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by pekk 12y ago
Why would the "Chinese government" carry out pervasive domestic censorship? They know information is still going to get around on back channels. That was never the point. The potential gain is that they can extend this capability
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by pekk 12y ago
To be fair, the list of companies using COBOL is also long.
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by pekk 12y ago
Android apps are typically a pretty lame desktop experience. It's the corollary of desktop apps typically being a lame mobile experience.
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by pekk 12y ago
If 80% of posters on a thread about diets say vegetarian is healthier, and 80% of posters on a thread about fun recommend riding a motorcycle, it doesn't follow that there is a single HN zeitgeist saying both things. A simpler explanat
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by pekk 12y ago
And what if the same stigma tactics are used against you in the workplace because you are for gay marriage, or are pro-abortion, or agree with gun control? Suddenly it does not sound so good any more.
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by pekk 12y ago
And wouldn't it be even more shocking to discover that CIA recruited from all the prestigious schools and that former CIA agents had even acted as President?
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by pekk 12y ago
Participation in Facebook doesn't mean those people aren't against NSA. It probably isn't hard to find examples of people using Facebook to complain about NSA. Whether it's a matter of ignorance or cognitive dissonance
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by pekk 12y ago
Do you mean assets, or employees? There is a difference... normally the word "asset" is used to refer to people who are recruited and run for human intelligence purposes ("spies"), e.g. using payouts or blackmail - for e
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by pekk 12y ago
> I think people often underestimate it, but one of the biggest influences you can have -- I mean you, the HN reader! -- may be cultural. By the same reasoning, people can haze each other (in school, the workplace, etc.) for their positi
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by pekk 12y ago
HTML, CSS, and JS were already listed first. It's a bit silly to omit the backend entirely
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by pekk 12y ago
Providing an obvious choice is helpful to beginners, otherwise every single person has to ask "what do I learn?" and spend a long time hemming and hawing about the choice, without the benefit of background knowledge
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by pekk 12y ago
Published recipes are arguably an old form of programs :)
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by pekk 12y ago
My compliments to the salesperson.
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by pekk 12y ago
> If you focus on your own skills - always be coding, always be learning - I think you'll do fine here or elsewhere. People who just code and learn don't automatically get work. You need a network to get work. Some places make
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by pekk 12y ago
Good for him, and I'm not surprised, but why don't we congratulate everyone who publishes a math paper? Will we also have an article if a pretty woman publishes a math paper?
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by pekk 12y ago
Unless I've missed something, this isn't a redesign of the library, it's a restyling of the manual as a website.
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by pekk 12y ago
If people scrape together a few votes and do not get their wishes rammed through, they will complain exactly like they complained about the White House petition site - because it was not a direct way of getting in legislation to (say) legal
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by pekk 12y ago
Who decides what the rights are? A majority?
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by pekk 12y ago
The smart ones get out of jury duty anyway, because the lawyers select them out if they are honest enough to show signs of critical thinking. And smart Machiavellians have no reason to waste their time on it.
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by pekk 12y ago
> It's terrifying how these juries think. Two words: jury selection.
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by pekk 12y ago
"I thought brogrammers were programmers that exercise and aren't introverted." I don't know how on earth you reached that bizarre conclusion. For starters, if that's what it means, then how would it be derogatory an
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by pekk 12y ago
The typical usage of local storage for webapps is as a cache. That's different in practice from the traditional desktop pattern of installing apps.
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by pekk 12y ago
Which goes to show how much type systems are really adjuncts to testing, rather than something qualitatively different from and better than testing.
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by pekk 12y ago
Ferlinghetti's $65/mo rent in North Beach, adjusted for inflation, would be about $584/mo today. Unthinkably low in central parts of New York City, the Bay Area, or other first-tier metropolitan areas. The workings of the mar
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by pekk 12y ago
If we are interested in certain things that are not mainstream, and then other people who aren't really interested in those things come in and screw things up for interested people by acting in a selfish and conceited and exclusionary
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by pekk 12y ago
I can't convince you, and it doesn't matter whether you believe me, when I say that it doesn't matter to me about your race or sex or whatever, I am still going to think your cool hack is a cool hack. That's just how it
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by pekk 12y ago
I have never seen women in the workplace "looking like 16yo half-naked barbies." Never. Not once, in decades working in the US. Nothing about the US is forcing people working in an office to look at big tits all day. This is just
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by pekk 12y ago
It is never bullshit to say that something not actually proven is not proven until it is proven.
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by pekk 12y ago
I said it isn't fair to say. I sure wish people would read before reflexively downvoting.
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by pekk 12y ago
Whether they are socially awkward or not, I don't think it's fair to say that technical people are more prone than others to sexual harassment (or rape, for that matter).

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