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current_callon Can Stack Overflow's logo be temporarily changed to the “#LoveOverflows” logo?

Are you talking about Stack Overflow or Hacker News?

(there's a series of mails that Guy Steele wrote to that effect as a reply to 'Macros make me mad': 'Classes make me mad', 'Procedures make me mad' some years back on the ll1-discuss mailing list).

I happen to have them bookmarked!

http://people.csail.mit.edu/gregs/ll1-discuss-archive-html/m...

current_callon Fear of Macros

most of us here would probably classify manual memory management as an anti-pattern

Er, no?

current_callon A Constructive Look at TempleOS

There's a difference between using information about an author to help analyze the thought process behind their work and using information about an author to prejudge their work. I can analyze Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's writing based on his belief in spiritualism, but that isn't the same as labeling Sherlock Holmes blasphemy. You are confounding evaluating purpose and evaluating quality. If I was writing an essay on the origins of TempleOS, then knowing the personal life of the creator helps. If I'm evaluating the quality of the software, then information on Terry is irrelevant.

current_callon Unix is not an acceptable Unix

Then you'd need a JavaScript interpreter. Which would be terrible.

current_callon I'm a liberal professor, and my liberal students terrify me

But that's not what you said. You said someone "who's actually been harmed" should write about it. That would be elevating personal narrative and testimony.

current_callon I'm a liberal professor, and my liberal students terrify me

Alright, I didn't notice that one, but it qualifies.

current_callon I'm a liberal professor, and my liberal students terrify me

Those aren't really weasel words. It's just charged diction.

current_callon I'm a liberal professor, and my liberal students terrify me

This professor had nothing that can be checked up on, no victim, no perpetrator, no specific events... Just a thing that we're supposed to believe is ever present, rampant etc.

Nope, try again.

As Judith Shulevitz wrote in the New York Times, these refusals can shut down discussion in genuinely contentious areas, such as when Oxford canceled an abortion debate.

More often, they affect surprisingly minor matters, as when Hamsphire College disinvited an Afrobeat band because their lineup had too many white people in it.

Consider that tweet I linked to earlier, from critic and artist Zahira Kelly, in which she implies that the whole of scientific inquiry is somehow invalid because it has been conducted mostly by white males.

In another instance, two female professors of library science publically outed and shamed a male colleague they accused of being creepy at conferences, going so far as to openly celebrate the prospect of ruining his career.

current_callon I'm a liberal professor, and my liberal students terrify me

Are we reading the same article? It isn't about him. He's complaining about general trends and he has several specific examples.

As Judith Shulevitz wrote in the New York Times, these refusals can shut down discussion in genuinely contentious areas, such as when Oxford canceled an abortion debate.

More often, they affect surprisingly minor matters, as when Hamsphire College disinvited an Afrobeat band because their lineup had too many white people in it.

He [Chait] cites an anonymous professor who says that "she and her fellow faculty members are terrified of facing accusations of triggering trauma."

By the way, you seem to be the sort of person that scares him.

Rebecca Reilly Cooper, a political philosopher at the University of Warwick, worries about the effectiveness of a politics in which "particular experiences can never legitimately speak for any one other than ourselves, and personal narrative and testimony are elevated to such a degree that there can be no objective standpoint from which to examine their veracity."

Why not get someone who's actually been harmed by this change in culture to write about that? -You

current_callon Geeks, MOPs, and sociopaths in subculture evolution

Are VCs geeks, fans, MOPS or sociopaths?

Sociopaths.

current_callon Coursera is phasing out free certificates

Haha. Coursera's verification technology is a joke and prevents only the worst cases of cheating.

It really is terrible. It can't recognize me, so I stopped caring about verification.

current_callon Anti-Patterns Every Programmer Should Be Aware Of

No, because CLOS is awesome.

current_callon Windows 10 to Be 'Last Version of Windows'

This is pretty smart of them. Oh well, one more reason to not use Windows.

current_callon Why Lisp?

