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by commanda 12y ago
It really irks me when people conflate calling for someone to step down from a CEO role with "lynching", "blood", or "militant". As you know, actual LGBTQ people are actually lynched, and our blood is actually
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by commanda 13y ago
I don't believe money is 1:1 with value. Consider for example a "Craigslist Flipper" - someone who finds items for sale on Craigslist, buys them, and turns around and sells them for a profit. Did this person create value? Not
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by commanda 13y ago
This definition of value ignores ancillary departments such as marketing, office management, HR, and legal. These are sometimes known as "cost centers" in a business organization, but in that they support the engineers/artist
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by commanda 13y ago
Ha! That's great, thanks! I had a feeling Jacob Harris was behind that, as he was also behind @nytimes_ebooks.
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by commanda 13y ago
@Horse_ebooks is (was?) an excellent piece of performance art. I think the modern audience still has a sense of wonderment when it comes to the computer-generated (as though it is the computer itself doing the generating and not really the
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by commanda 13y ago
The underlying theme in this post, from what I gather, is "Male programmers are often treated poorly by their peers, so female programmers should have nothing to complain about when they are treated poorly." This is denial of the
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by commanda 13y ago
For what it's worth, Gloria Steinem did not marry until she was 66 years old.
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by commanda 13y ago
That's a different use case. Computer owners usually use their computers every single day for multiple hours, while drill owners, unless they are professionals or hobbyists in construction, use them very rarely, maybe once or twice a y
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by commanda 13y ago
Perhaps because ideas are a dime-a-dozen, but not every idea-haver has the time, energy, desire, or capital necessary for execution. Perhaps someone else will come along and run with this idea. I think sharing startup ideas aloud in blog po
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by commanda 13y ago
If technical recruiters did actually have technical experience, they could make much more money being programmers rather than working as recruiters. Therefor, there are few to no technically experienced recruiters. This isn't a problem
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by commanda 13y ago
Ok, sorry, I meant carbon particulate (soot), not CO2.
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by commanda 13y ago
This article doesn't address the CFC effect relative to the effect of CO2 emissions fallout landing on the glaciers and polar ice caps, which changes the albedo of the ice, resulting in melting them. More and more ice melts every year, and
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by commanda 13y ago
Right, but petrol-fueled cars will still emit CO2 regardless of whether the local power plant uses clean energy or not.
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by commanda 13y ago
The OP sounds like an angry curmudgeon. He/she can't cut someone some slack if they're running a few minutes late? I'm glad I've never had to take a meeting with this person. This isn't about whether or not someone is disciplined enough to
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by commanda 13y ago
SEEKING FREELANCER My current client is looking for Unity developer with at least one published title. Remote is fine. This client is in NYC. Email me and I'll connect you.
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by commanda 13y ago
It seems to me that health insurers are already aligned with the goal of keeping patients from receiving care for acute conditions, so perhaps some of them, being private companies, unencumbered by special interests or government bureaucrac
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by commanda 13y ago
I find it amazing that somebody actually knew OP's code well enough to recognize it in the trailer. Or maybe someone searched github for the strings they saw instead? Either way, pretty cool - I'd love to have some code in a movie too!
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by commanda 13y ago
The article title is inaccurate - "Matt" did know he was gay, he just wasn't out yet. Facebook's ad platform didn't figure it out before he did. Just as in the Target story, the young woman knew she was pregnant, she just hadn't told her fa
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by commanda 14y ago
I'm not a web developer, so maybe I just don't understand, but why is it so important to the author that there be wide adoption of Cappuccino? Why does it matter to him that the majority of the web dev community is favoring "micro JS"? Why
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by commanda 14y ago
Why are you anonymously using Pastebin? I'd prefer if you posted it on your own blog with your own name.
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by commanda 14y ago
I think that comment should actually be printed on the backs of the shirts.
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by commanda 14y ago
See, dotfiles like yours are why there's not more women in technology. As a feminist, I demand that your dotfiles be made inclusive by also accepting input from boobs. Also, who uses h and l anymore? It's 2013, you should be using w and b.
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by commanda 14y ago
"I hope that skill will always be held in higher esteem than your gender - if you had no skill, you would not be part of the discussion, and your gender is simply a modifier." This is the point that really rang true for me. I guess I will n
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by commanda 14y ago
I helped the author edit this post for clarity, but it took all I had not to argue with him because I strongly disagree with his thesis. My main language (Objective-C) is relatively less readable (compared to his main language of Python), a
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I hate comments(timothyfitz.com)
29 points by commanda 14y ago|54 comments
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by commanda 14y ago
The author clearly fears for her safety and her other children's safety due to her 13-year-old's violent behavior. Her story isn't making blanket claims about all mental illnesses, only about her son's particular violent condition.
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by commanda 14y ago
My heart really goes out to you. Can you imagine replacing "autism" with "type 1 diabetes" in your story and any health insurance company acting that way? Unthinkable. I hope our culture gets to the point where it stops regarding some illne
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by commanda 14y ago
I'm currently taking a break from working. This year, I've been a contract developer, which has been very lucrative because I charge a very high hourly rate. I can now afford to take the next few years off, depending on what city I move to
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by commanda 14y ago
By preemptively dismissing any and all "rationalizations" as examples of flawed logic, this wise author has effectively created a black hole into which he can throw any counter-argument of his thesis, dismissing it all as "proving my point"
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by commanda 14y ago
I think the point of the article was that it has nothing to do with how hard you work, or really even with entitlement. It has to do with finding product-market fit, where you are the product.

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