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by calcol 11y ago
That makes a lot of sense. I'm sure there was more to it, and the image that she has on Reddit was certainly not helpful, but she wasn't fired because of the backlash from last week and previous, because if that was the case she w
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by calcol 11y ago
This ignores that advertisement is a good amount of revenue for Reddit (it took is over $8M last year from advertising)[1]. In any case, there definitely needs to exist a balance, and the announcement on Reddit makes no pretense that they&#
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by calcol 11y ago
Looking past the vitriol towards Ellen Pao, this seems to be primarily due to a history of miscommunication between moderators, who feel they should have more power and better ways to handle the communities they support, and the admins of R
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by calcol 11y ago
She did, in fact, attempt to reply to early discussions on Reddit but she was downvoted into oblivion (e.g. -5500+ down votes) and she wasn't ever going to be heard, no matter how relevant or important her discussion was. So she probab
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by calcol 11y ago
Yeah I think that there's a lot of people pissed at the situation, but I think it would be better if they had at least proof read or had multiple less invested people read over it to make sure it didn't sound so childish. If it wa
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by calcol 11y ago
If I had to guess, I'd say that's spun a little bit more to make it look like Reddit management is the bad guy. Having been fired from multiple jobs in the past, unless Reddit management is complete shit, she wouldn't have be
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by calcol 11y ago
To be frank, I'd argue that this isn't really a petition and more of someone throwing a temper tantrum. I mean, when I read, "After Pao lost her gender discrimination case against venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins she was
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by calcol 11y ago
The thing that is kind of strange, but not surprising, to me is that the thing that they're using as justification for this is the firing of one of the admins, but these people don't know why that admin was fired, and also don&#x2
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by calcol 12y ago
I guess, yes, there is a benefit to Slack in the sense that they would have more signups overall. But what I was really going for was that it wouldn't benefit them on a large scale, meaning that people that do stuff like what he does w
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by calcol 12y ago
I haven't read his other blog posts, but in this one he seems to come off as arrogant and a child, in a sense, by arguing for some kind of feature addition without actually explaining how it would benefit any users other than him and (
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by calcol 12y ago
Agree with angersock. It's really hard to know what you're looking at with such a vague description. It's hard to give any kind of good answer with solid recommendations without more information for a company of that size.
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by calcol 12y ago
I'm kind of confused by the notion that Javascript execution times and CSS3 animations aren't part of the core functionality. I'm assuming they're not going to build their own JS JIT compiler and use v8 or spidermonkey.
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by calcol 12y ago
It would be cool to have an all JS implementation of NumPy or SciPy but the reality of the situation is that if this is going to be used in a research setting and speed is one of the most important factors, then this is secondary to actuall
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by calcol 12y ago
The best way I've found to mimic an address bar is to use Command-Shift-G to open the "Go to this address" dialog. It gets the job done well enough when I do end up using Finder over Terminal.