fifthesteight

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by fifthesteight 12y ago
You and I had similar difficulty yesterday vis-a-vis arbitrary downvoting. I was referring to a comment made at me regarding how HN comments are for correcting people who are wrong, and accompanying that is downvotes. Except for when "
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by fifthesteight 12y ago
No, marco, you're just being "corrected." Iron sharpens iron, duh.
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by fifthesteight 12y ago
Yeah that's the consensus, and that's what it was meant to be, that's what it once was. However these days, especially in a community where only certain individuals can downvote, they become the only ones to control the discu
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by fifthesteight 12y ago
I've found that this community is beyond unwelcoming, bordering on toxic. I no longer see the merit in contributing, and furthermore I find that reading these comment threads has become less and less valuable.
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by fifthesteight 12y ago
YES. This has been killing me for months- my clients keep crawling in my asshole and all of my efforts have changed exactly none of the problem.
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by fifthesteight 12y ago
I've been blaming my hosting company, getting everyone in their support chain to take a crack at the issue. I always just assumed that gmail was the working side of the problem, not the problem itself.
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by fifthesteight 12y ago
holy hell an active livejournal link. that's amazing. i thought G.R.R.Martin was the only remaining user.
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by fifthesteight 12y ago
I haven't used IRC since middle school, back when I was 31337. Way back from the days when there was a leading '3.' It's great you mention 'being a prick,' because that's what I said out loud as I read you
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by fifthesteight 12y ago
one of the best programmers i've ever worked with spent his time teaching himself php. he was a bright kid who made a stupid decision, but didnt let that stop him. we worked together for about 2 years and he ended up getting a couple g
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by fifthesteight 12y ago
It's really sad to me how all of us in our industry are getting slapped across the face day in and day out about how unfairly, unequally and unjustly women are treated in our industry and peripheries. You gents are too smart to still &
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by fifthesteight 12y ago
Surprise surprise hackernews downvotes comments disparaging the rampant misogyny and prejudice in our industry.
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by fifthesteight 12y ago
> People expressing a fear that minorities are receiving unjust benefits are often racist? This type of thinking in our industry needs to STOP. There is far too much evidence that women are treated like absolute shit pretty much across t
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by fifthesteight 12y ago
Mr. Doctorow is why I stopped reading BoingBoing. If you are familiar with his work this is not a-typical.
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by fifthesteight 12y ago
Interesting CPU performance in Chrome on Ubuntu! Relating to this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8471049 (Google chrome helper amok in OSX HN thread) While playing Cursors my chrome CPU usage went through-the-roof! J
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by fifthesteight 12y ago
i have been wrestling with this for weeks, both professionally and personally. I'm fairly certain that in this process/before we noticed the problem we burned up one of our machines. The thing is, there's no flash involved. W
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by fifthesteight 12y ago
You sound like a completely sane person. The use (abuse) of substances is widespread among large swaths of the majority of mental illnesses. Associating the use of marijuana specifically with schizophrenia is absurd-- schizophrenics also ab
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by fifthesteight 12y ago
Correlation is not causation.
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by fifthesteight 12y ago
Thank you, too. The patching process wasnt as much my concern as the other widespread, clever exploits that really experienced bash dudes are finding. Like we discussed, my concern is client sites hosted on a server I pay to be maintained.
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by fifthesteight 12y ago
Thank you as well. I appreciate you taking the time to answer. We don't run cgi scripts, and we seem to be predominantly in the "probably safe" category. That said, this is the reaponse I expected. I've applied some patc
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by fifthesteight 12y ago
Thank you, this is very helpful- though I was hoping to be cheap and lazy.
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As a small-time dev do I have to worry about shellshock?
3 points by fifthesteight 12y ago|6 comments
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by fifthesteight 12y ago
Your attitude continues to be less than stellar. You act like a babe in the woods who has no frame of reference and only innocently asks questions to further educate yourself. From my perspective, you condescend, and continue to do so. You
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by fifthesteight 12y ago
It's not a flippant response, but I would certainly consider yours to be. You have never suffered from addiction, therefore your frame of reference is skewed, but forgivable. Having never suffered addiction you physically and psycholog
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by fifthesteight 12y ago
Absolutely. I have taken the same list of meds as the post above yours, and thankfully as he did I have found the right medicine for me. I perceive the tone of the post above yours to be condescending, as if my experience is trumped by his
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by fifthesteight 12y ago
I am bipolar. What you describe is why it's a "hard sell" to patients with mood disorders. Yes, others will point to the higher dose for psychiatric patients. I would point to the soulless robot, the empty husk of a once vibr
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by fifthesteight 12y ago
My partner and I feel this way, but we often feel entirely alone in the opinion. It's refreshing to see it written here, knowing that there are others of this mindset.
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by fifthesteight 12y ago
I found the code itself to be beautiful, as well.
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by fifthesteight 12y ago
*human bart == white bart. (edit: caucasian)
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Tell the FCC How You Feel About Net Neutrality(apps.fcc.gov)
5 points by fifthesteight 12y ago|0 comments