mruniverse

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by mruniverse 4mo ago
I read it was partly inspired by "Local Hero" (Bill Forsyth movie). The visiting Russian singer felt like a direct lift of the visiting Russian fisherman in "Local Hero".
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by mruniverse 7mo ago
We got rid of QA engineers a few years ago. I think some VP will hear what Nadella is doing and start their innovative initiative to start hiring QA engineers.
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by mruniverse 2y ago
It might not be simple. It could be very hard, very expensive. Is it worth doing? Does it have value? Would it be so bad if most of the CEOs are white men? All the execs are white men? But I don't want to pick on white men. Let's
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by mruniverse 2y ago
What if we don't assume any bias and just look at outcome? We stipulate that bias should play no part in decision making. Only the outcome should matter. If the outcome doesn't match racial balance of the society we make it so.
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by mruniverse 2y ago
I think people can have unconscious bias. But in hiring, I think it's mostly conscious. What I mean is that I think people will see a long Indian name they can't pronounce and skip that resume or put it off until later. That'
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by mruniverse 2y ago
Should business have freedoms that are good for business but bad for society? Isn't the whole reason for businesses in the first place is that they improve society? They are an efficient way to allocate resources for the good of everyo
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by mruniverse 2y ago
The purpose of our state is to provide for its citizens. So we decided to use a market economy because it seems the most efficient way to do that. But we make up the rules that it runs by and we can change the rules as we see fit. So it see
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by mruniverse 2y ago
I think it's more unsaid than unconscious. But putting that aside, if DEI is purposeful and deliberate while the "natural state" of things is not (unconscious bias), is that how we should leave it? Should businesses have the
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by mruniverse 2y ago
I think it's always conscious one way or the other. With or without DEI. It could be close to blind if communication were only done through writing and the candidate names were not known.
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by mruniverse 2y ago
Is the business perspective the right one to go with? Let's say it's legal to discriminate on race in hiring in the US. Then a Japanese restaurant hires only Japanese workers because they find customers prefer it. Do we want to ha
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by mruniverse 3y ago
The reason people like her is that she gets them interested in the guest. Not many interviewers can do that. She'll interview some blues artist you've never heard of and the next thing you know you're looking them up on Youtu
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by mruniverse 3y ago
I thought Apple's Blue Ocean stuff were: * Macintosh * iPhone * Apple Store
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by mruniverse 3y ago
It feels Google phones are very nice prototype projects from a darling business unit. Used to show off cool software for trade shows.
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by mruniverse 3y ago
Yes, at the time it was all about desktop publishing and graphic design. It wasn't until the end of the 90s that PCs started to make its way into that niche. Also it didn't feel like Apple was for consumers until the iPod came out
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by mruniverse 3y ago
Seemed like you always needed a trio of main apps. In the graphic design market of the 90s, it was Quark, Photoshop and Illustrator. To a lesser extent it was Pagemaker, Photoshop and Freehand.
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by mruniverse 3y ago
I can see it being nice if it's like Minority Report, where you can swipe small screens away, etc. Talk and it types. Glance to the left to see how the builds are going, etc. It could also be a nice virtual whiteboard. Usually it'
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by mruniverse 4y ago
I think a gesture is actually worse. They can say, hey look, I'm just like you. If I can work like this so can you. So buck up. When in fact they can go into their reserved conference room any time they want. Or not even use their bigg
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by mruniverse 4y ago
What is the merit here?
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by mruniverse 4y ago
I think you can answer your own question. Did you "give" anything to the people who were empathetic and listened to you?
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by mruniverse 4y ago
Here's what the professor had to say: “I am showing you this image for a reason. And that is that there is this common thinking that Islam completely forbids, outright, any figurative depictions or any depictions of holy personages. Wh
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by mruniverse 4y ago
As long as it's only thinking people odd. Not sure if the professor felt existential about it but she said: “I am showing you this image for a reason. And that is that there is this common thinking that Islam completely forbids, outrig
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by mruniverse 4y ago
Tolerant enough to support an art history professor who showed an image depicting Muhammad?
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by mruniverse 4y ago
How sensitive are Muslims to other peoples way of life?
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by mruniverse 4y ago
I think he was angry too, but that makes it all the more impressive.
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by mruniverse 4y ago
Execs who are/were developers is a good sign for me.
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by mruniverse 4y ago
Had this happen recently. Their manager insisted we make the fix since it was in our repo. He was so rude about it that I pushed back and there was a long heated back and forth. Then a colleague found their PR and the associated ticket. I a
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by mruniverse 4y ago
Number 3 seems about right. My Vulcan brain thinks that something like number 1 must the answer, but my lizard brain knows that the food pellets drop when I follow number 3. Back in the day, our CEO's neighbor mentioned that our site d
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by mruniverse 4y ago
The larger the company is, the better this works. Who knows what everyone really does? It's only the direct peers that will give side glances. And even then, it's risky. You can be seen as having sour grapes, not being a team play
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by mruniverse 4y ago
The problem I see is that even though managers have a different skillset, they have out-sized influence on technical or technically related decisions. And a lot of times it's more than just influence; They just make the decision themse
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by mruniverse 4y ago
I think physical menus are an opportunity to make your restaurant memorable. QR code menus lean toward commodity.

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