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by rjknight 13y ago
It's actually not that hard to believe that, out of tens of thousands of people (or more?) world-wide with the capability to build something like this, there's at least one person who actually would do it. That's the problem
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Oh dear. Not again.
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Stuff like this makes me proud that the internet and technology industry can give people a way of taking control of their lives back and finding a purpose and career when others are trying to deny it to them.
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There might be a reason, but it's probably not a good one. These things are chaos-theory-like[1], with the causes so tiny that they're impossible to observe or predict and so may as well be random. It could be as simple as &quot
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You're kinda right. I started programming on BBC Micros when I was 9, and there's really no way around the fact that the only way you can know as much as I do about programming at my age is by having that kind of experience. Howe
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That would be good advice in that situation. Certainly, allowing people to believe that they can "pick up" programming knowledge without working hard at it would be irresponsible. Telling someone the truth about their work is ge
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by rjknight 13y ago
You're right. Part of the problem here is that the only people really talking about fairness, office conduct or working conditions in the industry are people coming from a feminist perspective, which leads people to think that these a
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by rjknight 13y ago
No, no, no. This is where the debate goes wrong. Being a decent person to women isn't some kind of personal sacrifice you need to make, it's a strict subset of being a decent person in general . If someone knows less than you a
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It's almost like situations involving humans might be complicated, or something.
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Indeed. To borrow a phrase from Ralph Waldo Emerson: "The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons"[1]. If you do have a misogynistic workplace then sponsoring anti-misogynist causes may be a way of cove
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by rjknight 13y ago
This is a tough one. We have Horvath's allegations, and we have confirmation from Github that at least some of them were true. Clearly, bad things happened and the result is the resignation of a former CEO and founder, so it's n
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Working harder than others simply makes them the least bad. They may have struggled valiantly to keep data secured, but they failed often enough. Google did more than many to pioneer the model of centralised information-gathering as a com
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by rjknight 13y ago
I would, quite happily, forgive Google for everything if they do what's described in this article.
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I think the kind of people who are bothered about Linus' tone are likely to be bothered about similar things in other people. For my part I've never found Linus particularly offensive and I'm equally puzzled by people who di
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It looks like Linode are still leaving the "incredibly cheap tiny box" market to DO. Linode's cheapest option is $20/month, which makes it slightly less useful for the kind of "so cheap you don't even think ab
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Or robots with penises. Paging Pintsize[1]... [1] http://questionablecontent.wikia.com/wiki/Pintsize EDIT: well, now this makes no sense. The parent comment basically asked whether or not lab-grown penises might exis
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by rjknight 13y ago
I would like to know the precise mechanism here. What is the harm that the employer is claiming to experience?
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Linux is so ubiquitous that I'm not sure that it can be effectively boycotted.
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I think we should be very wary of mainstream media coverage (and yes, Slate is mainstream media here) of this issue, because writers like William Saletan know relatively little about the specifics of Mozilla, technology or the personaliti
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by rjknight 13y ago
The confusion arises from the fact that, when referring to RAM, we (mistakenly) use 'kilobyte', 'megabyte' or 'gigabyte' to mean 2^10, 2^20 or 2^30 bytes. The replacement terms of 'kibibyte', 'm
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by rjknight 13y ago
This was the fairly inevitable conclusion of forcing him to quit. Nobody has come out of this looking good.
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I feel bad about this because several good people did defend the principle that an employee's personal views should be allowed to remain purely personal, that we should be able to get along in society even with those who we are vehem
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by rjknight 13y ago
This is true. I've always liked the distinction made here: http://stumblingandmumbling.typepad.com/stumbling_and_mumbli... between extremism and fanaticism. Extremists are those with views beyond the mainstream, and
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This tallies with my personal experience - I stopped using Prismatic after the switch to grid layout, though I never really thought about why. I'll probably give it another try now.
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These are becoming less true. For #1, you might also choose CoffeeScript, ClojureScript or Dart. For #2, you've always needed more than just HTML: CSS at least. Now there's Canvas and WebGL, and some frameworks like React are s
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It's worth paying for good, non-corrupt police officers. Better to pay them well and hold them to high standards than to accept lower standards for lower pay.
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We were only given two facts about the person in question, and that was one of them. It stood out to me in the original post, because it highlighted the fact that what actually upsets people and what a disinterested observer thinks sho
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Not sure why this is down-voted. I wouldn't necessarily agree with the comment, but it's definitely arguable. I think we should be trying to boost developer productivity with better tools and less of the accidental complexity tha
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No, it really doesn't. There are sensible people on this thread trying to argue that Brendan Eich shouldn't be forced to resign because of his private political views, and there are idiots like you using words like 'witch-hun
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Should I be able to quit my job if I don't like my boss's politics? Yes (though your boss should never be able to force you to quit, and should never be able to use their position and authority to make you feel that you have no c

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