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There's different types of communication.

From my casual view, he's not a great communicator in the sense of communicating with the public. That requires measured response and dealing with issues in a particular way.

He is a master of his craft, and very effective technical communicator. As a non-kernel programmer, I can read something that he writes about and understand it enough to answer questions I have about how things work.

It's one of the challenges of working in big groups of people. He is dealing with a huge community, all with their own interests and agendas in pursuit of his vision of excellence. In a private company he would be able to exert (directly or indirectly) control over the conduct of community members. In this public forum, he has the ability to influence rhetorically or control what gets past him. That's a different and more difficult form of control, especially when you have to do it in public.
This is really bad advice.

You reduce errors by reducing code by wrapping your code in functions, thats functional and its how classes work. This article suggests the opposite just write everything from scratch perfectly, not going to happen.

> there's nothing stopping you from continuing to add those semantic classes, even if they're irrelevant for styling
If they are irrelevant to style then it could be applied to anything, it has no meaning and is not semantic.

They don't know what separation of concerns is, or why its a good thing.

>when you get into a situation where one of the buttons needs to have slightly more margin-top than the others

Yea just break your designs consistency im sure your users will love that.
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> If I extract a real reusable ProfileCard component, I can apply functional CSS to it exactly once. If the color changes, it's just a single place I need to look into.

Then you're basically moving re-use from CSS to HTML templates. And if both exist only once, it shouldn't matter where you have to adjust that one line.
>The creeps should consider themselves on notice, whether there's a CoC or not.

Yep, no politics here. No us-vs-them tribalism. No power plays. No jeering and celebrating a "victory" over "the other side". Just improving the community and making it more welcoming to everyone, that's what it's all about.
Is this the study that's based on some extremely small amount of bees (45?) being completely submerged in glyohosate?

"We found that babies, when submerged in 100% water for ONLY 5 MINUTES, had extremely averse reactions. We must ban water before it continues to hurt our children!"
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Off-topic and a minor thing, but "predate" is what predators do to prey. "Pre-date" is what one moment can do to another. At least according to my wife, for whom this matter looms large (she is an editor).
I think it's trickier than that.

"Oh god, we have a fanatical fanbase which isn't interested in buying our (expensive new product) but which still loves this (discontinued product), and are making more of it without paying for our licensing"

"Find the unlicensed (discontinued product) and sue the hell out of it"

I suspect this has little to do with wanting to piss off TNG fans, but about trying to coerce them into the newer products (like Discovery, or the unnamed Patrick Stewart reboot), or at least protecting the licensing fees they still get around TNG. (See how they are suing Stage 9, but are totally ok with Star Trek: Bridge Crew and Star Trek: Online -- which have TNG stuff in them).

I don't agree with this method of enforcement. But I could imagine how/why an executive might think this way.

They could have easily used these same lawyers time to help Stage 9 move into proper paid licensing instead (making them even more money, and simultaneously being nicer to the fans and creators). But I'm not a highly paid executive, so what do I know?
There is https://github.com/commonsearch

Also, it is a lot of money only for handling the storage costs.
So if I pay GM for a car they won't data-mine me? Just yesterday on HN we learned that this is not the case. Why do you think companies wont take your money and then proceed to sell your data anyway?
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I work with women, I don't think they are that stupid they cannot handle it. It must be something else. Definitely none of them cried or left because we get to the point in the meetings, or I don't compliment them before criticizing their work.

I think not working like this may be even weird for some of my foreign coworkers.
Let me nail down my point. If a certain group of people with a similar social or political ideology doesn't like me, I'm not changing. That's what this is all about.

Edit: To discount all that LT has done and to what extent his work that de facto runs almost everything - is naive.
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It depends on the university that you have gone to, mine was very clear on the assumptions made and we were always critical about the content and its implications. I took several philosophy of economics classes throughout my degree as well. I wish you had a better introduction to the field though, and agree that universities should better educate their undergrads on the real-world aspects of the models at hand.
In the course of your excessive use of hyperbole and strawman, you've effectively turned off anyone who might have been interested in hearing your argument out. I'm not sure what point, if any, you're trying to make here other than to air out grievances about some grossly unrealistic perception of other people based entirely on [social] media stereotypes.
They have a lot of models and we usually sell ac-pros and ac-lrs. Maybe there are issues with higher/lower grade versions...
By talking about how problematic these people are, you miss and reinforce my point.

I’m not saying anything about how they behave or whether it’s acceptable or helpful. I’m saying that how you behave should not be determined by them. If you’ve decided not to encourage people to do the right thing (or, worse, stop doing the right thing yourself) because some other people are jerks, you’re just making excuses for behaving badly.

