starchy

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by starchy 8y ago
CDNs are great, but can we stop upvoting abusive headlines?
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by starchy 9y ago
I would also want to see a privacy policy before installing something like this.
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by starchy 15y ago
FWIW, this resume got me an offer on my dream job (the contract isn't signed yet, so I don't want to say what/where). I can't say for sure I wouldn't have pulled it off with a boring one, but it sounded like it helped get my foot in the doo
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by starchy 17y ago
The set of all men plus all women is greater than the set of all men. If you find that concept appalling, more power to you.
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by starchy 17y ago
"I'm not sure that being a software developer is really that great a prize..." How many software developers give it all up to become housekeepers? Not everyone is best suited for any one job, of course, but that hardly suggests that any on
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by starchy 17y ago
What you've done here is to create a straw man by asserting that gender and race are always meaningless criteria. Adding more developers who don't happen to be white and male to the workforce and to books like these helps to create more
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by starchy 17y ago
I wonder if this will work inside IE Tab in Firefox. So far as I can tell, it should (and without the performance hit of running VirtualBox inside VMware, at that).
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by starchy 17y ago
An excellent discussion of how the open source community often tends to (unintentionally) exclude women, and what individual projects can do reverse that trend.
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by starchy 17y ago
re: BRadmin "Facebook Username Easter Egg? facebook.com/TheMostInterestingManAlive directs to your FB homepage." facebook.com/TheMostInterestingWomanAlive, on the other hand, returns Page not Found. This all works out ok for me, but my gir