newfoundglory

You can lead a seal to the search box, but you can’t make them type in it.

Perhaps we have different definitions of sexist - I think that HN is generally quite supportive of the “free-thinker” type of sexism and racism exemplified by James Damore.

Is it a common character? e.g is this more like “the word ‘hello’ crashes safari” or “the word ‘syzygy’ crashes safari”?

What do you think journalists should do, not try and report on China?

That was only because it was specifically regulated to be so by the Glass Stegall Act, which was repealed in 1999 which was right when PayPal was created. So they had good timing, but it's not like they came up with anything new.

And if someone asked you why to use Google instead of grep, would you not have an answer?

What state are you in? A bachelor's degree for childcare seems like a pretty high requirement, Washington only requires high school or equivalent + experience or certification.

I assume you know that I wasn't thinking of IE 5.5. Why not just say that you personally don't have to support anything below IE10 and so you didn't bother thinking about them?

> If they lived in a house they could inherit it from their parents.

Heh "hi mom, dad, FYI I'm planning to live with you and my two siblings until I'm around 50 and then you can die and it'll just be us three kids here".

Also, by "house" I meant "dwelling/residence".

Since when was IE10 the oldest and least standards compliant browser out there?

Well, yea. The housing market is super fucked up, that’s what’s wrong.

You must have known a mindless set of teenagers. When I was a teenager people actively talked about their resentment that arts and humanities were not going to get them a well paying job and society was biased in favor of people like me who found math and science easy. And this would have been tenth grade, if not earlier.

Edit: for historical context, this was nearly two decades ago and nobody had either a mobile phone or a Facebook account

From reading all of your comments here, it occurs to me that you might just not be talking about the kind of software that involves actually processing user data as the service. When customer data is incidental to the core engineering work, then yes you should be able to abstract it away. When the service is "upload your data and we will perform analysis on it and give you results", then it really does require that data to figure out why this customer says their results aren't making sense.

> Often it's as simple as following the steps described in the ticket, something some developers seem to not realize, or their reading comprehension is bad.

That sounds like a pretty simple set of bugs you are dealing with. I don't think anyone is arguing that they need this level of information to solve "When I click this button it crashes".

Webdriver.io literally has gifs of themselves typing in the terminal as documentation. Wtf.

Very true - this argument helped pass mandatory sick leave entitlements in Seattle recently (I think it just came into effect).

> What I recall reading is that when people with CF surfed, their general prognosis was overall better.

Why would you think of sea salt as the relevant factor instead of the very well known positive effects on breathing and lung capacity caused by swimming?

Is there evidence that this leads to worse outcomes in all the countries that have direct entry out of high school as the standard path for doctors?

There exist people who voluntarily live in some form of solitary confinement, like hermits and some types of monastic orders - very few though. You may well be one of the edge cases of humanity that would be ok with it. Are you asking if that is possible, or if everyone is like that? Because yes, you could actually be like that, and no, most people aren't like that.

In this universe, if you call the police and say you are an armed man holding hostages, you should expect that you will get shot. The fact that someone was shot based on a malicious false report like this wasn’t even a surprise, for many people. It was literally expected to happen at some point. You are confusing a description of how the world “should be” with how it “is” - he is being charged based on how the world is.

They made an offer that was below what I’d given as the bottom of my range (it was about 20% lower than my current salary!) and tried to argue that the tiny equity portion outweighed that gap. When I said I couldn’t take that, they said they could add $5k to the salary by reducing the equity offer by 25%. Wtf.

> No system is foolproof, and even the best one in the world is going to have upwards of 2-3% fraud

I agree, and that’s why I would never say it was virtually impossible to cheat one.

I just gave you two methods off the top of my head. I’m saying it is easy to cheat, not “virtually impossible” as you claimed.

That doesn’t come even close to being “virtually impossible to cheat”.

That doesn’t seem immediately relevant, could you explain why you mentioned it here?

In 1955 the US was part of the creation of the Baghdad Pact. In the 1970s the US supported a Kurdish uprising against the Iraqi government.

They said becoming, not is.

So don’t tell anyone that your grandma who lives with you died in her sleep. And definitely don’t mention that your 21 year old brother is off backpacking Asia (how long does he have to be gone for that to even be cheating?)

Not a public one, but I expect there will be an internal one.

Two centuries ago some of us would have been slaves. I’m not entirely sure I would want to live through that setback.