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by tajen 8y ago
The Israel army is famous for both the high rate of permanent injury of women during training, and for refusing to admit it, a la James Damore: https://youtu.be/iUSFF4NI_Us
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by tajen 8y ago
or the various data breaches of both the PSN and the employees.
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by tajen 8y ago
For those unfamiliarwith gerrymandering, I highly recommend the John Oliver explanation, a humorist of actual facts, showing maps and tactics of politicians that are borderline criminal. https://youtu.be/A-4dIImaodQ
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by tajen 8y ago
Do you mean the city of San Diego got fined for letting their team go? or the team got fines for leaving?
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by tajen 8y ago
Sounds also eerily similar to Trump tactic to raise money from cities to build casinos and towers, notably in NYC.
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Ask HN: How to fund the correct open-source organizations?
3 points by tajen 8y ago|2 comments
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by tajen 8y ago
I’ve stopped upgrading when Apple introduced the kernel panic feature in Yosemite...
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by tajen 8y ago
John Oliver is correct but the lack of publication of competing viewpoints is what defines US (Democrat) propaganda. For example I’ve seen him state that the wage gap was 25%, straight face! that’s where the alternative viewpoints are sorel
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by tajen 8y ago
I’ve always been surprised that governments don’t do anything against it. After all, currency is a Regalian power, and it’s forbidden to pay using other currencies than the country’s one in pretty much all countries.
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by tajen 8y ago
...but is 84x more potent as a greenhouse gas as if we burn it.
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by tajen 8y ago
I’d actually appreciate such a message because it’s ridden with humour and humility - “Yes sir we do automate our onboarding and you will receive the same exact treatment as any customer” is reassuring. Especially in these times where platf
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by tajen 8y ago
Youtube will have to gain trust first. Kids of 13 years old start their first video with "Subscribe to my Twitter in case Youtube deletes my channel". So kids of 13 years old worry about censorship and implement schemes to get aro
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by tajen 8y ago
What’s incredible here is that we’re not at the beginning of programming, when we built temporary languages that ended up becoming forgotten. Web may be a final form of IT, Angular may be the « right », the final, the perfect way to build
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by tajen 8y ago
Well your last sentence is the whole point: What is a sensible configuration language? For example what would have been decent for Ansible?
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by tajen 8y ago
So it will be easy for journalists and naysayers. Pretty much the most powerful people against you...
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by tajen 8y ago
The most amazing point about landing on the moon in 1969 is that they had to program everything with... negative timestamps. Of course it’s a joke but it highlights how early it was in the history of technology.
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by tajen 8y ago
Men are feminists too, and often more eager and agressive feminists than female ones; as much as top MRAs are often women. Like any ideology, it is not a question of gender, surprisingly.
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by tajen 8y ago
Well there are short term coping mechanisms (talking, friendships, leisure, rest, work...); there are antidepressant drugs; and there’s finding a goal in life that transcends most problems on the way. I’ve been 12 years depressed since grad
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by tajen 8y ago
> It took me 4 tries In other words: less than 25% of them are right. About the same experience here. My personal gripe: Most psychologists are feminists. If you explain them a problem you have, they’ll percieve it in a gynocentric way.
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by tajen 8y ago
Isn’t the state of Washington in Seattle? which means something else entirely.
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by tajen 8y ago
And that’s probably why we have GDPR.
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by tajen 8y ago
Wait a minute. Microsoft owns LinkedIn, so it has prime access to recruitment. It now also owns GitHub, where it can run anything they want to find the best programmers. I don’t know what Microsoft plans to do, but those are good wats to fi
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by tajen 8y ago
Nokia too, although it didn’t affect people directly, as opposed to the series of ultrabad decisions on Skype. Acquisitions aren’t always successful with Microsoft.
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by tajen 8y ago
A colleague told me something similar about Lisp: “The author didn’t create Lisp, he discovered it.”
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by tajen 8y ago
Well, I’m a founder... French paperwork is incredibly stupid (beyond any necessary explanation), and, for no employee, I pay my accountant 2800€ to handle said paperwork. Second, tax deduction and grants... There are full companies whose jo
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by tajen 8y ago
I have found that paperwork is very simple in Australia and UK. On the other hand, Mike Cannon-Brookes complains about something regarding starting in Australia, so I guess we should get his input to understand from what size it starts to b
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by tajen 8y ago
That’s what I thought about both US Congress and EU. The GDPR on the other hand, is more effective (albeit constraining).
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by tajen 8y ago
I still don’t understand what Oracle does better than Postgres. For free, it provides a cleaner data structure, DDL transactions, better performance, closer to SQL standards... Of course Oracle does sales better.
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by tajen 8y ago
Ah, I see why it’s useful for me: I use Chrome and Chrome stores passwords per profile. And I have several profiles that must not be shared (private, work-dev, work-sysadmin...), and an OS-wide password manager would be super-prone to mista
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by tajen 8y ago
Guys, why not Keychain, the default password manager of macOS?

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