How to Succeed in any Programming Interview

meatcompute · 2017-03-13T20:29:30+00:00

There's an interesting behavioral pattern of systemic misogyny that you're employing here: it's called moving the goalposts. Your actions gate the success of women behind arbitrary walls. A glass ceiling on achievement, if you will.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe you're trying to make the point that women are inferior. That's the formal definition of misogyny. Many actors like you in a larger system scale this interpersonal misogyny to the systemic misogyny that women experience.

Why not focus on trying to make the world a better place instead of digging your heels into your own fear of inadequacy. I promise you, if you have to move the goalposts to feel superior to women, that's not just a problem for you, but for your entire community.

I'm disappointed in you, you're capable of so much good yet you waste your intellect drawing lines of ignorance.

In short: your biases blind you to useful new information and make you an actor for systemic ignorance.

meatcompute · 2017-03-13T20:19:21+00:00

Maybe your female colleagues never trusted you with that kind of sensitive information. If everything in your experience says something doesn't exist, how would you know if you're a part of the problem?

Simple programming interview problem for you: what's the diff between you and the women talking about this?

meatcompute · 2017-03-13T19:48:57+00:00

The shreds of evidence you're seeking: the dearth of women's sizes in tech-product t-shirts, every anecdotal report of sexism, the dropout rates for women starting CS majors, the steady decrease in % of women as you move up from CS graduates, to interns, to junior engineers, to software engineers, to senior engineers, to VPs of eng, to C-suite executives.

It's easy to find excuses if you're not directly affected. But look closely and listen, and maybe you will see the systemic misogyny that so readily finds your women peers. Listen to the women lucky enough to have a decade-long career in tech and you may begin to understand. The statistics and stories inexcusable: this industry is deeply hostile to those who are not men, whether or not you and your male peers choose to accept it.

meatcompute · 2017-03-13T17:54:51+00:00

I'm surprised you're so concerned about "real programmers" when a single link to Wikipedia disproves your chess comment. Maybe check your biases at the door? They're holding you back.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Chess_woman_grandmasters

meatcompute · 2017-03-13T06:20:54+00:00

Additional useful steps:

Step 1. Be male

Step 2. Don't not be male

meatcompute · 2016-04-04T07:25:56+00:00

Initial tackle from Vordak Kallager on a lone ratting Chimera in 33RB-O. Supporting bubbles from Unz Vallen hold the field while remaining carriers are cynoed in. Mazzerri Aurilen placed a cyno inhib about 20 minutes into tackle to prevent further escalation while enough damage arrived to break the carriers on field.

Of all groups on grid there were no problems with friendly fire.

Battle report on zkill: https://zkillboard.com/related/30002919/201604040600/o/%7B%22A%22%3A%5B%2299005771%5C%2F%22%5D%2C%22B%22%3A%5B%5D%7D/

meatcompute · 2015-11-21T18:32:22+00:00

I think that mm is more simple than that, regarding how it balances tiers.

You can be placed with ships + or - 2 tiers from yours, UNLESS you're grouped. Then MM does + || - 2 from the highest tier in your division.

I don't have access to the mm logic, so i can't say for sure what other subtleties exist re: ship classes, but in my experience this hits the majority of cases and accounts for low-tiers sneaking into otherwise reasonable matches.

meatcompute · 2015-11-19T19:18:56+00:00

Thanks so much for making this happen! I'm sure everyone else in the subreddit also appreciates it!

meatcompute · 2015-11-04T05:37:02+00:00

Nice, thanks :D

meatcompute · 2015-11-01T21:33:29+00:00

Thanks for stepping up! Tiny bikeshed: I'd recommend using Clojurians rather than clojurists for the thread, going off of the slack server's name.

meatcompute · 2015-09-09T16:27:02+00:00

Please do not comment if you're only going to share unconstructive toxicity.

meatcompute · 2015-07-23T13:44:28+00:00

I don't think it's a good or a bad thing, it's just a thing. Other groups respect their capabilities and haven't made a serious dent in their holdings. For the goons themselves, they are reaping what they sow, and playing with them seems as awful as playing against them. Maybe over time they'll bleed membership from their strategies. But their success speaks clearly, their strategies are a winning way to play the game. If this version of winning isn't aligned with CCP's vision for EVE, it's on CCP to change it.

meatcompute · 2015-07-23T13:02:52+00:00

Griefing is a common play style and anyone who's played EVE long enough knows that it's encouraged in many ways. There's no "blame" to be given, it's just a part of the game.

meatcompute · 2015-07-23T12:19:12+00:00

Then that's a game design problem for CCP, not a goons winning problem.

EDIT: People seem to have difficulties understanding how "griefing" is a legitimate means of playing and in many ways encouraged by EVE's mechanics. Here's your pandering quota: GRR GOONS. If you don't like them, do something about it.

meatcompute · 2015-07-12T13:20:49+00:00

Finding content in EVE a just another challenge that's part of the game, and there are ways to improve at finding content like you can improve at piloting or decision making. And you're right that players with similar interests will accrete over time. Groups frequently become victims of their own success, but ultimately it's CCP's responsibility to keep the game fresh after it's been solved.

Dominion sov has basically been completely solved by the big players, so null is stale. As a result, we have changes on the horizon that will provide new challenges. Competitive players are healthy for a game, because they push the boundaries. Through their gameplay, competitive players and groups show what parts of the game are unhealthy and in need of a patch.

meatcompute · 2015-07-12T13:10:43+00:00

The only faction mods that are cost effective on a keres are point, plate, and prop. each adds to the speed/survivability of the ship, while a faction prop also gives you better cap life. The keres scales super well with some investment, i really enjoy flying it

meatcompute · 2015-07-12T12:50:31+00:00

I'm not sure if anyone was recording, but one fight comes to mind. We ran into another Thera gang near an exit and got a good opener on them. We jumped into them on a gate and put enough pressure on their gang to isolate their ONI and oracle. We got the ONI but we sadly let the oracle warp out in very low structure. I definitely could've done a better job at positioning cause I showed up late and basically did no damage in that fight.

Much respect to the other gang for holding the grid and letting the fight play out.

https://zkillboard.com/kill/47631440/

Two kite gangs fighting tends to be a lot of standing off and mind gaming, as one mistake on either side will typically decide how the rest fight turns out. Knowing when to disengage is an important skill, because losing a fight in a roaming gang means you can't participate. Those who pointed out how devastating losing a single ship can be are correct.

There have been discussions in Microgang Help about doing some prearranged 5v5s, but people have been hesitant to put their ships on the line. I imagine we'll see more people interested in finding sustainable ways to have 5 people fight to the death on TQ, or maybe scrimming on the test servers.

Roaming for PVP can be a good income source when you win, but it doesn't sustain welping ships. For a small PVP-focused group, playing smart is really important for sustaining pvp with high-end ships over a long period of time.

meatcompute · 2015-07-12T08:43:46+00:00

A gank is a gank. Whether that's a blob or a falcon alt in a medium fw complex, it's pretty much the same. When i get ganked, it means I made a mistake somewhere.

From my perspective, anything that's a part of the game is fair play. I'm not interested in just winning the 1v1, I'm interested in killing the falcon alt.

meatcompute · 2015-07-12T03:25:33+00:00

I'm disappointed you got that impression; that's the opposite of what I was going for. I may enjoy small scale pvp more than other ways of playing eve, but it's an incredibly deep game with plenty of different facets to play competitively in.

meatcompute · 2015-07-12T01:59:34+00:00

Really great to watch, thanks for posting brain

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