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Pinging back on this one. It hasn’t been deleted yet, so I’ll write this one off as a trigger happy admin for now. The Verge publishes many high quality articles, so it’s impressive that so few (like this one) slip through the cracks.

14 days ago on What can Python and the New York Times tell us about gender? 1 reply

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That’s a great analogy. Here’s another similar story: There are many younger folks in the American South who fly the Confederate flag because they’re proud of their heritage. To them, it represents hard work, dignity, honesty, and so on.

It’s only when they start to get older and realize that other people get offended at the flag that they stop flying it. And they stop flying the flag for the same reason they started flying it in the first place.

14 days ago on What can Python and the New York Times tell us about gender? 1 recommend

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Insane. I make a negative comment and it’s edited out of the comments, even though it abides by the TOS. I stated my argument logically and rationally. Is The Verge not even willing to accept criticism now?

To restate from the deleted comment:

Any question in a headline can be safely answered, “No”.

This article is irresponsible journalism. Taking an interesting technical article from Neal Caren which shows a novel way of using glob, nltk, and punctuation to parse sentences from public news sources is the real story here. Instead, The Verge has decided to publish this piece of snobbish journalism. In addition, they’ve censored comments (which are perfectly reasonable, legitimate comments), which highlight the flaws in this article.

I hate that I have to say this, but since my comment was deleted for no good reason, here we go: Just because one criticizes an article doesn’t mean that the comment or the person making the comment is racist, sexist or otherwise hateful. It’s a criticism of the article and nothing more.

14 days ago on What can Python and the New York Times tell us about gender? 3 replies 14 recommends

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>….3D

DOA.

15 days ago on Amazon building smartphone with a 3D screen, says WSJ

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Yes. Patch 1.0.8 was just released. It’s still incredibly fun.

15 days ago on 90 Seconds on The Verge: wiretapping, 'Diablo III,' and Caesars Palace