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by mtrimpe 14y ago
My respect for raganwald just shot through the roof after reading that. As far as I'm concerned that is the most reasonable response so far, by a long shot.
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by mtrimpe 14y ago
Unlike when he very publicly fired an employee in the heat of the moment after his company was being DDoS'ed. I think the fact that Paul Graham, after applying Occam's razor, preferred to think it was done from a compromised account speaks
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by mtrimpe 14y ago
Why did they feel the need to very publicly post this dismissal (and withdraw, and then reissue) in the heat of the moment while under a DDoS attack though, rather than sooner or later? It very much feels like a cowardly act of throwing som
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by mtrimpe 14y ago
He seemed genuinely confused as to why he received these downvotes and I just tried to inform him that, apart from his comment not being particularly good, he was probably also the victim of excessive downvoting due to the polarizing nature
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by mtrimpe 14y ago
@untog: Your last comment is marked as [dead]. I really hope it's not because you've been hellbanned.
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by mtrimpe 14y ago
I just recorded my video but my since Flash auto-selects line-in for me, no audio was actually recorded. We ran into that problem a lot while trying to optimize the user experience of the VideoView recording application. It turns out end us
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by mtrimpe 14y ago
And here is a capture of the Facebook post (and some reactions) before they pulled it: http://www.webpagescreenshot.info/i/240616-321201371406pm.pn...
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by mtrimpe 14y ago
I've adjusted my first statement to be more neutral. As for your last sentence, I can tell from experience that threads on womens rights topics tend to be more polarized in general and cause a lot more downvoting in general which is exa
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by mtrimpe 14y ago
If you take a look at my comment history you'll see that I tend to comment on womens rights issues quite frequently, since I'm LGBT myself so their cause is quite close to my heart. I can tell you from experience that I've seen my votes go
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by mtrimpe 14y ago
It's not a private conversation. I can't even ignore the conversation of annoying people three seats down in the train. When people in the seat behind me will start talking during a conference there would be no way for me not to listen
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by mtrimpe 14y ago
Except that you can't stop listening because you're in a public situation! I've sat through some train rides myself where I had to listen to people having 'private conversations' riddled with jokes about gay people. I can tell you that will
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by mtrimpe 14y ago
When supporting women's right on Hacker News you tend to get a disproportionate number of downvotes compared to 'normal' topics. That means that if your comment usually would just not get any upvotes (which yours wouldn't since it wasn't te
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by mtrimpe 14y ago
Thank you for so beautifully making my true point: that these issues bring a lot of deep-seated emotions to the surface that we often don't even consciously understand or are aware of and that that is the real topic we should be discussin
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by mtrimpe 14y ago
Now if that's not an ad-hominem I don't know what is. Adria got pissed at overhearing some inappropriate jokes, snapped a picture and tweeted her indignation. It might not have been the wisest thing to do, but she didn't fire that guy; she
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by mtrimpe 14y ago
I initially thought you were trolling but it's clear that your response, although one I strongly disagree with, does have solid reasoning behind it. If you're looking for actual counterpoints; I'm an LGBT man and I support Adria for her ri
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by mtrimpe 14y ago
One of the two guys lost his job after an internal investigation . It's hard to say "this wasn't the only thing he did" in more specific terms. But yes, this shouldn't have been said. If he lost his job for just this that's probably to
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by mtrimpe 14y ago
There is a very big cultural difference there indeed. The French are quite famous for the degree to which sexuality is (respectfully) integrated into the workplace. The US on the other hand didn't manage to do that, so has a general polic
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by mtrimpe 14y ago
If I'm reading it correctly this is what this statement really says: "Alex Reid might've been involved, but he's a good guy in general and we're keeping him. The other guy however, it turned out after an internal investigation, wasn't exact
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by mtrimpe 14y ago
I find it very hard to find the link between this and homophobia. Could you try to explain it in more detail perhaps?
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by mtrimpe 14y ago
My point is more that there seems to be little proof that 'full Paleo' is better than eating lots of veggies and cutting processed carbs from your diet alone.
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by mtrimpe 14y ago
That's exactly my problem with the Paleo diet though: it can be summed up by the following sentence: "So you're saying that eating a lot of vegetables, beans and quality meat is good for you? Who would've thought that!" </sarcasm>
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by mtrimpe 14y ago
Keep in mind that it's actually your desire to meet their expectations that's at play here. You can also go back and tell them that your previous speed is probably an outlier, but you don't/didn't do that because you want to maintain this h
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by mtrimpe 14y ago
It can also be a valid defense mechanism against those rising expectations. I did the same before I learned to accept my limits and say no to what went beyond them, including pressure on myself to keep my commitments. It actually makes perf
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by mtrimpe 14y ago
I just want to say in case nobody else comments here, that this is an awesome blog post. It was very valuable to me.
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by mtrimpe 14y ago
Can I ask how much (low/mid/high x-digits) the raw AWS hosting costs of a site like this are? I'd love the idea of trying to take over something like this, but I have a suspicion I might be in way over my head...
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by mtrimpe 14y ago
Okay, so DocuSign seems to be quite close. For my idea you'd have to imagine DocuSign with: - an OAuth(-like) API for other sites, e.g. Reddit, to sign micro-data on your behalf. - the ability to retract signatures after time X and notify s
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by mtrimpe 14y ago
I think you missed my point. It'd be quite hard to build e.g. third-pary petition site on GaurdTime. The other comment's DocuSign suggestion comes closer, but I also doubt DocuSign offers support for third parties to do micro-signing throug
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by mtrimpe 14y ago
I think this new speech recognition improvement by Microsoft depends on deep networks and it's results are very impressive. http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/news/features/speechreco... http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/mavi
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by mtrimpe 14y ago
I keep wishing someone takes up the frighteningly ambitious idea here: developing a low-friction government approved (through e.g. legal precedent) service for signing data. After a passport/identiy check it would technically just be a high
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by mtrimpe 14y ago
You can take a look at how Daniel Tenner (swombat) does it for some inspiration. His MO is just at the edge of what's an OK way of doing this sort of thing (IMHO ;)

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