railsdude

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by railsdude 12y ago
If the company folds, everyone else loses their job. So, why is your family more important than everyone else's?
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by railsdude 12y ago
For some people that would be a lot of effort, since the only value they can bring into relationships is their genitalia.
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by railsdude 12y ago
> I would think that OKC, etc. would in the end benefit from their contribution. That's BS and you know it. If that were the case, OP's startup should've bought ads on OKC and OKC would be glad to sell ad space. I really
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by railsdude 12y ago
It's not "spamming", it's Growth Hacking ™.
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by railsdude 12y ago
The cynic in me says that by increasing the number of programmers available they can pay less. The same reason, I believe, why FB is so keen about immigration.
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by railsdude 12y ago
Except that feminists doesn't seem to like BitBucket as well.
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by railsdude 13y ago
Except there's no rug [1] anymore, JAH made sure of that. [1] http://readwrite.com/2014/01/24/github-meritocracy-rug
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by railsdude 13y ago
> Asians are considered privileged academically. In America they get better grades than average, on average. So studying more and harder and partying less is considered a privilege?
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by railsdude 13y ago
The only people "being beaten up" are the black blocs and rightfully, IMHO. And it's not daily.
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by railsdude 13y ago
> Python == Snake == Slang for male genitalia You jest, but in 2012 someone from the PSF made a "joke", at PyCon, asking people, men and women: "want to see my one-eyed snake?". Unfortunately, the same Python feminist
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by railsdude 13y ago
We should compile in a Wiki (or something similar) everything that might make someone uncomfortable. That way, we can look up and make sure this thing never happens. Then, with any luck, a strawperson (not strawman ) will never feel like t
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by railsdude 13y ago
> that privilege doesn't exist because you haven't been on the wrong side does no good to yourself or society. Know who is on the wrong side? Poor people born in 3rd world countries, with no food, jobs, infrastructure, nothing
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by railsdude 13y ago
Link to yesterday's discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7064470 - "The Next Phase of Node.js"
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by railsdude 13y ago
That's beyond distasteful. Node.js seems to be the new Rails/Ruby community, from a couple of years ago, drama-wise. And, ironically, this is on his profile: "I don't look at this site much, because it turns people into
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by railsdude 14y ago
It's nice to see the difference between someone who sees something wrong and actually does something about it just because and someone who asks the Internet for money and deliver a video 9 months later. Also, for something that took 9 mon
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by railsdude 14y ago
Thank god there's a picture of a fat dude on the page. Had it been a picture of a hot girl in a bikini and we'd hear drama about this for a week.