julianmarq

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by julianmarq 6y ago
> [CoC are] a way to assure newcomers that your project wasn't going to allow racist trolling on the mailing list. The implication being that every project without an established code of conduct is awash with racism? Exhausting vigi
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by julianmarq 6y ago
> perhaps you aren't as good as you think you are at the things you've mentioned [...] not trying to be hostile I am trying to go through every possible interpretation I can think of in which saying something like this to an
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by julianmarq 6y ago
Love the irony. I suppose also that you are above being the target of the (misconception of) skepticism you are trying to promote, even when you yourself recognize you're writing falsehoods, with a dismissal as if they weren't i
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by julianmarq 6y ago
> Combined with being unusual and not wired as everyone else From this line, I already knew where this comment was going. It's oddly familiar. > Partner guarding seems like a lot of pointless energy expended based on insecurit
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by julianmarq 6y ago
If by "hurt" you mean that people would stop believing that Apple is better and instead would be looked at with the same standard as every other company[0], then I don't see any problem with people no longer believing that im
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by julianmarq 6y ago
I should have been clearer. My point is not whether there's any basis to Apple being better or not, most everyone knows that's impossible because the average Apple engineer is no better than the average engineer in the rest of FAA
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by julianmarq 6y ago
> Sure but for what it’s worth, Apple isn’t in the same position as other platforms in many ways, so we can’t always generalize. How? I see absolutely no difference other than millions in publicity to create the illusion that their platf
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by julianmarq 6y ago
You're right, you don't need "linux for dummies" (don't even understand the point of linking to that), you're probably better off sticking with windows. For what it's worth, though, I haven't been &qu
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by julianmarq 6y ago
So I guess my interpretation wasn't that far off then. You actually were suggesting that girls had more potential. Well, since you also make clear that you believe such a thing only because you choose to and without evidence, I guess t
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by julianmarq 6y ago
> Another, to me reasonable, explanation for the results is that teacher's grading includes potential, based on their experience. It's hard to know, and would be very hard to ethically test. Before discussing this, I'd lik
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by julianmarq 6y ago
I'm confused, your argument for saying this isn't a bad thing is and that developers are not drowning in spam is telling them to... Get more people involved, so that they can take some of the load off of the maintainer. You sugges
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by julianmarq 6y ago
> This is not fair, just like life. Your PRs need to be non-trivial, typo-free, and have perfectly passing tests. How is this unfair? I haven't contributed to many projects precisely because I think it's disrespectful to the ma
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by julianmarq 6y ago
> the opposition will find fault with it. Your own side should condemn cases like those mentioned in this article far more than your "opposition". Even though you don't care about these people nor about any other collate
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by julianmarq 6y ago
> If the "mobs" are receiving a message not intended for them, the onus lies on the communicator to resolve this. That's just terrific: I joke around with my friends in private chat, there's a leak, a twitter mob gets
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by julianmarq 6y ago
> to listen and learn how to communicate effectively to the intended audience after a failure occurs. You, accidentally, hit the nail on the head. I'm pretty sure that the intended audience often gets the message just fine. The
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by julianmarq 6y ago
> You really can't spend the 30 seconds needed to think about "hmm, maybe be a bit careful about the words I'm using here in case my message gets lost in criticism of my language"? If I had thought there was a situati
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by julianmarq 6y ago
> Is this an example of the slippery slope fallacy? Is it? It doesn't seem like it is because... > There was no meeting required ... GGP's comment started a discussion on this very matter, still ongoing, instead of merely ac
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by julianmarq 6y ago
> Which, like, no. No, you did not address GP in good faith. And GP did address your question by quoting himself: the problem is not "fighting against the bad guys", the problem is whom you consider the bad guys. Anti-fasci
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by julianmarq 9y ago
> the second is the act of of entrepreneurship independent of what politico-economic context it occurs in. Given that it can't occur under socialism or communism, I don't think it is independent of the socio-economic system
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by julianmarq 9y ago
> If they can afford it. Capitalism is actually the system of stealing value from your labour in order to make a profit. And yet, freelancers or one-employee businesses are also engaging in capitalism. Are those the ones being stolen fro
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by julianmarq 9y ago
Just throwing this out there, and it might be overly optimistic and even utopic, but wouldn't laxer intellectual property laws help with this? It could mean that these people could share (more of) their work, no matter where they'
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by julianmarq 9y ago
Wait, is this true? Could you provide a source?
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by julianmarq 9y ago
> But how do you know the reasonable position isn't "Freedom of speech is good"? Because it's the best (probably only) way to prevent every actual Reasonable Position from overriding every other factor and considera
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by julianmarq 9y ago
> A flatworm can dream. Can't ze? What was that at the end? was that tumblrspeak? Isn't "it" used for animals and this person forgot because "ze" spent too much time talking with people better left alone? Li
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by julianmarq 9y ago
> He also brings up that drinks were involved, but practically every company/vc sponsored event in the valley has alcohol involved So... he's not lying? > That doesn't make it okay to proposition an attendee you talked
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by julianmarq 9y ago
You might have had a point in your first comment, now you're just defending a guy who won't even defend himself, for some reason.
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by julianmarq 9y ago
> Network of people you know and their willingness to work with you again are quite helpful in both getting new jobs and telling you how the workplace really looks like before you go to interview. Exactly how many of your jobs have helpe
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by julianmarq 9y ago
> It's a qualified apology. I dislike how he not-so-subtly tries to justify his actions by painting a context that delegitimizes Sarah's claims. What claims were "deligitimized" and how did he do it? As for everything
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by julianmarq 9y ago
> but in practice would turn against him ... How? If he's leaving, exactly what they could do against him for you to say "it would turn against him"? Nothing, of course, that's the point of quitting, but I'm al
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by julianmarq 9y ago
Heh, now you're complaining about a site having its own commenting system. And that Android isn't an open platform. Your definition of open and closed is hilariously misguided, I see absolutely no reason or point in accepting it.

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