mvarner

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by mvarner 9y ago
Re: your second and third points, they're donating directly to an already established bail fund that's been around for a few years and have seen 90% of the people they bail out show up to trial. The authors don't choose who t
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by mvarner 9y ago
I have a feeling that if race truly played a preferential role in hiring engineers, we would see more than 1% of tech roles being filled by Black engineers at Google. ;) https://www.google.com/diversity/
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by mvarner 9y ago
I believe the idea behind diversity initiatives is to ensure that the starting pool of 100 people is representative of larger demographics. Women make up ~50% of Carnegie Mellon's undergraduate computer science department (for instance
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by mvarner 11y ago
You can't really legally work anywhere at 13/14 -- I would totally recommend involving yourself with open source communities, joining a hackerspace, or looking for tech-related non-profit organizations that are interested in volun
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by mvarner 12y ago
"The 17,000 or so patients in this study were mostly middle-aged white people, upper- and middle-class, from San Diego." It's true that there are a lot of variables when asking broad questions like what causes poor health, bu
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by mvarner 12y ago
The particular instance I was thinking of when writing my response was pretty blatant! I was around 15 or 16, and sitting on a public bench at the university I was taking classes at. A man sat down at an adjacent bench. He was literally tur
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by mvarner 12y ago
I mean, there's a difference between looking at someone because they're talking or you're engaging in the meeting with them and staring directly at their boobs. I've been in situations where people are obviously gawping
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Republican Emoji Proposal(emoji.republican)
2 points by mvarner 12y ago|1 comments
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by mvarner 12y ago
Ah yes, I definitely want this company with a super-insecure app to handle my money. If they fix Snapchat's API vulnerabilities (from 2013!) maybe I'd consider it.
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by mvarner 12y ago
to harass and objectify women. because clearly if they do something like break up with you, or refuse to associate with you anymore, they totally deserve to be publicly shamed.
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by mvarner 12y ago
I visited Flour a year or so ago and it was absolutely delicious! Lovely atmosphere as well. Totally recommend, regardless of potential nuclear meltdowns :)
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by mvarner 12y ago
Was also exempted from one year of classes--currently doing something similar but with Art + CS. Definitely would recommend to anyone--more time to do research and such outside of your classes!
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Ask HN: Have you experienced a coding dream?
1 points by mvarner 13y ago|1 comments
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by mvarner 13y ago
Stumbled upon HN when I was around 14-15 (took me a while to work up the nerve to make an account)! Had been fairly familiar with ESR's Hacker Manifesto at that point (probably found that at around age 11?), and I think I was searchi
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by mvarner 13y ago
Hi! I just graduated high school, but spent most of my time hanging out in research labs at a university. If you happen to live close to a public university/college, I would recommend seeing if you can take classes (some states in the
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by mvarner 13y ago
Judging by the logo at the end, I'd say this was a project for a character animation class--so no mocap. :)
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by mvarner 13y ago
I know some restaurants will offer birthday coupons for joining their mailing list, which might attribute to the large amount of customers on one.
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by mvarner 13y ago
This was posted on Tumblr, which is generally known for its short attention span, and the blogger has a large contingent of younger fans, who may not be interested in reading about Youtube and would prefer to continue viewing cute cat gifs.
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by mvarner 14y ago
MIT Medical is available to provide members of the MIT community with psychological counseling. This is on pastebin because it is a copy of an email that was sent to everyone at MIT.
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by mvarner 14y ago
I think the point was less to be politically correct and more to personalize the game towards his daughter. He seems to really care about video games and wants to create the best possible experience for his daughter so that she can share th
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by mvarner 14y ago
Over-exercising addiction actually has serious consequences on people's health, as it causes stress fractures that are often exacerbated by them trying to "power through it". That being said, few people actually have this sort of problem, a
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by mvarner 16y ago
A good friend of mine hangs out with the 7x7 cube champion of the United States. He plays with various different kinds of Rubik's cubes, and from what I gather cubing can also get rather addicting.