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by ab_c 5y ago
So what you're saying is that buying from rando scalpers has increased risk & negative side effects? Cool. Then stop buying from scalpers.
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by ab_c 6y ago
If you only donated $50 to cancer research whereas your coworkers donated $200, would that give me the right to tweet that out to everyone? It's okay if I attempt to coerce you thru public shaming, right? Bullying is okay if it's
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by ab_c 6y ago
Ooof. I'd hate to be around that guy if he was organizing a fundraiser. If he's passionate about a cause and notices that you didn't donate as much as he had hoped, does it give him the right to publicly shame you for it? It
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by ab_c 7y ago
I've got a lot of respect to the ppl who work on OSS, especially the maintainers since they're in the trenches tending to a lot of the daily crap we often don't see.
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by ab_c 7y ago
There's actual video footage of HK police officers arresting a kid because he had a flashlight in his backpack. They deemed it as a "weapon". Right now, HKPD is going on a rampage and making up excuses to arrest anyone who is
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by ab_c 7y ago
"unscientific" Technically, yes what he said is unscientific in the sense that he didn't conduct a long-term study. However, the guy has a degree in molecular biology so it's not as if he's pulling shit out of thin
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by ab_c 7y ago
Yes, there have been male parents being discriminated against because some companies don't feel that men could ever be considered a "primary" guardian -- that designation is reserved for women, only. Thus, men can't get
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by ab_c 7y ago
I have to agree. I learned the hard way that HR is not there to deal with grievances fairly. Their job isn't to shield employees from bad behaviour or absurd demands from management. Their job is to help and protect management. Unions
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by ab_c 7y ago
The PLA will happily storm HK if the HK govt requests it... but they won't. The reason is money. If the PLA move in, the wealthy elite in HK will start moving their assets out -- likely to Singapore. Political instability is never good
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by ab_c 7y ago
Not sure why people are suggesting shadow-banning doesn't work. Shadow bans have existed for a long time, already. Message forums and MMOs have used this method to deal with toxic community members and it has already shown to be succes
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by ab_c 7y ago
This doesn't surprise me at all. I use to work in a place where your work output was constantly monitored and graded. If you have vacation time banked up and took too much time off in one year, it negatively affected your ranking. Too
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by ab_c 7y ago
When Steve Jobs returned to Apple in 1997, one of the first things he did was slash the product line. There were too many options and choices that didn't really make a significant difference in the overall experience. Apple is slowly g
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by ab_c 7y ago
Geez. Give me back a physical ESC button. I've had to remap the caps lock so that I'm not fumbling around to trigger escape. If this was one of Jony Ives' designs, don't let the door hit you on the way out, mofo.
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by ab_c 7y ago
A number of analysts have stated that WeWork is nothing more than a realestate company and owning those spaces are a liability. If WeWork were to go under, all the properties being mortgaged would become a problem for the banks. Whereas if
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by ab_c 7y ago
I feel this has been the case with e-scooters in SF. People being disproportionately angry at tech companies for making these devices available. And yet, before them, you'd see an army of social activists riding their bikes thru thru r
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by ab_c 7y ago
Boeing's problems had little to do with being a fast-paced startup-like culture. They were outsourcing a lot of their work to India in an attempt to save money. They cared more about the short-term financial savings and cared less abou
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by ab_c 7y ago
Uhh... ok so does this research take into account both China and Africa has been spending $$$ billions on reversing desertification? They've been using new technology to make desert sand retain water, thus allowing certain types of tre
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by ab_c 7y ago
The title of this link is so grossly sensationalized. Nothing has been set yet, and Quebec hasn't banned anything. Politicians just proposed a bill and will likely face steep opposition since this sort of thing has happened before. In
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by ab_c 7y ago
I feel sorry for this dev as I've seen people do a lot of cluelessly dumb shit over the years when it comes to security. For example, I worked in a place which hires co-op students and every year there'd be at least one university
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by ab_c 8y ago
This reminds me of my former workplace where even though they tout having a "balanced work life culture", one of the VPs outright said that employees who "only work 8hrs/day" are lazy and entitled.
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by ab_c 8y ago
None of the fonts in "programmingfonts.org" have ligatures so no thanks. https://www.slant.co/topics/5611/~monospace-programming-font...
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by ab_c 8y ago
I've worked in a place with a "high school" office culture and it was horrific. At the time, the company had no structured way of determining your work performance so it was all based on people's opinion. If your manager
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by ab_c 12y ago
Google's official Webmaster Central blog actually lists out a very good & SEO-friendly method of setting up infinite scrolling that solves the core goal (retaining a scrolling position) of "scrollFrame" and doesn't r