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by doctorfoo 13y ago
I would posit that aggression is generally unwarranted. I would consider aggression to be the non healthy alternative to, say, being matter of fact, blunt, terse, and other such ways of giving negative feedback without directly attacking th
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by doctorfoo 13y ago
The hurt caused by such aggression varies too. Should this not be taken into account, or should we never consider the affects our behaviour has on others? Some people are more sensitive. Some people think calling someone a "dense jacka
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by doctorfoo 13y ago
There is a happy medium :) But in general, I'd always choose (true, sincerely meant) pleasantness and kindness over intelligence. Though, if a kernel developer is required, then maybe intelligence is the more useful, giving rise to thi
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by doctorfoo 13y ago
I agree with your first statement totally, the difference is I would rate Linus' attitude, separate from his language, as unpleasant and unnecessarily aggressive. I don't like aggression in the workplace (or anywhere.) And I thi
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by doctorfoo 13y ago
Hacker News: Where IQ and intelligence trumps being pleasant. So many tech types are assholes.
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by doctorfoo 13y ago
I don't really see that a new currency is even relevant to solving any "1%" problem. If anything has value, wealthy people will be able to own more of it.
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by doctorfoo 14y ago
And also, anticipated by Satoshi, was that the long tail of smaller botnets that would be unable to double spend would take to bitcoin mining because it would be more profitable, so increasing security and making it much harder for a sing
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by doctorfoo 14y ago
I get a little over a million uniques a month (~4mil pageviews) and earn about $2500 / month from ads. Think I'm missing an order of magnitude somewhere.
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by doctorfoo 14y ago
I can see the future: a BBC iPlayer which only supports a few specific web browsers. And the masses will happily "upgrade". All PC manufacturers will ship browsers that support DRM out of the box. (The users want their software to Just Work
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by doctorfoo 14y ago
I'm never going to play the "I'm a kid" card, he says - 10 paragraphs after playing it. ("My 17-year-old-brain thought...")
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by doctorfoo 14y ago
This is great, thought about making something like this myself for a while. One problem I have with current cookie law, is that it pretty much forces cookies upon those who actually know how to disable them. If someone browses with cookie