In Cairo, the Garbage Collector Knows Everything
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#2I honestly thought this was about the graphic API and resource management, I'm impressed by my own restricted imagination at this point.
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#3also in Java.
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#4I love how HN is so diverse and how many submissions' titles can be read in many ways.
Tip: this article is about a human, real-person garbage collector, and garbage is the real, physical waste that people put inside bins.
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#5Oh damn, I was hoping this was a new programming language.
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#6I honestly thought this was about the graphic API and resource management, I'm impressed by my own restricted imagination at this point.
Same. And so struck was I by the writing and the story I scanned that I went back and read it aloud in an effort to get as much out of it as I good.
These gems are treasures.
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#7I honestly thought this was about the graphic API and resource management, I'm impressed by my own restricted imagination at this point.
Yeah, Cairo nd Garbage Collector. Who will not imagine that?
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#8When I read this, my first thought was "wow, this must have been really hard to anonymize, if he wasn't careful to remove/change enough details people could figure out who the garbage man is".
Well, not so much...
> So of course Sayyid was aware that I was researching and writing about him. At the same time, he is not literate, so there are serious limitations on his understanding of something like a New Yorker story.
> I also considered whether to change his name or not use a photograph. But I don’t like to do that unless there are serious political risks. Inevitably, changing a name reduces the reality of the subject, and there’s more of a risk that the person comes across as a symbol or something half-real.
(From https://www.facebook.com/41268348994/posts/pete-asked-me-to-... , which is a response to http://edgeeffects.net/tales-of-the-trash-response/ .)
I feel the ethics here are really dubious.
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#9I honestly thought this was about the graphic API and resource management, I'm impressed by my own restricted imagination at this point.
that was my first thought, then i did a double take and realised what they were talking about.
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#10When I read this, my first thought was "wow, this must have been really hard to anonymize, if he wasn't careful to remove/change enough details people could figure out who the garbage man is". Well, not so much... > So of course Sayyid was aware that I was researching and writing about him. At the same time, he is not literate, so there are serious limitations on his understanding of something like a New Yorker story…
It sounds like Sayyid knew about the story and it doesn't sound like Sayyid is trying to maintain any sort of anonymity, so what is the ethical problem you see here?