OneBytePerGreen

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by OneBytePerGreen 15y ago
I mean "lighten up" as in, she perceives "a million little barbs" around her and sees herself as the victim of sexism lurking everywhere. She didn't just criticize one company or co-worker, but the whole industry. Her post is a torrent of
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by OneBytePerGreen 15y ago
Dunno. I'm a woman, and I think that blog poster needs to lighten up. I've worked in IT for years - usually as the only woman on the team - and I've never felt degraded or discriminated against for being female. Maybe slight prejudices in
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by OneBytePerGreen 15y ago
Sexist comments like the one on the flyer are dumb, and these people deserve to be called out on it, but to imply they are keeping women out of tech careers is ridiculous (and in itself, sounds kind of sexist to me - like we are tender plan
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by OneBytePerGreen 15y ago
Ironic, isn't it. Managers whose jobs revolve around communication, coordination, and staying on top of things get offices with doors where they can isolate themselves. Developers whose job requires long stretches of focus and concentratio
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HN "Beta testing" section?
9 points by OneBytePerGreen 15y ago|1 comments
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by OneBytePerGreen 15y ago
What is new about this generation is that they graduate with enormous student loan debt. They already have a "mortgage" or rent payment, only it goes towards their loans. We desperately need good alternatives to current universities, indeed
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by OneBytePerGreen 15y ago
I like this. Hey, even Chris Sacca tweeted about sleeping in a Wal-Mart parking lot. (Not sure about his setup, though.) https://twitter.com/#!/sacca/status/156064344831045632 Hardship (even self-imposed) might even lead to new ideas. If
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by OneBytePerGreen 15y ago
Loved it. Very entertaining, and a great twist at the end. I LOLed.
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by OneBytePerGreen 15y ago
Many startup ideas are about extracting a few more dollars from the end user - what kind of annoyance can we solve today? - but I think it's important to think beyond the scope of consumer products to get to the real game changers. A lot of
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by OneBytePerGreen 15y ago
Pinterest has a market valuation of > 200 million dollars... 30%+ of its images are flickr images... ... 99%+ of which are "All Rights Reserved". How many ... page views, ... new subscribers, ... and $$$ have the most-pinned flickr imag
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by OneBytePerGreen 15y ago
Happened to me at a small company that was swimming in cash (swank offices). They told me that if you get seriously ill within the first 60 days, you can sign up for COBRA and be covered from then on through your previous employer's health
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by OneBytePerGreen 15y ago
I concur. I love discussing implementation details of different designs, but it has always been to my disadvantage to acknowledge what's good about a competing vision and lay out in detail the pros and cons of my own idea, because that just
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by OneBytePerGreen 15y ago
Funny: Every user comment on reddit has about 3.4 KB of HTML overhead (<div>, in-line javascript, etc), including multiple  comments. It really adds up for a large thread.
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by OneBytePerGreen 15y ago
Giving attribution to imgur would be pointless as it is not a site known for original works. My guess is, the percentage of original images uploaded to imgur by the author is a small percentage. What makes the connection between pinterest a
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by OneBytePerGreen 15y ago
The attribution is not next to the image. A pinterest user would have to click on the picture to be taken to flickr and see the author/username. But how many people will do that if the photo is right there, full size, for viewing/downloadi
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by OneBytePerGreen 15y ago
It's not about the amount of information you take in, but about how much you identify with it. You can hear all day long about how much money other people make, but if you take it merely as a fact and do not construct a personal identity/st
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by OneBytePerGreen 15y ago
Just checked... pinterest creates a copy of the medium-size image and stores it on their own servers. Users can view and re-pin it without seeing the context and author. Very surprising to me, and not cool.
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by OneBytePerGreen 15y ago
My account is semi-fake, with a real pic and a few friends, but my birthday in 1920. It's great, except for those annoying "Never too old for love" and "Mature Singles" ads.
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by OneBytePerGreen 15y ago
For sure. Big industry names don't assimilate; they mold their environment to what they know (and they usually bring other people with them who come from the same place). Because of their clout, few will dare to disagree with them. It is a
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by OneBytePerGreen 15y ago
I am surprised at all the negativity here. Working at a startup is obviously very different from working in a corporate environment. You have to thrive on risk and be so passionate about new technologies that you can't help but learn all t