oliverhunt | 12 years ago | on: Show HN: Xpressive - CSS3 Live Design Tool for Mac OSX
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oliverhunt | 12 years ago | on: Reddit Insight
Is this saying that all posts in r/technology get an average of 2027 karma?
oliverhunt | 12 years ago | on: Shit for Making Websites
oliverhunt | 12 years ago | on: No free trade agreement if charges of espionage are true, warns EU Commissioner
oliverhunt | 12 years ago | on: No free trade agreement if charges of espionage are true, warns EU Commissioner
oliverhunt | 12 years ago | on: A 17 Year Old with Severe Autism and His Six Completed Coursera Courses
'The history of the portrayal of disabled people is the history of oppressive and negative representation. This has mean that disabled people have been presented as socially flawed able bodied people, not as disabled people with their own identities'.
David Hevey, 25 March 1992
oliverhunt | 13 years ago | on: Tearable Cloth Simulation in JavaScript
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oliverhunt | 13 years ago | on: The secrets of body language
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oliverhunt | 13 years ago | on: Why is there only one Elon Musk?
oliverhunt | 13 years ago | on: Why is there only one Elon Musk?
Hacker News is not used to the answer being social and not technical and suggesting that this mention of his marriage and an unnecessary value judgement on its failure by OP is not tabloid levels of personal investigation.
oliverhunt | 13 years ago | on: Why is there only one Elon Musk?
Perhaps to you nothing is more important, fortunately people can do what they want - some choose family, some choose other responsibilities, most choose a balance. Whether Musk is happy or not he seems to have made his choice.
oliverhunt | 13 years ago | on: Why is there only one Elon Musk?
I see one as an individual perspective and one as a society perspective. Musk will be remembered for his incredible achievements, he will not be remembered for being father of the year (any time soon at least according to your post).
oliverhunt | 13 years ago | on: Ex-Prime Minister Baroness Thatcher dies, aged 87
oliverhunt | 13 years ago | on: Google is about to learn a tough lesson
While looking for a google reader alternative I ended up finding out about owncloud and now I use that to manage and sync my calendars and contacts across my devices, I also moved my domain email to zoho and infact the only service I am tied into of googles now is the android play store.
I used google apps for ages and had a free account before it got paid only (except that way of getting a 1 user apps account through some other google service) and I did that because it was so easy, and i reccomended it to anyone getting a domain.
That probably won't be the case any more.
So, I was in search of a new rss reader, and I had no intention of completely moving out of the google ecosystem, but I ended up finding a system that works better for me, and when people come to me (who come to me because 'i know tech' or whatever), and ask me what they should set up there new domain with, they will get a completely new answer.
This is just a personal story and i'm sure its not relevant to everyone but my point is that this move, and others, is damaging their brand and when you introduce people to RSS who have no idea what it is, and then you show them google reader and they love the fact they dont even need to make an account because they already have gmail, they love it. That is gone
Maybe my point is better illustrated by this post https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5383495
oliverhunt | 13 years ago | on: Introducing Passion Projects
Really, I am focussing on the mundane ways in which "women = feminine = emotional" has been portrayed in the few words that were written on the new series.
If you are interested in the way gender is reproduced in this way I recommend this reading http://www.mariabuszek.com/kcai/PoMoSeminar/Readings/BtlrPer...
It is a text by Judith Butler, probably one of the most influential living social theorists who writes on gender and focuses on 'the mundane', meaning language, acts etc
Anyway, I am excited to watch these. So, if you were involved - thanks.
oliverhunt | 13 years ago | on: Introducing Passion Projects
I'll admit I had not read the link before I posted that comment, but looking at it now I still believe that the language used is overly emotional and I think that it has been used just because this is a series on women.
A definition of the word passion involves, among other things "strong and barely controllable emotion" and I think this may be an obvious case where a gendered stereotype has been blatantly applied.
Some sentences taken from the link:
"celebrate the work of some of the most passionate women in our industry."
"share one of their nearest and dearest passion projects with our community."
"to hear about some positive experiences from other women in our industry doing what they love."
oliverhunt | 13 years ago | on: Introducing Passion Projects
oliverhunt | 13 years ago | on: Creating a simple blog system with a 500-line bash script (2011)