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Then are they really geeks or just have geek tendencies?

Geekdom is a blood pact that one carries with them wherever they go. There's a lot of "us vs. them" mentality, especially in more introverted circles that feel as though normal society is not for them and they will never fit in.

This hostility is aimed at anyone who, to use their vernacular, is a normie. Someone that, as they see it, has had the luck to be able to fit in to the molds society demanded of them, is not "one of them." This includes men, specifically the "high-status," attractive, promiscuous, and athletic men. As well as normal women, who by the real life random number generator we call chance, are a much greater portion of their gender than men. This is one possible reason it may seem like there is large hostility targeted specifically at women.

Women, using only the frequent amount of stories I've heard, are known for their affinity to want to insert themselves into groups they don't belong in and feel like a great injustice has been done upon them by this. There are certain groups of people that your average woman will never be able to fit in, no matter how much activism she engages in. To tie these two paragraphs together, the largest problems I've seen arise of clashes between geeks and normies, are people who want to "be part" of the group in name, but don't want to be part of the group in lifestyle and essence.

These groups are very welcoming to anyone who shows similarity to their members, but like most groups of people, will not tolerate those who wish to disrupt their bubble and way of being. It's like joining a smoker's support group, but coming in and chain smoking in everyone's faces. Then declaring that the hostility you receive is unwarranted. That it is them who should change their ways, not the malefactor.
Have a kid or know someone who does? Get that kid to do the work at all 3 houses. That way only noise one at a time and probably after school 3-5pm-ish
The caste system discussion is about India. And we can only debate conditions in the context they are present.

No studies are conducted in India on this because this is a political issue. People vote in blocks(vote banks). Any hint of a detailed study will expose these people and they threaten to vote against the politicians as a block.

This is the equivalent of stealing bulk of the cheddar, when accused prevent CCTV monitoring from being installed, continue stealing and claim no proof exist for the crime.
Luckily there is a better alternative....

https://www.jetbrains.com/rider/
My Nexus 5 runs it well ;-)
From a different article about this same subject[1]:

> The policy announcement “aims to address inequities in college readiness head-on in order to close gaps in degree attainment and afford all students the opportunity to succeed,”

When a policy like this is couched in that sort of language, it's pretty obvious that the changes aren't being made because white kids are having trouble graduating.

[1]: https://edsource.org/2017/cal-state-adopts-new-policies-to-h...
In my experience, non-managers are all 2nd class citizens. Given the option to remote full time for 5 years at company A vs. be in the office full time at company B and be a 1st class, 2nd class citizen, I'll chose A.
If you live on the West Coast and want your children to be able to read Hacker News, then you better send them to a private school.
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I don't really buy it but a potential reason is that people above a certain level have a business need for a private space.

Say you need to be on the phone all day talking about privileged information like the upcoming earnings call or a major business deal. Even at lower levels than that, maybe someone wants to come to you in private with a complaint or maybe you need to tell someone they're underperforming. You could do these things in meeting rooms like everyone else but if you're doing it 75% of the time you're working, you may as well have a private meeting room (i.e. office).

There's also security. People with higher privileges have more sensitive information that needs to be better protected. Yes workstations should be encrypted and confidential paper documents shouldn't be laying around the office but defence in depth is a thing.

Efficiency is another concern. The time of people at a certain level is extremely valuable and it can be wasted on suboptimal collaboration. Their time needs to be planned very carefully.

And finally, it's just a perk.
Long after it matters to me.
I hear they are great for asking how merge sort works during interviews for a CRUD application.
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I volunteered with ScriptEd in NYC and now in the Bay Area. They are probably one of the most thoughtful, organized, and fun non-profits I've ever worked with. And most importantly the kids have gone on to do some amazing things!
Has anyone here used gun extensively? https://github.com/amark/gun it seems to position itself as a competitor to firebase, and wouldn't have many of the issues mentioned in the OP
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I can't comment on Cal State, but SUNY schools in New York will pretty much take anybody. That doesn't necessarily make them bad institutions, it's just widely varied. I was fortunate enough (or unfortunate depending on how you look at it) to attend a SUNY CC and two private schools. My education at the SUNY CC was far superior to one of the private colleges, while the college I actually graduated from blew them both out of the water. It still surprises me how drastic the differences can be.
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I mean you know who is good in your team don't you? It doesn't have to be on a spreadsheet, qualitative results still count.
When you realize that it's all about equality of outcome instead of equality of opportunity, it makes much more sense.

> It's debatable whether there was ever a time when having a university degree actually meant you had a very high likelihood of being "ready to move into the workforce, ready to move into graduate or professional school."

