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by exstudent2 10y ago
Moves like this are quickly pushing me away from Macbooks for dev. I need a *nix backend though. Does anyone know what the state of the art for Linux laptops is?
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by exstudent2 10y ago
First sentence: > The Internet is dotted with cesspools, also known as comments sections. Comment sections are the only thing keeping a check on publications like the Washington Post. Whether they're on-site or off-site (like what y
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by exstudent2 10y ago
The media was entirely on Pao's side. They were claiming discrimination before the case hit trial, during the trial, and after the pro-KPCB verdict! That's what a lot of Redditors found shocking/disgusting. If there were in
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by exstudent2 10y ago
> It wasn't her baby. The buck stops at the CEO for all decisions.
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by exstudent2 10y ago
Reddit is basically just links to other sites. Many of the larger Reddit communities were already engaged in a discussion of her case when she became CEO.
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by exstudent2 10y ago
> Ellen Pao had all those issues prior to joining Reddit. Which made her a terrible choice for CEO of Reddit. Things were blowing up before the firing of the mod. That was just the straw that broke the camel's back. There are a lot
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by exstudent2 10y ago
> actually turned out to be right Ellen Pao not only lost her discrimination suit against KPCB but was deemed liable by the court for KPCB's legal costs. Reddit is laced with gender issues, someone filing a wrongful discrimination s
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by exstudent2 10y ago
> doesn't deserve his spot at the table? No one gets to decide who gets a spot at the table. It doesn't really matter if you think Trump is "dangerous", the idea that if you think the "right" way you're
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by exstudent2 10y ago
> Google's hiring is broken does not follow from Google's UI sucks. Who do you think is building the UI and products? People that made it through the hiring process.
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by exstudent2 10y ago
> For example, I’ve told recruiters about my salary expectations and had them laugh and say “no one gives that kind of [salary/equity/vacation/benefits].” This has happened to me multiple times, most frequently when the co
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by exstudent2 10y ago
Why are you being so defensive? I'll go further and say that Google's products are _uniquely_ bad as far as UX go. There's definitely missing product thinking in that organization.
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by exstudent2 10y ago
While it's undeniable that Google has an excellent engineering team, it's also undeniable that their products often/usually leave a lot to be desired from the end-user perspective. There's definitely a missing piece of t
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by exstudent2 10y ago
There seems to be a trend in articles claiming some technology is bad/a disaster/dead when really it's just someone uneducated in the platform trying to use it incorrectly or with misinformed assumptions. Bitcoin is still an
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by exstudent2 10y ago
If people create value for an organization shouldn't they capture some of it for themselves? The less a developer is paid, the more the execs/investors are pocketing. That money goes somewhere.
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by exstudent2 10y ago
For men they did: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watch#Wristwatch
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by exstudent2 10y ago
Twitter has been standing still for a really long time.
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by exstudent2 10y ago
In addition to Lio's list I would add: * Ties/cravats * Belts * Watches * Epaulettes * Hair styles
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by exstudent2 10y ago
> Men are busy doing things The "things" that have historically dictated men's fashion usually involve being shot/stabbed at. Usually by force of draft. A lot of men's clothing comes from the battle field. I&#x27
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by exstudent2 10y ago
It's unprofessional for a company to refer to its users like this. Calling people names is childish and helps nothing. > Do you expect them to have a positive impact that would increase if moderation were decreased? My theory is tha
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by exstudent2 10y ago
> That sounds petty and spiteful in a way I wouldn't expect from him, especially so publicly. He was pretty notorious for blocking anyone with an opposing viewpoint on Twitter, so this seems in line with that.
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by exstudent2 10y ago
This is my guess. He probably knows a sale is happening and doesn't want to provide value to the new owner. Probably because he has a competitive portfolio company or something.
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by exstudent2 10y ago
Even if this behavior is real, the term is condescending and I see a ton of speculation about the impact of this type of thing, zero data.
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by exstudent2 10y ago
That post (aside from being overly juvenile) is pure speculation and not backed by any sort of data that would suggest that "help vampires" impact the larger community. It's an extremely condescending and unprofessional term
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by exstudent2 10y ago
Almost all of those have zero answers and many have been downvoted. Not sure I'm seeing a problem. Better UI can make this even less of a problem. Punishing the entire community isn't helpful. See the link to my response to the mo
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by exstudent2 10y ago
First of all, if someone wants to answer that, more power to them. I'm talking about stuff like this: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/378959/is-there-a-static-... Good work closing that one! > Side note
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by exstudent2 10y ago
"Help vampires" aka people with a question that's been answered, are only a problem if you don't have proper search tools to show that a question has already been asked (or answered). If you provide those, and people sti
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by exstudent2 10y ago
> Do we reduce moderation? Help vampires take over. Every moderator on every site will tell you this; without this narrative they wouldn't exist. Is there any proof that this is the case though? To me SO is super useful with ~20% of
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by exstudent2 10y ago
The curation is far and away the worst part of SO. So many interesting threads killed for being off topic. I've never seen moderation add a thing to that site. Its success is in its structure and voting. They've done everything
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by exstudent2 10y ago
A Lexus SUV is a luxury. Some would argue that living in the SF is as well.
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by exstudent2 10y ago
Americans don't have the baggage of nobility so don't have to wedge the class system into a historical (but no longer relevant) model. In the US all that matters is money. It might come from your parents, it might not.

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