kimdouglasmason

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by kimdouglasmason 11y ago
Phrases like "need to be called out" are not markers of incivility at all. You just made that up with no basis whatsoever. Looks like the HN mods are also part of the problem. Please hellban me, and enjoy your echo chamber.
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by kimdouglasmason 11y ago
And there we go again. 'optional activity'. And people wonder why there are few women in tech and the situation is not improving. The post above is your answer. Have a family, it's the end of your career, because you engaged
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by kimdouglasmason 11y ago
I was not uncivil. This kind of belittling of family has to stop. Software development has a major problem hiring women, older people, and minorities. People in the sector belittling things like children and families by using terms like &#x
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by kimdouglasmason 11y ago
I would suggest that he observed reality.
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by kimdouglasmason 11y ago
Children are a life choice? You're part of the problem.
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by kimdouglasmason 11y ago
Ageism is so rife in the tech sector in the US that people don't even notice it because it's omnipresent. I would go so far as to say that in the Bay Area, actively discriminating against anyone with the appearance of being over 4
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by kimdouglasmason 11y ago
There are vast amounts of land, even within American cities, that is very cheap. The amount of usable land for urban purposes might as well be infinite. Land is only expensive in a few select locations that have specific infrastructure and
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by kimdouglasmason 11y ago
Which kind of cable? If it's micro USB, they're designed to fail under low amounts of stress (thus sparing the much more difficult to replace port). Unless handled with kid gloves, Micro USB cables from all manufacturer break easi
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by kimdouglasmason 11y ago
Waste-of-time advertisement posing as article is waste-of-time.
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by kimdouglasmason 11y ago
Nope, definitely systemic within the company. The engine is a system that must meet certain requirements. The standard way of meeting those requirements is to have a urea injection system. That's what the competitors in the US do; it&#
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by kimdouglasmason 11y ago
Overly loose credit, the decisions of companies to centralize, and NIMBYism is driving up the cost of pretty much everything. People just move to where the work is. I have coworkers from Oregon in the Bay Area. Some would say that by moving
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by kimdouglasmason 11y ago
"at least I didn't move here from California" Yup. You being born in a state that is not California and moving to Portland makes you very superior to those living in Portland but born in California. You should put on your ver
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by kimdouglasmason 11y ago
What line? It's so bloody arbitrary as to be a useless guideline. It's about as meaningful as 'be nice'.
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by kimdouglasmason 11y ago
Rah Rah Rah! If your startup is not winning, just pivot, and be positive enough, and you will inevitably win. Selection bias doesn't exist and was made up by negative Nancys. Seriously though, stick a fork in HN. It's over. Enjoy
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by kimdouglasmason 11y ago
"Juden werden hier nicht bedient" There have been very large wars fought over this. Be careful what you wish for. The right to be a bigot, and to have one's bigotry projected by a company one creates, a company whose rights a
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by kimdouglasmason 11y ago
You keep saying this over and over... that they are not 'new', or that they are 'mundane'. I don't see a whole lot of explanation from you as to how they are wrong. Edit: as for your 'appeal to authority'
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by kimdouglasmason 11y ago
"a deeper analysis of the sort you aren't going to get from Cook" It's nice to see that you're now putting words into (or removing them from) people's mouths. How presumptuous.
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by kimdouglasmason 11y ago
Why does the argument have to be 'new' or 'deep'. Many of the best arguments are extremely old (perhaps timeless would be a better way of saying it), and are also very simple in their logic.
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by kimdouglasmason 11y ago
Did they? It's in their 'opinions' section; it's an op-ed. The headline is "Tim Cook: Pro-discrimination ‘religious freedom’ laws are dangerous". I honestly don't know how a newspaper can make it more clea
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by kimdouglasmason 11y ago
On this one, I think both shard972 and gotothrowaway are both equally correct. Business isn't a monolithic entity, nor is the 'business community'. I'm not sure arguing down this line makes much sense, as it's very
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by kimdouglasmason 11y ago
Wat? Tim Cook wrote it. He's a gay man. But apparently it's not Tim Cook who is using this as a 'rhetorical cudgel' (whatever that is). It's WaPo. I don't know what to make of this. One interpretation is that W
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by kimdouglasmason 11y ago
"This is bizarre. In what way does a 21st-century economy depend on inter-racial marriage? Am I too cynical for thinking this probably has more to do with PR and/or company morale?" I fixed it for you.
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by kimdouglasmason 11y ago
It's a technique that one uses to cut through with people who don't care about anything but the bottom line. Essentially, you say that first and foremost, it's bad for business. Plus, it also has some negative effects on soci
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by kimdouglasmason 12y ago
I have found that simply using Firefox with third party cookies turned off, along with the PrivacyBadger plugin and no flash installation provides a pretty good experience, while making you generally untrackable unless ip tracking, cache tr
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by kimdouglasmason 12y ago
This x 1000000! In the medium to long term, it's Eurozone breakup (either partial or complete) or fiscal (and thus political) integration. I estimate the chance of the Germans ever admitting that the current system is skewed in their f
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by kimdouglasmason 12y ago
Even better, once house prices stop outpacing wages and the average Joe realizes, we'll be in the situation where it is much cheaper to rent than buy, and stuff the difference into an index fund, which will yield much better than housi
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by kimdouglasmason 12y ago
An observation: My street address is XXXX Martin Luther King Jr Way, Apt XXX The number of organizations that accept the address, but chop off the apartment number when they send mail because it is too long is ridiculous. Even better, it te
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by kimdouglasmason 12y ago
That statement is so general that it's meaningless. It's like saying you don't like the weather in America. The US has enormous variations in zoning regulations.
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by kimdouglasmason 12y ago
"I still see uptime in terms of weeks including mandatory reboots due to OS updates." This now applies to every OS out there. Windows, iOS, Linux, ChromeOS (aka Linux :). It's simply not a bragging point anymore. "I thin
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by kimdouglasmason 12y ago
You're comparing market share (in your link) to revenue figures (in the post you responded to). Apples and oranges. Over a 2 year time-frame (end of 2012 to end of 2014), Mac revenue increased by a measly 3.6%. iPhone revenue increased

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