LeonRobrotsky

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by LeonRobrotsky 12y ago
Sorry- my remark wasn't intended as a shill accusation, but re-reading it now, I see it. It was tongue-in-cheek, I enjoyed the positivity in your original comment.
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by LeonRobrotsky 12y ago
> is this a joke? No, just written by Zed Shaw. Honest mistake though.
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by LeonRobrotsky 12y ago
Making vague but supportive comments on HN.
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by LeonRobrotsky 12y ago
> You just have to be okay with doing things that basically add no value to anything. So, most silicon valley startups?
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by LeonRobrotsky 12y ago
I've been very thankful that I couldn't navigate some websites drunk in the past.
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by LeonRobrotsky 12y ago
For anyone else that's curious, cement is mixed with water and some sort of aggregate to make concrete.
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by LeonRobrotsky 12y ago
You appear to be correct- my remark was based on what I guess is out of date experience.
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by LeonRobrotsky 12y ago
> Or maybe I've just been unlucky/incompetent. Every lint extension I've seen seems to drag a full install of whatever the popular implementation of the language is.
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by LeonRobrotsky 12y ago
Personal projects, coursework in school. I also have zero doubt that people have been using it for professional purposes in violation of the license.
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by LeonRobrotsky 12y ago
To an extent, having the source available is a good solution.
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by LeonRobrotsky 12y ago
I thought refining of oil was mostly separating the different hydrocarbons- or can gasoline be used to make plastic?
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by LeonRobrotsky 12y ago
> then this analogy might be slightly more relevant Agreed, football is worse: we actively encourage and reward modern day gladiatorial combat such that otherwise brilliant people feel the need to participate. NFL players publishing pape
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by LeonRobrotsky 12y ago
Heroin destroys lives, dragging not just the users, but those around them down. Similar to TBI.
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by LeonRobrotsky 12y ago
M-F I take one 200mg tablet of caffeine in the morning. I also quit getting blackout drunk 4-5 nights a week.
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by LeonRobrotsky 12y ago
https://system76.com/
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by LeonRobrotsky 12y ago
> People seem less annoyed by that though Probably because Shakespeare was white.
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by LeonRobrotsky 12y ago
I remember having very heated debates about using Option Explicit and the use of Variant in assorted AIM programming chat rooms. Fun times.
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by LeonRobrotsky 12y ago
> Nobody is seriously going to fork this and create their own port of MSBuild No, but at least I can try and fix any bugs I come across instead of hoping MS takes my complaint seriously.
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by LeonRobrotsky 12y ago
> Is that really that unusual? In the US, yes. Or, at the very least, at my high school. The other classes had weekly vocab quizes and grammar tests, with English instruction, whereas we learned German... in German.
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by LeonRobrotsky 12y ago
> teach them additional languages when they're teenagers, instead of having done the bulk of the work when they were babies My (semi-related) reply here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9226046 My instructor ch
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by LeonRobrotsky 12y ago
> Given the right environment, the brain seems to adapt. In high school, I had a German immigrant, fresh out of college as an instructor. The moment one stepped into that classroom to the moment one stepped out, nothing but German. Hell,
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by LeonRobrotsky 12y ago
Just look on AbeBooks: http://www.abebooks.com/servlet/SearchResults?isbn=978812032...
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by LeonRobrotsky 12y ago
Such as?
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by LeonRobrotsky 12y ago
Nazis had state sponsored scientific research and a national healthcare system (with certain, obvious exclusions). It just seems nonsensically reductive to go 'the nazis did it! therefore its bad!'
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by LeonRobrotsky 12y ago
This is a fairly standard 6th grade essay.