SamUK96

Oh, no, I don't feel oppressed. I am pointing out the ironic nature of a museum, and a general culture, that has the mindset of trying to "account" for past racism with treating one race differently to another, far since the effects of the past have dwindled to nothing but natural human impulses.

Thing is though, "polish" and "irish" correspond to, clearly, the country's history only. "Black" refers to literally anything about black people, which is a totally different idea.

But, do you think that black people really still suffer from such "post-racist-society" effects nowadays, like in your hypothetical country? I doubt.

Okay, so what about a "White History Museum" in Africa? Or China? Or Brazil? That is definitely perceived differently, and also it's content would not represent the "normal" history of the parent location.

> Racism is a sociological system that transcends the intentions of any one individual

I think that's a rather ambitious definition of racism. Racism is the discrimination of some person/group due to their race. You are either denying that being white is a race (Caucasian more specifically), or you are denying the global definition of the word. Both are wrong.

Anyway, onto your pseudo-fact opinions, since these are always sad to see purported as facts on HN:

> Today, the likelihood that you'll be shot by a cop if you're black is astronomically higher than if you're white.

...Because black crime is 4x greater, not from any mass cop bias. False correlation. Also, "astronomical" is a totally inappropriate exaggeration. Please, look at statistics before hurling words at screens.

> so they can't benefit from institutional racism.

But, that is not even "racism". That is an expansion of the term that is not the term itself. It's irrelevant. Also, have you seen US University GPA requirements? I think you'll find that it favors POC more than anybody, and makes it hardest for Asians, then whites. So. That's not universally correct right off the bat.

> "Thing" is already White by default.

Another exaggeration.

Regardless, I definitely do disagree with your general opinion that negative past events towards POC should mean they are treated specially now. Like in another comment, don't you think that trying to "revenge" on historical racism by being racist again with opposite races, is a little, well, stupid? You can already see that it doesn't work by how dissatisfied white people are with this mindset.

Okay, still doesn't really explain how a "museum about the history of white people" doesn't exist, and is perceived differently.

Well, yes, because those countries / continents are historically white. Just like an African museum would be "black people", since Africa is historically black.

And, okay, to really shut this one down, what would you say to a "White History Museum" in Africa? That's a real exception to your hypothesis!

Really? Wow. Well, still, I do see examples of things called "Black X thing", so the point still holds, just not in this case. Talk about a misleading article. HN these days :/

But read my reply further. I'm okay and I'm sure most are with an "African Museum", or something like that. That museum would be dominated by POC, just like an "American History Museum" would be dominated by White people. It's not racist. It's history.

Also, surely you can see the shortfalls in trying to solve today's racism with treating one race over another, right?

Surely?

Bad article written badly.

Firstly, concrete isn't a weapon, it is a defensive utility, not an offensive one (weapon).

Correcting that, the best defense is people. More specifically, "civilians".

You can now easily defend yourself if you surround yourself with civilians like ISIS has done. Without civilians, no-doubt the US will "precision bomb" your entire stronghold to dust.

That's the whole reason the US spend trillions of $ on precision weaponry and surveillance now. The US is trying to develop weapon systems that, even when defending oneself with civilians, when you walk outside your civilian-filled afghan hut alone to go to the outhouse, a tiny precision bullet from the sky assassinates you in an instant. They are getting there, and it's ever closer to fruition, regardless of how disturbing it all is.

EDIT: I mean, why do you think they are pouring money into drones that can stay in the air for ages, path-changing (steerable) "smart" bullets, face recog AI, flight stablisation, etc.. It's ALL an effort to create the aforementioned precision assassination system.

How is it disconcerting? Lower prices are good for the consumer!

> actually-there-is-a-correct-answer situationals

Ugh. The worst step of interview process. Remember that guy who wrote a post about Google's hiring process, where they outsourced the asking of technical questions to untrained call-centre staff.

"Standard way to allocate memory in C?"

"malloc"

"Incorrect. Actually there's this cool library that does it for you with additional checks. Sorry, you have failed the interview"

"Wut?"

I've always found that those kind of interview processes put far too much stress on being correct to their "ideals" rather than be consistent with your own and your team's. I.e. I don't care if you name your column "domain_id", but for christ's sake name the other column "account_id".

Thank you. Spot on.

I've found that most seniors have gained their place because they made sure nobody could become better than them. How seniors usually do this is by restricting training, keeping knowledge of things they designed to themselves, and so on.

Heck, where I'am working now, a senior has designed this billing system, and literally nobody knows how to use it and it always breaks, but he will not tell anybody how to fix it, despite me and dozens others shouting at him.

One word that ensures higher salaries...

Protectionism.

Surprised you didn't try C++ if you found C quite difficult. C++ teaches memory management but without the insanity level dialed to 11 like with C (or more so with Assembly).

I've always discouraged learning Python first. Python disconnects you so much from what is really going on and does so much for you that you don't develop algorithm and conceptual skills and computer knowledge.

All the developers where I'm at, from SQL to Python, Node to Angular, everyone, all say the same thing about Python and other "hyper-package-assisted" languages.

Since it's seniors who hire, i'de say it's pretty important whether they value it or not. And a lot don't, especially for networking since CS has almost no networking in it (by the 2nd year most undergrads still have difficulty working with binary, i.e. netmasks, cidr's, wildcards, etc.).

I've got the same sentiment about Node and PHP.

Both are just an eyesore for everybody but the person who wrote it.

Heck, even the very experienced JS/Node developer who works at my place says that they sucks in teams, and I totally agree.

PHP...well, that was designed as a hack job to get a Personal Home Page to work dynamically by a lone dev kid...

They are the people hiring us all, so, uh, kind of?

