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An Open Letter to Connor
Dear Connor,
It has been brought to our attention that you lost your cool on one of our female users named Ashley. She made small talk, you felt personally attacked. She mentioned her work day and asked about yours; you assumed that she was prying into your financial status.
We are going to venture a guess into the state of mind of Ashley here, given that we are all working women ourselves. Take a seat, because this concept may blow your mind. Women nowadays work. It’s happened over time, we know, but a vast majority of women from our generation have jobs.
With that in mind — and knowing that Ashley simply mentioned work in the conversation — we can gather that she wasn’t hoping to figure out if your wallet was sizeable enough for her to move into your house and start cooking dinner for you after vacuuming your living room while you clock in a 9 to 5 work day. Instead, Ashley was (wait for it, Connor, because this is where things really get interesting), viewing herself as an equal. It might sound crazy, but people connect over the basic routines of life. You know… the weather, working out, grabbing a drink, eating, and working.
And while you may view this as “neo-liberal, Beyonce, feminist-cancer,” and rant about the personal wounds you are trying to heal from classic “entitled gold digging whores,” we are going to keep working. We are going to expand our reach and make sure that women everywhere receive the message that they are just as empowered in their personal lives as they are in the workplace. We are going to continue to build a world that makes small-minded, misogynist boys like you feel outdated.
We are going to hope that one day, you come around. We hope that the hate and resentment welling up inside of you will subside and you’ll be able to engage in everyday conversations with women without being cowardice to their power. But until that day comes, Connor, consider yourself blocked from Bumble.
Never yours,
The Bumble Hive
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#LaterConnor
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NOTE: Bumble was alerted to abuse and screenshots by a user. Bumble did not violate user privacy and has taken blocking steps in congruence with Bumble Terms of Service.
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Help Me DevOps Myself?
So, I’m teaching myself Node, and writing and running all of the code on the webserver I run at home. This requires two things when I work: a fast internet connection, and selection of only one text editor — TextWrangler is the only one I’ve found with built-in SFTP support on Macs. The internet connection bit is fine, as far as it goes. I dislike running local environments where I’m connecting…
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Google Officially Becomes a Wireless Carrier with "Project Fi"
Google Officially Becomes a Wireless Carrier with “Project Fi”
Google Officially Becomes a Wireless Carrier
Of note: 1) $10/GB flat data + $20/mo everything-else pricing (I’m a highly technical user and rarely go over 2GB, for the record, so my bill would rarely be more than $40/mo) 2) Google is now the first carrier/MVNO to admit to the public that data is data and there is zero excuse whatsoever to charge extra for tethering.
If only the Nexus 6’s camera…
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How Do You Solve a Problem Like Powershell Function Returns?
So, I’ve been working on a script to manage database backups in Powershell for a while now. There are two main functions to deal with in this script: Movefiles, which copies backups from a “READY” folder with Full, Diff and TLog directories in it and into a “FINAL” folder with the same folder structure, and Delfiles, which compares the timestamps in the filenames of the backups in the FINAL…
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Windows 10 to Make Secure Boot OS Lock Out a Reality
Windows 10 to Make Secure Boot OS Lock Out a Reality
Windows 10 to Make Secure Boot OS Lock Out a Reality
I’ve been warning people that we were going in this direction for years, and now Microsoft is finally letting hardware OEMs actually do it.
We will now have two classes of computer: one that is general-purpose, and one that is less so, at a discount from the general-purpose one.
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Mavericks/Yosemite and Gmail: A Match Made in Limbo
Mavericks/Yosemite and Gmail: A Match Made in Limbo
Have you noticed this fun thing OS X does where it refuses to add a Gmail account? Tried the whole “turning off ‘All Mail’ solution” thing and it still didn’t work? Want to use Phil Schiller as your own personal pincushion as a result? WE HAVE THE SOLUTION! (The solution is not a bunch of pins.) (more…)
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Y'all Should Read This Guy's Blog
Y’all Should Read This Guy’s Blog
My good friend Christian Sagardia is starting a writing thing. Go read it. He’s a smart guy.
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Configure a 3rd-Party SSL Certificate for Windows' RDP Server
Starting with Server 2012, I think, Microsoft seems to have gone out of their way to hide the ability to set an installed certificate with private key as the one to present for incoming RDP connections for any machine that isn’t an Honest to God™ licensed Terminal Server. More than hide it, they just went ahead and tore out the damn UI. It just isn’t there anymore. The only way to apply a cert…
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I Am Utterly Astonished That This Works
I Am Utterly Astonished That This Works
Somehow I migrated this site from WordPress 3.8 on Nginx to WordPress 4.0 on Apache on a completely different host and nothing exploded.
BRB, buying a lottery ticket.
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A DC Fable
Once there was a mouse named Fievel.
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I'm Fog Computing Right Now, Mostly Due to not Enough Coffee
The Wall Street Journal has an article up that is mostly about how Cisco has successfully pushed another ridiculous buzzword, but it’s worth examining this decentralization trend in cloud computing that’s been developing for years.
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Basis B1 Preview
This is pretty damn cool. I just have one concern. (more…)
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Unprofessional Reviews: The Retina iPad Mini
Unprofessional Reviews: The Retina iPad Mini
After a lot of soul-searching, agonizing, waffling, baconing, etc., this past Christmas I settled on an Apple iPad Mini with Retina Display — 16GB of storage, with T-Mobile LTE — and have mostly been very happy with the purchase (with a possibly deal-breaking caveat). I’ve wanted a tablet for a while now for a bunch of reasons. I have a BIG phone (a Galaxy Note II), but I can’t necessarily read…
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A Tale of Fail: There Is No Trigger Warning for Inanity
Picture, if you will, a guy in his... *gulp* mid-thirties, cheerily minding his own business at work, typing away at one of several computers at his desk, sipping his coffee. He is dressed fairly conservatively; navy pants and a nice light blue shirt were the order of the day, mostly due to being what happened to be clean in his closet that morning.
This is the sort of fellow to whom Things Happen™. Somehow he finds himself directly or indirectly participating in a lot of acts of impressive clumsiness on what he is sure is a greater-than-average basis. He drops things, breaks things, falls off of things, spills things. You get the idea. At times, it seems as though the universe orders itself such as to make these predilections worse.
This was one of those times.
It was an innocent sip, he was sure, the kind of which hundreds of thousands (millions, hundreds of millions) are taken from coffee cups every day without incident. You lift the cup to your mouth, drink, set it back down again. What could be simpler? Orbital dynamics, perhaps, as it turns out, or the Grand Unified Theory. Somehow, the process of removing the cup from his mouth resulted in a geyser of brown liquid ejecting from the small oval hole in the lid and splattering all over the right side of his nice blue shirt.
Time stops. Beyond being supremely irritated with himself for spilling something all over himselfyet again, he knows a split-second decision is necessary here. If he waits much longer, the stain will set and become next to impossible to remove. But if he goes and tries to clean it now, he risks making the shirt unwearable due to being soaked. WHAT TO DO.
Well, he reasons, one of these options results in a permanent issue and the other does not. TO THE BATHROOM.
It is so easy to soak an entire shirt with water when you are only trying to focus water and soap on a certain stained area. So, so easy.
And this, ladies and gentlemen, is how one ends up pretending a fleece is businesswear.
At least the shirt is clean. And wet. Really wet. But clean.
Open Directory on OS X Server 10.9
“It looks like you’re trying to change a password. Would you like to:
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