Kadin

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by Kadin 14y ago
Well, yeah -- the people who are going to object most strenuously to a huge UI change are those who are invested in the current interface, and are going to have to waste a lot of time relearning things the 'new way.' But they also tend to b
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by Kadin 15y ago
The way that I have always tried to explain this to other people is that it's not a matter of "being sexist" or "not being sexist" (or racist, or whatever). It's a matter of what you actually do . Whether or not you "are sexist" on some i
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by Kadin 15y ago
> since humor belongs to every time in life --and especially in public gatherings and presentations Certain types of humor, perhaps. (Although I'd still argue that there are times in life when humor is not appropriate, and that a person
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by Kadin 15y ago
> just as the lack of female coal miners is likewise not a cruel injustice. It is for someone who really wants to work in a coal mine. (Or, for a more germane example, someone who wants to be an infantry soldier.) Not everyone shares y
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by Kadin 15y ago
> The low interest in of women in programming is a global phenomenon. I'm not sure that's completely true. I've been told that the gender imbalance in CompSci programs is less severe in India than it is in the U.S., for instance, rela
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by Kadin 15y ago
This seems like it is probably the case. Due to the incentives that drive hiring decisions, individuals and companies may all be making (short-term) rational decisions, with the net result that women are excluded. The consequences of hirin
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by Kadin 15y ago
> My own conjecture is that women don't want to do software development because it's boring and difficult. Why would women find this more of a problem then men do? You're just replacing one unproven assertion with another, the latter t
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by Kadin 15y ago
Well, that's LA. Most Americans don't live in LA. (Or New York, or the SF Bay Area.) Beware over-extrapolation of your personal experiences.
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by Kadin 15y ago
It may be illogical for the organization, but it's certainly not for the individuals who actually comprise and run that organization. We need to keep in mind that companies, while useful abstractions, are fundamentally just groups of peopl
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by Kadin 15y ago
Increasing the rates paid for electricity actually helps renewables, by making them more competitive. Just like any increase to the gas tax helps electric vehicles compete, any increase to the average price-per-kWh makes alternative energy
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by Kadin 15y ago
Also, you probably want to double the salary figure to get an idea of the total compensation cost to the company doing the hiring. A $70k worker can easily have a compensation package that costs $140k to the company doing the hiring, depen
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by Kadin 15y ago
While there may be a fresh-water crisis on a global scale, that doesn't mean there is a shortage everywhere. There are lots of places where there are ample water supplies, and use of the water there doesn't really effect water availability
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by Kadin 15y ago
They'd be much more likely to use S/MIME than PGP, if they were going to use anything. The infrastructure for S/MIME is already deployed in much of the Federal IT space, while PGP is only used for some small niche applications as far as I'
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by Kadin 15y ago
There's no evidence, at least that I've seen, to suggest that "Anonymous" is anything approaching a cohesive organization. I think it's a mistake to refer to it that way. Absent anything other than a common name, there's no reason to assum
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by Kadin 15y ago
Multipart MIME is fairly clever in that it provides a reasonably human-readable fallback for old clients that don't support it. I'd be very wary of throwing that out. One of the benefits of plain-text email is its universality. The only w
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by Kadin 15y ago
I guess I'm not really sold on why this is better than IMAP, which is a protocol that, um, actually exists and you can use today. Fixing the perceived drawbacks of IMAP would seem to be a more productive goal than trying to produce a compet
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by Kadin 15y ago
That's pretty much the situation. But I think the lesson is the other way around: if you make $150M and don't share it with the fatcats in Washington through some strategic campaign contributions to protect your business model, prepare to
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by Kadin 15y ago
I'd agree with you if you'd replace "phone" with "communications device." I'm not convinced that voice calls will remain the dominant interpersonal communication medium once we're a (human) generation into ubiquitous smartphone deployment.
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by Kadin 15y ago
Probably won't ever happen -- that's a little too obvious. But approval from some giant corporate entity that is thoroughly in the pocket of the government, and approves or denies applications at the government's whims? That's not very ha
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by Kadin 15y ago
Makes (a small amount of) sense -- the only high-quality tubes I've ever seen were either manufactured in the U.S., Europe, or in various parts of the former USSR; Chinese tubes have a very poor reputation at least in audio circles. Perhaps
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by Kadin 15y ago
Well, it's certainly not safe for them to continue running under the .it TLD if they're in violation of Italian law, but they could redirect to "it.wikipedia.com" (which, I just checked, actually is the Italian Wikipedia) and thus be with
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by Kadin 15y ago
That doesn't make a ton of sense; Google's use of the "Android" trademark is closer to the OSG's use of "UNIX" than to how "Linux" is used.
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by Kadin 15y ago
I think that people in the USPS definitely realize this, but they are unfortunately prohibited from doing any of the obvious things that one would expect them to do in response. They can't close unprofitable post offices, lay off redundant
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by Kadin 15y ago
Much of the mail is bulk (aka junk) mail sent by companies and organizations that have lobbyists. These lobbyists make it very difficult to raise postal rates as you suggest. Add this to the Mephistophelean bargains that they have made wit
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by Kadin 15y ago
> Netflix apparently has a chaos generator that randomly kills machines as a standard process. This sounds pretty neat, but a quick Google didn't turn up any information about it besides this post. Do you know of anywhere to get more i
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by Kadin 15y ago
Actually I think there are a lot of parallels with eBay. I remember the very early days of that service, when there was a lot of interpersonal communication, transactions were friendly, you could send personal checks without raising an eye
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by Kadin 15y ago
Well the solution there is not to accept a credit card as a form of identification. I check into lots of hotels and about 50% of the time they require an actual government-issued photo ID; I assume for room-trashing situations and the proba
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by Kadin 15y ago
There is virtually zero chance that a standard homeowner's insurance policy is going to cover an AirBNB-style rental. Rental insurance might -- I'm sure there are policies made for this -- but most people aren't going to have that kind of
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by Kadin 15y ago
I suspect this is a big part of the decision. It certainly would be if I were making the call ... if the UX isn't perfect, you're going to get idiots giving it 1-star reviews and generally complaining. I'm not sure I'd want to release any
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by Kadin 15y ago
Same here. Although I don't necessarily envy them; Facebook has a huge advantage by virtue of network effects. I don't know anyone who really likes Facebook; they've alienated users with privacy missteps and stupid interface changes over a

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