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Sigh... really? This is reddit-level "Yakov Smirnoff" of rebuttals. But I'm going to break it down for you anyway and operate on the shared assumption of good faith since you may have genuinely misconstrued my intent.

I couched my words - stating that I only found one particular piece of content unbelievable - once again now, FOR ME PERSONALLY. Irrespective of whether the "1950s women in the workforce" quote actually transpired, her overall experiences still cast a powerful light on the continuing toxic nature of the work environment for women.

Yeah I see your point, it's unfortunate there is not an automated pre-interview system (like GPT meets Eliza) that could flag these people such that actual women aren't exposed to their toxicity.

I don't know... I feel like putting her into that position exposed her to a lot of negative energy that she may not have necessarily received in the first place.

If I personally was the brunt of all that crap, it would definitely get to me personally - so while I appreciate the company's approach ideologically I think emotionally it might've done more psychological damage to her in the long run.

I'm not trying to invalidate this woman's experiences, because if they are genuinely true as written down, then that is some seriously toxic misogynistic shit, but some of the quotes from the male interviewees sound like they could be lifted straight out of an episode of mad men and an office in the 1960s.

“Hey, hon, before you go… can you get me some more coffee? And put some sugar in it."

I mean... really?? It's hard for me to even imagine those words coming out of a white-collar software engineer applicant. Did they hoot and wolf whistle as she walked by too?

I can only speak anecdotally but as a software engineer for the last two decades I've never seen anything even remotely like this in any of the software companies that I worked at, while bearing in mind that of course as a male I would likely be less likely to notice.

There is likely some truth in this article but it feels like it might be mixed up with some exaggerations which to me hurt the message as a whole.

I mean... this sounds like the exact job that "git blame" is made for. Does your company not have some kind of version control?

While that might be true, from an outsiders perspective looking at things like: the anti-immigration agenda, the death penalty, and the almost willful refusal by a large minority to wear masks (to name a few) - you can see how somebody might draw the conclusion that for a country whose population strongly identifies as Christian, it seems to be lacking in basic Christian ideals such as compassion and empathy.

Reminds me of that W.C. Fields quote — 'I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally. '

He specifically refuted the claim that it was "pedophilia and gore"; your response, while raising valid criticisms, has nothing to do with those two things.

Attribution is irrelevant if you're lifting them wholesale - and you're really stretching the definition of "fair use" since you're not obtaining consent from the actual content creators.

I had the same experience moving from visual studio 2017 to visual studio 2019. I tried disabling every possible IntelliSense related feature and there was always a small but perceptible amount of input latency that drove me crazy.

Eventually I was forced to switch over to jet brains rider and I haven't looked back since, which is a shame because I really enjoyed using the previous versions (2010, 2012, 2015, and 2017).

Most composers were musicians before that and a lot of instruments adhere to scales such as fretted instruments or percussive instruments like the piano.

Using scales gives people a familiar territory in which to compose music and a western audience will already be culturally attuned to those sensibilities.

Good stuff, but since it seems like there is a lot of pedantic responses to this post I'm going to chip in myself and say that most traditional gospel renditions of amazing Grace also make use of the supertonic. In the key of C that would be DMaj.

This didn't really feel like an explanation or an answer as to why you believe sex work is not "real work". What exactly are the characteristics of real work? Once you've defined those qualities it'll be easier for HN to understand why you believe it falls outside that domain.

As far as sex work being nasty and exploitative I can think of plenty of capitalistic industries that are and have been equally exploitative to their workers. (mining industry, Foxconn, etc).

I understand what you're saying wrt to rtf versus text but I completely disagree and I say this as somebody who used to have all of my notes in thousands of plain text files.

I've never felt like rich text editor's have gotten in my way, I can start immediately typing into a note in Evernote without ever feeling like the rich text somehow hinders my ability to be able to quickly transfer my thoughts.

For you, as you've said, you don't see the utility of rich text outside of presentations. But when I'm drawing up and working on new projects I like to have embedded imagery for my flow charts, when I'm working on music I like to include snippets of melodies, and I like to be able to easily take screenshots of things I'm working on and transfer them and embed them easily.

I like the ability to be able to copy code blocks from programs like visual studio and web storm knowing that I can preserve the color scheme and monospaced font. It makes readability great.

When I want to make a note about remembering how to perform some complicated task in Photoshop (for example) I might make a quick animation as a gif file and I want to see it animated and embedded in the note.

Evernote also lets me link notes to each other and can even do some interesting auto related suggestions for notes that are similar in context as well as allowing me to tag notes in addition to putting them in a traditional folder like hierarchy.

I am not a casual user at this point as I have about 5000 notes with folders and tags associated with them. I've been building this note store for the last 10 years in Evernote after switching from One Note. And at least for me the search capabilities are for all intents and purposes instantaneous. Evernote in particular does have a few minor issues with the inability to be able to do regex searches or partial word versus whole word searches but they're minor and don't really impact my daily experience.

Another key priority for me is set up and ease-of-use, it took me less than five minutes to understand how Evernote worked and to have it syncing and searchable across my Macbook, my PC, my android and my iPad.

