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rhdoengeson Silicon Valley Isn’t a Meritocracy

The article was written by a woman, so why would you assume it was written by a man? We're discussing ideas, yes, and those ideas have a lot to do with gender.

rhdoengeson “People simply empty out”

I can't stomach the guy. He was an abusive drunk who thought it was funny to kick women.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8KJiay6EI0

rhdoengeson Bridge collapses in Washington state

Nobody appears to have been hurt, though three people have been hospitalized: http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_I_5_BRIDGE_COLLAPS...

rhdoengeson Factor 0.96 now available – over 1,100 commits

That nitpick aside--wow! Factor is getting more and more impressive every day.

rhdoengeson Factor 0.96 now available – over 1,100 commits

I like the old logo better, http://re-factor.blogspot.com/2012/11/new-logo.html is waaay too busy.

rhdoengeson This Is the Modern Manhunt: The FBI, the Hive Mind and the Boston Bombers

I think parent is referring to the general case and not this particular instance. I could be wrong.

rhdoengeson Reasons Not to Stretch

Additionally, this article only considers /static stretching/, which is far less helpful to me as a runner than /active stretching/: leg swings, kicks, or arm circles.

rhdoengeson Show HN: My weekend Project - Almost Flat UI Theme

Sorry, thought you said http://fedorasofokc.tumblr.com/

rhdoengeson There are Ladies Present

What "small experimental studies" are you referring to? This entire comment was a dismissive appeal to authority.

rhdoengeson There are Ladies Present

We have to bite our tongues and be careful of everything we say

Every word out of your mouth has an effect on the people around you. Please, consider consequences before you speak. This is not a radical notion.

rhdoengeson Future of Firefox DevTools

Poking around the wiki I noticed that work is beginning on GCLI, a gui command line. I'm not sure how it's going to get integrated into FF yet (I saw mention of an mdn command, though).

I love the demo: https://people.mozilla.com/~jwalker/gcli/

rhdoengeson Uber driver charged with raping woman in D.C.

So when an otherwise upstanding man brutally rapes a vulnerable woman, it's his word against hers? Rape is almost always perpetrated from a position of power. That's why most rapes are committed by men against women.

That aside, they caught the incident on camera, so it is not one person's word against another's: http://dcist.com/2012/12/uber_customer_accuses_driver_of_rap...

rhdoengeson We're Building A Reader

The dashboard isn't good at telling you whether you've seen a post already and moves much too fast for traditional blogs that post once a day or less to even show up within the first few pages. I don't think Tumblr has the right UI for an RSS reader.

rhdoengeson Uber driver charged with raping woman in D.C.

Seems the incident may have been recorded:

> Messages related to the incident on neighborhood email groups state that the incident was caught on security cameras mounted to the victim's home.

source: http://dcist.com/2013/03/uber_driver_charged_with_sexual_ass...

rhdoengeson Uber driver charged with raping woman in D.C.

Ah, my mistake.

rhdoengeson Uber driver charged with raping woman in D.C.

> After all, she was just kicked out of a bar...

What difference does this make?

rhdoengeson Uber driver charged with raping woman in D.C.

It says she paid her fare. What other motive could she have had to make this accusation?

Unfortunately, there is little evidence to go on at this point aside from her testimony, so much of this discussion is mere speculation.

rhdoengeson Porn Site Breaks Down Searches By Country

What are you insinuating?

rhdoengeson Come and help save Posterous from oblivion

I love that tumblr. I would also recommend http://twitter.com/wwwtxt or http://wwwtxt.tumblr.com/ -- short quotes from the early internet. Some are eerily insightful.

rhdoengeson How to Hire More Women at Your Startup

Every time a "how to hire women" article pops up on HN, there's a flurry of comments that argue we should hire whoever can do the work best. That isn't what this article is about. In order to bring more diversity into your workplace or community, you have to consciously make the environment more welcoming to people who are different from you. When you let the "who can do the work" question decide your hires, prejudices control your decision without you even noticing. We must fight prejudice consciously or we contribute to oppression--not just the oppression women, but the oppression of any disadvantaged or underrepresented group.

rhdoengeson Two bills target video games following Sandy Hook tragedy

Violence in books is textual, so it's going to be far less vivid for the reader than a video game where you actually cause the violence. Additionally, violent books/conversations/thoughts/lectures often focus on the negative aspects of violence rather than glorifying it the way movies and video games do.

rhdoengeson The Web We Lost

I've found that Tumblr's tag system works very well for the sort of serendipitous interaction you bring up. By tracking tags, I have met plenty of friends who, of course, share some of my interests. Heck, some of us started up an IRC channel. The web isn't going to stop forming friendships anytime soon.

rhdoengeson A Trans-Atlantic Trip Turns Kafkaesque

If you haven't read Super Sad True Love Story by Gary Shteyngart (author of this piece) you should.

rhdoengeson Tomorrow, a 100 year old mysterious package will be opened in a museum in Norway

Don't be a pedant. It's distracting from the actual discussion.

rhdoengeson Flame: Massive cyber-attack discovered, researchers say

> sKyWIper may have been active for as long as five to eight years

spooky.

rhdoengeson Minesweeper implemented in DCPU-16

wait when did DCPU-16 get a framebuffer/higher-res graphics?

rhdoengeson Foxconn Bears The Brunt Of Ivory Tower Assault On Capitalism

This reads like a justification of poor labor conditions, which it is. Eerie echoes of the gilded age.

rhdoengeson Elixir: Ruby-like Syntax and Homoiconicity for Erlang VM

That macro system isn't exactly homoiconicity. Maybe a first-class AST?

Whatever it is, I like it.

rhdoengeson Hacker News clone for Python

Ah yes.

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rhdoengeson Vim anti-patterns

say I have a line here ( | being my cursor)

    callFunction(); |// HEY THIS IS A REALLY LONG COMMENT

From there, I hit D, which is the same as d$. I want to then paste it so I have something like

    // HEY THIS IS A REALLY LONG COMMENT
    callFunction();

But I want to do that without entering insert mode.