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kiyanwangon Node.js leadership is a toxic mess

At the height of the GamerGate debacle someone created an auto blocker that automatically blocked ppl on a list, it also blocked anyone who followed those ppl. So if, like me, you didn’t necessarily agree with the views of ppl on that list but followed them to get a sense of who they are and what perspective is, you got blocked right along with them. ( http://fogknife.com/2015-07-27-why-i-support-the-use-of-twit... )

kiyanwangon How to Raise a Creative Child – Step One: Back Off (2016)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A1szl%C3%B3_Polg%C3%A1r#E...

I remember reading some of László Polgár work after becoming interested in how he raised three daughters, two became chess prodigies, the third a concert musician. He posited that "that any child has the innate capacity to become a genius in any chosen field, as long as education starts before their third birthday and they begin to specialise at six". This seems at odds with the notion that parents should "back off".

kiyanwangon Better syntax-highlighting and snippets for Nginx in vim

That's very nice, great work

kiyanwangon SSH and terminal background

Did something similar with iTerm changing both the background colour and setting a badge which effectively visually watermarks my terminal session with the host name of the machine I'm connected to.

https://github.com/kiyanwang/dotfiles/blob/master/bin/ssh

kiyanwangon Fired because your skills are too far above your coworkers

Not sure that the problem is incompetent colleagues as much as it is an unwillingness on his part to reach out and help them understand the code he was writing. There is an argument for saying that good code is code that easy to understand, but above that you need to collaborate with others.

kiyanwangon 3001SQ – Space Colonisation with Programmable Spacecraft

Whilst this project is looking for funding, that's not what I found interesting about this. It's the fact that the simulation itself allows players to programme their own ships systems; which has all sorts of implications for customisation, sharing etc.

kiyanwangon Hacking a foosball table

There's been some other great table mashups too: https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/instant-replay-table-footba...

kiyanwangon Increase Productivity with Proper GitHub Issues and Scrum Workflow

We've been using Waffle.io which provides a nice Kanban style board and lets you tag and order the issues in Github. I'd be interested to hear what others are using?

kiyanwangon Chess legend Viktor Korchnoi has died

He inspired me too after studying some of his games and reading about him and his philosophy to the game, playing as Black did become more fun as well.

kiyanwangon Debug JavaScript with These 14 Tips

yeah there's a lot of people who don't. It's still non-standard though:

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Console/tab...

kiyanwangon RethinkDB unveils open-source JavaScript platform, Horizon

Official Announcement: http://horizon.io/#1.0-release

kiyanwangon Gitlo: GitHub-Trello Integration

I'd like to learn more about it, in particular how/if it can work with private repos. What's frustrating is that all the links on the page don't go anywhere other than a login prompt. Do I really need to login to read the FAQ ?

kiyanwangon OkCupid urges users to abandon Firefox

> but trying to argue that it has been anything but between a man and a woman for thousands of years is just historical revisionism.

It's a good point, unfortunately the problem with that is how far back we should we go?

For example: Same sex marriage ( not just civil union ) did occur for example in the Roman Empire, until the Christian Emperors Constantius II and Constans passed a law prohibiting same sex marriage and making it punishable by death.

kiyanwangon 84-Year Old Nun sent to prison for 3 years for peace protest at US nuclear site

... that's pretty impressive for an 84 year old nun, after circumventing security at, what one might hope, is one of the securest sites in the US, they did what? sing songs, hang banners, and invite the guards to break bread and pray with them?

I wonder are they being punished for what they did, or how easily they managed to do it.