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by _jal 11y ago
Completely aside from the content, the article reminds me indirectly of how amazing second, third, etc. order effects can be. Some manager at Netscape decided that two weeks was all the time an engineer would get to implement a client-side
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by _jal 11y ago
Seriously. Somehow this topic became a slightly less obnoxious Gamergate twittergasm. So, does anyone have guesses as to what the material issues were in the board wanting her gone? I confess to having little interest in Reddit most of the
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by _jal 11y ago
Er, I didn't mean that to sound accusatory. I was questioning if that is what the poster actually meant.
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by _jal 11y ago
You are in the know, because "you run a sweat shop with little regard for the welfare of your employees"? For what little it is worth, I've found H1B employees to run the full range of amazing <-> incompetent at rates i
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by _jal 11y ago
I don't know what "need" means in this context. That is what they do - sell your data. Perhaps a different company that didn't do that could exist, and in a different sense, CK doesn't "need" to do anythin
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by _jal 11y ago
Purely my (possibly terribly misinformed) opinion, but geo engineering (used here to mean the bundle of blue-sky proposals to manipulate the climate intentionally after we've completely screwed it up unintentionally) is a red herring a
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by _jal 11y ago
Agree all over. I especially love the bit about how cgroups are apparently never before seen magic new hotness.
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by _jal 11y ago
Agree. I've been hearing people saying the command line is archaic since Windows 95, and probably before that. Yet somehow I (any everyone I work with, and have worked with over the past 25 years) still works in a shell daily. I don&#x
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by _jal 11y ago
(Disclaimer, or self-indictment, or something: I am in my early 40s.) Of course we are making incredibly broad generalizations here. But what part of what you are saying is incompatible with the post to which you reply? Self-awareness is fr
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by _jal 11y ago
"The crime Snowden is charged with is the same regardless of who else is charged." Nominally true, but this approaches the cliche about the rich and poor alike being banned from sleeping under bridges. So long as the law is uneven
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by _jal 11y ago
Illustrator was released in 1986, CorelDraw in 1989. I'm not sure why QuarkXPress is included (it is a page layout/desktop publishing tool, not an illustration tool), but it was released in 1987. Postscript became popular[1] well
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by _jal 11y ago
At least in San Francisco, Costco offers Google delivery for a subscription fee. I don't remember what it cost, but it didn't seem absurdly out of line. I don't use that because I live three blocks from Costco and can just dr