The book you linked has examples of macros being used for writing a music database, parsing binary files, a unit testing framework, and several other things I haven't reached yet. Those are much better examples of macros than basic control structures. The 'dolist' form is a toy example.

current_callon The programming talent myth

If we embrace this idea that "it's cool to be okay at these skills"—that being average is fine—it will make programming less intimidating for newcomers.

If we embrace this idea that "it's cool to be okay at these skills"—that being average is fine—it will make art less intimidating for newcomers.

If we embrace this idea that "it's cool to be okay at these skills"—that being average is fine—it will make music less intimidating for newcomers.

If we embrace this idea that "it's cool to be okay at these skills"—that being average is fine—it will make writing less intimidating for newcomers.

If we embrace this idea that "it's cool to be okay at these skills"—that being average is fine—it will make football less intimidating for newcomers.

If we embrace this idea that "it's cool to be okay at these skills"—that being average is fine—it will make architecture less intimidating for newcomers.

There's nothing wrong with a skill that takes time and effort to become good at, and there's no reason to cater to people who aren't at least novices. Well, not unless you're trying to artificially inflate the labor pool so you can pay programmers less.

current_callon John Carmack: “I just dumped the C++ server I wrote for a new one in Racket”

Because then you end up with thinks like Python's one expression lambda.

current_callon Dear FCC: Thanks for Listening to Team Internet

You're using a single line of the comment out of context to disagree with the spirit of the comment.

current_callon Dear FCC: Thanks for Listening to Team Internet

No, you are cherry picking. Here are other lines from the same comment

People disagreeing with you isn't evidence.

It's that the collateral damage of firing off such accusations indiscriminately is too great for that to be ok without evidence.

deal with them not by calling names but by making better arguments.

These are all things the flag killed comment did.

You should also pay attention to who your cherry picked quote was aimed at. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9114355

But we will do so by looking at actual data—something that isn't an option in the HN threads themselves and would mostly be off-topic there.

This is the only part that supports you view, and it's a baseless assertion. Someone did collect evidence and present it and it was on topic.

current_callon Dear FCC: Thanks for Listening to Team Internet

It's that the collateral damage of firing off such accusations indiscriminately is too great for that to be ok without evidence.

This is from your own link. He did have evidence.

current_callon Twitter Will Crack Down on Serial Trolls by Tracking Their Phone Number

Being unfairly banned from twitter will give me emotional trauma.

current_callon “The news web is straight trash”

New content is overrated anyway.

current_callon Why Rockstar Developers Don't Ask for Help

*If you don't check with a third party you have no way to know if you're doing things the best possible way. Or even the right way.

Wrong. How do you verify that the third party is correct?

current_callon Why Rockstar Developers Don't Ask for Help

sometimes you realize that in formulating the question you've solved it for yourself anyway

This has happened to me countless times.

current_callon Why Rockstar Developers Don't Ask for Help

Not unless you make a new question.

current_callon How to kill your Google account: Access it via Tor

Sorry, but you were accessing from a completely unknown IP address that they cannot verify. What is to say the GPG private key hasn't been compromised?

Nothing, but with that attitude, why even use GPG at all?

current_callon Avail Programming Language

Specially to get things done evading the hard dependency with programmers that have awful communication skills (close to toxic some times).

All the good programmers I know can communicate fine.

current_callon Linus Torvalds' poll about “big versions” in kernel releases

The kernel has been around for a few decades while semver has been around for what, 3 years now?

That's irrelevant.

I doubt it because the API is way too complex and broad to be covered in simple x.x.x notation

They don't use that notation now?

current_callon Tail-call optimization added to 6to5 compiler

No, it doesn't. Think about composition and partial application.

current_callon HackerSurfing: Free Housing and Food for Engineers Visiting SF

Maybe it wasn't even on. I can't see the screen.