iamgilesbowkett

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by iamgilesbowkett 15y ago
I like @cpnks's thing about scale -- GPL making more sense for giant projects -- but I think of GPL as a legacy license from the days when open source was a radical idea. I think you could argue that it took radical people with radical opin
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by iamgilesbowkett 15y ago
the House votes on the bill on April 23, which is a week away. any opposition which happens needs to happen fast. (I think that's probably deliberate.)
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by iamgilesbowkett 15y ago
"Don't invite Yehuda Katz to your user group! He takes everything too seriously!" "Don't have parties at your confs! You're not being serious enough!" I sometimes skip the parties at confs, but I sometimes go, and I've been to a few which w
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by iamgilesbowkett 15y ago
that's great dude but you didn't actually answer the question. "If women's interest in CS is purely fixed by human nature, how do you account for the precipitous drop over the past decades?" a 37% drop over a few decades is a pretty dramati
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by iamgilesbowkett 15y ago
ok, but do you get that the person you were responding to was a woman who didn't like how the blog was representing her? do you get why I think it's weird that you dismissed her complaint because no 5-year-olds were present?
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by iamgilesbowkett 15y ago
"I suppose you need to say up front what the expectations for the meeting are." no, you absolutely do not. the onus is absolutely on the speaker here.
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by iamgilesbowkett 15y ago
"The lack of women in tech (and lack of women in science and math in general) starts at a very young age - while boys are immersed in video games and girls are having afternoon tea with their dolls. I doubt those 5-year-olds are influenced
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by iamgilesbowkett 15y ago
I'm glad to hear this. The sexism in SF/SV is one of the major reasons I moved away.
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by iamgilesbowkett 15y ago
here's how I solve this problem. (ironically Chris Wanstrath, GitHub co-founder, created the technology my solution uses, and apparently did it in response to a random comment by GitHub engineer Ryan Tomayko.) the tech is called dotjs. you
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by iamgilesbowkett 15y ago
also, just to be clear, this is not legal advice. I know absolutely nothing about the law and am just some asshat making shit up on the internet.
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by iamgilesbowkett 15y ago
hey @racerrick, my mom's a retired lawyer. (for context.) lawyers issue threats the way other people say hello. if this person says to you on the phone that you have to prove that you don't own the site, guess what? you can't prove she said
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by iamgilesbowkett 15y ago
there is no such word as "dependant." it's "dependent." really sorry to be that guy but it would hugely brighten my day if you could fix the spelling in the title.
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by iamgilesbowkett 15y ago
well yeah. here you are making this personal, and what I said is I'm not going to give Yehuda any money because I criticized his PROJECT and he responded with 'fuck you giles.' so he made it personal, and you're making it personal too. I'm
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by iamgilesbowkett 15y ago
what I felt was rude was not the thing Bundler said but the thing Bundler does. if you know people are expecting rubygems to be the default, you don't tell them "oops you forgot to type rubygems, sucks to be you." you just make it the defau
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by iamgilesbowkett 15y ago
well, this is what's insane about Rails these days. we have a value which is correct in 99.99% of the cases, and we are (at best) debating whether or not to make it the default. I say at best because obviously in my case I did not see a who
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by iamgilesbowkett 15y ago
entirely fair, no, entirely funny, yes.
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by iamgilesbowkett 15y ago
actually I hate to say it but one of the early (2006? 2005?) blog posts about the diff between Python and Ruby was that in Python's console, if you hit "q" or escape or ctrl-C or something, you get an error message like the 'source :rubygem
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by iamgilesbowkett 15y ago
I have several problems with this. The first, and most important, is here: http://xkcd.com/927/ The second is personal, so please take it with a grain of salt. I pointed out that Yehuda's Bundler gem has an automated condescension feature
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by iamgilesbowkett 15y ago
sure, it's http://hacker-newspaper.gilesb.com/ The filtering's hard-coded, and very opinionated. :-) the code's on github here: https://github.com/gilesbowkett/hacker_newspaper
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by iamgilesbowkett 15y ago
I think this is absolutely correct. I'm a US college dropout who started taking classes again in 2001 or 2002 and have basically been constantly in some class for something (taking classes on the side) ever since. if you're saying education
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by iamgilesbowkett 15y ago
"Is it just me or is there a trend of reactionary posts (or just submissions?) on the same topic? A few days ago it was Go (why Go is awesome, why I'll never use Go, why Go has its pros and cons) and now it's college's turn." it's not just
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by iamgilesbowkett 15y ago
This dude is completely insane but I admire his total steadfast belief. If he manages to one day apply that intensity of conviction to actual real information, he'll probably do very well. Kurt, if you're reading this, for the love of God,
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by iamgilesbowkett 15y ago
Actually I made minor progress on it by just banning the msdn domain. I think I've also figured out a pretty cool product idea from this as well. However I'm not going to get into it here because people have taken my product ideas and turne
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by iamgilesbowkett 15y ago
I have an automated filter site at http://hacker-newspaper.gilesb.com/ -- "don't click on what doesn't interest you" is way inferior to "don't see what doesn't interest you."
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by iamgilesbowkett 15y ago
I think it's problematic to find this kind of story on Hacker News. The biggest problem I have with it is that it's very difficult to write an automated filter which rejects stories for being excessively corporate and insufficiently entrepr
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by iamgilesbowkett 15y ago
"Phallacious" is hilarious. Re yr first half, Stallman diplomacy vs Crockford diplomacy, Stallman seriously implies people who disagree with him are evil, while Crockford jokingly states it outright. So serious implicit vs joking explicit.
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by iamgilesbowkett 15y ago
Raganwald made his post either after or during a Twitter discussion with me. I'm pretty sure his post was more a response to the Hacker News discussion you linked to than to my own tweet or two, but it looked like an ongoing discussion to m
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by iamgilesbowkett 15y ago
OK, judgemental yes, fair enough, but not being a dick? Saying "you can't use my software because your code is evil" is not going to win anybody points for diplomacy. Also, the vagueness of it is actually quite passive-aggressive. In functi
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by iamgilesbowkett 15y ago
Crockford has total license to create any license he wants, of course, but I absolutely hate that license of his, not just because the lawyers are right -- "evil" is not a term substantiated with definition, and all terms in a legal documen
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by iamgilesbowkett 15y ago
is it fair to TL;DR this as "Objective-C is only hard if you've never used Smalltalk"? or is that overly glib?

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