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by krstck 13y ago
Can we quit with the "rock stars", "ninjas" and all that? We're not teenage boys, stop talking to us as though we are.
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by krstck 13y ago
> More specifically if this company came to you as an employee (I assume you are an employee) and they said "hey we aren't making money and we need to reduce your salary" how would that fly with you? This does happen. And
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by krstck 13y ago
> I don't have code that I knew was wrong to write the way I wrote it when I wrote it, given whatever priorities and constraints I was working under. I didn't intend to ask about code that you knew was wrong at the time. I mean
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Ask HN: Do you have any code currently in production that you're ashamed of?
33 points by krstck 13y ago|58 comments
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by krstck 13y ago
Dropping a little bit into the bucket.
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by krstck 13y ago
> what makes many boys persist in their uncool, embarrassing, low-ish status activity? I've wondered this myself! Perhaps archetypes of nerdy boys that grow up to be successful and respected adults are/were more readily availab
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by krstck 13y ago
I hate to include designers in that maligned category, because their work is actually extremely valuable. The existence of "women-in-tech" advocates who want other people to program (but not themselves) is baffling to me. Why do
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by krstck 13y ago
> But with unlimited net access also comes extremely violent videos, social networks with all kinds of shady types hanging around etc... Those are all there in the real world, too. You can't protect kids from anything harmful or sca
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by krstck 13y ago
> I'd never have been a hacker without vast quantities of unsupervised, unfiltered internet time around age 9-12. Agreed! Those were about the ages I was when I learned to program and fell in love with computers. I became too sensit
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by krstck 13y ago
Oooh, this was an icy stab right at the core. She's completely right: >Dump her in a situation that operates on different social scripts than she's accustomed to, full of people talking about a subject she doesn't yet unde
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Who's the boss?(blogs.swarthmore.edu)
1 points by krstck 13y ago|0 comments
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by krstck 13y ago
The author said that he had reached out to the CEO to no avail. Given that, I don't think that the post was inappropriate or classless. I think that killing the post did more harm than good.
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The Amanda Knox Test: How an Hour on the Internet Beats a Year in the Courtroom(lesswrong.com)
2 points by krstck 13y ago|1 comments
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by krstck 13y ago
Small suggestion: add navigation arrows at the bottom of the page as well.
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by krstck 13y ago
Just bake it into the camera application. Select recipient from your contacts, select the time limit, and go.
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by krstck 13y ago
I'm not hugely familiar with mobile, but I don't quite understand why Apple/Google can't just immediately kill Snapchat by rolling out an expiring photo message feature in their next update. As far as I can tell, there i
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by krstck 13y ago
Can't access because the site is down, but I have a lot of feelings about this topic. Specifically, please never, ever , use one of these words to describe the developer you are hunting: ninja, cowboy, rockstar, superstar, virtuoso, o
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by krstck 13y ago
It's just insulting when recruiters don't do basic research on the people that they contact. Yeah, it's not the worst problem to have in the world, but I get the feeling that a lot of these people are just spamming anyone the
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by krstck 13y ago
Token woman in tech here, with the disclaimer that I do not speak for "women" or anyone else but myself. I am sensitive to the issue of exclusionary culture within tech. I think there are times when this is a necessary discussion
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Michaels Stores Is Investigating Data Breach(nytimes.com)
1 points by krstck 13y ago|0 comments
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Why Are American Colleges Obsessed With 'Leadership'?(theatlantic.com)
49 points by krstck 13y ago|54 comments
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by krstck 13y ago
Very pleased to hear about this. I've applied, even though I'd have to travel from Texas.
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by krstck 13y ago
Retail workers very often have little advance notice of what their shifts will be. This is bad for everyone, and results in people being idle when they would rather not be. People with kids, especially, need to have schedules that they can
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by krstck 13y ago
I won't leave code intentionally broken , but I always save some small trivial task for the next morning to immediately get into the swing of things. I really like being able to come in first thing and get something done, even if it&#
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Dear Verizon, You Don’t Own The Internet—No One Does(techcrunch.com)
2 points by krstck 13y ago|0 comments
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by krstck 13y ago
I'd say it's not so much about defending his reputation as it is about trying to make sure that female founders don't avoid applying to YC because of this drama.
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by krstck 13y ago
Usually when people are making the argument that "men and women think differently", it is an excuse for why the status quo should remain so. Yes, we all know that men and women have different brains and may not be interested in pr
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by krstck 13y ago
Certain parties like to fuel the outrage flame because they make money on clickbait. There are also just people with an axe to grind that get off on starting fights. Then you have people that will swear up and down that there is no gender p
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by krstck 13y ago
Well, a couple thoughts. 1. It is possible that men and women do think differently and therefore have different career preferences, so the optimal gender ratio is not 1:1. 2. Just because the optimal gender ratio may not be 1:1 does not me
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by krstck 13y ago
I find the outrage over this so disingenuous. It looks to me like it's more about punishing someone for being a high-profile member of a hated, perceived-oppressor group than actually caring about women being programmers. To think that

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