funkysquid | 9 years ago | on: Reddit and Facebook Veteran on How to Troubleshoot Troublemakers
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funkysquid | 10 years ago | on: What to do with the “rm -rf” hoax question
If you're curious what the hoax post was (the answers have since been merged onto a different question) -
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:6y3HTYv...
funkysquid | 10 years ago | on: Anxiety and Depression Are Symptoms, Not Diseases
> Or if you are outside for a long time in the cold with no jacket, upon feeling very cold, you don’t say that you have "a coldness disorder".
A better example for anxiety or depression would be standing inside in a warm room, and despite everyone else in the room being comfortable, you are unable to warm up at all. When you complain, you are told that "everyone gets cold sometimes".
This article doesn't seem to have any new information, it's just repeating the old ideas that depression and anxiety are the same as temporary sadness and worry due to legitimate problems.
funkysquid | 10 years ago | on: TaskMail – Fresh way to manage projects and issues
To me it sounds like it's coming from someone who has had to use JIRA in the past. Harsh, but personally I can relate to all of it.
funkysquid | 10 years ago | on: Google Cloud Dev Advocate Jailed at SXSW
This is exactly the problem. The police are obviously not always in the wrong, but when people automatically assume that, regardless of what victims say, the police are in the right, that's why nothing changes. Nobody is calling for anyone to lose their jobs based on a tweet, we're calling for people to pay attention, listen to the victims, and make sure this sort of behavior is investigated and that people are held accountable.
funkysquid | 10 years ago | on: Google Cloud Dev Advocate Jailed at SXSW
If anybody is acting rashly here, I think it's probably the police officers who profiled him, threw him in jail, put a bag over his head, and then charged him (after 2 drinks) with "public intoxication", because " we're racist" isn't an official charge.
But please keep calm, internet, I'm sure the police were in the right.
funkysquid | 10 years ago | on: Upgrading from React 0.11.2 to 0.14.7 in 347 easy steps
Agreed - it seems like the largest problem they faced was using Scala build tools - so it's funny the blame is placed on Javascript.
funkysquid | 10 years ago | on: How Wired Is Going to Handle Ad Blocking
I don't use an ad blocker, but I'm thinking of installing one just for wired, if only to see how they implement this. And because I don't support hiding content from people who don't want to pay with their eyeballs and privacy, or maybe can't pay with money.
funkysquid | 10 years ago | on: Secret US flight flew over Scottish airspace to capture Snowden
Chelsea Manning
funkysquid | 10 years ago | on: Anywhere but Medium
This is more fun to read as the cross-post on Medium (https://medium.com/@davewiner/anywhere-but-medium-5450cb19f2...), especially the parts about how people can't criticize Medium on Medium.
funkysquid | 10 years ago | on: Breakup, as captured by my fitbit
This is fascinating (and sad), but it makes me wonder, could police use your fitness tracker as a sort of poor-mans polygraph? i.e. interview a subject normally, and then get a warrant (or not get a warrant) to view the online data and correlate them after the fact? Wikipedia mentions "blood pressure, pulse, respiration, and skin conductivity" as parameters for a polygraph [1], and while fitbit only supports 2/4 right now, the goal of fitness tracking is to have all of those. Whether or not polygraphs even work is another question, but being able to do them secretly and without consent is scary none the less.
funkysquid | 10 years ago | on: We need to start drinking recycled wastewater
Well cities have a somewhat captive market - if they pump it to your house, you'll either use it or pay extra for bottles, and at the least you won't shower or flush your toilet with bottled water.
funkysquid | 10 years ago | on: Inside Automattic's Remote Hiring Process
"consider re-applying as your skills and contributions to open source projects grow and expand."
It's not us - it's you. I'm surprised they feel the need to blame the candidate, especially since I'd guess experience isn't always the issue.
funkysquid | 10 years ago | on: Another Crowdfunded Gadget Company Collapses
Yeah, but that's what Kickstarter decided to become at some point, they weren't always that way. I'm hoping that other crowdfunding platforms don't go this direction, and allow me to choose my risk without opening the creators up to lawsuits (which feels like the most un-Kickstarter thing ever).
funkysquid | 10 years ago | on: Another Crowdfunded Gadget Company Collapses
I never see the articles about how investors need to be more careful, because some of the companies they're investing in are failing. That's sort of the point of the platform - I give you money for something that currently does not exist, and I get the chance to get that impossible thing if you're able to make it exist. Stop telling me to "be more careful", and acting like I'd be better served shopping at stores that don't fail to deliver. Stores don't sell maybe-dragonfly-robots.
funkysquid | 10 years ago | on: Why aren't there more women in tech?
Girls are discouraged from studying STEM from an early age, as the infographic mentions. Some tech companies do try to hire women, but many don't care. And sexual harassment is not the only problem facing women in the workplace.
funkysquid | 10 years ago | on: Why aren't there more women in tech?
Sure - stack everything against women working in tech - early education, hiring, work environment - and then if "they choose to stay out of tech, I guess that's their choice."
funkysquid | 10 years ago | on: 23andMe Wins a Second Life, Raises $115M
I'd be more interested in my doctor having this information. I tend to self diagnose (poorly) when presented with too much information that I don't understand well. But I feel like a medical professional could use the data to keep an eye out for specific symptoms and tailor questions for my risks, without giving me unneeded anxiety.
funkysquid | 10 years ago | on: London Police ‘Super Recognizer’ Walks Beat with a Facebook of the Mind
It's interesting that they don't mention how/if they're avoiding false positives. I don't doubt that some people have exceptional facial recognition skills, but if they're given a face they haven't seen before, how likely are they to match that face with someone they have seen? How do they know that someone wearing a mask on a security camera is enough information for him to actually make an accurate match?
I'm worried this might be another case of police over estimating how effective something is (like hair DNA forensics) to make arrests, with innocent people paying for it.
funkysquid | 10 years ago | on: Guide to Your Equity
That's pretty insane actually (although common) - would immediately disqualify them from consideration for me.
The thought process is that many times the barrier to adopting a better technology is just the time investment. So if you're sick of working with a problematic system, but the team doesn't have the time to fix it, fixing it away from work might remove that pain point from your life. And since often these projects begin and even end as just an experiment, there's not much reason to tell the team until you have something.
It doesn't really seem to have much of a downside - assuming you're just presenting whatever you come up with to the team later as an option, and not going crazy and replacing production systems without asking.