I met Danilo (briefly) at a Grubwithus dinner a while back in the SF. It's strange to type, but I never suspected he was Latino based on appearance. I'm in a similar boat, where I pass as white. There have been a number of times in my (so far) short career where it's been made evidently clear that if I didn't pass as white, things would be very different for me.
I appreciate this post though. It's from a perspective I don't hear too often, and I've been slow to contribute my own. So, thanks.
I'm in the same boat. Brazilian born to a Brazilian father and British mother. Lived in the US since 4 years of age. I also pass as a white American (but still have to deal with DHS and immigration bullshit because bureaucratic red tape has delayed my ability to apply for citizenship).
Like Danilo said, there is no replacement for having lived and grown up in the United States. I'm a native English speaker, but Portuguese was my first language. I'm fully fluent in Portuguese, but I wish I spoke at native fluency. However I would not trade my native English fluency for native Portuguese fluency. English is simply way too valuable.
Wow, I forgot about that part. I've done that thought experiment a couple times myself, how it would affect things if I looked markedly different. It's always a little scary, honestly.
There have been a number of times in my (so far) short career where it's been made evidently clear that if I didn't pass as white, things would be very different for me.
I, too, would love to hear more details. I find it astounding that an industry that does not care about looks (tech) would have something that is evidently very prevalent.
I look very Indian(but come from the subcontinent, not the country) and have a marked accent(slightly different from Indian). I too am interested in what I have been missing out on. I know as a non-Christian in the South, my chances are probably worse, but I never considered my Hispanic friends(middle class, well educated) to be less privileged than white people.
Yes. I wished I had many upvotes to give for such an expansion! For example, is there someone out there who experience "passing as white" in certain areas of the U.S. but not in others? It's like a Reddit AMA, but better!! If not, maybe OP can go undercover as a "real hispanic"?
One github user already put the Utah state legal code on github. All commits are attributed to him, but it's fascinating watching the wording change commit by commit.
It happened to me with a recruiter. They were calling people that were somehow connected to me to try to get my phone number. What I found most upsetting was how they treated the people that they called. The recruiter was very persistent, and pretty rude. It was enough to prompt my coworker and another friend to find all instances of their phone number online and try to get it removed (which is generally a good idea).
I really like this idea. I took a look at the Javascript output of the compiler, and noticed that effectively every statement of the program would result in a function nested within the function created by the last N statements. Since Javascript doesn't have tail call optimization, the browser will complain at some point when the stack overflows.
Contrived, I know, but it looks like in Firefox 8 that happens at around 39k.
This is an important issue! I'm aware of the problem and have some ideas of how to avoid it. My compiler is not actually doing any optimization at this stage, so this will be addressed when I give this more attention.
To those concerned, a request with your provided info appears to only be sent to their servers once you arrive at the Results step (which itself is mostly just a recap of the previous step).
When I took cs142, it was actually a web security class. It seems that the last few weeks of the class will still be devoted to security. The introduction to Rails was done solely to get students to implement safeguards against the attacks they had learned earlier in the course. The class appears to take the reverse route now, possibly due to student feedback.
Actually, CS 241 is now the web security class. This, from what I was told, was a totally different class that was focused more on web development as a whole, rather than web security.
I appreciate this post though. It's from a perspective I don't hear too often, and I've been slow to contribute my own. So, thanks.