MartinCron

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by MartinCron 9y ago
Catchy.
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by MartinCron 9y ago
Agreed. I found SO MANY of my favorite authors based on recommendations from that place.
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by MartinCron 9y ago
most of the people there were ruthlessly crushed by Microsoft business tactics That has to be hyperbole. Even at the height of Microsoft's aggression, there were many professional software devs left uncrushed.
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by MartinCron 9y ago
Another Seattle one, in my 'hood, still haven't bothered to go. http://www.portalvr.us/
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by MartinCron 9y ago
Common barbaric policy here in the States, I am afraid.
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by MartinCron 9y ago
Yes, that is exactly what I was implying :)
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by MartinCron 9y ago
I like to make the distinction between being a good "programmer" and being a good "professional software developer". Lots of good programmers aren't necessarily good professional software developers. I usually make
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by MartinCron 9y ago
Doesn't seem like a very difficult choice to me.
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by MartinCron 9y ago
Very good analogy, it was extremely difficult to find good web hosting in 1926 Germany.
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by MartinCron 9y ago
Inconsistent and problematic encoding and decoding of & in HTML, mostly.
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by MartinCron 9y ago
And then ampersands, while we are at it?
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by MartinCron 9y ago
I guess there's a difference between being a socially awkward or kinda "crusty" software genius and being an actively anti-social and/or sociopathic software genius. Maybe I'm just thinking of the typical "high
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by MartinCron 9y ago
And here I was thinking that I was being all moderate by not calling it a "screed" or a "rant".
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by MartinCron 9y ago
Well, presumably other people in the organization would have to work with them, and that is hardly fair to those other people.
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by MartinCron 9y ago
How about not shaming anyone, male or female, for any traits that aren't harmful to other people?
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by MartinCron 9y ago
Exactly. If I had devoted my career to a different industry that had serious diversity problems, I would be advocating for corrective actions in that industry.
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by MartinCron 9y ago
It seems like a disservice to society to isolate and protect antisocial software geniuses just because you might be able to get good work out of them.
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by MartinCron 9y ago
Who would think that publishing a manifesto might have consequences?
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by MartinCron 9y ago
It's not just our industry, ever hear the horror stories of women breaking into other male dominated fields like policing? The idea that there aren't multiple forces, often brutal ones, nudging men and women into particular fiel
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by MartinCron 9y ago
Absolutely. I have two children and I got to be much more involved in the early childhood of one than the other. It's a sacrifice that I've felt personally. It's just not anywhere close to a level playing field.
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by MartinCron 9y ago
So whatever makes women uninterested in programming happens before college I don't think that, by itself, lets industry off the hook completely. We still have to make a culture that isn't downright repulsive to half of the popul
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by MartinCron 9y ago
There's another way to frame that... too few men put their career advancement on hold when they choose to have children. Instead of sharing the burden, society expects a disproportionate sacrifice from women. Typical example: Nobody as
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by MartinCron 9y ago
If a man who couldn't even get away with some consensual foolin' around with an intern without it becoming global news had access to an untraceable assassination force capable of removing people with impunity, how do you explain t
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by MartinCron 9y ago
I'm skeptical of that, people continue to debate (at least warmly, if not hotly) the shape of the planet. The fact that a debate exists is not proof that a legitimate debate should exist.
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by MartinCron 9y ago
Seems pretty nihilistic, doesn't it? Even when things are hotly debated, objective reality continues to exist, and we owe it to ourselves to strive to understand and acknowledge facts.
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by MartinCron 9y ago
I had never heard of this before, thank you so much for connecting this to a name. Aha, you've only bothered to refute 48 of my 100 bullshit claims, clear evidence liberal bias!
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by MartinCron 9y ago
Well, if they give you radon in homeopathic doses, you should be fine.
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by MartinCron 9y ago
I do go to the store (and the farmers market) and buy groceries, and cook, all the time. I've recently been curious about Blue Apron as a relatively low-effort way to expand what I cook and how I cook it.
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by MartinCron 9y ago
I get the basic concept, but I was thinking of all of the waste in the-take out packaging. That said, the idea of getting a single ounce bottle of something any reasonable kitchen should already have (like vinegar) does feel pretty gross.
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by MartinCron 9y ago
Interesting. It's obvious that Blue Apron produces more trash than buying the ingredients the traditional way, but do you think it produces more trash than, say, ordering take-out? I'm not a customer, but I've been thinking o

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