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by GFK_of_xmaspast 10y ago
Old Friends Senior Dog Sanctuary is not on any of those.
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by GFK_of_xmaspast 10y ago
Just go to an atm.
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by GFK_of_xmaspast 10y ago
"Public forum" is not at all the same thing as "not anonymous".
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by GFK_of_xmaspast 10y ago
> You could report it to their commander. If they don't listen, then report it to their commander, and so on. Sounds like a great way to get retaliated against.
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by GFK_of_xmaspast 10y ago
Let me answer with a question: why are you asking HN instead of a lawyer?
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by GFK_of_xmaspast 10y ago
> flat screen TVs When was the last time you saw a CRT?
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by GFK_of_xmaspast 10y ago
States don't cut funding to colleges because of careful consideration of the empirical evidence, they cut funding to colleges because of ideology.
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by GFK_of_xmaspast 10y ago
I don't do anything approaching microservices but a good CI setup combined with a good test suite is an absolute blessing that verges on a 'must have'.
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by GFK_of_xmaspast 10y ago
In this, as in so many other ways of life, anybody saying 'political correctness' in seriousness can be ignored.
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by GFK_of_xmaspast 10y ago
> What about subject matter? Suppose I, the greatest creative genius in the Branson country music field, decide to widen the subject matter of country music. So I write a song about an interplanetary space probe.... Meanwhile, checking t
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by GFK_of_xmaspast 10y ago
> Deterrence If I see someone getting axed for making a mistake, I'd be making a mistake if I didn't immediately start firing up the resume machine.
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by GFK_of_xmaspast 10y ago
So basically what was assumed to be a linear trend is turning out to be a dialectic.
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by GFK_of_xmaspast 10y ago
The meat of the article is about the flurry of timeouts you get late in a close game, which have never not been incredibly boring.
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by GFK_of_xmaspast 10y ago
I had a walmart bike once, the seat pipe broke as I was riding it.
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by GFK_of_xmaspast 10y ago
Way ahead of you on that one.
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by GFK_of_xmaspast 10y ago
That's essentially all for-profit contractors.
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by GFK_of_xmaspast 10y ago
> full retard Stop that.
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by GFK_of_xmaspast 10y ago
> I would not like going back to programming in an environment where I have to triple-check every variable to see if I can shave off a couple of kilobytes That's called "embedded development" and sometime's it's
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by GFK_of_xmaspast 10y ago
> Even a C64 or a ZX Spectrum would be a better choice than an RPi for teaching This is the strangest opinion I've seen all day. My teen programming years were on a c64 in the late 80s, and in retrospect that was a really tough lea
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by GFK_of_xmaspast 10y ago
Doubtful : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13385530
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by GFK_of_xmaspast 10y ago
> am I rite Not really.
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by GFK_of_xmaspast 10y ago
ESR can always be more pompous.
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by GFK_of_xmaspast 10y ago
That is exactly the kind of thinking that brought Prop 13 to California back in the 70s.
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by GFK_of_xmaspast 10y ago
> How much autistic can you be? Hey. Don't.
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by GFK_of_xmaspast 10y ago
> Yes, important person in the OSS community More like 'self-important.'
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by GFK_of_xmaspast 10y ago
Do you want to clarify that, because I think you may have missed a "not" in there.
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by GFK_of_xmaspast 10y ago
Perl has implicit return.
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by GFK_of_xmaspast 10y ago
> There is a return statement; it just can't return anything There are lots of languages out there that have implicit return, such as scala and ocaml and f#.
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by GFK_of_xmaspast 10y ago
The obvious explanation is that ESR is not actually as masterful a programmer as he thinks he is. (Also of note that it only took two comments before one of his readers starts getting mad at the SJWs)
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by GFK_of_xmaspast 10y ago
Peter Thiel: "Most importantly, I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible." (second paragraph of link from article, direct link here: https://www.cato-unbound.org/2009/04/13/peter

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