Lionsion

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by Lionsion 8y ago
> I believe Eclipse has it's own Java compiler, so it was probably a compiler feature. It does, and it's much better than javac for IDE use cases. That's one of my biggest pain points with IntelliJ. They've tried to
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by Lionsion 8y ago
> I find complexity to Intellij a similar level. Yeah. I recently had to use IntelliJ after a long period of using Eclipse. IntelliJ does some things better and some things worse, but IMHO, its strengths weren't compelling to over
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by Lionsion 8y ago
> It was a the era of "what should I name my cat?" A lot of those links 404 for me, but a lot of that stuff could have been taken care of by being better at defining what was on and off topic, e.g. it's a site for subjecti
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by Lionsion 8y ago
> “Television delivers people” was not about data privacy. It was about the medium’s impact on culture and politics. Serra and Schoolman’s critique was that TV placed the interests of advertisers over those of viewers in a subtle but dee
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by Lionsion 8y ago
> As the crud started piling up You'll have to be more specific about what that "crud" is, as SO's culture seems to have a tendency to reclassify the baby as dirt and throw him out with the bathwater. > the options
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by Lionsion 8y ago
> "What document backend to use with Drupal?" is a question whose answers are in constant flux. It is a bad match for and Authoritative Language Compendium. But it's also the kinds of thing people wonder about, it's a
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by Lionsion 8y ago
Mine too. As a result I ask a question on SO as a last resort, and spend more time preemptively addressing those kinds of unhelpful responses. It always seems like I have to make at least 3 exasperated comments to try to keep the question
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by Lionsion 8y ago
> as well as Hillary Clinton's use of a personal email server, as a manifestation of a problem with the way we do security: when IT security restrictions are a pain in the butt to comply with, people are going to try to get around t
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by Lionsion 8y ago
> I just don't understand why some people see them as any different. Facebook has been far more careless and scandal prone, and it's business model (ads targeted to a person) requires a much more intimate invasion of privac
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by Lionsion 8y ago
In all those examples of communities, the members have real channels of influence over the rules, they are not merely subject ones handed down by a distant authority. HOAs have boards that members can petition or join, etc.
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by Lionsion 8y ago
It's sort of like the idea from Peopleware : a manager cannot create the social bonds that make a real team, but he can destroy them. You could generalize that to: a leader can't create a community, but he can destroy one.
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by Lionsion 8y ago
> Did we continue to stay in support of them knowing this or did we later condemn them for their use of chemical weapons? The US fought its own war against Iraq just three years after the time period this article focuses on. I'm pr
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by Lionsion 8y ago
Some other interesting facts from the article: > Also, the [CIA] noted that the Soviet Union had previously used chemical agents in Afghanistan and suffered few repercussions. > Top CIA officials ... were told ... that Iraq was about
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by Lionsion 8y ago
> The fact is, if it hasn’t been observed by then it’s probably not happening at all. That's a big assumption. The metrics we're shown might not have enough resolution to show the effects of 10-12 days of scandal. The fallout
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by Lionsion 8y ago
> dunno, seems simpler to me. Cheeky. You're missing the point. When you change between systems you're going to have to do conversions like: 1 mile is ~1.61 kilometers 1 foot is 0.3048 meters 1 gallon is ~3.79 liters Doesn&#x2
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by Lionsion 8y ago
> My main takeaway from this is that #deleteFacebook has been a flash in the pan-- their active user count is still increasing across all regions I don't know. Think I've observed a general drop in engagement in my relatively
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by Lionsion 8y ago
> I wish we would. Conversions would be so much simpler. Not really, and you'd have to do it more frequently. The US already has a standard, and a lot of existing stuff built to it. Adopting the metric system isn't going to c
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by Lionsion 8y ago
Didn't the US auto industry make this same mistake before? Gas was ~$1/gallon in the 90s, so they neglected everything to focus on the (truck-based) SUVs that were then popular and profitable. Then gas prices went up and they w
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by Lionsion 8y ago
I'm glad they were still selling the old version, which the old keyboard and old USB ports, when my girlfriend and I got ours.
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How Shareholder Primacy Hurts Jobs and Wages(lpeblog.org)
2 points by Lionsion 8y ago|0 comments
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by Lionsion 8y ago
This video is apparently not from the surface, but from several kilometers away: >> Ross James Walker @rossjwalker96: Is rosetta moving on the surface here? Can't work out how the perspective seems to move to the right? > Mas
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by Lionsion 8y ago
> Unlike its peers, Vanguard is owned by its funds — and ultimately its investors — so as money rushes in, expenses are persistently reduced, resulting in perpetual savings for the legions of Vanguard clients. One thing I really like abo
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Facebook Said to Create Censorship Tool to Get Back into China (2016)(nytimes.com)
2 points by Lionsion 8y ago|1 comments
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Academic behind Cambridge Analytica tells MPs that Facebook’s outrage is hollow(theguardian.com)
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by Lionsion 8y ago
> even in terms of sheer dopamine, i find it rewarding to see a bunch of new notifications at once. to me push notifications feel more like an annoyance than a dopamine hit. The social networks understand this. I've read that they
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by Lionsion 8y ago
> To a very average proletarian parent in Russia or China, and likely in much of the world outside of nanny state countries, it is glaringly obvious that Goog runs an equivalent of a slot machine business. And they take a 100% right cons
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by Lionsion 8y ago
> I lived in the time when slot machines were standing on the street in the open in Russia, and yes, mentally infirm people were wasting themselves on them. Normal people not. Plenty of "normal people," even intelligent ones, a
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by Lionsion 8y ago
> The issue is that people have differing opinions as to what those essential apps should be... I'd imagine that it's hard to get consensus around what you need. I don't think so. There's already a consensus around t
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by Lionsion 8y ago
> As somebody who had an always on internet connected PDA back it times when most PDAs were black and white, I can say it will eventually pass. I don't think the software and cultural environment was that same for those devices as i
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by Lionsion 8y ago
> I've upgraded to the original Nokia 3310 years ago, and it does the trick. I wish there was a "dumbphone" that supported and extremely small number of utility apps, like Signal.

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