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by rando289 12y ago
I like the article, but I must point out this one thing I don't want it to perpetuate. “Every time I see the word ‘Girl’ used in scenarios that are supposed to empower women, it really grates on me,” http://www.forbes.com&#x
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by rando289 12y ago
The bit about her losing interest was clearly without tact. Like asking "are you going to love your baby more than your company?" However, I think tactfully having and voicing concern of how the pregnancy would affect her job perf
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by rando289 12y ago
> "thanks to its baked-in gold-bug monetary policy" The biggest problem with bitcoin that no one wants to talk about, except to say "the means (ridiculous monetary policy) justify the ends of it becoming popular." I t
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by rando289 12y ago
You lack imagination. Scroll down half a page (which happens to be 27 mouse scroll events, but you don't know how many yet).
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by rando289 12y ago
I might not get hacker news in prison, but I would probably get some books that I would enjoy even more. Prison can be really bad, but on average I think it is far better than death.
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by rando289 12y ago
The justice system is ripe for reform in many ways.
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by rando289 12y ago
Where is 8-10 hours, and 12-14?
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by rando289 12y ago
> What about the passengers they accosted? Speaking to a stranger != accosting. Welcome to the internet, where you can be bold enough to bash well meaning strangers who spoke to you, yet not bold enough in real life to simply decline a c
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by rando289 13y ago
I accidentally upvoted you, but I disagree. LYAH is a great book to actually read through, and I enjoyed the humor. real world haskell introduces things without explaining and it's quite confusing and inconsistent.
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by rando289 13y ago
It did not go wrong which just made this link confusing and not funny.
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by rando289 13y ago
"Sure PubMed Central – the free database of papers produced with funding from the National Institutes of Health – gets over 1,000,000 hits a day. But do you really believe numbers from the government? After all, these are the same peop
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by rando289 13y ago
And how about a terminal and some vim/emacs so I can develop comfortably in sunlight?
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by rando289 13y ago
IMO, Mozilla's work for the public good is more important than this. Times are changing quickly, but remember that Obama was on the same side as Eich, and prop 8 passed with a majority of voters. I don't think it is very helpful
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by rando289 13y ago
They should send back the 50k in $10 donations from kickstarter.
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by rando289 13y ago
I'm very impressed by this post. Concise. Insightful. Practical. Honest.
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by rando289 13y ago
Not seeing the scores also encourages hijacking visibility by replying to the top comment. #1 score 1000 ->#2 score 5 #3 score 800 We end up reading comment #2 before and often instead of #3. Most really popular posts lo
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by rando289 13y ago
Agree. I'll add that the most frustrating thing to me is this: 3 comments in a row, are ranked as #1, #2, and #3. I end up reading crap, or not reading good things because that order tells me almost nothing. If I saw the scores, and th
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by rando289 13y ago
Maybe, maybe not. Perhaps I am an employee with a big technology company like google and my company has a wide array of partnerships, contracts, and ongoing lawsuits with various microsoft business units. Some court may give a court order t
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by rando289 13y ago
> A single event doesn't certainly demonstrate anything. It demonstrates what is possible, not probable, and as long as we keep that in mind, there is nothing wrong with it. My life is string of single events, and I will refuse to b
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by rando289 13y ago
Immediately after a flash video is the quote "... strengthens support for Mozilla’s vision of a high performance, plugin-free Web," ...
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by rando289 13y ago
Today I opened one of many blog's I will skim with a unique design. I first looked for the date, it took me a good 20 seconds to find because it was in tiny greyed out text hidden at the bottom of the page. Then I saw this was a blog a
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by rando289 13y ago
It is a false assumption to think that software/hardware would not get made and paid for if it had a different economic model. Like if everyone was used to toll roads, it would be pretty common for people to say things like, "our
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by rando289 13y ago
YES @ math in pen! I decided to do that on my own, and it was always seen as just a weird quirk by anyone who ever saw it. Awesome to hear a math teacher endorse it!
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by rando289 13y ago
Many people who aren't professional music anything listen to music during working hours. Thats ~ 2000 hours a year. Your 500 cds, ~ 500 hours. I think you sorely lack imagination.
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by rando289 13y ago
Yes, thats basically what I meant to say.
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by rando289 13y ago
Windows for many years has given out hundreds of millions of copies for free by intentionally limiting the strength of their DRM and licensing enforcement. This makes perfect competitive sense.
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by rando289 13y ago
Link: company x gives to charity, 5 hours ago. 4 comments responding directly to the link, 3/4 negative. 117 comments responding to randomAnonymousUser[1-4]. (Internet (Hacker News)) culture at its finest.
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by rando289 13y ago
Endeavor to make these things a habit. Every day or 5 days a week etc. Write down some realistic things you want to do today that you might avoid. Do this as early in the day as possible. Before you make a decision which will avoid doing on