burntroots

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by burntroots 12y ago
Which is exactly why I respond with "I just don't." To which people usually shrug and move on. Every once in a while I get somebody who is curious or somebody who wants to be an asshole. With the former, I make a joke. With t
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by burntroots 12y ago
for you . Not everybody reacts to alcohol the same way.
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by burntroots 12y ago
Does XMPP support inline photo and video? Last I checked, it didn't. So why deal with the external dependency when you can re-write it yourself with additional features?
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by burntroots 12y ago
Unemployed/Self employed. Freelance.
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by burntroots 12y ago
Thank you, anonymous downvoting coward, for proving my point.
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by burntroots 12y ago
If you want to know why, look at the twitter replies. She's being regarded as a Brave Hero of the movement. Bad for a technical employee. Good for a highly visible position, like startup founder, developer evangelist, head of a female
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by burntroots 12y ago
You mean besides for the tidal wave of downvotes?
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by burntroots 12y ago
And/or adrenal fatigue.
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by burntroots 12y ago
When did HN become a gossip rag? Quote taken out of context. Nothing to see here, move along.
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by burntroots 12y ago
because track days are expensive. considerably more so than an afternoon at the gun range.
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by burntroots 12y ago
That why violence is really the only answer to bullying. Hit hard and fast, do enough damage in the first blow to make sure neither he nor his buddies want to come back for seconds.
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by burntroots 12y ago
This situation has nothing to do with technology. It's not some passive "I won't listen to this guy because he disagrees with me" stance. People are going out of their way to make sure people who have political opinions
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by burntroots 12y ago
Motorcycles are a delicious exception to these rules, especially in areas where lane splitting is legal. Or at least unenforceable.
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by burntroots 12y ago
And Brendan Eich gave $1000 to an organization people don't approve of. A guy made a joke at a convention about dongles and got fired. A whole lot of Sci-Fi authors were prevented from publishing at Tor because they identify themselves
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by burntroots 12y ago
Don't fool yourself: they're both corporations and thus money making entities. Clearly, the difference is minor at best, since this behavior is spreading beyond the community based organizations.
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by burntroots 12y ago
Bingo Card Creator and Appointment Reminder. The latter is big enough he's started doing angel investing. Keep in mind, he runs both of them by himself and he no longer consults. I'm not saying he doesn't have an ulterior mot
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by burntroots 12y ago
Many thanks for the response. It's also what I observe other mobile-centric people around me do. They don't spend a ton of time in the browser, but they do use it. It's encouraging, in a way. Sort of like a slow computing mov
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by burntroots 12y ago
Does she spend most of her time in a web browser or a dedicated app of one kind or another?
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by burntroots 12y ago
I know of an American manufacturing company that makes electric motors of all shapes and sizes. It's been steadily growing for a few years and now grosses 5+ million a year. Despite their profits steady increase, they remain at 49 empl
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by burntroots 12y ago
Take a look at John Cleese's talk about creativity[0]. I personally buy into the whole concept of there being an open mode and a closed mode and you can't be in both at the same time. My coding tends to run in cycles. When I'
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by burntroots 12y ago
I see this assumption a lot in regards to Carmack's early work at ID. How do you know those marathon coding sessions didn't go like most do, where after 4-8 hours you start making more mistakes that you have to fix later? He seems
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by burntroots 12y ago
Unless you've developed games for the facebook platform, it can be hard to understand why so many devs reacted so negatively to the news. I've made facebook games and decided not to spend money on the second dev kit, so maybe I ca
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by burntroots 12y ago
The real difference between a junior and senior developer? A senior developer was able to convince a manager to give him the title and pay raise. It's more of a political distinction than anything else.
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by burntroots 12y ago
To the person who downvoted me, how am I wrong?
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by burntroots 12y ago
So what's happening here is a man is fighting intolerance with more intolerance. That seems productive.
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by burntroots 12y ago
His actual fear is it that he won't be able to suspend the necessary disbelief to enjoy it. You see the same thing from anybody who has specialty knowledge and sees it misrepresented on TV. They know what they're seeing is wrong,
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by burntroots 12y ago
So you're arguing my general argument is invalid because in the specific example I use, you claim the board is racist. You then go on to claim that social principles aren't interchangeable and public opinion would eventually oblit
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by burntroots 12y ago
Try to see this from another angle. It's 1970 and you've donated to an organization that advocates equal rights to blacks. As a consequence, when you rise through the ranks at your company and have the opportunity to be considered
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by burntroots 12y ago
You've heard of the chilling effect, right? I would say insisting on being politically correct in all things or you're not fit to run a company would qualify as censorship.
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by burntroots 12y ago
I'm curious how you feel about open source, then. Specifically, node.js. Donating hours of your time working on something that eventually got sold for lots of money that you won't see a dime of. Sounds similar.

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