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>Meme

I dont think that word means what you think it means, and I think you should google it.

Good thing I have aquired "some sort of hyper-zen keyboard/human symbiosis". Working with a tiling wm (wmii in my case) and some sort of web-browser with keyboard shortcuts - Pentadactyl, UZBL, vimperator or vimium - works fine enough. Better than a mouse with extra buttons for sure.

But he didnt actually succeed in getting the desired result- the problem was that the statement of the problem was flawed. There obviously is a difference between what Goldstein meant, and what he said.

I dont think he completed the challenge. He found a loophole, so _maybe_ you could say he was successful. In exploiting the rules that is, not in solving the problem that Goldman stated. Still a clever solution, but obviously not what was asked for.

So it's true that everyone who disagrees with you is sexist? I dont think you mean that. Do you mean sexism should be addressed? There I agree, but that doesn't mean that every other point of view is sexist. And thats exactly on of the problems these kinds of discussion face. Every opposing argument is dismissed as "sexist" and not even taken slightly in account. And thats why some feminists are seen as fanatic- they refuse to take other points of view seriously, on the ground that it is sexist anyway. I think discussions don't work when you are aren't ready to accept other points of view, or at least take them serious.

Calling someone "mysoginistic" when he calmly and reasonably rational commented on a gender related issue, even if you dont agree, is not in bad taste. It's taking a dump on every feminist who worked on enabling women to be able to discuss these issues and be taken serious with that.

So writing a rant now is "whistleblowing"? Can I add that to my resumee?

>I see the usual grab bag of men making excuses for misogyny in software is out in force on Hacker News:

Recurring points of view in a certain discussion? Who would've thought about that?

>* Insisting sexism is not endemic to software, it's just idiots being idiots.

Thats not an excuse. How is that justifying anything? Why do you insist otherwise? Do you have empirical evidence?

>* Insisting sexism is not endemic to software, it's just jerks being jerks.

Same as above. What are you talking about? Nobody "excuses" anything.

>* Dismissive pedantry over the claim that women are deterred from software by incidents of sexism.

A discussion? We're having a discussion? What do you mean not everybody agrees? Oh no!

>* Blaming women themselves for not going into software. "Blaming"? Seriously?

There we go again.It's neither "blaming", nor "excusing". Obviously there might be other factors which doesn't make IT as attractive for women than other fields.

>The reason more women aren't in software is staring us right in the face but we're too busy being dismissively sexist to see it.

Are you serious? There is ONE (1) reason for that? Oh, if reality was that simple of a system!

HN readers who dont know the person? I really dont think so. It hardly qualifies as news anyways.

Thanks, that was hilarious.

>We're a kitsune-velociraptor otherkin median system.[...]

Pure comedy gold!

I dont really know why I should care that some, to me random, person, doesn't regard himself a programmer. There really is no valuable information for anyone who doesnt know that person in that post. So why post it? Who would be interested?

Jesus Christ how horrifying

The only problem here is that Blizzard didnt encrypt the information in the screenshots. I can understand why they would embed this info, and 9/10 of those cases are ethically sound, but I wouldnt want some random skiddies get this information.

So why wouldnt they encrypt it? Not enough space?

There are some really bad photoshops in there...

TBH, I doubt that Apple gives a shit- they would just declare it a leak, if they even get prosecuted. But that could be just my tinfoil hat talking.

I'd file that under "domain knowledge". Not only marketers need that though. If I am a coder and develop software that is used in fishing (and thus aquire knowledge about this domain), what does that make me? A maritime hacker?

I wish more authors would check their references like that. Not that I am interested in iOS-development, but still.

>Could it be that you're an anti-apple fanboy?

I indeed am, sometimes. And my post was biased, it was a bit of a bait. I can do the apple-fanboy as well though, if the topic calls for it.

