Arizhel

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by Arizhel 10y ago
>Besides, men outnumber women in tech by a very large margin. It's on our shoulders to help women fight back. Strength in numbers is a thing, and having men who speak up on their own, and who support and reinforce women who come for
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by Arizhel 10y ago
The drivers aren't going to be hurt; half of them are already working for Lyft anyway (they have two phones, one for each service), so the rest will just move to the competition if Uber goes under, and they'll probably be better o
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by Arizhel 10y ago
Why is this being modded down? It's the truth. Big companies almost always come out on top in trials because they can afford the best lawyers, and they can afford to game the system to bankrupt their opponents by filing never-ending
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by Arizhel 10y ago
>which btw is hideously incomprehensible -- I'm talking old c++ with almost no comments What does "old" have to do with it? Modern code is all like that too. Every time I complain about it, including just a day or two ri
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by Arizhel 10y ago
I think another factor here is carefully picking your audience. If you're writing a sci-fi book, you probably won't get very good feedback and criticism from a bunch of elderly people who like to read craft magazines, for example
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by Arizhel 10y ago
Yeah, I'm just going on his statement that it was "one mile", which I take to be the actual Manhattan distance, not the crow's distance. You have a good point with the walk signals, but as someone who's spent a fai
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by Arizhel 10y ago
Yep, that's what I'm worried about here. If the guy were accused of inappropriate conduct at Uber , his current employer, then it's entirely appropriate for the HR department to investigate and decide to fire him. But firin
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by Arizhel 10y ago
The problem is that there aren't exactly a lot of other great FOSS standalone email applications these days. Everything's been neglected because of webmail, and corporations' dogged insistence on Outlook. So if you think Thu
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by Arizhel 10y ago
I can't imagine why you wouldn't want navigational assistance. The only time I drive without my GPS is if I'm going somewhere I go frequently, along a route I normally travel, and it's a short distance. Any place new,
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by Arizhel 10y ago
I disagree. On the face of it, this totally reeks of scapegoating. Uber has many allegations right now that its current culture tolerates harassment, meaning that current employees (including managers most notably) are alleged to have comm
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by Arizhel 10y ago
>... is a 30 minute trip for just a mile of travel. It didn’t matter whether I rode a car, public transport, or walked. How does it take 30 minutes to walk a mile, unless you're really slow and out of shape, or taking your time (som
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by Arizhel 10y ago
I went and tried out both Workman and Colemak for a few minutes; I'll have to give Workman more time to try it out, but one thing I noticed about Workman and Colemak, and of course Qwerty, is that they all have the most-used punctuatio
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by Arizhel 10y ago
Very interesting, thanks for the tip!
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by Arizhel 10y ago
The rest of the world doesn't have Trump; only Americans do. The rest of the world is free to dis-entangle their economies from America's if they wish. Honestly, I feel the rest of the industrialized world has been too complacen
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by Arizhel 10y ago
As an American, I really dislike statements like this. We voted for this, and a very large portion of our population wants jack-booted authoritarianism like this. No, not all Americans condone this, just like not all Americans spea
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by Arizhel 10y ago
I have to comment about her age: when I read the article, I was shocked when she said she was 70. Her photos look like someone who isn't a day over 50. She looks absolutely fantastic. That said, she's absolutely right to stay ou
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by Arizhel 10y ago
How utterly pointless. We don't need 5G; we still don't have 4G deployed that widely, and even there it isn't all that useful because mobile data costs in the US are ridiculous. This isn't going to change that.
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by Arizhel 10y ago
It's a great idea: it'll increase profits for large companies like Comcast. Why are you worried about consumers? They don't matter. The only thing that matters is profits for large companies, who then provide generous camp
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by Arizhel 10y ago
>"Next dead-giveaway: non-typist code is... minimalist. They don't go the extra mile to comment things. Is this why it seems that programmers never write comments these days? I feel like I'm the only one who uses a health
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by Arizhel 10y ago
>I was under the belief that only the middle class protested for basic income. It would have been more interesting if the "beta test" was done on educated/ first world persons, so we can finally get progress (or a full sto
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by Arizhel 10y ago
Yep, I was roughly equating mass with surface gravity, which I see now is incorrect. I do find it really interesting and a little mind-boggling that the Moon, as huge as it is, with a good 1/6 of Earth's gravity, only has 1.2% of
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by Arizhel 10y ago
>Just think back to why you studied computer science or coding. I hope it wasn't to help build spy tools on your friends & families. So what do you think of all the people working at Google, Facebook, and Microsoft? All of them
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by Arizhel 10y ago
I don't. Nothing's changed, and nothing's been done to those officers. Society has implicitly accepted these actions as justified.
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by Arizhel 10y ago
>I've heard from a Vancouver recruiter that "engineers who ask for money are bad engineers". A simple retort to this could be "$profession who ask for money are bad engineers", for any value of $profession (in th
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by Arizhel 10y ago
No, that's "baklava", the tasty honey-and-phillo-dough desert from Greece/middle east (its exact origins are disputed).
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by Arizhel 10y ago
>One of my scale numbers is, everything between Jupiter and the Sun masses less than 2 Earths -- Venus, Mars, Mercury, the Moon, and all the asteroids mass less than the Earth. Is that correct? Venus alone is about 90% the size of Earth
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by Arizhel 10y ago
>Still, assuming light speed travel, Firefly's inhabited planets are still a heck of a lot closer, since the crew doesn't seem to noticeably age between the half dozen or so star systems that they visit My understanding is that
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by Arizhel 10y ago
Yeah, I agree. Examples! If this is true, there's got to be some really interesting stories here.
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by Arizhel 10y ago
If you're so unprofessional that you can't prevent yourself from having lurid conversations about sex in a workplace with women in earshot around you, then maybe you should be working someplace else, such as a dirty warehouse.
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by Arizhel 10y ago
Not just that: cancel any stock options or other perks they have too.

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