roninb

Thanks for clarifying. I can see exactly what you're talking about when I hear people talk about how Malcolm X needed to die because he wanted to kill all whites as if he wasn't excommunicated for preaching peace and unity after his pilgrimage.

I totally agree and have read supporting evidence backing your entire first paragraph. But I've never seen that evidence suggest chicken and watermelon fell into the chitterlings and ham hock category.

I never understood this stereotype. Yes, my entire family and I love fried chicken, who the hell doesn't??? I wonder how different things would be if the stereotype was pizza, cake, or some other universally loved foodstuffs.

I have had the same self reflection wondering what I was saying or doing when someone is intimidated (for lack of a more polite phrase) by the color of my skin. A woman I currently work with is startled Everytime she sees me and rushes away and I found myself making excuses for her. Trying to reason about why she should obviously be afraid of a 5'10, 170lbs, 23 year old who talks like he's a valley girl...

I wonder whether this is a generational thing or if xenophobia is simply inherent in us as a people.

In case you were also wondering what a "fourth cousin" was, someone who shares a pair of great-great-great grandparents[0]. Wikipedia has a great set of diagrams[1] in case you're also confused about first, second, or third cousins. I figure through induction you can presume any nth and nth removed from that page (I foolishly thought 3rd was where people arbitrarily stopped keeping count....)

[0] https://www.reference.com/family/fourth-cousin-7b40e096c6d65...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cousin#First_cousins

Location: Tallahassee, FL

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Technologies: Python, JS, Java (Android), C++, HTML/CSS, SQL (SQLite, MySQL, SQLAlchemy, Linux (Ubuntu, Arch, CrunchBang), git, hg

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Email: mb11r at my dot fsu dot edu

I spent a few years in high school doing hardware repairs and eventually ran that arm of the company before leaving for college. While at FSU I realized I couldn't survive on student loans so I started working at a help desk that I ended up managing for two years before quitting to refocus on school and find employment closer to my desired field.

I've spent the last few years developing web and Android apps for class projects and personal learning. I have a few projects on my github ( http://github.com/roninb ). I'm ready to expand and want to be a part of a team that can help me grow.

I may be too young to recall, but I seem to remember 30+ year olds complaining about how touch screens would never catch on around 2005-06. Something about the masses never accepting a product that's "merely tolerable."

I recall the same about the size of a phone in hand a few years after that and we haven't seen a sub-5" phone really sell well in how long?

> does No mean

"No", by itself, isn't really an answer here, as funny as the thought is. Realistically, "Should I grab a condom?" is proposed in a time of physical intimacy. That question would be followed with one of three responses meaning, "Yes," "We don't need one," or "We are not having sex."

Of course, "No," is a possible answer, I'm just trying to imagine a situation in which one person is ready to have sex but is unsure if the other person is or not and they actually lack physical or intimate context...

> We could use more supply side thinking about very large problems that the economy faces

What do you mean by this? I was under the impression that "supply side economics" meant throwing money at your problem to solve it (and removing regulation). That sounds like it's exactly what you're arguing against.

Thanks! I need to up the contrast on my monitor because I totally glossed over that light gray on lighter gray.

There are a lot of little typos (such as stating '..' and '-' arguments for 'cd' labeled as "previous directory" or suggesting Ubuntu uses Debian because it's made by Canonical). I wonder the best way to contact the author about revising these small but obviously not terrible errors.

Location: Tallahassee, FL

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Technologies: Python, JS, Java (Android), C++, HTML/CSS, SQL (SQLite, MySQL, SQLAlchemy)

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Email: mb11r at my dot fsu dot edu

I spent a few years in high school doing hardware repairs and eventually ran that arm of the company before leaving for college. While at FSU I realized I couldn't survive on student loans so I started working at a help desk that I ended up managing for two years before quitting to refocus on school and find employment closer to my desired field.

I've spent the last few years developing web and Android apps for class projects and personal learning. I have a few projects on my github ( http://github.com/roninb ). I'm ready to expand and want to be a part of a team that can help me grow.

A test of character? As in, "Are you the kind of person who can be tenacious enough to work under a manipulative bigot?" I'm trying hard to see your point of view, despite the baiting.

AFAIK, (and IANAL), you would have to be certain the questions did not incriminate you. In other words, "pc86, were you or were you not on your couch May the 5th at 8PM EST?" "I plead the fifth." "Your honor, this doesn't incriminate the witness." "pc86, you must answer the question because it is non-incriminating." And of course if it was incriminating, the appellate lawyers would win resoundingly.

