FT_intern
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Comment · 9 years ago
Many people who speak about diversity in tech don't actually have experiences in engineering so they don't understand that race and gender are not that important in engineering. Engineering is very multi-cultural and people care more about nationality than race/gender. There is a huge diversity of nationality and cultures.
Comment · 9 years ago
No hate on teachers but generally speaking, teachers are not the ambitious type. The school of education at many universities is seen as a joke for people who wanted to party all day.
Comment · 9 years ago
Is it even a benefit to work instead of taking these hiatuses?
Parenthood can be a vacation or hard work depending on whether you are a good or bad parent. Just being a parent does not mean that it is difficult work. And if it is hard work, it can be easily argued that being a parent is more meaningful work than 99% of corporate jobs.
Comment · 9 years ago
It's not ridiculous because the alternative is almost impossible to quantify and calculate
Comment · 9 years ago
The onus is on the person claiming sexism to prove that the disparities in promotions are the result of sexism.
Comment · 9 years ago
I hope companies uninterested in the data go undercover as potential buyers and expose these extensions.
Maybe we can crowdsource a purchase to expose them.
Comment · 9 years ago
The tech industry shouldn't aim for perfection. It should aim for the average level of negative experiences across all industries, meaning it should have as many of these cases as other industries. It is not really a travesty or an indication of a problem in the tech industry if a few of these cases pop up from time to time.
What is clear is that these cases are publicized to a disproportionate degree when they occur in the tech industry compared to other industries.
Comment · 9 years ago
Meta: What do we think about this type of native advertising? Is this allowed on HN?
Comment · 9 years ago
I'm not sure if creep is the best word to use here. Creep is a gendered term like slut or bitch.
Comment · 9 years ago
Yes because tech is much more culturally diverse, with large amounts of immigrants and second generation children of immigrants. If you've ever worked at a large tech company, you would know that the average team is very quiet because of the cultural barriers. The few Americans on the team are very introverted and again have a slight cultural barrier even with each other because many of them are the children of immigrants. The frat % is undoubtedly much lower in tech (if it's even represented at all) compared to banking.
Comment · 9 years ago
> This is people being assholes because they know they can get away with it.
The sentiment among many men working in the tech industry is that you can get crucified for making even a small compliment to a female. This idea of invulnerability would only be common among top executives and others who wield high amounts of power.
Comment · 9 years ago
The most logical and clear answer for me (assuming I didn't already screw up by making assumptions about the data format, problem definition, etc.) is:
1. Figure out which appointment starts first
2. Check if first_appointment.end > second_appointment.start
So:
boolean AreAppointmentsConflicting(int start1, int start2, int end1, int end2) {
// first and second refer to the start time of the appointments.
// The first appointment is the one with the earlier start time.
int first_appointment_end, second_appointment_start;
if (start1 > start2) {
first_appointment_end = end2;
second_appointment_start = start1;
} else if (start1 < start2) {
first_appointment_end = end1;
second_appointment_start = start2;
} else { // same start time
return true;
}
return first_appointment_end > second_appointment_start;
}
return (start1 > start2 && end2 > start1) || (start1 < start2 && end1 > start2) || start1 == start2;
The third answer would get massive upvotes for brevity on LeetCode. The first answer would be preferable for readability in an actual code base.
Comment · 9 years ago
Has anyone thought of a good redundancy scheme for yubikey?
Physical object authentication is great except physical objects are less durable than brain memory (or at least, if my brain memory is gone then I probably would have no use for the password anyway).
Comment · 9 years ago
Engaging in identity politics opens up pandora's box :).
Men have a more difficult time obtaining social, emotional and physical intimacy with other people (in both romantic and platonic contexts). For the purely romantic context, there is a huge disparity in the required effort to obtain intimacy in a romantic relationship.
Women can obtain intimacy and have a very successful romantic life without making any advances at all. A man will have a very unsuccessful romantic life if he never makes any advances.
Society fails men on the social/physical/emotional intimacy front.
These are natural, primal needs have huge consequences on happiness. This lack of intimacy naturally causes men to seek intimacy in sometimes inappropriate contexts and situations.
Since a large cause of the behavior is the failing of society, it may be prudent to give higher leniency to men for these situations. The intimacy gap should at least be acknowledged whenever identity politics are brought up in these situations.