On a more serious note though, I think Apple doesn't give a fuck about privacy- things like saving geolocations, the DRM in iTunes, unique device identifiers and stuff like that really makes it look like that at least.

That is seriously retarded. You don't use your computer to do actual work, do you? Because the keyboard simply is the best way to do things that are not downloading porn and browsing Facebook.

Wait, are syou serious? I didnt know anyone could be _that_ delusional about Apple. You _really_ think Apple cares about privacy? They aren't "that kind of company"? Where the hell do you get the idea that Apple cares about the morality of their decisions? Could it be that you are a fanboy? Wait, I know the answer to that already.

..."shit HN says", right here.

Thats nice, does this emacs-thing also have an editor?

Obviously there are dumb users, so you have to design accordingly.

I wish this headline was true though.

Well, who wouldve thought about? Absolutely astonishing news!

Thats just bullshit. The Linux desktop maybe isn't broadly accepted or mainstream, but I dont see the Problem in that- after all Linux remains a system for power users, even if some Distros want to change that. And there really is no better desktop environment for those people than the Linux desktop. Windows is shit incarnated, so lets not even begin to talk about it. What remains? Mac OS. Sure, it has a more accessible GUI, but not a more efficient one. I cant think of something more elegant than a tiling wm, be it awesome, wmii or xmonad. Everything based on moving a cursor just feels awkward in comparison to the simplicity of ~5-10 keyboard shortcuts. And tiling also means that I always have everything in front of me. Fumbling around to find some window is HORROR.

I think the Linux desktop simply has more options for experienced users. I simply see no way how I could be more productive with a GUI designed to cater to lusers.

I agree, what the actual fuck is supposed to be sexistic here? Can't we all live in peace? And _why_ would you post that on HN anyways? It has nothing to do with technology/startup-things. I dont really care about stuff like this, and if I did, I'm sure I wouldnt visit HN to inform myself about it. Seriously, please stop posting unrelated messages. I don't ask about programming languages in a feministic newsgroup either. This submission is just noise, nothing more.

Maybe I should build a script to filter HN... this is getting overboard.

Obviously there is no "perfect" Linux-Distro for everyone. I grew to like Fedora, but the perfect Distro to me would've been one I put together myself. And thats why we use Linux after all, isn't it? Because we can choose from so many flavors. That's also the conclusion the writer comes to- the article is more of a look at some popular distros, even if the title suggests something else.

That site certainly looks very good, but is awfully slow. I'd have prefered a not so flashy design, and I also think this would have presented the police department better. It does look modern and slick, but not very professional/official. Makes sense if they want to present themselves as modern, but it's not really accessible. I visit official sites like that to inform myself, so the best design would've been clear, performant (in case someone has an old PC) and, in the optimal case, include a contact form/chat applet.

It's a well designed website, but the design doesn't fit the target group.

Sadly thats behind a paywall. Good thing is, that the devs were either incompetent or didn't give a shit. Use this link:

>www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/fab58818-e63a-11e1-ac5f-00144feab49a,Authorised=true.html

>You could just, you know, choose not be logged in with facebook. Im not.

I dont even have an account.

EDIT: It doesn't matter BTW if you're logged in. The cookie will still be set.

>And as for tracking cookies: every website has them to some extend. And every browser lets you pick the policy you prefer.

That's true, but I think it's just careless from the designers to leave out something like this on a website standing for a mission to get rid of "bad monopolies". It's obviously not a big thing, but still something which makes me scratch my head.

>But if you care some much.. Go help them out!

Yeah, I should do that since I'm bitching here.

I'm not against using these buttons, the harmful/annoying thing is that they're used to set tracking cookies. The most simple solution would be to put them on an extra page or only enable them when the user clicks some button. But I'm sure if smart people think about it they find much more solutions. Obviously the designers of this site didnt, and thats what I dont like- being against "bad monopolies" and giving FB more data? Seriously?

I just cant take such initiatives seriously if they have Facebook-Buttons...