A new dimension of passive aggressiveness.

Honestly though, that's hilarious.

Little tidbit:

Degree in CS is totally useless nowadays, surely you know this already? I work for a tech/telco company in London and all the seniors agree that CS degrees now are totally useless and don't make you any better at CS. Consider the portfolio rather than the credentials, and require a STEM degree in general, always.

Sorry to be off topic here, firstly.

Current intern at a tech company here. Glad to see Angular there, I've just started delving into AngularJS 2. Could I ask which Angular version you are on? Considering migrating to 2? ng2 looks pretty awesome to me after around 1-2 weeks. Combining ng2 with bootstrap has proving extremely powerful.

Also, there's nothing wrong with MySQL if you design the database correctly in my experience, i.e. use efficient UUID's (npm "cuid"), reduce cross-referencing, reduce duplication, efficient hash tables with clash avoidance, etc. etc.

I see your motivation for MongoDB though, seems like everyone is hiving towards that at the moment for some reason. It does look like it's going to become quite big in the near future.

>HTML5/CSS3-4 with Bootstrap

Raw HTML coding? #Welcome to the yeeaar threeee thousaand (BC)#

Isn't constructive dismissal supposed to protect you from being put on a failing project/team just so they can fire you?

This is what happens when you allow uncontrolled and unregulated asset transfers. There's a reason that pretty much any index/stock in the world freezes when the daily drop exceeds a certain threshold (i.e. Japan, JPX, has a limit of usually ~7% [1]).

This prevents panic selling and even though seems like a "delaying-the-inevitable-drop" cop-out, it really does work.

Greece Government are stupid as hell for letting everybody sell their homes all at once. Mass selling off in a region will just cause the housing market to death spiral, just like it does with stocks.

[1]http://www.jpx.co.jp/english/equities/trading/domestic/06.ht...)

I agree with other posts.

It's the increasing prevalence of short-termism.

Most companies in the world now are going through a big consolidation process on a scale unheard of in the past, in preparation for when things go very bad in the near future due to several accumulating factors.

This means is that companies are increasingly designing themselves to be sold; to be valued higher, so that when they get bought by the biggies, the 'Boys Club' (Seniors, Chiefs, etc.) get more money in the end.

This means companies are acting more for the quick sell rather than having any kind of long-term plan for the future, and this means that a C.E.O.'s world view and opinion and plan for the company quickly become outdated and left behind, in favour for short-term company valuation increases.

Also, one way of increasing your company's value is changing C.E.O.'s more often, since it shows your company is "pro-active" and "progressive", and gets you in the news a lot.

Isn't that the line with the Core M chips? They were a travesty for Windows 10. ~1000p on Passmark lol. Compare to an i7 6500U CPU, which has ~4500.

TBH, 4K laptop screens are a total scam.

Not sure if this is anecdotal or not, but the Dell business-laptop lines (Lattitude et al) have been having hard-drive corruption problems at the company where I work for ages.

As for Razer, I hear their products are excellent (laptop wise).

As for their peripherals, please guys, there's Roccat just down the road and it's cheaper and better.

With Clevo resellers, you get excellent components for the money, but the chassis is usuallt not the 'sexiest'. I'de go with a clevo reseller purely because you can get a rediculous spec for little money (1TB SSD, i7, 8-16GB RAM in clevo world is like 256GB SSD, i5, 8GB RAM in the 'branded' world)

As for Samsung, I've owned one for 5 years and it's still going strong. Flexy chassis though.

HP...sticky keyboard I've heard from friends and wider.

Lenovo...still not forgotten SilverFish crap. As for hardware though, I've heard their business line up is tough and rugged as fck. Suits the frequent traveller I suppose.

Don't talk to me about Apple...planned obselence, bribing developers to not developer for Linux and only MacOS (even though they are 99% the same fcking thing), rip off, etc. Battery is good and heard the frame is rugged enough though. MacOS is obviously stable as hell, depending on release (lol Sierra tho).

As for the others, can't say.

As a preliminary list, i'de say:

1) Clevo reseller (think SCAN, PCS, XMG, etc.)

2) Razer

3) Lenovo

4) Samsung

True. Apple makes a disgustingly large margin on each, so I suppose less volume doesn't neccessarily mean less revenue.

Having said that, decreasing volume, something which is now never-ending for Apple in the last few quarters, consecutively, is a marker for doom, or at least the end of life of the product line.

When you're selling less and less, you can't keep revenues up by just increasing the margin on each unit forever. It's unsustainable and unstable.

To be honest, the zenbook line has been a big hit. Good value and very sexy.

Wish I had enough money for the UX390UA. It's basically faster, thinner, lighter, sexier Dell XPS...

I was talking about price as another comment said. Although Razer are well built, you do pay the price. Personally I think their products are worth it, some don't however.

Apple though...they bring poor value to a new level. A new dimension. A new universe not thought possible in the realm for expensive polished turds.

>Radeon 460

AMD GPU. Inefficient / power-hungry. This means that battery life will be destroyed. Also, have fun with those endless driver issues.

Also, the configuration you quote costs around £2,500+, which is a total rip-off. You could get a laptop with better components from basically any company that exists (even Razer!), and still have enough money left over to buy a second-hand car or a medium/top-of-the-range desktop.

They've shot themselves in the foot.

To be fair, Apple's last 3-4 Quarters have been huge consecutive disappointments, and this line up was their last chance to turn that around I believe. And they've clearly failed. Who will pay $1,500 on a laptop that has second-grade components, a rather standard keyboard, etc. etc.

Heck, Asus' Zenbook 3 line costs around $1500 and it has the best possible components, better screen, better keyboard, better everything.