge mistake. Racializing yourself is a bad thing, even
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by cplanas 5y ago
I am a "Hispanic" that lives in the US. I am also European. In my experience what qualifies as an Hispanic varies incredibly from institution to institution, from person to person. A few months ago I was admitted briefly to the ho
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by cplanas 5y ago
I doubt that it can be taken seriously as a medical question, as some of the American "races" don't cluster genetically. Hispanic is probably the worst offender, but Asian is pretty bad too.
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by cplanas 5y ago
And yet Spain (and Italy) are relatively stable first world countries. Damn, I live in the US, and I would say there is way more hustlery here than back in Spain.
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by cplanas 5y ago
I kind of agree here, but the problem is that big tech is not even matching the "demographics of the people obtaining the necessary skills to work in that department". According to your own data, Hispanics got 8.16% of CS degrees;
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by cplanas 5y ago
> It always felt condescending to me. I completely agree with you. Pity is a particularly disturbing version of contempt. But if you think that this contempt is only reflected in the diversity circus, you are fooling yourself. High-caste
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by cplanas 5y ago
You don't have to. It just helps significantly.
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by cplanas 5y ago
Because diversity efforts are largely ineffectual and, if you are interviewed by people of your own race, unconscious bias will help you. Some studies showed certain ethnic markers are harmful for applicants: https://www.nber.or
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by cplanas 5y ago
> More concretely, my wife happens to be hispanic, and feels she's experienced more negative racism in Barcelona than she ever did in the US. I'm a bit confused by this. Racism in Barcelona against Hispanics? It's because
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by cplanas 5y ago
I think it's totally worth to try it. While I will be coming back soon, I am happy that I was able to have this experience. Good luck!
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by cplanas 5y ago
Oh, I'm from Barcelona myself. While I agree with you that the upper class in the US is much richer than in Barcelona, I strongly disagree with you about the poor. I think very often about my particular situation, and what would have h
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by cplanas 5y ago
Maybe you have been lucky. I have seen racism in engineering jobs, most typically in the form of bias or preconceived ideas of how people of certain "races" are supposed to behave, or what are their perspectives in life.

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