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Which is exactly why I respond with "I just don't." To which people usually shrug and move on. Every once in a while I get somebody who is curious or somebody who wants to be an asshole. With the former, I make a joke. With the latter, I change the subject.

for you. Not everybody reacts to alcohol the same way.

Does XMPP support inline photo and video? Last I checked, it didn't. So why deal with the external dependency when you can re-write it yourself with additional features?

Unemployed/Self employed. Freelance.

Thank you, anonymous downvoting coward, for proving my point.

If you want to know why, look at the twitter replies. She's being regarded as a Brave Hero of the movement. Bad for a technical employee. Good for a highly visible position, like startup founder, developer evangelist, head of a female programmer outreach program or anything marketing related.

You mean besides for the tidal wave of downvotes?

And/or adrenal fatigue.

When did HN become a gossip rag? Quote taken out of context. Nothing to see here, move along.

because track days are expensive. considerably more so than an afternoon at the gun range.

That why violence is really the only answer to bullying. Hit hard and fast, do enough damage in the first blow to make sure neither he nor his buddies want to come back for seconds.

This situation has nothing to do with technology. It's not some passive "I won't listen to this guy because he disagrees with me" stance. People are going out of their way to make sure people who have political opinions they disagree with can't work. All three of my examples show this. And there are many, many more examples. Academia and public education are two, just off the top of my head.

It started with conservative christians. Now that the most undesirable element is gone, the purges have expanded to anybody who isn't as extreme as the loudest member. As time goes on, the required politics have gotten more and more extreme. There's no evidence of this trend slowing down or stopping.

Motorcycles are a delicious exception to these rules, especially in areas where lane splitting is legal. Or at least unenforceable.

And Brendan Eich gave $1000 to an organization people don't approve of. A guy made a joke at a convention about dongles and got fired. A whole lot of Sci-Fi authors were prevented from publishing at Tor because they identify themselves as politically conservative.

This particular pattern has been growing over the last decade or two. The politics in question are growing more extreme and the required level of political correctness demanded is also getting more extreme. One exception does not disprove the pattern.

Don't fool yourself: they're both corporations and thus money making entities. Clearly, the difference is minor at best, since this behavior is spreading beyond the community based organizations.

Bingo Card Creator and Appointment Reminder. The latter is big enough he's started doing angel investing. Keep in mind, he runs both of them by himself and he no longer consults. I'm not saying he doesn't have an ulterior motive, but his motives are considerably more pure than 99% of the articles on hacker news.

Not that it matters. Who cares where the advice comes from if it works? And if it doesn't work, the purest motives in the world isn't going to make it work.

Many thanks for the response. It's also what I observe other mobile-centric people around me do. They don't spend a ton of time in the browser, but they do use it. It's encouraging, in a way. Sort of like a slow computing movement.

Does she spend most of her time in a web browser or a dedicated app of one kind or another?

I know of an American manufacturing company that makes electric motors of all shapes and sizes. It's been steadily growing for a few years and now grosses 5+ million a year. Despite their profits steady increase, they remain at 49 employees. Apropos of nothing, their profits have started to level off.

Take a look at John Cleese's talk about creativity[0]. I personally buy into the whole concept of there being an open mode and a closed mode and you can't be in both at the same time. My coding tends to run in cycles. When I'm trying to figure out a problem or structure an area of code, I'm in the open mode and I experiment a lot. What I don't do is commit a lot of code during that period. After everything is nailed down and I have a game plan, I switch to the closed mode. That's when I code around the clock and bust my ass. But that lasts a day or two, max.

Maybe it should be work smarter, then harder, then repeat?

[0] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AU5x1Ea7NjQ

I see this assumption a lot in regards to Carmack's early work at ID. How do you know those marathon coding sessions didn't go like most do, where after 4-8 hours you start making more mistakes that you have to fix later? He seems to be able to churn out just as much code of similar quality now, when he only works a normal work day, as he did back then when he worked around the clock.

Unless you've developed games for the facebook platform, it can be hard to understand why so many devs reacted so negatively to the news. I've made facebook games and decided not to spend money on the second dev kit, so maybe I can shed some light as to why.

As a gaming platform, Facebook sucks. Pure and simple. The APIs we need to use to make money change, sometimes on a daily basis. We get no notification when these changes happen. We find out because our games suddenly stop working. Facebook also has a history of trying to screw game developers over in an attempt to get a bigger chunk of cash for themselves. Case in point, they tried to mandate that everybody use Facebook Credits for in game currency. Not only did facebook take 30% off the top (effectively slashing our existing revenues by 30%), but we had to use their API to process transactions. Their buggy, buggy API. That lasted for maybe 6 months? I'm not sure, I got out of it just before the facebook credits thing went down.

Before everybody jumps on me about Facebook not necessarily locking Oculus game devs into their platform, that doesn't matter. Facebook has a history of treating game devs poorly and as a result I have absolutely no desire to deal with the company again.

The real difference between a junior and senior developer? A senior developer was able to convince a manager to give him the title and pay raise. It's more of a political distinction than anything else.

To the person who downvoted me, how am I wrong?

So what's happening here is a man is fighting intolerance with more intolerance. That seems productive.

His actual fear is it that he won't be able to suspend the necessary disbelief to enjoy it. You see the same thing from anybody who has specialty knowledge and sees it misrepresented on TV. They know what they're seeing is wrong, so it breaks the illusion. A great example is my buddy's wife. She's an MD and he loved to watch House. She could never get into it because every time they skewed medical facts to fit the story, she knew.

So you're arguing my general argument is invalid because in the specific example I use, you claim the board is racist. You then go on to claim that social principles aren't interchangeable and public opinion would eventually obliterate them. My question is, if public opinion has always been and always will be anti-racist, how did so many racists get on the board of not just a single company, but the majority of companies in the 70's? Not to put too fine a point on it, but your belief that principles aren't "interchangeable" (I think you meant "changeable" or "subject to change"?) is provably wrong.

Try to see this from another angle. It's 1970 and you've donated to an organization that advocates equal rights to blacks. As a consequence, when you rise through the ranks at your company and have the opportunity to be considered for CEO, your board of directors rejects you on the basis of that contribution.

What you're saying is it's ok to deprive a man of his livelihood based on the current state of public opinion, which shifts by the decade. Tell me you see how wrong that is.

You've heard of the chilling effect, right? I would say insisting on being politically correct in all things or you're not fit to run a company would qualify as censorship.

I'm curious how you feel about open source, then. Specifically, node.js. Donating hours of your time working on something that eventually got sold for lots of money that you won't see a dime of. Sounds similar.