lackbeard

Apologies for the incivility, but his article contradicts what you wrote and cites the relevant data.

Scott Alexander posits a theory which addresses why programming has a high gender disparity but law, medicine, biology and (undergrad) mathematics don't: http://slatestarcodex.com/2017/08/07/contra-grant-on-exagger....

Doesn't address why the number of women in programming has fallen since the 80's though...

Well, if it's placebo and it works anyway then what's wrong with that?

Because it not a helpful comment. It's wrong in a lot of ways and misleading in others.

Like dragonwriter said, having coroutines in your language or a fiber library is not close to the same thing as the language having a scheduler that maps those fibers onto native threads for you. Some of the languages mentioned can't even execute multiple threads on multiple cores in parallel.

But that just shifts the question on to the starting premise. What is the chain of logic that leads you to conclude that it's correct to tax people based on how the taxes impact the quality of their life?

That's a true statement, but there's no logic here or reasoning as to why that makes it okay.

This essay, which touches on the subject of whiteboard coding, has some good food for thought on the subject: http://lacker.io/tech/2017/04/05/why-you-cant-say.html.

> Titles are B.S. but people listen to developers with "architect" as part of their title.

I would be careful with this advice. It might get you a cushy job and a higher salary at bad companies, but I think it's bad for your career in the long run.

In my experience most "architects" don't do any real work while cooking up a bunch of "best-practices" that sound good in a vacuum but either fail completely or create a big unnecessary mess when it comes to actual implementation.

In my experience, real practitioners who are actually worth paying attention to usually have the title "Lead", "Manager", "Director", or "Principal".

This advice is situational, but if you find yourself on a team with some experienced, talented, productive programmers, pay attention to what they're doing and learn as much as you can from them. (Things like: what they choose to spend their time on, what trade-offs they make, how they evaluate technologies, when they listen to customers and other stakeholders and when they ignore them.)

Most programmers are short-sighted, selfish, and lazy, so it's unusual to find yourself with a group earnest talented people who have experience. Appreciate it, and take advantage of it while you can.

Polynesians ate pig. They took pigs with them wherever they went. (Yes, even on long ocean voyages.)

I'm not arguing for or against the quality of fish protein, just pointing out Polynesians had pigs...

I can't articulate why exactly... but I have a very bad feeling about this.

> We also believe tech companies have an opportunity and an obligation to reduce the polarization we've helped create.

I'm pretty sure this kind of thing is just going to make the polarization worse.

That part really resonated with me as well. Well the whole article did... it really matches my professional experience with Clojure (except I've never looked at transducers.)

I still don't feel great about error handling in Clojure in general. I can't find something that feels both practical and idiomatic. I want to use monads but it always feels like huge impedance mismatch with the rest of the language (most of the time due to nil being semantically overloaded.)

Calories-in, calories-out is the golden rule, but what a lot of people forget (like you have here) is that what kind of calories you put in affects calories-out (along with lots of other things.)

Yes, please set up an rss feed. Thanks!

Many of the design decisions in this game seem bad and arbitrary. Why have bans and why limit to 1 of each character per game? Why not let everyone play who the want?

I certainly do not have this expectation. What makes you think "people worldwide" do?

That's fine, you can live wherever you want, but jobs are moving to cities and if we want to make life better for the people working those jobs then we should build housing for them in supply adequate to make it affordable.

This is the insanely simple and insanely correct answer.

In Seattle some higher-end restaurants have done away with tips and added an automatic surcharge of 20%. They're very diligent about making sure customers know this before they order, and they make it clear that the money is split between the front and the back of the house.

The Blind Side, The Hard Thing about Hard Things, Sex at Dawn.

If asked, I would say those aren't the books I've found most amazing but they're the ones I felt compelled to give as gifts.

But the hard part of calc 1 (for me at least) wasn't the calculus; the concepts are simple. The hard part was figuring out how to apply those concepts to the problem at hand and then grinding through the pages of algebra to get the result.

So, it seems to me that someone with an affinity toward algebra would do just fine.

My favorites: Power Grid, Terra Mystica, Dominion, Race for the Galaxy.

If you're still looking for a job: apply to other companies. If not, reapply at Google and Amazon in 6-12 months.

No one is starving in the US anymore. The poor are fat, and have cell phones.

Heh, I only ever used del.icio.us to access the site... I think it may have redirected to delicious.com for a while which is how I ever noticed that became a thing.

It's crazy how many different incarnations the site has had.

I haven't used GitHub a ton, but GitLab is really crappy in my experience. I'm constantly frustrated by the UX. CVSweb and Trac do a better job, and did so 10 & 15 years ago. I've also used BitBucket quite a bit; it's not great, but it's a ton better than GitLab.

What's a good example of a 3D puzzle?

Sometimes you add a new protocol (or interface) and you really want some existing types to implement that protocol. Some languages make that impossible (or really really ugly) when you didn't define those existing types yourself.

What if the + operator didn't exist in Java? Think about how you would add it. Now think about how would like to be able to add it. What language features would have to be added to Java to support that?

You've totally missed the point.

It's not about what education is or is not, it's that the male brain, for whatever reason, is highly motivated by competition.

There is nothing I procrastinate on more than breaking a large task down into smaller tasks. Seriously.