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A programmer's guide to leaving GitHub(lord.io)
20 points by stackptr 8mo ago|10 comments
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by stackptr 6y ago
My opinion based on going through the clearance process for the NSA is that the federal gov't is fairly pragmatic and the anti-drug use policy is primarily a way of ensuring state secrets are not leaked, via extortion, bribery, etc. Fo
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by stackptr 7y ago
One line of thinking around requiring usage of preferred pronouns is that normalizing the act of giving/asking for pronouns allows for more inclusive spaces. For instance, if someone is transitioning between genders it might not be obv
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by stackptr 9y ago
It's a little buggy but I can definitely see the potential. I freelance several web projects and while each stack is thankfully quite similar, switching contexts requires me to open a terminal with a few tabs, running whatever servers
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by stackptr 9y ago
Sounds like the convenient POV from someone already well represented in the industry. Dismissing issues of diversity as being tangential to the core business of, well, business, is sensible from an, ahem, business-perspective. And from a hu
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by stackptr 10y ago
Likely because people are emboldened to action when they see themselves in those who are being unjustly treated. It's no secret that Silicon Valley is not terribly representative of black people, veterans, and so on. If this is a fault
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by stackptr 10y ago
Seems to me that you're describing the exact sort of psychological tactic that software vendors favor to get people to install the bloatware in the first place.
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by stackptr 12y ago
thanks for making this page insufferable to read.