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In my opinion, "other things are just as bad" is as good an argument as "if you turn it off, it's not dangerous". I still think it's not smart to send push notifications in an acti…

If the safety of your products depends on disabling features, you should stay out of anything remotely safety critical.

> If you are in an area impacted by a disaster Facebook will send you a push notification asking if you are OK. I guess that's great during an earthquake but can be terrible when y…

On a meta level, I find it worth noting that you, as somebody who talks about women as "women" gets quite different, and seemingly more honest, answers from them than the other pos…

I agree that the general advice is disturbing. However, looking at grandparent's post, I highly doubt that he asked the question in a way that indicated a judgement free response t…

This is a perfectly valid agenda, but it doesn't entitle one to doing so using the results of somebody else's labour.

> Should the germans and the french follow suit with a referendum whether they should bail out greece again? Yes, and they should have done so much earlier. If the other Eurozone g…

They were elected based on their promise not to accept more austerity. I would agree with parent that they don't have a democratic mandate to do the opposite now, even if they coul…

Many engineers often seem to forget that their work has impact on the lives of people. I think that, in the part of the email that you are not quoting, Roy Fielding makes a very go…

No, this is actually pretty standard. http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-hosting

I re-read the conversation after reading your comment, and find them assertive but not hostile.

I am apalled that your rational argument is being downvoted, instead of disagreed with in the comments. On the other hand, it makes perfect sense, and fits the topic: It's easier t…

Supposing that most of the rioters did not make use of most of their means of nonviolent action for years, I cannot agree with your statement. Occupy was a different story, being a…

In India, peaceful, nonviolent resistance got rid of the British.

By what virtue is this a standard? The very generic name? For HAL, there is at least an internet draft: https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-kelly-json-hal-06

> But the South American nation of 2.7 million is currently embroiled in a battle with Philip Morris, which claims that legislation requiring 80 percent of cigarette packs to be co…

I can't think of any telecommunication or computing device that I own or have touched in the last few years that was built by white, English speaking men. Regarding software, I goo…

I don't think the article you are linking is a good source. The first paragraphs are full of ad hominem attacks.

What angers me most about that conference incident is the indiscriminate public shaming of two people, one of whom was just at the wrong place at the wrong time. Imagine being all …

Assuming you are talking about 500kcal per exercise session: This results a total of 130000kcal per year, or the nutritional value of more than 16kg of fat. So how is your example …

Ironically, Perforce doesn't even have proper search in commit history when it's working as designed. No need for the server to break...

I believe you are conflating two aspects: Large binaries, which are, in very specific circumstances, a (or maybe the only) valid reason to use Perforce, and large codebases, which …

Perforce is not fast, it cheats: You tell the server in advance what you are doing, so that the submit is fast. This comes at a tremendous price: Your editor/IDE has to have a perf…

Information is also a contribution.

They have also signed admissions of guilt, which makes them very vulnerable.