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Comment · 1 year ago
Wow, straight up propaganda. Lame
Comment · 2 years ago
I've had an alt account specifically for porn for a while. Prior to 2023, most porn clips were only 20-30 seconds. This year, I've noticed the bot accounts regularly post full 30 minute scenes, or even 2 hour long movies.
Comment · 10 years ago
It's weird to see Google best practices continue to leak and become the standard.
Comment · 10 years ago
Comment · 12 years ago
Wow, this is just what I was looking for. Thanks!
Comment · 12 years ago
The best part is, 15% of GitHub's employees are women, and only 6 of them are developers. So you could actually do a really accurate survey with a small sample size!
Comment · 12 years ago
That actually sounds extremely plausible to me. I mean, I don't think the guy literally said to himself "she won't fuck me, revert!"

What I imagine happened is some guy at work had a crush on her and made an awkward pass at her. Maybe he tried to smell her hair or something, I don't know. She shot him down, then he got all butthurt and started undoing her commits on the projects they worked on together. Because they were painful reminders of her.

From his perspective, he's a sensitive guy who just got rejected and isn't coping well. But to her, he's the guy deleting her code because she wouldn't fuck him.

That doesn't seem crazy at all to me. It seems totally possible, and just the kind of situation competent HR departments are supposed to prevent and mitigate.

Comment · 12 years ago
I think this is the crux of why G+ failed. When I first started using it, circles seemed like a killer feature. I divided all my contacts into work, friends, family, by location, etc. So I could share programming stuff with tech friends, but local stuff with local friends.

But, instead, I find I just share everything I care to share public. I think what people share is part of how they present themselves, and if I'm always in the context of being myself, with my real name and the same picture, then I'm going to share the same set of stuff.

Comment · 14 years ago
Doesn't Google only open source projects when they don't want to spend any more time working on them?
Comment · 14 years ago
So I guess this is what Carl Quinn's been working on?
Comment · 14 years ago
Someone should port VirtualBox to NaCL. Then we could build web apps on top of little embedded virtual linux machines using Qt or WxWidgets or something.
Comment · 14 years ago
Maybe I'm biased, but to me the story of RIM is another example of the triumph of open source over closed-source solutions. iOS is based on BSD, Android on linux (and heavily leverages the OpenBinder IPC mechanism. I've looked closely at the old blackberry OS and the new QNX based one, and it's amazing how far behind they are.

Seeing the new QNX OS and how they're using it was a real eye opener. They have nothing that even comes close to the features of ICS on their roadmap, and they just don't have the resources or expertise to ever catch up.

I agree, they do make good hardware. But the software side of their house is in the stone age, and the recent acquisitions haven't really helped at all.

Comment · 15 years ago
It seems like I get calls from recruiters every other week looking for people with Grails experience.

I used Grails for a project four years ago - I think it made a lot of sense then. We wanted a simple web UI for something that needed to deeply integrate with some java libraries. We had just done a relatively simple UI with Spring and it was pretty amazing how much better it was to work in Groovy.

However, these days I don't see why anyone would pick Grails over Rails. You can deploy rails on the jvm just fine, and it's much more mature. There are tons of tutorials and example code out there.

It's not a performance thing - it's just that ruby/rails is pretty mature now and runs on the JVM very well.

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