There is a useful discussion to be had about persuasion. Phrases like “it pushes people away” are perfectly fine of that’s what happens. But when it becomes “it pushes me away,” well, take some responsibility for your own beliefs and actions.
"Do you really, truly believe this is the reason why so many people are against Codes of Conduct in open-source projects?"

I think there are many reasons. This is certainly not the only one, but it's one I've run into quite a bit. Keep in mind that people usually don't realize how their behavior, or their acquiescence to others' behavior, is harming or excluding others. They feel no need for a CoC to support their side in any dispute, because the in-group already supports them. If any piling-on occurs, it's on their side. Thus they see only how a CoC might inhibit them in some (usually hypothetical) scenario, while remaining blind to how it might enable others. They oppose it "on principle" but it's a flawed principle.

But the point is not that I believe that. The point is that Linus clearly does (see quote) and he's willing to do something about it. If a CoC doesn't work, then I would expect to see him coming down personally on some of the worst offenders. I've known and worked with a few of them, so I for one would welcome that.
It's even worse in music, movies, and sports.
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Which tool or Trello add-on do you use to manage a Kanban board?

We currently use plain Trello with a Kanban-ish process. Trello is great for card creation and update, but sorely lacking in reporting (e.g. how long does it take for a card to traverse the board) and advanced options (e.g. limit the number of cards per column or total WIP, create a fast-track slot in each column, etc.). Which tool or Trello add-on would you recommend that combines Trello's ease of use and advanced Kanban features?
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Wow. This...uh. There's a lot of shitty to unpack in this post.

First: I've never had to fire somebody I hired. I have had to fire people I inherited. It doesn't suck less, but given your odd attempt at turning this into a referendum on people who aren't big on jerkass coworkers, I feel like it helps complete the picture.

Second: firing people is rather unlike "coddling".

Third: that I have fired people does not mean I do not think that they are decent people. It does not mean that I think they are fit for no job. And it does not mean that I, as somebody with a working empathic function, don't want to help them to land as softly as possible in a job where they can be happy and productive.

Fourth: the notion that a reference can't be honest because somebody puts forth the above idea is entirely and only in your goddamn head. You are projecting. On the other hand, I've told somebody who asked (off the record) something along the lines of "I would not hire this person as a team lead because I've observed deficiencies in X, Y, and Z, but their strengths in A, B, and C make them good for role R" because honesty does not require being a prick.

Fifth: somebody who is fired for being an asshole--and, yeah, I've done that, and again, nobody I've ever hired--has no value to my network. I'm not going to inject the toxin I have spat out into somebody I actually like. Because I actually like those people and I want them to succeed. It isn't hard.

Were I in your shoes I'd be looking in the mirror right now. You're projecting something real ugly onto me and its source is worth thinking about.
Uhm isn't Uber using Adyen?
This is no longer "just a little bit of effort and minimal cost" - most likely no one will use unique emails for every site as well as use private browsing mode permanently in order to avoid cross cookie / cross site contamination via 3rd party (non facebook) tracking. Which is cited as a "feature" - allowing clients to bring their own ad tracking database and integrating that into the FB one in order to make ad targeting more specific.
So if I draw a perfect Mickey Mouse, can I hang it on my wall at home? Can I post it on my website? When exactly does my right to free expression become no longer exerciz-able? You can see what a slippery slope that would be.
Please don't conflate capitalism with libertarianism. Only makes a discussion more confused.
Another interesting CSS framework taking this approach: UniversalCSS: https://github.com/marmelab/universal.css

A few advantages: self-documented classnames, zero dependencies, classnames are reusable across projects, removes the need for a CSS preprocessor or bundler, no need to switch between HTML and CSS file while developing, etc...
It's unclear to me the problem you are addressing. Searching for places to make amendments is an important consideration when naming something. I would have thought that class names like "profile-card" would be easier to search for than "m-5 p-5 text-gray-light bg-gray-darker border border-gray-light". Especially if you have some page elements which may look the same now but are functionally different and could look different in the future. How would you find one and not the other?

Is that the problem you were addressing or did you have something different in mind?
Sketchy. Big promises for privacy, but first thing they do is collecting data.

Similar the commercial plan. Yet there is no existing selfhosting (at the moment), or even an export. There is no display of how many data are collected. How much will this waste with time? How do I clean it up?

