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jkot··on Turkish government banned dropbox for hiding this torrent. please fork
Collecting and publishing private information (such as address) without a consent is a crime in most EU countries.

To extreme this could ban Github in most of Europe.

It is also probably against Github license agreement.

jkot··on [dead]
Hm, that bot makes loaded statements and attacks some groups. It also directly mentions several persons by name. Yet another sexist and racist troll on twitter.

> nothing true is ever said in Florida

> you can't be sexist to men

> straight people don't deserve pride

jkot··on RethinkDB needs a new home
Could you be more specific? I think path similar to Redis would work just fine.
jkot··on RethinkDB needs a new home
Any chance to start a new company? I think original company failed because it had too much overhead (SF office, marketing, investors...)

There is a good brand, existing user base, big customers with references...

Lean distributed company could make a good profit here with minimal investment.

jkot··on Ask a Female Engineer: Interviewing and Company Culture
In my experience distributed company is best if you want diverse team from start. I worked at company where 70% of engineers were women.
jkot··on Opposition to Galileo was scientific, not just religious
Heresy! There is only one true barycenter in solar system! :-)
jkot··on Opposition to Galileo was scientific, not just religious
Earth-Centric model was actually scientifically better at that time. With Occam's razor you would prefer it.

- Even church agreed that Earth is not static, but is rotating.

- Nobody observed star parallax, major proof for Copernican model was missing until 19th century.

- Ptolemaic model with its epicycles provided better predictions.

- Copernican model is also wrong, planets are orbiting around center of gravity, which is outside of sun..

jkot··on Why Writers Are the Worst Procrastinators
In my experience most writers are paid by word, and write very fast. Most content writers at Upwork seems to have very little procrastination..

In other terms, image as coder you are paid by number of lines you produce. And there is no compiler, no unit tests...

jkot··on The American chess champion challenging Iran’s hijab fetish
Nobody wants to be drafted, it is a waste of time. Women also voted against Equal Rights Amendment in 1970ties.
jkot··on The American chess champion challenging Iran’s hijab fetish
I understand it is human rights issue.

My point is that many women voted for those rules. This problem could be solved in a single election.

jkot··on The American chess champion challenging Iran’s hijab fetish
It is not that simple. Women can vote in Iran and be elected, with 51% of population they even have voting majority. There are 6% women PMs, clerics have less seats.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-36182796

jkot··on Does LinkedIn access your email or contact list?
Good advice: use private browser mode by default
jkot··on ZSON, PostgreSQL extension for compressing JSONB
It would be nice to automate dictionary training. Make it part of vacuum.
jkot··on How privatization increases inequality
I dont live in america.
jkot··on How privatization increases inequality
About page: "...goes beyond the narrow nationalism that can be prevalent within Black communities, which merely call on Black people to love Black, live Black and buy Black"
jkot··on How privatization increases inequality
I can provide much more links; BLM wants separate government, budget, no police intervention... I think we all get it.

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> To carve out a safe space on campus where black students can get support from people who look like them and share similar backgrounds

> That’s one reason another institution, the University of Connecticut, earlier this year announced a living community specifically for black men.... the school pointed out that young men of all backgrounds will be permitted to apply to the living community,

I think this is just a word-game and schools are backpedaling to remove ugly word 'segregation'. But in reality 99.9% people in those safe-spaces will be black.

It is nice they do something for men, but it will not help unless underlying sexism is solved.

jkot··on How privatization increases inequality
> Cal State LA joins UConn, UC Davis and Berkeley in offering segregated housing dedicated to black

> Black Student Union issued a set of demands in response to what its members contend are frequent “racist attacks” on campus, such as “racially insensitive remarks” and “microaggressions”

http://www.thecollegefix.com/post/28906/

jkot··on How privatization increases inequality
Ask them, I have no right to speak for marginalized groups.
jkot··on How privatization increases inequality
> Increased socioeconomic and racial segregation

I think progressive black activists are supporting racial segregation. One university even offers segregated housing.

jkot··on Ask HN: Are there any tech companies in the Bay Area that offer private offices?
I personally find active headphones uncomfortable. Large studio headphones are designed for long term use.
jkot··on Ask HN: Are there any tech companies in the Bay Area that offer private offices?
Private offices are common, but not in the Bay

- It is a form of compensation. Cash/stock is preferred form here. To get other benefits (private office, remote) look at different place.

- Office space is at premium, private offices are expensive. Again look somewhere else.

- Startup culture is associated with open office. Large corporations are better with this :-(

- 'Extremely unproductive' is not an argument. Managers believe that programmers are equivalent/interchangeable cogs. There is no such thing as 10x ;-)

I would recommend:

- Block visual distractions as much as possible, 3x30" screen in pivot mode should do.

- Move into corner.

- Invest into big closed studio headphones with amplifier. Not active noise cancellation, but passive which covers entire ear. I got DT 770 PRO, best investment I ever did.

- Get ready for starting your own business and working remotely. I am afraid it is the only way :-(

jkot··on Microsoft Delivers Another Broken Windows 10 Update
At this point anyone who says that Windows is easier to use than Linux, is a troll!
jkot··on America’s Short, Violent Love Affair with Indoor Track Cycling
6-day race does not scale. 2-hour events can be covered by television and can be hosted in expensive stadium. Madison Square Garden has one event every day.
jkot··on Subzero 12-hour Nonfreezing Cryopreservation of Porcine Heart (2015)
Fish can do nonfreezing cryogenic hibernation natively.
jkot··on Myths about Hash Tables
Perhaps, but it made sense with 16MB RAM and 486 CPU. Current implementation uses 31 multiplier which is useless over 1M entries. This problem is also in Arrays.hash*() and many other places.
jkot··on Myths about Hash Tables
Also String.hashCode is broken, it generates too many collisions. It can not be fixed for historic reasons.
jkot··on Ask HN: When are you considered a “senior” programmer?
In my experience:

- you are technically competent

- can handle design aspects of full stack (backend, persistence, frontend)

- have enough credibility and confidence to say NO to business people

- you can lead a small team of developers (2 to 5 people)

jkot··on Melinda Gates Has a New Mission: Women in Tech
I am feminist myself. It is about gender equality after all. Anyway, good luck ;-)
jkot··on BlackBerry confirms it will end in-house hardware development
too little, too late
jkot··on BlackBerry confirms it will end in-house hardware development
They should have done this 5 years ago. Dozens Chinese companies can produce quality phones with keyboard.

Imagine if BB would produce hardened-secured-enterprisey version of Android, rather than doing their 'not invented here'. They could had 30% of market by now.

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