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wendy0x2

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wendy0x2··on Make anonymous HTTP GET requests with proxies via Python
Cool!

The proxies from this list don't usually last that long, so you might have connection problems.

wendy0x2··on [dead]
This term needs to die. While you may have one definition of it, it's being used as a club to beat many men down when they actually have an informed opinion.

I've also seen it used as a political tool to make it look like that person shouldn't get an advancement.

On top of it all, it's blatently sexist against men. I thought we were trying to stop sexism, not encourage it.

wendy0x2··on A MeToo Reckoning in China’s Workplace Amid Wave of Accusations
Not meeting alone or socializing with female coworkers is a pretty intelligent move these days for men, and will probably become the norm until we have cameras watching and recording our every move as proof nothing happened.

The problem is that most are guilty until proven innocent....and even when proven innocent many still lost their careers and livelihood in the process and companies just don't want the bad press.

wendy0x2··on Why I’m Deleting All My Old Tweets
People on the right have been getting fired for out-of-context tweets and fb posts for years. Now that it's starting to backfire and affect the left, many people are deleting their tweets.

It's sad that we can't post a joke or speak our minds without losing our entire career and livelihood.

wendy0x2··on Ask HN: How do you backup your files without depending on a third party service?
I have multiple harddrives synced on a daily basis.
wendy0x2··on Our experience launching a paid, proprietary product on Linux
A company can't survive on paid oss (gnu/gpl). The license allows anyone to purchase it and then go ahead and give it out for free, which would happen in short order.

Support doesn't work for many small companies, because you just don't have the manpower, so proprietary software is necessary.

wendy0x2··on Our experience launching a paid, proprietary product on Linux
This isn't rude at all. He was describing a situation in the Linux community where a large number of users have an aversion to paid software.

It's a real problem and one of the main reason osx was able to eclipse desktop software usage on linux in such a short amount of time.

Responses like yours are the real problem.

If you want linux desktop software to grow, there needs to be room for proprietary software.