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I'd rather have appalling speech than censored speech. The idea is to not confuse supporting a person's free speech with endorsing his views.

Also, reddit is a private company and so is not obliged to provide a platform for anyone's free speech, that also is a facet of freedom.
Good one! Makes me think about those crazy reality shows where they're on the hunt for some sea beast/monster crazy thing. The scale of the lore of the objects they hunt would be so huge that you wouldn't be hearing about such breaking news first by watching the next 30 minutes of characters bumbling around in dark forests and deep seas, etc.
I strongly believe causality runs the other way... becoming a default reddit puts you into an Eternal September that no community could possibly survive.

But in the end, the result is the same.
Maybe some parts of the government aren't competent but the NSA is pretty good at what they do.
So now we're dropping random controversies in the middle of discussions to try make a point? This post is really attracting the worst in people.
I use the following to jump from merge to merge when bisecting (we use pull requests as our main "clean history" management).

"!git checkout `git rev-list --bisect --first-parent`"
Yishan was actually an incapable CEO and a bad choice. And all the complaints about Ellen apply to him too: he censored subreddits with no clear policy, he was at odds with his own staff and his own board, and he presided over lots of unhappy departures of valuable employees for stupid reasons. A lot of the problems we see now are his doing.

Did he get the same sort of personal, visceral threats?
> This is clearly nonsense, otherwise there wouldn't have been a grassroots campaign to remove Ellen Pao from her role.

When "SJWs" get someone fired we're told a loud, vocal minority has too much power and is dangerous.

The same folks seem to be calling the same thing in a direction they like a "grassroots campaign". I find that interesting. Pao's most downvoted posts still got only a few thousand of Reddit's tens of millions of users expressing their dislike, and petitions topped out at what, 20k of those tens of millions?
> "I think every engineer in the world would like to have their own Cray"

Interesting, most of us have machines that are roughly analogous to a mid-80's Cray machine.

I use mine to write PHP and watch Cats fall off things.
> This whole thing was really disgusting and made me hate the average Reddit user

They are not the average Reddit user.

Probably a huge majority of Reddit users have no idea who Ellen Pao is.
> Not that there is anything odd or wrong about that.

I find it really strange when people talk about someone's personal life details and then say that there's nothing odd or wrong about it. Especially when right before that they say that their personal situation is "bizzare", and the reader kinda expects to learn, what is so bizzare about it.

So, why did you bring his bisexuality up in that comment?
Ha, Harman tried that with a recent project of theirs that is in serial production now for a big carmaker. I identified the strange connector and asked for a free sample of it, from there it took me ten minutes to disable the firewall and enable SSH access from the ethernet.
This is the best description of reddit I've found so far: https://twitter.com/waxpancake/status/619625808403894272
Is it possible to explain it in a few sentences for those of us who are confused but don't wish to read a book?
Sure, but is it part of the scandal around the KPCB partner who had the affair with her? It takes two to tango.
Rome did not collapse because of natural resource problems. Neither did Byzantium. They collapsed because their civilizational business model started generating negative marginal returns. This can happen for environmental reasons or it can happen for other reason.
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Yishan was a massively unpopular CEO and both him and his decisions were strongly disliked. I'm sure he received his fair share of death threats, because internet, but there were also two points to keep in mind for his time as CEO:

- He wasn't in the middle of a bunch of massively controversial fraud/discrimination lawsuits and other issues

- Reddit's administration wasn't a damn soap opera at the time, so people didn't care as much.

PS: You don't need to be a woman to receive death threats. It's not an exclusivity. People are assholes, like I said. I've worked long enough in the video game industry to know this as a fact. Unfortunately, America has this very weird narrative about women which only serves to reinforce the stereotypes they claim to fight. And since it's past 1AM in Europe, we're seeing this narrative dominate the comments... it's pretty sad.
Converting large-scale investor dollars into compelling returns using the world's most entitled and monomaniacal message board: not, in fact, an easy job. Pretty sure very few of us could do it either.
We don't have to go too far to find psychopaths... a relatively larger percentage of teenagers are "psychopaths" - as in, they lack empathy.

All it takes to convert them into adult psychopaths is lack of guidance by parents and a ruthless outside environment.

I would state, without proof, that the number of people who would be labeled as psychopaths (by their behavior, violent nature and lack of empathy) would be larger in third world countries as compared to, say, US, Norway or Sweden... this is going by my personal experience.
No, it is making decisions based on information you aren't considering.

