AndrewMoffat

If I was Amit, I would've included other sufferers in the campaign, instead of hoarding the attention all to myself. Many others could have benefited from this massive amount of exposure.

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I stand by my original post. People can blow it out of proportion all they want, but I was speaking truthfully. I'll be sure to send my bosses a link to it so they can fire me over the great shame it brings them.

> Whether it will work or not is unknowable for now, and even if it does work it will likely be a thing with a very significant impact on the lives of Amit and those near him.

This alludes to my original comment. I hope he continues promoting this kind of thing if it helps him, but for other people, given that he has such a broad reach and lack of modesty. Is that so wrong to say? I know it is unpopular to say, but is it wrong to hope for?

I have no problem with what is being done, just how it is being done. I don't wish Amit dies. I don't even know him. It is a tragedy that he has leukemia. But given the platform and reach he so clearly has, is he grateful and humbled for his ability to seek help on such a massive scale, that many dying people will never have? Doesn't sound like it.

He wants life, but it doesn't sound like he has much respect for it. It sounds like he wants to live, but sounds like he only tangentially gives a damn about the cause which will save him (bone marrow transplants). It's very "me me me."

As for my community and my employer, don't bring them into it. I'm my own person, with my own opinions, and those are whose opinions I express.

shameless: 2. done without shame; without decency or modesty

modesty: 1. having or showing a moderate or humble estimate of one's merits, importance, etc.;

> you seem to think that when faced with death, the proper response is to accept one's fate.

I think the proper response is to realize that millions of people are also faced with death, that everyone WILL be faced with death, and to temper your actions with modesty and humility.

> Has this triggered some personal memory?

How did you know...sobs.

> In the end, saving Amit's life is better than not saving it, all else being equal. Especially when the goal is so clearly defined and within reach.

I know...

But he could've had the same result AND acknowledged the fact that millions of people have equally important life-threatening afflictions, that his is no more important, and that his experience has helped him realize the greater good of focusing on promoting a cause like bone marrow transplants.

Instead, he chose to come off very selfish and presumptuous of his own importance to literally everyone he can reach. Just read the promotional materials, it really is shameless.

Back to my original comment though, it would be cool if he continued exactly what he's doing, but for other people, if this works out for him.

We all die, sorry to say. How you conduct yourself in the face of that fact is all that matters. But thanks for your opinion.

I still have about 680 karma to burn through.

He's not morally wrong, I'm saying the nature of what he's doing is shameless. Clearly this is an important issue to him, but he's vastly overestimating his importance to everyone else. If every person with a need had a poster plastered around the city with their name on it, every city would be covered from sidewalk to rooftop. I'm just calling it like I see it.

He's not morally wrong, I'm saying the nature of what he's doing is shameless. Clearly this is an important issue to him, but he's vastly overestimating his importance to everyone else. That's fine. I'm just calling it like I see it.

I did not say it does not benefit anyone else. I just said it was shameless.

shameless: 2. done without shame; without decency or modesty

modesty: 1. having or showing a moderate or humble estimate of one's merits, importance, etc.;

shameless: 2. done without shame; without decency or modesty

modesty: 1. having or showing a moderate or humble estimate of one's merits, importance, etc.;

Sad to see my comment being downvoted because people disagree with it. The point that I was making was that he's shameless about his needs. Most people who have needs like his can't create this type of platform and exposure to be heard.

And it is shameless. Why do I care about amit gupta, and why are all his promotional materials centered around HIM, and not acute leukemia? People suffer every day who can't be heard like this, is it so wrong to bring up that uncomfortable fact?

To the people saying, "well what he's doing is good for others, too!" Yes, I agree. But face it, he never would've done this had he never got acute leukemia. So my original hope remains: "if this works out for him, it would be cool to see him champion other peoples' life-threatening needs." With him seeing the direct benefit of these efforts on his life, it would be cool if he maybe took it a step further and continued it for others.

I'm not sure what part of my comment you're addressing. The only real point I made was that his plight was shameless. I understand if saying that makes people upset, but it doesn't make it less true.

