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Sigh. Before anyone goes off harking how Mandela almost single-handedly brought down Apartheid, think of the following:

- SA has vast mineral resources...

- ...that the banksters wanted

- ...which SA didn't want to share (give away for almost nothing)

- CIA starts orchestrating a fall of apartheid. Their tool are the liberals: "Apartheid is terrible for the poor blacks"

- De Klerk gets told by Those In Charge to release Mandela, or else

- Mandela released, ANC take over with a majority of the vote

- ANC are corrupt like a motherfucker, privatize the government mines

- Mines are bought for cheap by foreign multinationals

- Mine workers still treated like shit, shot by police if they protest

- The situation has gotten so bad that the police mix statistics to make it look better than it is[1]

- How about the Free State spending 140 million rand on a site that costs a few thousands in reality? How's that for corruption. [2]

- Black people are showing up in interviews here and there saying that it was better during apartheid [3]

- CIA have gotten what they wanted, liberals have forgotten about SA

[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PsFOkUY_vkE

[2] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OKfemruhnC0

[3] Here is some "better during apartheid": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJ_7JbTZXng http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NydY9WLbCwc

Other things I haven't mentioned: The jewish-led South African Communist Party working together with the ANC to promote violent uprising, Mandela approved Church Street bombing, killing civilians, Winnie Mandels pastime of burning non-ANC voters alive (necklacing). Etc.

However bad it was during Apartheid, it's even worse now.

Maybe I'm just slightly retarded, but I can't see what peacocks have to do with anything in the article. The word itself occurs only once, in the title.

About the article itself: this "Jamie" person seems to enjoy lecturing others about how to be politically correct. Yeah, because being told what to do and how to act isn't exactly the same thing the women in his lecture were forced to endure, eh?

Hypocrite, just like all others that reckon they've figured out a better way of being human and must now convert the rest of mankind to the New Wave of Behavin'.

I've been looking at a higher resolution monitor than my 30" Dell and found that there are these things called "TVs" that apparently have 4K resolution but in 55" format.

I'm after screen real estate and want to see a lot of code at the same time. Does anyone have any thoughts about replacing my 30" work monitor with a 55" TV with a lot more resolution?

No labels at all just on the demo form. This isn't 1996 where one can make shitty HTML forms for shits and giggles. People expect high quality forms with labels nowadays.

As others have said: dealbreaker. Not going to use it.

I don't suppose any of y'all would know of a Model-M type keyboard, with nice clicky keys, but without:

1. the windows buttons and 2. the right keypad

I find that I never use the keypad anymore and that the increased distance to the trackball is rather of a pain.

My only experience with indian coders is their listings on freelancing sites that bid very low. Far lower than would sustain a person in the west. 200$ to make a copy of Gmail. Stuff like that.

My question to y'all is: why is it that I have not yet heard a "we hired indians to code x, and the code was really well done and documented"-comment from anyone yet?

Is it because good indian / paki / nearby coders do not exist, or because they're hired, do the job well and nobody has a reason to mention their work to anyone else?

> also makes linkbaity, low-content posts

You were expecting otherwise from a company?

Whenever there's money to be made, expect that someone will try.

> The demographic make-up of open source contributors is even more skewed toward white men than the software industry is

What the fuck am I reading? Is this asshole author trying to inject racism into something that is inherently race-, age-, gender-, wealth- and location-agnostic? Github doesn't care who you are, what you code or in what language you code it. And yet here we are with a dumbfuck author who, for the sake of clicks, just absolutely needs to shit on white men, that have been the bane of all tech-interested non-white men since the dawn of time.

When I hire I ask for code samples first and the person's name last. Shit, I'd hire the person based purely on code, put up anywhere on the net, and an anonymous chat, conducted fucking anywhere, and only require their name and social security number when signing the contract.

Shit I'm pissed off now. Some people just can't accept that technology is the ultimate equalizer and instead have to project their white guilt into everything.

Something I, and other people I have spoken to in various circles, have observed:

If one woman in a group of women has a nicer job, handbag, husband, x than the other women in the group, their stance will to the lines of "that fucking bitch! She doesn't deserve such a nice car".

If one man in a group of men has a nicer job, watch, wife, whatever than the other men in the group, their general stance will be "damn! I also want to be _as good as him_".

Women pull down, men work up.

Same shit at places of work: women will fuck shit up for other women with talk behind their backs and what not, no matter how competent or efficient the target his. I haven't yet heard anyone air the observation that men do this also. At most it might sound like "god what an asshole, but he sure gets shit done fast".

Or they're just a bunch of people trying to make a buck which, unfortunately, makes the world go round.

If they manage to establish themselves as LE's provider of Bitcoin info, then they're got a monopoly and a guaranteed income for the rest of their lives.

I'm having a very hard time being as enthusiastic about Bill Gates and his philanthropy as the rest of y'all are. I keep thinking about how he ran Microsoft during the 90's: ruthlessly to the point of being found guilty of abusing his monopoly by the DOJ.

I liken him to a mafia boss, donating money to charity after having amassed a fortune extorting and threatening people: can the money still be considered an honest donation or a PR effort to make ensure that the mafia boss is remembered in better terms than "antisocial criminal"?