Poor people are making economic decisions not to come out ahead but to mitigate their losses. They aren't doing this because they want to, it is because it is the best decision they can make given their constraints. For example, they can either sell their time for minimum wage, far less than the value they create, or they can starve or go homeless. The person they are selling their time to knows that the alternative to taking the deal on the table is pain or death -- that the poor person cannot walk away from the bargaining table without making themselves worse off. So they are free to ignore the value those people create and, instead, offer the least amount possible for the poor person to avoid the fate they'd suffer if the walk away from the deal. In a word, exploitation.

So, the poor person makes a deal that looks terrible to people who have the luxury of being able to walk away from a potential trade with no loss. People that must be enticed, that must leave the table with more than they brought, people who are on an upward spiral, who do not generally have to make a deal or face loss. People who are used to all parties leaving the table with more value.

They are, as much as any human can, making the best decisions they can in their situation.

Are there people that are simply too dumb to figure out what is best for themselves? Yes, but that number isn't anywhere close to the 45 million people we have living below the poverty line in the US.
... by ignoring the last decade in programming language design research?
Sure that's possible and it's likely that there are a lot of misogynists that have participated; but that doesn't make everyone who was critical a misogynist.
Thank you for that summary, I really appreciate it.
"it's basically just the regular explanation with the regular expression s/website/pub/ applied" would've sounded wittier but, joke aside, I am sorry you see it that way.
Right, but aside from the first those aren't techniques for knowing when your product would no longer be useful, they are techniques for forcing it to no longer be useful. That's not so much another way of looking at it as what forced obsolescence is by definition.
The most disgusting posting I have seen is by our good friends the yellow journalists trying to weave there 'Reddit is misogynist' narrative. While Redditors are upset that Pao fires perhaps the most competent and well liked woman working at Reddit.

Urinalism is largely discredited at this point due to there bias and agenda.
Python 3.3 did it: https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0393/
> What I really meant is that if you have a significant non-JS-supporting visitor base, you almost certainly already know it. There are a huge class of web apps that simply do not have to worry about it. If you know who your customers/visitors are then you should already know how important it is to support non-JS browsers.

I was refering specifically to websites, not webapps.

> It's really not the end of story, and it's not your call except for your own web apps. JavaScript is an integral part of the platform that is the web, just like HTML and CSS. You might as well make the argument that "requiring a web browser for your app is not okay, end of story."

That analogy makes absolutely no sense, nor does your comparison to CSS. JS is an entirely different class of dependency than either CSS or web browsers.

JS is turing-complete, has a significantly bigger attack surface (both in terms of vulnerabilities and in terms of tracking), is much, much harder to optimize for a low-powered device than HTML and CSS, and so on.

Further, the web browser is a necessity to view something on the web. It is well understood, it is easy to optimize, and it is widely deployed. JS is no such 'required dependency' - and you should not make it one, when it can be done just fine without.

> Things were a lot different 10 years ago, and perhaps your reluctance to update your understanding less than once per decade might explain some of your views. You may as well be saying "making a store than can only be accessed over the Internet is not okay, end of story, we all collectively understood this 25 years ago."

The support/compatibility landscape for JS has not changed in those 10 years. The types of non-JS clients are still the same, the reasons for progressive enhancement are still the same. The only thing that has changed is standardization.

"Old" is not the same as "obsoleted". Unless you can come up with a concrete reason as to why this knowledge has been obsoleted throughout the past 10 years, it still applies.

And I'm getting a little tired of these poorly fitting analogies, you're using them as a crutch.
I'd also appreciate it. Just note many of our minds won't be blown by the idea that the media is used to manipulate, and maybe focus on explaining what this has to do with nhf's points that this is a good move on reddit's part and that they were glad that Sam explicitly called out recent trends in Reddit discourse.
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So, there are two stories people use to sum all the affair up: either "the witch is dead", or "pitchfork mob got what they wanted".

But neither of these stories really fit the information we have right now. Both of them fit some of it, and look realistic — unless you look at the whole picture.

The best conclusion we can have here is that we don't actually know what's _really_ going on, just a bunch of facts and a couple of theories.
Hard to explain objectively; I think the things that turned me off to reddit back then (now it's more mainstream) were people's willingness to assume tons of knowledge of topics they didn't really know about, the general white, upper middle class male from the burbs tastes of things like r/music and other cultural subreddits. It felt like walking into a videogame fraternity and realizing I didn't belong there.

That's a highly subjective opinion...but it's how I felt. r/shitredditsays probably captures a bit of what made me uncomfortable.
I find this an amusing story. Here is a nominally private company, Airbus, trying to squash legitimate aviation by a licensed plane/pilot, so that they can 'capture' a first and make a nice press release. I think there might be a movie plot in there somewhere.
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Buy-side infrastructure funds and their intermediaries bidding on regulated energy assets (Australia-only at the moment).

