javadyan
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14 years ago
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on: Heroku Pulls Sponsorship After Boston API Jam Publishes Sexist Eventbrite
Well, did you expect to see a "WARNING! WE NOW WILL ATTEMPT A POTENTIALLY OFFESIVE JOKE" written in red print? Those things are supposed to be spontaneous, you know.
javadyan
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14 years ago
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on: Heroku Pulls Sponsorship After Boston API Jam Publishes Sexist Eventbrite
Believe me, friend, I have experienced discrimination. My entire family has. They have been driven away from their home because of their nationality. Then I was mocked and humiliated by other kids as the-kid-who-cant-speak-our-language. Then there was the high school and all the "nice" things it holds for the nerds. It might well be that I have experienced more discrimination than some of the furiously anti-sexist people here. Yet I don't have anything against racial, sexist, religious or other kinds of "sensitive" jokes. They are jokes. They are not meant to be taken seriously. It's OK to laugh at them if you find them funny. If you don't, shut up and let other people laugh. Don't be a self-important asshole. After all, your precious nationality/religion/sex/sexual orientation is worth exactly nothing.
javadyan
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14 years ago
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on: Heroku Pulls Sponsorship After Boston API Jam Publishes Sexist Eventbrite
So? It's not hurting anyone. You know, there is a difference between an ad for a geek event that no one cares about and a woman not getting a job because she's a woman. These are not the same things.
javadyan
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14 years ago
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on: Heroku Pulls Sponsorship After Boston API Jam Publishes Sexist Eventbrite
This was not sexism. It was a poor attempt at humour.
javadyan
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14 years ago
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on: Heroku Pulls Sponsorship After Boston API Jam Publishes Sexist Eventbrite
I think some people should loosen up. Yes, it's a bad unfunny joke. But it's not that big a deal.
javadyan
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14 years ago
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on: Performance at Any Scale
I have a feeling of deja vu, I think I've seen this link here on HN before.
javadyan
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14 years ago
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on: Google Search: Change is Coming
Are they trying to turn google into wolfram alpha?
javadyan
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14 years ago
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on: Arch Linux turns 10
1.5 years on Arch here and I pretty much refuse to use any other distro on my laptop. Great work.
javadyan
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14 years ago
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on: The Anorexic Startup: A Tale of Sex, Drugs, and C++
i found sex and drugs but no c++ :)
javadyan
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14 years ago
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on: I’m calling it: Ubuntu is finally ready for the world.
>Linux won't be ready until you can download a file from the Internet, run it, and install it just with a couple clicks (and not "you need to set the 'exectuable' flag!" error).
That way of installing software has to go. Seriously. Stop it. It's horrible.
javadyan
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14 years ago
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on: 5 Reasons KDE Is Better Than Unity
Oh my god, this is so sad. What has the Linux-on-desktop world come to? "You can manage your windows with it" is actually an advantage.
On a lighter note, if there is still hope, it lies in the little not-so-popular desktop environments like XFCE. Those both have sane UI and are not ugly pieces of bloatware.
javadyan
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14 years ago
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on: Japan invents speech-jamming gun
I want to see a video demo of it!
javadyan
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14 years ago
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on: We started requiring code reviews for everything, and my head hasn't exploded
javadyan
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14 years ago
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on: We started requiring code reviews for everything, and my head hasn't exploded
I second that. I've worked for three years in a company where code review was mandatory for EVERYTHING and all I can say is that it's the greatest thing since sliced bread.
javadyan
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14 years ago
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on: Linus Torvalds on C++
Ah, "blub"... the trusty indicator of a brainwashed pg fanboy.
Look, I know that
something has been written in lisp, still it is not the kind of software that people use (directly or indirectly) every day and you know it. Plus, you're just being disgustingly arrogant by indirectly saying that your precious lisp is too good to be used for the mundane, everyday software development.
tl;dr: lisp zealots are funny and arrogant
UPD: FYI, AutoCAD is NOT written in Lisp, it just supports extensions written in a dialect of Lisp.
javadyan
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14 years ago
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on: Linus Torvalds on C++
That holy war simply never gets old.
javadyan
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14 years ago
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on: Linus Torvalds on C++
C++ (and other mainstream languages, for that matter) excels in the aspect that you can actually write useful software with it. Yet, to the date, there are exactly zero useful pieces of consumer software (e.g. browsers, office suites, video processing) written in lisp. Thus, I suggest that lisp zealots stfu about C/C++ already, and either fix their favorite language or invent a new one.
javadyan
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14 years ago
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on: Linus Torvalds on C++
For one, it is horribly slow. I do not know for a fact that its slowness is caused by C++ as a language or by the quality the programmers who wrote Monotone... but it is slow nevertheless and that is all I know. By contrast, git is extremely fast. Go figure.
javadyan
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14 years ago
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on: Linus Torvalds on C++
I've used Monotone. It's pretty horrible if you ask me.
javadyan
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14 years ago
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on: How a big movie studio (unfairly) forced a student to give up his senior thesis
That's... that's just so sad. And so infuriating.
