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by krstck 11y ago
Also, Bezos has far more influence (and responsibility) over Amazon than the Waltons do over modern-day Walmart.
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by krstck 11y ago
I hate how helpless I feel when using a phone. This website wants to open the App Store? Guess I have to let it. I was hoping this was at least a little better on the Android side of things, but maybe not. Sigh.
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by krstck 11y ago
Web of Trust does something similar, but seems to be geared more towards spam and malware. Would be nice to have something to keep track of all the sites that I forget not to go to (e.g. Forbes).
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by krstck 11y ago
The difference in page load times before and after implementing uBlock is staggering . Having to use a computer you don't own (or mobile) feels like traveling back to 1999 using 56k dial-up.
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by krstck 11y ago
Remember that beautiful, amazing time when pop-up blockers had forever defeated those obnoxious and intrusive ads? My timeline could be off, but I'm thinking somewhere around 2004-2006, when Firefox was really picking up steam. I feel
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by krstck 11y ago
> I actually think, if you read her tweets carefully, that she's very intentional in pushing the Overton window and making space for less-rude people to push their point. It's certainly possible she could accomplish her goals w
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by krstck 11y ago
I kind of hate Twitter for this. For all the good it has done, it's made the more unsavory viewpoints a little too accessible and that allows people to construct whole narratives based on 5 tweets. Whereas those people's voices
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by krstck 11y ago
That's what most people are doing. Unfortunately, the people that actually do spend a bunch of time writing essays and Twitter blasts are the ones that, somehow, get to speak for everyone else. I hate that. I'm glad Meredith t
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by krstck 11y ago
I'm a big fan of Meredith. She's one of the few "women in tech" (yuck) that I feel like actually speaks my point of view and articulates how I feel about all of this. My impression is that most of the people that spend
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by krstck 11y ago
> To expect there will be no retaliation for pissing off higher ups would be incredibly naive. Even if what you are doing (strictly speaking) is legal and retaliation is illegal. You can't expect to not suffer any repercussions for
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by krstck 11y ago
Was this the company that posted their ad directly onto HN talking about how happy they were to be working on Christmas eve (or whatever holiday it was)?
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by krstck 11y ago
If you hover over "Connections", select "Add Connections", and then "Manage imported contacts" in the top right corner. I had to hunt around to find it.
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by krstck 11y ago
I hate their usage of dark patterns to trick users into giving them access to their email contacts. I consider myself a fairly savvy user of the internet, and apparently I fell for it. (When I checked a while back, LinkedIn had access to my
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by krstck 11y ago
It's harder to point to specific items in those areas and say, "this feature X saved us $Y", whereas the sales departments have easy figures to point to. Sadly, this whole "cost center" versus "profit center&qu
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by krstck 11y ago
I'm not sure that the solution is to completely prevent trolling rather than to inoculate ourselves against it. Part of 'trolling' (in the sense being talked about here) is knowing what to use against the victim for maximum s
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by krstck 12y ago
> However having looked your argument over I don't think it ads up. Thus I maintain that my burden is 0%, so if you want to fix global poverty you will have to do it without my donations. Can you explain your reasoning? If you don&#
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by krstck 12y ago
Yeah - it's helpful to make public commitments about charitable giving if, e.g. you have a blog where you have enough space to explain the philosophical underpinnings of your need to publicly broadcast how much money you're giving
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by krstck 12y ago
> Thus, for me, the only answer that makes sense is that we have no obligation to save the world, but we are allowed to donate whatever we want. That's the status quo. The whole reason we're having this conversation is because
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by krstck 12y ago
From http://effective-altruism.com/ea/54/show_me_the_harm/ : "Finance is often taken to be the legal high earning career that’s most harmful to society. The average Goldman Sachs employee earns around $50
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by krstck 12y ago
The Effective Altruism community is working really hard to combat this. It's definitely a real problem. Jeff Kaufman has written a lot about this, and one argument that stood out to me was making very public commitments to charitable
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by krstck 12y ago
From the article: > First, where do we draw the line? If we’re prepared to donate one-third of our incomes to maximize happiness, then why not two-thirds? Why not live in a tent in a park so as to be able to donate 99 percent and prevent
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by krstck 12y ago
Please don't skip over the parent comment just because of how heavily it's been downvoted (which is mysterious). Very reasoned analysis.
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by krstck 12y ago
Thanks for the reply. It's reassuring to hear that this will not work that way, and I'm glad to know that anything shared will be voluntary.
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by krstck 12y ago
Such a cool idea, and I enjoyed Microcorruption, but ended up getting stuck in the second or third level and couldn't even figure out the right questions to ask to get help. (I stepped into the irc channel at some point and asked some
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by krstck 12y ago
Nobody wants to pay. Outside of tech hubs, companies don't seem to value software devs. I guarantee that if your company was paying rates competitive to the major cities - not "considering the low cost of living", but actuall
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by krstck 12y ago
Yep. As a fellow woman in tech, I know that we have issues that need to be addressed. But what do Chelsea Clinton and Mindy Kaling have to do with this? Are they going to start programming professionally?
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by krstck 12y ago
Pretty tired of hearing women who aren't programmers or in tech telling other women that they need to program.
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by krstck 12y ago
My strategy has been to fork a codebase that utilizes whatever framework or language I'm trying to learn and work backwards. It's often enough a feat in itself just to get the thing to run locally. Once I've got it running, I
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by krstck 12y ago
Glad to see some pushback on this whole "Github is your resume" thing. I know I'm not the only person whose employer demands that their code be kept closed-source. My Github profile is full of weird little experiments and is
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by krstck 12y ago
I want to like Quora, but I hate how pushy they are about forcing you to sign up to read their content. I thought I'd remembered pg making a similar comment a while back: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5217449 Ma

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