joaren

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by joaren 12y ago
A year from now the people who turned their avatars purple today won't remember the hash tag or what it was for. This isn't about one kid dying, or many kids dying. It's about a bunch of people frantically acting to hide thei
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by joaren 12y ago
Try being a bit less condescending. Just because someone thinks displays like this are hypocritical doesn't mean they are heartless. It could mean they are acutely aware that the only reason people care about this is incidental circums
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by joaren 12y ago
Right, "educated", on their false statistics? Like Shanley Kane's claim that men have a much easier time getting a 6 figure job out of college... except that unemployment among male college graduates is 50% higher than women&
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by joaren 12y ago
For Christ's sake, are you incapable of making a coherent argument? Your own list is inconsistent, lumping together ineffectual platitude salesmen and corrupt politicians with product developers. If you'd manage to extract your he
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by joaren 12y ago
Nice straw man. Most of those actually produce something useful, and there is a direct relationship between money given and product delivered. I mean Jesus, earlier I saw Ashe Dryden complain that Gittip "doesn't care about her sa
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by joaren 12y ago
I never liked Gittip because of how it advertises its top earners and givers... it stops being about rewarding good work and starts to become a game of who can score the most validation points and use them for political gain. Yelling on Twi
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by joaren 12y ago
Who the hell cares about definitions? Oh right, mathematicians, and they manage to make a beautiful subject terribly boring by insisting it's all about manipulating symbols, instead of the underlying structures they represent. I mean,
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by joaren 12y ago
Because today, despite 60% of college grads being female, only 16% of comp sci students are women. Choices. Agency. Isn't that what equality is supposed to be about?
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by joaren 12y ago
Oh good, you replied to factual statistics with a bunch of feel good nonsense from Jezebel, which we all know is a respected journal in the social sciences.
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by joaren 12y ago
And it's exactly this sort of visceral reaction that will keep the "women are victims" meme going long after we're all dead. It's evolutionarily beneficial, after all, we are descended from twice as many women as me
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by joaren 12y ago
Really? I've had several links posted to metafilter, in every instance the comment thread was full of petty, small minded nagging. Seems like just another 'intellectual' echo chamber to me.
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by joaren 12y ago
Absolutely. Go look at the Middle East, visit Tehran. See how many 80 year old male taxi drivers there are. The men are obliged to support to women into old age, who are legally entitled to privileges. See how many 80 year old women do the
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by joaren 12y ago
Exactly. What's going on is that the feminists of MVC are looking at the extremes: extreme abuse, or extreme success. What they don't care about is that this is an industry where 40 hour work weeks are a luxury, and the average ne
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by joaren 12y ago
The fact that you seriously say "our website is not the product" shows how utterly misguided you are in your marketing. I am not trying to be mean, this is simple and logical advice. You make a platform for making websites. Your w
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by joaren 12y ago
If you work insane hours for over a year, your company is broken. That is a problem of time allocation and unrealistic expectations, and has no bearing on the quality or usefulness of the work being done. As for "capable of doing amazi
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by joaren 12y ago
No, this comment was factual, and consists of all the questions clearly nobody is asking loudly enough at famous HQ.
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by joaren 12y ago
I find myself agreeing with most of what you wrote, and yet, it doesn't matter. You keep sabotaging yourselves. Does no-one do QA? Do you not have a Steve Jobs-esque character who has taste and an eye for detail and who can look at thi
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by joaren 12y ago
Go open a theatre, you're great at projecting. The problem is exactly that I'm supposed to love Linux and Mozilla, because these are the approved choices of the Free Software World. As a result, both suck, and none of the people i
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by joaren 12y ago
Are you for real? Mozilla gets $300 million per year from Google to maintain the pretense of freedom. Meanwhile I have to pay my own bills and deliver projects that my clients will pay for. To bring money into this argument and somehow blam
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by joaren 12y ago
Oh really? Mozilla brought this on itself when they took the epic lead they had with Firebug and utterly squandered it by thinking real dev tools were not something a browser should include out of the box, in favour of an utterly useless &q
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by joaren 12y ago
No, he used a figure of speech, which you chose to interpret in the least useful way possible.
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by joaren 12y ago
It's a pretty crappy experience. I'm reading an article, suddenly the text decides to move left for 'no good reason' to create a narrow but empty sidebar. WTF? I don't like reading things on the left side of my moni
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by joaren 12y ago
> by what metrics? it uses less RAM, runs faster JS, renders faster, is easier to write add-ons for, is more in line with the HTML5 feature-set... Does everyone at Mozilla get a shiny new Retina MacBook or something? Because on my machin
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by joaren 12y ago
No, what you're saying is the opposite of intriguing. It was exactly what I expected: an admission that CSS is insufficient for "really advanced layouts" without JavaScript.
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by joaren 12y ago
So how do you make it so that text always sizes to fit its container, vertically and horizontally? i.e. Sliding font size and letter spacing. Pixel perfect on any screen?