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10 years ago
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on: Ask HN: Which open source projects have kind, supportive, talented teams?
You hold CEOs to a different standard because they are the public face of an organization; their personal brand impacts the brand of the company. That's not elitism, that's common sense. If a common employee holds some unpopular opinion, why should anyone care? But if the CEO does, it damages the company, and the company should care about that.
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10 years ago
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on: Ask HN: Which open source projects have kind, supportive, talented teams?
"you endorse a behavior that is in and of itself toxic -- publicly crucifying somebody because you don't agree with their beliefs... it's downright disgusting."
Lol, didn't take you long to become a hypocrite on that one!
But seriously, "someone" and "CEO of a major corporation that relies on its good image" are different things. We rightly hold them to different standards. Holding unpopular (and exclusionary) political beliefs is incompatible with leading a company like Mozilla.
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10 years ago
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on: Hampshire College changes speed limits to honor math professor
I have fond memories of taking a class with David Kelly and listening to his ranting about why 17 is objectively the best number. ("For example, the average length of a Giraffe's tongue is 17 inches! What more do you need?") He also hated the number 23 "because it's the mortal enemy of 17, I don't have time to explain why." While I was in the class the movie "23" came out: he urged us all to boycott the film, or better, form a picket line.
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10 years ago
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on: Apple facing huge chip patent bill after losing case
And patents!
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11 years ago
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on: The hidden FM radio in your pocket and why you can't use it
What's the downside of turning this on? From the article it just seems like it would mean more capabilities, more consumer choice. Is the only "downside" that it allows you to bypass cell networks when getting content?
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11 years ago
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on: Hashpipe – Pipe iff the hash matches
If the code url and hash are provided at the same place, why wouldn't an attacker just MitM that and switch them both? What does this add?
Also anyone who is not serving code over https should fix that immediately.
