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donotsurveil

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    Comment #7123345

    Julia is a first name which is free of negative association. Bro is associated with obnoxious, stupid, despicable, disrespectful.

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    Comment #7123331

    To me it's not a gender issue, it is that bro is synonym for obnoxious, annoying, stupid, disrespectful among others.

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    Comment #7123314

    This is why you don't get a terrible name for your idea if you want it to succeed.

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    Comment #7123258

    With a user provided content database, you have a problem: users can input crap content. So you devise a way for user to sort the crappiest from the less crappy and now you have tw…

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    Comment #7123237

    You're missing the point. It's not about being offensive but about being self-explanatory. For this initiative to be successful it needs to have a wide support and large user base …

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    Comment #7123219

    Man is a pager interface to system documentation, the content is written y knowledgeable people and is actual documentation. Bro is a user provided database of one liner command wh…

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    Comment #7123211

    Could your statement be more wrong ? To most people english is a foreign language which makes it improbable they would get a play on english slang words. 'bro' is not even loosely …

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    Comment #7122264

    The name is terrible. Here are a few suggestions of names: - ccex for common case examples - howdoi for how do I - comcasex for common case examples - usex for use examples - usage…

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    Comment #7122231

    You got it all wrong, the name of a command has to be practical and be related the actual use of the command. Naming your command based on an inside joke renders it pretty useless …

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    Comment #7122203

    This doesn't mean dewitt point is invalid. From the point of view of someone outside of USofA bro is portrayed in the movies and the internet exactly as dewitt and urban dictionary…

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    Comment #7122176

    I'm not sure where you got this idea that bro means "friend". To me it's more like what the urban dictionary says http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=bro 1. Obnoxious pa…

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    Comment #7122150

    I'm not a woman and I had an instant instinctive rejection reaction to the title of this post. I made a conscious effort to click anyway to see what this was about, and now that I …

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    Comment #7122137

    English is not my mother tongue so maybe that's why I don't get the humor here, what wordplay are you talking about ? man is short for manual following a unix tradition, bro is a w…

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    Comment #7122095

    No it's not. sudo echo "bro $*" > http://bropages.org doesn't work and "gem install explain" neither.

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    Comment #7122078

    I agree, this is a really poorly thought concept. I almost skipped this entry because it's started with bro which is a word used to describe some really despicable and stupid attit…

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    Comment #7042920

    This title is outrageously misleading. Turns out this is a policy assessment of those companies and whether they publicly stand on the side of users when the government attempts to…

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    Comment #7038309

    Apparently it's post a banner on a website, register on facebook, google+ and twitter to post there that you are against surveillance. A nice attempt at sorting out people through …

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    Comment #7038271

    Calling upon what a dead person would have done if not dead is something I have a hard time getting behind. But using facebook, google + and twitter to fight back against surveilla…