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MrDomon The Next Chapter – moot retires from 4chan

especially in the company of the people who usually inhabit this website.

It gets easier to understand when you realize most of us were bullied as kids. It becomes a natural instinct to herd together and protect our own. It's less because some of those people have media connections and more because those media connections happen to be people they consider friends and loved ones. At that point, emotional bias takes over.

Or, to put it another way, if somebody told you your mother was a murderer, would you believe him, no matter what evidence he presented? Even if he had a video of the event, it would be easier for you to believe that the tape had been doctored than for you to believe this person you loved could do something so terrible. At least it would be for me.

I'm not excusing it, mind you, just explaining it.

MrDomon The Next Chapter – moot retires from 4chan

Read this article and tell me how this is overblown.

http://www.breitbart.com/london/2014/09/17/exposed-the-secre...

MrDomon Being a good networker pays off, but it requires skill as well as shamelessness

you are implying that this minimal understanding of the software life cycle is better for engineers at his company than integrity and a desire to see engineers justly rewarded for their efforts.

I implied no such thing. I'm making a generalization. Your statements so far consist of "Yes, but what if he's an irredeemable sociopath? It's better to have a non-sociopath who doesn't understand software than a sociopath who does." I agree with that, but those aren't the only two options on the table and I refuse to believe the worst in somebody I've never met and only know through an anecdote in a hacker news comment.

MrDomon The Next Chapter – moot retires from 4chan

But I know you'll choose to believe what best advances your existing prejudice.

I choose to believe what I can prove. You provide nothing of substance. Empty words and air. You work for ABC news and not TC. Ok, great. What does that have to do with Moot?

MrDomon The Next Chapter – moot retires from 4chan

He provides links to facts and actual emails. What do you provide, besides indignation?

MrDomon Windows 10: The Next Chapter [video]

I stand corrected about NTFS and journaling. I don't know, maybe I'm looking backwards with brown colored glasses, but I remember NTFS being a serious weakness of Windows. Has that changed?

MrDomon The Next Chapter – moot retires from 4chan

You're not as far off as you think.

http://www.breitbart.com/london/2014/09/17/exposed-the-secre...

MrDomon The Next Chapter – moot retires from 4chan

Thank you for refusing to engage. You make the rest of us look so damned good. You disagree, but you won't say why? You say we're wrong, but won't say why? That's a good way to encourage open debate.

BTW: this guy is a journalist for TechCrunch. I only mention it because it explains why he doesn't want to actually debate the topic.

MrDomon Hands-On with Microsoft's New Holographic Goggles

This makes me want to get a dev kit and create a prank exploit that puts a 3d clippy in the corner of your view that you can't get rid of. :D

MrDomon Being a good networker pays off, but it requires skill as well as shamelessness

I know there are people who climb the ladder in the manner in which you state. Is this guy one of them? Maybe. Maybe not. But one thing is certain: at the very least, he has the base minimal understanding of the software life cycle, which is always beneficial in a manager. Even one who shirks responsibility for visibility. ;)

MrDomon The Next Chapter – moot retires from 4chan

If 4chan was a traditional for profit business, I would agree with you. That's not what 4chan is, though. Moot's given talks on the value of anonymous conversation. His view was that it's the only way to have truly free speech, free of racial, social or sexual bias. Where ideas and ideas alone are exchanged. I imagine his opinion on that has changed over the years. That's fine. But in the process, he alienated the very people he created the site for, his core audience.

Ridicule is a natural response to perceived betrayal.

PS: the downvote brigading here is getting out of hand.

MrDomon The Next Chapter – moot retires from 4chan

What's weird about the idea that somebody you're sleeping with could affect your judgement?

MrDomon The Next Chapter – moot retires from 4chan

I do think he deserves ridicule, but not for that. He stood up for the ideals of free, anonymous speech. He believed in it. But he eventually buckled under the weight of it. He was a hero for holding out as long as he did, but all heroes fall. What he's become now is worthy of ridicule.

MrDomon Being a good networker pays off, but it requires skill as well as shamelessness

A programmer in a management or CEO role could make the lives of every programmer underneath him better. After all, he actually knows how to make software. By extension, he knows what's possible and what's not, what's reasonable schedule-wise and what's not. Most managers/CEOs don't.

