Population density was extremely low though. So imagine it was tough to form large communities and most people mainly only had contact with people within their group and maybe a few others living close by.
From that perspective I find it hard to imagine that neanderthals would be treated that much differently than other outsiders. Well unless they behaved significantly than homo sapiens when interacting with other people..
maybe not the most ethical and objective analogy but dogs and wolves within the same pack seem to get along much better than they do with wolves from other packs. So I’m not sure species would be a huge issue in very simple communities
Maybe you're right. Physical/behavioral differences were bigger, but fears based on them were simpler. As in your wolf/dog analogy - maybe they weren't developed enough to make a big deal out of it.
As you're probably aware, race doesn't actually exist. There is no basis in science for it. It only appeared as a categorizing concept in the late 16th century. Racism is far older. Subcategories such as antisemitism are ancient, but there was no concept of it and no word for it, and we only understand it as such now looking back.
(I don't have any big opinions about the effort, I just wanted to hear what was the database chosen that was able to track all different data formats... and it could have been sexier, but yes - Postgres would do.)
Author here - Yes, sorry for not putting that somewhere more visible. In my mind, the actual database running it was actually not relevant at all, it would have worked just as well with any database, including SQLite, as the basic structure, and size (~380,000 rows) could be handled by them.
Blown away, by both the adaptiveness of the platform and software. It feels like the flexibility that I'd want for all of my prototyping experiments. Signed-up, and patiently cheering from the side-lines.
Interesting. "I'll talk about a thing I don't like to people I don't like". Doesn't even work on the sarcasm/satire level because there's too much effort put into it. What am I missing?
Maybe the problem is with my sense of humor, but I find that when a comedian starts the sketch with "you're a stupid moron, let me tell you why..." I have trouble following the rest.
purely judging from your profile picture it seems that you're about half my age :) and I think it's excellent that you're doing a bunch of things - personal blog, linux, tutorial post... Just remember - most of the guys around here tend to do it for marketing reasons (i.e. we want to find a job and we're advertising our capabilities), and those projects might not be the most interesting things out there.
Bottom line is - just because everybody else is doing it, might be because they have different motives than you, and I hope you'll do/build firstly what's interesting and fun, and secondly what's financially viable.
Many services will auto-translate :) into something else, like a colourful unicode icon. If you prefer to keep your smiley looking like just a smiley, (: is an effective workaround.
There's also an upside-down emoji smiley with its own distinct mood. Hopefully services don't start translating (: into that, they're used quite differently!
I got hired at (probably about his age?) just due to side projects like this. If nothing, it shows motivation. So it's got a marketing reason nonetheless.
Isn't this the programmer equivalent of one of those old stories "just go talk to the manager and give him a firm handshake." All the recent research in hiring seems to point to trends that white board / hackerrank / leetcode style filtering are up and someone with hiring authority actually looking at a portfolio or code repo at an all time low.
Getting things on the front page of Hacker News remains a good way to get people to contact you. Source: have had people contact me with job-related things for that reason.
Just a couple days ago I was going through all kinds of things I made when I was 18. That was almost 20 years ago, and I had VB6 projects and a blog (we called them E/N sites, the word blog wasn't coined yet). The VB6 projects were AOL "progs"--things that interacted with AOL chat, mostly. For the blog, I started with html, then .shtml (server-side-includes), then discovered php. Built a whole CMS using flatfiles, which was the only thing I knew, then rebuild with a database...
I have full source of ALL of that!
I also discovered linux in that time, and one post mentioned running Mandrake 7.2--which I doubt was the first version I ran.
Those skills eventually turned into jobs. And some of my peers who were doing the same thing turned into lifelong, important friendships.
Anyway, just reminiscing. I had more fun computing in those few years than I've had in the whole time since. And even though it was for fun, it was easily some of the best-spent time in my life for $$$ in the future.
She writes "Google treats badly black, queer women", but the story is "Google treated ME badly, and I'm a black queer woman". Also, I'm not comfortable supporting or empathizing with anybody so certain about their "stellar, fantastic, greatest in history" profile.
It would be interesting to hear what were the performance/carrier paths of those 300 people she hired, to understand whether they really just needed a leg-up. That would validate her hunch about untapped potential. On the other hand I'm afraid that it's likely that if they were not promoted it would be again blamed on racism, because if you have that one differentiator, it can be used in any situation.
(Yes, I'm aware that this comment is not going to be palatable to politically correct majority).
That is the most shocking part, but it's not the emphasis of the rant - it's the added value that gives the author credibility.
Please note that I'm coming from a 3rd world country, Google probably has my university well below it's radar, and I know people from there hired by Google (in double-digit numbers). So not being on the "A list" is quite normal for a vast majority of the world, yet you can make it happen.
On a personal note - I interviewed and got reject by Google, but I'm a white male so I do think they actually rejected me because of my performance and not because of my other attributes.