If this works out for him, it would be cool to see him champion other peoples' life-threatening needs as shamelessly as he's doing his own.

> Desktops aren't going anywhere until laptops catch up to desktop performance on video games and graphics in general

I used to be a die-hard desktop fan until I found xoticpc http://www.xoticpc.com/custom-gaming-laptops-notebooks-lapto... I can vouch for the sager brand...the specs are sick. I can play all modern games, plus I'm portable.

cool but doesn't look very ergonomic. grasping rectangular blocks isn't very comfortable

i think the majority of people protesting see many interconnected problems that they know deep down there's no silver bullet for. they're not knowledgeable enough to know all the ins and outs of how they're being fucked, but they know what it feels like, and they know they don't like it. that's my take on it.

i think it's important to respect the passion of this movement, whether you agree with it or not, because it's real, because it comes from real causes, and because it won't go away until it's addressed

> As a male, I'll never understand how cosmetics are so entrenched in the lives of females.

really? same reason people like nice clothes. looking "better" is a competitive advantage to help you get the "best" mate. makeup is a means to that end.

It's a trade-off for me. For the most part, exercising every other day has good short term and long term benefits for my productivity. But sometimes, just saying "fuck it", not eating, not exercising, and blasting through code for a few days gives serious short term gains.

It's not sustainable, and I've now learned when to quit, but the gains I get during those periods get are something exercising and being healthy just can't measure up to. Maybe I'm delusional

What's interesting to me is the opening paragraph of the blog post:

"It turns out to be quite difficult to hire good developers. I’m involved in the hiring process at deviantART, and it has opened my eyes to just how unqualified the majority of applicants to these jobs are."

There seems to be a complete lack of connecting the dots from "this is unusually difficult" to "what can be done to make this better/easier/more efficient." And given that this failure is centered around software developer positions... it doesn't say good things about the kinds of problem-solving that goes on in their culture.

> But this should be done with data not based on anecdotal feelings.

This last line has me confused about the first part of your reply

> The smirk on the face of the Fox News reporter who was interviewing various participants said it all. "These people are easy to dismiss."

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-X-DagzpHhDU/TnevQadAJeI/A... https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-Che5TfKQre8/TnevQT7sqZI/A...

> I'd imagine placebos are getting more effective due to more people having purely headspace/mindset (or even imaginative) illnesses/causes due to stress factors

Here's a list of medical conditions studied by placebo treatements: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Placebo#List_of_medical_conditi... Many of them had significant positive results for the placebo.

You could argue that many of those ailments could be due to mental/stress issues, and that it makes sense that calming the mind and believing in a treatment would work, but for some of them (Parkinson's, Herpes, food allergy), it's pretty amazing at how individuals are affected. Maybe we're under-crediting the brain's ability to control the body.

Right, but, given the amount of incredibly useful products and discoveries that have come out of NASA's "inefficient, non-modular, non-reusable, difficult-to-test" architectures (see: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/50-years-50-giant-...), I think such a broad statement about the way NASA works deserves a little more qualification than a witty one-word answer, don't you?

> NASA-style architectures are non-modular, highly complex, non-reusable, bureaucratic, inefficient, difficult to test, high maintenance, and high risk solutions.

Source?

Just from a quick look, it looks like Moot is trying to take some of the interactions that grew organically out of 4chan and build them into Canvas, then making it easy for the non-technical person. From personal experience, it seems like whenever you try to parameterize and enforce something that was organic, you run the risk of killing it.

Something I think to keep in mind is, that making it easy for the non-artist and non-technical person to create and publish content removes a giant filter that would keep out a lot of trash. The effort "cost" of producing a remix of content is much lower now, so there's going to be more people with half-baked ideas creating garbage, and everyone will shit on them for posting it...bad experiences all around. Meanwhile, those people that would've still created and published good content (had the effort-cost been higher) may view Canvas as being too canned and immature for their time.

That's just my $0.02. Best of luck Moot, wish you had returned my emails :)

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Crazy stuff...I can see both sides of the argument, and they both seem pretty strong. I wonder what legislation will come from this.