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by cupcake-unicorn 14y ago
I think the issue here is more her posting the picture and identifying the people, no? I had a strong urge to tweet "There's a guy with a Jagermeister hat and Green Day shirt reading a Berenstain Bears book in the doctor's waiting room" a c
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by cupcake-unicorn 14y ago
I wonder what would have happened if that was the talk to be cancelled? That's a triggery topic regardless of gender.
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by cupcake-unicorn 14y ago
Does anyone know if it's normal to keep the title/content of talks TBD until that soon before the talk? That stood out as odd to me.
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by cupcake-unicorn 14y ago
Yeah, I do agree, and I hope my first post tried to make that clear - I just have seen a trend with some dramatic bloggers in the past, so it often clouds my view when reading an unrelated/less biased post. It is reasonable for her to be up
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by cupcake-unicorn 14y ago
I don't know all the background, and I don't want to end up victim blaming, but often I've found these things to be red flags: I do remember there was some drama involving her and BoingBoing a few years back. I do not remember all the detai
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by cupcake-unicorn 14y ago
I'm a female developer, and I fought this my whole career. It is real. I even bought several books on it, which are mostly outdated. It used to happen more in fields like law/medicine. I don't think I ever experienced outright sexism, but
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by cupcake-unicorn 14y ago
I was homeschooled (just through highschool), yet maybe not a "traditional" homeschooling - I basically chose my own classes and went to community college, etc. I would think that any studies done on homeschooling from the more religious as
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by cupcake-unicorn 14y ago
Great reply. I'm always so happy that the comments on HN seem to be so reasonable. What stood out to me is your comment about moving...I myself have picked up a lot of unhealthy behaviors and habits by being trapped in a city where people a
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by cupcake-unicorn 14y ago
Something I find interesting that I don't see immediately mentioned in the comments is what a "shut-in" or "hermit" really means when you have the internet. The author has a prolific Twitter account, and in writing this is interacting with
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by cupcake-unicorn 14y ago
What?? What about Christian Grey? This has totally thrown off the book's realism for me.
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by cupcake-unicorn 14y ago
This article is frustrating, it doesn't really explain the implications. In what sense is this "illegal"? Could I be jailed or fined for doing this? I doubt it's going to be enforceable, unless somehow the carriers care enough to keep a dat
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by cupcake-unicorn 14y ago
I think of it this way: It's just as racist as how straight/gay people are sexist :) Physical attraction to someone is a whole different thing.
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by cupcake-unicorn 14y ago
I'd also like a comparison, although I guess pinboard was describing themselves as "bookmarking for introverts" which more closely fits how I'd want to use a service. I have problems using too many new webapps because of all of the social f
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by cupcake-unicorn 14y ago
I don't know about this, depending on the excuse (I made a comment on travel reliability), the time frame, and the type of event, it isn't on the top of my list. Perhaps I'm so forgiving because my actual problem is that people are so incre
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by cupcake-unicorn 14y ago
Just kind of a walk-through. I think part of it is that I can't fully force myself to read it as code when it's written poetically like that, so even syntax conventions I fully get are causing my eyes to glaze over.
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by cupcake-unicorn 14y ago
That's very true. I tend to hate people's BS excuses for most things (I'm glad "the holidays" is now over, since that was a perfect excuse for pretty much anything), but I rely on public transit (bus system, not subway) to get around. Often
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by cupcake-unicorn 14y ago
Blah, this is not a good way to get back into Ruby. I get that most of it is just fluff, but can anyone break it down a little? Really stretching the syntax.
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by cupcake-unicorn 14y ago
I'm nowhere near the top of my profession, so I'm baffled by it. I'm actually glad to read about it, since my non-dev friends don't understand it and get angry at me for bitching about people trying to offer me work! I am however, a minorit
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by cupcake-unicorn 14y ago
Wow, looks like the announcement was pretty popular, I'm getting a 503! Luckily I got in during the sneaky "price test" on Cyber Monday at 50 dollars, so I'm good.
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by cupcake-unicorn 14y ago
I will probably get some backlash for this but... Why not take this as a learning opportunity and teach your wife how to be secure in her own personal accounts, using SuperGenPass and LastPass? She'll learn about how to make her own account
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by cupcake-unicorn 14y ago
Hah, in my opinion, Gmail for Android still sucks. This is on 2.3 though, so I may be lacking some of the features.
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by cupcake-unicorn 14y ago
Wow, this article really hit home. Earlier this year, I remember myself commenting to someone (partially because of his age, I guess) that I was pretty surprised that he didn't have Facebook. A few months later, I found that I was slowly bl
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by cupcake-unicorn 14y ago
Haha, I also noticed this on their website: "Everyone throws gigabytes and megabytes around, but what do they really mean?" It's a mystery! Not really catering to the "Hacker News" crowd...
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by cupcake-unicorn 14y ago
I sell things very rarely on eBay - recently I got an old Laptop at a garage sale that I realized I had no use for and went ahead and sold it. Thankfully everything went well (I think the period for chargebacks has expired), but I had this
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by cupcake-unicorn 14y ago
I completely agree! What an odd title to the article, and then the company itself goes ahead and basically says, "Yeah, since now there are actually people using the game, we found out that it would be too much work to fix the serious probl
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by cupcake-unicorn 14y ago
Wasn't there a guy in Australia who got his house raided for having Tor exit servers? How long is it going to take before people use this for something like child pornography and you go to jail?