MrDom

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by MrDom 12y ago
Yet a number of my female colleagues have gotten torrents of abuse for much less criticism than I'm doing. Women get more attention in general, both negative and positive, both online and off. You spent your time trolling GG, I spent
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by MrDom 12y ago
especially in the company of the people who usually inhabit this website. It gets easier to understand when you realize most of us were bullied as kids. It becomes a natural instinct to herd together and protect our own. It's less be
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by MrDom 12y ago
Read this article and tell me how this is overblown. http://www.breitbart.com/london/2014/09/17/exposed-the-secre...
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by MrDom 12y ago
you are implying that this minimal understanding of the software life cycle is better for engineers at his company than integrity and a desire to see engineers justly rewarded for their efforts. I implied no such thing. I'm making a
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by MrDom 12y ago
But I know you'll choose to believe what best advances your existing prejudice. I choose to believe what I can prove. You provide nothing of substance. Empty words and air. You work for ABC news and not TC. Ok, great. What does that
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by MrDom 12y ago
He provides links to facts and actual emails. What do you provide, besides indignation?
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by MrDom 12y ago
I stand corrected about NTFS and journaling. I don't know, maybe I'm looking backwards with brown colored glasses, but I remember NTFS being a serious weakness of Windows. Has that changed?
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by MrDom 12y ago
You're not as far off as you think. http://www.breitbart.com/london/2014/09/17/exposed-the-secre...
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by MrDom 12y ago
Thank you for refusing to engage. You make the rest of us look so damned good. You disagree, but you won't say why? You say we're wrong, but won't say why? That's a good way to encourage open debate. BTW: this guy is a j
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by MrDom 12y ago
This makes me want to get a dev kit and create a prank exploit that puts a 3d clippy in the corner of your view that you can't get rid of. :D
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by MrDom 12y ago
I know there are people who climb the ladder in the manner in which you state. Is this guy one of them? Maybe. Maybe not. But one thing is certain: at the very least, he has the base minimal understanding of the software life cycle, which i
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by MrDom 12y ago
If 4chan was a traditional for profit business, I would agree with you. That's not what 4chan is, though. Moot's given talks on the value of anonymous conversation. His view was that it's the only way to have truly free speec
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by MrDom 12y ago
What's weird about the idea that somebody you're sleeping with could affect your judgement?
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by MrDom 12y ago
I do think he deserves ridicule, but not for that. He stood up for the ideals of free, anonymous speech. He believed in it. But he eventually buckled under the weight of it. He was a hero for holding out as long as he did, but all heroes fa
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by MrDom 12y ago
A programmer in a management or CEO role could make the lives of every programmer underneath him better. After all, he actually knows how to make software. By extension, he knows what's possible and what's not, what's reasona
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by MrDom 12y ago
That's something that I haven't seen mentioned yet: The last few years, Moot has appeared to have nothing but contempt for the people who post on his site. I imagine a decade of being marinated in the worst the internet has to off
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by MrDom 12y ago
I don't know why this is downvoted. Moot is involved with somebody at Gawker Media. If he is getting social pressure about "sexist" or "misogynistic" content, like pervycreeper claims, it's not out of line to s
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by MrDom 12y ago
I agree on principle, but not necessarily in practice. I go back and forth between Linux and Mac every couple of years, but haven't touched windows since XP. And I won't until they offer a journaled filesystem and a halfway decent
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by MrDom 12y ago
But a five star rating system that aggregates the opinions of my friends and colleagues (i.e. people whose tastes tend to be positively correlated with my own) You don't befriend people who have different tastes or opinions than you?
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by MrDom 12y ago
The post is over a year old. Previous discussion[0]. [0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6990570
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by MrDom 12y ago
That's interesting. I graduated in 2005 from an engineering college and none of the engineers went into Comp Sci if they couldn't cut it in EE/ME/AE/ChemE. They went into "Engineering and Management" inste
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by MrDom 12y ago
In this particular case, isn't "10x" just a factor of IQ then? Smarter programmers get complicated things done faster. That seems like a no-brainer. Problem is, how many of those people actually exist in programming? A much s
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by MrDom 12y ago
SF already has a network of electric scooters[0]. They're underpowered, but they're great unless you're going up one of the big hills. [0]: http://scootnetworks.com
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by MrDom 12y ago
Money. They release proprietary drivers, but Linux isn't a big enough segment of their client base for them to spend a ton of time and money getting the drivers right. If there was a linux based distro that was able to compete with App
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by MrDom 12y ago
Thank you. It's getting to be a rare event that I get an answer to a question on HN. I really appreciate it. :)
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by MrDom 12y ago
I have a w530 running linux and couldn't agree more about the hybrid graphics. It's caused me so much grief I almost switched to windows.
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by MrDom 12y ago
I've tried Debian, arch and several flavors of Ubuntu (like #!). The quirks aren't in the OS, they're in the shitty drivers, which are common to all linux based oses. Just because you don't personally see an issue doesn&
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by MrDom 12y ago
What's an affordance? I've never heard that term in this context before.
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by MrDom 12y ago
You obviously don't punish your poor system as much as I do. ;)
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by MrDom 12y ago
I dual boot windows and ubuntu. They both have their good points and their bad points. > Nine out of ten Ubuntu or Mint installs will go off without a hitch Even when the installs go off without a hitch, there are always lingering pain

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