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Re:The Pianist and the Lobster
on Thursday June 27, 2019 @12:22AM (#20291731)
Thank you for posting this. It was a very enjoyable read!
Re:As a female engineer, I am not diversity
on Thursday October 25, 2018 @08:16PM (#18305784)
I know that statistics can be found that in some way correlate "diversity" with some financial metric or other being better. But that still is not definitive nor does it address the fundamental issue which is "what really is diversity, on what basis and features should it be measured, and WHY should we optimize for diversity as opposed to OTHER traits that potentially will correlate even more highly with other desirable metrics?"
Re:As a female engineer, I am not diversity
on Thursday October 25, 2018 @01:56PM (#18302946)
Exactly. The greatest problem with this article is its underlying assumption that "diversity" is good by itself and that companies should pursue it. The author makes the point that she is not "diverse enough", while ignoring the fundamental issue that measuring "diversity" and showing that it is a goal worth pursuing by itself is non-trivial and problematic. The fact that she is counted as "diversity" while claiming that she isn't is exactly the reason why current societies' and organizations' extreme focus on and overvaluing of diversity is misguided.
Re:Was Wittgenstein Right? (2013)
on Monday July 23, 2018 @12:38AM (#17590615)
Yes I was.
Re:Good engineers make terrible leaders
on Sunday December 10, 2017 @02:37PM (#15893079)
The title of this article is click-bait and a complete oversimplification. I'm tired of seeing shit like this in HN and can't believe people are upvoting it.
Re:Bitcoin – Potential Network Disruption on July 31st
on Thursday July 13, 2017 @12:52PM (#14762868)
Does anyone know how Coinbase is going to handle this?
Re:SQL is 43 years old – Here’s why we still use it today
on Tuesday May 02, 2017 @01:52PM (#14248743)
I'm wondering what is the revenue of SQLizer?
Re:21.co Bitcoin Computer Now on Sale
on Monday November 16, 2015 @01:06PM (#10575935)
I don't really understand why anyone would buy this.
Re:Let the Other 95% of Great Programmers In
on Friday December 26, 2014 @01:36PM (#8799641)
Another great essay by Paul Graham that spells out the idiotic state of the current US immigration system in a clear manner. It is fucking unbelievable that even in the comments here there are still people complaining about foreign programmers driving salaries down or taking jobs from US citizens. Paul Graham is right and any intelligent person can see this.
Re:What Happened to U.S. Plans to Raise the H-1B Visa Ceiling?
on Friday September 12, 2014 @03:42PM (#8310026)
It's unbelievable that the US government is focusing on providing a legal path to citzenship to ILLEGAL immigrants, while legal immigrants who are highly educated (sometimes at Ivy Leage institutions) have to wait for years to get a greencard, depending on their country of citizenship. What's unbelievable is that they can't easily change employers during the green card application process. There is nothing more absurd than American top universities educating thousands of highly qualified international students, only to make their lives miserable with respect to immigration after they graduate and doing everything in their power to encourage them to take their brains to another country instead.
Re:Your Job is Not to Code
on Sunday June 15, 2014 @02:13AM (#7894569)
It looks like the job of this article's writer is to create lots of bullshit.
Re:Spouses of Some H-1B Visa Holders to Be Allowed to Work
on Thursday May 08, 2014 @12:10AM (#7713915)
I haven't witnessed a process that is more stupid and bureaucratic as the H-1B-to-permanent-residence application process. The full thing is based on farce and it makes no sense whatsoever. I still cannot conceive how going through this process can be the law.
Re:Do Men Suck At Friendship?
on Wednesday April 23, 2014 @12:55PM (#7635222)
Some men are genuinely not very interested in forming intimate friendships with other males. This does not mean men "suck" at friendship. It just means they prefer to have intimate relationships with women, not men.
Re:Spouses of H-1B Visa Holders May Soon Be Allowed to Work in the U.S.
on Friday April 11, 2014 @01:44PM (#7574317)
It is ridiculous that they're focusing on spouses of H-1B holders instead of fixing the innumerable flaws and pains embedded in the H-1B process altogether (six year limit, long wait time for a green card, the restriction an H-1B holder is subject to, etc.)
Re:CS undergrad looking to combine travel and supporting NGOs this summer
on Wednesday May 15, 2013 @09:15AM (#5711703)
My eyes hurt after looking at your website.
Re:Move over Zuck, Abraham Lincoln filed a patent for Facebook in 1845
on Tuesday May 08, 2012 @03:04PM (#3945320)
Seriously, why do titles like this make it to the top of HN?
Yeah, Lincoln totally outpwned Zuck, because the idea of a place to give updates about your life is so mind-boggling, and that idea itself is why Zuck is rich.
