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by rjknight 13y ago
I'm not quite sure how this earned a "gate" suffix. Linking to some NYT content is hardly wrongdoing of Nixonian proportions :-) Also, I'm not sure that this negatively affected Scrollkit at all. The main effect of this story will have be
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by rjknight 13y ago
And so great to see that you're continuing the spirit of reasonableness and tolerance!
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by rjknight 13y ago
"take the absolute piss" is colloquial British English though. I doubt that anyone is actually taught to speak that way.
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by rjknight 13y ago
I thought Twitter had a fairly decent in-house blogging platform... https://posterous.com/bye.html
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by rjknight 13y ago
Anyone else think that "Iris" is a fairly obvious reference to "retina" displays, indicating that Intel expects devices which come with Haswell/Iris to include retina-standard displays? (It has been years since I've commented on a hardware
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by rjknight 13y ago
This reminds me of a very similar idea from Scott Adams (creator of Dilbert): http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405274870329320457610... Quote: I spent some time working in the television industry, and I learned a technique that wri
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by rjknight 14y ago
And it goes to show that "sexism is the barrier" is not the whole story This is true but possibly not in the way that you think. I'm not sure that girls are choosing that different way of life quite so much as they're conditioned to do
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by rjknight 14y ago
Obligatory Malcolm Tucker: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5iRmPBve80
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by rjknight 14y ago
Linode is a Linux company, but it's also a company founded in 2002-3. Back then, there weren't many great options for web programming and ColdFusion would have made a degree of sense (PHP 4.0 was released in 2000, and Ruby on Rails 1.0 did
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by rjknight 14y ago
That sounds wrong to me. I've seen lead/senior JS devs on £85k (~$130k) in London and mid-level generic PHP/Django/Rails developers seem to start in the mid-40s, with senior devs getting 60-70k. That's before you start looking at contracto
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by rjknight 14y ago
I would have assumed that competitor sites were the most relevant comparison to draw. It is highly likely that Destructoid sees a higher rate of ad-blocking than, say, yahoo.com, but that's not really relevant as Destructoid isn't competin
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by rjknight 14y ago
> This means that we're working twice as hard as other sites to sustain our company This must be wrong. Surely if Destructoid are seeing a 50% block rate, their competitors must be seeing something similar too? A world with ad-block
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by rjknight 14y ago
"Now, in the touch-era, it's more like "move the folder where my finger goes," without any mouse-indirection happening. But with post-touch, the status quo will be "move the folder where I'm looking" or "where I say"; and one day (as Kurzwe
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by rjknight 14y ago
OK, I may have phrased that badly. By "product" I meant simply the physical item itself and by "vision" I meant "what that thing can do for you". It's possible to make a beautiful, well-designed and all-round awesome product that's still
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by rjknight 14y ago
Customers buy into visions, not products. The iPhone is successful because it's both a great vision and a great product. In its time, Windows was a great vision, at least from the perspective of the people who signed off the budget for bu
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by rjknight 14y ago
I'm British and I think your British friends are wrong. I do agree that most of the people who use "orientated" are British but I don't understand where they get that from. "Orientation" is the term for the process of orienting something.
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by rjknight 14y ago
Go does look awesome. I've spent some time with Erlang, Clojure and Scala (roughly in the order that I liked them most), but Go passed the "get started writing useful code quickly" test better than any of them. Haven't gone beyond the bas
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by rjknight 14y ago
The title suggests that there's something unique about Go, either the language or its standard library, that enables bandwidth savings. In fact, Cloudflare have written some software which they claim enables them to reduce their bandwidth,
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by rjknight 14y ago
In general, the idea is that actions designed to improve outcomes for underprivileged groups are acceptable, and actions designed to improve outcomes for privileged groups are not. In other words, "it depends". This obviously undermines t
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by rjknight 14y ago
"Discretion is the better part of valour" springs to mind. If I hired some great women for development roles and my first thought was to write a blog post saying "look at these great women I hired", I'd be doing something wrong. It detr
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by rjknight 14y ago
The first few pages of the OP, which focus on HSBC, were actually nowhere near as important as the last page, on LIBOR. The LIBOR case is much, much more important than whether or not HSBC had dealings with Iran. When he's talking about t
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by rjknight 14y ago
One of the commonly-stated reasons for why discrimination persists in a field is that people making hiring decisions are biased. They might not know that they're biased, but they have some notions about the kind of people they want to see
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by rjknight 14y ago
I addressed this in my second paragraph. There is a fundamental tension between two different views of fairness: One view says that fairness is about aggregate outcomes. We can observe that certain groups appear to be suffering from poor
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by rjknight 14y ago
In the same way that a 5-year old child punching a 30-year-old adult is not the same thing as a 30-year-old adult punching a 5-year-old child, yes. This gets complicated when we consider that treating underprivileged groups as the proverbia
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by rjknight 14y ago
I don't find the gender aspect quite as off-putting as I do the following things: * No clear rules are stated - how many people can participate, how big can teams be, are there just two teams? What if more women participate than men, or vi
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by rjknight 14y ago
The argument appears to be that we should compensate people for bad luck, whether that's living on a flood plain, or suffering from poor health. But why stop there? Why not compensate people for their less-than-optimal genes? It's well e
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by rjknight 14y ago
"Twitter attempted to have a conversation about race and the tech industry yesterday. The loudest voices? White men on either side of the argument shouting each other down." The end of this para links to Buzzfeed, which adds nothing except
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by rjknight 14y ago
> The point of privilege is that you don't notice it. I think the disconnect here is that you assume that I'm making some kind of judgement about ignorance. I don't think people who are ignorant are 'bad.' Everyone needs to learn these
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by rjknight 14y ago
Well, yes, but terms of art are generally reserved for discussions among specialists. If I started using words like 'class' or 'object', I can be reasonably expected to be talking about OOP. Unless, that is, I'm attending a conference on
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by rjknight 14y ago
That's kinda true. It explains why women outside of the tech industry would look at the tech industry and say "there should be more women doing that kind of thing", when they wouldn't say that about garbage collection or being in prison.

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