marginalboy

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by marginalboy 13y ago
I doubt you'd get it from an FOIA request. I believe there's an exemption that covers work like this.
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by marginalboy 13y ago
They messed up my "back" button. Party foul.
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by marginalboy 14y ago
It is relevant. The entire predicate of this situation was that she is offended by such jokes because they oppress women (a bizarre and utterly arbitrary conclusion, by the way). If an overheard joke made between friends is oppressive to wo
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by marginalboy 14y ago
No, it is hypocrisy. She was clearly feigning offense. She eavesdropped her way into internet infamy and her behavior was so extraordinarily irrational, I'm disappointed the PyCon organizers (and everyone else who has encountered this story
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by marginalboy 14y ago
Am I cultivating a hyperactive sense of irony if I point out that, instead of turning around and asking them to take it elsewhere (as a mature adult ought to have done), she played the "damsel in distress" card and tweeted to thousands of p
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by marginalboy 14y ago
I honestly think it's more of a statement on the mediocre management of tech workers than the productivity of those workers.
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by marginalboy 14y ago
I don't think you're being very fair. You're suggesting a false dichotomy.
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by marginalboy 14y ago
I tried several times over several hours and never could get the thing to work :-(
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by marginalboy 14y ago
On my mobile device, it was nearly unusable...
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by marginalboy 14y ago
I think it sounds promising. As much as my habits are solidly in the "file explorer" space, I can see its limitations. But, in order to even convince me there's a viable alternative, the user interface of something like Collections has to
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by marginalboy 14y ago
It also seemed to break my back button after I went to the sign up page. I had to type the HN url to get back here after I finished. That was annoying.
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by marginalboy 14y ago
This, exactly. Great tool, but having no experience with Mongo yet, I literally said aloud "So verbose...!" when I saw the translation.
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by marginalboy 14y ago
I was casually browsing the site, but honestly it wasn't until I came back to the HN comments that I realized there was more than one package with more than one price.
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by marginalboy 14y ago
And it appears the bottom-feeder subclass of redditors has spilled over :-(
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by marginalboy 14y ago
That's classy.
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by marginalboy 14y ago
As soon as I walked away for some more water, I realized I had missed the point ;-)
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by marginalboy 14y ago
I don't know; I feel like this would get complicated far more quickly than the FOIL method...
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by marginalboy 14y ago
One can't help but suspect these players are acting in concert, to manufacture the most ridiculous exercises of technology patent abuse, so as to motivate the public and Congress to advocate for a reconsideration of the whole mess...
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by marginalboy 14y ago
Classic case of "just because you can doesn't mean you should"...
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by marginalboy 14y ago
Great work, Evernote! That's pretty darn cool :-)
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by marginalboy 14y ago
Signed up already! Great job on it. By way of exchange, I'll offer what meager observations my usability & QA expertise inform when I start using :-)
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by marginalboy 14y ago
I came here to say "how the hell can I get a backspac.es account". Loved it, absolutely loved it.
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by marginalboy 14y ago
This is from 2009. Is there news on whether the charges were valid?
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by marginalboy 14y ago
I've managed a high volume call center for 15 years and I agree with this very much. In my experience, it can be easy to view customers with cynicism. But answering an extreme principle with another extreme principle isn't useful, either. I
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by marginalboy 14y ago
Whether or not the rule that the "customer is always right" applies is context-dependent. In an educational environment, for example, we can't embrace this principle; it is contrary to our mission to leave people with misinformation that ca
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by marginalboy 14y ago
iPhone app looks great! Two things I noticed quickly: the swipe-to-sign up wasn't immediately obvious to me, and since I'm typing on the phone, I probably wouldn't mind entering my password twice to be sure I didn't fat-finger it. If you're
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by marginalboy 14y ago
I think you missed the point. The author clearly stated he was willing to whitelist a site he wants to use. There are good reasons for someone not to browse arbitrary sites with JS enabled by default if they choose, from security to memory
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by marginalboy 14y ago
That's a "feature"? It's probably the most aggravating characteristic of Instagram for me, and it's the reason I don't take all my pics with the app...
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by marginalboy 14y ago
Great idea with the blurring solution. But, being really honest, I'd say the biggest issue confronting you right now is design: it does not look professional or trustworthy. When your brand is based on a notion of trust (that's essentially
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by marginalboy 15y ago
It isn't surprising if Facebook has a large, highly coupled code base. Given their reputation for tight timelines and maverick-advocacy, I'm continually surprised the thing works at all.

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