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by rectang 4y ago
Yeah, I'm not surprised. I mean, the ridiculous gender imbalance here doesn't bother a lot of those who have stayed. It's a vicious cycle — the people who it bothers leave, and since those are disproportionately women, the
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by rectang 4y ago
Well, I would like it if I could participate in a forum where "women are genetically predisposed to be less ambitious than men" is not a constant theme of debate. Having that debate drives away women. I don't know if that&#x
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by rectang 4y ago
See for example: https://melissamcewen.medium.com/a-guide-to-hacker-news-for-... That author advocates that HN stay how it is — or rather, she advocates changing it from within. But I don't think it's possible —
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by rectang 4y ago
Frankly, I'm so tired of the pervasive low-grade harassment and de facto exclusion of disenfranchised communities on HN, that I've been looking for an alternative for a long time. Innovation is desperately needed in this space. I
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by rectang 4y ago
Isn't this how comments work on Gawker/Kinja properties? On Gawker/Kinja if you've been "followed" by a power user, your comment shows up right away. If not, your comment goes into "the greys", which
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by rectang 4y ago
I hate-skimmed the article because I find self-professed heretics so tiresome. This is next-level faux-heresy because there's not even the usual "stuff I disagree with is orthodoxy" nonsense — it just makes an empty assertio
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by rectang 4y ago
The answer is straightforward. If the similarity is such that a court would judge that copyright infringement occurred, then that code would have belonged under the GPL. Convincing a court to make a judgement of infringement is not an easy
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by rectang 4y ago
It's not just GPL-licensed projects, but projects under any license which requires attribution — which means nearly all FOSS licenses.
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by rectang 4y ago
Github Copilot violates the licenses of the open source code that it uses as its source material. I, for one, am pissed off about that. If you don't care about those authors, or don't care about copyright in general, or you agree
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by rectang 4y ago
Yeah, the premise that "shadowbanning is the problem" betrays an unwillingness to perform root cause analysis. Nobody thinks shadowbanning in and of itself is desirable. Turn off shadowbanning, and all the problems that shadowba
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by rectang 4y ago
(LOL. How did I type "UTF-17", twice?)
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by rectang 4y ago
> The main benefit of UTF-8 if you're say, Chinese, is interop. Everything else is worse. Well, for HTML it turns out to be a wash. While Han characters are typically three bytes in UTF-8, markup is ASCII and so only one byte — wh
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by rectang 4y ago
I asked one of my Smarter Dx colleagues who's an expert on this subject to clarify, and he had this to say: > There are 2 types of billing, even for hospitalized patients. FFS and DRG based payments. Fee For Service does depend on
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by rectang 4y ago
Yes. It was true for our current US Vice President, Kamala Harris for example — but she's not an outlier, this happens all the time. https://theintercept.com/2019/02/07/kamala-harris-san-franci... >
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by rectang 4y ago
It is true that billing is a priority and there are profit incentives at work. That's exactly why it's worth it for hospitals to improve the data entry user experience! Better documentation means more revenue. If your doctors
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by rectang 4y ago
I don't think "tough on crime" voters strongly differentiate, based on the behaviors of the prosecutors themselves. The biggest resume priority seems to be maintaining a ludicrously high conviction percentage, which is awful
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by rectang 4y ago
> 3. IT systems that they have to use were designed by people who have not talked with the workers who use them. They may have been designed with laws and compliance in mind. Nurses aren't the people who choose or pay for these sys
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by rectang 4y ago
But the electorate continues to reward "tough on crime" prosecutors. Their incentives are all towards maxing out the savagery towards defendants, systemic repercussions be damned. From the article: > Janie Harvey Garner, the
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by rectang 4y ago
I'm fully on board with the idea that the main branch should always pass. I also like the approach where tests are performed in a temporary integration branch, then the main branch gets fast-forwarded to the tip of that integration br
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by rectang 4y ago
I'm an agnostic who keeps my distance from self-proclaimed heretics inhabiting the modern-day Church of Github (which formed as an offshoot of the Cult of Git, which itself emerged after launching a savage religious war with the iconoc
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by rectang 4y ago
Starting a repo with an empty commit is a cool idea. My first commit has been "Add empty README" since forever, but I like your way better and I'm going to start doing that.
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by rectang 4y ago
I like this post. I know people are offering their alternative conventions which they have various rationales for preferring, but I've followed the conventions this post advocates for years, and they haven't done me wrong. This p
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by rectang 4y ago
I sometimes hack author dates just so that commits show up in the right order in the stupid Github linear view. It doesn't always work (on a big project like Swift it would be a lost cause), but because I care a lot about presenting my
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by rectang 4y ago
Try this: git log --oneline --graph Seeing the --graph output really helps in understanding the branch history. The lack of a view similar to --graph on Github drives me bananas. I don't like typing "git log --oneline --
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by rectang 4y ago
> If you compose a harmonic progression that bears semblance to one in a song by a famous pop star, you can and will be sued. You are guilty of violating copyright because your music sounds similar. You are only liable for copyright in
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by rectang 5y ago
Well, I posit that down that path lies HN's dreadful gender ratio. I'm not OK with de facto exclusion through tolerating low-grade harassment at scale, even if the intent was benign. I think that's a much more serious conse
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by rectang 5y ago
> Good faith is not assumed here. "Assume good faith" is one of the HN Guidelines[1]. I think dang walks the walk and applies that principle himself during moderation, to a rather amazing degree considering how long he's
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by rectang 5y ago
I suspect that applying the dang approach with Twitter — one big silo, assume good faith — would result in the same demographic skew as Hacker News.
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by rectang 5y ago
Eventually, all domains expire. It's not just url shorteners. You can't count on anything on the web lasting. You can't count on anything disappearing either. When you want the web to be ephemeral, "the internet never
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by rectang 5y ago
Impeding unlimited harassment is anti-free-reach. Trolls won't get banned under Musk — they're his soul mates. They will have free rein to brigade the posts of their enemies and will use massive replying at scale as a megaphone

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