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supersystemon Reddit CEO Calls Out Former Reddit Employee on Reddit

What bothers me is that they couldn't give him a reason why he was fired out of respect, but had no problem doing so when it was out of spite.

Firing someone, that is giving up cash to not sign your agreement, isn't "going our separate ways". And standards which doesn't apply when it matters aren't very good standards.

All management no leadership it seems.

supersystemon Poll: Did you “drop Dropbox”?

"with regards to principles like Net Neutrality your idea that the tech industry doesn't need better political links to the US government is not well-grounded."

I said no such thing. Seems like you're the confused one now.

supersystemon Poll: Did you “drop Dropbox”?

Your "argument" wasn't that good to begin with, since you don't say why political links to the US government would be a good thing nor why she in particular would be a good choice for making/maintaining those links.

supersystemon I'm Leaving Mojang

He owned about 70%.

supersystemon The Tech Industry vs. San Francisco

"The haters would find something else to whine about"

Because people who don't agree with you are "haters that whine"? It's not exactly hard to find out what they want and that it's not primarily about the buses.

There's also plenty of reasons why the buses aren't good for people in the tech industry. Especially for entrepreneurs that want to compete with these companies.

supersystemon Last day to apply for Startup School Europe

I wouldn't call it a hub though.

supersystemon Ask HN: How can a Stanford developer get an internship in Stockholm?

I'll give you some links:

http://swedishstartupspace.com/ http://www.meetup.com/STHLM-Tech-Meetup/ http://startuplocation.com/stockholms http://www.wired.co.uk/magazine/archive/2013/11/european-sta... http://www.thelocal.se/20140508/stockholms-like-a-party-with...

Working shouldn't be a problem, living is the tricky part.

supersystemon Heartbleed disclosure timeline: who knew what and when

The Apple "goto fail", which affected TLS, and the GnuTLS bugs were widely published just a couple of weeks earlier.

supersystemon Drop Dropbox

> Since grellas' post was an argument about question #1, I hope people are able to recognize that and tailor their responses to the argument he is actually making, in the spirit of "colleagues trying to reason out the truth together".

I think grellas comment was tactless. He used his karma to publish a largely meta argument, ignoring the debate as well as the link and not responding to anyone else afterwards. This isn't "colleagues trying to reason out the truth together" to me. It's also indistinguishable from the type of comment you would post if you wanted to derail the more specific discussion. Often because your viewpoint lacks good arguments.

supersystemon Condoleezza Rice Joins Dropbox’s Board As It Names New CFO, COO

Your argument is irrelevant since the United States doesn't recognize the jurisdiction of the ICJ nor the ICC.

supersystemon Rare 'goat-sheep' born on Irish farm

"with as much fairness and clarity as we can possibly muster"

When it comes to exercising authority less is more. If you've ever been "forced" to smile at lame jokes from bouncers when going in to a club you probably know what I mean. Your comments reads like passive aggressive lectures rather than "fair and clear" moderation.

supersystemon New RFS – Breakthrough Technologies

With YC companies not solving hard problems in computing I don't see them suddenly solving hard problems in other fields. And with "hard problems" I don't (only) mean CS, I mean problems with the state of computing like security, robustness, cross-platforms tools etc. that could be huge enablers for other fields.

supersystemon New RFS – Breakthrough Technologies

The only thing that really matters for YC is if the company can be acquired. With Google just buying a bunch of robotics companies and the belief in "geek exceptionalism" as high as ever I've seen worse bets.

supersystemon Full-disclosure – Administrivia: The End

The "startup-hacker" doesn't really exist. It's just a label for people who can't necessarily identify with being a businessperson.

supersystemon Full Stack Startups

Um, no. What happened was that "hacker culture" lost. If it was hackers that had "expanded" the old concepts would still be alive.

supersystemon How CMU Increased the Proportion of Women in Computer Science (2013)

Girls engage in other solitary activities like literature, music, art, crafts etc.

supersystemon Why Cars Will Kill 30,000 Americans This Year

De Blasio announced an initiative[0] a couple of weeks ago inspired by the Swedish "vision zero"[1:].

[0] http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/19/nyregion/de-blasio-unveils...

[1] http://www.minnesotatzd.org/events/2013/strategicvisioning/d...

[2] http://www.unece.org/fileadmin/DAM/trans/roadsafe/unda/Swede...

[3] http://www.visionzeroinitiative.com/

supersystemon Feinstein: CIA searched Intelligence Committee computers

Except that the US government has a quite long and documented history of spying on political opponents.

supersystemon Feminist Frequency steals artwork, refuses to credit owner.

Except that it doesn't seem to be original work. So how are you going to maintain that your derivative work was fair use, which relies on being non-commercial, while suing someone for damages? Especially when the one who "stole" your work seems to have a better case for fair use.

supersystemon At Odds: Hackers at Harvard

Please upvote when you comment if you find the post interesting, otherwise it will get "controversy banned".

supersystemon Meetup fighting against DDOS extortion

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Einstein_(US-CERT_program)#Eins...

supersystemon The Best Programming Language (or How to Stop Worrying and Love the Code)

Don't get me wrong, I'm a big fan of high-level programming languages. But things like threading, graphical interfaces, multimedia, embedded programming, binary distribution etc. just isn't very well supported. Partly because of technical challenges, but mostly because there isn't a critical mass of people doing those things.

supersystemon The Best Programming Language (or How to Stop Worrying and Love the Code)

If you actually want to make things you'll still can't avoid learning C, C++, Java and/or Objective-C. Other languages just don't offer a broad enough ecosystem.

supersystemon The Housing Market With Nowhere to Go but Up

Infrastructure generally doesn't scale linearly. So while one person doesn't have much of an impact, at some point you're going to have to invest a lot of money scaling.

supersystemon Idaho law criminalizes secretly filming on farms

"The man seen fondling a cow’s vagina in the newly released video eventually spent 102 days in jail."

http://www.latimes.com/nation/nationnow/la-na-nn-cow-abuse-v...

supersystemon The LeBron James of Programmers

PG is just making stuff up as usual. That "theory" isn't even consistent over a few sentences.

"In our world, you sink or swim, and there are no excuses."

"The top 5% of programmers probably write 99% of the good software."

So 95% of programmers make 1% of the good software, but somehow they aren't "sinking"? By comparison what do think happens to the far far majority of players that doesn't get drafted to the NBA?

supersystemon Go talks at FOSDEM 2014

It's somewhat disconcerting that I find the "hacker attitude" in the first few slides of camlistore impressive.

supersystemon Sam Altman for President

"Always enjoy Sam's writing"

I'm surprised that so many people are saying this, since I find his writing mediocre.

supersystemon Ladonia: An Illegally Created Nation Where Creativity Rules

"Goaded, Vilks ignored the announcement and decided to take control of the area and secede from Sweden"

The whole secession would be somewhat more believable if the police protection of Vilks didn't costs the Swedish tax payers about a million USD per year.