Logically, it would follow that if you don't know what a question IS, you can 'plead the fifth' to it on the basis that it could be incriminating. But again, IANAL.

I mostly lurk here but I see far more comments like this, essentially baiting arguments about touchy subjects like race, gender, sexuality, and the like. I suppose it's more me inferring that it's from a "cis, white male" perspective more than you imply it by quoting Africa like it's not a real place...

You've said that Mir is an awful thing, but you never explained why.

It didn't get published this year but I though Robust De-Anonymization of Large Datasets - http://arxiv.org/pdf/cs/0610105.pdf

Could I possibly ask where you work? I've been trying to find more places that work with Flask or Jinja to improve my own knowledge about the specific niche I eventually want to fill in a year or two and haven't really been able to find much out there.

But the definition that they use is "a stereotype is a set of beliefs about the personal attributes of a social group." How can that be interpreted as anything but something that holds true for each individual of a group?

There are also interview questions asking you to write FizzBuzz. That doesn't mean all loops are ambiguous and complex.

Being an interview question doesn't really mean anything other than it being an interview question.

I'll probably get downvoted to hell, but the only reason I could think of for someone to write something so ridiculously terrible is if they were paid by Microsoft or Apple to fear monger and try to prevent people from using Linux.

That's cool that you feel that way, but I really enjoy these features. I'm never home and never sitting down so being able to see everything that I need to pay attention to the things I can't remember is amazing. Google Now reminding me of meetings, flight times, hotel check out times, package deliveries, etc, are things a personal assistant would do but without the associated cost of a yuppie's salary.

Just because you don't see it as convenient or even useful doesn't mean no one else does.

Seeking work - Remote only - mb11r@my.fsu.edu

I have about 6 years worth of experience in IT support (repair technician > head technician > help desk technician > help desk manager) and have been working on my BS in Computer Science for the past 4 years. I don't have a lot of professional programming experience. Under my belt, I have an "internship" (more of a trial period where we decided to split ways) for a startup that was essentially an email newsletter for a demographic that doesn't really use email or newsletters as well as doing Google Summer of Code working on an open source MMO called Ryzom.

I'm most experienced in Python (+ Flask), Java, and C++. I have non-trivial, yet not masterful, experience with HTML+CSS, C, JavaScript (+ Angular, JSON), SQLite, and BASH. I also have the general "full-stack" knowledge that you would expect a help desk manager that doesn't have a sys admin above them to be able to do.

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P.S. This is my first time posting to one of these, so if I'm doing something dumb that I shouldn't, leaving out any important information, or if you have any feedback about my work or any questions please let me know.

Sorry wasn't saying it was anywhere near as much as a cut of ad revenue. Just that they are still getting something from you as a developer.

So root it and get a device-wide ad blocker?

Then they still get the $100 the dev paid to publish the app in the first place.

I only ever used Cloud9 to try to help a few friends get into programming (which worked wonders since we could all work on the same repos together [my way of teaching them git before any programming was stupid and got dangerously close to turning them off to programming] and I could correct them with commit messages as well as inline comments) and didn't know that you could actually get a preview after running your program[0]. I'm pretty sure this is going to be all I use for the next few weeks until classes start back up.

[0] http://i.imgur.com/vDvYAvo.png

So this seems to be a give away to gain traction for their VR porn site[0]. Interesting. I might sign up for nothing other than a free pair of Cardboard to get into some web-based ar[1].

[0] http://www.freevrgoggles.com/faq [1] http://learningthreejs.com/blog/2012/03/12/augmented-reality...

IANAL, but I would think that as long as, algorithmically, Google ensures it's weighing all ads and trackers equally (read: whatever your concept of fairly is) they could prove that it truly is in everyone's benefit. In a similar vein to the aforementioned "Death to Small Businesses Day."

So, just so you know, your guess is dead wrong. The user who posted that picture had this to say about it: "When I think of people working behind a garbage truck I think of men, that is my own prejudice but I think many people share that (look at this thread). So when I saw this picture the first thing I thought was oh nice they don't give a fuck about other peoples prejudices and just do what they want, more importantly CAN do what they want. This could very well be a bad example to you, but it speaks to me."

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/3e1q3j/actual_feminis...