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My Startup Job Interview
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#32Sounds like fiction
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#33Earlier quoted context omitted.
Asian ladies tend to look different from Caucasian ladies. So it evokes a different picture. I don't think racism or sexism or anything needs to be cited. Sure, you can point out that he seems to be writing from the default perspective of a white Caucasian (assuming everybody else is also a white Caucasian, unless mentioned otherwise). Is that a crime? I think not. If you are from a different background and curious a…
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It doesn't matter whether it's right or wrong. People do this, it's a fact of life.
If you live in Japan (as a white male) you will be commonly referred do as a 外国人 (foreigner) by every Japanese person.
Does that mean that all Japanese are racist? No.
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#34It seems that 90% of the comments have missed the fact that this is obviously hyperbolic satire....
It's not really that hyperbolic. Only thing that clued me in was surprise push to production.
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#35Earlier quoted context omitted.
Asian ladies tend to look different from Caucasian ladies. So it evokes a different picture. I don't think racism or sexism or anything needs to be cited. Sure, you can point out that he seems to be writing from the default perspective of a white Caucasian (assuming everybody else is also a white Caucasian, unless mentioned otherwise). Is that a crime? I think not. If you are from a different background and curious a…
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Exactly. Why include physical descriptions at all. He should have said "three people" or even "three beings."
And who cares what they were wearing?
And why do we care what color the fonts were? He could have just said it was hard to read.
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#36> Wait, it's on production? What is this, Ender's Game? Great description of surprise push-to-production.
I actually LOL'd, which is rare.
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#37It seems that 90% of the comments have missed the fact that this is obviously hyperbolic satire....
Uh, then count me among those who don't get it.
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#38I thought it was very well written and was quite amused!
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#39It seems that 90% of the comments have missed the fact that this is obviously hyperbolic satire....
It's not really that hyperbolic. Only thing that clued me in was surprise push to production.
After staring at the rabbit, black hole, and troll question for a few seconds and going "WUT?" I started to get the feeling this didn't actually happen.
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#40What was the closed form expression for the number of rabbits?
I don't think the question is complete... otherwise I probably just give:
x => Num of Rabbits, y => Num Holes
x,y,x+y=[0,m*n-1]