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by liedra 16y ago
I'm a technology ethicist, and (generally) we despise these sorts of codes of ethics. Not only do they not actually tell you what to do when something happens, but they are regularly turned into "checklists" which allow people to say "Yes,
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by liedra 16y ago
I'm still with the first person I ever dated, almost 13 years later :) we're not interested in the marriage thing, or we'd probably be married! There's a lot to be said for good communication, shared experiences, and open minds. That probab
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by liedra 16y ago
Other: joined OkCupid for the silly quizzes they had way back when they first started, kept it around as a social networking thing before facebook. All the time I've been with someone I didn't meet online (same person), but without the inte
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by liedra 16y ago
I'm actually sad that I didn't put my first website on geocities now! I had my own web hosting from my ISP, so I had a fabulously easy to remember url of "homepages.tig.com.au/~liedra" which was lost as soon as my family upgraded to a cable
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by liedra 16y ago
Sorry, only just got back to comments today. I'm in academia, so yes, not big on branding. The only attachments I like to receive are papers, calls for papers, agendas, student work, stuff like that. These tend to be important and can get l
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by liedra 16y ago
Nice project! It'd be nice to have a link to who you are (an about page) on the site. Makes things a bit more friendly :-) You also might want to put a dedicated page for your privacy policy up (even if it's just a very simple one) since yo
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by liedra 16y ago
This is the exact reason I never even opened an account. It's super creepy (I'm a just-turned-30 y.o. woman and have dealt with these sorts of creepy people even without foursquare). People who need to know where I am know where I am, or kn
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by liedra 16y ago
My bf and I broke into a property we were staying in for the weekend after we accidentally locked ourselves out by unscrewing the entire door handle (it was an old house and in the country). We tried picking it before we cottoned onto this
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by liedra 16y ago
Sorry, what's that got to do with anything? Email is not the same as web browsing. You can't compare the two.
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by liedra 16y ago
Yes, I am sure, or I wouldn't have mentioned it. Not everyone uses Thunderbird. (I use Mail.app for OS X and roundcube webmail. Both display them as attachments.) tbh, I don't pay attention to priority ever, since the only people who use it
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by liedra 16y ago
No, please no. Then it registers as an attachment and then I can't tell which email you sent me has that very important attachment at a quick glance. Keep it short, sweet, and in 4 lines please.
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by liedra 16y ago
What if what you're being asked to do is ethically questionable?
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by liedra 16y ago
Did it ever occur to you that these people you have encountered (how many? 1? 2?) who cry excuses could just be stupid and/or jerks, and that people of all backgrounds can be stupid and/or jerks? Or perhaps it is your hiring practice that n
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by liedra 16y ago
Now I am getting visions of a bunch of Ladies huddled in a bunker somewhere while hordes of Creeps throw themselves against the doors and windows. Sort of Resident Evil style. Terrifying. :|
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by liedra 16y ago
Brilliant. Now change up the UI a bit, make sure you change the name to something like "CreepAvoider" and then it'll be marketable to the ladies :)
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by liedra 16y ago
Yeah, and perhaps one that tells me where all the creepy guys who use this app "are at" so I can avoid them. :P
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by liedra 16y ago
I think what is important here in the OP is the "at least give me a few options". Amongst my group of friends there has been a "quit facebook" movement in the last 6 months, and I can see why given the privacy issues that have been going on
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by liedra 16y ago
Whereas I'm all for experiencing how others live, and thereby gaining a greater appreciation and experience of how the world works :) My argument isn't that Americans should be taxed more, just that Americans should come and see how the res
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by liedra 16y ago
This is ridiculous. Any American (or Australian for that matter!) who whines about their taxes should come and work for a few years in Europe. In Belgium, on an entry-level salary (for a post-doc academic position) I was being taxed at over
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by liedra 16y ago
Australia too. Though you have to have done an "Honours" degree which is an additional year with a research thesis that is roughly equivalent to a Masters by research. You can also have done a Masters though to get into a PhD if you didn't
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by liedra 16y ago
Man, this makes an Australian PhD seem like a piece of cake comparatively. 1. No need to worry about funding: if you get an APA or an APA/I. If you don't get one of those, you'll be screwed. But they're not impossible to get either, if you'
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by liedra 16y ago
Wow, Ryan Junee used to tutor me in first year computer science back at Sydney University... he's come quite a way since then it seems! :) I hope it works out well for them, Australia needs something like that -- I have more a few friends w
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by liedra 16y ago
Hah, I was clearing out my dad's collection of computer magazines (not throwing them away, just making them not a huge pile in a corner!) and there were some absolute gems from the early 80s. I ended up getting half way through and just fli
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by liedra 16y ago
This still doesn't make it a dialect though :) Sorry, but it just annoys me to see American English fanatics say how British English is "wrong", or a "dialect" of American English when it was the original base of American English to start w
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by liedra 16y ago
Just because lazy people in North America couldn't be bothered working it out any more doesn't mean Twitter shouldn't set a good example. Ignoring it is not correct, the distinction is correct. It's not a dialect, either, given that it's, u
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by liedra 16y ago
I was JUST about to write the same thing! I see this all the time on blog.(app) sites -- annoys the hell out of me! That said, I love the idea of this. A nice way to say thanks to people without having to go through paypal hell :D Might als
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by liedra 16y ago
Ooh, okay, I think I see where the misunderstanding is: I was asking Alma (in questioning time at a talk at the IFIP/PrimeLife summer school ( http://www.cs.kau.se/IFIP-summerschool/program.html ), which was unfortunately not recorded) ab
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by liedra 16y ago
Who says anything about scaling up a franchise? It sounds like they're talking about a few small cafes rather than a new Starbucks. They're already doing that in Melbourne, so I don't see why it's particularly different.
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by liedra 16y ago
I'm about to move to London... I'll have to check it out! Also it has a fab name, nowhere else knows what a flat white is, and the cappuccinos they make here in Belgium have fake whipped cream on top! :( :(
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by liedra 16y ago
I await this with great anticipation! (I have been there but for a conference without much chance to get outside and experience the city - I am determined to return, however!)

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