bitlord_219 | 11 years ago | on: Your Anonymous Posts to Secret Aren’t Anonymous After All
I think you mean "epithets."
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bitlord_219 | 11 years ago | on: Homeless Fonts
I like anything that gets the homeless some help, but that zoom-on-mouseover on the photos is creepy.
bitlord_219 | 11 years ago | on: Yo Is Trying To Get Parody App YOLO and Others Pulled From The App Store
> That may be true, but the YOLO app is also a bit of a joke. Explains Betty Xi, one of the team members who helped create YOLO, their app was built to “poke fun at Yo.”
Should have called it "Dumb Yo." http://www.scpr.org/news/2014/02/09/42085/dumb-starbucks-cof...
bitlord_219 | 11 years ago | on: My Half Workday as a Turker
What a dehumanizing experience.
bitlord_219 | 11 years ago | on: The YouTube Contract for Indies
Not so, say those in the know: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/06/24/notice_and_shakedown...
bitlord_219 | 11 years ago | on: SF cracks down on ‘Monkey Parking’ mobile app
You send some law enforcement officers out to track down the people selling spaces. Shouldn't be difficult, since they're advertising their location right in the app.
bitlord_219 | 11 years ago | on: SF cracks down on ‘Monkey Parking’ mobile app
Good. The idea of a couple guys in Italy making money on trades of public parking spaces in SF baffles me. I assume they're not paying any taxes back to the city that maintains the spaces. How does one possibly defend this?
bitlord_219 | 11 years ago | on: The Indie Bubble Is Popping
I couldn't get past the "preamble." This writing style is just impenetrable. Wordy for no reason, with pointless pop culture references and annoying clipart & captions that fail to amuse.
bitlord_219 | 12 years ago | on: Articles Every Programmer Should Read
"What every programmer should know about SEO"
Yeah, no.
bitlord_219 | 12 years ago | on: Port of SGI ElectroPaint screensaver made via decompilation
The author claims this is the "original":
> ElectroPortis is a Windows version of ElectroPaint, the only screensaver. This is the real deal. It is not a clone, nor a reimplementation, nor a product of manual reverse engineering. It was made by running the original binary through a custom MIPS to C decompiler.
but later, says that it's the OpenGL version and links to these words:
> During my time at SGI I rewrote Electropaint to use OpenGL instead of IrisGL and it wasn't quite the same afterwards (I removed the control UI since the panels toolkit wasn't making the journey and I must have broken the random seed...).
Wouldn't be such a pedant normally, but if you're going to make such a fuss about it being the "original," don't contradict yourself on the same page...
bitlord_219 | 12 years ago | on: Follow up to the investigation results
Julie herself says she's "pretty satisfied" with this post. I still consider myself one of her supporters, and I felt satisfied enough by this post that I recreated my GitHub account. Next time give it an hour before calling everyone insane.
bitlord_219 | 12 years ago | on: Results of the GitHub Investigation
Are you saying that good engineers can't have a sense of humor?
bitlord_219 | 12 years ago | on: Results of the GitHub Investigation
It's telling that nobody would attach their name to the article. Horvath's already publicly laughed it off.
bitlord_219 | 12 years ago | on: Results of the GitHub Investigation
When it's the CEO who you have a problem with, how do you escalate beyond him?
> Look at her now, you think that there is any company on this planet which is going to risk the same process that was done to Github on a maximum mediocre engineer? I don't think so.
She already has another job with &yet. I'm curious though, what makes you think she's a "maximum mediocre engineer"?
bitlord_219 | 12 years ago | on: Ahead Of NY Subpoena Hearing, Airbnb Weeds Out Hosts With Dozens Of Listings
There's nothing logically inconsistent here. They believe strongly that you should be able to do what you want with the properties you own (actually, the properties you rent), as long as it doesn't get them in trouble!
bitlord_219 | 12 years ago | on: Results of the GitHub Investigation
You're missing details. I'd list them, but it'd be easier for you to just read her interview again, this time without skimming.
bitlord_219 | 12 years ago | on: Results of the GitHub Investigation
How do you suggest she should have responded, rather than calling them out publicly?
bitlord_219 | 12 years ago | on: Results of the GitHub Investigation
Why do you consider this relevant?
bitlord_219 | 12 years ago | on: Results of the GitHub Investigation
That is some impressive victim-blaming.
bitlord_219 | 12 years ago | on: I Got Myself Arrested So I Could Look Inside the Justice System
> "According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reports, in the year 2008 black youths, who make up 16% of the youth population, accounted for 52% of juvenile violent crime arrests, including 58.5% of youth arrests for homicide and 67% for robbery."
Arrests. Not convictions, and certainly not "crimes perpetrated."
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