theevocater

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by theevocater 12y ago
shout out to your casual misogyny: > Great. Then the relatively physically weak, the infirm, the elderly, the women, will be at the mercy of the strong as if women are somehow magically incapable defending themselves.
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by theevocater 12y ago
Well, if women are leaving faster than men and often cite reasons of being bullied or otherwise forced out by men... why would women desire to enter that workforce?
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by theevocater 12y ago
This is the most patronizing thing I've read in a while. Women don't magically have some (ableist) disadvantage that prevents them from participating. The thing that keeps them from participating is men bullying them and forcing t
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by theevocater 13y ago
What you are missing here is that the trolls friends still show up in the original persons mentions. So rather than the troll disappearing and interacting stopping it allows the abuse to spread. The new system put the onus on the person bei
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by theevocater 13y ago
Yeah Houston (I'm assuming you are talking about Houston) is a really progressive place. I do love Austin (its a young city and I'm a young person) but its not some shining light in the center of Texas. It's really not that different than a
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by theevocater 14y ago
see http://pycon.blogspot.com/2013/03/pycons-response-to-inaprop...
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by theevocater 14y ago
Just, why is everyone focusing on the smokescreen of he said/she said? Who cares! He broke a federal law!
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by theevocater 14y ago
So wait, this guy was smoking some weed (I assume) in the middle of a con and got banned. Why is this even questioned? Whether you agree with smoking weed or not, he committed a crime during a PyCon event.
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by theevocater 14y ago
also, cmd-l (go to the awesomebar) and start with a ? to always search. you can also have different engines ?cat will search your default engine for cat i have one for ddg so ddg cat searches duck duck go for cat etc. its
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by theevocater 14y ago
Isn't this more the arena of a procedural than federal law? This definitely seems more feel good than reality. I believe the court precedent is called "legislative entrenchment"[1] which seems to prevent Congress from passing these laws tha
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by theevocater 14y ago
While I happen to agree with you, I'm trying to make the point that even people emotionally invested in their hatred of pornography should see that this law is faulty. Even if we happened to disagree on the specifics of obscenity, this law
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by theevocater 14y ago
Just what citizens need: a the government watching everything you do! Regardless of how you feel about pornography or other "obscene" content, this kind of power will be abused. Even if Iceland, arbiters of good taste, manage to use it enti
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by theevocater 14y ago
Talk about playing right into the pirate bay's hands. The Pirate Bay can sue the CIAPC and put on a show about how even copyright's defenders mess up.
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by theevocater 14y ago
This would be the one sticking point for me: it seems Apple has never really cared about games, so it is unclear they will start caring.
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by theevocater 14y ago
I wish it well but my assumption is that it will fail :( Hardware is hard; software is hard; distribution is hard; but they want to do all of it all at once. I wish them the best but I don't see them lasting unless they get acquired
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by theevocater 14y ago
Think about the long term though. Apple has already convinced millions of people to put the AppleTV in their homes. With a simple update they could enable iDevices and an App Store to allow developers to do crazy stuff. Then at next iterat
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by theevocater 14y ago
I'm vaguely imaging a scenario where they don't sell anything resembling a console, but expect you to own some sort of iDevice to go a long with your AppleTV, or maybe sell it with a iPod touch? But yeah, I could see your scenario happening
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by theevocater 14y ago
Oh wow, good point I totally forgot about valve holy crap. That should be soon! I'm not sure Apple will/would do it, but I think they have the muscle. They aren't competing with CoD, they are competing with Tetris. They want you to buy an
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by theevocater 14y ago
I am super curious. Sony is at a huge turning point here. They are faltering badly and sort of stumbling around. For example, they released the new PSP and the Xperia Play last year which are basically direct competitors. They have all kind
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by theevocater 14y ago
I've been shouting this for as long as I could: Once Apple (or maybe an Android company or even someone new) enters this market in earnest, Microsoft/Sony/Nintendo should take watch. Apple has the infrastructure to deliver games, has tiny/m
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by theevocater 14y ago
I think you are underestimating how much the general population wants apps
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by theevocater 14y ago
Why should a user "know" they got a cached page and not that more phones came up for sale? How could you possibly spin this as somehow being the users fault for not "knowing"?
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by theevocater 14y ago
Have you ever sat in traffic? I used to commute in Houston and even with a fairly decent filter on the A/C it stunk.
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by theevocater 14y ago
I don't know why people are writing off stinks/toxic/noisy. As someone who has at various times lived near large roadways, this is a huge concern. Car pollution is a really big problem
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by theevocater 14y ago
Honestly I'm just blown away at how decent this article is. I feel like most NYT articles I read on internet-ish companies come totally miss the point but this hit Kickstarter perfectly. After rounds of negative press for Kickstarter, it
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by theevocater 14y ago
I've attempted to use them various times and every single time they've failed to be of use to me. The whole gtalk + video being combined with google+ hangouts has not worked well at all for me so far.
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by theevocater 14y ago
Amazing work both teams. Video conf is still such a painful thing on the web despite everyone's repeated attempts to make it work. Anything that makes it easier and simpler for users is a huge win.
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by theevocater 14y ago
Wrong thread?
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by theevocater 14y ago
This was the only one I disagreed with. Everyone said GCC was it forever, yet here we are ushering in an age of llvm/clang/etc. SVN was decidedly dethroned by git (and also mercurial). I think you can cherry-pick places where monocultures
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by theevocater 14y ago
Just because he said what you were thinking doesn't make him right or the argument right. These feelings of frustration and anger are pretty normal with depression and its ugly cousin suicide. Depression and suicide aren't feelings that yo

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