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by follower 16y ago
> Sounds like people need to be more willing to stand up for themselves and their friends Potentially "being different" in addition to standing up and out can be a daunting prospect. There's a lot of perceived social risk in such situat
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by follower 16y ago
Did you consider wording that as: "I get tired of sexism in the startup/tech field." I suspect it would be a sentiment shared by many who are affected by negative behaviour--both men and women.
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by follower 16y ago
While I'm pleased to see this article on HN, is it appropriate to use a "subscriber link" in a public forum like HN?
664.
by follower 16y ago
But they're not really offering the same thing, are they? Don't Amazon and Rackspace require you to administrate things?
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by follower 16y ago
My current policy is that unless a piece of code suddenly makes the world a worse place to be in (hopefully I haven't done that yet :) ) I'll release something (normally on my website) and make no further commitment than that. My philosophy
666.
by follower 16y ago
In Chrome 7.0.517.44 on OS X the green headings partially overlap the elements of the page above them.
667.
by follower 16y ago
It means that "Groupware" is no longer a high-value buzzword.
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by follower 16y ago
This might have been reduced by the release in February: http://googleappengine.blogspot.com/2010/02/app-engine-sdk-1... See the section "Reduced error rate with Automatic Datastore Retries". I haven't kept a close watch on what's changed
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by follower 16y ago
If you're interested in a more of a "project log" style (rather than a complete article) you might want to take a look at my previous efforts at reversing a wireless USB dongle: http://code.rancidbacon.com/LearningAboutAtmelRZRAVEN And if
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by follower 16y ago
Oh, yeah, that game's so cool! I played it a while back--it's a pity it's Windows only but if you can play it try it out. It's a fun little game if you've got a little bit of a reverse-engineering/hackery mind set. The production values (a
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by follower 16y ago
It used to be but the new Arduino UNO uses custom software on an Atmel microcontroller that includes USB support: http://wiki.ladyada.net/arduino/unofaq#new_usb_chip
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by follower 16y ago
Yeah, Ross Ihaka just received the "Lifetime Achievement in Open Source Award" at the New Zealand Open Source Awards the other day.
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by follower 16y ago
I wanted to see how it worked, here's my thought process: * How does this work? * Hmm, no, I don't want to login or signup. * Oh, there's a small demo button. * Hmmm, I have to sign in? * *Sigh*, okay. Click. * Hmmm, a login p
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by follower 16y ago
I've recently started using http://hg-git.github.com/ (found it via a comment on HN, IIRC) which allows you to use the Mercurial command line tools to interact with Git repositories on GitHub. It was created by people at GitHub.
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by follower 16y ago
> I once heard somebody -- maybe Guy Kawasaki-- say "Create more value than you capture." Google and my memory suggest it was Tim O'Reilly (of O'Reilly Media) who coined (or at least, popularised) the phrase but Guy Kawasaki rephrased i
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by follower 16y ago
From that page (compare to the image): "These images are friendly enough to post in a preschool. Heck, it could even make the cover of Reader’s Digest and not offend anybody." -- http://blog.tsa.gov/2008/04/first-significant-deployment-of.
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by follower 16y ago
> Otherwise the golden rule of the internet applies: When it's out on the internet then it's out on the internet - and there's no taking back. That sounds suspiciously like the "The web is considered 'public domain'" argument: http://n
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by follower 16y ago
> To anywhere near the extent that women do? Be serious. I wasn't claiming that it happened anywhere near the extent that it does to women. I was questioning the previous commenter's claim that there was no history of men being assaulte
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by follower 16y ago
> In the professional realm, Arduinos are not that popular. They're just too expensive. It seemed to me the comparison in the article was more toward something like an ARM-based platform. In my opinion a large part of the success is the
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by follower 16y ago
Jon Oxer ( http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=jonoxer ) has and was working on a TV show about it ( http://www.superhouse.tv/ ). He's documented some of it on his blog: http://jon.oxer.com.au/blog/category/DIY (I thought he had documente
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by follower 16y ago
In what way is writing a blog post that was then posted by Stephen Sclafani ( http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=ssclafani ) coming to the "the court of HN opinion"?
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by follower 16y ago
Just to clarify for those who may not click through and read the links posted by the newly created "iopuy" account: > Her Geek Feminism affiliations - http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/wiki/Heroes_Women_in_FOSS A web page created by Kirri
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by follower 16y ago
> Men don't have a history of being sexually assaulted by women, and then experiencing skepticism and anger when they tell the community about it. Actually, I'm pretty sure they do. Skepticism, questioning of their sexual preferences et
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by follower 16y ago
In case it's not intentional, I'd just like to point out that many of your responses in this thread come across as very "troll-like" in nature. This may be because I disagree with your content but--if it's not the impression you're intendin
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by follower 16y ago
> if someone gropes you or worse, call him or her out in front of the group In a way that's what has happened with this blog post. And look at the response. > There's no shame in asking other people for help There is if someone call
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by follower 16y ago
In any situation it's not just about a perpetrator and a person who has been attacked, it's also about the community. As a community, if we are aware of a danger to a member of our community then we have an obligation to work to remove that
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by follower 16y ago
> I would just like to make sure we are not dissuading women from coming to tech conferences by gaining some sort of reputation here. Tech conferences already have a reputation for this kind of incident: http://geekfeminism.wikia.co
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by follower 16y ago
> When people have alcohol, they often lose inhibitions and do or say things they otherwise would not. But that doesn't make criminal acts any more acceptable. If you do illegal things when you drink, don't drink.
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by follower 16y ago
> that deserves some serious attention by those putting on the conferences. It's not just up to those putting on the conference. It's up to all of us. And it's not just about about incidents as "blatant" (although not to everyone, app
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by follower 16y ago
> It's your job to avoid being assaulted in a dark alley Or maybe it's the job of the city in which you live to provide sufficient lighting and security for its citizens. In this metaphor you, I and the tech community are the city.

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