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by ojnabieoot 6y ago
The HR guy was probably looking for an answer that wasn’t “we hired this nonwhite person specifically because he was cheaper than someone in the United States.”
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by ojnabieoot 6y ago
This is very unfair to string theorists, who a) are almost universally honest about the empirical difficulties in their field, b) are reasonably exploring the possible theoretical options to hopefully create testable predictions for a futur
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by ojnabieoot 6y ago
It seems clear to me that this article is aimed at science educators who do have a solid understanding of electromagnetism, electronics, etc., but struggle to teach high-school and college-aged students due to widespread misconceptions abou
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by ojnabieoot 6y ago
Despite HN regulations I am aware that you are arguing in bad faith and don’t care at all about the facts of the case. But I think it’s important to get the facts out there for other people. Once again: eBay’s policy is not to ban harmful i
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by ojnabieoot 6y ago
I’m aware it was a joke :) But I think the confusion was sincere; the explanation in the article is lacking if you don’t have a clear picture to begin with.
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by ojnabieoot 6y ago
The schematic here on Wikipedia might help clarify: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fada_morgana_graphnn... If instead of layers of warm/cold air there were giant glass lenses hovering over the ocean, the
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by ojnabieoot 6y ago
What do you want me to say? I don’t work for eBay! It looks like that book is against eBay’s policy and should probably be flagged. They are not the only online marketplace where people sometimes break the rules. > there’s a mildly offen
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by ojnabieoot 6y ago
Ok if you think eBay should ban more books then go tell them that! Incidentally this isn’t true: > Books advocating for segregation. Or, rather, if such books are available it is against eBay’s policy and they should be reported. eBay ha
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by ojnabieoot 6y ago
You cannot sell Nazi memorabilia on eBay: https://www.ebay.com/help/policies/prohibited-restricted-ite... While there is a grey area around general German WW2 artifacts, including those associated with the Nazi go
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by ojnabieoot 6y ago
As I pointed out elsewhere, this is misleading and approaching a lie. eBay only allows critically-annotated copies of Mein Kampf which are designed for scholars. I am sure that a copy of “If I Ran The Zoo” with a sociologist critically anno
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by ojnabieoot 6y ago
This is misleading and approaching a lie. eBay only allows critically-annotated copies of Mein Kampf which are designed for scholars. I am sure that a copy of “If I Ran The Zoo” with a sociologist critically annotating the abhorrent racism
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by ojnabieoot 6y ago
I think this might be the part from banned.h that you’re missing: > (and even if used correctly complicate audits). With correctness-sensitive and security-sensitive C programs like Git, it is not enough to simply assume flawless diligen
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by ojnabieoot 6y ago
In fact, for the last several weeks a whole bunch of misogynistic Pedro Domingos fanboys (full of resentment and dishonesty, like JPKab) harassed her so much on Twitter that she deleted her account - but remember, this is a Good Cancelling
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by ojnabieoot 6y ago
For what it’s worth my objection isn’t the content or that there’s politics mingling in an open source project - it’s that the specific message was unbelievably asinine and so stupid as to cast doubt on the competence of the developers (for
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by ojnabieoot 6y ago
No, and I really regret engaging with you people on this! comments like this are obviously inappropriate for technical documentation regardless of whether or not you agree with the message: > It is a market of poor souls forced to compul
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by ojnabieoot 6y ago
Regardless of whether or not you agree with the content of the message it is obviously inappropriate for documentation - it’s just irritating and unprofessional and needed to be removed. Little jokes are one thing, but few paragraphs of ran
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by ojnabieoot 6y ago
I shouldn’t have to explain this, but there is a huge difference between - cute comments and snarky method names buried in source code, and - a long, vituperative, divisive rant in the actual documentation It’s not just about “having fun”
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by ojnabieoot 6y ago
You probably could if you had a record of accomplishment and Rust leadership like Niko does! (And if you did I would assume your personal notes / braindump would be worth reading).
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by ojnabieoot 6y ago
> Twitter driven social pressure campaigns trying to eliminate the entire library of his books overnight by personally targeting a handful of people with the power to pull the books from shelves isn't a reasonable way for society to
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by ojnabieoot 6y ago
> However, in the minds of Disney executives, people in their social circle might judge them if they keep Carino [sic] around. This is too reductive an understanding. A far bigger issue is that many many actors, technicians, directors, a
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by ojnabieoot 6y ago
“Every publisher must be forced to continually publish every item that exists in their catalogue, even if the publisher themselves finds that item embarrassingly racist. Otherwise, the SJWs win.” Seriously this is just incoherent. Dr. Seuss
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by ojnabieoot 6y ago
Everything about this story is just so frustrating. - While the GameStop thing should be investigated and the lack of transparency criticized, Robinhood’s stated reason for halting the trades is plausible and corroborated by other people. I
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by ojnabieoot 6y ago
It should also be pointed out that it hasn’t officially been called the “Coon Carnival” in many years since “coon” is in fact a racist slur in South Africa, despite McNeil’s insinuation that it’s just an American thing.
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by ojnabieoot 6y ago
I feel like the author is not being that zealous! More to the point, he is not really focusing on memory safety so much as his frustration with the nature of the complaints RE: Rust. Perhaps he is being pithy and snarky enough to hurt peopl
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by ojnabieoot 6y ago
The “bikeshedding over syntax” issue misses an important point from the post: > [I]n many ways, XML and XSLT are better than an ad-hoc YAML based scripting language. XSLT is a documented and standardized thing, not just some ad-hoc forma
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by ojnabieoot 6y ago
I am going to suggest that calling somebody a stupid animal over something so trivial is an excellent opportunity for you to log off and call a distant friend / family member, read a book, play with the dog, etc. Even Karlicoss would a
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by ojnabieoot 6y ago
I don’t think there’s a single labor activist who disagrees with you. We aren’t saying Amazon is forbidden from making their case, but rather that their specific behavior is unacceptably intimidating and misleading. We agree Amazon is allow
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by ojnabieoot 6y ago
Ignoring the HR issue for a moment: a company where the founder had dictatorial powers is a terrible company. The CFO should absolutely tell the manager they can’t make an investment that’s reckless and stupid. The Director of Engineering s
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by ojnabieoot 6y ago
This is true (Ubisoft is an extremely good example - there, HR exists to protect the cabal of creeps who run the company). But if a CEO does not tolerate bad behavior, HR is an indispensable tool for protecting workers from unscrupulous m
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by ojnabieoot 6y ago
LMAO how is that “ruling with an iron fist”? You got that person fired! And no, I am a programmer who does not work in HR. Nobody is saying HR is infallible. But a mistake like “HR had a silly policy around hiring” is not as bad for an orga

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