Clubber

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by Clubber 2y ago
It's a tax dodge.
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by Clubber 2y ago
>Let's ignore the 26 years since then... The market has been ignoring Delphi for that long. It probably peaked with D5, once they changed their name from Borland to Inprise, it was over. I hear it's still somewhat popular in Ea
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by Clubber 2y ago
>a massive mistake to let double.ToString() use the current culture rather than the invariant culture. I would imagine that's a carryover from the Win32/Client-Server days when that would have been a better choice. Is that anno
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by Clubber 2y ago
I seem to recall some in Delphi 4, but it's been forever.
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by Clubber 2y ago
They did a breaking change in a recent C# where nullable objects must be postfixed with a ?, so old code is: public Patient Patient { get; set; } The same thing with modern code would be public Patient? Patient { get; set; } B
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by Clubber 2y ago
>It appears to be some law of nature that "our next compiler must compile 20 year old code". Some examples of companies/products not implementing backwards compatibility are Delphi and Angular. Both are effectively dead. .
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by Clubber 2y ago
>But they always fire the weak employees What you are referring to is called rightsizing and it's taught in business schools, but almost never implemented well. I would guess it's because it takes to long to figure out who&#x
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by Clubber 2y ago
>might take that as a reverse-jibe I did not, but thanks for being considerate. I took it as this: >I sincerely thought people would quit social media following the Snowden revelations, and I did myself, and then could not believe tha
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by Clubber 2y ago
I quit social media after the Snowden revelations.
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by Clubber 2y ago
He's role playing the manager role in the article, hopefully sarcastically.
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by Clubber 2y ago
The tobacco companies bought all the food companies in the 80s and 90s and figured out how to make food "hyper-palatable (addictive)," by combining sugar (HFCS), salt (sodium) and fat. https://www.washingtonpost.com&#x2
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by Clubber 2y ago
>...there is a reward for loyalty and willingness to short-circuit the criminal process” that would have felt at home in an organized crime family. "Do you know how naive you sound, Michael? Presidents and senators don't have m
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by Clubber 2y ago
>Corporations own the software and us serfs merely lease it. We were way more worried about that before GNU/Linux became a thing.
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by Clubber 2y ago
>How the Unchecked Power of Companies Is Destabilizing Governance It's an old joke. The joke is it's working as designed for the companies .
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by Clubber 2y ago
I would opine it was Robert Bork a few years earlier. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Bork_Supreme_Court_nomi...
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by Clubber 2y ago
>A home costs ~25% of the down payment on the day you buy it. They did this briefly after the 2008 crash, but I think they changed it back to where you can put no money down but pay extra (PMI) insurance. 2008 lessons learned, huh?
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by Clubber 2y ago
It absolutely does. I got bit by the NYT back when they had call-to-cancel, and I won't subscribe to any company that doesn't have an unsubscribe button. I just search "bla company unsubscribe," and if it's call to
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by Clubber 2y ago
>In fact, the judiciary can completely ignore the expertise of the federal agency and substitute their own. I don't believe this is accurate, as you stated >The overturning of Chevron deference enables the judiciary to first find
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by Clubber 2y ago
>hacking on BBS source code in Pascal Was it Telegard? WWIV was originally in Pascal but by the time I got to it, it had been rewritten in C++. Telegard was built off the Pascal version of WWIV (if I'm remembering right). There was
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by Clubber 2y ago
>all high productivity employees leave in an instant That almost never happens, unless a company enacts a very unpopular policy and there are many opportunities for high productivity tech employees elsewhere. That sounds a lot like right
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by Clubber 2y ago
>I'd really like to see how the American libertarian copes with the return to office mandates. The American libertarian will just move to a job that allows remote. >As the employers are closing in on them, they slowly start to un
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by Clubber 2y ago
>If I can do my job at home, then surely somebody can do it in the global south in tandem with AI for peanuts. >How long until megacorps and SMEs actually execute this reality? You don't have to wait long, it happened around 20-2
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by Clubber 2y ago
I believe most contracts are 4 years active, 4 years reserves, so you can easily get a degree in the 2nd 4 years without leaving the military.
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by Clubber 2y ago
There was a study on it that made a big splash a while back. The interpreted version is that policy is made for the wealthy and special interest groups. If it happens to coincide with was the public wants, it's merely coincidence. htt
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by Clubber 2y ago
"If we include people in their 20's, teen deaths skyrocket!"
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by Clubber 2y ago
The existing nuclear arsenal already serves its purpose: deterrence. Not sure why we need to upgrade them. If these start flying, it doesn't matter if a few don't work, the result is the same.
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by Clubber 2y ago
>>The US government has been working solely for their donors for the last 40+ years. Any benefit the voters get from lawmaking is coincidental. >That thought may be comforting, but no. Why would that be comforting?
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by Clubber 2y ago
The US government has been working solely for their donors for the last 40+ years. Any benefit the voters get from lawmaking is coincidental.
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by Clubber 2y ago
>predictably and indeed, by stepping up from vaping. Do you have any citations for this? I don't know any vapers in the younger generation who switched to cigarettes who hadn't already picked up the cigarette habit. Looking fur
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by Clubber 2y ago
My dad was left handed, I'm left handed and my daughter is left handed. It certainly helps in troubleshooting things, because when anyone else uses a pair of scissors, they work. When a left handed person uses a pair of scissors, they

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