iy56 | 13 years ago | on: Throwing and catching an inverted pendulum with quadrocopters
How is that sad? If it's not useful for sex, what else is more important than killing people?
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iy56 | 13 years ago | on: Chinese Army Unit Is Seen as Tied to Hacking Against U.S.
They have to say things like that, because you need the other side to believe you will use your nukes for them to be an effective deterrent. Nobody actually wants to use them.
iy56 | 13 years ago | on: What It's Like To Be Ridiculed For Open Sourcing A Project
Of course you will feel an emotional response when your code is criticized, and a considerate critic will try to minimize that. But you'd still be the one in the wrong.
iy56 | 13 years ago | on: Windows 8 Pro upgrade to jump from $40 to $200 on Feb. 1
Basing your movie opinions on random youtube videos would be equally foolish. The reviews of professional critics are somewhat different.
iy56 | 13 years ago | on: You’re not anonymous. I know your name, email, and company.
The initial email comes with what it calls a mock example. I think that's what you're referring to.
iy56 | 13 years ago | on: Lego Finds Discontinued Set For Boy Who Saved Up For 2 Years
Those are cherrypicked examples. 15 years ago they still had the custom horse, dragon, stone wall, etc pieces and today they still have sets of just plain pieces.
iy56 | 13 years ago | on: Obama's Secret Weapon In The South is 129 Million Years Old
I didn't say that blacks today aren't affected by a history of racism, only that a race-based policy is not necessary to correct this.
If you define anyone who disagrees with you as a racist, I agree, the world will never be rid of racism.
iy56 | 13 years ago | on: Obama's Secret Weapon In The South is 129 Million Years Old
The harms and benefits you are talking about are not quantifiable in a commonly-agreed-upon way. I think that's a prerequisite for the kind of analysis you want to do.
iy56 | 13 years ago | on: Obama's Secret Weapon In The South is 129 Million Years Old
15% of the animal biomass on earth is ants, but I can look in the ocean and find thousands of fish yet very few ants.
There are women-only universities, historically black universities, universities that focus on arts and universities that focus on music. Why should the employee demographics of a coal mine be the same as the demographics of a hospice?
iy56 | 13 years ago | on: Obama's Secret Weapon In The South is 129 Million Years Old
Many people disagree with you about what the goal should be.
You can't turn back time and undo abuse. Trying to do so is just a waste of resources. In the race metaphor, the solution would be to just make sure everyone starts on a even footing in the next heat. In real life, I would say that means making sure all children have equal access to healthcare and education, regardless of their parents' income or circumstances. I don't see why race-based policies are necessary to achieve this.
iy56 | 13 years ago | on: Obama's Secret Weapon In The South is 129 Million Years Old
If everyone only submits the original article to HN, all discussion is consolidated into one thread. If ten people each submit a different republication of the same article, discussion is fragmented. It's not a value judgment, it just makes using the site easier.
iy56 | 13 years ago | on: Obama's Secret Weapon In The South is 129 Million Years Old
So we should shackle the other guy for a few years to compensate? Two wrongs don't make a right.
iy56 | 13 years ago | on: The Z3 theorem prover is now open source
Agreed. But that's all very general stuff. Nothing there so much as hints at special treatment for MS's trademarks specifically, which is what I was initially objecting to.
iy56 | 13 years ago | on: Seriously?
Oh, what I meant was that software does also have a history of such roles. Today, developers are mostly men, but QA and documentation seem to be female-dominated.
iy56 | 13 years ago | on: The Z3 theorem prover is now open source
Window managers are still commonly called window managers today. Word processors are still called word processors. That's the point - Microsoft hasn't taken away these generic terms. No, you can't call your competing product the exact same thing they call theirs. Why should you be able to? That'd be retarded.
iy56 | 13 years ago | on: The Most Revealing Job Interview Question
>here he was engaging in geek-shaming.
No, he was making a joke about Fight Club. But if you are determined to feel persecuted, I'm sure you can find a way. The anime club at my workplace meets weekly in a conference room to use one of our projectors. Several coworkers have figurines or wallscrolls in their offices. And yes, this is in America.
iy56 | 13 years ago | on: Keccak wins the SHA-3 competition
iy56 | 13 years ago | on: The Z3 theorem prover is now open source
When you ask your officemate to open the window, does legal tell you to stop saying that Word(TM) because you're not using it according to the way Microsoft defined it?
iy56 | 13 years ago | on: Racism at a gaming company
That's completely justified. Although they're obviously both bad, harming the national war effort is far more dangerous than racism against a subgroup of citizens. The number of lynchings of black Americans doesn't even come close to the casualties suffered in WWI.
iy56 | 13 years ago | on: Racism at a gaming company
What would you suggest instead? That an employer can tar and feather workers for violating company policy?