RickHull

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   by RickHull 11y ago

   > these very profitable opportunities (Uber, airbnb, instacart, even private MOOC to replace education) are all responses to public infrastructure failures as our voting population becomes more and more self-centered and focused on indi
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   by RickHull 11y ago

   > Well, the fact my window manager is now intrinsically linked to my systems boot process strikes me as somewhat obscene. Gnome depends on logind, which is sensible. Yes, logind is part of a suite of system management tools which also
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   by RickHull 11y ago

   > These users are willing to do so many other illegal things, but the thought of being known as a pedophile or supporting pedophilia in any way, is completely abhorrent to them? I'm pretty sure the distinction is that voluntary tr
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   by RickHull 11y ago

   Ha, this is great, in a not-so-great but kinda-great way!
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   by RickHull 11y ago

   And I suppose you'd call the NBA racist for being black-dominated?
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   by RickHull 11y ago

   https://www.bogleheads.org/
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   by RickHull 11y ago

   https://github.com/orange-lang/orange/wiki/Language-Specific...
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   by RickHull 11y ago

   > Those details have nothing to do with the issue at hand, and hence my objection to the comparison. Huh? Reason.com got requests from law enforcement asking for email addresses and other private information. Reddit.com got reque
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   by RickHull 11y ago

   This doesn't help with dependency management. Changelogs, no matter how well written, cannot replace semver in e.g. Ruby / Rubygems / Bundler version constraints: https://robots.thoughtbot.com/a-healthy-bundl
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    by RickHull 11y ago

    Furthermore, assert is specifically intended to catch internal logic bugs which would still be present even after user input validation. i.e. logic bugs which are invariant upon user input
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    by RickHull 11y ago

    Good point. Though this particular pathological behavior could be controlled for fairly easily... others surely exist.
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    Ask HN: Reward users for early upvotes?

    8 points by RickHull 11y ago|9 comments
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    by RickHull 11y ago

    sorbits' point was in response to: clinta > Why do you need to rewrite? If a pull request is not completed, you can continue to push it and the PR is updated to pull the latest commit. sorbits is saying that no, you really should
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    by RickHull 11y ago

    The site used 100% of my old Core 2 Duo's CPU on Iceweasel / Jessie; brought the machine to its knees. LOL js.
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    by RickHull 11y ago

    Most curious would be whatever is happening in some alternate universe where up is down and left is right. But I'm guessing you knew that already. I think what is curious about urban planners being absent is that most people would ex
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    by RickHull 11y ago

    > here's a hint; a 150-year old facade isn't historic Eh, anything older than 1906 in SF is historic.
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    by RickHull 11y ago

    There is a long-term plan, I believe, to merge all necessary bundler features into rubygems. Much of this has already taken place, as rubygems has (generic) support for Gemfile and Gemfile.lock
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    by RickHull 11y ago

    This isn't from The New York Times Company . whois nytimes.cat
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    by RickHull 11y ago

    > Waze is more than information. Nope. In this respect (transportation routes), it is quite literally and merely information. It does not make promises.
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    by RickHull 11y ago

    Ruby version with multiple competing populations: https://github.com/rickhull/conway_deathmatch See also the elixir branch.
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    by RickHull 11y ago

    So Ben Smith lied, right? I'm surprised the Times piece doesn't highlight that fact. > An internal review by BuzzFeed last week found three instances when editors deleted posts after advertisers or employees from the company’s
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    by RickHull 11y ago

    For those of us haven't, can you make the downsides clear? (links or text reply would be fantastic)
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    FoundationDB is back(foundationdb.com)

    3 points by RickHull 12y ago|2 comments
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    by RickHull 12y ago

    An analogy might be made in terms of escape velocity. For the longest time, we hurled stones at targets in trees and towers. However, in the times leading up to WWII, we (Germans, mostly) began to sense that we could launch objects at the
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    by RickHull 12y ago

    Great comment. I have run into this problem exactly in inherited codebases at my last couple of jobs: > libraries that seem to be subconsciously written with the belief that returning an error is a failure on the part of the library an
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    by RickHull 12y ago

    Maybe a quip, but that dichotomy is so false it's not even funny. Git is tough to wrap one's head around at first. It's not intuitive unless one already has a deep background in this space. Hence, there are lots of attempt
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    by RickHull 12y ago

    It has to do whether the audience already has a solid theoretic / symbolic / formal background. Do they already think in terms of models? For graduate level physicists, this is almost surely the case. Most git tutorials are for
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    by RickHull 12y ago

    Since when does Fidging need character masking?
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    by RickHull 12y ago

    Hi Mike! Thought you might be interested in my Elixir impl, though not as featureful: https://github.com/rickhull/backoff/blob/master/lib/backoff.... Example usage: https://github.com&#x2
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    by RickHull 12y ago

    Stiglitz hates private markets. He always pushes for a larger public sector, praising the Venezuelan approach. https://www.google.com/search?q=stiglitz+venezuela