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by Dewie 12y ago
> (and I'm 100% sure there is one even tho it's not the "civilized union of socialists states" AKA Europe). Go 'Murica!!
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by Dewie 12y ago
I'm a man who happens to not participate in that culture. You think I have any responsibility with regards to this issue? You think that, despite me not making lewd comments, encouraging lewd comments or behaviour, I am partly responsi
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by Dewie 12y ago
> But realistically, I know of no society where parents don't favor the interests of their own children, "But realistically, everyone else is doing it..." Yes. I didn't have any particular society in mind. Just our o
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by Dewie 12y ago
That is a fascinating sentence. So fancy and yet it conveys such a simple point. I have no doubt that you would fit right into an elitist, self-important, overly status-conscious academic environment where prestige is more important than ac
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by Dewie 12y ago
Good work is the key to good fortune Winners take that praise Losers seldom take that blame --- This can be used to point at both victim-of-circumstance "losers" and it-was-all-me "winners", depending on your viewpoint.
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by Dewie 12y ago
People will wax poetically about meritocracy and fairness. Then they will get children of their own and think to themselves that giving them all the advantages that they can get is their newest and most moral goal.
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by Dewie 12y ago
The 1% does declare that the plebs complain too much about their self-inflicted lot.
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by Dewie 12y ago
Why can't everyone who joins the military attain the rank of colonel or higher eventually?
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by Dewie 12y ago
> Parsimony is a virtue appreciated everywhere in science and technology, except programming, where languages are rated by the number of features they include, and complexities get added to systems until they explode. You're laughab
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by Dewie 12y ago
Another way to use search in Emacs is to go to a place that you need to edit/insert text. Instead of using the movement commands or the mouse, use forward or backwards search to search for the point you need to be at: like "(str&q
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by Dewie 12y ago
It's a personal subject to me. I take it personally when men/boys keep being painted as being self-absorbed, lazy and incompetent (or one of them). Maybe I shouldn't.
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by Dewie 12y ago
While we're at it, maybe we might relate this to consuming values by using them, and creating explicit copies when we need to consume them more than once. This avoids having to deal with any kind of garbage collection or reference coun
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by Dewie 12y ago
Maybe certain Americans should get over their we-need-to-be-nr-one-at-everything desire.
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by Dewie 12y ago
Thankfully people don't tend to get away with such blatantly dishonest tactics on HN, in my opinion. At least they would have to be much more indirect about it.
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by Dewie 12y ago
A greater variance among men is a widely-noted phenomena. But by all means, keep selling the narcissism[1]-line if it's more soothing to you. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9153685
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by Dewie 12y ago
Your concern is duly noted sir/ma'am.
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by Dewie 12y ago
I'd rather have bad knees than a bad brain.
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by Dewie 12y ago
> Note that the whole reason this HN thread exists is not because some random book on Go is being published, but because Brian Kernighan's name is on the cover. Fame is a good enough reason to give things priority when it comes to
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by Dewie 12y ago
Sounds... glamorous.
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by Dewie 12y ago
> I'm just reporting the patterns I saw. That's all. Well let's not kid ourselves. :) If a pattern you happened to observe reflected poorly on women - like if you observed that many more of them were incompetent than men
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by Dewie 12y ago
> Women would say things like "I worked on a team that did X," while men -- who obviously did the same kind of work -- would simply say "I did X." Depending on what X is, and on context, it can be obvious that "w
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by Dewie 12y ago
Thanks. That was a good comment.
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Maybe part of the problem is that people that promote Go in some capacity will at times make good arguments for certain things, but when they find something that they can't really explain, or that might seem subpar, they devolve their
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by Dewie 12y ago
Let me tell you what sexism means nowadays: saying or doing anything that makes a woman that is concerned with gender equality feel uncomfortable at all, even if it has nothing to do with sexism, discrimination, or even your own gender. It&
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by Dewie 12y ago
Then enough people get cautious like that, and eventually we have people complaining about discrimination because groups of guys will suddenly get quiet when a woman enters earshot, and they act somewhat uncomfortable. "Why can't
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by Dewie 12y ago
> If the goal was to change such misogynistic behavior of men Making a sexual innuendo about dicks or whatever isn't misogyny . Please, tell me how talking about dicks is an exhibit of contempt for women . The "joke" do
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by Dewie 12y ago
> “Have you ever heard that thing, men are afraid that women will laugh at them and women are afraid that men will kill them?” Men are afraid that a woman will change/ruin their whole lives with just their words. Well, at least that
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by Dewie 12y ago
Don't feed the troll. :) He obviously has an axe to grind and isn't looking to have a rational discussion. He even chose to take the good fight to Github, on Steve's pull request to the kanaka/mal repo.
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Of course this post ends up at the top. Keep patting yourself on the back, HN.
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Monads have become a borderline buzzword these days. You're obviously the expert on Rust here, but it feels like it would be sufficient to just call it errors-as-values.

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