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New comment by railsdude in "Why we offer parental leave"

railsdude — Tue, 27 Jan 2015 20:30:08 +0000

If the company folds, everyone else loses their job. So, why is your family more important than everyone else's?

New comment by railsdude in "“I paid $25 for an Invisible Boyfriend, and I think I might be in love”"

railsdude — Fri, 23 Jan 2015 14:37:54 +0000

For some people that would be a lot of effort, since the only value they can bring into relationships is their genitalia.

New comment by railsdude in "Show HN: Dating Ring (YC W14) – We do the work, you do the dating"

railsdude — Tue, 14 Oct 2014 19:44:25 +0000

> I would think that OKC, etc. would in the end benefit from their contribution.

That's BS and you know it. If that were the case, OP's startup should've bought ads on OKC and OKC would be glad to sell ad space. I really doubt that OKC or its parent company will sell ads to a competitor dating site.

New comment by railsdude in "Show HN: Dating Ring (YC W14) – We do the work, you do the dating"

railsdude — Tue, 14 Oct 2014 19:19:42 +0000

It's not "spamming", it's Growth Hacking ™.

New comment by railsdude in "Google Invests $50M in “Made With Code” Program to Get Girls Excited About CS"

railsdude — Mon, 23 Jun 2014 02:34:55 +0000

The cynic in me says that by increasing the number of programmers available they can pay less.

The same reason, I believe, why FB is so keen about immigration.

New comment by railsdude in "Ada Initiative No Longer Partnering with GitHub"

railsdude — Wed, 23 Apr 2014 18:48:37 +0000

Except that feminists doesn't seem to like BitBucket as well.

New comment by railsdude in "Update on Julie Horvath's Departure"

railsdude — Mon, 17 Mar 2014 10:15:42 +0000

Except there's no rug [1] anymore, JAH made sure of that.

[1] http://readwrite.com/2014/01/24/github-meritocracy-rug

New comment by railsdude in "There is no gender gap in tech salaries"

railsdude — Mon, 03 Mar 2014 18:42:46 +0000

> Asians are considered privileged academically. In America they get better grades than average, on average.

So studying more and harder and partying less is considered a privilege?

New comment by railsdude in "Brazil, Europe plan undersea cable to skirt U.S. spying"

railsdude — Mon, 24 Feb 2014 18:56:05 +0000

The only people "being beaten up" are the black blocs and rightfully, IMHO. And it's not daily.

New comment by railsdude in "Bro pages: like man pages, but with examples only"

railsdude — Sat, 25 Jan 2014 21:18:55 +0000

> Python == Snake == Slang for male genitalia

You jest, but in 2012 someone from the PSF made a "joke", at PyCon, asking people, men and women: "want to see my one-eyed snake?".

Unfortunately, the same Python feminists that are ready to burn anyone who disagree with them regarding the use of a pronoun [1], for instance, were very quiet and dismissive about that other, and bigger, issue. [2]

[1] https://github.com/joyent/libuv/pull/1015 [2] https://twitter.com/zedshaw/status/390012555688546304

New comment by railsdude in "Bro pages: like man pages, but with examples only"

railsdude — Sat, 25 Jan 2014 20:00:12 +0000

We should compile in a Wiki (or something similar) everything that might make someone uncomfortable.

That way, we can look up and make sure this thing never happens. Then, with any luck, a strawperson (not strawman) will never feel like that for something on the internet again.

New comment by railsdude in "Oxfam: 85 richest people as wealthy as poorest half of the world"

railsdude — Mon, 20 Jan 2014 15:16:01 +0000

> that privilege doesn't exist because you haven't been on the wrong side does no good to yourself or society.

Know who is on the wrong side? Poor people born in 3rd world countries, with no food, jobs, infrastructure, nothing. On the top of that, a lot of them live in a freaking civil war.

People born in the USA, man or woman, who is middle-class+, is privileged beyond any dream of the majority of the world population.

New comment by railsdude in "Node.js and the Road Ahead"

railsdude — Thu, 16 Jan 2014 23:22:42 +0000

Link to yesterday's discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7064470 - "The Next Phase of Node.js"

New comment by railsdude in "The Next Phase of Node.js"

railsdude — Wed, 15 Jan 2014 18:03:31 +0000

That's beyond distasteful. Node.js seems to be the new Rails/Ruby community, from a couple of years ago, drama-wise.

And, ironically, this is on his profile: "I don't look at this site much, because it turns people into jerks."

New comment by railsdude in "Dad hacks Donkey Kong for his daughter; Pauline now saves Mario"

railsdude — Mon, 11 Mar 2013 01:14:25 +0000

It's nice to see the difference between someone who sees something wrong and actually does something about it just because and someone who asks the Internet for money and deliver a video 9 months later.

Also, for something that took 9 months and loads of money, there isn't really anything new there that hasn't been said before.

New comment by railsdude in "Startup offers trip as hiring bonus"

railsdude — Tue, 10 Jul 2012 14:37:21 +0000

Thank god there's a picture of a fat dude on the page. Had it been a picture of a hot girl in a bikini and we'd hear drama about this for a week.