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by ceol 14y ago
I got into an online argument with David Cramer years ago about something truly meaningless, but the notion that he is an asshole just stuck with me for some reason. He seems like a terrible representative for Disqus. I wouldn't be surprise
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by ceol 14y ago
From that post: > Twitter makes it so hard not to accidentally be an asshole. No, I'm pretty sure being an asshole makes it so hard not to accidentally be an asshole. Plenty of people, including Heather, weren't assholes on Twitter.
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by ceol 14y ago
Great post, but... Power Rangers and Nerf guns? At 14? You might be off by 4 or 5 years. ;) I'm not sure what about the programming/tech community fosters this culture of wanting to one-up someone who comes along with their work. It's even
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by ceol 14y ago
It's because we treat arguments like battles, looking for that one opening to strike no matter how desperate it may be. It's why you see a lot of people quote a single sentence out of a three paragraph post and reply to that, ignoring the r
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by ceol 14y ago
CS isn't any harder than most other programs. GP could have found a challenge in arguing philosophy, designing fashion, or learning theater.
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by ceol 14y ago
That's if he was found guilty and given the maximum sentence for all charges, which a lot of people seem to be missing. The key words there being "could have."
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by ceol 14y ago
I'm not seeing much to remove Heymann or Garland. There's another petition for Heymann, but that's not getting near as much traction as the Ortiz one, even when I've seen numerous commenters claim he was the one behind the case. What's goin
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by ceol 14y ago
I'm not sure what this petition is trying to accomplish. Do you think, should the President fire Ms Ortiz, she would be replaced by someone completely different? Her actions are a reflection of the entire justice system; the person who re
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by ceol 14y ago
You shouldn't do it the day after he died. You should mourn him and let his loved ones mourn him. And what part of forcing a single attorney out of her job is "greater change"? What part of that is being "proud"?
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by ceol 14y ago
If it's larger than Aaron, then people shouldn't be using his death as the core reason for their crusade.
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by ceol 14y ago
I wasn't personally familiar with Aaron, but from what I've read of him, I really don't think he was the type of person who would want everyone to go on a witch hunt the day it's announced he's committed suicide. So how about you save your
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by ceol 14y ago
Do you really think your internet activism will cause her family and friends to "dump" her?
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by ceol 14y ago
Apparently he suffered from depression for many years: http://boingboing.net/2013/01/12/rip-aaron-swartz.html
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by ceol 14y ago
> I wonder why some people here are assuming this tragedy is because of the JSTOR incident. It seems to me that everyone should just meditate on what's been lost, and defer judgement about why he would do this until there is evidence.
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by ceol 14y ago
Well, it recovered pretty well after a 6 mile wide rock going millions of miles per hour hit it right in the face and cause one of the biggest extinction events in its history. If that didn't destroy its habitability for good, I'm not sure
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by ceol 14y ago
That's a shame. It was an interesting article about VCs not understanding consumers and backing startups that have no chance of succeeding. Nothing in it was exceptionally hard to understand, even for someone not engrossed in startup-cultur
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by ceol 14y ago
I'm not sure about Home Depot, but when I worked [generic retail job] and witnessed my manager drive to customers' houses after hours to help install components— even going with her on occasion— it was clear she wasn't getting "paid nicely
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by ceol 14y ago
The front page is reddit. It's the vast majority of their page views. The only reason it's popular is because of subs like /r/AdviceAnimals, /r/pics, /r/funny, /r/WTF. All low-quality, repetitive content.
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by ceol 14y ago
> The fact that some individuals use Tor for accessing child pornography is sad, but that constitutes a miniscule amount of its entire traffic. Do you have a citation for this? Specifically, that illegal activities in general are a mi
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by ceol 14y ago
The voting-ring/anti-spam features don't have to be included in the repository. It might be a big hassle to detangle them from the rest of the codebase, though.
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by ceol 14y ago
It was never just an image host for reddit. MrGrim made posts on both reddit and Digg hoping to entice users from both sites to use it as a replacement for Photobucket/ImageShack.
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by ceol 14y ago
> Is that a problem, though? It's a problem to the OP, and it's a problem to a lot of users who suddenly lose access to their GMail accounts and don't have the luxury of getting to the front page of HN. Just because it's not a problem
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by ceol 14y ago
It means you can have big success in an industry (search results) that doesn't require customer care. The problem is Google is trying to approach other industries the same way they have with Search: If it can't be solved by a group of engin
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by ceol 14y ago
It sounds like British American Tobacco's ToS is more about hotlinking or embedding. Note this particular portion: > you may not make any part of the website available as part of another website, whether by hyperlink framing on the Int
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by ceol 14y ago
Be careful donating to the ACLU. I love them to death but I keep getting calls on my house phone (not the one I signed up with, mind you) at 8pm asking to donate.
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by ceol 14y ago
Eh, the dating bans are because fans expect their idols to be "pure" and "virgin"; the thought of them being with a man ruins that image and can even spark outrage from the community (mostly consisting of very obsessed 20s-to-middle-aged me
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by ceol 14y ago
> where it K-pop gained popularity as a credible alternative to Western entertainment, which may be too sexualized for the socially conservative sensibilities in those countries. I doubt that's the reason: K-pop is pretty sexualized.
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by ceol 14y ago
Like others have said, this is in no way a replacement for a pedal-powered generator, nor is it a replacement for a standing lamp. It's for folks in developing countries who would gladly trade lifting a pound or two of weight for 30 minutes
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by ceol 14y ago
I'm not sure how this article falls below the bar. It's packed with design resources that programmers can use to make clean, not-ugly sites in very little time.
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by ceol 14y ago
Not really, unless the majority of HN users come for the spammy posts on the /newest page.

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