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by sequoia 12y ago
'OK so maybe there's sexism & racism but they're making money so what's the problem?' I think the author (and I agree with him here) sees the racism & sexism itself as being a problem. Nowhere does he arg
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by sequoia 12y ago
the tl;dr is 1. HN culture is (generally) sexist & racist, a "bro-fest" if you will. 2. ycomb profits from HN 3. ycomb says they're against sexism etc.: “We—the tech industry as a whole—need to fix this. Most importantly
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Y Combinator and the Negative Externalities of Hackernews(danilocampos.com)
64 points by sequoia 12y ago|59 comments
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by sequoia 12y ago
Read a bit about this because I didn't understand CGI. tl;dr version of what's going on here, if I'm not mistaken (assuming apache/php for this example): 1. Web server (apache) gets request to route to CGI script (PHP) 2
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by sequoia 12y ago
Oh go soak your head. Commenter points out what they likes about OP's tool, describes their own, and asks for a sales pitch from OP about why someone should use their (OP's) tool. There's nothing wrong with any of this-- wh
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by sequoia 12y ago
This tool would be better named "ClassAdder", the extent of what it does is "add, remove, or toggle classes." The headings on the different examples on the homepage ("Accordion", "Tabs", "Anima
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by sequoia 12y ago
They don't mention it in the post but they did in the talk: their firmware will allow easy bandwidth usage capping & throttling on the guest network.
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by sequoia 12y ago
I like this as a reference & have used it, but to be honest between the npm registry & bower registry this site feels pretty redundant. I believe most of the tools on this site are in one of the aforementioned registries. I think
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by sequoia 12y ago
> They left work and played volleyball and worked on their tuner car and went to family events and so on. 'They had interests besides developing work skills.' You say this like it's a bad thing. This is a very disturbing
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by sequoia 12y ago
If one of the goals is encouraging meritocracy, I cannot imagine why it was decided to add voice to the interview. From someone's voice I can frequently tell their gender & maybe their socioeconomic background, sometimes their rac
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by sequoia 12y ago
> I date a succession of girls in their twenties. 27 or 28 is about the cutoff for me. And they’re attractive girls: they’re not the twentysomething warpigs you see lumbering through the cubicle hallways of Silicon Valley. My girlfriend
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by sequoia 12y ago
Yeah, started skimming it, looked at what betalist is (startup reporting service)... link on startupnews to post by startup founder of startup tracking service on how he got coverage from a startup oriented news site for his startup. This
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by sequoia 12y ago
Actually he specifically advises against being cynical & selfish. A passage: [after complimenting a postal worker on his hair thus making the postal worker happy]: "I told this story once in public and a man asked me afterwards: &
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by sequoia 12y ago
Curiosity: Why did you start with flat files? It looks like hackernews was started in 2007, relational databases had been around for quite some time at that point, and were the standard way to store such forum data (see: every popular forum
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by sequoia 12y ago
That struck me too. 'Oh boy I bet the Contiki crew is shaking in their boots: "MSFT is gonna crush us like they crushed iOS & Android!"' lol... if history is any indicator, they don't have much to worry about.
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by sequoia 12y ago
Chargebacks, while inconvenient for vendors, provide utility to consumers, especially online when there can be a long delay between paying and getting to receive/examine the product.
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by sequoia 12y ago
>This will also be incredible for ease-of-setup. Install Xcode, and you're ready to go. No other dependencies. 1. Buy particularly expensive computer 2. Register as an apple developer 3. Install Xcode, and you're ready to go. &
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by sequoia 12y ago
"...and you don’t even need to type semi-colons." As an extremely paranoid & defensive Javascript developer, you shut your damn mouth!! :p /jokes
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by sequoia 12y ago
Why you appear not to believe them (I can't know your beliefs I can only guess based off the text of your comment): 1. Has any man here "heard of, or come into contact with any of" any of this behavior? 2. Personally, "I
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by sequoia 12y ago
a genuine question for other male readers. Have you heard of, or come into contact with any of this abhorrent behavior that's mentioned? Why do you need a "male reader" to confirm this to you? Your question reads thus: &#x
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Free App Lets the Next Snowden Send Big Files Securely and Anonymously(wired.com)
32 points by sequoia 12y ago|12 comments
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by sequoia 12y ago
Blog editor comment on TFA, referring to the post author ("Entrepreneur"): "In the spirit of full disclosure, Entrepreneur has been known to come to social gatherings with a list of controversial topics for the group to disc
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by sequoia 12y ago
I'm not sure 'make scrolling (a feature the browser does natively) work on desktop' = "perfect everything"... I can perfect scrolling by creating a blank html page.
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by sequoia 12y ago
Please post to HN when you have some sensible default config options built in! I really want to try your tool but can't be arsed to whitelist everything one by one.
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by sequoia 12y ago
Not even Microsoft supports Windows XP[1]... why do you expect this web developer to support an OS that the OS vendor, who repeatedly extended the sunset date, finally stopped supporting? Time for an upgrade, friend. Either that or stop e
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by sequoia 12y ago
Add mail.google.com!! I took the time to go to google accounts, re-login, disable the blocking on the various sites (accounts.google, mail.google etc.) to get it working, but I can imagine breaking gmail will be a quick route to "unins
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by sequoia 12y ago
"When you see an ad, the ad sees you" this is excellent!! It succinctly explains the problem in a layperson friendly way. "When you see an ad, the ad sees you. When the advertiser 'sees' you it sees what site you a
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by sequoia 12y ago
From FAQ: "Privacy Badger is a browser-add on tool that analyzes sites to detect and disallow content that tracks you in an objectionable, non-consensual manner." If this is for average users, something like "Privacy badger s
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by sequoia 12y ago
Does this initially block most/all domains and require individual whitelisting? I'm using it now, on washingtonpost.com it blocked requests to washingtonpost.com... if it requires manual whitelisting that's waay more than t
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by sequoia 12y ago
My cynical reaction: Heroku is a pillar of the frequently extremely PHP hostile Ruby community trying to extend an olive branch now that they want to do business with the community. Obviously Heroku isn't responsible for all the PHP h

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