Then explain the one picture that every single DEI advocate shares at the start of their intro sessions. You know the exact one that I'm talking about.
I have personally gone through HR trainings that directly contradict what you're saying. "just and fair" allocation is also a vacuous qualifier. According to whom? If it's just and fair allocation according to someone that believes in equality of outcome, then you're not disagreeing with the comment you're responding to.
I think in practice, equity does in fact mean equity of outcome. Pretending that that's not the case feels like gaslighting to people, and drives people away from DEI initiatives.
MLK expressly supported policies that provided specific material benefits to black people, not merely the end of ongoing discrimination. You can believe what you want, but don't invoke MLK here.
Yes, let's all go back to MLK's times, surely things were more fair then! Who, me, racist? Nooooo...
Every conservative has the same exact belief system: every conservative ideology before them was wrong, but this time, they're right. This time, for the first time in human history, conservatism is right, and we need to stop all progress immediately. We made it far enough. Any further and then it's bad!
Of course, that's why conservatives before you said. And the ones before them. And the ones before them. And the ones before them. And the ones before them.
Of course, we all know now they were wrong. Usually very wrong. But, surely, if we maintain the exact same ideology we will magically be right this time! Right guys? Right...?
> The problem with this is that children and relatives cannot be held legally responsible for crimes (or wrongs) committed by their parents/ancestors. (At least not in the USA.)
But no reparations scheme attempts to find anyone legally responsible, surely?
Most of them are simply aimed at pricking the consciences of organisations that benefited from (and sometimes exist only because of) slavery.
If even transfers of money are concerned it's usually in the form of donations to foundations and state aid, at least that is how it is here in the UK.
I was lectured by Jewish (they made a big deal out of it, not me) consultants at my last job about how to implement DEI and they completely disagree with you.
Depends on where you took Econ 101, I guess. When I took Econ 101, it did cover monetary policy and inflation. I believe it was covered in AP Macroeconomics/Microeconomics in high school as well.
To be transparent, I took Econ 101 over a decade ago and don’t remember.
A better way to have phrased my post is that economics fundamentally understands price levels as being driven by supply and demand, and everything else influences prices though effects on supply and demand.
Given the fact that Indian and East Asian men far exceed their US population ratios in the ranks of SF programmers, I'm baffled why you highlighted white.
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I think it's more about a town of 20k becoming completely altered by the influx of 200k people who came in as a group in order to reshape the area.
Even if they were exactly my demographic (age, ethnicity, spirituality and all), the explicit intention of reshaping where I call home by these non-natives would give me pause. I think GP was trying to convey a similar feeling.
The article's main point is that learning C first makes it easier to learn the language a programmer will actually use, be it Javascript or something else.
In my experience, the best course of action is to learn whatever you need first.
For those considering programming as a hobby/occupation, being told to learn a relatively complex and unpractical language would raise the bar of entry.
C is also a terrible learning language, much harder to reach the "get things done" stage than most other languages.
You can spend weeks segfaulting in C before you get things actually working, and for a beginner — especially self-teaching/unsupervised — it's extremely easy to rely on compiler-specific behaviour in the face of UBs.
When learning, if the only choice were C or assembly I'd actually recommend assembly.
> You can spend weeks segfaulting in C before you get things actually working
This seems like an overstatement. The first programming class I ever took was "Introduction to Programming with C" where the textbook was K&R and we were writing and compiling programs from day one.
If you can't figure out how to manage memory (one dimensional data structure) in C jumping into a language that immediately allows you to abstractly manipulate complex multi-dimensional data structures will certainly not make your life easier.
Depends on the type of thinker someone is. Everyone thinks best at a particular level. While a certain data structure might be complex, it’s use might be simple.
If I show someone a list of lists in C# the semantics of that will be very easy for them to grasp. The same data structure in C might defeat them altogether.
C with its unsafe pointers, unsafe memory management and unsafe types is the worst language to learn for the beginning. It's good to know and learn as 2nd language, but for the beginning you need to learn proper concepts, not broken concepts.
Lisp is still the best language to learn, but any proper scripting language will do also.
PS: "proper scripting language" of course excludes PHP and JavaScript. Dart is fine.
C is hard to create complex programs but for learning simple things pointers are much more simple to understand then say Rust or other abstractions, a programmer will have to understand what it happens under the abstractions.
I understand the point that C is not the best choice this days to do big projects but for learning it seems a good idea, even to learn what segfaults are and buffer overflows are.
C for utter beginners is probably like being tossed into a tsunami for swimming lessons.
"Okay, now this is how you float on your back; but watch your head: there a protrusion of iron rebar sticking out of a broken concrete bridge support, and you're heading straight for it! We call that 'uncomfortable behavior'."
Has anyone found the speed of 4G LTE lacking? Personally, I experience much more the lack of connectivity in specific areas (shopping centers, Ikea, etc). Context: I live in Silicon Valley.
Having the "How does it work?" modal appear first for new users would present a better FTUE, although I can see why you went with the side menu/infobar.
Perhaps making the "How does it work?" link more prominent (positioning/color/size/container styling) would help drive the right user experience.
That was my original approach. But then I decided to emphasise on the existence of the side menu. Totally agree on making the link more prominent - will definitely make that change!
