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Ask HN: Code of Conduct in Open Source
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What do you think about Ellen Pao? Julie Ann Horvath? What are some examples of tech industry sexism, as you see it?
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Lots of color effects. It's like Silent Hill, everything is ash gray / overcast.
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We have billions of dollars. USA already is experts at making complex, reliable and complicated hardware with complex manufacturing processes. Why can't we just craft that hardware we need in bulk? We have billions of dollars in fundin
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What programming languages / operating systems do these systems use? Is there any chance they could be open sourced? Why is the hardware on them so weak? Why is the bandwidth so low? Why can't we just spend a billion dollars for m
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I don't feel welcomed. I feel like if I say an offhand comment I'll be attacked. I feel like I could be subject to retro-active harassment campaigns should my relationship with a minority colleague go south due to their own fau
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I'm sad to see more political correctness invading these circles. A few years ago, I was so happy to see a girl every now and then at our LUG. Me and the other guys were jumping over each other to help her. After years of seeing censor
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> Part of being in a privileged group is blindness to the experiences of those outside the group, so without conversation, we live in an echo chamber. That's interesting. I haven't see it that way before. > This statement so
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The people who are accusing sexism are causing more damage to tech, and the political correct censorship will likely causing bottled-up emotions which will stir up sexists biases. Regarding your #3 point, that is key. Sexism definitely exis
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> hell of a lot of sexism around, and I think we can all agree it's hugely important we fix that and move on as an industry. "Fixing sexism in tech" 1.) Sexist, Compared to what? 2.) At what cost? 3.) What are the hard fa
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Where is the hard proof and evidence there is sexism?
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> we typically unkill the post so the discussion can continue, but don't otherwise override the flags. Dang, I don't see any conversation on Ask HN for any of the threads made, despite the fact it was upvoted. That thread, htt
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Ask HN: Has political correctness gone too far?
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Ask HN: Has political correctness in tech gone too far?
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Ask HN: Has political correctness in tech gone too far?
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Ask HN: Dealing with thick english accents, what do you do?
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> In all seriousness though, what are your options: An obvious one, getting an explanation from the vendor / upstream before we proceed to any decision. Vendors do tend to care about us. > 1. fork Chromium and remove the closed c
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> That would prove nothing since there'd be no evidence to back up said statement and that the statement originates from someone on Google's payroll to begin with. Are you new or unfamiliar with free software? Open source softw
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I thought this stuff was already banned in the 90's.
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> But this depends on the alternative. If, instead of using a password manager, uses only one (or even two or three) passwords across all the websites they frequent, then you are still, in effect, trusting numerous third parties to keep
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What are some things on OpenBSD that don't work for you? What sort of hardware are you running? What about Adobe Flash on OpenBSD?
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> I'm one of the people who jumped ship to OpenBSD in the last year or so. Ha. FreeBSD here. And so long as you get the right hardware, I find BSD to be far simpler than linux distributions out there. Ports? Beautifully elegant and
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An aside, what is the opinion you (or anyone else has) on angellist?
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Why the wink? I'm trying to figure out if your devoid of the nuance of open source politics, or if you're a huge risk taker.
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He studies / works in the USA. He's chinese. He may be back home in China for vacation. Github + gmail is blocked by gfw
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Sure. Technically and legally, you could package that code up and sell it. The maintainer didn't just make a simple fork. He renamed it, bought a domain, all behind the owners back while he's on vacation. From an etiquette standpo
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In my opinion, this isn't a fork, but a naked hijacking: - No really consensus / official decision on the issue - http://gitea.io/ - "Git with a cup of tea," When it's done so fast, it feels like a
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The above comparison was about the difference between JS in browser and server-side. > How much time did you actually spend evaluating Meteor? A week? I saw the fibers dependency. > Meteor is using fibers on the server and thus the co
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> Yup. This trend surprised me--the recent exponential growth of some of the toxic hate subreddits. Another way to view it: Hateful reddits are a pressure release valve caused by political correctness. The media's political correctn
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They are inherently different on many levels. Browser: global is window/document Server: global is global Browser: interacting against DOM objects and events (clicks, etc) Server: you are wedged into the function(options,callback) patt

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