The Integration seems to something they should work on. Search does not work with Tridactyl (a vim-style addon for firefox). Entrys in context-menu are also missing. The Annotation "Toolip" (seems there is a typo in the settings?) is kinda useless for me as I already use the "Swift Selection Search"-addon. Some documentation to manual configurate integration might be useful. Some tooltips are missing in the Toolip too. No clue what those icons should do from the look of it.

BTW In Settings, Acknowledgements-Section there if gif(?) from some movie-scene. Given the commercial plans of this project this will likely considered as copyright infringement.

BTW2 Memex seems to be trademarked. Might be a problem.
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> I feel an issue behind this essay is that it makes assumptions of the purpose of literature. That literature should be difficult to read, and that difficult works are the only works that transfer knowledge, is not reflected in contemporary understanding of literature... anywhere. Although there are essays discussing the merit of difficult literature, they have always been in response to an equal or greater number of essays denigrating difficult literature.

"Literature" in the sense he's using it doesn't refer to every work of fiction. I don't know that literature has to be challenging to be good (A Farewell to Arms is pretty universally recognized and it isn't long or difficult), but an audience that reflexively gravitates only toward YA novels is demonstrating a certain lack of desire for thinking. The number of political takes I read that involve analogy to a children's book about wizards is somewhat hard to look at without thinking that our current literary environment engenders a lack of critical thinking.

I don't know that women's literature has "always" been respected; why did Emily Bronte (among many other Victorian woman authors) write under a male pseudonym?
As the OP said, its not about upending expectations about precision of measurement.

After all you can make the geocentric model infinitely precise with enough epicycles, it can match all and every earthbound observation to any degree of precision.

That does not change the fact that it is fundamentally wrong.
Words of Margaret Mead comes to mind, once again;

"Never ever depend on governments or institutions to solve any major problems. All social change comes from the passion of individuals."
The alt-right as a movement is pretty clearly a counterreaction to the social justice movement, but I’m not sure if it’s so much reasonable people getting radicalized than an already rather unpleasant subset of the population finding a platform – and an echo chamber – for their unpleasantness.
What's something that will keep you interested for 2-3 months?

This is your chance to show that you can tackle a project without getting distracted by shiny new tech. Can you go back to it day after day without getting bored?

Choosing something "cool" might look good on a CV for a short while, but much more important is the work ethic it will instill in you.
Fair enough, honestly. As someone who's broadly sympathetic to his managerial style, I totally understand the desire to distance himself from those in the 'underbelly of the internet' who use an 'anti PC / SJW' stance to (poorly) mask their own bigotry.
>The Norman Mailer anecdote seems strange. I think I read more than average; I finish about 30 books a year, most of which are literary fiction or history books. Still, I haven't read a Norman Mailer book anytime recently. There's literally thousands of years' worth of literature from all over the world; why him, in particular?

Well, 4-5 decades ago ago he was for US mainstream literature world what Led Zeppelin were for 70s hard rock fans...

So, the essay author explains very well why he asked the question: to show the very short span of literary glory, from someone who was ubiquitous and celebrated not long ago.

He also adds, when 2 out of 300 raise a hand: "Frankly I was surprised it was that many".

Half a century or so ago, and for a long time before that, people didn't just chose from "thousands of years' worth of literature from all over the world" -- they knew the authors of their time, and the times before, with many overlaps that formed a canon, not a free choice among thousands of works (if that, since many don't read that much, period).

>The idea that books have to compete with more stimulating technologies isn't new either: radio, movies, and TV were there first. Is this a wholly new trend or the acceleration of an existing one?

Does it matter? Both are comparatively recent -- there are people alive in the US who were born when none of them (radio, tv) were available at any home.
I find it disheartening that it takes studies of this nature to reshape regulations. Glyphosate (as Roundup) has been the bestselling herbicide on the market since 1980. Among bee-keepers, asserting that "roundup kills bees" is about as controversial as "rain makes things wet."

The US regulatory environment treats artificially prepared chemicals as innocent until proven guilty. A safer approach (recently adopted in Europe) would be to guarantee the safety of industrial, agricultural, and household chemicals before they are allowed to go to market.

On a potentially related note, sperm counts in the western world have been declining precipitously since 1990. I'd bet that glyphosate and/or other common poorly regulated chemicals have something to do with this.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/sperm-count-dropp...
What is the difference between a column-oriented database, and storing your data in a regular database where all tables have only a single column?
"Anything scientific in economics is just the math part, which are orthogonal to economic behavior and markets."

