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abraininavaton How Adobe Got Rid of Traditional Performance Reviews

Why is it relevant to say they were Indian? As if your anecdotal experience says anything about managers or Indians in general

abraininavaton Linux server monitoring tools

I'm curious how you got all that from what sounds like a small task: getting something to compile on FreeBSD.

abraininavaton Everyblock re-launches in Chicago

Comcast acquired NBC recently, and with that came NBC's assets, one of which was EveryBlock (which NBC had only recently acquired and then shuttered).

Comcast brought it back -- not under NBC anymore, but under Comcast proper. The big question is why? What is their monetization strategy? As a Chicago resident and past EveryBlock user, I'm very curious about this. My first guess is that Comcast appreciates being able to correlate an email address with a neighborhood, for marketing opportunities.

abraininavaton 2014 Gates Annual Letter: Myths that block progress for the poor

Best to leave that attitude on reddit

You disagree with my interpretation of this thread, fine. You might be right, great! The "best leave that attitude on reddit" comment is childish and does more to lower the quality of the conversation than my call to ignore unexplained (not even irrational) points. Grow up.

abraininavaton 2014 Gates Annual Letter: Myths that block progress for the poor

This person is trolling by getting people to argue with a position that he or she doesn't even put forth. Don't fall for it -- ignore people who say things and refuse to back them up.

abraininavaton Light Table is now open source

You should be ashamed. You've just reduced the productivity of the software development community as a whole by a non-negligible amount.

abraininavaton Ask HN: What is the problem you try to solve?

the obvious next step

Not so obvious to me. Consider browser plugins, desktop application (e.g. Outlook) plugins, letting users grant your service access to their online email, etc.

abraininavaton Ask HN: What is the problem you try to solve?

Interesting idea, but your site lacks details. Vague blurbs with no real information about what's going on always turns me away.

abraininavaton Ask HN: What is the problem you try to solve?

How does insect protein compare to plant protein with respect to cheapness and efficiency? What's the argument for inventing an industry when an industry already exists which provides plenty of healthy, cheap, and efficient protein for humans?

abraininavaton Ask HN: What is the problem you try to solve?

Link?

abraininavaton Ask HN: What is the problem you try to solve?

Forgive the ignorance, but what does this mean?

abraininavaton I've Been Using Evernote All Wrong. Here's Why It's Actually Amazing

The problem with putting everything in Evernote is that it becomes stale. I think that's what has prevented me from getting into it.

Some examples of items I would not put in Evernote, from the article:

- Some sections of my server's log, containing all the information I need to troubleshoot my most recent problem

You copied some sections of your server's log and put them in Evernote, so that you can troubleshoot a problem? How is this useful? Why not troubleshoot it by looking at the logs directly? Why do you want to store stale logs? Or, are you saying your server automatically refreshes the Evernote note? That would be more interesting and worthy of an article.

- A web clipping from an article on the best VPN providers, since I'm installing a VPN on my home server

Aren't you interested in whether the list of best VPN providers changed since the last time you searched? And why store something that's a google search away? How often will you need to review this stale list of VPN providers?

- A web clipping on how to install OpenVPN on my home server, since I don't remember how to do it by heart

Same thing. https://www.google.com/search?q=how+to+install+openvpn How often do you install OpenVPN?

- A web clipping on setting file permissions, since I need to give my girlfriend access to my server's files

What about just learning how to set file permissions, if it's something you do very often? Or, "man chmod".

No offense intended, I know people think and work differently. I just still don't get it.

abraininavaton I will not hack on your codebase for free in an interview

The interviewee isn't going to be able to do it (correctly) without the guidance of the interviewer. Not if the project is of more than trivial complexity.

abraininavaton Explain Shell

I'm curious why this is one of your most-used commands. If you want to know the sizes of all files matching 'foo', this is a horribly inefficient way of going about it.

abraininavaton We've All Got a List

Feminism is about how people are treated, not about who you like. No one cares who you like.

By the way, what is with this "the feminists" bullshit? It's not a society. People of all walks of life, who believe that women deserve the same respect and rights men do, call themselves feminists. It is a sure sign of a small mind to go around blaming shit on supposedly homogeneous and insidious groups like "the feminists," "the communists," or "the homosexuals."

abraininavaton We've All Got a List

Um, what? I think your definition of "feminism" is a bit flawed. Could you explain which part of feminism rejects the notion that you decide who you like?

abraininavaton NSA Spying Risks $35 Billion in U.S. Technology Sales

I'm curious what you think comments are for, if not for people to express their opinions. Or is it only the comments of people who disagree with you that you'd like to stop?

abraininavaton Our Responsibility As Developers

Just curious if you know what class of people you're making fun of when you use the term "derp".

abraininavaton Why we look at job applicants' Github or 'What's your excuse?'

That's not an excuse. You seem to have an ignorance about a whole group of people. I'm fairly sure even the Pope could come up with the word "transsexual".

I don't mean to imply that ignorance implies anything else about you, but it's ignorance. You can alleviate it by: 1. Meeting some people outside of your apparently somewhat homogeneous bubble 2. Reading books

abraininavaton Why we look at job applicants' Github or 'What's your excuse?'

Nice to start off the morning with a laugh. I'm not interested in the boring conversation about whether trannie is an acceptable term to our society, but the idea you had no idea what it is short for is a joke. As a graduate in Sociology, how can you understand "how technology shapes culture" and obviously never have bothered to know the name for large subsets of our culture?

abraininavaton Why we look at job applicants' Github or 'What's your excuse?'

You're asking people to think? People don't have time to think!

abraininavaton Dear Facebook: You Suck

> Optional like the sites that have "sign in via facebook" and no other option?

Yes. Or are you under the impression that those sites are also not optional?

abraininavaton My Hardest Bug Ever

I wonder if this experience had any effect on how the author writes code. He basically backed into making the code testable. The process of identifying the clock as part of the problem would presumably have between much easier if he had adhestrongertronger SOLID principles.

abraininavaton It’s time for Silicon Valley to ask: Is it worth it?

Why the childish tone in the midst of people trying to have a serious discussion?

abraininavaton 9/11 Suspects Can’t Mention being Tortured during Trial because Classified

The venerable George Carlin just told you to shut up from beyond the grave. And yet you continue. We're all tired of hearing you say the same thing over and over again in this thread.

Listen to George.

abraininavaton 9/11 Suspects Can’t Mention being Tortured during Trial because Classified

You like federalism which is biased toward States' rights, which is why you are a Libertarian? What?

Libertarianism is about individual rights, not States' rights. You can be both a Federalist and a Libertarian if you want, but one doesn't follow from the other.

abraininavaton Docker Now Part Of Red Hat OpenShift

Don't think that's it. OverlayFS was accepted and also requires patching VFS.

abraininavaton I Am An Object Of Internet Ridicule, Ask Me Anything

You're either loved, hated, or ignored

I'm curious what you'd suggest as an alternative. To have strong, passionate, but neutral, feelings about people?

abraininavaton Children are suffering a severe deficit of play

I think what you're asking for is intellectual honesty. There's nothing hypocritical about judging people for crimes you were guilty of in the past. You can't take a word and just change it however you like. Actually, you can, if enough people agree with you. But in this case the dictionary doesn't.

abraininavaton Children are suffering a severe deficit of play

It's not hypocritical, regardless of whether the risks existed then. To say "I was wrong, even if I didn't know it. You should avoid being wrong as well" is in no way inconsistent or hypocritical.