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by undoware 13y ago
Uh, I mean that I'm MTF. Full transition, including FFS, SRS, HRT, and a bunch of other TLAs. So is/was my roommate. That was ironically part of her problem too: most johns who want a trans woman are actually after a so-called &
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by undoware 13y ago
vanderzwan: I'm intentionally dealing with public-paranoia stereotypes: The pedophile on the hunt; the crack dealer at the schoolyard; etc. etc. I meant 'pedophile', and used this charged word, specifically to pick out how ou
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by undoware 13y ago
Of course crack dealers are manipulative and good at lying. The ones that aren't are caught. It's selected for.
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by undoware 13y ago
So is being any sort of successful criminal. A pedophile, for example.
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by undoware 13y ago
Good point, thanks Mark. :) See, I positioned myself for not getting it quite right -- I can say, "this means I'm probably less psychopathic than you." Monster! :D
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by undoware 13y ago
Fun experiment for you. Go out and get a facial tattoo. Now try to get work. That's still easier than finding honest work when you're transsexual. Don't believe me? I can think of an even more decisive experiment...
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by undoware 13y ago
I'm heartened by the response to this, both on Hacker News and elsewhere. Being a trans woman in IT is a bit weird -- because I can do incredible things with my mind, I'm off the hook my sisters are on, that makes them have to hoo
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by undoware 13y ago
I hate to logic-chop a civilian (i.e. someone who didn't waste their youth in an analytic philosophy department studying ethics) but here we go. If your position is that all convincing self-accounts by psychopaths are themselves only c
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by undoware 13y ago
Again, not a blanket judgment; a blanket judgment is quite specifically when you say, "for all Xes such that Y, then Z." You could argue that there was an implied blanket judgment motivating the assertion that no one should ever
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Target says data for 40 million shoppers was stolen(nytimes.com)
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by undoware 13y ago
I wasn't making a blanket judgement -- you are making a straw man. I was simply criticizing their branding, which is just as reasonable as any technical consideration. And if you don't believe that, Richard Stallman has a beard fo
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by undoware 13y ago
We're running out of vowels to prefix startup names. Peak Vowel was definitely 2007; the iGeneration is iSick of oIt. Never use a service whose name you could make up thoughtlessly.
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by undoware 13y ago
It will be interesting to see what happens to the judge. 'Parallel construction.'
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by undoware 13y ago
Well, in some contexts, yes, although to be honest I don't use Vagrant myself, so it's hard for me to compare use-cases. I see Nix as much-needed conceptual competition in the ongoing package-manager vs devops-deployment dogfight,
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by undoware 13y ago
Sorry lorensr.me. "Trust me, they're good guys" is not an argument, and in the current context, it can only be read as a small piece of damage-control astroturf. Or rather, the NSA's perfidy has left us with no other saf
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by undoware 13y ago
Yes, precisely why I said it hadn't made it to production 'yet'. I haven't had time to contribute like I want to, but believe me, it's up there on the list. My advice? Get involved with this project now. It's g
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by undoware 13y ago
Anecdotal experience deploying in the lab with NixOS and/or Nix: 1. At the time, I was maintaining several heterogenous RPM-based systems, so that was the comparison. I can say with some limited authority that it's easier to make
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by undoware 13y ago
You're right. And I'm disappointed with myself, for being baited into making precisely the sort of joke that pissed me off in the first place, hence the comment deletion. But I'm also so upset that the rest of my workday is s
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by undoware 13y ago
Oh, and also, BitBucket? I may be a woman, but I am also calling the shots in my workplace, and I'm about to go find another provider. Your free repos were nice, but this isn't. So.
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by undoware 13y ago
GitHub took it down because shit like that makes it hard for women to do their jobs, and github is about getting work done. It's also not terribly funny. Or rather, it would have been funny in the heyday of the constellation of academi
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by undoware 13y ago
It is and it isn't. Here in Vancouver (Canada) I occasionally see meetups at GrowLab (our off-brand Canadian Y Combinator) for e.g. 'innovators under 30'. Presumably there is at least one such event being held elsewhere in th
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by undoware 13y ago
Really, in our industry, is it necessary to specify an upper age bound? It's not like we're nurturing new circuit court justices. Why not, "Top 25 over 25?" We all know what happens when the taurine receptor count starts
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by undoware 13y ago
...except you can't buy heroin with penny stocks. 'Platypus typing', maybe?
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by undoware 13y ago
You stand corrected. You can embed the assets as base64 'data-uri' hrefs. Which IMO is the correct approach; sprites smack of the sort of suboptimal overoptimization that complicates workflow and exerts an invisible, mammoth drag
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by undoware 13y ago
This is one of the few things that my unique and unfortunate biology give me some authority to speak about. I'm trans -- and that means I've done time as a female developer, and as a male developer. When I was a guy, I used to lau
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by undoware 13y ago
...cannot be played on record player B.
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by undoware 13y ago
I can't wait -- this is going to change my life as profoundly as Wolfram Alpha. How¸ you ask? Well, I'll just Alpha that for you...
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by undoware 13y ago
> This is stupid... [there are too many, they are all interconnected]. Really? Ever tried to get in shape? There's always that first step. Also -- quoting someone here who, whatever his faults, did get rid of a lot of american colon
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by undoware 13y ago
I think that is precisely what your interlocutor is doing.
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by undoware 13y ago
(..where by 'undetectable' I mean, 'undetectable as a virus' -- the technique is to bypass AV scans by distributing modules of code that are themselves innocent but combine in dangerous ways; the interview I read with on

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