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by doktrin 10y ago
> What I object to is the instant dismissal of every Gruber article by people who can't see nuance but only black and white. It's simply not true that he is as partisan and in-the-tank for Apple as many people here think he is.
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by doktrin 10y ago
As mentioned, I'm not a regular reader of his, so the fact that I've somehow missed 3 pieces of his published 3+ years ago shouldn't come as much of a surprise. Would you feel less defensive if I just called him a biased part
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by doktrin 10y ago
Ditto. I've been using Android since my iPhone 4s shattered, and was thinking about moving back to iOS - if they remove the headphone jack there's no way that's happening.
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by doktrin 10y ago
> John Gruber's response Does this guy ever write critically about Apple? I've come across his pieces over the years, and he honestly always comes across like a zealous ideologue.
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by doktrin 10y ago
All the time. I feel like crippling anxiety, insecurity, mental anguish and deep self loathing is par for the course in this career. When it gets to the point where I literally hate myself for being alive, I start to consider dropping every
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by doktrin 10y ago
I know this is a tongue in cheek remark, but it's not about the individuals - it's about how society at large (and importantly, potential investors) views past business failure.
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by doktrin 10y ago
> Fear of failure Less social acceptance of failure, perhaps. The prevailing wisdom a few years ago was that having a failed business on record is still a bit of a black mark (wrt getting future investment funding, etc.)
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by doktrin 10y ago
Speaking as a Norwegian living abroad, I feel like one of the most important barriers (more important even than capital) to domestic startup success is a failure-averse culture. We have a ways to go before we're on par with the US in t
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by doktrin 10y ago
> Hi man, I just interrupted my game of Overwatch because a colleague pointed me to this comment. My C compiler in Haskell is located here: https://github.com/tinco/nanc it's not fully functional yet, but will
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by doktrin 10y ago
> because I don't have the desire right now to code all day and then code some more Tell me about it. Speaking only for myself, I have near-constant coder's guilt - a term I just made up to describe the nagging voice in my head
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by doktrin 10y ago
> It's the extreme stuff that gets you in trouble: racial slurs, death threats, pulling rank (I'm a Riot employee I'm going to ban you BLEEEEEEEP). I appreciate the context - this wasn't really super clear from the ar
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by doktrin 10y ago
> It's less about your game history and more about your behavior directed at strangers This is a bit like saying " it's less about the means, but about the ends ". I don't think anyone's confused about your
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by doktrin 10y ago
Genuine question : isn't there a more objective standard to be appealed to than perception ? Is that really the only thing that's stopping Google from snooping through their own employees private emails, or from reselling them to
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by doktrin 10y ago
In principle, I agree with you. In practice, I think we're entering somewhat untrodden waters. Certainly : acting like a fool in your place of employ is bad. However, using your analogy as an example, what's happening here is also
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by doktrin 10y ago
Nothing whatsoever, assuming this isn't somehow covered by the game's EULA.
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by doktrin 10y ago
In my experience with Overwatch, it feels about as toxic as LoL when adjusted for match length and the ease of dropping out. There's a lot of "gg ez", "trash [hero]", "kill yourself" - at least in my gam
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by doktrin 10y ago
> Work email actively, with an active complaint it can stem to personal email. I think this is pretty dissimilar from the hypothetical I raised, that being screening the personal email of all potential hires.
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by doktrin 10y ago
> But this is orders of magnitude less public than Twitter Couldn't agree more, honestly. However, I had to acknowledge that the parent had a point in that they were theoretically comparable.
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by doktrin 10y ago
Work email, personal email, or both?
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by doktrin 10y ago
By this reasoning, isn't email also "public" to all recipients? Does Google Hangouts not have an expectation of privacy, since it's fundamentally no different from chat on a game server?
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by doktrin 10y ago
> New hires share their personal handle because that is the only handle they have; i.e., they have not played games on their company-provided accounts yet. So, are you saying that once they acquire a company provided account their person
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by doktrin 10y ago
> If you get hired for many companies, they'll do a background check. Would you consider that overreach? And how is this any different? > As long as the information isn't completely unrelated to their job function, and it&#x
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by doktrin 10y ago
I didn't get the impression that only company accounts were being audited, since the article ends with mentioning how new hires are forced to share their personal handle.
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by doktrin 10y ago
> League of Legends is a 5v5 team game, not a private 1v1 affair Does this imply that chat in a 1v1 game is private? That doesn't really follow, since the only difference is the # of immediate spectators > Anything said in in a
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by doktrin 10y ago
My first instinct is that this is creepy overreach, and that I'm glad I don't work for Riot. On the other hand, they have the right to big brother their staff - and said staff should probably know better. It's definitely one
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by doktrin 10y ago
Absolutely. At least Apple pledged nominal, vocal support when their developers were being similarly threatened.
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by doktrin 10y ago
> We do not need to provide victims with advice that "targets the world as it actually is" Unless I'm completely misunderstanding you, this is nothing short of delusional. We absolutely need to provide victims - and pote
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by doktrin 10y ago
> That’s the advice from a prominent thought leader in tech to women suffering from harassment at tech events. “Just make it clear you’re in a relationship.” So I clicked on the linked article, and - sure enough - this suggestion is made
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by doktrin 10y ago
> It's great if you are a white person I'm not white > To declare the city or an area wholly on the up-and-up or "largely positive" is certainly a sheltered perspective though. Ironically, your perspective strikes
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by doktrin 10y ago
You've lost me. There's definitely an airport in Pittsburgh. It obviously doesn't feature quite as many direct flights as a place like NYC, but on the pro side the airport is a complete breeze to travel through.

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