lkerrekfjk

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by lkerrekfjk 9y ago
> Take a women who is a talented programmer and enjoys programmer, but chooses not to work as a programmer because she is sick of constant sexual harassment. Should we respect her choices or design interventions? Nice strawman you are do
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by lkerrekfjk 9y ago
Wouldn't that be assault as well?
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by lkerrekfjk 9y ago
Opal gate is the canonical example of this: https://github.com/opal/opal/issues/941 It's interesting the "complainer" ended up being hired by github then fired from the same github.
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by lkerrekfjk 9y ago
> Ms Shahnaz was born in Pakistan and worked as a lab technician in the US. I'm not american, though I spend some time in US, mostly in Maine. Every-time I hear this kind of stories, I can't help but thinking: you go through al
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by lkerrekfjk 9y ago
You certainly do not need "infinite scaling" to do that. Just a queue of workers running on a dumb server or even just a crontab... Yes it is the very definition of over engineering.
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by lkerrekfjk 9y ago
I'm not sure what all these articles are complaining. Facebook is in the business of selling influence, just like Google or Twitter, that's how they make money. The product is people's attention span, just like TV or newspape
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by lkerrekfjk 9y ago
It's nice, but whenever I see lists like these I always say the same thing: If your checklists can't be automated on the CI server they are worthless for developers. I'm not a huge fan of Go, but it needs to get credit where
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by lkerrekfjk 9y ago
> No one says that. In the context of our society, talk of "white genocide" means (by default, although it should be judged on a case-by-case basis) co-opting white racial speech, and presenting it in a manner that demonstrates
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by lkerrekfjk 9y ago
> The problem isn't controversy, but actual harm inflicted by dehumanizing others, as I explained in my other comment. No, the problem is controversy. Spewing bullshit on Twitter and gloating at "idiots", isn't going
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by lkerrekfjk 9y ago
AFAIK they are using C + Gobject which doesn't help finding new contributors.
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by lkerrekfjk 9y ago
> It's always safer to be less political. Not anymore. If someone at work brings the discussion to some wedge issue and you dare say nothing, or "I don't have an opinion about it", God helps you. You'll be labell
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by lkerrekfjk 9y ago
> Well fwiw we do ban gambling in most jurisdictions, and many internet services have adopted the gambling industry's tactics for user addiction. So it's not entirely without precedent I would think. What do you with the govern
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by lkerrekfjk 9y ago
A simple approach to that problem is to stop using Twitter. I don't have Twitter account nor a Facebook account, nor I read any news or content originating from these services. Nobody forces anybody to use these services or rely on the
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by lkerrekfjk 9y ago
Yep, me as well, I wish I could activate that globally for all people I follow at the same time. Retweets are the worse in terms of useless signaling. They also added a filter filtering tweets containing words. What I would like is the oppo
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by lkerrekfjk 9y ago
> Did projects in language de jour (i.e. Java) and hated it Because there is one thing Go isn't is "le language du jour" (ou du mois) ??? Come on. Personally, I'd still be betting on Java which has really become bette