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by byuu 12y ago
Which is why I specifically pointed out that it doesn't matter whether you personally like any specific change or not. (I actually like some of those changes too, eg dropping the status bar in favor of hover hints.) Every single one of
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by byuu 12y ago
Who knew that continually ignoring your userbase and changing things in ways they don't like for roughly a decade could have negative consequences? The list is getting too long for me to even remember, but I'll try: they moved tab
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by byuu 12y ago
> Most everything you've cited as an objective wrong was practically universally considered an objective good nary 60 years ago Again, it doesn't matter what the popular opinion was on this. PG stops at murder. I stop at lookin
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by byuu 12y ago
> We're talking morality as perceived by others and the very real consequences that can flow from remaining consistent in one's moral perspective, while the rest of the community's view shifts I understand what you're
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by byuu 12y ago
Well said, thank you. I'm always disappointed when my colleagues don't understand that I'm not against Eich for his opinions. This isn't a free speech issue. I'm against him for donating money for the express purpos
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by byuu 12y ago
> DPR did everything he could to conceal his identity while running SR and he still screwed up. DPR screwed up by running the largest drug trafficking system in the world. I make software to play old video games. While I'd love to f
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by byuu 12y ago
> but the more important thing to HN is that she was a black woman challenging a white man, and that simply cannot be allowed to stand. Oh get off the racism/sexism card already. If Hank were the black woman and Adria were the white
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by byuu 12y ago
What's the percentage of validated rape allegations? Certainly it's non-zero. Day-after regrets, explaining pregnancy or seeking abortion approval from parents, etc. And what is the definition of rape? Groping on a subway, forced
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by byuu 12y ago
I just want to say that, although I don't fully agree with you, I really appreciate you chiming in with your thoughts on this. It's given me plenty to think about. In the event that you are right, and she's really being since
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by byuu 12y ago
> Ridiculing it won't make it go away. Certainly not. It's a very complicated issue that starts with the common popular stereotype that all men are sexual predators. We live in one of the safest times in human history, yet the
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by byuu 12y ago
Ah, you're absolutely right, thank you. Please accept my sincere apologies. I've corrected the wording in the original post.
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by byuu 12y ago
I think there's one clear distinction where this is relevant here: Hank's real name isn't known publicly, and he's employed again. His current employer might not even know about this incident. Adria is still unemployed,
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by byuu 12y ago
It's not about what we should do in an ideal world. It's about the realities of the world we live in, where employers will fire you at the drop of a hat, regardless of whether you are in the right or wrong. Using your real name do
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by byuu 12y ago
You're right that I can never directly relate to being a female. All I can do is think about things logically. If she truly had this kind of response to an innocuous joke, I think that says more about her own insecurities than about th
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by byuu 12y ago
Ah, thanks for the clarification. Still, the article made it sound like the public firing was a direct response to the DDoS blackmail (corporate expediency) rather than about her actions. Of course, it is possible that it's like you sa
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by byuu 12y ago
> jokes that make me feel threatened I really don't see how hearing two guys in a crowd of 800+ people talk about big dongles would make one feel threatened enough for a comment like, "Have you ever heard that thing, men are af
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by byuu 12y ago
The world is replete with examples of why you should never use your real name with your online identity in any way (although in this case, the guy's employer found out over a photograph; which is even more troubling.) If there's a
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by byuu 12y ago
Detours really costs $10,000??? Unbelievable. I hadn't even looked into it. Thanks for the alternative suggestion!
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by byuu 12y ago
Yes. It's a pervasive attitude as of late that "users are stupid; so kill all the options for choice" and "older = worse; newer = better" Think of it like learning Dvorak. Sure, in theory, by some arbitrary histrion
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by byuu 12y ago
Did Microsoft miss that memo with Ribbon? Not only do they pack way more than your average toolbar in there, they also resort to packing even more buttons into your titlebar. But I'm sure you know that trendiness is cyclical. I just wa
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by byuu 12y ago
Sure, and thanks for not taking offense. I know I was a bit polarizing there in my words. But the reason I'm becoming terrified and outspoken is because the design that was ubiquitous for the last two decades has, in the past 2-3 yea
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by byuu 12y ago
(I initially posted this on the Reddit thread yesterday, but I thought I'd repeat it here since there are many programmer types who might attempt this here.) From the article: > Of course, because we replaced the function with our o
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by byuu 12y ago
First; I have a nice, long titlebar strip with left-aligned titles like I like. I can click anywhere in there and move my windows around (I know about alt+click, but I don't want to use my keyboard to move a window, and that doesn&#x27
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by byuu 12y ago
> How anyone could consider the first screenshot of gedit prettier than the second is beyond me And I feel exactly the same in reverse. And it's perfectly okay that we are polar opposites, so long as we each continue to have access
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by byuu 12y ago
I'm very impressed and happy for the continued support for non-Linux systems. It's very heartening that when necessary, they are coding backends for other systems, instead of buying in to the Linux-only systemd lock-in. I was also
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by byuu 12y ago
The 2000 presidential election was decided on a 5-4 vote. What bothers me more are that these votes are always evenly split among party lines. It doesn't matter which side you are on, when one seat flipping means business-as-usual do
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by byuu 12y ago
Yeah I wouldn't quantify how much money I personally lost, but it's absolutely fair to specify how many hours of time were lost. I value my free time. That's time I could be learning a new skill, working on a product, or just
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by byuu 12y ago
We already know how to stream raw 16-bit uncompressed samples at 32KHz [1]; so we have just shy of CD-quality audio already. There's really no way to make things sound better than we have now. The remaining enhancements are to optimize
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by byuu 12y ago
> HTTP/2 is all 100% mandatory That's a nice idea in theory, but what makes you think anyone is going to adhere to that? Developers have always, and will always, do whatever they want when they implement your standards. It was
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by byuu 12y ago
> Have you tried writing anything more than a very simple HTTP/1.1 parser/server? Honestly? No. I wrote an HTTP server that runs my site just fine. It also functions as a proxy server so that I can run Apache+PHP (for phpBB) on

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