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by enko 15y ago
Good article. Nothing unexpected for me but a good, calm summary of the matter. I appreciated the distinct lack of "us vs them" jingoism - it comes down to the numbers, nothing more. One thing that bothered me was the attitude of "Maddie",
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by enko 15y ago
Ironically, in the Daily Show video the author embeds down the bottom, I get an "Unavailable Video" error message.
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Fuckarounditis(leangains.com)
6 points by enko 15y ago|0 comments
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by enko 15y ago
>> "Men do not hit women." > Right. Except all those cases of domestic abuse, I mean. Hm, perhaps my language was a little unclear. In this context, imagine instead of "men" that it reads "gentlemen". Gentlemen do not
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by enko 15y ago
Yeah yeah, you are such a professional. Never touching a colleague. Never making a joke. Never presuming to try to start a friendship. Never making a comment on personal appearance. Etc, etc, etc. I suppose you'll never experience any femal
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by enko 15y ago
I don't want to be snarky, but can you please not insult our intelligence? Of course we want to behave towards individuals based solely on their individual merits. We cannot, for various reasons, some of which are alluded to in the previ
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by enko 15y ago
So, have you ever worked in a modern mixed workplace? You bloody well treat women differently. Hands off matey, nothing "inappropriate". Like I said, they are a protected class, ignore this to your great sorrow. I know I sound cynical in th
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by enko 15y ago
Which problem? Previous problem: Women are prejudiced against because they are not men << begin 40-year positive discrimination campaign >> New problem: Women are treated with kid gloves in any "men's forum" they deign to en
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by enko 15y ago
Some women do not seem to understand, or somehow forget, that they are a "protected class" in society. Men do not hit women. Men are polite to women. Men put women first. We are all trained that, from an early age. You may agree or disagree
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by enko 15y ago
Well, you didn't disagree with me did you? I am just pointing out that use of Opera is strongly correlated with whether you live in a developing country. You claimed this product had a horrible flaw in its lack of attention to the Opera dem
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by enko 15y ago
I find those stats pretty suspicious and probably highly country-specific. Opera in number one place? Not in any developed country I know.
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by enko 15y ago
TL;DR: - author has a new MBP, comes from PC background - MBP experiences unusually loud fan noises - other mac users tell him there's something wrong with his computer, or maybe it's something he's doing - author gets oddly defensive and i
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by enko 15y ago
The obvious answer is that he/she was a child, and simply received the religion from the parents. As far as I can tell, most people are religious because their upbringing was, and of those most simply adopt an interpretation of the religion
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by enko 15y ago
I don't see why it is so flamewar-ish, unless there are a large number of FSB sleeper agents hanging around here waiting for a chance to spread misinformation. What's going on in Russia is pretty incredible. I have good friends there and am
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by enko 15y ago
> Which brings to mind patio11's constant reminders, that running a successful software business has very very little to do with programming well That may be appropriate for patio11. Not to demean the guy but let's be clear, he runs an
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by enko 15y ago
Care to offer any tips on how to get started with this $10k/day gig? Pretty eager to walk in that particular door.
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by enko 15y ago
>> generating a postcard from your mobile picture just seems like something that a tech-company will do a better job at I think the point was that the overseas mail services have become tech companies.
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by enko 15y ago
A business model around people paying $8/m seems like paradise to me. Well, I guess using "wee" is more common than I thought, however I would still prefer to stick to standard english whereever possible.
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by enko 15y ago
You reckon? I think there is quite a large market of people who are 1) totally price insensitive up to say $100/yr and 2) could not give a shit about copyright, they just want to be able to share things they like with friends. PS. Can I ask
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by enko 15y ago
As a professional programmer, I often feel as if I should be more on top of maths than I feel I am. Maybe this book is above my level. Only one way to find out! http://xkcd.com/435/
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by enko 15y ago
Things are bad, certainly, but let's not overstate. This reads like a very hyperbolic list of doomsaying to me. China did not drop 30%. Predicting Austria will default is highly negative speculation. Hyperinflation in the USA? Not anytime s
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by enko 15y ago
Unless you and bugsbunnyak are in cahoots somehow - unlikely - that's two completely independent recommendations for The Road To Reality within 5 minutes, on HN. That's enough for me. Grabbing it. Thanks.
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by enko 15y ago
> Hi! I bet you're super nervous about meeting me, but please don't be -- I'm just a big dork. Frankly I prefer the original. Same meaning, less couched in happy-happy bullshit. At least with the original I feel like I'm being addressed
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by enko 15y ago
I find the polarised reaction to this list almost more interesting than the list itself. As for me, I was in complete agreement with basically all of it. I didn't find it rude, in fact rather the opposite - I appreciate the consideration fo
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by enko 15y ago
I am beginning to feel like kickstarter.com is one of the most important websites of the decade. I love how it basically solves the organisation problem for open source projects requiring capital up front. It gives me great pleasure to thro
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by enko 15y ago
Thanks for the book recommendation. Ordered.
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by enko 15y ago
Other currency feels cheap? Are you kidding? Whenever I go the US I'm always reminded of how crappy the currency is. It looks and feels like it's printed on low grade recycled paper. Counterfeiting is such a problem that half the shops won'
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by enko 15y ago
Come on, it wasn't that badly written, and the ideas and insight more than made up for it. I'd definitely recommend it.
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by enko 15y ago
You basically just described Manna: http://www.marshallbrain.com/manna1.htm
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by enko 15y ago
Not a very smart thing to do. The employee must have known he was basically stealing resources, and yet the harvest from a few servers doing CPU mining would be miniscule, probably costing more in electricity than could be recovered by trad

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