Re:Try right clicking GitHub's logo
on Thursday April 12, 2012 @05:35PM (#3834279)
Then this is an argument for NOT overloading the right-click behavior, not for adding a "No thanks" preference. Then all users who want to right-click have to go through ONE EXTRA STEP just to be able to do that?
Re:Try right clicking GitHub's logo
on Thursday April 12, 2012 @05:34PM (#3834271)
Why are you going to right click again? Do you want the browser's regular right-click context menu? Okay, that's a valid reason. But then what if you want the popup AGAIN after you click "No thanks"? Does the user then have to clear his cache? This is overly complex.
If the right-click behavior is being overloaded, then the current solution is better than making it a global preference. Many user will be confused with what "No thanks" means. Are you going to have an explanation saying "If you click "No thanks", then you'll get the browser's regular menu after you right-click from now on? If you get rid of the "No thanks", then you'll have inconsistent behavior. The first time you right-click, something will happen, and something different will happen the second time, and users will be like "WTF?" All this trouble with such a small feature shouldn't happen in the first place. The person who suggested this does indeed sound like a typical PM.
Re:Try right clicking GitHub's logo
on Thursday April 12, 2012 @05:15PM (#3834205)
Why do you need to answer no and right-click otherwise? If you don't want it, you close the dialog; closing it effectively means "No thanks". You're not going to be right-clicking on that logo often like a mad man. The current solution makes perfect sense. Your solution is terrible and overly complex.
Re:MIT urban planner rethinks parking lots
on Tuesday March 13, 2012 @10:01PM (#3701449)
Very interesting. I wonder how much power it takes to operate something like this.
Re:Aerial robots swarm the stage at TED [video]
on Friday March 02, 2012 @04:35PM (#3658486)
Amazing work from the Penn GRASP lab! This is ground breaking!
Re:Asking for a letter of recommendation
on Thursday October 27, 2011 @01:48PM (#3164474)
Matt, What would you suggest I do in this case:
I graduated in May 2009 and have been working in the industry for 2 years. I worked with a professor for my senior project. I recently emailed said professor asking for a letter of recommendation, and I received no response. It's very hard for me to know whether he ignored the email because he was not enthusiastic about writing the letter, or because he forgot / did not receive it / whatever. What do you think is the best course of action here? Wait for a week and then send another email? What if he doesn't reply again?
Re:From Technologist to Philosopher
on Tuesday July 19, 2011 @09:39PM (#2783929)
This is great
Re:Request for Google+ invite here - Let's help each other.
on Tuesday July 05, 2011 @07:55PM (#2732048)
[email protected]
Please help me make my brother jealous!
Re:How to catch invisible friends on GTalk
on Tuesday February 22, 2011 @10:46PM (#2252924)
As far as I can see, the script will print out a contact in both of these cases:
1) Contact goes from Online to Invisible
2) Contact goes from Online to Offline by signing off
This effectively means that the script gives you no more information than what you get from the contact list. You can't know if someone went offline or went invisible.
Re:Quantifying The Value Of A College Degree (By Major)
on Thursday January 06, 2011 @11:36AM (#2075954)
"No college will actually do this because transparency goes directly against their interests"
This is simply false. Plenty of universities publish employment surveys with salaries by major. For an example, see the University of Pennsylvania's Career Services Web site. The fact that the author makes this statement lightly says a lot about how careful he is.
Re:Manuel Blum: Advice to a beginning graduate student
on Saturday December 25, 2010 @03:35AM (#2038710)
"For example, Finite Automata can add but not multiply."
Can someone please explain why this is true? If it can add, how can it not multiply if multiplication is repeated addition?
Re:How I Snuck Into The Ivy League. And You Can Too.
on Thursday October 21, 2010 @04:22PM (#1817290)
The title of this article is highly misleading. Does the author really think she accomplished something significant by gaining admission to the General Education program of an Ivy League university by knowing someone? The truth of the matter is that those programs are just not at the same level as the normal programs, and that you don't get an equivalent degree.
Re:Ask HN: What music do you listen to when coding?
on Wednesday October 20, 2010 @10:38PM (#1814061)
Bach (usually played by Glenn Gould), Scarlatti.
Re:The reverse job applicant
on Wednesday October 20, 2010 @01:43AM (#1810169)
I think the fact that this made it to the top of HN is unfortunate. This was precisely what the author of the reverse job application intended. Yet, creating a reverse job application web site clearly does not take any significant skill. It is not a ground-breaking idea, or an idea that a common job applicant cannot conceive. Yet, he is now claiming on his resume that his idea went to top of HN, which, ironically, will be viewed by some as a worthy achievement...