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deathwarmedoveron The (un)importance of gender in programming

To be clearer, I was more taking issue with original comment's blanket rule that adult women can never be called girls. As you said, "It depends on context", and I think the original comment neglects this.

I'm totally aware it's not always appropriate to use such terms.

deathwarmedoveron The (un)importance of gender in programming

Could you elaborate on why you are against this? I use boy/girl interchangeably with man/woman and don't attach any meaning beyond stating gender. Do you feel strongly that it belittles adults to refer to them as boys or girls?

deathwarmedoveron Back on Linux (after one year of Apple and OS X)

I ran Ubuntu 9.04 and 10.04 successfully on a MacbookPro 5,4 with very few hiccups for ~2 years. There's a bit of community support around Ubuntu for getting it running on Mac hardware, but your results may vary. rEFIt and friends are a bit difficult to get working initially, but it's not impossible.

I had the same feeling as the author: displays are a pain in Linux. The sound, wireless and touchpad support weren't as seamless as they are in OSX either.

Even now I've just switched back to OSX because my Ubuntu partition stopped booting, and I do most of my work over ssh on an Ubuntu VM with gnu screen / bash / vim.

The thing I miss most from running Linux desktop is the highlight to copy, middle-click to paste clipboard.

deathwarmedoveron Sh*t… Twitter is exciting… again

I also could not care less about the Discover tab, and it drives me insane that it's permanently highlighted/badged in the mobile app.

deathwarmedoveron I'll tell you why movie revenue is dropping...

The Prince Charles Cinema in London, UK [1] is also doing this kind of thing and is about the only place I can be bothered to go see a film these days.

[1] http://www.princecharlescinema.com/

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I also like Stephen Fry's take on offense: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lnSByCb8lqY#t=1m10s

deathwarmedoveron The Bomb That Changed My Life

If you want to know what constitutes PTSD "officially", then just google around for the DSM-IV criteria: http://www.ptsd.va.gov/professional/pages/dsm-iv-tr-ptsd.asp

deathwarmedoveron Linux flavors and derivatives tree

I looked at this and thought "Oh cool! I wonder where Gentoo fits into this."

It took me a while to think how to find it, but I eventually got there by looking up what year it was first released and scrolling down that column.

deathwarmedoveron Chrome 15 Is Now World’s Most Popular Browser (Version)

I'd love to see statistics on how many people use AdBlockers and/or Ghostery vs the wider audience that would be picked up by StatCounter and friends. I would be surprised if they made a large dent in the statistics though.

deathwarmedoveron Chrome 15 Is Now World’s Most Popular Browser (Version)

A bold title, followed by the caveat at the end "These stats are based on the calculation of StatCounter.com, and the actual browser market share may differ from these."

deathwarmedoveron Facebook buys Gowalla

Facebook used parts of FriendFeed actively after acquiring them: https://developers.facebook.com/blog/post/301/

deathwarmedoveron Gemnasium: Keep your Ruby gem dependencies in shape

I don't see what this offers over Bundler. There's even a `bundle outdated` command coming in v1.1 which is at a release candidate already.

deathwarmedoveron Ask HN: Why don't more UK graduates want to join start-ups?

>Even £40k doesn't give a great standard of living in London

That all depends on your definition of "great standard of living". I started out on £20k and have never felt that I was slumming it in London.

deathwarmedoveron Poll: Your preferred method for coding on a remote server?

I want to get good enough at Vim to just do all my coding in it, but for now using an SFTP bookmark + Gedit in Ubuntu is convenient and feels like I'm editing the files locally. I still have an ssh console open for gitting / grepping etc.

Trying to do the same sort of thing with MacFuse in OSX was an absolute nightmare though (slowwww), but perhaps I was holding it wrong.

deathwarmedoveron How Browsers Work

From her bio on Blogger: "My name is Tali Garsiel. I worked for many years as a web application developer in various projects and technologies. Both on the client and server sides. I live in Israel with my husband, 3 daughters and my cat. Yes, I'm actually a woman with a technical blog!" -- http://www.blogger.com/profile/00737791624070565735

deathwarmedoveron Airbnb bags $112 million in Series B From Andreessen, DST And General Catalyst

I thought that short-term sub-lets were exempt from the bill in question while the resident is present (which is the case in most Airbnb lets).

deathwarmedoveron Who holds the copyright to a picture taken by a monkey?

Do Creative Commons licenses cover non-humans?

deathwarmedoveron The Tale of OpenGL vs. Direct3D

I feel a lot less ignorant of all that was going on behind the scenes whilst I was rocket-jumping, exploring black mesa, destroying diablo's soulstone, driving around liberty city etc

deathwarmedoveron Silicon Milkroundabout: Forget the banks, come and join a London startup

I was going to pass this discussion onto my friend who is doing dev contract work at a bank, but then I remembered he's not allowed onto anything on the internet while he's at work, LOL.

deathwarmedoveron Silicon Milkroundabout: Forget the banks, come and join a London startup

Thanks for the report btw, we got it recategorised to "Job Search". :)