rlwinm

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   by rlwinm 6y ago

   > Then how does the inviter know, that they can vouch for the invitee? AFAIK you aren't accountable for your invitees on a day-to-day basis. It just reflects poorly on you if you invite many poorly behaved people - this isn't s
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   by rlwinm 6y ago

   > For instance, there's a restriction at my workplace (not a software company, a regular old industry fortune 500) which prevents git installs from pushing to any non corporate GitHub repo from our work machines. Someone has to say
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   by rlwinm 6y ago

   Do you want to call people out or change their behavior? Public shaming may be successful at the former but often fails at the latter. If anything it often causes people to reinforce a position they might have otherwise conceded. The other
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   by rlwinm 6y ago

   I agree that the post you linked to was downvoted unfairly. Many of his subsequent posts have been fairly downvoted. I think some of his downvotes are from people who have interacted with him elsewhere. His reply to one of my comments is wh
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   by rlwinm 6y ago

   Do you have any examples of well-written and thoughtful comments by ddevault that were downvoted? Many of the comments I see from him violate the guidelines at https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html Many of his bl