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by zorpner 12y ago
All of this discussion, quite possibly because so much of the initial conversation happened on twitter, embeds a lot of assumptions into the words used that seems to result in a lot of people talking past each other. There's "prog
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When Twitter Fails: Math and Programming Edition(juliepagano.com)
10 points by zorpner 12y ago|0 comments
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by zorpner 12y ago
I have a client who was in the same position. They actually still have a few boxes on Etch... and amazingly, one Sarge box: $ cat /etc/issue Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 \n \ They're all running a very old hacked-up version of
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by zorpner 12y ago
Very few people have the job flexibility that many of us here on HN have. This may be the best-paying job available to this person, or the only job they were able to get that they can effectively travel to -- regardless, given the unpleasa
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Satya Nadella’s Email, Decoded(expletiveinserted.com)
16 points by zorpner 12y ago|3 comments
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by zorpner 12y ago
For pretty much any pan that's not a saute, nearly every meal in every restaurant (at least all the ones I've worked in or been in the kitchen of) is cooked in aluminium. Go to your nearest restaurant supply store -- almost all o
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by zorpner 12y ago
How terrible for him, to have to experience what every woman in tech with a prominent online presence has to endure.
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Dos and Don’ts To Combat Online Sexism(leighalexander.net)
3 points by zorpner 12y ago|0 comments
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Matt Rutledge launches his next venture: A Mediocre Corporation.(dmagazine.com)
3 points by zorpner 12y ago|0 comments
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by zorpner 12y ago
Try to define torture in an abstract way that includes the things you think of as torture (whips, the rack, waterboarding, cramped isolation, et cetera) and excludes this. You won't find it easy.
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by zorpner 12y ago
And equally importantly, get paid for the work you do (i.e. don't let anyone convince you to work nights & weekends for a year to "build the company" based on a hypothetical payout).
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XOXO Fest – On Diversity(blog.xoxofest.com)
1 points by zorpner 12y ago|0 comments
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by zorpner 12y ago
The impoverished, at least in America, work more jobs/person than the non-impoverished.
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by zorpner 12y ago
Here's a great post about why, even if this were specifically about his specific girlfriend and didn't code sexist tropes, it would still be unacceptable: http://blog.izs.me/post/87902115343/re-maven-is
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by zorpner 12y ago
No, people who spout sexism that was already old in the 90s do not get the benefit of the doubt. Next question.
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by zorpner 12y ago
Right, he couched his sexist tropes in specific language that provided him with deniability. It's standard, and you seem to have fallen for it.
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On failing our values, our team, and our industry(blogs.atlassian.com)
41 points by zorpner 12y ago|58 comments
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by zorpner 12y ago
Not too surprising, unfortunately. I hope a few people saw it and found it to be an interesting read before HN groupthink killed it off.
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by zorpner 12y ago
It's an error to think that you can distill any event, much less one like this shooting, to a single root cause. Guns played a role. Misogyny played a role. Racism played a role. Mental illness played a role. And different groups
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by zorpner 12y ago
There no "the tech world", there's just people who are, indeed, choosing what they do and do not want to fight about. If you feel so strongly about this, get people involved, get a Twitter campaign or boycott going, and just
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The Case Against Sharing(medium.com)
13 points by zorpner 12y ago|2 comments
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by zorpner 12y ago
If the Red Queen hypothesis ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Queen_hypothesis ) is correct, failing to mutate (e.g. via long lifespans and continued reproduction) would be an evolutionary disadvantage. I don't kn
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by zorpner 12y ago
Metafilter has a lot going for it (personally I think it's probably the best non-private community online, particularly in the sense that once you're an active participant it truly is a "community"), but willingness to c
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by zorpner 12y ago
They have plenty of climate in Europe -- they just haven't become reliant on a single state that's going to be in extreme drought for at least the next decade for all their produce during the winter months. See, for example, Magn
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by zorpner 12y ago
Moving to SF in June (for non-work-related reasons). I'm both fascinated and repelled by the opportunities appearing in the cracks between the market and public goods...
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by zorpner 12y ago
For the curious, the EFF has a post on a similar situation in Los Angeles which addresses some of the legal implications of mass license plate data collection: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/03/los-angeles
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by zorpner 12y ago
I'd love to read this. Re measurement, this book is an interesting read -- sort of an analysis and attempted reconstruction of the techniques used for furniture building in the preindustrial era (lots of ratios, transfer of measurement
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by zorpner 12y ago
Retreating to a dictionary definition doesn't argue against the point of the GP comment, namely: a white guy being called a cracker doesn't resonate with the kinds of cultural practices of oppression that that using racial slurs
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by zorpner 12y ago
This is not a productive avenue for making progress IMHO. As Roizen points out in her article, while she believes that things have improved, she's still often the only woman in the room. Other women, like Shanley Kane, believe that
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by zorpner 12y ago
This is an interesting article from a couple years ago about some people who either disable their social media accounts when not in use, or use them ephemerally: http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/archives/2010/

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