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by facepalm 11y ago
Yeah - whatever. So why, in your opinion, did no women step up earlier to create a dating app, if that is even true (there are a lot of dating apps in existence)? If you believe the spin of the article, that women make better dating apps an
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by facepalm 11y ago
The premise in the first part of the article was that Dating apps suck because they are not made by women. At the same time they bashed Tinder, which was cofounded by a woman - so the article's premise is obviously absurd and I didn&#x
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by facepalm 11y ago
I read the first part, which included enough nonsense to make me stop reading. Certainly there was nothing to stop women starting Dating startups before now. If that woman has success with Bumble, why not?
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by facepalm 11y ago
Tinder actually had a female cofounder. And it wouldn't work if women wouldn't use it. What a silly article.
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by facepalm 11y ago
Kids cost money either way. You probably decided having kids would be worth it for you. What is 3 unpaid months - let's say 30000$? That is nothing compared to what you'll pay for your kid over time.
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by facepalm 11y ago
The regulations might be partly in place to protect the big players from pesky small competition? I have no way to judge that, though. But if that's the case, perhaps the regulations can be changed.
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by facepalm 11y ago
While I agree that it's horrible (but also presumably comparatively easy to fix), I think they only measure pollution by certain pollutants, not total pollution.
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by facepalm 11y ago
Where I live, commuter trains are packed, though (Europe). How can that be? The same logic should apply to commuter trains as to cars?
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by facepalm 11y ago
I don't know - by the same token, if I don't walk in the middle of the road I am letting car culture win? Maybe if something is dangerous, it is better to avoid it. In this day and age whatever you say online can be read by billio
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by facepalm 11y ago
You could formulate that in a more straightforward way: people don't want stuff they disagree with being written in the newspaper.
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by facepalm 11y ago
Maybe, maybe not. In Nothern Ireland Christians have been killing each other for a while. Maybe religion is just a superficial reason.
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by facepalm 11y ago
Depressing to read. Somehow I can not find a language I really like :-(
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by facepalm 11y ago
I like the aesthetics of JavaScript. It makes the code cleaner because it doesn't require so much boiler plate. There - I said it :-) Oh and compared to Go, I always point to sorting in Go. Just look up the library. I think it's a
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by facepalm 11y ago
1995? Are you sure? I started studying maths and computer science in 1993 and Cobol was ever only mentioned as a remote curiosity. I remember Pascal, Perl and C/C++ were common.
555.
by facepalm 11y ago
So rape victims are forced to have that procedure done? That doesn't really make sense.
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by facepalm 11y ago
What makes you think it is rare? Maybe most of the time the rapists confess without the need to use the kit (maybe the existence of the kit is enough to make them confess, so no need to actually process it). And maybe collecting the informa
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by facepalm 11y ago
What if the rapist already confessed? 1500$ would buy a police officer a nice computer. In many countries the police lags far behind the criminals in technical equipment. Edit: hit HN's comment limit again. Anyway: consider this - what
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by facepalm 11y ago
Maybe the kits don't really "make you sure". What do you know about them?
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by facepalm 11y ago
Doesn't it depend on the circumstances? Sometimes the kit might not reveal any useful information. You assume because it is some sciency sounding thing it will give you 100% information, but what do you actually know about those kits?
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by facepalm 11y ago
Because it costs 1500$ perhaps?
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by facepalm 11y ago
Not comparing yourself is one thing, but you should also question your values and goals. If you think interning at top companies is a good thing, you could try to also intern at a top company. Just one example.
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by facepalm 11y ago
Haven't people effectively been using robo advisers for a long time already, with human financial planers as glorified frontends? I mean often these advisers might just ask their clients for their data, enter it into a computer, and re
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by facepalm 11y ago
Sadly, I think it will never work for end users. I myself also don't update my blog very often, partly because writing new posts is still too cumbersome (with Jekyll). I am a developer, but I don't use Markdown and Liquid (or what
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by facepalm 11y ago
I think actual deletion of accounts is not a functionality that is high on any startups list - disabling is probably the usual course of action? However, to lie about it is another matter entirely.
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by facepalm 11y ago
Well that is a pretty loaded issue, not sure if it is a good indicator for conservativeness. In any case, where are the campaigns targeted at parents, if it is such a big worry?
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by facepalm 11y ago
How common are they? It is 2015, not 1950.
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by facepalm 11y ago
We don't tell girls not to, either. Quite the opposite in fact. The only people who tell women not to enter tech are feminists. And I am honestly torn about recommending it to my son. I will (try to) teach him programming for sure and
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by facepalm 11y ago
I used to ridicule my sister for liking Barbie dolls and books about ponies. She grew up to become a physician despite playing with dolls in her youth, so I think all is well.
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by facepalm 11y ago
How does Star Wars prepare you do be a programmer, and watching a princess movies does not? I don't recall any programming scenes in Star Wars? And all those movies are made with computers. Girls tend to be encouraged to lots of creati
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by facepalm 11y ago
Perhaps one reason is that jobs in Computing are typically not all that attractive? My current freelance project sees me working in a room with 20 people, lined up on long desks (not even Cubicles). After a while, it can get a bit smelly. T

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