MetaCosm

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by MetaCosm 12y ago
... having channels doesn't have anything to do with Reactive Programming ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reactive_programming ). The implication that channels were added to Go to support it seems dishonest. There i
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by MetaCosm 12y ago
It is a problem, on one set of packages that are a part of a rather large distro, not sure I would consider it a show stopper, just an annoyance. Yes, Python is a mess. But, Python has been a horrific mess for years now, on multiple distro
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by MetaCosm 12y ago
This feels to be like an appeal to magic. We are simply animals, many pets live long healthy lives on single sources. Soylent doesn't have to be magically perfect, it just has to be better than the mass manufactured foods we are curr
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by MetaCosm 12y ago
Most of your review seemed to be utilitarian and useful for a second edition. That is awesome, the way you structured it means the author could use a ton of it, and it gives readers specific things to be aware of. Sincere thanks for that.
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by MetaCosm 12y ago
Bullshit, of course we can (and do) have it both ways. Look at interracial marriage. If you are actively trying to ban interracial marriage, we CAN AND WILL run your ass out on a rail so you can't be CEO. If on the other-hand -- you t
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by MetaCosm 12y ago
Three major points. 1. Eich's action had no complexity or other goals. Eich supported something where the SINGULAR purpose was to strip a class of people of a right they had only recently acquired. There was no complexity to it, no s
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by MetaCosm 12y ago
This is only one step in the chain. As sad as is it -- it gets much worse on the far ends of the process. Collection of raw materials and disposal (read: "recycling") of old electronics are much worse. Years ago me and some frie
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by MetaCosm 12y ago
Because TDD is the "new" magic bullet, replacing all the magic bullets before it. Also, TDD works great retroactively on large open source projects with vast histories.
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by MetaCosm 12y ago
Yeah, me too. It really takes a uniquely terrible UI for me to just give up on it.
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by MetaCosm 12y ago
I have some honest questions. Do you have any sort of social disorder? On the spectrum, etc? How would you assess your cost versus value at the company? How much extra money (in savings or profits) do you think you generated for the compa
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by MetaCosm 13y ago
Exploit hording is counter-productive. Exploits only have value when used, they have no defensive or other value. Their half-life is not in your control, at any time they can stop being usable. Therefore the best course of action when yo
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by MetaCosm 13y ago
> Losing your job for being gay is different from losing your job for opposing gay marriage. Unlike homosexuality, opposition to same-sex marriage is a choice, and it directly limits the rights of other people. He wrote an entire article
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by MetaCosm 13y ago
> no one should be made to apologize for a belief that half of the country... What? If the "belief" was the material support of a law to strip a class of people of rights -- yes, absolutely they should apologize... at the very
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by MetaCosm 13y ago
What nonsense. You want a dialogue with every racist, sexist and homophobic jerk in the country, you are welcome to it -- and good luck. Western society by and large has decided that certain issues are no longer up for "dialogue"
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by MetaCosm 13y ago
> The reactions outside and inside of the company showed very little tolerance ... The key to your nonsense idea that wanting to striping an entire class of people of a right (and materially supporting the effort) is simply a "disse
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by MetaCosm 13y ago
As someone who listens to podcasts, this actually excites me a bit.
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by MetaCosm 13y ago
Then they punt and centralize.
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by MetaCosm 13y ago
Yep. There is a reason people abstract things. Sometimes people get a new toy and just go a bit overboard, want that one tool to solve all their problems. Don't get me wrong, CouchDB is awesome, but it isn't the answer to everyt
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by MetaCosm 13y ago
He actively gave money to an issue with a single goal of limiting the rights of others. He then didn't repudiate the views, after being given many chances to do so and encourage to do so by the staff at Mozilla. I don't think peo
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by MetaCosm 13y ago
The speed at which the "public" comes to a majority (and overwhelming trajectory) behind an issue is faster and faster due in part due to Eich's technology. 61% of young Republican leaning voters support marriage equality, th
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by MetaCosm 13y ago
Then we simply disagree, actively pursuing hateful legislation is something I am not compelled to overlook. This is something he did in public, on the record, with full knowledge. If someone actively pushed for racist laws, I would want t
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by MetaCosm 13y ago
Would you be fine if Eich had donated $1000 to an group trying to stop inter-racial marriage? Inter-racial marriage issues are not some far past thing, "In October 2009, Keith Bardwell, a Louisiana justice of the peace, refused to iss
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by MetaCosm 13y ago
It is the free rider problem made manifest, which is great for free riders until the system breaks down. The US system is slowly making its way towards breaking down -- with no one footing the bill, what will be the impact on research? You
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by MetaCosm 13y ago
To be fair, the military did learn the weight / strain lesson fairly well in the 50s and 60s. A lot of current research is to decrease "operating strain". This includes like auto-adapting auditory / visual restrainers,
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by MetaCosm 13y ago
61% of young Republican leaning Americans (18-29) support marriage equality. The issue is settled, the trajectory is clear, it is just a few years until it will all be shaken out and boring and stats about people being against gay marriage
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by MetaCosm 13y ago
You are free to say what you want, and free to deal with the repercussions. Everything can be framed as having two sides, but society at a certain point decides there isn't two sides. The "pro-interracial-marriage" side is t
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by MetaCosm 13y ago
http://www.proofofexistence.com/about -- blockchain version. Do banks have to maintain the "Comments" by law?
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by MetaCosm 13y ago
It is fairly simple -- you can be on the wrong side of an issue, that is fine. But, if you want to survive once public opinions shifts, you gotta shift too. Lots of politicians where against desegregation, when it was an "issue"
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by MetaCosm 13y ago
At some point, all sorts of horrible "opinions" where just that -- opinions. Society shifts and those opinions become unacceptable and revolting. The political landscape has shifted a lot in 6 years, and being against marriage e
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by MetaCosm 13y ago
Was Prop 8 about the Christian definition of marriage? It wasn't, it was about the LEGAL government regulated institution of marriage. Marriages by the way pre-date Christianity. It isn't two groups talking past each other, it i

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