SnarkAsh

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by SnarkAsh 7y ago
True. Worth noting that this is coming up because the volunteers are being mistreated and people were looking for laws that could protect them, and may have found more than they were looking for.
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by SnarkAsh 7y ago
While we're discussing Stack Overflow's legal situation: - Users have raised $9000 to defend a volunteer moderator from defamation by Stack Overflow employees: https://www.gofundme.com/f/stop-stack-overflow-fr
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The Adults in the Room(theconcourse.deadspin.com)
6 points by SnarkAsh 7y ago|2 comments
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by SnarkAsh 7y ago
FWIW every job I've had in my 7-year career came from connections that stated though Stack Overflow. No one's hiring on the basis of reputation score, but many employers do reach out to users who have repeatedly demonstrated their
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by SnarkAsh 7y ago
She opted out within the 30 day window, so her options remain open.
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by SnarkAsh 7y ago
Some context, although really this is the culmination of a five year breakdown in community trust and there's way too much background to sum up briefly. https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/333965/firing-m
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Stack Overflow is doing me ongoing harm; it's time to fix it(meta.stackexchange.com)
4 points by SnarkAsh 7y ago|2 comments
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by SnarkAsh 7y ago
They only did that after they were called out by multiple Senators and international media, so I don't really give them any credit.
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Another Stack Overflow Moderator Resigns in Protest(meta.stackoverflow.com)
3 points by SnarkAsh 7y ago|4 comments
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by SnarkAsh 7y ago
At least when you had a micro USB or mini USB cable, you knew it would be compatible with everything of the same form factor. USB-C's form factor might stick around longer, but its compatibility problems are going to be much worse.
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by SnarkAsh 7y ago
Why is this on the Stack Overflow blog? When I replied to their survey that I wanted "tech articles written by other developers", I was imagining a platform for Stack Overflow authors to contribute longer-form work -- an idea that
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by SnarkAsh 7y ago
I think you can already natively add alt text to images including GIFs, but need to enable the UI on your account firist: https://help.twitter.com/en/using-twitter/picture-descriptio...
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by SnarkAsh 7y ago
because she has 46k Twitter followers and the company fears Twitter above all else
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by SnarkAsh 7y ago
"normies"?
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by SnarkAsh 7y ago
Potentially. The policy still hasn't been finalized, so I'm not ready to assume that it's something she wouldn't have been able to comply with.
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by SnarkAsh 7y ago
> She made it clear talking to a journalist from The Register I'm not sure what you're referring to: Monica didn't talk to anyone at The Register..? Only Stack Overflow knew that article was coming. If there was a formal p
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An apology to our community, and next steps(meta.stackexchange.com)
282 points by SnarkAsh 7y ago|236 comments
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by SnarkAsh 7y ago
I agree that it's a tiny minority view, but it's not a straw man when that tiny minority are making the decisions at Stack Overflow.
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Stack Overflow Inc. Fiasco: Timeline(cellio.dreamwidth.org)
516 points by SnarkAsh 7y ago|486 comments
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An Update to Our Community and an Apology(meta.stackexchange.com)
308 points by SnarkAsh 7y ago|384 comments
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by SnarkAsh 7y ago
Really? I imagine that fewer than 1% of Linuxes boxes out there can successfully send email to a public email address.
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by SnarkAsh 7y ago
There are a lot of very toxic moderators on the network. As far as I recognize, none of them are among the resigned. They'll probably be more prominent now that reasonable kind people like Monica have been removed.
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by SnarkAsh 7y ago
I agree it should have been clarified, but the initial intended audience was meta users who would be familiar. Elected moderators need to accept the https://stackoverflow.com/legal/moderator-agreement agreement before
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by SnarkAsh 7y ago
Currently, no, because I don't have any legal options where I am currently living, and my own experience and stories like this have pushed me away from black market products. But I believe that these are a much better product, when man
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by SnarkAsh 7y ago
They're massively more convenient. Dry herb vaporizers require me to reload the device every few hits and carry a supply of dry ground cannabis with me everywhere I go. The wet capsules last for hundreds of hits, and produce less scent
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by SnarkAsh 7y ago
Joel has already killed Stack Overflow beyond repair. Prashanth is a grave robber trying to find a few valuables to snatch for investors.
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Announcing Stack Overflow’s New CEO: Prashanth Chandrasekar(stackoverflow.blog)
2 points by SnarkAsh 7y ago|0 comments
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by SnarkAsh 7y ago
They also promised a profile option you could use to opt-out of arbitration... but never actually implemented it. https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/333388/what-is-the-...
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Is Stack Overflow allowing ads to use fingerprinting to track users?(meta.stackexchange.com)
195 points by SnarkAsh 7y ago|106 comments
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by SnarkAsh 7y ago
Unemployment rate is an essentially-fraudlent statistic. Changes in the labour force participation rate are more revealing: https://data.bls.gov/timeseries/LNS11300000

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