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Re:Sven Guckes Has Died on Sunday February 20, 2022 @07:43PM (#30410714)
:'( This is heartbreaking
Re:Goodbye Freenode on Wednesday June 23, 2021 @03:49AM (#27601919)
They basically just nuked the whole thing. I had my nick for over 17 years and was kind of clinging to it...just pathetic.
Re:Freenode has blocked all IRCCloud users on Monday June 14, 2021 @11:00PM (#27510801)
This is disgusting.
Re:Goodbye Freenode on Monday June 14, 2021 @10:42PM (#27510701)
I am so fucking pissed off. I've had my nick for 17 years -- 17 fucking years on freenode -- all gone because a toddler chose to have a meltdown.
Re:I Violated a Code of Conduct on Thursday October 29, 2020 @01:45PM (#24933062)
Precisely what was said above is what I meant.
Re:I Violated a Code of Conduct on Thursday October 29, 2020 @01:31AM (#24927576)
Fair point.
Re:I Violated a Code of Conduct on Thursday October 29, 2020 @01:30AM (#24927569)
I initially thought "oh, another guy whining" but this seems to not be the case here but rather a case of a really piss-poor code of conduct.
Re:I Violated a Code of Conduct on Thursday October 29, 2020 @01:29AM (#24927553)
Because this isn't a case of a codes of conduct being universally bad, but rather a case of one instance of it being bad. A GOOD code of conduct will be specific and lay out what is acceptable without vagueness.
Re:I Violated a Code of Conduct on Wednesday October 28, 2020 @11:40PM (#24926942)
Except it wasn't harassment -- guess what? People can say you're wrong. Check your ego at the door if you give a public talk. They shouldn't say "he's a fucking idiot" but saying "I feel that got X,Y, and Z wrong and here's why:" is not a fucking CoC violation. I support codes of conduct and always will but this is where things went topsy-turvy, do not try to roll your own and try to be specific.
Re:I Violated a Code of Conduct on Wednesday October 28, 2020 @11:27PM (#24926866)
This instance is BS
Re:I Violated a Code of Conduct on Wednesday October 28, 2020 @11:26PM (#24926859)
I support codes of conduct but this is EXACTLY the thing that opponents point to when they oppose them. I expected this post to be a rant against codes of conduct and instead it wound up leaving me wondering if NumFOCUS and JupyterCon was in the wrong here...this guy offered criticism and that is NOT a fucking violation of ANY CoC -- if you can't handle criticism, don't make public statements. The hilarious is that Joel Grus didn't care -- like what the hell...this is why sometimes I feel like proponents of CoCs are at times their own worst enemy when it comes to attaining wide support for them.
Re:Configs suck? Try a real programming language on Sunday April 05, 2020 @05:38PM (#22788949)
uhm... toml and yaml are fine.

You could also use JSON or environment vars...

Re:Ex-NSA hacker drops zero-day for Zoom on Wednesday April 01, 2020 @06:05PM (#22753997)
I unlocked my windows, now what?
Re:Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (February 2020) on Monday February 03, 2020 @03:43PM (#22228801)
Location: New York, NY (open to Jersey City/Hoboken)

Remote: yes

Willing to relocate: NO

Technologies: Ansible, Docker, Python, Ruby (Mostly looking for devops-ish side of things), learning AWS and can find my way around with documentation.

Résumé/CV: https://robbyoconnor.us/resume/resume.pdf

Email: [email protected]

Re:What Exactly is Docker? on Saturday February 01, 2020 @03:03PM (#22212867)
You do realize that bad habits tend to not die, right? Don't teach bad practices because you're targeting newbies...teach them the best practices from the start.
Re:Kutt – a modern, open-source URL shortener on Tuesday December 24, 2019 @02:35AM (#21870529)
It's not incredibly hard to make a URL shortener...so yeah.
Re:Kutt – a modern, open-source URL shortener on Tuesday December 24, 2019 @02:35AM (#21870526)
nothing really does.
Re:Why wasn't this page found? on Sunday July 21, 2019 @01:50AM (#20490150)
This is absolutely amazing
Re:Why wasn't this page found? on Sunday July 21, 2019 @01:50AM (#20490148)
I love this so much
Re:Ask HN: Faking your resume to acquire projects on Wednesday May 22, 2019 @05:37PM (#19985808)
I don't blame them
Re:Ask HN: Faking your resume to acquire projects on Wednesday May 22, 2019 @03:57PM (#19984855)
This is what gives Indians a bad reputation -- seriously? This is disgusting -- stop telling people this.
Re:Ask HN: Faking your resume to acquire projects on Wednesday May 22, 2019 @03:56PM (#19984839)
Can Indian companies actually just hire competent devs rather than trying to push their devs to misrepresent their experience level, please?

It's really doing a disservice to Indians who are actually competent and giving companies that employ Indians a bad name...it's not good.

Re:Google Summer of Code Mentoring Organizations Announced on Tuesday February 26, 2019 @04:47PM (#19258590)
I will gladly look over anyone's proposals if they ask :)
George Ritzer's "The McDonaldization of Society" -- Read it for an intro Sociology class.
Re:Supporting open source with 3% of our revenue on Tuesday January 08, 2019 @08:21PM (#18861497)
Going to plus 1 on this one. The Software Freedom Conservancy is doing great work. They are the fiscal sponsor for the project I run infra for (LibreHealth).
This is a horrible idea
Re:Using Facebook as a Mac terminal on Thursday June 16, 2016 @04:38PM (#11918699)
No, just no.
ugh.

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