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by shaftoe 9y ago
In that scenario, I don't know anyone who would defend the prejudiced team member. Can I give you another that I've experienced? "You rejected this interviewee? Can you give them another look? We need more diversity."
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by shaftoe 9y ago
That's all well and good, but one of the core instincts of libertarianism is a deep distrust of angry mobs. I don't think the SV crowd gets how reasonable the author looks to everyone else and how unreasonable the angry rants on T
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by shaftoe 9y ago
He didn't rail against diversity, he railed against what are effectively affirmative action policies. Several times he went to pains to point out he wasn't against diversity of people, just the initiatives at Google. He railed ag
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by shaftoe 9y ago
Delphi is #9? Delphi? Where in the world of software development is Delphi not dead?
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by shaftoe 9y ago
Real life is complicated. Who decides what is in their control? What if it's a combination?
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by shaftoe 9y ago
This is fatalism and societies that adopt this attitude fall into some nasty traps. For example, there's no point to solving problems because it's the will of God.
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by shaftoe 9y ago
While I agree with what you're saying, allowing politics tends to mean EVERY thread gets a discussion of politics over time. I've watched a lot of forums gain the axe grinders who don't debate, they fight. Over time, it&#x27
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by shaftoe 9y ago
These are truly first world problems.
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by shaftoe 9y ago
Many people who have lived under actual communist governments see communism for what it is - evil.
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by shaftoe 10y ago
I work in healthcare. A lot of the complexity is FROM government attempts to help. Look at HIPAA. Originally about medical record portability, now it largely deals with security, privacy, and availability. These sound good, but it is fru
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by shaftoe 10y ago
Honestly, when we say size, we mean diversity. Countries used as success examples are far more homogeneous in their population and culture.
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by shaftoe 10y ago
I stopped reading after paragraph 5 when I realized he was nowhere near making the point alluded to in the title.
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by shaftoe 10y ago
I'm tired of the "check your privilege" crowd bringing their guilt mongering into everything. You know what I love about free software? It's ultimately judged on merits. I use software everyday written by all kinds of p
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by shaftoe 10y ago
Of course wealth will be distributed unevenly if it is created unevenly. Anything else is both unfair and unwise. Poor people in the United States, today, have a significantly higher standard of living than my grandparents, who were neithe
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by shaftoe 10y ago
Also, I wouldn't include docker in that list. It's evolving rapidly into a core component of many platform frameworks.
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by shaftoe 10y ago
That sounds great, but there's no free lunch and when you ask people to pay (a lot) for something, you're going to get their opinion. Here's mine. I roughly divide human activities into jobs and hobbies. One ultimately buil
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by shaftoe 10y ago
So, improve equality of access to education. We already have multiple top computer science programs publishing their courses online for all for free. So, lower the barrier to getting started and learning from hands on experience. Github a
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by shaftoe 10y ago
My caricature is more aimed at urban 20-something hipsters I know, not anyone in a city. My comment about mugging and race is from repeatedly watching people try to describe criminals in a politically correct way. "20s black guy in a
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by shaftoe 10y ago
That article struck a chord with me. I live in a city, but I am not of a city. The no-car, 600-square-foot-apartment, minimalist, trendy-restaurant, latest-social-justice-fashion people that surround me feel like a gang of condescending ch
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by shaftoe 10y ago
I think you'd find stereotypes of European males similar. If I may make a suggestion that has proven valuable to me as an American in the deep south: don't project your local politics and assumptions when understanding others. On
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by shaftoe 10y ago
That would certainly go a long way to cutting bureacracy and restoring efficiency.
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by shaftoe 10y ago
The United States is/was a collection of independent state governments. At one point, many state governments selected the electoral college representatives from their states. Until it was amended, states governments chose their senat
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by shaftoe 10y ago
My favorite vanity licence plate is NULL. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11361757
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by shaftoe 10y ago
As someone without chronic expensive health needs, I've been on a HDHP with an HSA for almost a decade. They're great. With a low deductible, I'm paying more up front so I can pay less if I need care. With an HSA and HDHP,
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by shaftoe 10y ago
I think we need a new law to augment Godwin's Law, that all debates about this election devolve into agreeing that both candidates are grotesque and disagreeing about which one is worse.
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by shaftoe 10y ago
How is a lector different from audible/youtube/podcasts?
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by shaftoe 10y ago
This would make a great basis for a video game.
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by shaftoe 10y ago
I don't see HDMI on that list.
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by shaftoe 10y ago
I'm always amazed to see minimalist used to describe a dozen placeholder directories and files. That said, the code is clean and modern php.
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by shaftoe 10y ago
There's always "that guy".

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