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by navait 10y ago
One of those things can kill you, or imprison you. The other one can send you mildly annoying ads.
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by navait 10y ago
Why do you think your ancedotes are the authoritative source of information on all women?
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by navait 10y ago
To me, that would indicate that there's some quality that she doesn't like about the tech workers that the frat bros have. The frat bros have qualities that are ok at first get on your nerves over time. Or maybe she's tired o
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by navait 10y ago
What you are referring to are "Utility Monster" arguments. I've yet to see a version of the Utility Monster that would actually happen in the real world. The better ones involve a computer that rules the world and is given a
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by navait 10y ago
Not a lobbyist exactly, but I've seen more than a few contracts given to the golf buddies of senior management. You can definitely rig the corporate IT game.
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by navait 10y ago
I'm not sure the title makes sense - I learned why having 4 founders can be ok, but that doesn't mean the 2-3 founders advice is bad - just that you should have a reason why you think you won't run into problems. It seems too
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by navait 10y ago
You're absolutely right, I won't work to understand you. Sorry. I don't have infinite time in my life, and obscure political ideologies require too much of an investment for me to benefit from it. I don't have time in my
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by navait 10y ago
I don't know if I agree with the transformative justice ideas of the article, but it is a delight to read an excellent post by someone with very different values from my own. The article reveals the thought process, and why they believ
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by navait 10y ago
I don't use IRC for my social life, but it's essential to my professional and software life. Freenode, without a doubt. I've learned a lot discussing stuff on the channel, received a lot of help, and met a lot of people. My f
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by navait 10y ago
Zip code is usually a better way if it's relevant - you can fill in the state/town automatically. Obviously, there are situations where that would not apply.
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by navait 10y ago
Thanks, I don't mean to pick on your comment specifically, but enough people repeat that idea that I wanted to point it out.
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by navait 10y ago
> How about recognizing that 9/11 was a troll, and we fell for it? The attackers hated the U.S.'s idea of freedom, but they were too powerless to take away our freedom. So they figured out a clever way to make us take away our
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by navait 10y ago
1939 was a long time ago, everyone who made important decisions then is now dead. The world was completely different back then in technology, culture and economy. No country that has been around greater than 20 years has held a consistent f
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US conservatives accuse Facebook of censorship(mobile.nytimes.com)
2 points by navait 10y ago|3 comments
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by navait 10y ago
The article notes that Walgreen's (exclusively service jobs) has found their autisitc employees are as productive as normal ones. Do you think that they are not employing people with severe autism?
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by navait 10y ago
I've certainly found myself in the difficult position of having moved to a place where I know nobody. I read "How to win friends and influence people", hoping I could learn how to make better friends with it. It's easy t
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by navait 10y ago
>But it adds to this a pinch of glib frivolity and a dash of unembarrassed ignorance. Its rhetorical tics include a forced enthusiasm (a search on Twitter for the hashtag “#sciencedancing” speaks volumes) and a penchant for profanity. He
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by navait 11y ago
> Evan Snow, a thirtysomething “user experience design professional”..., who had moved to the neighbourhood about six months earlier (and who has since departed for a more suburban environment) > Snow never seemed to recognise that hi
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by navait 11y ago
>Unfortunately the signs are that incumbent firms are becoming more entrenched, not less. Microsoft is making double the profits it did when antitrust regulators targeted the software firm in 2000. I couldn't find any data on it, bu
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by navait 11y ago
If your product is good, you don't need to have a free plan. If you're the sort of business that needs a job board, $149/mo is peanuts for the value you get. http://www.softwarebyrob.com/2010/08/18&#
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by navait 11y ago
Well, in Slack, you don't leave by disconnecting, so that lowers the volume of people joining/quitting because they moved their laptop. It doesn't help that IRC tends to get used in places where massive amounts of users are e
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by navait 11y ago
For talking about a race, Wired seems to have neglected a crucial technology: ircv3[1]. I'm not very fond of IRCv2, and have moved away from it where I previously used IRC. But IRC is popular, has a lot of clients, and v3 has a lot of
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by navait 11y ago
Officials in your article say they didn't know the son was there, and were targeting Ibrahim al-Banna. Sounds like an accident to me. And it sure as hell wasn't buried in the news. It was a controversial event, on the front page o
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What the IBM Layoffs Look Like(spectrum.ieee.org)
186 points by navait 11y ago|239 comments
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by navait 11y ago
They're a lobbyist group. Lobbyists on our side, but they still are fighting for one tree in the forest of governing. Policy is often a trade-off - sacrificing one good for another, and the EFF fights for only a few goods. In this case
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by navait 11y ago
At a startup I worked at, we had to switch back to eclipse from any IDE - netbeans, IDEA, emacs, vim because eclipse is the only one that can really get maven right. The better question is, what is eclipse doing right that all the others ca
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by navait 11y ago
As a happy T-mobile customer, I do understand that limited coverage makes it unfeasible for many. For example, I live in rural New England and cannot reliably get signal (even for SMS) in certain towns nearby. I've never gotten signal
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by navait 11y ago
While that's a valid point, the parent was speaking in generalities across most people - given that most people have consistent incomes from wages, do they really need consumption smoothing?
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by navait 11y ago
Is there a book/article you'd recommend?
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by navait 11y ago
If you are really into coffee, mass produced is cool to hate on, and the best is what you make yourself. I enjoy the coffee, but it's not the best I ever had. Of course, in my area it's the only option over Dunkin Donuts or Mcdona

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