Ididntdothis

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by Ididntdothis 6y ago
I watched closely when Obamacare was debated. If Obama had only had had the courage to pound the table and tell his democratic senators to get in line, maybe Obamacare could actually have worked. Instead it turned into a half assed attempt
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by Ididntdothis 6y ago
Winning the popular vote means that a lot of people voted for that candidate. To me it indicates that it was a very close election.
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by Ididntdothis 6y ago
“So after 6 years at his position, Holder put restrictions on a certain type of civil asset forfeiture“ It’s the same with a lot of rules that Trump revoked and people are outraged about. A lot of them were put in at the end of the Obama ad
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by Ididntdothis 6y ago
“You do know that most Republicans feel the same way about Republican politicians” I know that. And that’s what gave us Trump. Both parties have to pretend doing something for the little guy while being dependent on pleasing their big money
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by Ididntdothis 6y ago
100% true. The amazing thing is that Clinton’s program of “I am a woman. I am not Trump. It’s my turn.” already won the popular vote. Now imagine if they had a candidate who people actually wanted to vote for.
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by Ididntdothis 6y ago
He didn’t even try.
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by Ididntdothis 6y ago
Traditionally the ruling class has voted against the first and hoped the second wouldn’t happen in their own lifetime.
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by Ididntdothis 6y ago
The Democrats are the spineless party. They have no courage to take a position. It’s all wishy-washy trying not to offend anybody (especially not their donors).
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by Ididntdothis 6y ago
I would vote libertarian if I didn’t have to buy into their vision to eliminate “burdensome “ regulations like environmental protections and their pipe dream of free market healthcare.
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by Ididntdothis 6y ago
Democrats haven’t had the courage to take a real position for a long time. Their program is basically to run as the slightly better Republicans. Obama wrote a really nice article a few days ago. But when he was running things he basically
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by Ididntdothis 6y ago
The problem is that change can take decades or centuries and the end result may not be better or even worse.
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by Ididntdothis 6y ago
If you could do it in 4 months i seems to be a relatively simple system. It's also not clear how your new code will adapt to changes in the next few years. It may end up in a big mess again.
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by Ididntdothis 6y ago
Just avoid touching anything complex :-)
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by Ididntdothis 6y ago
To some degree that's matter of luck. Sometimes all your assumptions are correct from the start and the requirements don't change much. But often a lot of things change over time until the first architecture doesn't fit anymo
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by Ididntdothis 6y ago
I am starting to wonder if this is what it means to run "government like a business". Corporations are basically authoritarian dictatorships that don't tolerate dissent or only within a narrow range and it seems that governm
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by Ididntdothis 6y ago
As a systems engineer you probably also know that building something complex from the ground up will have very buggy rollouts for the first versions :). Rewrites also have a pretty good history of bankrupting organizations. The current sys
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by Ididntdothis 6y ago
One thing i have noticed is that “security conscious” people are very good at criticizing things and pointing out flaws. But they are not as good at proposing clear and workable solutions that don’t add huge burden to users. It should be
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by Ididntdothis 6y ago
Very badly and inconsistent in my company ! We have a lot of people raising concerns about whatever you want to do. But not many actually have any contributions for how to do it right so every team rolls their own little solution. I will be
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by Ididntdothis 6y ago
Makes we wonder why li-ion AA batteries weigh so much less than Nimh rechargeable. What’s the difference?
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by Ididntdothis 6y ago
This makes sense to me. I think it’s really important to be able to predict what the software will do under certain circumstances. You can do that only if you have a pretty good concept of the thinking behind the code. I usually get nervous
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by Ididntdothis 6y ago
I don't want to excuse the abuses but I think in a sense the cops are the victims of bad politics and management. Obviously shooting innocent people is not acceptable but on the other hand they are being thrown into a bad situation and
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by Ididntdothis 6y ago
Isn't that a failure of the framework developers that not more stuff is in reusable libraries? When I did some Angular I thought that at 70% of the framework should be in libraries that are independent of the framework and reusable.
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by Ididntdothis 6y ago
They also get a nice pension and can retire early. At least in California being a cop is a pretty nice gig.
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by Ididntdothis 6y ago
An example is custom hardware not working as expected. To debug this you may need five different people on the line at the same time. If you do this in an async manner it will take days or weeks to resolve.
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by Ididntdothis 6y ago
I am sure there are legal reasons but if I had to set up a remote company I would probably try to restrict the timezones. My current company has dev teams in South America and India. They are all good people but dealing with India [13 hours
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by Ididntdothis 6y ago
I tend to agree. Seems dealing with expiration dates is just another burden without real security. If something goes wrong you have to revoke now and not wait for another year until the cert expires.
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by Ididntdothis 6y ago
It would be nice if churches were a moderating voice but they often do the opposite.
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by Ididntdothis 6y ago
It depends. Either iterate over the vector and delete the objects or just call clear(). Obviously you have to be sure that nobody else is accessing it at the same time.
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by Ididntdothis 6y ago
Would you have to keep track of these threads in Rust? I have done a lot of desktop development where you have to be aware of what happens during shutdown. Seems a lot of server guys write their code under the assumption that it will never
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by Ididntdothis 6y ago
"Indie" has been marketed into meaninglessness like "Agile", "Hacker" or "Mindfulness". These terms usually lose their meaning once they go mainstream and become cool.

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