HumanDrivenDev

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by HumanDrivenDev 8y ago
Populism is a precise way of appealing to basic emotions of a population by creating an "us vs them" narrative. You find an enemy, tell the people that the enemy is causing all their troubles and that you're the only cure be
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by HumanDrivenDev 8y ago
Populism is merely a word to discredit something that a lot of people like, that those in power do not. That is not to say that I agree with everything labeled 'populist'. I don't even think it's a left vs right thing, e
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by HumanDrivenDev 8y ago
But if you set foot inside the EU... you are in the EUs jurisdiction. Extradition treaties are usually subject to 'dual criminality' - so you would have to be breaking the country you are in as well to be extradited for violation
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by HumanDrivenDev 8y ago
It's possibly a good commercial decision given the size of the EU market, but a lot of people seem a bit delusional as to how much of an authority the EU is. They can't compel people outside their jurisdiction with the GDPR, anymo
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by HumanDrivenDev 8y ago
They’re not direct support, but option types only work in languages with the right syntax and tooling to make them work. I strongly disagree. You don't need pattern matching syntax to use option types effectively. All you need are th
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by HumanDrivenDev 8y ago
I think google should not be in China for the same reason - so Chinese users do not have it. Let them see how cut off and backwards they are - stuck using second rate clones like baidu - due to the communist party.
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by HumanDrivenDev 8y ago
Then you would have to explain why the same thing happened in other western countries where the dominant sugar is not HFCS.
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by HumanDrivenDev 8y ago
Block social media, people would look up from their cell phones. People were walking around looking at their cellphones before smartphones or social media took off. They were sending SMS messages. Or playing snake in monochrome. Or would
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by HumanDrivenDev 8y ago
I think your crystal ball is broken. That falls to shit as soon as you need things to work offline. Imagine if the gmail app worked that way - no more checking emails in tunnels.
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by HumanDrivenDev 8y ago
I'm on 4gb ram with a spinning hard drive and I develop on it. I'd like something a bit faster but it's not a huge deal to use visual studio code, webpack etc.
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by HumanDrivenDev 8y ago
Superstar DJs. Here we go!
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by HumanDrivenDev 8y ago
Of course everybody here who isn't successful assumes it's because of their intellect...classic Hacker News.
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by HumanDrivenDev 8y ago
The same reason not every "I'm totally moving to canada/australia/new zealand/europe" liberal in the US can do so. Immigration laws.
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by HumanDrivenDev 8y ago
I wish so badly I could trade places, as a conservative man stuck in a 'progressive' country with lower wages. Give me a great salary and Blumpffss 'regressive' US any day.
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by HumanDrivenDev 8y ago
Well here's the fantastic thing about newspapers and newspaper websites - you have the option of not buying them, and not visiting them. It's much nicer for the rest of us if you exercise those rights rather than complaining.
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by HumanDrivenDev 8y ago
https://www.choice.com.au/electronics-and-technology/interne... Here's a good, fairly non-technical guide on things you can do to avoid geoblocking. It's targeted at Australian shoppers but would also be rele
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by HumanDrivenDev 8y ago
I wonder how they got by when street corner newsstand were the only way to get views. They got by because people paid them money to buy the newspaper.
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by HumanDrivenDev 8y ago
Your definition of privilege was 'unearned'. I would challenge that by saying that privilege is earned by successive generations generating and maintanining said privilege. https://www.passportindex.org/byRank.php
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by HumanDrivenDev 8y ago
Then I disagree that it's privilege. A civilisation requires active effort to maintain, it cannot just float by on its own inertia. If people from western countries did nothing but inherit the privilege of their parents, society would
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by HumanDrivenDev 8y ago
What do you mean by privilege here?
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by HumanDrivenDev 8y ago
SQLite has 64 bit integers. In fact row ids are 64 bit by default since version 3.
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by HumanDrivenDev 8y ago
You love this article about the possible murder of a 70 year old alcoholic labourer who lived by himself with no family in the whole country? I think it's sad.
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by HumanDrivenDev 8y ago
Use a VPN.
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by HumanDrivenDev 8y ago
She might have been impeached at this point Because she was incredibly corrupt. Seems likely that foreign intelligence agencies had even more information they could leak. The separated immigrant children are probably never going to get o
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by HumanDrivenDev 8y ago
It really does come down to sour grapes. The mental contortions people go to question a democratically determined result really is telling. A lot of people are only fans of democracy when it goes their way.
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by HumanDrivenDev 8y ago
I don't know. It's really hard to imagine what a Hilary Clinton presidency would have been like. She might have been impeached at this point. Likewise, it's really hard to tell what the long term effects of Brexit will be.
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by HumanDrivenDev 8y ago
It's really interesting coming to HN and watching the indignant 'stabbed in the back' theories about why the establishment lost the Brexit referendum and 2016 US presidential election. 2 years on and it still stings that the
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by HumanDrivenDev 8y ago
What is with all this contrarianism against basic software best practices in tech circles these days? First the thread about how great copy pasting was, and now people praising the use of global variables. What's next - goto advocacy?
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by HumanDrivenDev 8y ago
I don't get this post and I don't get all the comments in support of copy pasting code, and against DRY. I am going to need a real life example of when copy pasting is a good idea, because I've never seen it. Giving some &#x2
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by HumanDrivenDev 8y ago
Here I was continuing my naive existence, blissfuly unaware that REST was even dead!

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