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by paranoiacblack 14y ago
Well, these might not be "proof", but would she be wrong in saying that? HINT: Look at the assumptions in your post.
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by paranoiacblack 14y ago
Hmm, that 'teach them a lesson' part sounds like you're projecting, but I won't make any assumptions about your beliefs. I'm curious though, what evidence are you looking for exactly? A signed paper where both men agree that their conduct w
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by paranoiacblack 14y ago
Hmm, ever hear of slippery slope arguments? Because there's clearly a limit to the situation you're describing and clearly offense is relative. So, since you didn't specify any level of severity, let's assume the joke that offended you was
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by paranoiacblack 14y ago
Sorry, I wasn't being clear. My point is that the problem lies somewhere with this weird superstition around women, especially in technology fields. I believe that this weird superstition is perpetuated by sexist ideals or understandings. A
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by paranoiacblack 14y ago
You don't need to be constantly thinking of women and minorities in the room before you say anything. But if you say something offensive to women or minorities, they might take offense, surprisingly enough. And yeah, this is the reason for
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by paranoiacblack 14y ago
But you really shouldn't have to make politically incorrect jokes and references to make yourself fit in because of your gender. People who feel like they can't be themselves around you because of your gender have other hangups that are unr
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by paranoiacblack 14y ago
> The right thing to do is either deal with the person directly or escalate above them, whether you're a woman or not. Going straight to the mob is never the right answer. Isn't this exactly what happened though? She posted on her feed
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by paranoiacblack 14y ago
You're doing a bit of mental gymnastics here, especially with your last example. Obviously, you're concerned with your security and comfortability, but you're taking it out of context. Indeed, if I tell a hilarious racist joke as you've men
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by paranoiacblack 14y ago
That's not the author's point. He was giving a definition relevant to the situation. Pycon happened in the US, so if there are complaints about freedom of speech at the event, the complainer is no doubt talking about freedom of speech laws
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by paranoiacblack 14y ago
That's a strange opinion to have though, because before doing login through either of these services, you will be asked if you want to give that app permission to certain parts of your account. For example, I might have you log in through G
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by paranoiacblack 14y ago
Yes, I do this exact same thing. I really don't want to store password on my side and I'm of the impression that sites like Google, Facebook, and Twitter do this better than I ever will and that most of the users visiting the site will have
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by paranoiacblack 14y ago
I'm interested by this because there is a huge amount of documentation for Angular and it's pretty good, including examples and plunker/jsfiddles to demonstrate it and allow you to play with it. What did you find lacking?
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by paranoiacblack 14y ago
I think it's fairly clear that if you work for a large company like Google or Microsoft, you are quite literally the spawn of Satan.
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by paranoiacblack 14y ago
So, this is a really bad analogy that tries to force the bad connotations of drug use onto working in the office. And it's kind of ridiculous that this is almost a reasonable logical step from the previous arguments for working from home. T
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by paranoiacblack 14y ago
I'd say that depends on what type of irony you're considering: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irony#Irony_of_fate_.28cosmic_i... I imagine you're referring to situational irony, but there are a few more literary ways to use it. Ignoring tha
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by paranoiacblack 14y ago
Ok, let me state that I work for Google. That doesn't make me automatically defend them in every thread, it's not an echo chamber like that. For example, I'm not a particular fan of the Chromebook or Chromebook Pixel. > What does this h
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by paranoiacblack 14y ago
I guess you don't realize that the Google Glass device is detachable to fit on many different lenses? There's obviously going to be times when you won't be allowed to wear them. There's no way they would be a permanent device.
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by paranoiacblack 14y ago
This isn't necessarily true, really. You're ignoring the utility of this device because you don't personally like it. It also seems like you might think that your life is interesting enough for some wannabe "early adopter" to focus on. In r
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by paranoiacblack 14y ago
Well, with the certainty you speak of this with, yes. Oh also, I'm being facetious because I work there and I'm interested in this secret pile of evidence you have. All things being fair, I won't deny that you've seen the things you've seen
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by paranoiacblack 14y ago
Yes, actually. And with real evidence other than your skewed opinions. Or you can keep being overly dramatic, your choice.
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by paranoiacblack 14y ago
The hacker community is pretty interesting. Someone hosts an event and brings a bunch of random junk and alcohol, telling people to get cracking on cool ideas. People don't get sleep, sit around, partake in random junk and alcohol, and it's
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by paranoiacblack 14y ago
Just so you know, "emasculating" has more than one definition. The popular definition has to do stripping a man's power away, but the other, and much more fitting one is making a person become less effective. I got the notion that Sergey wa
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by paranoiacblack 14y ago
Maybe the reason why the community clings to imposter syndrome is so they can focus on getting interesting work done instead of writing self-important blog posts.
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by paranoiacblack 14y ago
I really do agree with your point, but it sounds like an excuse from academia. I can assure you that many students, when starting in their Freshman year in college, expect to be able to build the cool things they want to build or be competi
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by paranoiacblack 14y ago
Well, you have to consider that this is due to their exposure to computers in the past. Common users often see computers as this buggy device that sometimes feeds them their emails or allows them to catch up with friends on facebook. Others
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by paranoiacblack 14y ago
Is it really that surprising to you that this would cause such a reaction? Over the past few years, coding has become so accessible that non-technical people are able easily set up projects with a few lines of code. It has also become a lot
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by paranoiacblack 14y ago
I basically came here to say this. Often HN is frequented by those who are go to top CS schools, but I do not think they are in the majority of most CS schools. It is really possible to escape a university with a BS and MS without knowing h
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by paranoiacblack 14y ago
What's hilarious about it? Getting random invites to games and other events because of broken or non-obvious filters is a huge problem on other social networking sites. And Facebook groups have always been a second seat to just sharing with
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by paranoiacblack 14y ago
Running Gource on the Linux Kernel repos is the best thing, easily.
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by paranoiacblack 14y ago
Yeahhhh, calling Chrome the new Internet Explorer is missing the forest for the trees. Recall Internet Explorer made it so that you would write regular markup and THEN have to write special markup and add extra rules for compatibility. It's

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