durgiston
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8 years ago
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on: Filecoin Suspends ICO After Raising $186M in One Hour
There's 168 million reasons to do the coin offering now. If someone was begging you to take that kind of money for a half-baked side project, would you say no? (to be fair, this is quite a bit further along than half-baked, but still)
durgiston
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8 years ago
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on: EasyList: Ad-serving domain removed due to DMCA takedown request
IANAL: Seems to me like EasyList would have a fair-use defense here, beyond the fact that I'm pretty sure you can't copyright a domain name (trademark is a different story). They created a curated, novel work using the domain, or they are making commentary on the domain like in a news story (the commentary here being that this domain serves ads).
durgiston
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8 years ago
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on: Outraged about the Google diversity memo?
Nobody cares if you have sexist thoughts and opinions if you keep them to yourself and treat women with the respect and dignity they deserve. So I would say this is a step in the right direction.
durgiston
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8 years ago
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on: Petition for Smarter Infrastructure
Or maybe we could invest more in mental health care and public education and the like instead of shunting off the poors somewhere else so you don't have to see them.
durgiston
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8 years ago
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on: Petition for Smarter Infrastructure
You walk really fast! But seriously, revitalizing existing public transit and making it function properly should be a priority. No disagreements there. But we don't need to build new trains and bus lines that go further out.
durgiston
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8 years ago
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on: Petition for Smarter Infrastructure
The reason that there is a housing crisis in the Bay Area is that there is a lack of housing in the Bay Area. We don't need to make it so you don't need to live in SF to work in SF, we need to make it so that there are enough homes for the people that want to live there. And this means one thing, ZONING. The reason that more housing isn't built in the Bay is that the people living there don't want developers to build it, not that it can't be built. This is much easier and cheaper to change than public transit infrastructure (or maybe, the fact that it isn't is a sign that SF is screwed?).
durgiston
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8 years ago
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on: The Google memo isn’t sexist or anti-diversity, it’s science
The problem isn't that women aren't getting jobs (the market is currently in too serious of a demand for hands on keyboards for that) but that they aren't getting as good a job as you would expect from their qualifications and/or that they aren't being paid as much.
durgiston
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8 years ago
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on: The Google memo isn’t sexist or anti-diversity, it’s science
Well, first of all, such an unbiased test does not and probably cannot exist. People have to write the test, and despite their best efforts, they will likely still be biased. And how do you determine what 'unbiased' is in the first place? Such a test would likely give us the status quo or close to it because most hiring managers are acting in good faith already (at least, I chose to believe that people don't mean to perpetuate sexism/racism etc, they just aren't necessarily trying NOT to do it.)
durgiston
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8 years ago
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on: Why some of the best developers keep quitting
You pay your employees enough that they stay and do it. Ultimately, this is the only recognition that matters.
durgiston
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8 years ago
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on: Why some of the best developers keep quitting
I think this is inertia from the housing bubble in 2008. After that, companies didn't have a retention problem with employees because everyone was terrified of not having a job for even a brief time. But since then, the economy has recovered (at least for this fairly high class) and also the ACA means that (at least for now...) you aren't as dependent on your job as you used to be. So you can afford to look around, and all the employers have the money to pay you what you are worth. They just don't remember that they have to do it to their existing employees too. They have forgotten to pay for retention, and I suspect that barring a new crisis (which I admit is more likely now) employers will start to realize again that retention is cheaper than searching for and training new employees
durgiston
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8 years ago
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on: Dijkstra was right – recursion should not be difficult
I remember when I was learning recursion that I didn't get it for a while until it just clicked and made sense one day. It's hard to remember what it was like not getting it, but I think that a large part of it was not trusting that the recursive call would return the right thing. Eventually, by just encountering more problems in class where it was needed, it just clicked. I think it's that lack of trust that gets a lot of people tripped up.
durgiston
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8 years ago
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on: What stopped me from working for 20+ startups
Its kind of an asshole question to ask, and if was sincere, I would question the judgement of people who want to hire someone so unqualified in the first place, even at a discount.
durgiston
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8 years ago
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on: Electric cars are not the answer to air pollution, says UK adviser
Then, maybe we can use this data to find some popular routes and just have cars driving along them, stopping at popular locations for pick up and drop off. Now, stop me if you heard this one before, but maybe if lots of people use a route, we'll have bigger cars, with like a ~50 person capacity, go less frequently, you know, for efficiency.
