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by techpeace 12y ago
I assume this was meant to be a response to me, even though it's not in the correct thread. I'd suggest you read the article I linked to, since it addresses each of the points you made fairly directly - with data and references, r
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by techpeace 12y ago
Am I correct in assuming that your assertion here is that women don't contribute to Open Source in as high a number as men because they're "unwilling to do the extra work?" This is based on your one experience in college
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by techpeace 12y ago
Basing hiring decisions on open source contribution rates contributes to the homogeneity (read: white maleness) of the industry at large. Women especially may not have as much time to contribute, since they are likely getting paid 30% less
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by techpeace 12y ago
A minor amount of Snow Crash (the book in which the term is coined) is dedicated to descriptions of the team that built the Metaverse "protocol." It actually was software purpose-built to drive this kind of distributed VR experien
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by techpeace 12y ago
Thanks so much for building this! Just purchased the full 3k Spanish deck. You've saved me a ton of time vs. my plan of writing a script to build my own Anki decks. One question: is there a recommendation on whether to go with English-
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by techpeace 12y ago
Out of curiosity, are you currently based in Buenos Aires? I'm interested in learning more about the tech scene in Argentina, if you can point me to any resources. Best of luck!
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by techpeace 12y ago
Very cool, best of luck! If you haven't already, I'd recommend posting to the Austin Digital Jobs group on Facebook. I'd give you the link if Facebook wasn't down, at the moment. ;) It's probably also worth posting
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by techpeace 12y ago
Rather than some aimless techie kvetching, I'd just like to pass along a hearty congrats to the folks who made this happen. Great work, and I'm excited to use it!
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Congress introduces bill banning FCC from lifting mun. broadband restrictions(vox.com)
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by techpeace 12y ago
see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straw_man
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by techpeace 12y ago
The extended unemployment benefits could rightly be called the President's, as he proposed and fought for the passage of the extension. The second is, I believe, a reference to the Mortgage Forgiveness Debt Relief Act of 2007, which ex
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by techpeace 12y ago
Unfortunately, simple, time-tested solutions likely won't get food production to the place it needs to be in 30 years.
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by techpeace 12y ago
It's a reference to this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keep_Austin_Weird
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by techpeace 12y ago
Yup, that's the HTML Speech Input API asking for permission to access your microphone in order to enable the voice recognition.
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by techpeace 12y ago
Video link: http://blip.tv/fosslc/everything-you-need-to-know-about-cryp... Previous discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1346711 And here: https://news.ycombinator.com&#x2F
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by techpeace 12y ago
You should also check out the excellent http://tosdr.org/ project.
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by techpeace 12y ago
I primarily use RubyMine day-to-day, but Atom has become my text editor of choice. I just really enjoy having the ability to hack my editor using technology I'm already familiar with.
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by techpeace 12y ago
number of reported vulns != number of existing vulns
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by techpeace 12y ago
I had the same question when I read this. The streaming API is only a fraction of the data offered by the firehose, but that's not as much of a problem in every use case.
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by techpeace 13y ago
What I believe was meant was that we in Austin will be hearing about this case for the next year, which we undoubtedly will. Thankfully the crime rate in Austin is such that capital murder cases tend to grab the headlines for quite some tim
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by techpeace 13y ago
True, but "far from worst in the country" and "capable of dealing with the city's growth" are two different things. I'm originally from Arlington, Texas, which actually held the distinction until very recently
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by techpeace 13y ago
Long-time Austinite here. This is indeed a sad day, and our thoughts are of course with those who were affected. At the very least, I hope that this situation will cause us to make real strides toward improving the currently deplorable stat
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by techpeace 13y ago
IDEs, while they have fallen out of favor somewhat in the web development community, offer such a "holistic" development experience already - complete with deep integration into GitHub, in some instances.
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Four(ish) Percent of Mobile Apps May Be Secure(slashdot.org)
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by techpeace 13y ago
I agree that central Texas also has its fair share of conservatives, but how does the Wikipedia article about Houston prove this? Houston is 2.5 hours from Austin. Election results alone bear out the fact that Austin is still one of the few
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by techpeace 13y ago
Exactly. This is why I started using Foundation primarily in the first place. I tried staying on the bootstrap-sass bandwagon, but Foundation won me over entirely by letting me overwrite Sass variables to retheme.
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by techpeace 13y ago
The big deal about GitHub is that they were in large part responsible for the current Open Source Renaissance we currently find ourselves in. Do you remember the world before? Where you would hunt for someone's private SVN repo on thei
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by techpeace 13y ago
If you'd like to donate to the mayor who is fighting for gigabit fiber for Seattle (and thus cancel out a portion of Comcast's donations), you can do so here: https://services.myngp.com/ngponlineservices/contr
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by techpeace 13y ago
Use Organizer for Gmail from OtherInbox: http://www.otherinbox.com/organizer/ It's more customizable, has been learning categorizations for various sender addresses for years, and works with Gmail labeling.
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by techpeace 13y ago
Agreed. That article is so terrible it actually lends credence to the Soylent folks.

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