mreiland

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by mreiland 12y ago
I'm genuinely curious as to why you asked the question to begin with.
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by mreiland 12y ago
Many of them do. The ones going on crusades do not, they are the ones I'm specifically referring to.
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by mreiland 12y ago
men face the exact same issues. It's akin to women complaining that they have to purchase gasoline in order to make it to work daily. So do men, why is that something the women are rallying around?
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by mreiland 12y ago
Native American, male. I was supposed to be White wasn't I? I wonder how many Native American's there are in our industry... actually I lied, I don't care tbh. Why don't you ask about the 100% female company I contract
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by mreiland 12y ago
I just want to develop software, and I don't personally give a shit about the gender of the people I'm working with. ...Until they start shoving these sorts of issues down my throat. If I get to choose between the male that just
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by mreiland 12y ago
> Also, he was the CEO of a tech startup, and the tech startup media did all the reporting on it, and all his investors literally said 'congratulations, I'm glad this is behind you' after he pled guilty. Still has little t
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by mreiland 12y ago
There is also confirmation bias.
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by mreiland 12y ago
maybe you should stop judging your wife's sister and her husband, and/or start being as critical of yourselves as you are of them.
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by mreiland 12y ago
love me some i3 :)
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by mreiland 12y ago
roughly the same here. I've always been a fan of XFCE, but preferred KDE until KDE4. And I just re-installed KDE 3 days ago, still don't like it. I switched over to XFCE for a while, until finally settling on i3. I'm perfe
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by mreiland 12y ago
The obvious counter-argument is that simply talking to them isn't enough. Sure, it's a "period of silence", but that could very well mean figurative silence rather than literal silence. He could have spent every single
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by mreiland 12y ago
I think the NSA farts magical bunnies, but they don't want people to know, so they breed stage magicians.
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by mreiland 12y ago
kind of how I read it. levison absolutely was being a dick, and I think the DOJ responded in kind by being a dick also.
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by mreiland 12y ago
As a software developer, I become "that computer guy" to everyone in my family. Which means I know everything about everything wrt computers. Is this true in your experience? Do you think it's a good idea to have your run o
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by mreiland 12y ago
I believe he's referring to the following: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKMbdfbpWvg It's an interesting observation imo, you should watch the entire thing because when it starts out it doesn't seem as if i
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by mreiland 13y ago
"gaming" is a billion dollar industry, calling it a "very very small percentage of the population" may be exaggerating a bit ;)
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by mreiland 13y ago
This idea "becomes new" every few years, and yet PC games are predicted to outsell console games by the end of 2014. What most people misunderstand is that, given the choice, most people would choose a PC for a lot of their comput
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by mreiland 13y ago
I already really dislike that win7 hides the filepath, and lies about it in many cases. It makes me click on the bar to actually see where I'm at in the filepath, please don't take that design mistake and apply it to the web.
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by mreiland 13y ago
I'm starting to think OpenSSL is the new "hitler of software". If you disagree, or dislike something, compare it to the OpenSSL heartbleed fiasco...
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by mreiland 13y ago
I thought it was an excellent piece. Even while reading it, I was aware that it most likely wasn't completely accurate, and over-romanticized things. It also jumps back and forth through the timeline a bit much. Certainly not perfect