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by marquis 13y ago
My team is 100% remote working, some of us get to meet up during the year but not everyone has met in person yet. A couple of the team would do better if we had a group office but it's also good experience for us to figure out how to s
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by marquis 13y ago
>A more subtle clue is that it seems that they refer to men as "males", but women as simply "women" And here on HN it's invariably 'guys' and 'girls'. Women get the diminutive form. It's
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by marquis 13y ago
That's a perfect description of children figuring out the world. I remember having the same confused experience as a young girl, being embarrassed that my girly friends would come over and I wanted to build things outside instead of pl
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by marquis 13y ago
I get called by most of my women friends to fix their computer problems or for technical purchasing advice, almost never by men unless it's related to work and I'm the expert on the topic. Anecdote-wise I have a million stories ab
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by marquis 13y ago
I mean on HN - to say how it feels: it's like being put on show in some glass box, being talked about like a rare specimen. It's just strange. I don't know if it's just me as I can't speak for other women.
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by marquis 13y ago
Being a woman in business, especially in the tech industry, is hard but gets easier as you grow older: you get isolated, pointed out, 'discussed' and I've had clients marvel at my technical prowess, as if it were some magical
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by marquis 13y ago
>whether to buy that fair-trade coffee This really does make a difference you know. You're looking at considering a couple of dollars overhead, yet it provides genuine support to the growers who made a commitment to pay their worker
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by marquis 13y ago
The code is pretty easy to read - shouldn't be hard to add that functionality yourself with the File API. We hacked it quite a bit for what we needed, it's a nice script and the author is responsive for bugs. Thanks enyo!
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by marquis 13y ago
Why should advertisers care if you incorrectly 'spell' your name? All Facebook should care about, to support their income, is engaging real users - real names or no.
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by marquis 13y ago
>Why do you have an account, but not want people to be able to find you? It's a placeholder for Pages, and for the rare case I want to see baby photos. * edit: not to encourage FB but would probably pay for a business page that didn
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by marquis 13y ago
XMPP supports signing of messages, and for push notifications OTR is great.
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by marquis 13y ago
I wasn't aware XMPP wasn't secure? It supports TLS, SSL, OTR and more. Are there known issues?
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by marquis 13y ago
Are you all assuming I'm a guy? Geez, there are really of lot of typical assumptions made here perhaps all based on pop/rock music (which I still think isn't so clearcut). I'm a trained classical pianist, which is usuall
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by marquis 13y ago
I can't find the article to reference so take this with a grain of salt: in ancient times it is believed that song was a form of letting people know you were there, as in mothers cooing to their babies while grazing. That's a real
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by marquis 13y ago
In this case, very strongly my idea. No-one really knows why we play music - even musicians don't know. But I think it's about a form of expression, much like for many people they are compelled to enter conversation at least part
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by marquis 13y ago
>music is a form of mating display Hm, then why did I start learning the piano at age 6? Music is a form of communication and expression, and humans just tend to gravitate to people who are good at stuff we like (which make for good mati
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by marquis 13y ago
I've spent significant time in #3 (Morocco) and #4 (UAE) and would be hesitant to return. As a solo female these places are hostile once you leave the confines of the westernized areas. If you are just hanging out the business district
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by marquis 13y ago
Thanks from me also to the author, I can't remember since when I've been using this - super useful.
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by marquis 13y ago
Given that it's a public statement intended to be read by as many people as possible I find it completely unironic.
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by marquis 13y ago
>What is the reasoning as to why one would voluntarily give money when not absolutely necessary? Simple: something you value may go away if not funded.
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by marquis 13y ago
On a related note, I'm looking for a good program to sponsor a child's education. Most of what I find are run by church-affiliated groups which is fine if the education is secular. Any suggestions would be welcome.
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by marquis 13y ago
Hm, and after some hundreds of thousands of years to have the opportunity to do this, jellyfish randomly decide to start doing this in the 20th century?
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by marquis 13y ago
>Even as somebody who is genuinely concerned and willing to accept responsibility, there seems to be nothing of worth that I can actually do to help. One of the issues she mentions is overfishing. You can vote with your dollars and take
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by marquis 13y ago
I've seen Universities have been security for their professors than politician's laptops. It's truly bewildering - then there is the fact that the technology MPs are generally not well versed in technology at all - witness th
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by marquis 13y ago
They can verify that you saw their ad/content.
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by marquis 13y ago
You just made me realise why Google Glasses et al are such potential money makers.
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by marquis 13y ago
Since I became wedded to my Kindle for consuming journalism thanks to the superb sites such as http://longreads.org and http://longform.org * my reading time has exploded, plus I pay for services where possible as I
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by marquis 13y ago
Never, ever drop out of advanced math class. You will live to rue the day.
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by marquis 13y ago
Another good reason to use ng-bind is that you have your UI ready to localization and could save a lot of work later on. We use a combination of ng-bind and ng-cloak, where the first page view is fairly light so the loading time is insignif
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by marquis 13y ago
>I might have been branded as a coward If you have an ethical choice to make, consider the reaction of your esteemed colleagues (get counsel if you feel you can), not that of the mainstream news. The general support for those such as Sno

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