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by soyiuz 7y ago
I prefer high-quality markers and whiteboards. As for "toxic cleaning chemicals," you can use your own recipe to make a mild cleaning solution. Far less toxic than lifetime exposure to chalk dust.
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by soyiuz 8y ago
Serious question: was this post paid for by MS in any way? It certainly reads like a promoted piece and the author is in marketing. The preponderance of superlatives is particularly concerning.
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by soyiuz 8y ago
You are a prime candidate for a tiling window manger such as i3, designed specifically with fixed windows at fixed locations in mind.
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by soyiuz 9y ago
It would be fair to approximate it was near zero per however number of miles they drove, just as it is fair to approximate it is one per three million miles today. Think of it the other way, we know with a high degree of certainty the fat
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by soyiuz 9y ago
They did not sample three times and win once. They sampled three million times and won once. Hardly "one data point."
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by soyiuz 9y ago
I grew up playing computer games with my father. He was terrible at the actual button pressing so I would drive and he would be responsible for the logistics (and often for removing the copyright cruft, as these games were pirated in USSR).
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by soyiuz 9y ago
I am a life-long squatter. It has ruined my knees. Also their expert is an osteopath.
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by soyiuz 9y ago
Consider that from your point of view the open source project is free from politics and the anti-harassment policy is "dragging politics into it." But from the point of view of someone who has experienced harassment, politics were
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by soyiuz 9y ago
Let's take a starker example, for the sake of the argument. The building I live in today did not allow Jews, Asians, or people of color until the 1960s (my family would not be allowed in). An explicit Code of Conduct, now in our bylaws
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by soyiuz 9y ago
I did not gender my example. Check your logic. You wrote "I'm sure someone will create an app" etc. My point is that your hypothetical example of a potential future bias is outweighed by the preponderance of existing evidence
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by soyiuz 9y ago
That's a great example. Someone (like your wife) may be bothered by being contacted by pushy activist groups and then even castigated for not participating. We weigh that against systematic income inequality and sexual harassment along
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by soyiuz 9y ago
When "killing all men" type of behavior becomes problematic you will have a point. The problem has been that some people don't understand what "being obnoxious" is and need it spelled out for them. Because men have
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by soyiuz 9y ago
CoCs are useful for coordination among large, non-local, diverse communities. Have you considered that instead of "purposefully want[ing] to stir up discord" for funding the rules are meant to reduce the incidence of actual harass
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by soyiuz 9y ago
I am always surprised at the backlash against such codes of conduct. One can point to numerous cases of harassment, abuse, and inequality in the tech community. Who is harmed by a stronger CoC? Let's discuss an example where CoC led to
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by soyiuz 9y ago
To your first point: The detriments of that kind of COC remain to be proven as well. But why even bring this up? Even a perceived benefit to a marginalized group is worth it. Do we imagine the status quo as somehow harmed by stronger anti-h
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by soyiuz 9y ago
Possibly. But the benefits outweigh the marginal scenario you are envisioning. I again return to the example of HN, which has higher standards of conversation than many other boards, due in part to strong moderating guidelines: https:&#x2F
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by soyiuz 9y ago
This "pleases the group" that experiences harassment. Are you in favor of harassment? Or against protecting those who experience it? If that's not a problem for you, and if your "common sense" makes you a nice perso
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by soyiuz 9y ago
Which part exactly do you find funny and why?
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by soyiuz 9y ago
The article vastly overstates it's conclusions to dangerous effects. A cursory search of medical literature finds plentiful epidemiological evidence. Cases of water borne sickness are not infrequently reported all over the country. One
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by soyiuz 9y ago
What about a ranking system similar to Tennis or Downhill skiing? It basically awards points for tournament results (rewarding active, top-placing participants), unlike chess where all ranked games count.
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by soyiuz 9y ago
Columbus in Spanish is Colombo. Either spelling should be acceptable really.
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by soyiuz 9y ago
An account of historical causes and effects is hard. We should not attribute the lack of roads to the lack of wheels, the author writes. Wheels and roads develop "in parallel." Yet he comes back to the "inefficient harness&qu
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by soyiuz 9y ago
Bottom line: besides being unethical, harassment at work results in a less competitive labor market (a huge percentage of talent opts out of the industry), a less productive workplace, and shoddier products (lack of diversity mirrors the la
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by soyiuz 9y ago
Do you think shedding light on harassment is a waste of time? It is a relatively large sample size and the problems with methodology are addressed. What do you suggest is a better use of the paper's time in regards to the spate of rece
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by soyiuz 9y ago
It makes sense that those who condone harassment would support others who harass, or at least tend not to see other harassers in a negative light? Self-reporting bias would certainly have some effect, but not as much as brute similarity of
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by soyiuz 9y ago
Self-reported data is better than no data, as long as the nature of the sample bias is clear (which in this case it is).
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by soyiuz 9y ago
1. Just as with code: read and write a lot. 2. Have models to emulate. 3. Learn the rules. 4. Clearly structure your sentences, paragraphs, and larger semantic units (essay, short story, etc.). 5. Edit extensively. 6. Be kind to your reader
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by soyiuz 9y ago
Perhaps. However, we do a similar thing with telephone numbers--to reach most professionals I have to go through a receptionist. The added friction to contact has to be weighed against safety and susceptibility to disruption. At the very le
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by soyiuz 9y ago
A simple solution would be to restrict your professional communications to an online "contact me" form, which in itself would require CAPTCHA or some sort of registration. That would require a culture shift within ProPublica--easi
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by soyiuz 9y ago
Reporting in with similar issues. My first gen XPS13 had a keyboard whining issue, then the trackpad popped out of the case (and that is with light use). The keyboard is not your usual chiclet affair---the key travel is significantly shallo

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