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1231.
by newsbinator 9y ago
What prevents me from seeing all my interactions through a racial lens and reading all posts through a racial lens is the understanding that skin color is one of the least interesting things about a person. Will your path cross racists? Of
1232.
by newsbinator 9y ago
MailGun's support is horrible. I kept emailing them to let them know about login issues, and it would take them a week to get back to me. After a couple tries, they just dropped the ball and stopped following up on the ticket. Message
1233.
by newsbinator 9y ago
He writes this way because he wants to, not because he has to: > "I also tend not to use a bunch of euphemisms nor do I believe in making concessions so that everyone feels nice and comfy even when we don’t agree. I’m very direct an
1234.
by newsbinator 9y ago
Street vernacular aside, my guess is the article would have been better received if the author weren't "one of the world’s greatest software developers" who "paid a substantial price to achieve my high level of greatness
1235.
by newsbinator 9y ago
I've got some experience being an immediately visible minority, and once you start to go down the "because she's racist" rabbit hole, there are no brakes. There's a ton of negative interactions that we all experienc
1236.
by newsbinator 9y ago
That's true. I'm not used to people in the office being bitches and hos and ninjas. I work with adults and they work with adults.
1237.
by newsbinator 9y ago
Yup, generally speaking professional environments and thug tendencies don't mix well. That's because thug tendencies put people on edge instead of letting them concentrate on the work. I don't bring much of my personality int
1238.
by newsbinator 9y ago
> "Do you think that Deb had to list valid reasons why the organization shouldn’t make the hire?" > "This dumb bitch just didn’t wanna have to say it." > "This ho did all sorts of shit to try and make sure
1239.
by newsbinator 9y ago
"Though there’s no such difference between a woman and a man when it comes to entrepreneurial drive" [citation needed]
1240.
by newsbinator 9y ago
It's worth considering that some subsets of some industries require a regular influx of high-functioning jerks in order to grease the wheels of progress. Perhaps in those areas anybody who's not a jerk wouldn't have the stren
1241.
by newsbinator 9y ago
It's a self-repairing system. Talented people will stay away from particular tech & companies and do things talented people do with other tech and companies. Then we'll all go join them. It's not zero-sum, as though talen
1242.
by newsbinator 9y ago
I don't really understand why the culture of some companies is something that needs to be fixed. As long as there's nothing illegal going on (like harassment), then what difference does it make from the outside whether a company h
1243.
by newsbinator 9y ago
https://outline.com seems to work great on single articles. Through try it on a feed like https://outline.com/daringfireball.net , and it's completely broken. Obviously this is not the use-case though.
1244.
by newsbinator 9y ago
> "Yes, algorithm. The word you hardly knew until HBO's Silicon Valley focused an entire show about the immense power and responsibility that comes with creating one." Hard to imagine, but possible. Surely in 2017 the aver
1245.
by newsbinator 9y ago
Reading the wrong books is worse than reading no books at all. Any tool that allows you to avoid 10% of the wrong books is worth it.
1246.
by newsbinator 10y ago
Of all the problems of disenfranchisement and discrimination that genuinely hurt people, this politicization of identity is the least interesting. > "Only certain dishes like noodles, dumplings, kebabs, and rice bowls have been norm
1247.
by newsbinator 10y ago
Fantastic UX! Did you design this all yourself?
1248.
by newsbinator 10y ago
Does the benefit of browsing the web with javascript off outweigh the inconvenience of most of the web not working?
1249.
by newsbinator 10y ago
Knowing about the gender balance wouldn't influence the final selection if you programmed the selection criteria not to be influenced by the gender balance. The whole point of training and using machines is to make more accurate, more
1250.
by newsbinator 10y ago
I live in developing countries. It's true that smartphones are the only computer people have or need, which is a problem. Mobile devices are still consumption devices. It's hard to create complex, multi-layer structures on phones:
1251.
by newsbinator 10y ago
> "The border search exception is a doctrine of United States criminal law that allows searches and seizures at international borders and their functional equivalent without a warrant or probable cause." https://en
1252.
by newsbinator 10y ago
> I was not detained; my phone and computer were not confiscated. I was asked if I was Muslim and what I did and where I lived. When I said I was a writer, I was asked if I was going “to write about this process?” I answered, “Maybe I