PopsiclePete

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by PopsiclePete 8y ago
>What you are suggesting is called "blacklisting." You may be interested to learn that in many states it is illegal behavior itself. Sadly, impossible to prove. I can choose to not hire for you a plethora of reasons. I can just
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by PopsiclePete 8y ago
The DeVaul guy from Division X actually made sexual advances towards someone being interviewed for a job where he'd have been the manager. Has called it "an error in judgement". I'm sorry, DeVaul, but that's not
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by PopsiclePete 8y ago
I have a Dell XPS dev edition that I tinker with, installing various linux distros and trying stuff and breaking it and fixing it. I do it because it's fun. My phone has to be 100% rock-solid. I do lots of actual important stuff on it.
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by PopsiclePete 8y ago
Institute a special tax. Election Tax. 0.001% of all corporate/personal income. No exceptions, no write-offs. Once every X years, a web-site, a tv station, and a radio station come online. The money collection from the tax is then used
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by PopsiclePete 8y ago
This "papers written by people 300 years ago and their interpretations are infallible" thing is a really common POV in America. People make mistakes. It's ok to correct them. As brilliant as the Founding Fathers are, they did
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by PopsiclePete 8y ago
One thing I struggle to understand is how common lisp deals with the "modern" multi-core world. Not just "async i/o" - that's just the tip of the iceberg - but concurrency in general. I know that common lisp (t
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by PopsiclePete 8y ago
>As the encryption keys are located inside the T2 chip, if that chips breaks, all data on the SSD is lost. All my "valuable" stuff is on github, or google drive, or icloud photos or something-or-other. My local drive is really
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by PopsiclePete 8y ago
What makes lazyness difficult for me isn't the mental model, it's the fact that when you get an error, the error is far from its call-site, and the truly helpful information that I could've had in the stack trace is gone. I
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by PopsiclePete 8y ago
I don't think it's hard to read, I think it's extremely difficult to analyze and almost impossible to debug. Lazyness is one of those "cool" features, IMO, that have more cons than pros. Yes, certain algorithms look
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by PopsiclePete 8y ago
OpenStack screams “enterprise” and “architects” at the top of its lungs and I for one want nothing to do with that crap. I know exactly what it is just by looking at it - a hobbled together patchwork soup of poorly documented and half-aband
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by PopsiclePete 8y ago
"Livability", in America, doesn't really exist as a concept. I get blank stares from most people. They all want a single-family 2000 sq. ft. home somewhere in a suburb that will doom them to be behind the wheel of a car for e
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by PopsiclePete 8y ago
So many "taxpayers" are concerned about a few hundred million here and there that could bring benefit to the entire human race but never blink an eye when the bloated military budget grows by a few hundred billion....
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by PopsiclePete 8y ago
The Moon may be just a stepping stone to greater things. Maybe we "mine" on it, maybe we use it to more efficiently send things into orbit, maybe just tourism, who knows? You can't possibly know what possibilities there exist
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by PopsiclePete 8y ago
>The computer belongs to the User. It's sole purpose is to compute, FOR THE USER. If your software is running on someone else's machine. And you want data exfiltrated back to you, normatively speaking, you should ANNOUNCE your
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by PopsiclePete 8y ago
X has been dying for possibly longer than Apple. Which is quite impressive.
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by PopsiclePete 8y ago
Considering that Go by default compiles to a static, native executable with close-to-0 system dependencies, I can't imagine why you'd hate it. I deploy Go code all day long to various clusters consisting of hundreds of machines, a
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by PopsiclePete 8y ago
Don't hate the player, hate the game. It's how the entire economic model is setup. For a publicly traded company, stock price matters above all else. Stock goes down, people lose their jobs. PR departments' job consists of da
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by PopsiclePete 8y ago
>To see the media recently reporting “slave labor” in Texas border camps is the height of hypocrisy. Why is it hypocritical? Just because the Chinese are worse doesn't excuse the US. Nor should the US use China as a basis for compar
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by PopsiclePete 8y ago
>"Can't understand their accent" _is_ discriminatory. Please don't ever recommend against a candidate for that. Sorry, I disagree. A team is more than just a bunch of automatons punching the keyboard. If I can't
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by PopsiclePete 8y ago
Denmark is #2 on the list of "least corrupt countries". It's also very high on the "great place to do business" list, it also does really well when it comes to social mobility. Basically, all the things the US used
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by PopsiclePete 8y ago
How do you "prove" faith? You can't prove I'm not a serious Pastafarian, much like I can't prove you don't really believe in Jesus?
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by PopsiclePete 8y ago
Well, decertifying them might not be in the best interests of those potentially benefitting from the current situation. The US is pretty unique in the world in the sense that you can effectively have a minority party hold on to power beca
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by PopsiclePete 8y ago
How are their mobile offerings? Would be nice for Intel to get some competition in that space!
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by PopsiclePete 8y ago
This looks amazing, honestly. I can't believe that such tools are now given away for free and open source. I remember Unity was stuck with a very old version of C# (due to Mono licensing issues), Xenko looks to be C# 7.0 from the groun
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by PopsiclePete 8y ago
Since when is "Government efficiency" supposed to be such an important goal in itself? Let me guess - "It should be run like a corporation!" No, it really, really shouldn't.
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by PopsiclePete 8y ago
Better not buy a new high-end car built after 2010 or so then. You should see how difficult they make it to work on them.
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by PopsiclePete 8y ago
I have 2 Android phones and a couple of IPhones lying around as well. One of the Androids, using sweet-cookie-icecream-sundae whatever version, has the camera app crash on startup pretty regularly. I'm sure "I'm a fool"
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by PopsiclePete 8y ago
That sounds like a temporary problem to me - not anything fundamentally wrong that can't be fixed. Apartment complexes where I live (Denver metro) are already competing with each other on features like "bike/snowboard fix-up
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by PopsiclePete 8y ago
I believe it's for the exact same reason other Big Companies are incapable of delivering anything "exciting": 1. Soulless design-by-committee. 2. Complex internal politics - "Cool idea you have there with the Prius, but
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by PopsiclePete 8y ago
There is no work done by anyone on the core Go team on generics, you are correct. An open github issue means diddly squat. It's tagged as "language change" and "Go 2". There is no Go 2 being planned/worked on

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