We started building web-based analysis tools for regulated energy companies (helping them keep on-top of their regulated rates of return, regulatory news, etc) and it turns out potential acquirers also want these tools.

We pretty much provide an automated regulatory analyst via a web-app.

Pitched to 1st-degree consulting contacts.
Most government spending benefits the middle class, not the poor. Roads for your car, schools for your kids, basic research for your devices, police to keep poor people from stealing your stuff, subsidies to keep your company profitable: the typical taxpayer gets a lot of benefit from taxes.
I am talking about Moxie ond OpenWhisperSystems. They _might_ be good guys but that is not enough reason to completely rely your security on them.
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Not to defend the harassers and neither to say that there wasn't sexism, but I think that the uptick is mostly related to what she did banning FPH. Previous controversies [1] were either non-issues for the majority of reddit (selling to Conde Nast triggers some "Reddit is going down" but not uproar, is just a business decision that didn't affect content in that precise moment) or easy for the admins (distributing private intimate photos, subs regarding beating women or, what's worst in the Reddit set of rules, vote manipulation and brigading).

However, FPH wasn't as bad in the eyes of many users and the community was really big (150.000) users. You don't ban it without a major backslash. I think that's when all the insults got really heated up, I didn't see such a big anti-Pao circlejerk before the FPH issue.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controversial_Reddit_communiti...
I didn't even use a SPA for a webapp on my main work project I wrote a lightweight base and send down the page specific stuff and that model (so in a way it's lots of little SPA's not sure if that has a name) which means I get most of the advantages with few of the downsides.
AskScience is a default sub, I think, and they've survived alright. Interestingly, AskHistorians asked to not be a default sub-reddit for precisely the reasons you've given.
Pick a topic with many shades of gray. Paint it black and white - preferably around a modern controversial issue (this day and age it's sexism/racism).

Frame the narrative to fit the controversy ("50 white male racist misogynist neck beards' who want to chase women out of tech again!") Ignore the 199,950 shades of gray and all other motivation behind the users and everything else. Zoom in to these 50 people. Cast them in the worst light. Cast Pao as a saint and Reddit as being "in the right" for "standing up to these 50 white male racist misogynist neck beards".

Fan the flames and stir the pot to generate traffic (and ad revenue).

Keep the fire alive as long as possible. You look good and get money. Reddit looks good and gets money. You both win.

Alternatively throw Reddit under the bus as well and find past controversies surrounding Pao. Cover those as well. You'll get more money for this.

As for all the users who aren't the 50 being covered? Fuck'em. You're too busy lining your checkbooks.
It completely and totally dominated /r/all for days, even weeks. /r/all is an aggregate of the most popular posts for the entire site, so I disagree only a small subset were affected. Maybe in number of subreddits, but the subreddits that were affected are absolutely gigantic.
"There will be death threats in almost any large-scale, heated discussion."

Dude, seriously. And I'm pretty sure "dude" is appropriate here: no, no there will not be death threats in any large scale discussion. Not among adults at least. Little kids fight all the time but when they grow up that's called "assault and battery". Maybe in your world little kids threaten to kill each other over the Internet all the time, but when they grow up that's called a "death threat". Maybe the problem here is that society has more tolerance for that sh*t in children, which I suppose can cause some confusion when they start interacting with the Real World.
Where's the authentication process in TextSegure? Totally MITM'able. Not secure at all.
Is this sample of ineffectual whining notable for any reason other than its author? Is its submission here to be taken as a challenge to improve text rendering on computers? What is the point here?
Fix in the sense that it takes a thing that used to work well and no longer does (due to changes in the underlying computing platform) and programmatically changes the methods used to be more efficient on modern platforms, while producing the same output. Fix in the sense of "improve" rather than "make not broken".
>So now she got all those threats because she's a woman? What?

No one in this chain of comments said that; besides maybe the GP you are defending. I referred to her as a woman and said the type of hate was horrible. There was no causation there.

>You know the ....

No shit, whats your point how does that justify ANYONE getting death and rape threats for doing their job in a manner others consider badly? So what if some of the people threatening her were probably also female? Or was there a different equally horrible point?

>And it's pretty scummy how your comment implicates GP said she "deserved to receive those threats", when all he/she did was to point out Pao did an atrocious job and was an awful choice for CEO, and you'll never hear the board admit that.

I am sorry I didn't mean to implicate that. I meant to flat out say that is what the the GP was effectively doing.

That person decided to reply to a post of which the only content was saying that the internet acted poorly.(basically a truism), and they made a post that disagrees as a response, the only way that post furthers the conversation as a reply is with them supporting the very hate the original poster was talking about.