You're kidding right? That most certainly was the case... many years ago.
The kind of soft discrimination that you're complaining about is a fact of life. Any industry who's life blood consists of relatively immature young men is going to have this kind of problem. What people like you are proposing is complete upheaval of basic behavioral tendencies to accommodate a few special cases. What exactly do you even want? Are you sure you know? If you want a social work atmosphere full personable people get into sales, tech is not the industry for you. That goes for men, women and everything in between.
The robot would have to predict those zeroes to 'dance them'.
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I recently joined a corn-hole league, and they had carefully made nice schedules for all ~25+ teams spread across 6 sets of boards, once a few teams didn't show up it quickly devolved into multiple paper pages with a bunch of scribbled notes and changes. Everyone had to ask the one person who held the magic clipboard what was actually happening.

So naturally, I created a basic data model for what we needed, but then stopped myself and thought, someone has to have already made this. However, searching for 'game match maker' comes up with weird dating sims, and 'roster' on github turns up nothing relevant. So this seems to be a strangely hard to google problem.

Before I go typing meteor create cornholers.io or anything, I thought I'd ask if anyone had any experience with something that could save me a bunch of time.
Truly, I think you're underestimating what people will pay for to get exclusive content in their core interest. Star Wars film releases are rapidly becoming an annual, family tradition for movie goers.

When you can drip out production updates and use electronic marketing channels to hype them or include fan AMA type stuff, there is big potential here to keep people around.

But to your point, if you take Star Wars out of the picture, you still get the entire Disney film collection. Just about every middle class family in America in the 90s had some portion of the Disney VHS collection on their shelves.

I don't see this desire for easy access to familiar, high quality, family-friendly content going away. I see it increasing.
As far as I can tell from the article the goal is to reduce the number of classes the students need to graduate. They are not say that that graduates will not meet the graduation requirements for math and english but that they have better ways to get them to learn what they need to learn to graduate. I have no doubt that every extra class that a student needs to take makes it less likely that he/she will graduate. It seems like the change is positive.

The real problem is that high schools aren't preparing some students for college. That's really where things need to change.
I was just using your technique of putting words in someone else's mouth, with a question mark at the end. See GP post.
Turn off your central and get a window unit and a desk fan for your home office. I don't run central most of the time because it's expensive.

You could always cool of the way God intended, sweat your ass off. :)
> Say you have 10 job openings for which there are 5 qualified men and 1000 qualified women.

Notice how you already constrained the number of men so that it has to be 50/50 representation, because you only have 5 qualified mean in your example. In reality, there are a lot more than 5 qualified men. There may be as many qualified men as women. There may be more qualified men than women. There may be fewer qualified men than women.

The proportion of qualified men to women is irrelevant. It's illegal to make hiring decisions based on gender because gender is a protected class. You can't discriminate against women and you can't discriminate against men. You need to choose the most qualified candidates for those 10 position. It may be 50/50, it may not be. You don't know the distribution of the 10 most qualified candidates.

If the company wants to spend more money on outreach to increase the pool of applicants from a certain group, that's legal. However once, they are in the hiring funnel and competing with other candidates for a position, you legally cannot make hiring decisions based on gender.

How much the company spends on outreach to recruit under-represented groups is up to debate. I personally think that budget should be decided like any other budget. It should be evaluated as an investment. What are estimated benefits relative to the amount of money invested worth it relative to other ways that money could be spent?
TCL has dynamic scope for those who don't know.
I buy DVDs. My data cap is too low to stream, and I can't get a higher one. (I've tried.) Netflix and whoever licensing shows for streaming only really pisses me off because then there's no way for me to watch those shows.
No, it's that empirically, the delays imposed by the existing requirement to complete remedial classes before taking any other classes has been counterproductive. They aren't lowering standards to pass substantive classes, the are requiring different mechanisms for closing the gaps that have worked better than the current CSU remediation model in other institutions.
Read the Sundar's letter. They're saying James was wrong, not that he not that James didn't fit the culture.
Yes, and with every pullout they are more like a dumb pipe full of sewage content.
Napoleon and Hitler were both shorter than the average and they were powerful leaders. Looking at their place in history I am confused about the research implications. I just search on Internet and the list is very large: http://www.ranker.com/list/shortest-world-leaders-from-histo... we cannot forget Putin!
A few other reasons (all that I've seen in some form in the real world):

* Insufficient raises. This is by far the most common reason, but it's been discussed in this thread well already so there's no need for me to dive into details here.

