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by mwfunk 10y ago
There were a lot more women graduating with CS degrees in past decades, it's been declining for a long time: http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2014/10/21/357629765/when-...
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by mwfunk 10y ago
My understanding is that it was originally just a place for people in YC-funded startups (or people otherwise affiliated with YC) to share useful/interesting links and information with each other. I don't associate HN (then or now
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by mwfunk 10y ago
Just because someone asked what camera was used doesn't mean that person is implying that the photographer isn't talented. Maybe the poster is a kid who doesn't know much (or anything) about photography and wants to learn abo
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by mwfunk 10y ago
I think we're all reading lots of different things into what Linus said here. My interpretation is that he's just saying that we tend to overvalue ideas and undervalue the less glamorous work involved in bringing those ideas to fr
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by mwfunk 10y ago
A startup isn't a labor of love; if it was, it'd be a hobby, not a startup.
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My theory is that most people don't want to have to make small talk with random strangers whose #1 form of entertainment is making small talk with random strangers in public places. Such people have and always will exist, and they will
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by mwfunk 10y ago
Oracle's CEO is on his transition team, and Oracle is one of the few big tech companies to not publicly support the legal challenge to the travel ban.
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by mwfunk 10y ago
No, the application would not be POSIX-compliant, but it would be running on a POSIX-compliant OS. I was confused by the comment I replied to because it sounded like he was saying that POSIX compliance was more likely in "modern"
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by mwfunk 10y ago
I don't know what you're referring to with that distinction. AFAICT they weren't testing for POSIX compliance but rather where the POSIX layer was being used in practice, which statistically was by system-level frameworks rat
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by mwfunk 10y ago
Because it's financial fraud, and it harms the legitimacy of the market itself and it harms the other people participating in the market. It's not like banning a cheater in a video game, there are real world stakes.
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by mwfunk 10y ago
This is true, although you can tell a lot about someone's character by whether they have to be dragged kicking and screaming to take the low road, vs. going straight to it and being proud of themselves for doing so. No idea which bucke
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by mwfunk 10y ago
You just made up a strawman and argued against it. It doesn't do anyone any good to imagine the dumbest reason someone might hold a particular opinion. If you must extrapolate someone's motivations, then try to come up with the mo
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by mwfunk 10y ago
Generally products built by large teams are large products. There are extra challenges associated with coordinating large groups of people, and there are extra challenges associated with developing big, complicated software products with lo
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by mwfunk 10y ago
I always considered trolling to be an intentionally disruptive thing- posting things you may not even believe to get a rise out of people. Based on their definition, they risk lumping everyday assholery/immaturity/ignorance into i
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by mwfunk 10y ago
It is (also arguably) a niche in the US. My totally subjective perception is that it's been on an upswing here for many years, and in a few more years will be up to the popularity level of basketball and hockey at least.
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by mwfunk 10y ago
They're both document formats, but they come at it from opposite directions. PDFs contain low-level drawing instructions for displaying their content, but usually know far less about the content itself. ePub is the other extreme- it co
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by mwfunk 10y ago
Agreed. IMO the biggest problem with online communication is that people don't realize how much ambiguity there is in language, or how easy it is to misread what people type into little boxes on web pages. Every tweet is like an underd
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by mwfunk 10y ago
This is my experience as well. In my larval hacker days in the '90s, when my primary pastime was messing around with my Linux box all day long, I thoroughly enjoyed sifting through window manager and shell man pages to find each and ev
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by mwfunk 10y ago
In my experience, almost all of those "must have X years of experience with Y" requirements are written up by HR people who are loosely interpreting poorly understood requirements told to them by either the hiring manager, or othe
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by mwfunk 10y ago
It's not common when you're an engineer involved in an IP lawsuit. Getting notified of this type of lawsuit also means getting a data retention notice requiring you to not do this. All sorts of special requirements come into play,
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by mwfunk 10y ago
There's nothing unfair about that situation though. People using open source without giving back, and possibly even making money on it without giving back, is perfectly fine. There's no contract, social or otherwise (aside from th
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by mwfunk 10y ago
I would rather be a loser in Trump's world than profit from normalizing it.
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by mwfunk 10y ago
No, that's not all. If you don't see a difference between Trump and every president or political bloc that has achieved power before, you have not been paying attention. Like, at all. If you have been paying attention, then you sh
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by mwfunk 10y ago
If you view people who don't agree with you politically as strawmen who "worship" your least favorite politicians, then you've already failed at understanding the world. Everyone disagrees on stuff, but if you want to un
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by mwfunk 10y ago
Of course they do. It's impossible to know whether or not God exists based on physical evidence; that's why religion is based on faith and not scientific research. People choose their religious beliefs, or (much more commonly) hav
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by mwfunk 10y ago
Yep. There are a lot of things in the US political system that give states with lower populations more representation per capita than states with greater populations, and the electoral college is one of them and perhaps the most egregious,
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Well yes, obviously, since that's what happened.
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Isn't that the difference between sovereignty and self-governance? HK is self-governing in a lot of ways, but it's not a sovereign state, so it exists at the mercy of China. I don't know to what degree HK's independence
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It's fine if big companies or whomever want to use open source software without contributing back to it. There's no such thing as a freeloader in this context, the code is freely given so that people can freely use it with no quid
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by mwfunk 10y ago
And they vote in shockingly large numbers, for example enough to get anti-vaxxers (who I think of as having a lot of overlap with fluoride conspiracy people) seriously considered for cabinet-level positions in the US.

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