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Re:Breastfeeding women protest outside Facebook offices
on Tuesday February 07, 2012 @09:09AM (#3561800)
I guess that's part of my problem with it. The care of a child is just as natural as the conception of a child.
Where do we draw the line? Am I aloud to post pictures of myself urinating? Because that's natural too.
Natural != appropriate to show the public.
Re:Breastfeeding women protest outside Facebook offices
on Tuesday February 07, 2012 @08:46AM (#3561699)
I guess this may seem insensitive, and I admit, I will never understand, as I'm a young, single, childless male.
Why do you need to post these pictures? It's not that I find these pictures offensive, but the odd time I see somebody breastfeeding in public, I do catch myself being slightly thrown off. It seems like a very private thing. Why do you WANT to post these pictures online?
Re:What the first web blackout looked like, 17 years ago
on Tuesday January 17, 2012 @01:29PM (#3475872)
The best part of this was the concept of banding together as group of "thousands" in this blackout. As of 2007 (the latest numbers I could easily find), Wikipedia as a whole has > 2500 views per second. Of course, the English Wikipedia is the only one being blacked out as far as I know, but I expect it also is a large portion of that 2500 views/second.
And that's just Wikipedia! Seems to me that a few more people will be affected this time around.
Re:Would you buy hacker clothing?
on Wednesday January 11, 2012 @01:26PM (#3452959)
I wouldn't.
I've gotten by just fine wearing what everyone else is wearing. hackers aren't some "mythical beast". We're just like everyone else. Sure, there's some features I thought that would be nice on articles of clothing, and could be considered "hacker friendly". But these ideas would generally be viewed as useful to anyone who lives in a modern technology-filled world, not just hackers.
Re:Ask HN: Which is a good iPad app for Hacker News
on Tuesday January 10, 2012 @08:21AM (#3446842)
I like news:yc on iOS. I've only used it on an iPhone, so I can't speak as to how it works on an iPad. Even if it was just scaled up, though, I think it's still a great app.
Re:What can a hackerspace do to help self learners?
on Wednesday January 04, 2012 @01:40PM (#3425269)
I'm a young student who was paying membership fees at a local hackerspace over the last six months. I feel like I'm almost exactly the type of person you're talking about; I went there and worked on assignments for my C.S. classes as well as solo projects.
One thing I have to say is, I think it's important to encourage interaction. My primary goal of going was to make connections with people. I would go, there would be maybe ten people there, and everyone was plugged in to headphones and I think I actually spoke with people a small hand full of times. The times I did, I approached them and was treated as an intrusion.
Of course, it's very possible I was an intrusion and they wanted to be left alone, or I approached them in the wrong way, who knows?
Anyways, this turned in to a bit of rambling, and I'm not positive I've helped at all, but... Hopefully I did.
Ask HN: Semi-Technical Job Positions?
Hey HN,I'm a student in a computer science program. I've been absolutely obsessed with technology for as long as I can remember. I never really did much coding, and this year, I've been getting the feeling that it's not really for me.I love the idea of coding, but it seems like I just don't have the attitude that many hackers talk about in respect to coding: I don't particularly like problem...
Re:Ultimate Rails developer & power user tools for Mac (2011 edition)
on Friday December 30, 2011 @10:39AM (#3407919)
This doesn't really seem to be an "Ultimate developer & power user tool" list. It seems to be more of a "this is what I use".
According to you, your ultimate setup for Rails development includes a machine that loads the Rails stack slowly (!), a 24-inch monitor (while you say you'd love a 27-inch), and headphones that sound "ok".
You have an interesting definition of "ultimate".