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Comment · 9 years ago
is there really any reason to expect the students who didn't take free points in exchange for privacy to outperform the observed group?

Sure, the results pertain more to excluding the internet from the classroom, but really that's just splitting hairs imo

Comment · 9 years ago
Good designers and programmers do care about people of all ages, colors, orientations, genders, and ability. If tech is to make the biggest positive impact possible everyone must be on board.
Comment · 9 years ago
> Why would you want a job you are not qualified to do.

money.

Comment · 9 years ago
A terminal mux. Mux is short for multiplexer, which chooses between different inputs. It is a tool for running keeping multiple terminal sessions open at the same time. These sessions can be attached and detached from, which is often helpful when working on a remote machine you may want to access from different work stations.

Screen is a similar program.

Comment · 10 years ago
> you can actually read and understand the code without even any formal training in the language.

Forgive my youth, which languages are these?

Comment · 10 years ago
GP suggested otherwise. Either way the bit about ethics was the point I'd prefer to discuss
Comment · 10 years ago
I don't understand how race, gender, and class in particular can possibly be separated out from tech any more so than software patents. A community that has been so obsessed with disrupting any and all aspects of life can't ethically refuse to discuss the consequences of doing so.
Comment · 10 years ago
Looks like you just communicated it in 16 bytes though.
Comment · 11 years ago
Just like we pronounce 9¢ "9 cent sign" right?
Comment · 11 years ago
You know that it works for at least two values of w, but you don't know that it holds for any value of w.
Comment · 11 years ago
But that's exactly the point.

All growing up we were told, "Be a generalist, not a specialist" There was no other acceptable route, so all the "good" kids identified patterns to get ahead.

That leaves many of us barking up when we notice a pattern. Of course, a generalization is a big bundle of things: abstractions, ceteris paribus, the act of generalizing, a general statement, pattern naming

Comment · 11 years ago
Comment · 11 years ago
Can that handle statically linking dependencies with FFI calls?
Comment · 11 years ago
Thank you
Comment · 11 years ago
Why in the world would "male geeks" want to indicate they have given a topic serious thought any more often than "female geeks"?

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