needacig

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by needacig 11y ago
I agree with the sentiment in your first sentence, but really, loving Facebook and CandyCrush is the first trait you think of to eliminate? If only that were the worst thing about us.
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by needacig 11y ago
I've never seen a woman do this so I suspect this is just your stereotype-based expectations biasing your interpretations. Peoples' memory of events are notoriously unreliable and extremely susceptible to the power of suggestion,
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by needacig 11y ago
It has to be a lot higher than that now because the commenter with the comment above yours has ~900 karma and doesn't have downvote privilege.
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by needacig 11y ago
Ok, but "be a billionaire and start a VC firm" and "kick ass" aren't actionable pieces of advice for anyone except the half-dozen or so women he mentioned. I appreciate the characterization of VC firms as clubs thou
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by needacig 11y ago
> Ever seen a woman going completely apeshit at a male for some reason (sometime justified, sometimes not)? Why would you use that example?
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by needacig 12y ago
If the person is adding value while not on maternity (or paternity) leave then it would be worthwhile to pay them while they are gone so they come back and continue working for you. If you don't do it, some other employer probably will
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by needacig 12y ago
Whatever algorithm was used to decide what point to link the tooltip to on the top scatter plot is mildly infuriating. It's impossible to get the tooltip to highlight the pink dots at the low end of the scale. I can't mouse over t
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by needacig 12y ago
It is part of the conversation. There was just an NPR Forum segment about it yesterday or so. There are articles about it sometimes (e.g., http://www.mercurynews.com/science/ci_25859513/nations-large... ). This sol
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by needacig 12y ago
The answer is always no.
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by needacig 12y ago
It seems cult-like from the inside too.
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by needacig 12y ago
See my theory here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9236049 EDIT: Please, and if you want.
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by needacig 12y ago
I don't agree this is an anti-feminist choice, but I think people might see it that way because genuinely anti-feminist people like to claim that a woman's place is in the home and that women's brains aren't really suite
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by needacig 12y ago
My intuition (and cultural tropes) tells me this varies depending on whether you are male or female. You can look at the age differentials of married couples and see that women will marry men who are older than them (or men will marry women
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by needacig 12y ago
Are you joking? Everyone talks about this.
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by needacig 12y ago
Oh, I forgot about that. Probably at least by UIUC if not a little higher actually.
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by needacig 12y ago
I'd say especially if you want to go into academia. Source: I've witnessed graduate admissions committees at a top school at work.
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by needacig 12y ago
Also I agree with other commenters who point out that in CS, several schools outside the Ivy league are considered good names: MIT, Stanford, CMU, UC Berkeley, Caltech, UIUC, in that order. With the Ivy leagues I'd rank it somewhat lik
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by needacig 12y ago
Name matters far more than quality of education, which is hard (or currently impossible) to measure, and usually gleaned through your interviews. In fact, name is a proxy for the quality of education. This is true not just at companies, but
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by needacig 12y ago
The trick to not getting into an argument with this gossiper is to always seem like you have the utmost sympathy their point of view, but you can also defend the other person by playing as if you are extremely sympathetic to them too. You w
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by needacig 12y ago
Why not try to carefully stick up for this non-present colleague? As long as you don't make the person who is gossiping feel attacked or belittled, this could effectively discourage the behavior. The trick is to convince the group that
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by needacig 12y ago
It's sad to dismiss cancer patients' attempt to hang on to a shred of normalcy as "silly". If you just got handed a death sentence, far be it from me to tell you your small personal desires are silly. These people need a
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by needacig 12y ago
Does anyone else think it kind of shameful that the author could live in Austria for 12 years and still speak such poor German? Now you can't understand everything your child is saying. Congrats.
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Woman whose rent was raised by 400% in SF made more from AirBNB than she paid(blog.sfgate.com)
8 points by needacig 12y ago|1 comments
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Take control of your digital spaces – DIY guide to cybersecurity(tech.safehubcollective.org)
2 points by needacig 12y ago|0 comments
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by needacig 12y ago
This is an incredible piece. Very well-written and fascinating.
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by needacig 12y ago
Mixed taps are all over the US and many other places in the world and have been for a while and we have no water safety issues from this. Water safety has nothing to do with it: "Most bathroom sinks in Britain still have separate hot a
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by needacig 12y ago
This is a good idea, unfortunately I've worked on projects recently in which the "backend" is in JS.
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by needacig 12y ago
Not from a usability point of view.
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by needacig 12y ago
Moment.js has the unfortunate property that it will recognize many non-dates as dates, so it's not much good for validation. For example: `moment("cats 123 <3!!!").isValid()` returns `true`. I have yet to find a date parsi
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by needacig 12y ago
Just to restate this, the author's theory is that the reason parents these days don't let their kids have as much freedom as parents in the past did is because parents these days value their kids more than parents in the past used

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