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by kaens 16y ago
Yes, that's a much more succinct way of putting it.
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by kaens 16y ago
I think that there are many things done in the same vein with the intent of alleviating minority's struggles due to racism that do more to promote the concept of racism than not. I'm not confusing equality with uniformity, although it's har
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by kaens 16y ago
I absolutely think that should be discussed. I don't doubt that there are some consequences of that, but I don't think they're nearly as extreme as some people paint them to be. Edit: I don't think that anything should be barred from discus
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by kaens 16y ago
Could you point me at some studies that suggest that there are intrinsic things about men and women that would make it more likely for women to not be capable of participating in a startup in their 20s? I don't claim that the male and fem
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by kaens 16y ago
It could be true, and if it is then we need to think about equality in a different manner, I suppose. I strongly suspect that the vast majority of the differences are cultural in nature -- in fact I suspect that patterns exposed through cul
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by kaens 16y ago
I'm sympathetic to a cause here, but I can't help but think that things like this might do more to promote sexism than not. I think the idea that women are somehow less capable of doing the "3-months in Silicon Valley" is harmful. I think t
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by kaens 16y ago
I figure they have the axe of "I used this for a while, and really grew to hate it when I compared it to these other things I used" to grind. Sometimes the technologies you use just make you want to get something off your chest, you know?
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by kaens 16y ago
Why don't companies just hire people after a quick discussion at 50% salary for the maximum of four months and see how they do. Having an incompetent (or malicious even) developer on your team for four months is likely to cost your compan
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by kaens 16y ago
While this is true, isn't quite unlikely? Why not just invest the time into becoming a /good/ developer. It might be unlikely for people applying to google, but I can attest that people will memorize what they think are details that will
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by kaens 16y ago
I could totally see asking someone that question if they said that they were intimately familiar with some distro or another. Outside of that context, it seems like a really bad question. Maybe there was another purpose to the question (l
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by kaens 16y ago
I'm of the opinion that as far as information being free goes, it's not going to go away. It's possible that it will for the vast majority of people -- but the vast majority of people aren't using the internet as an educational tool. The pe
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by kaens 16y ago
I too sometimes have bouts of suicidal ideation. When I was younger, they were much worse/more frequent than they are now. In general, the realization that death is, at least currently, inevitable has helped me deal with them. If your suici
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by kaens 16y ago
In my opinion, there really aren't too many high-quality tech blogs (or maybe there are, and I'm just not aware of them). Steve's stuff is lengthy -- but it's also not posted incredibly often (he's not a career blogger), and I have yet to r
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by kaens 16y ago
Slightly OT, but what I really want in userspace is something that is good at searching/setting extended attributes for media files. I like my Artist/Album/Song dir structure and all, but it falls flat for some types of music, and I want to
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by kaens 16y ago
If you follow a project, or a coder, it tells you when things are pushed / edited / commented on. If you post in a comment thread, replies appear as notifications. I'm not sure if he's talking about either or both of those, but it's at leas
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by kaens 16y ago
GitHub is really nailing the "make collaboration easy and enjoyable" stuff. I'm way more inclined to pull a project's code, patch it, and send off a pull request when using github than I am on, say sourceforge (or even other comparable
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by kaens 16y ago
I had started tackling something like this for Ubuntu ISOs a while ago, I had major problems keeping livecd isos < 700mb when adding anything. DVDs, fine, but there wasn't much room on the cd image to play with, unless you removed a bun
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by kaens 16y ago
Not if the distinction is between "literally no" and "effectively no"
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by kaens 17y ago
I get a lot of my work off of craigslist. It takes some sifting through, but it's not too bad.
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by kaens 17y ago
I currently do freelance work, and a lot of it has been "write me a little application that helps me search these websites for these terms relevant to the services my business provides". Python is very well suited to such tasks. There seem
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by kaens 17y ago
I'm experienced with a variety of technologies, although I'm currently most competent with python. I have a lot of experience doing web development and web-scraping/spidering in python. I have the understanding of (X)HTML, CSS, javascript,
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by kaens 17y ago
I think that someone reimplementing PHP and cleaning up a lot of it's . . . quirks . . . could be a very good thing for the web. Someone who didn't care about maintaining backwards compatibility with code that relies on those . . . quirks
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by kaens 17y ago
Oh, it's possible to provide food and shelter on that amount (depending on what area you're living in, and dependent on you only needing to support yourself), but it's very hard to do so in such a way that one moves themselves forward in li
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by kaens 17y ago
The last time I tried it, it was really difficult to do with separate video cards, but not hard at all with one video card with two outs. Granted, I'm fairly certain that the difficulties had more to do with X.org than with Ubuntu, per se.
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by kaens 17y ago
This is really frustrating. I'm more-or-less idealogically aligned with the FSF, but feel like they've been doing more harm than good for a bit, especially as far as how these ideals are perceived goes. I think they need a nice healthy dose
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by kaens 17y ago
So, it looks like you can get fairly close to unique identification (at least so far), by paying attention to system fonts. I actually find it a bit hard to believe that I'm the only one out of 59,132 with this set of system fonts.
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by kaens 17y ago
I'm fairly certain Zinn was an anarchist. He was certainly heavily influenced by anarchist philosophy.
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by kaens 17y ago
I would think that HN wouldn't really care about someone crawling them as long as they were respectful about it. Also, as far as writing crawlers/scrapers goes, a header-handling error is one of the least annoying things you can run into.
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by kaens 17y ago
Could you expand on why you don't like Apache? I'll grant you that it can be confusing to get used to configuring, especially if you're not really familiar with how the web works, but as far as I can tell it's a pretty damn good server. W
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