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coderdudeon Google self-driving car pulled over for driving too slowly

I'm California USA, driving too slow is considered a hazard. It's kinda fuzzy to be honest. They can still pop you for speeding whenever they want but they're really looking for the person who stands out.

coderdudeon How I ended up with so much Hacker News karma (2012)

You've got 10 times my karma. You win. :)

coderdudeon How I ended up with so much Hacker News karma (2012)

A hundred people are looking at this like "ok."

"How did I succeed? I just followed the rules."

First hand, everyone sees that as bullshit. I like your contributions to this community. Don't be ashamed to say, "cuz I'm awesome like that."

coderdudeon Study: Banning E-Cigarette Sales to Minors Spurs Conventional Smoking

The vapor from ecigs reminds me of the "liquid smoke" used in old model trains to simulate smoke coming from the stack. I'm concerned about the effects of breathing that stuff in all the time. It's not water vapor as far as I'm aware.

coderdudeon TPP Text Confirms Massive Loss to Canadian Public Domain

Way too long for why? I don't believe citizens are harmed by not being able to make money from something they didn't create.

coderdudeon TPP Text Confirms Massive Loss to Canadian Public Domain

That's some straight up revolution talk right there.

coderdudeon We can't see our culture very well, because we see with it

Speaking of culture, this comment reminds me of how other communities see HN. We seem to be unaware of our own culture while outsiders can see it quite well.

- "Ad hominem"

- Causation/correlation

- Complaining about ads

- Complaining about font color and size

- Complaining

- "This." (We pinched the laziest one-liner Reddit has to offer)

- Anything regarding logical fallacies

coderdudeon Famo.us pivots, fires 20 employees

Relax. Downvotes are the air we breathe. Besides, a quote alone doesn't merit upvoting. Someone else said it.

coderdudeon Layoffs Hit Gumroad as the E-Commerce Startup Restructures

I've always admired Gumroad for its execution, professionalism, and design chops. Good luck to you all. Other companies will be fortunate to gain the Gumroad team.

coderdudeon Apple doesn’t allow Chaos Computer Club tvOS application

They have no right to deny you access to their platform or to deny content from being distributed through their platform. Something about that sounds incorrect.

coderdudeon Getting Over Taxis

I use Uber almost every day. I love it. I also like vending machines. I hope that one day my Uber rides will be entirely like interacting with vending machines.

coderdudeon Uber’s Long Road into Las Vegas

Do any of the guys at the top see flack from this? All I can wonder at this point.

At this point I want to edit and add that I love using Uber. It's a rare 100% happiness factor to get but with me I got lucky and they nailed it. I just have to know: can the bosses actually make these decisions and not earn lawsuits in each state or are they handling this in a way that makes them personally immune? It's truly fascinating to see this brazen...ness? Definitely ballsy.

coderdudeon ZenPayroll is now Gusto

In the context that it was said, it's not very ambiguous. It's obvious what they do and you can see what they're branching out into. It sounds vague and like corporate-speak on first gloss but it does make sense.

coderdudeon ZenPayroll is now Gusto

I know. Cheap shots should involve more work, though.

coderdudeon ZenPayroll is now Gusto

What do you mean by that? It's catchy and fun but not really informative or helpful by itself.

coderdudeon “I Had a Baby and Cancer When I Worked at Amazon”

Proof is my bar. An email from her male manager telling HR to put her on notice for going on maternity leave would be more than sufficient to justify the claims in the article.

coderdudeon “I Had a Baby and Cancer When I Worked at Amazon”

I did mention that she was screwed over. I'd say the PIP was part of that. That doesn't automagically equate to discrimination and I've yet to see any of these snide rebuttals put anything forth to change my mind about that.

coderdudeon “I Had a Baby and Cancer When I Worked at Amazon”

They have paternity leave, too. You're making a claim that can actually be verified so if you have any information to put forward, please do.

coderdudeon “I Had a Baby and Cancer When I Worked at Amazon”

Being treated like crap doesn't automatically mean you're being treated like crap because of your gender or race. Right? I can't be the only person who believes that.

coderdudeon “I Had a Baby and Cancer When I Worked at Amazon”

Clearly I read the entire article. I don't consider that to be relevant to the quotes I pulled and I'll explain why. She had a team, she went away for several months, the team needed be reassigned and when she returned, she (rightfully) expected to be returned to that same leadership position. But, what had happened, was that the team was reassigned. That much makes sense. I'm sure she got screwed over in that situation but I still don't make the connection she's drawing.

coderdudeon “I Had a Baby and Cancer When I Worked at Amazon”

I'm going to take the road less traveled and be critical. For a piece that is essentially about a (painful and harsh) health insurance screw-up, this article is shoehorning quite an agenda:

> I met some of the strongest, most brilliant women of my career there.