* Over-rewarding of managers and under-rewarding of developers. Very rarely are the management tracks and technical tracks actually equivalent. For instance, managers are granted extra power in the organization and can often grant themselves special perks like private offices.

* In the same vein, under-investing in developer workspaces. Toss me at random into a chaotic open floorplan and you're going to get very little loyalty from me. Show me that you care and are willing to do the best you can to provide me with a productive workspace and I might think twice about leaving, because I don't want to give up an employer who cares for another who'll just toss me into another open playpen.

* Shoehorning someone into a single role or project for years on end. Almost nobody wants to work on the exact same thing for more than a few years unless it's genuinely super interesting. And your projects are probably not super interesting.
Would be happy to hear more about your experience. In what respect?
Wow, this is the exact thing I've been thinking of writing, but so much better. I'm so glad this exists, brb trying it out right now
That would require the car to have the ability to override its tendency to not drive thru physical obstacles. Remote control to say "go into that lane", "turn left" is one thing, but remote control to drive thru what it perceives as a physical object is different.
Ah, RIP Iain Banks - love, love his culture series - beginning with all those brilliantly named AI ships.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_spacecraft_in_the_Cult...

I think I'm up for a re-read of the whole series now. Cheers!
I stopped using firebase DB about a year back. Now I prefer:

1) API backend using Google Cloud Endpoints deployed in GKE. Still using firebase Auth.

2) React SPA served from firebase hosting. Using FirebaseAuthUI

One thing I continue to be astonished about is how difficult it remains to build a real apps (ssl, auth, persistence, packaging, deployment) as a one person team.
why would someone who is obsessed with cycling be interested in buying an electric bike?

All the cycling nuts I know consider them to be heresy...
I worked with a twitchy guy in the same office. It was horrible. He would constantly be pumping his foot on the floor, vibrating the entire room. After I asked him to stop a few times, he got out of the habit, but damn, it is distracting.

Then of course some PM would swing by and talk to him about stocks or something silly. The PM didn't have anything better to do.

We were also right by the break room, so people would constantly be chatting.

I think you should just put developers and only developers on a floor. Everyone else who needs to chit chat and only has to attend meetings can go on another floor.
The problem is that there's a ton of value created by the information the services collect. Delivering more value to advertisers allows more video creators to make their livings.

If you started your own site there's absolutely no way you could be profitable competing on both hosting costs and payout to creators.
I thought all developers quit their jobs with the hope that maybe then recruiters would stop sending them unsolicited offers of huge pay increases and unlimited vacation days.
If mongoose plus espressif hardware are pretty keen on security I am Batman and Russian winter of IOT is not coming.
This isn't about degrees for free, it's about replacing a broken model of remediation with newer models that have been shown to work better at getting people ready to pass the same substantive classes better and with less delay.
Not sure where you’re getting that idea - pretty much every TV show available on iTunes is available the day it airs or the day after.
Did you read the article? There is no argument that they can't handle it. Rather, it discusses some of the challenges these migrants face moving to the city.

And not sure what the reference is to Chinese migrant workers. Other than the fact that they both physically changed locations, I see very little similarity between a 20 year old kid leaving a provincial city in Sichuan to make it big in Shenzhen and a family of indigenous refugees transitioning from a hunter-gatherer lifestyle to a modern, urba life.
I'd argue there is a slight difference between lack of diversity in Medicine/Politics, vs Entrepreneurship through Software Engineering. In medicine, lack of diversity meant female patients with breast cancer got "butchered" or research neglected (from a surgeon who became a breast cancer doc due to horrible practices she saw). In politics, lack of diversity means entire populations get neglected, deprived of votes, deprived of resources. Those are also zero sum games (finite number of doctors can be trained, and political seats are limited as well).

Those two fields the gaps are fairly obvious. In Entrepreneurship you wouldn't know if the IPhone had never happened or if Facebook never happened, just as you don't know all of the innovations we have missed out on because advertisers once upon a time decided to market computers as boys toys, which led to parents buying less for girls, which led to unfair advantage, which lead to the female Wozniak or Steve Jobs of the 80s becoming a lawyer or a Breast Cancer doc. What would the world look like without Grace Hopper's work, or Ada Lovelace's? These are irreversible forks in the road that you cannot see. This is not a zero sum game, which is why it's so baffling to me that women in engineering are treated so poorly. Nobody gains from that. I started hanging out at the PC lab of my school in second grade (8 years old), and a 16 year old TA asked me to the bathroom to make out. I'd been hit on at every single new place I tried to code or work in computing until I moved out of Bulgaria in my late teens. I've been fortunate to be in better environments in the US, but the climate towards women in CS is real, worldwide.