Look if a person does not want come across as supporting rape and death threats it is best not to disagree with posts which are only pointing out how horrible those type of threats are. It's a pretty basic idea. And if a person does want to support rape and death threats, they should just flat out say so, that way they can be removed as a user on whatever sites want to have actual conversations.
so this is like FaceMash?
I was always tempted to try to AirBnb out my parking spot in SF, and put up a tent there, and see how much I could charge!
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People attaching a label to evil, persistent, damaging behavior worry you more than the people behaving that way? That's an interesting perspective you have there...
No, abruptly trying to turn a conversation about disgusting comments made on reddit into one on the "clickbait media has to be called out" is like a parody of the parodies of gamergate. I mean, it's like well into Poe's law territory.
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It's really not the end of story, and it's not your call except for your own web apps. JavaScript is an integral part of the platform that is the web, just like HTML and CSS. You might as well make the argument that "requiring a web browser for your app is not okay, end of story."

The comparison between JavaScript and a browser is very weak as a web app absolutely requires a browser, but JavaScript is most certainly not required. But, that aside, requiring JavaScript with absolutely no workarounds is a very bad idea.

Consider people who are sight impaired. Screen readers and heavy JavaScript really are not friends, but there is legislation in many countries that makes this basic kind of accessibility a legal necessity.

Things were a lot different 10 years ago, and perhaps your reluctance to update your understanding less than once per decade might explain some of your views. You may as well be saying "making a store than can only be accessed over the Internet is not okay, end of story, we all collectively understood this 25 years ago."

First, this is rude. Second, your comparison between JavaScript and click-only commerce is even weaker than your previous comparison between a web browser and JavaScript.

But, those points aside, the web was a lot different ten years ago. Ten years ago, I could browse the web with JavaScript turned off and I rarely came across sites that didn't work for me. When I came across sites that didn't work, they always politely had a <noscript> that told me that the site needs .js. Today, my experience is the exact opposite and basic accessibility has faded.

Change is not necessarily positive - no website should require JavaScript. And, I'd argue that most applications should work without JavaScript.
Not very accurate. Rob Pike pursued a unique line of PL design research from a systems perspective that was never integrated into mainstream PL design research. There is nothing particularly wrong with this, it is what happen when communities are isolated (they develop technologies independently, see the Americas vs. Europe/Asia before Columbus). The fact that the world is much smaller now (via globalization and the internet) means that diversity necessarily decreases to converge on an identified local optimum. Go is interesting since it rejects this pressure and explores an alternative path where PL technology could go, which seems to have paid off (it has use cases and has attracted users).
I guess it's just coincidence that one of their two apps is #2 in this list...
If it's such a big deal to loose / get the data stolen. Should you have been storing it in the first place ?
And if you do really need it, like fingerprints, start by using a hash. The other data you wish to keep are current data (not history): ssn, address, family(maybe you should be able to opt out of that, but risk them no getting contacted in certain situations) Medical records? Have a standard form that list anything important: allergies, blood-type.
Well that's my (maybe naive) view on it.
That was a blind spot of my curriculum, thanks !
There were a lot more banned subreddits and users way before Pao was anywhere in the reddit picture. Its nothing new.

The reddit anger towards her was mostly accumulation of cultural change that has been going in reddit management every since Yishan left (also ~30 employees were fired/let go in a very short period) and firing of Victoria just the tipping point. It also helps that Victoria was very well liked.

I honestly dont know who is to be blamed for reddit going the shithole but at the end of the day CEO needs to take responsibility.
Regardless of the actual numbers (I have no idea what they are), I wouldn't expect the CEO of Reddit to effectively announce to prospective advertisers that their user base was a bunch of racists.
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just curious what other people would do?

I've got a long flight ahead of me.
For me a device like a smartphone or even a TV if it's connected to streaming services is unusable once security is permanently compromised.
Again, what does that have to do with Sam's statement?
The Mach API honestly isn't that bad for IPC; for passing IPC channels around between processes, I prefer it to the horrors of cmsg. It just has terrible documentation and the interactions with the Unix subsystem are pretty bad.
There's certainly a white fraternity feel in a lot of reddits, so I can imagine how people can feel disconnect to it. But /r/shitredditsays, well... I was subscribed to it for some time, and the posts themselves do a good job at noticing really bad behaviour on reddit sometimes — but then I discovered the comments there, and I must say, it feels like half of the users of this sub are trolls who pretend to be THE worst strawmen feminists/SJW (I hate this term, but since we're talking about strawmen, I think it fits) ever. Just saying.