> I quickly noted, when it came to leadership positions, they were almost all men.

> the voices commenting on the New York Times piece so far have been predominantly male leaders of male-dominated teams.

> Women power your retail engine. They buy diapers. They buy books. They buy socks for their husbands on Prime.

> On behalf of all the people who want to speak up but can’t: Please, make Amazon a more hospitable place for women and parents.

> You can’t claim to be a data-driven company and not release more specific numbers on how many women and people of color apply, get hired and promoted, and stay on as employees.

Those types of statements can make sense in the right context but they seem out of place here, in this article. I wasn't able to make that connection that she seems to be able to make readily and without effort.

coderdudeon On being the maintainer and sole developer of SPITBOL (2012)

https://github.com/spitbol/x64/blob/master/demos/sentenc.sbl

In Python, you would probably use regex for the pattern matching. In SPITBOL, you can accomplish the task at the language level. I doubt the pattern matching is as capable as regex but that's a useful feature to have (edit: based on braythwayt's comment, it sounds like the pattern matching is more capable than regex). It might be better suited to NLP tasks. According to the developer, "SPITBOL is unique in the power it provides to manipulate strings and text. I’ve yet to see anything else come close."

See Zuider's comment for more information.

I hope all-caps-keywords is optional.

coderdudeon Bootstrap 4 alpha

Nobody is stopping other frameworks from taking up such an initiative.

coderdudeon Bootstrap 4 alpha

I hope this leads to a 'standard' way of developing Bootstrap-based templates. Something comparable to the submission guidelines on WrapBootstrap but codifying how a template's assets should be arranged, written, etc. Using Bootstrap as a base for new template designs was a major step forward for the template industry because customers aren't walking into a completely foreign codebase with each purchase. If that familiarity were extended further then it could lead to interoperability of component styles between templates developed by different designers, which is something customers have brought up numerous times over the years. It's never quite that simple but I think for example simple namespaces would be a step in the right direction ('.unify .nav-tabs' and '.vitality .nav-tabs').

coderdudeon What is going on with SoundCloud?

Sounds like this is something Gumroad could do if they added a marketplace to list the items for sale on their platform. Difficult to categorize all those items but worth it. I'd browse.

coderdudeon Street View, North Korea

Complaining about the presentation of the linked content is sort of a meme here.

Just for fun: https://hn.algolia.com/?query=%22my%20eyes%20hurt%22&sort=by...

coderdudeon Fractal Lab

What's wrong with looking for commercial value? This community is heavily focused on startups, after all. Is the inherent value of 3D fractal art that it looks cool? I don't think that's lost on anyone here.

coderdudeon Show HN: TrafficGun – Grow Your Traffic Easily

Content for the sake of exchanging traffic by means of links. I'm not convinced this is much different (if any different) than what I mentioned. SponsoredReviews focuses on bloggers writing ads for products. Your idea is to have the arrangement be two-way so that both sites write about the other but then you have the issue of all these sites stacking up two-way links which looks like link exchanges. I doubt Google is going to be thrown off by the nofollow links. It's been abused to stop pagerank 'leak' to the point of losing its original meaning. I don't think emphasizing the use of nofollow is going to save anyone from Google realizing sites are putting out farm-style content.

coderdudeon Show HN: TrafficGun – Grow Your Traffic Easily

This reminds me of the highly-untargeted spam emails that I get all the time from people asking if they can write blog posts for me. Naturally, they would contain a lot of links to some other site. The idea has definitely been done before. Think PayPerPost, SponsoredReviews, etc. Sounds like an excellent way to get yourself deranked by Google.

coderdudeon Twitter has a fundamental problem Facebook solved years ago

Okay, simply ignore the troll. But that isn't what you asked. You wanted to know if "using a "fake" name makes you more likely to cause abuse" so are you ignoring the obvious cases where it's true or are you actually asking for someone to post links to PDFs where people did studies on it?

I'm not saying that any ol' individual will be abusive given anonymity. I'm asserting that more abuse happens when people feel they are anonymous. This isn't a novel concept that I just came up with.

>I beg your pardon. Ted Cruz has a verified Twitter account, and I find every word he says to be torture.

Can you at least cite some examples?