delan

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Jan 30
{delan@,www.}azabani.com

[ my public key: https://keybase.io/delan; my proof: https://keybase.io/delan/sigs/wYQcFEtgAbAarITmAEdfTwdIq0-rqodlimJsnZPiduk ]

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Comment · 10 years ago
Comment · 10 years ago
> corporate logos, octop^Hcat

Only two logos appear in the entire pull request process, and those are the two small silhouettes that you see on every page.

> CoC shoved in your face on every commit

Codes of conduct? While they are becoming fairly prevalent, the GitHub interface has no special understanding of them.

Comment · 10 years ago
> free accident compensation

New Zealand?

Comment · 10 years ago
Full Speed has existed since USB 1.0 — it’s “full” relative to USB 1.0, where the only other option was Low Speed — but I agree that the name was a poor choice.
Comment · 10 years ago
Why is it a matter of course?
Comment · 10 years ago
Some of their other writing seems to be of a similarly low quality. Another of their pages [0] seems to mirror a post [1] that they had sent to comp.lang.lisp, where they describe their difficulty with finding out the identities behind some blogs in sufficient detail.

> PS it annoys me to no end when one cannot easily find the name of the author on blogs, when the blog author clearly didn't meant to be anonymous. Is there a reason you didn't want it spelled it out?

This turns into a small rant against handles, which, if you set aside the jargon, are essentially nicknames.

> (i despise hacker culture, where these “hackers” idiotic-namesake prefer to go by “handles” or abbrevs (e.g. “RMS”, “ESR”, “JWZ”) or whatnot insider-fashion fuck. But that's just me.)

One person seemed a bit annoyed by them, so they then responded with a larger rant [2] that proposes that “hackers” are a strict subset of the people who like to tinker with computers, without ever clearly describing what it is about “hackers” that they “despise” — concluding:

> It is this group of people, i despise. More accurately: i despise their general style and outlook. I despite them. Fuck them. FUCK hackers. FUCK their hacking. Fuck their mothers. Scumbags.

At this point, I’d have dismissed them as a troll, but they went to the effort of buying a domain name and everything!

[0] http://xahlee.info/Netiquette_dir/whats_hacker.html

[1] https://groups.google.com/d/msg/comp.lang.lisp/VQF8CIUIotg/q...

[2] https://groups.google.com/d/msg/comp.lang.lisp/VQF8CIUIotg/P...

Comment · 10 years ago
“We absolutely, most certainly, should NOT ship libraries with operating systems.”
Comment · 10 years ago
With progressive enhancement, Twitter could provide basic functionality with full page loads and the like, and use JavaScript to replace these with a better user experience.
Comment · 10 years ago
That a person would continue to work for a given rate does not imply that they don’t mind working for that rate. There are many reasons why one might continue. They may not be trained in another occupation. They may not have the money to choose to stop working in an effort to make a statement about their rate. They may even want to continue working despite their objections about how much they’re being paid.
Comment · 10 years ago
Comment · 10 years ago

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