MrDomon The Next Chapter – moot retires from 4chan

That's something that I haven't seen mentioned yet: The last few years, Moot has appeared to have nothing but contempt for the people who post on his site. I imagine a decade of being marinated in the worst the internet has to offer would do that to anybody.

MrDomon The Next Chapter – moot retires from 4chan

I don't know why this is downvoted. Moot is involved with somebody at Gawker Media. If he is getting social pressure about "sexist" or "misogynistic" content, like pervycreeper claims, it's not out of line to suggest she could be a huge influence on his behavior.

MrDomon Windows 10: The Next Chapter [video]

I agree on principle, but not necessarily in practice. I go back and forth between Linux and Mac every couple of years, but haven't touched windows since XP. And I won't until they offer a journaled filesystem and a halfway decent shell. What can I say, Mac and Linux have spoiled me. ;)

MrDomon Mockups: How Apple can catch up to Yelp reviews and Google ratings overnight

But a five star rating system that aggregates the opinions of my friends and colleagues (i.e. people whose tastes tend to be positively correlated with my own)

You don't befriend people who have different tastes or opinions than you? Most of my friends don't even like the same food as each other. Some use mac, some use Windows, some use Linux. How sure are you that those ratings would be more useful than those of the general population?

Also, didn't facebook try this out at one point? Facebook would seem to me to be a perfect platform for this type of service.

MrDomon Why I no longer contribute to StackOverflow

The post is over a year old. Previous discussion[0].

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6990570

MrDomon A Case Study of Toyota Unintended Acceleration and Software Safety

That's interesting. I graduated in 2005 from an engineering college and none of the engineers went into Comp Sci if they couldn't cut it in EE/ME/AE/ChemE. They went into "Engineering and Management" instead, which was basically a business degree for engineers.

MrDomon Another Theory to Explain 10X Programmers

In this particular case, isn't "10x" just a factor of IQ then? Smarter programmers get complicated things done faster. That seems like a no-brainer. Problem is, how many of those people actually exist in programming? A much smaller subset than exist in the world, which is already a small subset of the general population. Hinging your company on hiring nothing but 10x programmers is like trying to hire a unicorn.

MrDomon Taiwanese startup Gogoro reveals an electric scooter designed for commuters

SF already has a network of electric scooters[0]. They're underpowered, but they're great unless you're going up one of the big hills.

[0]: http://scootnetworks.com

MrDomon Nvidia Tegra X1 Preview and Architecture Analysis

Money. They release proprietary drivers, but Linux isn't a big enough segment of their client base for them to spend a ton of time and money getting the drivers right. If there was a linux based distro that was able to compete with Apple and Microsoft, then things might be different.

MrDomon Why I Quit OS X – Geoff Wozniak

Thank you. It's getting to be a rare event that I get an answer to a question on HN. I really appreciate it. :)

MrDomon Why I Quit OS X – Geoff Wozniak

I have a w530 running linux and couldn't agree more about the hybrid graphics. It's caused me so much grief I almost switched to windows.

MrDomon Why I Quit OS X – Geoff Wozniak

I've tried Debian, arch and several flavors of Ubuntu (like #!). The quirks aren't in the OS, they're in the shitty drivers, which are common to all linux based oses. Just because you don't personally see an issue doesn't mean others don't. The inconsistency across hardware is a large reason apple forces people to use their OS only on approved hardware.

MrDomon Why I Quit OS X – Geoff Wozniak

What's an affordance? I've never heard that term in this context before.

MrDomon Why I Quit OS X – Geoff Wozniak

You obviously don't punish your poor system as much as I do. ;)

MrDomon Why I Quit OS X – Geoff Wozniak

I dual boot windows and ubuntu. They both have their good points and their bad points.

> Nine out of ten Ubuntu or Mint installs will go off without a hitch

Even when the installs go off without a hitch, there are always lingering pain in the ass problems and they're all related to buggy drivers, bad UI tools and dependency hell. Every time I think about making my own distro, I come back to those three big problems and think: the last two are fixable. The drivers... not so much.

MrDomon The Science and Art of Practicing

> getting a good night's sleep each night is definitely crucial for learning anything challenging.

That makes me wonder why sleep deprivation is such a large part of the college experience.