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by cruise02 10y ago
Open source would not be nearly as impressive as reproducible.
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by cruise02 10y ago
It isn't arrogant to assume other people are at least as well read as you are. It would be arrogant to assume that they aren't.
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by cruise02 10y ago
It probably isn't if you're coming at the material for the first time, or after a long break. I took a 15-week course in Linear Algebra a few months ago, and we only covered about half the book in that time. I spent just about eve
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by cruise02 10y ago
> Periodically over on Stack Overflow (and in many other programming forums) the question comes up about what books are good for programmers to read. The question has been asked and answered several times, in several different ways. The
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by cruise02 11y ago
If you have to make this kind of leap to support your argument, you don't have an argument.
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by cruise02 11y ago
That's not discrimination against young people because it's not saying that young people aren't allowed to ride the bus, just that they have to pay the regular price. (Also, most children in the U.S. are bused to school for
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by cruise02 11y ago
Yeah, I'd hate to be exposed to eight more great films if they were made by women. /s
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by cruise02 11y ago
Please do advertise that since there's a reason for stereotypes, your company uses them in making hiring decisions. Let me know how that goes over.
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by cruise02 11y ago
Use some common sense. For how many values of $x that would be the subject of an interview question are 5 year olds going to be better than grandmothers?
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by cruise02 11y ago
"...to a 5 year old" should be pretty safe. "...to your grandmother" could be construed as both sexist and ageist, so I'd avoid it.
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by cruise02 11y ago
And yet, people still don't make a new pot when they take the last of the old.
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by cruise02 11y ago
If a bot can detect that you "don't buy feminist agenda," then it is evaluating based on content, not on sex or race.
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by cruise02 11y ago
That's all fine and good in an environment where people can actually come to physical harm, but this article is about academia. I think we need to stop excusing asshole behavior in academia and IT.
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by cruise02 11y ago
J.K. Rowling pays her tax. http://www.businessinsider.com/jk-rowling-on-high-taxes-2012...
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by cruise02 11y ago
I guess I can understand how people might become confused if their concept of socialism comes from a single satirical book about egalitarianism.
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by cruise02 11y ago
> Instead of helping everyone... Yes, that's exactly what socialism is based on.
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by cruise02 11y ago
There's another potential asymmetry between the number of times you write something vs. how many people read it/how many times it is read.
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by cruise02 11y ago
Also note that an increase from 0.5% to 0.6% would be the same amount of "increased risk." Always look for the base rate.
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by cruise02 11y ago
Yes, the impact of a 1 percentage point increase is significant, but it's nowhere near the bloodbath that an increase of 18 percentage points would be, which is how I think most people would read "increased risk by 18%."
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by cruise02 11y ago
It's important to understand what "increased risk" means. From the linked article: > The IARC’s experts concluded that each 50-gram (1.8-ounce) portion of processed meat eaten daily increased the risk of colorectal cancer
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by cruise02 11y ago
Only one character is going to be marked in this case, not a whole line or section of code. Deleting it and retyping it costs one second. I guess I've seen more than my fair share of encoding issues. I used to tutor at a university, so
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by cruise02 11y ago
> Replace a semicolon (;) with a greek question mark (;) in your friend's C# code and watch them pull their hair out over the syntax error I'm not sure how frustrating this would be. Wouldn't most people just delete the ch
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by cruise02 11y ago
They can start with everyone who is involved in translating sports stories into emoji.
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by cruise02 11y ago
It's not officially Fall until Lucy pulls away the football.
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by cruise02 11y ago
Yes, I read the article, and I understood it. But thanks for explaining it to me anyway.
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by cruise02 11y ago
I can't tell if this is satire or not. > In this instance Amazon went back into the mud to correct a perceived wrong with logic and clarity. I find it interesting that we now view "logic and clarity" as a bad thing, while
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by cruise02 11y ago
Innocent people will swear that they're innocent when you falsely accuse them, too.
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by cruise02 11y ago
And when it comes to supporting corporations (biased or not), this is mostly a right wing media thing. Just because they do it from opposing sides doesn't make it ok.
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by cruise02 11y ago
It's possible to update everyone's password without them logging in. If the old storage was just MD5(password) and you want to update it to MD5(bcrypt(password)), you're out of luck. You need the plaintext password to make th
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by cruise02 12y ago
How do you let someone cancel over 1500 rides from the same phone number? Pizza delivery places had this figured out decades ago.

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