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I read it was partly inspired by "Local Hero" (Bill Forsyth movie). The visiting Russian singer felt like a direct lift of the visiting Russian fisherman in "Local Hero".

We got rid of QA engineers a few years ago. I think some VP will hear what Nadella is doing and start their innovative initiative to start hiring QA engineers.

It might not be simple. It could be very hard, very expensive. Is it worth doing? Does it have value? Would it be so bad if most of the CEOs are white men? All the execs are white …

What if we don't assume any bias and just look at outcome? We stipulate that bias should play no part in decision making. Only the outcome should matter. If the outcome doesn't mat…

I think people can have unconscious bias. But in hiring, I think it's mostly conscious. What I mean is that I think people will see a long Indian name they can't pronounce and skip…

Should business have freedoms that are good for business but bad for society? Isn't the whole reason for businesses in the first place is that they improve society? They are an eff…

The purpose of our state is to provide for its citizens. So we decided to use a market economy because it seems the most efficient way to do that. But we make up the rules that it …

I think it's more unsaid than unconscious. But putting that aside, if DEI is purposeful and deliberate while the "natural state" of things is not (unconscious bias), is that how we…

I think it's always conscious one way or the other. With or without DEI. It could be close to blind if communication were only done through writing and the candidate names were not…

Is the business perspective the right one to go with? Let's say it's legal to discriminate on race in hiring in the US. Then a Japanese restaurant hires only Japanese workers becau…

The reason people like her is that she gets them interested in the guest. Not many interviewers can do that. She'll interview some blues artist you've never heard of and the next t…

I thought Apple's Blue Ocean stuff were: * Macintosh * iPhone * Apple Store

It feels Google phones are very nice prototype projects from a darling business unit. Used to show off cool software for trade shows.

Yes, at the time it was all about desktop publishing and graphic design. It wasn't until the end of the 90s that PCs started to make its way into that niche. Also it didn't feel li…

Seemed like you always needed a trio of main apps. In the graphic design market of the 90s, it was Quark, Photoshop and Illustrator. To a lesser extent it was Pagemaker, Photoshop …

I can see it being nice if it's like Minority Report, where you can swipe small screens away, etc. Talk and it types. Glance to the left to see how the builds are going, etc. It co…

I think a gesture is actually worse. They can say, hey look, I'm just like you. If I can work like this so can you. So buck up. When in fact they can go into their reserved confere…

What is the merit here?

I think you can answer your own question. Did you "give" anything to the people who were empathetic and listened to you?

Here's what the professor had to say: “I am showing you this image for a reason. And that is that there is this common thinking that Islam completely forbids, outright, any figurat…

As long as it's only thinking people odd. Not sure if the professor felt existential about it but she said: “I am showing you this image for a reason. And that is that there is thi…

Tolerant enough to support an art history professor who showed an image depicting Muhammad?

How sensitive are Muslims to other peoples way of life?

I think he was angry too, but that makes it all the more impressive.

Execs who are/were developers is a good sign for me.