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by obstinate 9y ago
Someone seeking a job that you control can probably be said to be like a coworker for the purposes of analyzing power imbalances.
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by obstinate 9y ago
We have been inundated by posts like these lately as these creepy dudes have been outed. I have felt as you do on several of them. IMO, this one comes the closest to being a real apology. Doesn't make up for what he did, not by a mile.
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by obstinate 9y ago
I wouldn't say perfectionism and sales-orientedness are on the same dimension. However, I have noticed that being given the hard-sell is more often than not associated with the product being sub par. A product or project that is doing
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by obstinate 9y ago
If not fines, then imprisonment for contempt of court is a remedy judges have at their disposal. I'm sure it would not take very long for Kholsa to get the point.
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by obstinate 9y ago
The purpose of sanctions in a situation like this is to compel the recipient of those sanctions to do the court's bidding. They should just ratchet the sanctions up until he does what has been ordered. If ten thousand dollars won'
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by obstinate 9y ago
> Actually, such behavior has gotten people killed in those contexts. Nobody is going to die if you can't date someone. Again, I advocate a conservative approach to getting a date with a coworker. One request, declined for any reaso
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by obstinate 9y ago
- Reparations to all he harmed directly. - Further reparations to groups representing those similarly situated. - Meaningful engagement with mental health professionals to attempt to work on the source of the problem. - Less defensive, less
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by obstinate 9y ago
You think that the women you've worked with have been promoted . . . because you were fantasizing about them instead of engaging with them? Not, for e.g., maybe because they were more capable than average? IMO, you should seek therapy.
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by obstinate 9y ago
Normally people have to do some penance before forgiveness, especially as the crimes grow more heinous. Continuing to live the rich and privileged life you were leading before, more or less untouched by the hand of justice, does not count f
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by obstinate 9y ago
> Disclosure, this comes to mind because of something that happened between me and a colleague of equal rank in a volunteer organization who went directly from "I don't think I can see a movie tonight" to "This situat
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by obstinate 9y ago
I dunno. A 30% code size win is non-trivial. I'm all for filing an issue first and seeing how likely it is that there is uptake from the dev team and desire to fix the problem. However, if no fix is forthcoming . . . code size has fair
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by obstinate 9y ago
Yes, yes. Or governments can enforce a more equitable split through taxes. But you still have to give some benefit to those who save, else there will be no reason to do aught but consume all one produces.
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by obstinate 9y ago
On some level, this is basically "capitalism 101." If I don't need my resources now, I can put them to work so that I can later benefit from them. This leads to me having productive assets, which pay me some return. If I coul
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by obstinate 9y ago
Construction and rent also vary with fanciness. Rent because rent is more expensive in the fancy parts of town. Construction because the quality of finishes is a significant factor in construction costs.
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by obstinate 9y ago
What it costs to open a fancy restaurant with top quality finishes including walls dripped with rose gold resin .
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by obstinate 9y ago
But . . . substantial effort is already being put in globally. Not enough by far, but much more than zero. This would seem to put the lie to your claim that nothing will be done until there is no choice, by contradiction.
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by obstinate 9y ago
She's also a socialist, for what it's worth, and involved in lobbying for quality affordable housing. That doesn't make her immune from attacks of classism, but it might affect how one judges what she says. (Also worth noting
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by obstinate 9y ago
Yours seems like a flippant response, but I don't think that it is. We have to be wary of confirmation bias here on HN. Would someone even think to publish a study where no effect was found? And then would someone post that link to HN?
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by obstinate 9y ago
To be clear, I don't think this is the only thing that makes python slow. It's probably one of the top five or ten things preventing it from being fast, though.
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by obstinate 9y ago
Well of course. :) If you don't write perf sensitive code, don't worry about perf. But if you do, in many cases avoiding hash tables can become important.
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by obstinate 9y ago
There's also FarmHash, whose 32-bit version is 2x as fast as xxHash on little endian machines (at least according to this benchmark suite https://github.com/rurban/smhasher ).
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by obstinate 9y ago
In fact, what performance oriented devs need to be taught about these days is how to not use hash tables, or, more generally, dictionaries. They are a super-easy data structure to reach for, but often it is possible to arrange your data s
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by obstinate 9y ago
I think you might be a little confused. Even in hash tables with chaining, one does not tend to spend much time traversing linked lists, because the typical bucket will have only one member. This depends on the load factor of the table, but
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by obstinate 9y ago
> You can implement the sorted vector of keys with a hash function instead of a coindexed vector of values So you're saying you're going to hash the keys, then sort them according to the hash, with tie breaking on the key itsel
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by obstinate 9y ago
> sorted vector of keys . . . reserve necessary memory and sort it . . . unsorted coindexed arrays . . . Most of the things you mentioned are not hash tables, but members of a parent concept, dictionaries. Hash tables all by definition i
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by obstinate 9y ago
> You only need anecdotes to prove that it's not bullshit. Oh dear. No. That's not true at all. Suppose I have back pain. Then I eat some dirt. Then I feel better. Then I start claiming that dirt ingestion cures back pain. Some
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by obstinate 9y ago
Even if I did, it would still be an anecdote. It would prove nothing either way. For that we have to look to data.
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by obstinate 9y ago
You know that thing about anecdotes. There are a lot of explanations for your situation getting better concurrently with chiro, but not because of chiro. For example, regression to the mean, placebo effect, etc. That said, I had been under
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by obstinate 9y ago
Depends on the team, right? It was a major quality of life bump for me when I recently transferred to a team with whose members I enjoy spending time.
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by obstinate 9y ago
In the same sense as Tetris is -- that is, unchallenging at slow pace, extremely difficult to do quickly.

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