I know that statistics can be found that in some way correlate "diversity" with some financial metric or other being better. But that still is not definitive nor does it address the fundamental issue which is "what really is diversity, on what basis and features should it be measured, and WHY should we optimize for diversity as opposed to OTHER traits that potentially will correlate even more highly with other desirable metrics?"
Exactly. The greatest problem with this article is its underlying assumption that "diversity" is good by itself and that companies should pursue it. The author makes the point that she is not "diverse enough", while ignoring the fundamental issue that measuring "diversity" and showing that it is a goal worth pursuing by itself is non-trivial and problematic. The fact that she is counted as "diversity" while claiming that she isn't is exactly the reason why current societies' and organizations' extreme focus on and overvaluing of diversity is misguided.
The title of this article is click-bait and a complete oversimplification. I'm tired of seeing shit like this in HN and can't believe people are upvoting it.
Another great essay by Paul Graham that spells out the idiotic state of the current US immigration system in a clear manner. It is fucking unbelievable that even in the comments here there are still people complaining about foreign programmers driving salaries down or taking jobs from US citizens. Paul Graham is right and any intelligent person can see this.
It's unbelievable that the US government is focusing on providing a legal path to citzenship to ILLEGAL immigrants, while legal immigrants who are highly educated (sometimes at Ivy Leage institutions) have to wait for years to get a greencard, depending on their country of citizenship. What's unbelievable is that they can't easily change employers during the green card application process. There is nothing more absurd than American top universities educating thousands of highly qualified international students, only to make their lives miserable with respect to immigration after they graduate and doing everything in their power to encourage them to take their brains to another country instead.
I haven't witnessed a process that is more stupid and bureaucratic as the H-1B-to-permanent-residence application process. The full thing is based on farce and it makes no sense whatsoever. I still cannot conceive how going through this process can be the law.
Some men are genuinely not very interested in forming intimate friendships with other males. This does not mean men "suck" at friendship. It just means they prefer to have intimate relationships with women, not men.
It is ridiculous that they're focusing on spouses of H-1B holders instead of fixing the innumerable flaws and pains embedded in the H-1B process altogether (six year limit, long wait time for a green card, the restriction an H-1B holder is subject to, etc.)
Seriously, why do titles like this make it to the top of HN?
Yeah, Lincoln totally outpwned Zuck, because the idea of a place to give updates about your life is so mind-boggling, and that idea itself is why Zuck is rich.
Then this is an argument for NOT overloading the right-click behavior, not for adding a "No thanks" preference. Then all users who want to right-click have to go through ONE EXTRA STEP just to be able to do that?
Why are you going to right click again? Do you want the browser's regular right-click context menu? Okay, that's a valid reason. But then what if you want the popup AGAIN after you click "No thanks"? Does the user then have to clear his cache? This is overly complex.
If the right-click behavior is being overloaded, then the current solution is better than making it a global preference. Many user will be confused with what "No thanks" means. Are you going to have an explanation saying "If you click "No thanks", then you'll get the browser's regular menu after you right-click from now on? If you get rid of the "No thanks", then you'll have inconsistent behavior. The first time you right-click, something will happen, and something different will happen the second time, and users will be like "WTF?" All this trouble with such a small feature shouldn't happen in the first place. The person who suggested this does indeed sound like a typical PM.
Why do you need to answer no and right-click otherwise? If you don't want it, you close the dialog; closing it effectively means "No thanks". You're not going to be right-clicking on that logo often like a mad man. The current solution makes perfect sense. Your solution is terrible and overly complex.
I graduated in May 2009 and have been working in the industry for 2 years. I worked with a professor for my senior project. I recently emailed said professor asking for a letter of recommendation, and I received no response. It's very hard for me to know whether he ignored the email because he was not enthusiastic about writing the letter, or because he forgot / did not receive it / whatever. What do you think is the best course of action here? Wait for a week and then send another email? What if he doesn't reply again?
As far as I can see, the script will print out a contact in both of these cases:
1) Contact goes from Online to Invisible
2) Contact goes from Online to Offline by signing off
This effectively means that the script gives you no more information than what you get from the contact list. You can't know if someone went offline or went invisible.
"No college will actually do this because transparency goes directly against their interests"
This is simply false. Plenty of universities publish employment surveys with salaries by major. For an example, see the University of Pennsylvania's Career Services Web site. The fact that the author makes this statement lightly says a lot about how careful he is.
The title of this article is highly misleading. Does the author really think she accomplished something significant by gaining admission to the General Education program of an Ivy League university by knowing someone? The truth of the matter is that those programs are just not at the same level as the normal programs, and that you don't get an equivalent degree.
I think the fact that this made it to the top of HN is unfortunate. This was precisely what the author of the reverse job application intended. Yet, creating a reverse job application web site clearly does not take any significant skill. It is not a ground-breaking idea, or an idea that a common job applicant cannot conceive. Yet, he is now claiming on his resume that his idea went to top of HN, which, ironically, will be viewed by some as a worthy achievement...
I am fairly new to HN, and I was not aware of patio's 11 fame. I read quite a few posts of Sebastian Marshall's blog when I first came across it.
I think the most important lesson from Marshall's blog and the point he attempts to make in this particular post is the following: You cannot judge a person's abilities by their writing, no matter how good it is (or seems to be). This lesson may apply particularly well to Marshall himself.