kd1221

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by kd1221 15y ago
By your description it's both. But exculpating one party and relegating them to gender-biased solutions is not a solution at all.
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by kd1221 15y ago
It's not about gender. From your point of view it's about character weakness. A woman has bad experiences with men, so she should be trained to seek haven among women? If she wants to get a mortgage, should she do so only through a femal
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by kd1221 15y ago
Also, I fear that groups of women programming might not get the same experience as if they were also programming with men. I'm skeptical of the value of gender-biased environments helping defeat perceived gender biases found in a particula
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by kd1221 15y ago
"The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them." When you understand that Hemingway quote, you will realize that all ratings services are inherently useless when it comes to the value of trust. In the case of Yelp, th
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by kd1221 15y ago
The problem with the 10x vs. 1x statement is that the 10x people are not constantly 10x better than the median. The environment in which they are placed has a lot to do with it. Circumstantial mediocrity is often a consequence of poor man
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by kd1221 15y ago
I have to second gallerytungsten's comment. I've been approached a dozen times by business people offering me equity for my development time. I committed to and completed three projects and nothing ever came of them. Thankfully it only am
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by kd1221 15y ago
Two data points, yours and mine, are hardly enough to draw a lesson from. Lesson: Don't jump to conclusions and teach others lessons based on your hurt feelings. The majority of the comment was praising my female math teachers for caring en
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by kd1221 15y ago
http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/29547/Study_Female_Spend_... The study you linked is more recent, but such a massive swing in the other direction is probably not indicative of reality. Statistics reported by agencies are often interpr
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by kd1221 15y ago
Exploit doesn't always have a negative connotation, and neither does manipulate. Cheating is irrelevant to the discussion. If you think exploitation is only about cheating, then you will be a software developer your whole life, as your fa
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by kd1221 15y ago
Working smart is getting someone or something else to do your work for you. That's one definition, and in the case of VCs, it's how they work. VCs don't invest in a company. They invest in a functioning system. They invest in individuals
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by kd1221 15y ago
I've tried Adderall a few times and never got the productivity burst that users claim to receive. It tends to have the opposite effect on me. My attention darts everywhere and my skin feels like it's being pricked by thousands of needles.
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by kd1221 15y ago
I graduated right before the peak of the 2000 dotcom bust, and I got a two exploding offers that I didn't accept. The offer I ended up taking was the opposite of an exploding offer: the nebulous offer. I was told I was being tendered an of
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by kd1221 15y ago
No. Not all the users are real. Companies employ various methods to create the illusion of activity on their dating sites. You also have to account for spammers/scammers. If you want a more realistic gauge of activity, then take any use
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by kd1221 15y ago
Currently they're bandwidth bound, but I'm dissolving that. In the next year I imagine that it'll move to being more memory bound. Then that will turn into being bound by I/O, but that can be solved with memory and more clever caching sch
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by kd1221 15y ago
We deliver video content. We have a CDN that properly encodes and serves our content. All I need is to handle the HTTP requests for the "directory" of videos. A shared environment would probably be fine. All the 4GB servers seem to have
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by kd1221 15y ago
Can anyone else comment on experiences with Linode (and equivalent alternatives)? I'm considering moving a group of servers off expensive dedicated hosting ($400/server) to a VPS service. I've looked at Amazon EC2 but they don't seem to h
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by kd1221 15y ago
How many social chat rooms can exist simultaneously? World of Warcraft, Second Life, Everquest, Facebook, Google Hangouts, Shaker, etc. Their success basically depends on marketing to individuals who are further from the neurotypical end
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by kd1221 15y ago
I've taken psilocybin mushrooms twice. I've also read plenty of literature about psychedelics and the nature of reality. My experience is difficult to describe, because it was mostly "feeling." Language is a very crude way to express fee
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by kd1221 15y ago
Did you check out Festival/Festvox/Cepstral? http://festvox.org/ Festival/Festvox are free to use. I built an Arabic speech synthesizer with it in the spring of 2002 for a class project. It's quite flexible. Cepstral is a commercial o