georgeorwell

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by georgeorwell 14y ago
Tu quoque (appeal to hypocrisy) is a fallacy, but this annoys me too. The pictures she took at PyCon of her playing a game of Cards Against Humanity are perhaps the most galling: https://www.facebook.com/adriarichards e.g. the one on Mar
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by georgeorwell 14y ago
I'm sorry, but you just threw up two different straw (wo)men here. It's not sexist to make jokes about the word "dongle" sounding like "dong". They sound pretty similar. It's not very funny unless you're bored stiff or in grade five, but
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by georgeorwell 14y ago
What is indecent is that Adria Richards completely invented the bit about forking being a sexual reference ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5398681 ), escalated her discomfort to the level of internet drama, got her employer SendGri
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by georgeorwell 14y ago
Straw man.
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by georgeorwell 14y ago
It's meant for everyone, from the cool people who got it right away at the A table where Paul and Harj sit (e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5371321 ), right on down to the D table where people like me and you sit. You can't hav
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by georgeorwell 14y ago
YC is apparently into inside jokes now: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5363290 (t-shirt story) I wonder what that's about, if anything. The last time I really encountered inside jokes was in high school. It always seemed like some
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by georgeorwell 14y ago
Thank you! I should really update it for the new millenium, it's just I've been having the strangest out-of-body experience.
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by georgeorwell 14y ago
Oh, I get it now, I thought PG just censored those parts to protect his founders.
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by georgeorwell 14y ago
I might be misreading this, but it seems like PG is humiliating one of his partners in public. EDIT: Yep, I was misreading this. It wasn't so clear that it was an inside joke. I guess the joke's on me and the stereotypical non-partner VC,
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by georgeorwell 14y ago
Thanks guys, I guess I really have had some rough times. I like how Lisp and Assembler at the top of the hierarchy capture the two extremes. Some hypothetical language in the middle would be great, but maybe the best we can do is to strad
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by georgeorwell 14y ago
What, you don't know about The Programmer Hierarchy? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1622553 http://lukewelling.com/wp-content/uploads/2006/08/programmer... I find a lot of people who use high-level languages are terrified of tedio
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by georgeorwell 14y ago
Awww shucks :) Well, I'd be happy to be the anonymous poster boy for all y'all.
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by georgeorwell 14y ago
What is the point that is being missed? I thought the design was pretentious minimalism. It's minimal for the sake of it, not minimal because it's distilling the essence of something. The essence of HN is not the orange and grey colors.
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by georgeorwell 14y ago
Hey K-2052 / lastbookworm, good job on coming out of the closet, that's a difficult step. You obviously want to turn things around, and I think you'll find that in general, at least a tiny part of the world will be there to support you if
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by georgeorwell 14y ago
I'm curious, why do you have a 3-clause BSD-style license on some PDF files that contain specifications? I guess they are a kind of binary built from the page layout source code, but I haven't really seen this before. I'm not sure if you
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by georgeorwell 14y ago
He doesn't create the products he is selling access to and he doesn't have a license to be a middleman. I agree that the creators have a broken business model, but his business model of exploiting that brokenness is not a replacement for i
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by georgeorwell 14y ago
For what it's worth, I also have a much bigger problem with commercial copyright infringement than non-commercial copyright infringement. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5084439 I can see how the Daft Punk thing would get on your ner
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by georgeorwell 14y ago
Everyone knows that it's Daft Punk. Credit isn't needed. What do you want? "Bigger. Better. Faster. Stronger. Safer. Thanks Daft Punk for all the music!" Daft Punk sold out by their second album anyway, they're hardly underground geniuse
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by georgeorwell 14y ago
I see Kim Dotcom as a stereotypical gangster who makes money by delivering illegal products. He has the narcissistic personality and lifestyle trappings to go with it. He even wants to buy protection from New Zealand itself by bringing fr
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by georgeorwell 14y ago
There is a divide in academia between admin and faculty. His supervisors supported the work, but admin and their lawyers did not. Admin typically has no idea about research until it turns into something they actively have to admin. Admin
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by georgeorwell 14y ago
If you don't hold the copyright over the files, who cares?
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by georgeorwell 14y ago
> Except for the one resource we refuse to offer--involuntary institutionalization. But we don't and we won't. There is a revolving door between mental institutions, prisons, and the street. Talk to some schizophrenic people if you dou
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by georgeorwell 14y ago
> I have pledged to no longer do any volunteer work, including reviewing, for non-open access publications, which unfortunately includes pretty much every publication from [commercial-publisher]. The volunteer aspect of peer review is t
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by georgeorwell 14y ago
Right, so the question was designed to expose me as a hypocrite, i.e. character assassination. In doing so, you make me look like a two-faced ass who cannot make sound arguments. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tu_quoque Except, even if we
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by georgeorwell 14y ago
For what it's worth, I am annoyed by my own self-righteous tone. I didn't respond with maturity. I've admitted as much elsewhere if you read the thread. Thank you for clarifying many of the issues here. I don't agree that challenging neg
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by georgeorwell 14y ago
When you strip it down, my claim was that homeless people are badly abused and that negative language perpetuates this. Your question is an attempt to destroy my argument by character assassination.
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by georgeorwell 14y ago
The sentence doesn't parse well. She is referring to the "like button" at the top right that you hover over if you want to give people kudos (on Svbtle) or likes (elsewhere).
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by georgeorwell 14y ago
I agree that the "DESIGN BY @DCURTIS" is misrepresentation and I assumed it was part of the Svbtle network too.
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by georgeorwell 14y ago
That's why I wrote, "unless your actual code is being ripped off." I understand that if it isn't a reimplementation, it is copyright infringement. I strongly doubt that this is what is happening, but if it is, dcurtis should get a lawyer.
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by georgeorwell 14y ago
What is the difference between this and GNU reimplementing the standard Unix utilities? Software and hardware cloning has always been at the heart of the tech industry.

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