You're just proving my point here, this is outright dismissive of all forms of experimentation that goes on in many fields of economics. Do not blame the study for your lack of deeper understanding of it; it has more to offer than just salaried academics and macroeconomic policycrafting.
As far as my side of the street: I've knocked on a LOT of doors for progressive candidates, and will continue to do so. Don't you worry about me.

But do you see the box you're building? I'm either 100% on board with an ever-more-extreme program, or I'm somehow revealing the evil nature of my heart by being turned off by them?

I'm very serious about the persuasion component, and the fact that it's pushing EVEN ME away ought to set off alarm bells. If they're annoying and unpersuasive to me, how on earth would they be perceived by someone in Ohio? Have they ever met someone from Ohio?
While I agree I see personal bias in what he writes on Twitter, I'd hardly call it pro-rebel. Anti-government (more like anti-syrian regime), sure. It show in the choice of topics. But the question is how much it shows in the analysis itself.

As for Hexamine/Sarin attack/Postol issue: Hexamine was found in Sarin attacks by OPCW, it was declared by Syria to OPCW. Postol is not a chemist, nor CW expert, nor on the ground, nor very credible wrt his claims about Syrian chemical attacks, as several of his claims were already rejected by OPCW, who found Syrian regime responsible for the April 4 2017 attack (Postol had all kinds of theories about this attack). I prefer OPCW's conculsions to some random profesor's taking sides and judging from a distance.

https://www.armscontrol.org/factsheets/Timeline-of-Syrian-Ch...

You quoted Partisangirl, and I just can't take her seriously as an unbiased source either. Just one recent example of clear bias: Despite big civilian protests last few weeks in Idlib, she only tweeted one picture of some marching jihadists. She's very clearly pro assad-regime, at the expense of truth, accuracy, and peoples lives for that matter.

So yeah, Higgins is biased, but quoting other biased, non-expert sources doesn't really improve the matters.

Re: fake sniper. The experiment can be both revealing of reporting bias and highly irresponsible. People criticized the irresponsibility angle at the time. Witch hunt seems to be your interpretation.
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If the point of strawmans is to escape strawmans, then why strawmans?
Hi there. Any obvious and non obvious suggestions as to how should one switch from permanent to contractor?
Sure, and once upon a time Mr. Ed was wildly popular. Nonetheless, nobody would start off an article about the death of television by complaining that he asked a roomful of people and nobody had watched it recently.
I learnt COBOL in the Computer Science technical school (before college, FP in Spain).

It is an easy language very focused. Even that it has lots of constraints like number of spaces, putting some magic characters in specific columns.

The most difficult thing is to have somewhere to execute it, nobody has mainframes at home :)
From the other perspective, I know what "m-5 p-5 text-gray-light bg-gray-darker border border-gray-light" will look like and I can immediately change it. I have no idea what "profile-card" does, and if it's ultimately something I don't like I have to go through the whole asset pipeline to change it.

I'm not saying you're wrong, I think I'm more or less against functional CSS, but just saying there's at least one more way to look at it.
My point is that social conditioning begins the moment you have interactions with the child, and if you notice a behavior you expect a similar behavior. I can't see how that would be disputed, though the importance of any one aspect is still unclear.
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Author here. In retrospect a couple months after writing this post, I don't love it. I still am in love with Tailwind and Functional CSS, but I did a poor job defending it.

I'd suggest that everyone read this post [1] by Adam Wathan, the creator of Tailwind CSS. It does a much better job explaining and defending than I did.

[1] https://adamwathan.me/css-utility-classes-and-separation-of-...
Perhaps, but this might have more to do with the the public's ability to govern themselves soundly.

Marx actually had quite a bit to say about the "reproduction" of capitalism depending on the indoctrination of new generations. We have been witnessing this play out over the last 40 or so years in the USA, starting with the revival of right wing political movements.

Head on over to a hard-right corner of the Internet, and feel your jaw drop in amazement as you realize that they simply do not share the reality that you inhabit. This is the result of a successful decades long brainwashing campaign.
sure but I can't realistically expect everyone to be nice, Isn't better for me to always try to prepare myself for the fact that anyone can be rude and unhelpful ?
I think what he is saying is that "viral infection, parasites, gallstone, or tumors" doesn't include bacteria.
I was able to retire at 55 last year, so it worked out. The last few years were spent at big companies so there was zero pressure to move into management, there were plenty of people that wanted to do that so they had their fill. I think there was some expectation to move into a Tech Lead type role but if you do some of the Tech Lead tasks unofficially (code practices, mentoring) you should do fine.

At 41 think of it this way. You're older and if you're laid off, would you rather be a middle manager looking for a job or a developer that's kept up your skills?