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by grandalf 9y ago
> way beyond that I agree, it sounds like once he realized his actions were blowing up in his face his behavior got ugly. That is certainly an indication of immaturity. Surely Teo would have been concerned by the lawsuit even if he was
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by grandalf 9y ago
I agree with this.
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by grandalf 9y ago
> exonerating My comment is not meant to exonerate Caldbeck. He went over the line and wound up having people speaking out about his inappropriate behavior. He's likely going to feel the embarrassment from his actions on an ongoing
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by grandalf 9y ago
> I'm curious, why is that "far more likely"? Simply because most people fall within a fairly narrow band of behavioral and psychological norms. Religion creates the fictitious idea that there are "good" people
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by grandalf 9y ago
I think the sentiment he's trying to capture with that description is the enthusiasm with which stories about the tech industry being hostile to women are written, and how those stories tend to cast a broad net with respect to who gets
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by grandalf 9y ago
I think it's easy in situations like this to assume that one party must be right and the other wrong. Chances are for Caldbeck and for his accusers, many signals got mixed up and misread. Yes it is possible Caldbeck is a cunning preda
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by grandalf 9y ago
This is very exciting. I've used an Automatic adapter after seeing the HN discount and the data is very interesting.
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by grandalf 9y ago
> What happens when I want to change every button from green to red If you have a component that you maintain, it can depend on a global style definition that is itself a module. You can change the color of the button in that module. If
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by grandalf 9y ago
Excellent point. What's interesting about it is that a stock price contains all sorts of assumptions and information and blends it all together into one number, which is simply the last price that a share traded at based on supply and
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by grandalf 9y ago
Yes. These concepts are gradually starting to take hold in the web and traditional DOM world as well. Oh what a wonderful world it will be!
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by grandalf 9y ago
> Is styled-components better? I don't know yet, but so far I like it. Consider these two scenarios: a) Someone using your component must also understand your component's full stylesheet and must determine (through analysis or
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by grandalf 9y ago
> are we now putting CSS in Javascript? You are missing the point. Forget about client vs server, the idea is that in React you are working with components . NOT putting component-local styles into the component's implementatio
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by grandalf 9y ago
I'm not sure if you are making this comment seriously, or intending it as hyperbole. If you are serious, it's important to note that at the time of its founding, US law forbade the creation of a national military, precisely becaus
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by grandalf 9y ago
Agreed. The confusion led me to read the worthless article.
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by grandalf 9y ago
I think the example gets bogged down in language features which obscures the conceptual idea. Hence I think the example would best be illustrated using pseudocode, which would perhaps motivate a meaningful discussion of how language feature
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by grandalf 9y ago
Agreed. It's truly amazing that one of the world's richest men would buy one of America's great papers and allow it to abandon basic journalistic standards. In a sense this amounts to an act of sabotage. At first, I thought i
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by grandalf 9y ago
> Study finds correlation. Article mentions caveat that correlation is not causation. Headline explicitly states causation. Welcome to the Washington Post. In cases like this it's fairly obvious but across the board there is such a
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by grandalf 9y ago
I think the biggest weakness in the ecosystem is that it's cumbersome to map between different approaches to immutability. I'd like to be able to use clojurescript for some stuff, reason/bucklescript for other stuff, and imm
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by grandalf 9y ago
Thanks for the thoughtful reply. I think that depending on which stories on HN one choose to read, the community may feel entirely different. I think I'm lucky that for the most part the stories I read attract high quality comments.
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by grandalf 9y ago
I haven't read this thread yet but I'm curious why the downvote mechanism isn't sufficient moderation in a case like this. HN has been a superb place for discussion of issues relating to workplace harassment and it seems that
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by grandalf 9y ago
I called for it in the Susan Fowler thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13747414#13749264 I do wish it hadn't happened, though, I would have preferred if the company could have healed with him still managing t
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by grandalf 9y ago
Some very cool stuff.... useful from both a practical and anthropological standpoint.
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by grandalf 9y ago
> He was a killer. George W. Bush killed more Iraqi people than Saddam ever did and caused massively increased suffering throughout the region for decades after. > You feel personality causes a person to... No, my point is that person
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by grandalf 9y ago
By requiring real names, Facebook is trying to combat the sort of social discord that occurs on sites like Reddit where people routinely abandon identities, or create throwaway identities to participate in specific fora. Imagine if car lice
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by grandalf 9y ago
Excellent point
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by grandalf 9y ago
Assange has been very transparent about his timing strategy, which is essentially a low budget PR strategy due to necessity. If a single party came forward with information that had been sent to WL and ignored, you might have a point. If yo
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by grandalf 9y ago
I'm not sure what specifically you are referring to... but whatever it is it is being used as a distraction from the issues revealed by WL. Chances are even without Assange involved there would be attempts by many governments to discre
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by grandalf 9y ago
True but you in no sense is Assange's personal drama remotely relevant to the larger issues revealed by WL's publications.
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by grandalf 9y ago
Are you serious? Your comment sounds like someone following a soap opera. Would you care about the personal drama of the leaker of 10 years of Trump tax returns? The story is the leaked information, not the silly drama and rumor nonsense yo
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by grandalf 9y ago
Yes. However since he is essentially captive and sources of funding to WL have largely been blocked, he must utilize guerilla PR tactics to the fullest. Of course I'd prefer if the leaked docs were all thoroughly vetted and used as sou

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