I do think you make strong points but fundamentally we have very different workflows and that's what makes our requirements so vastly different.

You said that you used Evernote in the past, I'm honestly curious why you abandoned it. If it has limitations with regard to notetaking I certainly haven't encountered them - of course as a safety measure I also make weekly back ups of my Evernote store as a series of exported HTML files. To me this is the biggest shortcoming, ultimately I don't control the central repository, if I ever found an Evernote competitor with comparable features that could connect to an s3, FTP or even dropbox i would switch in a heartbeat.

This comment is absurd and contradictory, if the software is supposed to be the equivalent of "grabbing a scrap of paper and scratching something down" then at bare minimum it needs to support images since you can draw pictures on a piece of paper. Do notepad or notepad++ support images?

I read the Wikipedia entry for it but it didn't really shed a lot of light on these types of questions:

1. Can I embed images and more specifically can I embed animated GIF files?

2. Can I embed MP3s and play them within the note?

3. Does it support rich text editor functionality including the ability to insert tables easily from programs like Microsoft excel?

4. Can I use multiple fonts in the same individual note including monospaced ones and broad support for Unicode?

5. Can I easily sync and edit the data on my iPad, then on my android phone without having to worry about where the data is stored?

6. Will it automatically OCR embedded images and allow me to do text searches across my entire set of notes based on that text?

If the answer to most of these questions is no, then it doesn't sound like org-note is the best note taking editor as you claim, it just sounds like it's the best editor for your specific set of criteria which does not apply to all notetakers. And that's the problem with trying to narrow down the best note editing tool, it's such a broad area that every notetaker will have their own idiosyncratic needs and priorities.

As for me, I have also experimented with a great deal of note editing utilities and the only one that has reasonably met most of my requirements is Evernote.

EDIT: of course if the answer is yes, then I may just have a new favorite note editor.

Anything which is Reddit level of quality in terms of contributing value. For example, low hanging puns that add no actual substantial information.

Your hangups about not reading two books at once and being contractually obligated to finish a book are interesting but I'm not sure that they're culturally normative, I've certainly never felt this way about books.

Our time on this planet is finite, and I'm not going to push through a slog of a fiction book because the last 20% of it is ostensibly worth it.

It vaguely reminds me of old jrpgs and how you used to have to do a bunch of boring fetch quests and grinding to be able to actually get to the enjoyable aspects of the game.

Without divulging details, a riffle force has zero risk and can be easily mastered in a day.

The exact mechanics of a force are the point of the post. Also given your handle, I honestly can't tell if you're trolling or not.

I'm saying this somewhat in jest, but this would give disproportionate political influence to families with larger quantities of children. And don't sit here and tell me with a straight face that children will make up their minds independently of influence from their parents. Cough religion cough.

Regular glasses also "cover your eyes", you are aware that AR uses transparent lenses right? They augment the world around you, they don't take away from it.

This is one of those ideas that seems nice in theory but in practice would just lead to so many subtle problems especially if it happened automatically.

Lots of programs create temporary files by changing the extension temporarily but if the kernel were attempting to intercept and change the internal data you could never guarantee the state of your file data. Not to mention potentially renaming an extension to an automatically handled extension and having that data irrevocably altered without you even realizing it.

Then of course there's the fact that there are usually lots of options associated with converting a file. Jpg needs visual compression levels, mp3 needs bitrates, etc.

Heh, I can speak rudimentary Italian, so I used to do the same thing when I was studying Chinese.

Percentage of people I knew in Taiwan who could speak English: 40% Percentage of people I knew in Taiwan who could speak Italian : 0%

You can actually hide the falling notes and switch to sheet only in Synthesia, this was a much requested feature update made years ago.

Anecdotal, but I lived in Taiwan for several years and never met anyone who was even remotely pro-CCP.

I would argue that if you consider your personal project to be a form of work, then something is wrong. If the principal reason that you're working on your own personal projects is to be able to pad out your resume, then I agree with you.

I don't think surgery is a good analogy. Engineering is a field where you're actually producing something, such as a product, that you can share and be proud of.

"almost exclusively played by mostly white (and some Asian) men, often on the spectrum."

you have the demographic data to back that up? I'd hate to accuse you of talking out of your ass.

I think wit is in the eye of the beholder as well. For the record, wit is typically defined as a form of verbal humor, so it's not really the same thing as situational comedy.

And this might also be a case of one's expectations. If you spent your entire week teaching preschool, and then on the weekend met up with some adults for drinks later, you might come out of that evening with the thought that those were some of the most urbane sophisticated people you'd ever met.

Yeah... because you spend the vast majority of your day preventing toddlers from sticking crayons up their noses. It's the intellectual equivalent of the ebbinghaus illusion.

Yeah I hear what you're saying. However, I still don't think it would be considered genocide in the conventional sense because the woman is not being compelled to have an abortion, it is an individual choice.

Even if the percentage of women electing to have an abortion is high, they're not acting as a singular cohesive body with the collective goal to eliminate all children having Down syndrome.

This weirdly reminded me of how Michael Bluth fails to realize his girlfriend Rita has a learning disability because of her aristocratic sounding British accent in the show Arrested Development.