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Post by 0xbadcafebee »

beachy wrote: post #262
drzaiusapelord wrote: post #219

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There's this bizarre thing going on on HN, reddit, and other tech sites. We saw it with Linus and we see it again with Trump. Suddenly, all these people are making excuses for terrible behaviors and outrageous claims. Usually following a "he didn't really mean that" playbook of justifications like "productivity" or "politics" like either excuses acting like a child. Why are we afraid to call people out on the shit th…

If you want to join the marines, you'll be screamed at, verbally abused, and generally pushed to your limits. It has to be that way, they are training 18 year olds to run to the sound of gunfire and perform under fire and the threat of death. You must put up with it or you do not belong in that group. At the other extreme, if you want to join your local flying club, you can expect to be treated courteously. If anyone…

It's software. Software. Programming. There is no tough mentality required to write good software. You do not have to be a dick to write good software. Ever.

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Post by roel_v »

digi_owl wrote: post #347
roel_v wrote: post #317

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*self-deprecation Although IMO self-deprecation is often also self-depreciation, for some liberal interpretation of that word in this context, but I doubt that's what you meant.

My spellchecker got the better of me...

No worries, I thought the double meaning was at least somewhat amusing :)

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Post by Retra »

Sophistifunk wrote: post #314
Retra wrote: post #307

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> If your communication style inhibits your audience's understanding or even their willingness to listen, then you are simply a bad communicator. It's certainly not that simple. This only makes sense if your goal is to communicate in a culturally-agnostic manner, which is not something you can reliably do. It's like flag burning: you can't really communicate the same point better in another way. It at least makes som…

Unless you're teaching philosophy or some sort of self-help seminar, IT'S NOT YOUR JOB to teach people that "their emotions are an obstacle to success"

Don't tell me what my job is.

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Post by linsomniac »

haneefmubarak wrote: post #256
pbhjpbhj wrote: post #225

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>and our support number included an option users could select // Did you charge callers. I wonder if "you will be billed £20 for this call [or $30 or whatever]; current customers will have this cost refunded" would be enough (even if you never charged) to put people off.

Not the parent, but that actually seems like a pretty solid idea. Is this actually something that can be done? Alternatively, why not just require the customer to enter their 10+ digit account number to proceed further?

In our case, implementing a pay for call, or even an account number would have been fairly hard, as an 8 person company. MOST people respected it, and on top of it there were a few cases where people used it to our benefit.

So, it was definitely a judgment call about if we should add something requiring a special code for access, charging, etc... In this case, we had to make the judgment call about implementing something like this, or stopping public NTP service.

Part of the equation also included that pool.ntp.org was now available and fairly well populated, when we started offering NTP service it wasn't a thing.

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Post by sedachv »

vacri wrote: post #322
scrollaway wrote: post #302

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Bezos, Ellison. I agree, still the exception, but I feel like it's extremely unfair to say "everyone except" and forget the devil himself :)

Not to mention Jobs. Ballmer. Some would say Eich (on external politics).

So more business managers? Why should the behavior of dysfunctional business managers be acceptable behavior in hobbyist free software projects?

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Post by mfukar »

dom0 wrote: post #148
mfukar wrote: post #126

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Legislative requirements, in most places. In Greece my phone number was unlisted. In Germany, my carrier notified me it was automatically placed on the .

You totally can have unlisted phone numbers in Germany.

Yes, legislation in most places specifies your number to be listed, unless you ask it to be removed. Germany was probably a bad example.

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Post by Findus23 »

eriknstr wrote: post #346

I wonder if any of those carputers and infotainment systems are using a custom identifier in the curl they ship. Imagine scrolling through access logs listing regular Firefox, Chrome and IE entries and then all of a sudden you get to one that says User-Agent: Toyota Corolla :)

The Tesla Webbrowser is sending a custom user agent:

Model S (4/8/14, v5.9) = Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux) AppleWebKit/534.34 (KHTML, like Gecko) QtCarBrowser Safari/534.34

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Post by koolba »

nucleardog wrote: post #297
koolba wrote: post #88

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Kind of a pain in the ass to do retroactively, but one approach to prevent this to have your email address be random gibberish. Whereas "firstname.lastname@example.com" (or more likely gmail.com) can be arrived at by multiple people named "Firstname Lastname", you don't have to worry about it if your email address is generated via: echo "$(

Yes, then every time I need to give someone my email in person or over the phone I just need to say "it's two zed six bee oh, sorry, zero, you ess eight see why you are at example dot com". And then they're going to read it back to me and pretty much invariably have something incorrect. And then I'll have to read it to them again. You'd be better off taking an "xkcd" or "gfycat" approach and making your e-mail "corre…

How often are you verbally giving your email over the phone that this an issue? Unless you're ordering daily from the Home Shopping Network and want to get an email receipt, what's the big deal? In my experience either I'm entering my email in a web page form or texting it to the other person.

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Post by MattSayar »

mrbill wrote: post #158

Along similar lines (someone grabbing on to an email address and blaming the recipient for their problems), from a few years back: the city of Tuttle, OK vs. CentOS http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/03/24/tuttle_centos/ http://www.jaduncan.com/2006/03/centos-vs-city-of-tuttle.htm...

I haven't read the entire exchange between Taylor and the CentOS folks, but I wonder if anyone tried an analogy for him.

"CentOS is like a car, and right now its turned off. Somebody on your end lost the keys. You don't go to the dealership to demand they find your keys. Please ask your IT person to find the keys and turn the car back on."

Or something like that. Weak analogy, but I doubt the mayor would be capable of poking holes in it.

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Post by zao »

cdelsolar wrote: post #210
elFarto wrote: post #120

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I'm amazed how many people get their email address wrong. I have . @gmail.com, which is fine, and hardly gets any mail meant for someone else. @gmail.com however, is basically unusable. Funny thing is, the latter was the one I created first, but I forgot the password so had to create the other. I managed to recover it later and I'm glad I have the former.

I have @gmail.com because I'm an early adopter (TM). My mailbox is almost unusable.

I've got my nick doubled as gmail account. Guess how many stray mails in moonspeak I get on a regular basis from China, Brazil and other weirdo locales?
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