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by adekok 10y ago
Your comments are either a tautology (projects are based on ideas), or very likely to be wrong (engineering projects should also include social values). e.g. > ... an ideological choice as the decision that the values should include incl
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> Codes of conduct boil down to requiring members of the community to treat each other with basic decency If only it were that easy. I've seen codes of conduct for technical projects where they said things like "MUST be inclusi
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> I don't see why promoting inclusiveness and frictionless contribution shouldn't be seen as meritorious activity The question is "who judges" ? A meritocracy is generally an engineering meritocracy. People who get
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> I was seeking an understanding of your comment and what you wanted to accomplish. From my point of view it appeared that the founder responded to the issue in the best way they legally could If that was true, the contractor would have
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by adekok 10y ago
There's just no reason to have a web site that goes down when HN viewers go to it. I run wiki.luajit.org on a VM, using Gollum. We got hit by HN a while back. CPU went from 1% to 2%. People saying "CPU is commodity" tend to
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> At no point did the parent say that Gigster had to change right now BinaryIdiot seems to be implying that I asked for Gigster to change right now . And then there's this bizarre comment by him: > > what do you actually wa
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> I'm just not sure what you would like them to do about it right now. The point is that when the contractor asked for changes, he got told to go stuff himself. It's only when there's larger publicity that they suggested
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> we do own the code written specifically for Gigster projects. That's good. > We certainly don't want to own code folks write outside of Gigster projects. That's good. But the contract apparently says something else. T
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I suggest looking into the stats on sexual assault. The "OMG did you hear..." stories we tell each other aren't reflective of underlying reality.
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It's hard to find stats for the US, but here's one from Canada: http://www.victimsweek.gc.ca/res/r512.html Men are overwhelmingly the majority of victims of stranger violence and robberies. But... evolution d
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> Such invested time is usually completely unrewarded, it's assumed to be "factored in". i.e. "completely ignored".
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I agree. I worked for one startup which got bought. The founders made money. All of the employees lost money. One of the founders reached out to me a few years later, asking me to join his new startup as employee #2. I said "yes&qu
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i.e. if you break the law, you are punished in / by the courts. If the people in the court system break the law, they don't get re-elected. I don't find that a satisfactory answer. And I don't think that's "h
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I doubt that very much. He wouldn't be fighting the city, he would be fighting the legal system... via the legal system. That won't end well. Small claims court will tell him to continue following the system, and reject his clai
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How is javascript playing ultrasound not seen as an attack on the user? In what world is that ever a sane thing to do?
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Preview has always crashed / hung occasionally for me, on random PDFs. Sometimes it's fine, sometimes it just locks. Apple is putting their money into iOS development. And in breaking things in OSX which previously used to work.
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> t's meteorologically obvious that higher temperatures = higher evaporation = higher global rainfall It doesn't help the Southern US if Central America has higher rainfall. i.e. there is no guarantee that the rain falls where
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by adekok 10y ago
I took jlibtool from Apache. I don't think they're using it any more. I fixed a lot of bugs. It's now a 95% drop-in replacement for libtool. The builds are MUCH faster than with libtool.
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I've used libtool for 20+ years, and found it to be opaque, baroque, slow, incomprehensible, and just plain broken. Previous comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12253252
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> First of all, the boss of the fund did not have the skills to judge who could write a trading strategy, and who couldn't. So he was stuck with recommendations from other people who also didn't have this skill, leading to this
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I know a number of people in the military, and there's a lot to be said for asserting command presence . Where it doesn't matter what the orders are, just that someone is there giving clear orders. I've rarely seen that in
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Also Managers know better than you, and are generally better people, and more capable than you, because of some secret "management" skills. I've seen engineers promoted to management, who suddenly drink the kool-aid that th
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The British did significant amounts of data analysis and traffic analysis. e.g. estimating German tank production by looking at the serial numbers of captured / destroyed German tanks. I don't recall anything about the Germans do
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So when people say no one believes women when they say there are problems , and at the same time, there are huge public awareness campaigns, I have to point out the inherent contradiction involved. Everything I see in the media is that the
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> no one believes women when they say there are problems and hence there is no progress .. There are huge public awareness campaigns around all of these issues.
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It's easier than you'd think. The sad truth about assholes is everyone knows . Everyone knows who they are. Everyone knows what they're doing. Everyone knows that management is aware of the assholes, and chooses to do no
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> The only thing I miss from the article: did she try to talk to her harassers directly before going to a manager? Maybe I misread something but it seems like this did not happen, yet this should always be the first step. I understand wh
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The article doesn't way why he was found not guilty, but I'll make my guess. He did nothing to defraud the bank or mislead it. He simply had access to a large line of credit, and used it. If the bank wants it's money back,
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(ex) Nuclear physicist here. I wish I had had this explanation at the start of my quantum mechanics courses.
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> eBay still gets paid so no one wants to be in charge of a revenue hit. I doubt that's changed. That sounds like a class action suit waiting to happen. Or, a RICO lawsuit, where the government can pretty much prove that eBay is in

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