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by mhartl 15y ago
This issue isn't an ought , it's an is . Every job is a negotiation, and if your negotiating position and skills are good enough then you won't have to comply with your boss's request for your Facebook passoword. Otherwise, you will.
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by mhartl 15y ago
you can pay attention to what does offend people and not do those things again in the future Yes, and following this course results in outcome #2: insufferable blandness. The range of things people find offensive is staggering. Indeed, ma
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by mhartl 15y ago
I'm
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by mhartl 15y ago
It's hard to know WTF is going to offend people. The result is a choice between potential opprobrium and insufferable blandness. This is how it happens: http://android.eonline.com/article.ftl?category=Latest+News&... I pretty sure DeNiro
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by mhartl 15y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whig_history
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by mhartl 15y ago
I think that blog posts like this are absolutely a part of fixing the problem. I hope you're right. You're far more optimistic than I am. In particular, I've seen an awful lot of hand-wringing about this subject in the Ruby community ove
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by mhartl 15y ago
"Oop, Katie's got the low cut dress on today! I know where I'm sitting!" ... [Should I] go to HR and get stuck with his work when they move or can him? Do you think that potentially firing someone for making such a comment is part of a re
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by mhartl 15y ago
Sure thing. The West Indies As They Are (1824) by Rev. Richard Bickell. It was written about slavery in Jamaica, where conditions were almost certainly worse than in the American South. http://books.google.com/books?id=Y4QZYM7MOUcC&p
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by mhartl 15y ago
I don't think they're lying. I think they're a drop in the ocean.
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by mhartl 15y ago
I think you misunderstand. Acceptance is the only rational response when you lack sufficient power to effect change. When crude behavior persists even in the face of a draconian legal environment, complaining about it or writing frustrated
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by mhartl 15y ago
Not to mention the Allies not giving a shit.
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by mhartl 15y ago
Slaves were in imminent danger of being killed for minor offences. Were they? I'd bet that everything you've ever read or seen about slavery was produced by abolitionists and their intellectual descendants. Perhaps this might slightly col
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by mhartl 15y ago
I thought it was clear from context, but I've added a clarifying clause. The point is that, if firing people for commenting on low-cut dresses doesn't work, complaining about it in a blog post certainly isn't going to do the trick. The prob
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by mhartl 15y ago
Counseling someone to accept a situation is not the same as endorsing it. And acceptance is the only rational response when you lack sufficient power to effect change. Indeed, the OP's decision to leave the tech industry is an implicit ackn
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by mhartl 15y ago
I think threatening to fire men for commenting on women's dresses counts as trying.
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by mhartl 15y ago
You put quotes around the phrase "nothing can ever change", and yet that phrase doesn't appear in the parent comment. I suggest restricting yourself to rebutting arguments I actually made.
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by mhartl 15y ago
Acceptance is the only rational response when you lack sufficient power to effect change.
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by mhartl 15y ago
A swear word can be powerful when wielded with precision and skill, but I agree that in this context it doesn't work.
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by mhartl 15y ago
It appears that virtually all comments expressing even mild criticism of the OP are being downvoted with a vengeance. Groupthink is alive and well here on HN. If you want to know what a member of the Thought Police looks like, find a mirr
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by mhartl 15y ago
"Oop, Katie's got the low cut dress on today! I know where I'm sitting!" ... Go to HR and get stuck with his work when they move or can him? The thing is, we live in a legal environment where she probably could go to HR and get him move
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by mhartl 15y ago
What a cool idea for a company! Congrats on the launch. I hope you guys kill it.
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by mhartl 15y ago
I'm thrilled to see this. Michael Blake is an amazing talent, and this case was total BS. It did have a cool side-effect, though: partially as a result of these legal pi problems, Michael made an even more awesome composition based on the d
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by mhartl 15y ago
Eliminating the "ums" would lend an amount of polish disproportionate to the required effort. A friend once told me about a trick she learned from a course in public speaking: every time a student speaker said "um", the entire class would c
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by mhartl 15y ago
I sympathize, but "foo" and "bar" are used when the name is beside the point—i.e., precisely when no thought process should go into naming things. See the entry on "metasyntactic variables" in the Jargon File more more information ( http:
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by mhartl 15y ago
This seemed promising, but I stopped reading after the second "lol".
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by mhartl 15y ago
This is a head-scratcher for me, but I know a bunch of current and former Pivotal Labs peeps (including CEO Rob Mee), and they're some of the smartest, savviest hackers around. I'm confident that this will end up making sense and will prove
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by mhartl 15y ago
I used to do this, but I learned the hard way that it fails terribly when you're working on different branches on different machines.
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by mhartl 15y ago
I had the opposite reaction: "What good fortune that they didn't have enough time!" Not that Berkeley isn't great, but it isn't in the Valley. It's hard to imagine YC being quite as successful if it weren't right in the thick of things.
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by mhartl 15y ago
True, and it's not even my marketing; it comes from Bob Palais' original article "Pi Is Wrong!".
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by mhartl 15y ago
The awesome thing is, today he posted his own rebuttal: http://spikedmath.com/fact-005.html

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