tanglisha

Do a web search for unconscious bias.

Google has been doing a bunch of research on this lately.

What do you mean it isn't stored? How do we know that?

Depending on the person I'm talking to, I have two approaches.

1. Do you trust the government that will be in place 20 years from now? Most of those people are now teenagers. 2. We don't know what law changes may happen in the future. The data gathered can make you look like someone who will break one of those laws. Ex post facto (protection for someone who broke a law before it was in effect) has been overturned by the Supreme Court in specific cases in the past.

Public health issues like vaccination aren't like other issues. Vaccination decisions aren't made in a bubble where only you suffer if you get sick or become a carrier.

There will always be a certain portion of the populace that cannot receive a specific vaccination because of allergies or a weakened immune system that cannot handle it.

The whooping cough epidemics that have been sweeping through anti-vaccination areas in recent years are an example of how a decision that you make for your kids can result in other people dying.

You're not really involved in the security community, are you.

I wonder who would be deserving, then?

Don't get so caught up in worrying about the future. Even if you do everything exactly right, things will change down the road.

Just be sure to write lots and lots of tests. You'll thank me later :)

I have two friends who didn't have last names until they moved to the US and were forced to make some up.

I at one point had a name that was extremely long. Because it was in two pieces rather than four, it was usually misspelled rather than truncated.

I have a rather long name, and always get irritated about tiny signature boxes.

At any point before the firing, she had the power to put a halt to a lot of this. She could have gone on Twitter and her blog and posted, "I'm so sorry this has happened. The person in question has apologized. I would like to request that Play Haven rehire him, and institute a policy to avoid incidents like this in the future."

Everything so far has been about punishment/vindictiveness. Nobody is interested in trying to address the problem, move forward, and make the world a better place. I don't see how the outcome could have been worse. Everyone handled this badly except PyCon itself, yet PyCon is who will be remembered as the problem.

I love dasher. It was very helpful for me in writing emails when I was unable to use one hand. One handed keyboards were actually slower once I got used to both of them. It just doesn't work well for coding, but it's great for other English.

I've experienced something similar to what you describe.

There are times when I am new to a group, that I will be constantly told how very valuable to the group I am, how awesome I am, how happy they are to have me, etc; often before I've been in the office for an hour or written a line of code.

After this sort of thing, I tend to be suspicious of praise from that group of people. Do they actually mean it? Did they even look at my code?

Thanks for your input. I have access to a typography nerd and will ask for a recommendation :)

Genuine question: How are you able to follow a class in which you don't speak the language? Are you just following the examples and the book?