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by wumpus 8y ago
Having used slack at a business, emoji reactions to comments are an extremely valuable business feature -- they allow people to react without having to make a full-sized comment, which helps keep conversations compact.
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by wumpus 8y ago
I'm OK with both of those "problems".
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by wumpus 8y ago
Hm, I could supply a list of utm parameters observed in the wild. Then you could substitute a randomly picked but valid set of parameters...
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by wumpus 9y ago
Good example: Tesla had a miss on Model 3 production for Q1, yet the stock rose significantly. And the miss was predicted by both the fan vin tracker and Bloomberg's vin tracker. I used to work for D. E. Shaw & Co., now I work in S
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by wumpus 9y ago
I'm all for good review systems. But any review system that labels a large fraction of the submitted code as very deficient indicates that the solution is to act before review. And I've coded with (and hired) interns and juniors,
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by wumpus 9y ago
Radical examples from the 1960s: If Bob and Nancy have been living together for a while, invite "Bob and Nancy", not "Bob and Guest"; and this classic: Q: WHAT DO I SAY TO MY SON'S GAY FRIEND BOB'S LOVER AT MY
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by wumpus 9y ago
My "Miss Manners" etiquette book from the 1960s says you should call people by the names they wish to be called. So it's not "modern", it's timeless. She directly addresses the social issues of the day, such as
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by wumpus 9y ago
Actually, I'm with the second, not the first. And so is my gay friend in NYC. It's just that he's scared that his boss is actually a passive-aggressive homophobe and he's going to get fired for politely insisting on &quo
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by wumpus 9y ago
That's nice for you. I suppose you didn't notice that for a while gay people were only allowed to become "domestic partners", not married? I hope that now you don't now refer to your gay co-workers who are married a
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by wumpus 9y ago
Well, if you want to refuse to refer to married gay people as married, or call transgender people by their pre-transition pronouns, AT WORK, you're going to get fired. If that's a problem, you probably shouldn't work at a com
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by wumpus 9y ago
In the US, the electric utility is required to provide service by the government. One the Internet, from a US point of view, you are correct that there is no equivalent of a "public square" that first amendment rights apply to. Th
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by wumpus 9y ago
Given that you appear to be reading non-technical articles aimed at non-technical readers -- you haven't said what article you're reading, so I'm just guessing -- the word revoked doesn't mean anything technical at all.
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by wumpus 9y ago
Yeah, if you look at what the alt-right says when confronted, often it's "I was being sarcastic/satirical" or "That Nazi armband that I was wearing is just an experiment" or "I'm not the angry racist
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by wumpus 9y ago
I have no idea where you got a mistaken impression of what's going on, but if you google [godaddy daily stormer] you'll find a ton of news stories explaining that godaddy told Daily Stormer to find a new registrar. While written b
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by wumpus 9y ago
The first registrar (GoDaddy) gave them 24 hours to GTFO. They could have moved to any other registrar, but their next try also told them to GTFO. So what happened is exactly what you're calling OK.
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by wumpus 9y ago
The only problem with doing nothing is that it generally results in the status quo: organizations that are not diverse. This is not to say that positive assumptions is the answer, but that's not what most organizations aiming at better
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by wumpus 10y ago
In the southern USA, women are "respected" until they violate social norms of getting married and having children. I hear that women in Japan are still expected to (and usually do) quit their jobs when they have a child. You might
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by wumpus 11y ago
This is a classic disagreeing comment which is a false disagreement. The parent to your comment did not claim anything about the origins of or influences upon Islamic art. At best you're talking past the post you're responding; at
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by wumpus 14y ago
This is our first donation. We have a lot more we plan on giving, but for user queries, for example, the privacy issues are a lot more difficult to work through. We have no interest in being the next privacy scandal.
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by wumpus 15y ago
Like many NoSQL databases, we don't really have a query language. Mostly you read a few columns from a particular row. That could contain a combinator, such as at TopN containing 1,000 inlinks to a webpage... something that you would ordina
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by wumpus 15y ago
Since our SSDs hold a cache of what's on disk, it's most effective to have the SSDs and the disks are in the same server. It's hard to assemble separate pieces into a tightly-coupled system.
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by wumpus 15y ago
The completeness of our slashtags depends on the slashtag. Do you think /health has too few sites? Among the technical slashtags, /perl and /python are pretty complete, and the rest of the them are currently getting some love from the Stack
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by wumpus 16y ago
There are a couple of ways to find slashtags: * The autocomplete info contains suggested slashtags for the search you're typing * Use "find slashtags" to browse or search the list of slashtags
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by wumpus 16y ago
We have a designer (Dan) and a front end team (the Three Musketeers!) in-house. We use Perl+XS for all of the back-end stuff: our NoSQL data store (multiple petabytes of data), crawling, indexing, and serving queries.
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by wumpus 16y ago
To create slashtags from your existing data, you can paste in lists of links, or upload a text file containing links.
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by wumpus 16y ago
There are a bunch of /blekko slashtags for hackers, including /hacker /cracker /make /hackerspaces.