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by anildash 14y ago
There's no doubt that many high achievers have some sorts of dysfunction as motivators; I always point to the paternal failings of the fathers of (say) Bill Clinton or Michael Jackson. But even granting that pattern, you'll generally find a
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by anildash 14y ago
A useful exercise may be to examine why you thought I was mocking you, even though nothing like that appears in the piece. Similarly, your defensiveness in thinking I asked for, or wanted, some kind of apology isn't supported anywhere in th
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by anildash 14y ago
Hah, even though I wrote the original article here, got a genuine LOL at this one.
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by anildash 14y ago
"We're playing with some ideas, but it turns out to be a really hard problem." Yeah, this is definitely true. But it correctly puts the burden on the developer instead of the user. What's more, generally it makes for a more forgiving envi
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by anildash 14y ago
Oh, snap! If I'd have known that I would have blogged like this about every pull request we've gotten! :)
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by anildash 14y ago
Twitter's original "sidebar" implementation of inline media used OEmbed, actually.
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by anildash 14y ago
I think I did mention that in the piece, but I deliberately keep the Facebook comments even on articles where I'm critical of Facebook to show that I'm not some extremist zealot. I'm just a normal person who happens to love the web.
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by anildash 15y ago
I'm on the board of Stack Exchange, and I can attest -- not just Jeff, but Joel (Jeff's cofounder & CEO) and everyone on the team care profoundly about the web and ther responsibility to the community. Not a single conversation, from th
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by anildash 15y ago
Stop Badware regularly flags sites that issue spurious security warnings in an attempt to mislead users. Facebook certainly falls under that description.
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by anildash 15y ago
I appreciate your thoughtful response and want to make clear: I'm not ascribing ill intent to you or to any of your individual coworkers. What I am suggesting, instead, is that the overall goals of Facebook as a company combine to yield thi
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by anildash 15y ago
It's not ironic, it's deliberate. I want to make sure I'm making informed criticisms of Facebook based on actual usage of the service as both an individual user and as a publisher.
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by anildash 15y ago
Appreciate the support, HalSF -- I try very hard to be intellectually honest even when making an obviously strongly-felt point.
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by anildash 15y ago
Apologies for the server flakiness; Trying to address it now. Please feel free to repost/share -- everything is CC licensed.
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by anildash 16y ago
"Anyways I've seen quite a few of these articles/blurbs but have never seen any actual examples of real sexism. Also I tend to have bias against any article that claims to be pro-feminism." Uh, you're saying that, as a male, you haven't see