gorkonsine

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by gorkonsine 9y ago
>I have never encountered anyone near these levels of sexism in many years of working in the tech industry (albeit in Sweden). Nor have I, albeit in the US (even in the parts that are Trump-land). You're European, so maybe you know
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by gorkonsine 9y ago
Not exactly. Suppose you're living in Saudi Arabia as a woman, and men there are treating you very poorly and in a sexist manner. Should you conclude that "men have a big problem with sexism"? No. The correct conclusion is
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by gorkonsine 9y ago
Which one will? You can't bring a lawsuit unless you have standing. Does Oracle want to sue? I kinda doubt it: if they did, they would have done so by now. Is the Linux Foundation going to sue? Why would they? Who exactly would st
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by gorkonsine 9y ago
>My kids played with it a few times on long drive to tell me where he spotted the police car(s) There's something seriously wrong with society when both kids and their parents are working together to evade the police, and obviously
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by gorkonsine 9y ago
That's fine, just don't complain about it then.
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by gorkonsine 9y ago
They have less time to spend it themselves. Sure, they can give it to some charity, or their kids, but when you have a lot of money when you're young, you have far more time to do stuff with that money yourself. Someone with one foot
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by gorkonsine 9y ago
You can't do this any more if you're stuck with the very latest infotainment firmware version. It locks out the tweaks. Even if you don't have it yet, be careful because your dealer might "helpfully" install it on
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by gorkonsine 9y ago
What chemicals could you possibly need in your water? There aren't any; the only thing you'd reasonably want in there are some minerals to make it taste good (totally pure water tastes pretty nasty actually). If you're talk
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by gorkonsine 9y ago
It is. People who have to resort to drinking bottled water because the tap water is unsafe do live in a third world country. Draw whatever conclusion from that that you like.
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by gorkonsine 9y ago
I'm curious: if you run that substandard tap water through a reverse-osmosis system, how clean is the resulting water?
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by gorkonsine 9y ago
I fail to see the problem. If you don't like Windows, don't use it. They're under no obligation to support whatever hardware you want to use. In reality, people are going to do whatever it takes to keep using Windows, and if
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by gorkonsine 9y ago
There are some such teachers, but it's a totally mixed bag and for every good teacher, there's a couple of lousy ones. This comes down to the administration, since they control hiring and firing, the work environment, etc.
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by gorkonsine 9y ago
I haven't asked any that particular question, but I see no reason to think that many religious people, engineers or not, would answer that they believe that unbelievers are incapable of being the best kind of citizens. That's a p
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by gorkonsine 9y ago
>I don't know any scientists or engineers who would be willing to sign on to this kind of bigotry I guess you don't know many engineers, or you only know software engineers in Silicon Valley or something. Engineers, in my expe
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by gorkonsine 9y ago
If you're talking about the US, no kids are getting the support and role models they need in the schools.
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by gorkonsine 9y ago
Writing code in leisure time has given us some really great FOSS applications. But like many things, it's a double-edged sword: it's also given us Gnome3 and a lot of today's unnecessary churn. However, unlike little 1-man
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by gorkonsine 9y ago
The counterargument to this is that Apple does not have a monopoly, or anything even close to it, even in the mobile device space. It's of course the most profitable company there, but its Android competitors sell far more phones than
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by gorkonsine 9y ago
There's really no way to know without doing an extensive survey/study, but from what I've seen personally in the dating market, I think it's more a case of high-status-career women being overly picky than them running in
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by gorkonsine 9y ago
Unless you have a private jet, or perhaps you only fly first-class, I'm not sure how you actually sleep or get any work done on one. As someone who's over 6 feet, I'm so cramped in a modern plane that that alone makes it pre
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by gorkonsine 9y ago
>any UI that requires clicking "start" to shutdown is in wastebin and rightfully so. Citation needed. Windows 10 still requires this, they just don't label the button "start" any more (nor does any other UI I&#x
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by gorkonsine 9y ago
The problem is too many people with too much time on their hands. For the commercial teams, they're in-place and receiving a paycheck, so their managers want to make themselves and their teams look like they justify their salaries, so
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by gorkonsine 9y ago
>3 months ago I would have agreed but they have announced that for their next LTS 18.04 they are dropping unity in favor of Gnome3. No, it's still true. They didn't want to drop Unity at all; they did it because they were forc
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by gorkonsine 9y ago
Liberty versus authoritarianism? I acknowledge such people exist, but I don't pretend to know or understand their full argument of why it should be regulated. At least with the religious people, I can understand why , I just rejec
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by gorkonsine 9y ago
UIs don't need to look the same, and there's no reason they should. Choice is a good thing. The problem, however, is a lack of interoperability: Gtk apps look like shit in KDE and vice-versa. There's no good reason for t
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by gorkonsine 9y ago
>I think it makes quite a bit of sense if you're at all interested in having children and staying home with them for any amount of years to worry about the income of your partner. Sure it does, but these days very few women stay hom
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by gorkonsine 9y ago
It's interesting, but it doesn't surprise me one bit. It's exactly like what the article posits: that women marry equal or up, and men don't care that much. Obviously, it doesn't matter if the men are gay or strai
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by gorkonsine 9y ago
I've used Linux on the desktop since about 1999. It's not "great"; it has a lot of problems. But it is indeed better (IMO) than the alternatives, which are MacOSX (proprietary, tied to limited and expensive hardware),
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by gorkonsine 9y ago
Paying your taxes funds real crimes too. Should I stop paying taxes? According to you, the people in the Underground Railroad were doing the wrong thing, and should have followed the prevailing laws on slavery, and it was wrong for slaves
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by gorkonsine 9y ago
I agree that it's a valid choice to make, and people should have the freedom to make such choices if they want. However, you said before that "It makes no difference to anyone if homosexuality is innate, or just a set of chosen b
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by gorkonsine 9y ago
You have to balance what you're doing now with where you want your career to go, whether you like where you are now (work, location, etc.), and how much you're getting paid. If you're getting paid a lot to occupy a niche tha

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