Delmania

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by Delmania 11y ago
> That's what happened with the housing bubble. Blaming banks is easy, and certainly they did a lot of shady stuff. But nobody forced people to take on mortgages they couldn't hope to pay. Nobody forced kids to take out $100k i
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by Delmania 11y ago
"However, the reality that I've experienced is that the developers most willing to guess about how code works, copy and paste googled code, and push others to feed them answers instead of doing research on their own are considered
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by Delmania 11y ago
Look into Buddhism. You get all of that, but there's no obligation to believe in a god.
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Do you continue to sit?
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by Delmania 11y ago
>Is there really some point in sitting and trying it all day long? I mean, if you cannot "get" it within an hour, aren't you doing something wrong? Or it takes different length of time for different people? Disclaimer: I a
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by Delmania 11y ago
Nutrition and weight loss are 2 very complex subjects to say the least. However, calorie counting and weight measurement pretty much fit into all programs, mainly for the sake of raising awareness. Counting calories is like keeping tracking
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Fair enough, my aim was to remove Jamestown from the equation, as that was not some failed experiment in socialism, but a poorly planned colony. In terms of what you're looking for, there is not pure society like that. The closest you&
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Here a more detailed picture: http://www.ushistory.org/us/2c.asp http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamestown,_Virginia#Starving_Ti... While I personally cannot attest to the validity of these sources,
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by Delmania 11y ago
The claim that Jamestown was "saved by capitalism" is the typical libertarian/conservative story touted out in discussions about socialism and capitalism. The situation was a lot more nuanced than that. The setup of Jamestown
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by Delmania 11y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fear_of_missing_out A few random thoughts: - A story is in the news strictly because it's out of the ordinary. - Related to number one, it's best not to compare your life to t
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Eich was judged on the merit of his work and found wanting. At the time he was ousted, he was the CEO of Mozilla, which is both a leadership and a PR job. His views made it difficult for a number of talented people to work for him, and even
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by Delmania 11y ago
For the 2 specific cases you've mentioned, there are installers for both Python and MySQL for Windows. You could even use the unoffical Windows package manager, Chocolately to get them. As for the lack of a *NIX shell, PowerShell is an
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by Delmania 11y ago
I maintain a 250 Gb partition on my Mac that's dedicated to Windows. While I primarily use it for gaming, I also intend to install both Windows 10 and VS2015 on it. Bootcamp was a key selling point to me for purchasing a Mac when I was
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by Delmania 11y ago
The distinction is that you are working the land directly for your own benefit as opposed to working for someone else. If you're good at repairing thing, can grow and manage your own food stores, and live in a small enough house, you d
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by Delmania 11y ago
"When the assignments came, tentative at first, they paid a fraction of a full-time wage for someone of my age and training. But I was grateful. Material progress gives us the choice to trade our earning ability for more consumption, o
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by Delmania 11y ago
The difference is the Sys Admin don't know (or care) about the binaries produced by development. They simple configure a host, deploy it, and if they run into an issue, shoot it over to development to fix. In DevOps, sys admins are, at
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by Delmania 11y ago
Really? Let's review: - Once a project is completed, the team must ensure that the “What” and “Why” of each software item are properly documented. That's essentially a retrospective. - In the cases of parallel development of in
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by Delmania 11y ago
I'm having a hard time parsing this comment in light of Apple and Google, which essentially do the same thing. The article mentions the extensions are similar to Chrome, so it's possible that someone will build a translation layer
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Part of the Bob's argument was that the function was not just doing a replacement, but also a ensuring the replacement was only done once. Essentially, there's state maintenance in there, which complicates things, hence the origin
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by Delmania 11y ago
My response? YMMV Abstractions help to create clean, readable code. You do create lots of small classes, but they tend to be focused on one thing and are easily verified by unit tests. It helps debugging since it helps you focus on the area
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by Delmania 11y ago
TL;DR: You can't outwork a bad diet. Of course, a TFA mentions, exercise has benefits of it's own, such as building muscle tone and improving cardiovascular health. But if you want weight loss, start counting calories.
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by Delmania 11y ago
On one hand, I am in favor of people striving to increase longevity and maybe even eliminate death. On the other hand, I view organizations such as SENS as nothing more than "wizards" of the past who promised kings that if they dr
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by Delmania 11y ago
The short answer is you won't invest money; you'll use it for another expense or to reduce a liability against you. The medium answer involves understanding your finances to know how 25/week on Starbucks impacts your budget.
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by Delmania 11y ago
This post is an attempt to apply rationality to a situation which is highly emotional and therefore irrational. The author's description of how he fires demonstrates a complete lack of empathy in a situation in which the person being f
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by Delmania 11y ago
While it's not unbiased, his ex-wife's article on their marriage and this comment makes me think Musk has NPD. I was going to say he's a psychopath, but he has exhibited no signs of antisocial disorder. Rather, he's exhi
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It's not the case, it's actually less than 5 minutes. For reference: http://www.ninds.nih.gov/disorders/brain_basics/understandin... Your entire post reads like satire, but I don't think that was yo
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by Delmania 11y ago
I'd argue back that if we're suddenly in a high stress situation where I need to divine the requirements are, I'd ask what the hell were the project managers, requirements analysts, scrum masters, etc, all doing before this p
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by Delmania 12y ago
To notpick, Epicurus was not a stoic, he was a peer to Zeno and taught his own school. Epicurus's approach to suffering was essentially to maximize pleasure and minimize pain.
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Follow up article: http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/kalief-browder-and-a... Efforts are being made to quicken this, but little can be done to reverse the damage done to this young.
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by Delmania 12y ago
With regards to (1), I'll leave this here: http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-echochambers-27074746 The vast majority of people who are effected by this in a negative fashion do not have the money needed to get their o

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