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I never said it took away from the good. I said that the damage he caused doesn't disappear because he is doing good.

So, because people can "always get another job", you think it's right that Microsoft under Bill Gates (unethically) crushed the companies that they put their time, money and effort into? Man you must be drinking some crazy corporate kool aid

His charity (while good for the world) doesn't undo the damage he caused when he was CEO of Microsoft.

So pretty much everyone in the US who owned a computer was on in the inside.

HTML and CSS are not programming. This is not controversial.

What does it even mean to be on the inside? Nobody in my family had any experience with computers. My first programming book was a gift for me when I was ten that I asked for (it was a learn C++ in 24 hours book). You can imagine how that turned out with nobody there to help me. I didn't understand what variables were let alone how to add the compiler to the path on windows. The only help I had was that my dad bought me the book and I had a family computer in the living room.

Am I on the inside?

I would say they are less innocently confused and prioritize money/benefits over working on interesting tech.

They pay well and if you leave the HN/Reddit bubble, there are CS students out there (that are pretty smart) that really would LOVE to have jobs at Microsoft/Facebook/Yahoo/ (insert any company unpopular on HN here).

Considering Dell sells a display of similar quality, I can believe it.

Why would we want to tax consumption of the wealthy (or anyone)? Don't we want to promote spending? The tax code should reward those that make investments, purchases, and donations. Not punish them. They should punish those that sit on their wealth and do nothing with it.

Systems, maybe not, but we definitely have the best researchers and minds in the field.

I think the CDC wouldn't even let it get to that point and if they had to we would have a bunch of soldiers in hazmat suits going door to door to find the people we need.

Considering that for most websites one can easily reset the password to your account if they have access to your email, this adds no extra security risk (for those situations which are most common websites eg. Amazon, facebook, twitter etc). So this is NOT catastrophic for security because the current situation is already like this.

For websites where security is a larger issue, this obviously wouldn't be the solution.

The author's argument boils down to

"when I use my second monitor (which I put twitter and other inane distractions on) I get distracted by it. Therefore 2 monitors are bad"

no way!

My argument is "When I have my editor on one screen and my debugger/docs/browser in the other, I get more work done than if I had to alt tab every 5 seconds. Therefore 2 monitors are good"

Considering we are comparing anecdotal evidence, I'm going to go ahead and say my reasoning is a lot more coherent.

The authors problem, is that if he sees no productivity decrease or he even sees a productivity increase is that he had no business using multiple monitors in the first place. (And considering this person is a journalist, I don't see why he would need more than one half of the monitor for word and the other for his research)

How did you get a computer?

2nd generation Cuban American here. My family has a massive anti-Cuban government sentiment and pretty much all the older Cuban people in Miami feel the same. I don't blame them considering most had their homes and belongings taken from them by the current Cuban government.

As someone who is a little more removed from the actual suffering Castro caused I believe that if the embargo ended and the US and Cuba began trading again that the regime would lose a lot of strength just from the exchange of culture. Especially since the US and Cuba are such close neighbors.

What could possibly happen though is that the regime clamps down completely on trade and all the money being made goes straight to the higher ups in the government. Which is why most Cubans that moved away don't want the embargo to end.

Did he really rise to being CEO of Microsoft by believing the bs he said? If he did, he has to be one of the most fortunate people on the planet. Male or not.

isn't there a massive waiting list?

I really don't know what he was thinking. How many times have we heard the story of the hacker that does something and is asked by law enforcement to work for them. Or the student that gets arrested or expelled when he discovers a vulnerability in some school software.

He should have expected this and taken precautions against it. Or not reveal himself at all.

A 100 dollars in credit in digital ocean is better than a backpack considering most backpacks cost >$100

You really believe you can fit an eink display, a touch screen digitizer, a microcontroller, bluetooth and nfc on a card that thin and sell it for 155 dollars?

Ok, I agree with you then that the company should have released a response. I think what the root comment was discussing was not the fact that they released a response but how they released it and the content of that response.

I disagree, when statements like that are made in such a public area it will possibly negatively affect who decides to apply for a position at reddit. A dignified response on the reddit blog would have been the right move imo

You are taking the CEOs words as fact when the reality of the situation is, we don't know what the truth is right now. Judging from the fact that the CEO responded in such a childish manner I really have no reason to believe anyone in this situation. What if the CEO just posted what he thought was the reason why this employee was fired. What if there is no documentation backing up the CEOs statements.

Agreed, this post only makes reddit look like a very unprofessional workplace.

The company should have had a long discussion with legal and posted a public statement. The CEO shouldn't have gone on his website and posted a comment as a response that sounds like a 5 year old having a temper tantrum.

At first glance this question seems easy to answer but on a second thought I could see how someone could argue that Facebook provides more value.

So wait, in 4th grade your destiny is basically decided for you? Fuck that

Apparently the difference from DK2 to Crescent Bay is just as large as the difference between DK1 and DK2.

I could listen to John Carmack talk all day. Awesome keynote