pauloday

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by pauloday 11y ago
Well, for some people everything is a popularity contest. Reddit includes an interface for popularity contests whereas 4chan is popularity contest agnostic.
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by pauloday 11y ago
Well, CoralineAda with that whole Opal thing for one. I guess I was unclear, I didn't mean outsiders as in people who don't contribute to open source as much as outsiders who don't contribute to specific projects coming into
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by pauloday 11y ago
Well put. The solution to rules lawyering is not more rules.
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by pauloday 11y ago
Not the OC, but it seems like there are more an more outsiders coming in and trying to enforce their politics while not contributing anything. I think this has always happened, but it seems like there's been an uptick recently and that
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by pauloday 11y ago
I agree, but I think the basic stance doesn't need to be more than "Be respectful and if someone isn't, talk to them about it before bringing it up with the community". Mismatches in what people think respectful means wi
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by pauloday 11y ago
I think that's a good idea in principle, but if they're insulting everyone you don't want them to be a part of the community, and rejecting code might be your way of rejecting them from the community. I think it depends on th
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by pauloday 11y ago
Yup. A COC is supposed to codify that so it seems less arbitrary? I think it could be good idea in principle, if only to prevent all this pointless drama. Unfortunately, many of these seem to be pushed by political interests looking to gain
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by pauloday 11y ago
> We are committed to making participation in this project a harassment-free experience for everyone, regardless of level of experience, gender, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, disability, personal appearance, body si
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by pauloday 11y ago
Contributor Covenent: http://contributor-covenant.org/version/1/2/0/
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GitHub's Atom Switches from the Open Code of Conduct to the Contributor Convent(github.com)
58 points by pauloday 11y ago|57 comments
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by pauloday 11y ago
Well I wouldn't say population reduction is never a good thing, but it's probably pretty obvious when it's needed.
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by pauloday 11y ago
Wow, that is a beautiful homepage. I particularly like the font and colorscheme for the code example, well done.
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by pauloday 11y ago
I think he means they're good at regulating problems that affect them directly but they're bad at/don't care about regulating externalities. There are laws in place to protect people who stay in hotels and AirBNB does a
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by pauloday 11y ago
Probably a combination of that, more awareness of this issue and more hosts stripping exif data from uploaded images.
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by pauloday 11y ago
When I bought my Macbook for college, Apple gave me a $100 gift card for the app store because I was a student[1]. [1]: http://appleinsider.com/articles/14/07/01/apples-back-to-sch...
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by pauloday 11y ago
I love reading /r/futurology comments for comedy purposes, but I have a weird sense of humor
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by pauloday 12y ago
Also back in the day we didn't have access to the massive amount of information about these people we do now. Back in the day we'd never see that Zuckerberg quote because he'd have said it in person or in a letter which proba
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by pauloday 12y ago
Main discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9279024
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by pauloday 12y ago
As far as I can tell, this entire thing could've been avoided by a competent HR department.
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by pauloday 12y ago
A big part of it is the supersaturated foods we have now are far, far more sweet/salty/fatty than our tastebuds evolved with. Sugar fat and salt taste good to us because our body needs them and in ancient times the tastiest foods
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by pauloday 12y ago
I think the problems you describe are with people (so therefore should be dealt with through community standards etc.), not the karma system. How would you improve it?
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by pauloday 12y ago
Reminds me of this[1] LessWrong post. It's not unique to tech, it's (unfortunately) part of our tribalistic instinct: > Arguments are soldiers. Once you know which side you're on, you must support all arguments of that si