Goladus

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by Goladus 14y ago
> I'm curious to what the "other side" of this issue is. When the term 'male privilege' is dragged into the discussion, people are likely start thinking about their own experiences. They'll remember girls getting extra attention in lab
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by Goladus 14y ago
> Relevant to Hacker News... debatable. So debate. I have used sounds and music while hacking. I know video game developers whose job title is "sound designer". This link, while not particularly advanced or profound, still inspired m
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by Goladus 14y ago
The point is less what it is than how one feels when it's heard. Sounds and music are often perceived passively and subtly influence your feelings at the moment, particularly the sort of "creepy music" the linked sound resembles most close
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by Goladus 14y ago
This is creative and unusual. Sound design is an interesting and relevant topic.
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by Goladus 14y ago
I agree but it does sound like music used by movies intended to evoke creepiness. It's because it sounds unnatural, far outside what we're used to hearing. Compare with, say, the Blaster Beam used by Jerry Goldsmith in the film Star Trek
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by Goladus 14y ago
The author has a point, but 'click here' is reliable for a lowest common denominator call to action. Using it is usually better than trying and failing to come up with a more effective contextually appropriate phrase.
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by Goladus 14y ago
While I agree "reverse sexist" is a silly term to use in this case, you should really research both sides of the issue before telling a man to check his privilege. (If you had, you would have almost certainly come up with a more effective
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by Goladus 14y ago
In this case, the distinction is unlikely to be relevant. The subjects are "women" (unqualified) and the audience is everyone. If a woman whose gender and sex don't match is interested in being a subject on the site, then the distinction m
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by Goladus 14y ago
>> It's very possible that my impression is wrong or that I'd get different results talking to a high school CS class than programmers in their 20s and 30s. > I don't know any programmers who didn't get in to programming that wa
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by Goladus 14y ago
This struck me as somewhat oddly constructed. I'm sure her two friends were different from each other in a great many ways, but she settled on sex as the differentiating factor. She goes on to say It's been a long time but I recall gender
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by Goladus 14y ago
Yeah. Point #4 should be point #1 and titled "blogging boring, useless, or poorly-written content."
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by Goladus 14y ago
I think the cleverest marketing bit from a cynic's perspective was the part where the hostess, the McDonald's Canada's Director of Marketing, confidently walks into the bright clean store, orders and obtains the burger from the pleasant sta
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by Goladus 14y ago
True, but free usually means freedom from both cost and restraint, so the point doesn't change much. I should have said "constraint" rather than "cost". Though the original commenter did follow-up, clarifying that the common interpretation
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by Goladus 14y ago
But you have to use a language with type inference. That's still a cost. Maybe not a big one, but that was my point (and I'm definitely nitpicking a bit, I realize that.)
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by Goladus 14y ago
> 1. A common argument is that static-typed languages slow development. I'm not touching that land-mine. If you claim type-checking is free , the counter-argument is not that it "slows development." The counter is that type-checking is
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by Goladus 14y ago
http://www.scribd.com/doc/96850920/FunnyJunk-The-Oatmeal-Res...
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by Goladus 14y ago
Yes. Realize that often the generalizations are a lot more subtle than your example, and of course anecdotes aren't always the best or only counter-arguments you'll see, even if they are valid. Start looking and I am sure you will find ex
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by Goladus 14y ago
Did Inman misrepresent any of Carreon's actions? If not, then the lawyer has no one to blame for the harassment he has earned, other than the individual harassers themselves. And if we're talking about rational, appropriate reactions: the r
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by Goladus 14y ago
Eh, it's only an overreaction if you have no sense of humor and don't consider how offensive and stressful it is to be shaken down for $20,000 the way Inman was.
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by Goladus 14y ago
Because it's wrong. The FAQ itself states that the benefits of registration are prima facie evidence and statutory damages. You can still litigate, you just need to provide alternate evidence and you don't get to claim statutory damages
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by Goladus 14y ago
Contrarian anecdotes can be very useful (and logically sound) when they are contrary to a generalization. If someone asserts "f(x) = 5 for all x in A", "f(a) = 3 and a in A" is a logical contradiction proving the assertion false. And, fran
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by Goladus 14y ago
Don't be ridiculous. It applies where the word "steal" is deliberately abused and it was not in this case.
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by Goladus 14y ago
They have not made a formal claim of copyright violation, they have not involved lawyers, they have not sent a cease and desist (to my knowledge). They did use the word "stole" but they used it in a casual, non-legal sense and followed up w
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by Goladus 14y ago
If you read carefully, you'll find that there hasn't been a claim of copyright violation. The accusation is "ripping us off", and it is made in front of the audience that both sites appear to serve.
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by Goladus 14y ago
Fair enough. I think you get the main idea, though, which is that the "vibe" regarding exercise of copyright is influenced by many specific and often important details, even if not every person is always able to clearly articulate those de
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by Goladus 14y ago
It's a rebuttal to an argument with flawed assumptions anyway. "Internet vigilante" is a stereotype and we have no way of knowing that the people supporting Inman are the same people who complain about unspecified copyright holders taking
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by Goladus 14y ago
The Oatmeal's content is owned by the creator and is made freely available. FunnyJunk did not even credit Inman, they were effectively stealing his copyright, not merely pirating content. "Most other copyright holders" -- this is much too
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by Goladus 14y ago
Right, I basically picked apache randomly. Pretty much any significant open source project from the era I was a student (1997-2001) has the same problem, from a student's point of view anyway. The problem was that an intermediate student w
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by Goladus 14y ago
My problem with make and autoconf, as a young student, was the difficulty of finding quality, intermediate examples. Textbook examples were trivial, professional examples were too dense to understand. There was nothing to bridge the gap.
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by Goladus 14y ago
Trivial example: a traditional suit-and-tie, senior manager walks by a junior programmer's cube and sees youtube on the monitor and immediately assumes junior is slacking off, abusing company resources. He subsequently spreads negative co

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