Female software engineers who manage to scrape away resources and start businesses today are pushing in all kinds of new directions. We'll see the forks in the road that come of that in a few years. Today, many of us want to just work and let the work speak for us. The difference now vs before the scandals of late, is we can see that we are not alone struggling with fundraising or obnoxious attitudes along the way, and we are less likely to give up the fight (it's not me its the culture, I can push through culture). The confidence level is up and likely the percentage of Female Founders who persist to build bigger businesses.
Yet this is just one side of the split.
We owe to the Macromedia and Adobe engineers for putting the web forward
That's essentially the problem that the article is trying to bring attention to - our culture of intellectual hostility.

The only way this will ever change is if people stop caving in to political correctness.

I realize it's a prisoner's dilemma in that individually it's in nobody's best interest to speak out, but that's an incredibly selfish mindset. We need to start valuing integrity and doing the right thing. It was never in any slaveholder's best interest to speak out against slavery, or in any white person's best interest to speak out against racism in a Southern community in the early 1900s after a lynching - but speaking out was the right thing to do and should be commended.
I agree that the author is condescending. Also, despite writing a lot on the subject, he doesn't actually seem to be a good manager. Very authoritarian.
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I'd go all in on Iota.

Transactions without a fee, Scalable. Meant for Machine to Machine Payments. The internet of things, nano transactions.. Doesn't use a blockchain but instead uses a Tangle. It's quite early and the tech may seem new but it does solve a lot of the scaling issues wrought with "blockchains".
I'm currently reading your comment here, at work.

I find your defensiveness and inflammatory remarks more unprofessional and unproductive then anything else in this thread.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lus5J4vYMNg

If you disagree with someone, be civil - debate with logic and rationality.
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This is a delicate topic. "In the United States, Dodd–Frank Act required manufacturers to audit their supply chains and report use of conflict minerals", see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conflict_minerals. The problem here is that cobalt is not included in the list of conflict minerals.

For one point of view, you may want to read "Why Cobalt Is Not a Conflict Mineral": https://agmetalminer.com/2011/06/06/why-cobalt-is-not-a-conf...
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> Sorry to be preachy

Then don't.
Bleh, every media company implementing their own shitty ecosystem is such a waste. As is usually the case, they'll probably end up doing a poor job for the first few years. A media company's core competency is their content! To give an example: despite there being tons of amazing and highly customizable video players players available on every platform, they'll push you towards using their poorly designed one-size-fits-all player. Same thing applies to content exploration, ratings, reviews, suggestions, etc.

I'd love to see an open platform for ratings, reviews, and suggestions. There's no sense in repeatedly creating isolated islands of data.

Content exploration usually sucks too. Sometimes you wanna slice data in ten different ways! Instead of implementing a mediocre searching and filtering system, just make the full catalogue's data and metadata available as a downloadable snapshot. Most content catalogues are typically pretty small, and if the data is openly available, I can just write my own one-off query. Heck, if you have all the info and metadata available, you can write some really interesting queries without having to worry about performance.

Over the last few years I've gradually lost interest in most TV and movies. I'll go to the cinema on the rare occasion something catches my eye, but it's becoming increasingly rare. The decision is also slightly politically motivated, since I find most of the crap the MPAA tries to pull absolutely reprehensible. It's very sad that piracy is still the best way acquire and consume most media.

Now I spend most of my time either reading or listening to audiobooks. There's tons of amazing content available, and it's typically cheaper than other forms of entertainment. The field is also pretty open and approachable, so anyone can try their hand at writing a book. You don't need a huge budget or anything fancy.

I'm also a big fan of the book community. My experience has been that many book authors are happy to engage in discussions, answer questions, etc. If you shoot em an email, most authors will get back to you (although though most of the bigger names will usually take longer). Providing constructive criticism (especially when they're starting off) can actually lead to improvements in future books!
The idea being conveyed here is that unless you're a sports buff or reality tv buff, the content that you consume probably costs <$2/mo of your cable bill. And that might be from a few networks.

Now you're paying $10/mo for each network.
Im guessing you don’t have kids? Disney Jr, Disney Channel, and Disney XD put out more content than you could possibly imagine - some of it very good, and most of the rest at least tolerable.

Disney movies are a very small portion of their catalog, although to someone in a household without kids I can see how it would appear that marvel and Star Wars were all Disney did.
From my perspective as a native Southerner, Silicon Valley seems like a groupthink cult/bubble. Just as much or even more so than the most rural areas around here. Add on the insane cost of living and it does lose a lot of appeal for certain outsiders.
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