Sorry, Bill. You may be far richer than I'll ever be, but my money is made honestly. I wasn't born rich, haven't built my whole empire on other people's work (QDOS was bought, Windows comes from OS/2, etc) and I haven't been found guilt of a crime by the DOJ.

Also: sorry people dying of diseases, that I can help y'all by being rich enough to buy small islands. The little, honest man is such a powerless pawn in today's money-centric society.

I'm offended you spelled out the E-word in its ntirety. Please dit your post to correct this grievously insensitive act.

Using your solution will not get the complainant the media time the person so very much craves.

PC-types enjoy attacking how people say things, instead of what is being said.

Personal anecdote: I started up a visitation group for the lonely elderly where I used to live because I felt that it must be pretty shitty to be old and alone. Wrote up a website, fixed up a nice pamphlet and organized everything with the municipality. All out of my own pocket.

The PC media interviewed me and they latched on to the fact that, in my personal explanation on the site, I had linked to a news story on a non-PC site that wrote about a municipality in another part of the country that had cut down on the elderly care budget so much that food rationing was implemented.

See, the PC media were far more horrified that I had linked to the site, than they were about the fact that homes for the elderly in a first-world country were even rationing food for the generation that had built the country.

At my old job I made the mail server's spamassassin globally trash ALL emails from Linkedin, no matter the content.

Nobody ever complained, which kinda goes to show exactly how spammy LI is.

I'm European and have rarely had to be interviewed, but the few interviews I've been on have never asked me any programming specific questions, rather focusing on what my interests are and how I am as a person.

It sounds to me like many companies are trying to hire quiz solvers and people who can figure out how many people can fit into a car. Do the people being interviewed not have any downloadable code samples or coding projects that the company could have eyed through prior to the interview?

Not logging in via facebook shows an unthemed "Social Network Login Failure" page.

If you want to make a facebook app, why not just make a facebook app instead of a facebook app disguised as a normal page?

You are very naive if you think that Google does something by mistake (that also happens to fit well into their Big Black Hole of Information).

Part of me hates the spammers that do this, creating nothing of real value for anyone but their own wallets, but another part of me, the grown-up, cynical part, figures that what they're doing is smart as hell: they're selling shovels.

Startups come and go in the thousands nowadays. What could possibly be smarter than sucking them ALL dry, instead of trying to be a profitless, slave-to-the-VC startup themselves?

Declared extinct in to 2011.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_black_rhinoceros

That must explain why men are outnumbered in science and business, right?

> social services in Sweden

What's fun to note about social services in Sweden is that they're bleeding money like a motherfucker: more people are using the hospitals, schools, welfare checks, etc. More and more people are jobless and unproductive, even more unproductive people are being imported every year (over 140.000 immigrants are estimated to arrive during 2014), the services are prone to nepotism and very generous salaries for politicians and bosses (sometimes they're synonymous), etc.

The Swedish economy is a bomb waiting to explode, and Swedes are too afraid to speak about it for fear of being called racist or islamophobe or what not.

So... SNAFU. Just like the rest of Europe. Sucks to not be a politician / municipal boss right now. They're the only ones who have it blissfully easy.

Yes. Sexism is terrible and must be eridacated. I thank you for your hard work making the world a better place (for yourself), and suggest the following to make sexists even easier to root out:

Make all sexists sew a yellow male-sign onto their clothing.

The author seems busy trying to put out small fires, instead of focusing on what's really burning: Windows. There is, for most people, very little reason to stay on Windows.

In todays world of wonderfully powerful machine, a WindowsXP or Windows7 installation in a seamless Virtualbox machine will solve most Windows-related problems: proprietary apps at work, a photobook creation Windows app or maybe an old game or so. For everything else there's at least one Linux distribution that works.

I install Mint 15 Mate for my retirees and with it they can surf, bank, write e-mail and word process. After installing it I never hear about viruses, trojans or weird popups telling them that something is out of date.

Now if only younger people would have the courage to try something other than Windows for once. Unfortunately you're going to be playin the latest Call of Duty or Madden 2047, but them's the breaks.

I enjoy being alone for most of my waking hours, although sometimes I might feel like hanging out with people - but it must be on my terms and for no more than a few hours. Then I need to go back to being alone.

31/36. The darkest photos were the hardest to gauge. I'm a reclusive programmer that likes to hang out with people. And I have an interest in body language...

Regretful, doubtful, friendly, defiant, interested. That's quite the emotional spread.

Because some blogspammer wants the hits.

I've been installing Mint for several retirees the past few years. After having installed it I rarely hear from them again because the system does the same thing every day: start up, let them surf, write a letter, switch off.

No more viruses, no more headaches.

Nelson Mandela was the head of a terrorist organisation that targeted civilians in its efforts to gain power by violent revolution.

See Nkonto N Sizwe, the Church Street bombing, Winnie Mandela's spree of "necklacing" (burning people alive with tires around their necks), etc. Mandela is not a saint nor a great leader.

Another article that will go unread by the hordes of bosses that run their tech and administrations like a production line: if the person isn't there then the person isn't working.

I quit my last job because the boss wanted to play office - which I hadn't agreed to when I signed the contract a couple of years earlier.

Didn't make the boss not want to play office, but now maybe he'll think twice about fucking around with people's LIVES just so that he can pretend that his living dolls are being perfect.