singleuse

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by singleuse 14y ago
After reading her blog post and several tweets, her words seems carefully crafted to achieve a personal agenda, and I would take anything she says with a whole salt shaker worth of grains of salt. For all I know this could very well be PR a
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by singleuse 14y ago
The tweet itself is arguably going overboard but the accompanying picture is the real issue, this is the element of public exposure which made all this going way way overboard. It's actually a serious offense and even a crime in other parts
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by singleuse 14y ago
It seems to me it was a threat either of being stabbed with forks or sexually assaulted, neither is acceptable. This guy has all rights to feel angry about what she did, but this is not a welcome comment and he should probably be reported t
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by singleuse 14y ago
Your analogy is terrible. The police here would be the pycon would acted responsibly and dealt with the issue accordingly. But the report was not towards the police but towards a potential mob of vigilantes, namely the internet at large and
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by singleuse 14y ago
She was most probably not shortsighted about the upcoming backlash as she said herself on HN a year and a half ago: adriarichards 473 days ago We all should realize it's Twitter, home of public flame wars. It seems she had a pretty good und
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by singleuse 14y ago
Definitely not. She's clearly in the abuser position and her reaction was disproportionate and inconsiderate, to the like of baseless sexual harassment lawsuits we've all heard about. I'd even go an extra step and say IMHO what she did was
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by singleuse 14y ago
She publicly posted without consent a picture and an incriminating comment in an increasingly context of being touchy and wary about gender issues at tech conferences. Of course this has a significant potential for HR to do PR and distance
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by singleuse 14y ago
I wouldn't be surprise if the DoJ actually intended for Aaron Swartz to kill himself. The US government did this before with public right activists. And I agree that without the twitter post of the picture with the accompanying accusing com
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by singleuse 14y ago
Heck! If I can't crack an innocent dick joke at my friend while attending a conference because others think it is inappropriate, I won't be attending any conference anymore. Or would it make more sense to use IRC chat to talk to the person
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by singleuse 14y ago
It seems the pycon staff acted appropriately, but Adria certainly did not, posting pictures online with this kind of comment is not okay and goes against pycon guidelines. And to me this report seems arguably abusive in the first place, but
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by singleuse 14y ago
You're kinda right here, the twitter analogy is not quite the same, the PyCon incident involved a handful of people and spoken words while the twitter one is much much worse as it is made public to the whole internet and doesn't go away onc
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by singleuse 14y ago
To me this looks a lot like sexism against men. Would she have done the same if this joke had came from a group of women ? Then it is really inconsiderate and irresponsible to post pictures like this online. In other parts of the world taki
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by singleuse 14y ago
Yes sexism and witch hunt are the main issue and going after people who make jokes you don't find funny because they're guys is sexism and a witch hunt. Would she have done the same if it were women instead of men ? I don't think so. It loo
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by singleuse 14y ago
1. This is so impractical that I switched to opera as my main browser where it is a press on F12 and a click to enable/disable js 2. When your product does such a bad job that it has to rely on a third party extension to provide functionali
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by singleuse 14y ago
> Why ruin that? According to the article, it's a move to protect their brand from looking bad when kids click around.
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by singleuse 14y ago
I'd like to know on where the notion that removing features used by only a fraction of the user base is what should be done comes from ? It is brandished right and left as if obvious, but it is never explained.
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by singleuse 14y ago
Have a look at opera:config.
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by singleuse 14y ago
Though marketing worked hard to push this idea, Firefox is not free software.
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by singleuse 14y ago
Is it worth alienating web developer and power users because they represent a small fraction of your user base ? Try alienating your power users and wonder your product suddenly start bleeding regular users along with power users. Start ali
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by singleuse 14y ago
It doesn't mean the product was actually good, it simply means it lacked a better alternative.
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by singleuse 14y ago
I think you missed the point here, doctor, lawyers and otherwise supposedly busy non-advanced users will not delve in about:config at all, hence cannot waste any of their time there. It's only the advanced users who are willing go through t
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by singleuse 14y ago
Quantity of users is a really bad metrics. People really disliked being treated as numbers, they'd rather be treated as human beings. It gives the impression that it's about finding a justification to an arbitrary already made decision. IMH
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by singleuse 14y ago
Opera does it and offers an opera:config checkbox to turn the warning off. Firefox is one the few who does not offer this feature.
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by singleuse 14y ago
With its low profit margin amazon leaves virtually no room for a small size competitor to dislodge them from their share of the market. Say you want a bite of the tablet market dominated by apple, it's easy, make a somewhat decent tablet fo
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by singleuse 14y ago
still down from western europe. And to isup.me : http://www.isup.me/amazon.com
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by singleuse 14y ago
What a shameful attempt at surfing the dotcom marketing campaign. Virtually nobody cares who was first, what matters is respect of privacy and secure encryption.