LaGrange

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by LaGrange 8y ago
One thing is clear: you have lots of experience in _burrowing_.
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by LaGrange 8y ago
That doesn't sound like an explanations for the marks. I even gave you a hint why.
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by LaGrange 8y ago
I mean, we all know that our Aztec oppressors had iron pickaxes in 10000BC.
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by LaGrange 8y ago
> Yes, I have a better explanation for the marks. One that does not involve magical tetrapods digging in narrow spaces with unlimited degrees of rotation in the shoulder. Truly, please provide it to me. I hope you've come up with so
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by LaGrange 8y ago
The incompatibility between the Windows and *nix filesystems is doing that to me. Running Vagrant or Docker based development on Windows turns quickly to nightmare, not because the tools are bad, but because mapping your dev directory to th
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by LaGrange 8y ago
> Besides, all webapps are rebuilt in a 3-5 year cycle anyway so it really doesn't matter. And I thought places I worked at tended to be terrible :/
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by LaGrange 8y ago
Why would you think it's rare? I've seen places running multiple projects were developers were barely aware that the sysadmins gave everyone an IPv6 address, and therefore the rate limiting has to be IPv6-aware. It's trivial
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by LaGrange 8y ago
As long as it's not opt-in, I'm pretty sure it is a breach. I really hope EU gets its act together on this before the law becomes functionally dead.
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by LaGrange 8y ago
> I know it's fashionable and popular to hate on JS. I've been in the industry for almost 20 years now. I do not remember a time when it wasn't popular to hate JS. If it's a fashion, it's a fashion that literally
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by LaGrange 8y ago
Eh, web assembly is coming so that we can have a _proper_ mess in the browsers :)
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by LaGrange 8y ago
> That's what I'm building with Moonlight [1]: a distributed, contractor workforce. Look, Snow Crash is not a utopia.
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by LaGrange 8y ago
Funnily enough, even a 5S can, in fact, change that. For all its terribleness, it doesn't seem to mess with reader view at all .
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by LaGrange 8y ago
In the US there are many groups that feel safe around the police as well — to the point where using white people to shield black folk from cops isn't unusual. In Scandinavia, the state was involved in forced sterilisations. I truly dou
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by LaGrange 8y ago
> It's not clear to me how DHH gets the money for his auto racing hobby. Judging by his clothes, the answer seems to be "sponsors." And, looking at the things like race tracks and racing schools, it seems like entering aut
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by LaGrange 8y ago
Here's what a publisher is for: to shoulder the risk. They have (presumably) umpteen different games (or whatever they're publishing) going, not only they can (if they do they job right) shoulder a few flops, and can hire marketin
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by LaGrange 8y ago
Here, the fulltext: http://web.cs.ucdavis.edu/~filkov/papers/lang_github.pdf Note, in particular, that there's a high confidence, true, but the claim is "picking language X reduces the chances for bugs b
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by LaGrange 8y ago
Curl lets you keep a cookie jar around, for example, so yes, it's pretty simple. It's also a terrible idea, but doesn't seem to stop people.
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by LaGrange 8y ago
It's fairly common to automate that stuff away, and not just for Oracle. For example, if agreeing to TOS was neccessary, Let's Encrypt could no longer be "totally automated". Therefore certbot has an "--agree-tos&q
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by LaGrange 8y ago
> How is that not clear? You'd think it's clear, and yet I've joined projects where software with such terms was included in production builds because "it was downloaded with npm so it's open source."
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by LaGrange 8y ago
> My impression was more "All models are wrong, therefore all models are valid". That's a misrepresentation. It's actually fairly interesting where that misrepresentation originated from (hint: it was propaganda from
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by LaGrange 8y ago
That's pretty much the opposite of postmodernism actually is.
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by LaGrange 8y ago
It's much less huge on the non-amp site: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-09-07/tesla-chi... — I got a hunch that's what I'm seeing b/c that image was incredibly blurry. I have
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by LaGrange 8y ago
I think calling cars that randomly catch fire and drive into walls "best" says more about the critics than the cars.
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by LaGrange 8y ago
> Would we rather that Musk had just never founded Tesla and Space Yes, while SpaceX has _something_ going for it — though not as much as people like to think, Tesla isn't anything to write home about. Nissan is the market leader in
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by LaGrange 8y ago
The original autor outright dismissed the entire class of threats, which, while they may seem "lesser," are also far more common. And it's not just abusive exes, not even every state actor has access to an NSA. Neither Signal
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by LaGrange 8y ago
"If Edward Snowden and Bruce Schneier are going to spout the virtues of the app, I expect it to actually be secure when it matters - when vulnerable people using it to encrypt sensitive communications are targeted by smart and powerful
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by LaGrange 8y ago
> Decimal IS PART OF THE STANDARD LIBRARY!!!! It's not a builtin. If it's like the one place I've seen COBOL in, there's a lot of batch processing. When she talks about performance of the "import" statemen
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by LaGrange 8y ago
> What walkways? Well Fred made a good case for walkways and they’re going to add to the bridge’s appeal. That "walkways on a bridge" are an outlandish idea tells you all you really need to know about the article and the author
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by LaGrange 8y ago
Naw, it's fine. "Leftist," used as an insult, was invented by actual bolsheviks to insult left-coms, mostly anarchists. It's a term many of us wear with pride.
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by LaGrange 8y ago
Yes, that's why one should donate to them.

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