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prokopetz · 3 months
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So I got a complaint from a client about their website today.
In brief, this client operates an online directory, in which companies within a particular industry can advertise their services.
Companies appearing in this directory have the option to voluntarily disclose which of a pre-defined list of "visible minority" identifiers apply to the company's ownership: "disabled", "LGBT", etc.
Companies appearing in this directory also have the ability to list people – typically owners or directors – associated with the company. The same visible minority identifiers which apply to companies can also voluntarily be applied to individual people listed under a company.
Today, the website's operator decided to add a new identifier to the list. I'm not sure why they chose to phrase it the way they did, or whether they just forgot that the same list of visible minority identifiers is used for both companies and persons, but the short version is that they want to know why the site's users now have the ability to designate people as "Female Owned".
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engravedlives · 23 days
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random green blinkies
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maj77777 · 2 months
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apollos-polls · 4 days
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sreegs · 2 months
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You're interviewing as a software engineer and you sit down to begin a coding exercise via remote video chat. Your interviewer joins a minute late. You exchange light pleasantries, then intros. They ask you a few questions relevant to your experience and you answer them satisfactorily.
The interviewer says, "Right, lets move on to the coding exercise," and directs you to a collaborative coding website. You select your language of choice and they begin to describe your problem.
"You have an array of souls recently liberated from their mortal shell, represented by this array of signed floats called "theDead". You must design a function that determines which souls go to heaven and which souls go to hell,"
"Heaven and hell are empty. The cumulative value of all the souls in heaven and hell must both be nonzero, and exactly equal to each other. You may leave any number of souls in purgatory,"
"Your function must return a bool indicating whether the balance of heaven and hell can be met given the array of souls. The count of souls will be 0 < n < 1,000,000. Do you have any questions before you begin?"
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seguen-sd · 4 days
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Arte original: Soul Sculping.
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prokopetz · 1 month
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Implementing strict out-of-bounds checking in my 3D platformer, but instead of actually forbidding the player from going out of bounds I just use it to create a demon that chases you around the OOB space, and if it catches you it engages you in a lengthy unskippable dialogue about the tabletop RPG it's writing, thereby killing your speedrun.
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titleknown · 11 days
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While I really hate the narrative of "tech bros" because of how it conflates shitty CEOs with non-shitty base-level programmers, and how it conflates Dunning-Kruger-y early adopters with people who Know Their Shit about computers...
...On the AI art issue, I will say, there is probably a legit a culture clash between people who primarily specialize in programming and people who primarily specialize in art.
Because, like, while in the experience of modern working illustrators a free commons has ended up representing a Hobbseyan experience of "a war of all against all" that's a constant threat to making a living, in software from what I can tell it's kinda been the reverse.
IE, freedom of access to shared code/information has kinda been seen as A Vital Thing wrt people's abilities to do their job at a core level. So, naturally, there's going to be some very different reactions to the morality of scraped data online.
And, it's probably the same reason that a lot of the creative commons movement came from the free software movement.
And while I agree a lot with the core principles of these movements, it's also probably unfortunately why they so often come off as tone-deaf and haven't really made that proper breakthrough wrt fighting against copyright bloat.
It also really doesn't help that, in terms of treatment by capital, for most of our lives programmers have been Mother's Special Little Boy whereas artists (especially online independent artists post '08 crash) have been treated as The Ratboy We Keep In The Basement And Throw Scraps To.
So, it make sense the latter would have resentment wrt the former...
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maj77777 · 2 months
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ceroro · 26 days
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creacher space program
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ballofstress9 · 2 months
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programmers will litterally google "how to kill a child" and act like its the normallest thing in the world
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stumpyjoepete · 3 months
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A Mathematician Learns To Program
def max(a, b): # without loss of generality a < b return b
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prokopetz · 3 months
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Today's aesthetic: when a video game does the YOU DIED thing, but the developers neglected to give the baddies a victory pose, or even provide their AI with any sort of general script for what to do when the player character ceases to be a valid target, so they just keep milling around periodically attacking the air three feet above your character's prone corpse until the screen fades out.
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sreegs · 3 months
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microsoft engineers in the 90s: hey so uh now that we're a real company we have to screen potential employees and we were thinking of implementing a process where you solve these complicated logic and mathematical problems
microsoft execs: oh so you're gonna screen to make sure you have the most mathematically and logically minded people and not screen things like ethics and critical thinking
engineers: oh hm when you put it that way maybe this is a bad idea, especially if the whole industry does this. we can-
execs: no no this is great. start doing the puzzles
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maj77777 · 2 months
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charlesoberonn · 2 months
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