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by dgabriel 17y ago
I'm a programmer, so desktop support/management is out of my purview. I just spoke with one of our IT staff, though, and she confirmed what you state here. She said that in my department, support is close to zero because developers are be
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by dgabriel 17y ago
What I mean is this: if a computer is used to process or access very sensitive data, then the user of that computer cannot have as much leeway as other users. It's possible, and sensible, to have flexible policies depending on business usa
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by dgabriel 17y ago
Ok, your advice is almost good. If you could just excise the "fresh pussy," bit... Only 2% of news.yc users in the self-reported survey were women, and this is kind of why.
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by dgabriel 17y ago
Sure, there are exceptions and common sense should prevail.
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by dgabriel 17y ago
This looks like a FUD rant to me. I work for an organization (thousands of employees/higher ed) that has zero restrictions on what programs you can install and use on your computer. For example, I use Thunderbird instead of Outlook. It wo
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by dgabriel 17y ago
Ok, now I see why we should stay away from politics on HN. Too many people are downvoting/upvoting based on their political perceptions of TK. Do you really need to downvote someone into the negative for simply saying they liked the guy?
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by dgabriel 18y ago
There have been some awesome husband/wife start-ups, too, though.
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by dgabriel 18y ago
Or, for me, "Put on your big girl panties."
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by dgabriel 18y ago
And you know many of these lazy women! In fact, all the American women you know are just like that! This is so far-fetched, so unlikely a scenario, that you have to see how ridiculous you're being. Unless you have their balanced checkbook
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by dgabriel 18y ago
How does a working parent contribute nothing to a marriage?
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by dgabriel 18y ago
It is difficult to see oneself repeatedly characterized as such without getting one's dander up a bit. My suspicion is that his friends probably love their wives, and he's using their occasional and exaggerated venting to support his weird
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by dgabriel 18y ago
In the course of this discussion, you have indicated that the men you know married women who do nothing, contribute nothing to the marriage, and somehow expected the men to give them half of everything, despite the fact that they are bitchy
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by dgabriel 18y ago
Really? He didn't present any evidence, aside from some anecdotal stories about "everyone he knows," and instead presented a series of terrible stereotypes. http://www.bls.gov/cps/cpsaat2.pdf More than half of women work, and while that
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by dgabriel 18y ago
Practical Common Lisp ( http://www.gigamonkeys.com/book/ ) is a pretty good book, that covers these things. Accessible, practical material is definitely out there, but some kind of sea-change will have to occur before it goes "mainstream."
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by dgabriel 18y ago
So how do we refer to the low quality suburban men? Or is this thread limited to woman-bashing?
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by dgabriel 18y ago
Do you think that no American women read this site? Or do you think that you are so superior to us that your blanket statements, no matter how ignorant and harmful, are more important than treating us as if we were actual human beings? Do
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by dgabriel 18y ago
"Hacker-style," doesn't mean completely abandoning all planning and thoughtfulness. It means rapid prototyping, sure, and (of course) constant refactoring, not a constant deluge of slapdash quick fixes. What you inherited was a garden vari
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by dgabriel 18y ago
Hardly. Marginally clever, but unhelpful, answer. Young children are generally placed in daycare or with extended family, then the public schools. That's how I grew up, and I'm ok.
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by dgabriel 18y ago
I hate them, too, but the puzzles can be fun to do if you're not being faced down by a sweaty middle manager.
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by dgabriel 18y ago
He has some good points, but not many. Mostly he tries to rebut the Ehrenreich book with dismissive language and vague, anecdotal experiences, including comparing war-torn Korea with a modern state. He has his own agenda-axe to grind.
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by dgabriel 18y ago
These internships are generally a few weeks to a few months in duration. It's actually more like paying for a hands-on, supplemental class at an exclusive trade school. For technical folks, it's easier to get a foot in the door if you demo
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by dgabriel 18y ago
Anonymity may be why it's so prevalent on the internet, but it's not a prerequisite.
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by dgabriel 18y ago
Hey, wear whatever you want, sell whatever t-shirt you want, no sweat off my back. This kind of humor is cheap, and possibly hurtful. If you're cool with that, it's your business. I've never heard that trolling had to be anonymous by defi
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by dgabriel 18y ago
Eh. I think they're childish. This guy enables real-world trolls, and somehow is surprised that people respond negatively.
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by dgabriel 18y ago
Congrats! Good luck, have fun. As someone who has happily chosen to raise her children in Cambridge, we all do what we think is best for our kids. Suburbia is not for us; Huron Village is about as suburban as I can stand. :)
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by dgabriel 18y ago
Alas, I don't think I will ever apply now. I had ideas of trying in 2-3 years, but I can't live in Palo Alto. I'll just figure it out on my own. :)
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by dgabriel 18y ago
Cambridge is doing better. My son is in the first grade at a public Montessori school here in Cambridge, and it's stellar.
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by dgabriel 18y ago
Totally agree. Featured games, plus (possibly) photos of college kids (your friends, i'd assume?) playing the featured games, possibly a video...
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by dgabriel 18y ago
Alas, no German spellcheck on my firefox! :)
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by dgabriel 18y ago
If you're on a low-carb diet, potatoes are verbotten, but for most people, a nice baked potato eaten with skin, and a very small amount of fat, is quite healthy. http://nutrition.about.com/od/askyournutritionist/f/potatoes...

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