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by britta 13y ago
Wikipedia's wikilawyering culture generates and maintains the extensive guidelines there, instead of the guidelines generating that culture. (Like with most projects, people don't read the documentation first.) It'd be great
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by britta 13y ago
I wish everyone understood what "don't be a dick" means, but sadly, a lot of people don't get it. Adding the small extra details of "Don't attack the person making a point" and "don't be vicious&
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by britta 13y ago
Sure, it gets messy to try to comprehensively document all types of incivility and only enforce what is described there. HN would benefit from a friendly middle ground between that legalistic style and simply saying "be civil".
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by britta 13y ago
Yeah, that's an interesting example. Wikipedia spells out "civility" in great detail - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Civility#Avoiding_in... has friendly human-readable advice to prevent incivi
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by britta 13y ago
Yes, we need more detailed guidelines. I was talking about this over in one of the pending comments threads ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7484304 ), but "be civil", no name calling, and "no classic fla
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by britta 13y ago
It's interesting to look at the format of the Django Code of Conduct, although the content would be different since this is for a project instead a forum: https://www.djangoproject.com/conduct/ - including detaile
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by britta 13y ago
I would love to see that kind of comment cut out too, but I am concerned that pending comments won't actually achieve that goal - that biases (unconscious and not) will sneak into the patterns of what gets approved.
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by britta 13y ago
I'm glad this is being considered, but I'm worried that it's easy for non-majority opinions to be interpreted as "gratuitously uncivil", especially on emotion-generating topics. For example, if a person has had a ba
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by britta 13y ago
I'm concerned that giving comment-approval power to people with x amount of karma will reinforce many of the existing problematic aspects of HN instead of opening it up to better discussion. It means that people with currently-underrep
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by britta 13y ago
From a week ago, a proof of concept of this kind of bug, "Background Monitoring on Non-Jailbroken iOS 7 Devices": http://www.fireeye.com/blog/technical/2014/02/background-mon... > iOS7 provi
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by britta 13y ago
No, apparently. See https://twitter.com/winocm/status/436923366147375104 and https://twitter.com/winocm/status/436923608762695680 for a jailbreak developer saying that it doesn't se
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by britta 13y ago
http://opensourcedesign.is/ is collecting articles and other resources to help bring designers and open source projects together - http://opensourcedesign.is/blogging_about/how-designers-can-... for ex
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by britta 13y ago
There's a subreddit called "progether" ("programming together") that tries to organize people for collaborating on a series of small projects and coming up with new ideas together: http://www.reddit.com&#
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by britta 13y ago
Valleywag posts have been automatically killed since 2008: http://techcrunch.com/2008/04/11/hacker-news-considers-banni...
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by britta 13y ago
Several years ago I made a very silly simple Christmas tree in HTML/CSS, with <blink>ing lights and Unicode ornaments, and my friend made a way to place your own choice of "ornaments": http://unicodexmas.com&
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by britta 13y ago
"Trendwhore", seriously? Anyway, this article isn't talking about people aspiring to make major contributions to high-profile highly-complex projects, it's talking about people who want to contribute to projects in gener
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by britta 13y ago
One way to contribute is by testing documentation - try following a project's instructions to set up a local dev environment, and then report anything confusing or outdated in the documentation. You can also write a blog post explainin
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by britta 13y ago
If you're paid to improve articles for a company, you "are very strongly discouraged from direct article editing, and should instead propose changes on the talk page of the article in question." ( https://en.wikiped
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by britta 13y ago
The article is discussing what is wrong with using "GitHub profile" as an indicator of "likes programming enough" - among other reasons, that underrepresented people tend to have less free time available, and that underr
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by britta 13y ago
"The belief that meritorious people will rise to the top" requires believing that people of equal merit are treated equally, but that doesn't happen - people have all kinds of biases and *isms that muddy this up.
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by britta 13y ago
Baseband hacking is how people made software-based carrier unlocks for iPhone 2G, 3G, 3GS, and 4 (GSM). Those exploits are somewhat documented here: http://theiphonewiki.com/wiki/Baseband_Device#Exploits
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Google+ YouTube Integration: Kind of Like Twilight(vihart.com)
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by britta 13y ago
That's not the main part of the building - here are pictures with more context: http://richmondsfblog.com/2013/11/06/part-of-internet-archiv...
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by britta 13y ago
It's irresponsible to glamorize restrictive dieting without talking in detail about why medical supervision is necessary - not just breezily saying "you get dizzy". http://www.canyons.edu/offices/health&#
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by britta 13y ago
(I imagine you mean "young daughter" - this is about the problem that children under the age of consent are involved, not about women in general.)
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by britta 13y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eazel - Nautilus was originally the product of a company with multiple ex-Apple employees. "Its business plan involved monetizing online services to be offered through Nautilus such a
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by britta 13y ago
Nice, it wouldn't be hard to adapt these into an icon theme for jailbroken iOS devices - a WinterBoard theme is just a directory containing image files named in a standardized way (with the bundle IDs and filenames of the app icons you
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by britta 13y ago
These jokes seem kind of tasteless when talking about armed gangs that hold people hostage and sometimes kill people.
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by britta 13y ago
For one, I talk less to people I don't know; the potential for awkwardness changes the risk/reward calculation. I am also more serious when I'm talking to people I don't know - less smiling, more matter-of-fact, cool ins
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by britta 13y ago
Yes! Thanks.

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