BoxFour

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by BoxFour 4y ago
No, but I can use contextual clues like other accolades to extrapolate from my own experience with that person here (like being a Nobel laureate, for example). To your point though, more like one in 100 million I suppose if I’m to be more a
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by BoxFour 4y ago
Just the opposite actually: I used to work in academia and I’ve met some incredibly intelligent people who were leaps and bounds more insightful than 99.9999999% of people I’ve ever met (including more so than myself, obviously). The comm
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by BoxFour 4y ago
I’m going to be contrary and cynical say that something funny is going on here. Going from desktop to mobile development, for example, isn’t a monumental task necessarily but if you’re spinning up on an entirely new framework, language, and
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by BoxFour 6y ago
something like 1/3 to 1/2 of the US is obese, so...
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by BoxFour 9y ago
I mean, duh? There are definitely examples of sexism that are less clear-cut, but uber is a pretty blatant example of sexism in the tech industry. I mean for shits sake they just had to call in the former attorney general to audit their wor
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by BoxFour 11y ago
> I agree, but I also know that Martin Luther King got the same response; It's funny you bring up MLK Jr. Here he is on Malcolm X: > I met Malcolm X once in Washington... but I totally disagree with many of his political and phil
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by BoxFour 11y ago
Caveat: This is a response to a more general concept, not necessarily applicable to this particular issue > Much social change begins this way Much social change also DOESN'T begin this way (see: OWS), and it can be frustrating for
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by BoxFour 11y ago
I think that's true, but I also think it's a little silly to contribute to FOSS but be unwilling to spend the extra time to use FOSS. I guess it's kinda just sad to me that you'd be unwilling to spend the time to use FOS
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by BoxFour 11y ago
> Which chat systems were similar to IRC, but not to Slack, outside of IRC clients? Slack is very similar to IRC at its core, so I'm not sure I see what you're asking here. I meant that IRC isn't foreign or alien to anyone
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by BoxFour 11y ago
Ehh, as someone your age (a couple years younger even), I have a completely different take on IRC. It's incredibly intuitive because it's so similar to all the other chat clients we grew up with (presumably because they're