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anu_gupta··on Ex-Googler says she exposed company-wide pay inequality with spreadsheet
An astonishing attitude.

Perhaps, if you ever end up managing people, you'll hopefully take a step back and contemplate investigating whether there was, in fact, a valid concern.

anu_gupta··on The New York Times uses WebRTC to gather local IP addresses
The EFF have a tool that shows how unique your browser fingerprint is: https://panopticlick.eff.org/

It's pretty scary

anu_gupta··on Numi: Beautiful calculator app for Mac you will love to use every day
Does this support hex/oct/binary? Doesn't seem to - that would be a very useful addition.
anu_gupta··on [dead]
Flagged as a bullshit article from that hateful troll, Louise Mensch.

This is a better version of the story

http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2015/07/01/tim_hunt...

anu_gupta··on BingoCardCreator.com Sale Page
> FACT: it would be good judgment for you to stay away from these threads. You lack good judgment.

That is not a fact. I don't know anyone involved here, but you really are looking like a troll with an agenda.

anu_gupta··on WooThemes joins Automattic
Download wp-cli. (http://wp-cli.org/)

  wp seach-replace 'old domain' 'new domain'
Done
anu_gupta··on Firing Well
> Last time I was fired because someone didn't like my visage.

Lesson learnt - never fade to grey in a work situation.

anu_gupta··on Hn Downvote notes
Looking at the greyed out comments on this post, I think it's fairly obvious why they've been downvoted.
anu_gupta··on GoPro's CEO honors a costly promise
What, you think Europeans don't lie and cheat as well?
anu_gupta··on David Chang's New Startup: A Restaurant Without the Restaurant
Deliverance has a fixed and fairly extensive menu, which has minor seasonal updates, compared to this, where the menu is very limited and changes daily.
anu_gupta··on Under Pressure
I've never seen anyone swimming in it - plenty of kayakers and narrow boats though.
anu_gupta··on The guy making it easy to 3D print yourself a real gun
You do realise that first list shows 24 school shootings in Europe, since 1913, don't you?

24 in over one hundred years.

Here's the list for the US:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_school_shootings_in_the...

anu_gupta··on The guy making it easy to 3D print yourself a real gun
> All places where the right to own and bear firearms is non-existent or substantially impeded.

And very happily so. We all seem to manage to get by without them

anu_gupta··on My life in London's houseboat slums (2014)
> Maybe I will give it a shot. At the very least it force the candidates to address rent control as an issue.

I doubt it will force anyone to do anything, least of all the candidates.

anu_gupta··on The Expert in a Year Challenge
> I think expert here is dependent on different people's perspective.

Great - so you agree that to many people he would be considered an expert. And so, to all but the elite players, he is an expert.

anu_gupta··on The Expert in a Year Challenge
At this point, it would probably be helpful if you told us your definition of the word "expert".
anu_gupta··on The Expert in a Year Challenge
And of course, there's Dance in a Year

http://danceinayear.com/

anu_gupta··on 50% of Japanese surveyed have not had sex in the past month
Entirely appropriate that you need to scare quote the word 'truth' when citing anything from that Milo kid.
anu_gupta··on “I am not authorizing you to release a Ruby port of Metaphone 3”
IMO, @threedaymonk has handled this maturely and well.

https://github.com/threedaymonk/text/issues/21#issuecomment-...

> "I'm not going to port Metaphone 3 to Ruby, nor am I going to accept or merge any such ports at this time.

> Whilst the licensing of the Java code in question clearly and unambiguously permits such a port, @lphilips54's stated intentions for reuse of the code are unclear and contradictory. I can't see that any benefit would come from integrating something that is surrounded by such confusion."

anu_gupta··on Einstein: The Negro Question (1946)
I would laugh if this wasn't such dangerous, self-serving sophistry. I guess it's easy for a certain type of person to say racism is over, let's not worry about it, while all through Europe, and even here in the UK, far right-wing, racist anti-immigration parties gather even more support.

Racism isn't close to being over. Maybe go talk to some people who aren't white and see what they think?

anu_gupta··on Skeleton 2.0 CSS Framework
This might be a dumb question, but what are the pros and cons of choosing something like Foundation over Skeleton?

Is it a tradeoff of simplicity vs features - are there any features in particular that Skeleton misses out on? I've been using Foundation recently, but the thought of a simple, 400 line CSS framework is very appealing.

anu_gupta··on Uber banned from operating in Indian capital after rape accusation
Oh seriously. That's enough.

Post some examples of all these men's lives that have been ruined. Let's see whether these examples are, actually, worse than having been raped.

anu_gupta··on Uber banned from operating in Indian capital after rape accusation
The use of "skewed" in that sentence doesn't make sense to me, and I'm trying to understand what he means. Is he saying that angry ex-girlfriends make false rape claims, which thus 'skew' the numbers, or does he mean something else?

Why would you think I'm implying anything?

anu_gupta··on Uber banned from operating in Indian capital after rape accusation
> Being raped really sucks, yes,

> but being falsely accused of rape is even worse

Wow. Just wow. I'm pretty disgusted by this comment. Hopefully you've just phrased it badly, and can edit it to make it less like you're saying that men get a bum deal in India.

anu_gupta··on Uber banned from operating in Indian capital after rape accusation
> However, I also feel a large number of the reported cases are skewed due to angry ex-girlfriends, intoxication, etc.

What are you actually trying to say here? How are these cases skewed?

anu_gupta··on Composer – Disable GC when computing deps and refs
Did you know that Composer is open source?

One of the advantages of open source is that you have the freedom to take the code and fix issues that concern you.

You can Google "open source" for more information - that might be a more productive use of your time than waiting for people who owe you nothing to make changes that you want.

anu_gupta··on Kim Dotcom: “I'm broke” (german article)
> Had his "startup" been in Sillicon Valley, he had been in jail a long time ago.

I'm hoping the founders of Napster get early release from jail. They've done their time, surely.

anu_gupta··on Uber Executive Suggests Digging Up Dirt on Journalists
Family refers to all members of a family - adult members AND children. So, by threatening someone's family, one implicitly threatens any members of a family who are children (as well as the other members of a family).
anu_gupta··on Still Here, Part 1: A Memoir
She didn't abuse him, unless you think every man who's cheated on a woman is also abusive.
anu_gupta··on Using GNU Stow to manage your dotfiles
Not sure if this would work with Stow, but in my .bashrc I just do this:

  if [ -f ~/config/bashrc_$(hostname -s) ]; then
        source ~/config/bashrc_$(hostname -s)
  fi
this gives me machine specific configs.
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