TooBrokeToBeg

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by TooBrokeToBeg 8y ago
Give it time. MS does what it has always done to competitors (even to MS internal products) that it acquires. Takes awhile sometimes and you younger kid will get to live through what others already have.
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by TooBrokeToBeg 8y ago
An acquisition would mean the inevitable split of support between the MS toolchain and the OS toolchain, which would eventually be left to die. Today's MS is no different than yesterday's MS.
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by TooBrokeToBeg 8y ago
> Earmarks are orthogonal to corruption. Only in theory. In practice, they are 1:1 - You initiate pork A here, I help you add pork B there. You own pork B company, I own pork A. We both win money, forget the constituents.
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by TooBrokeToBeg 8y ago
> “Special interests” is just code for “people whose opinions I don’t like.” It's code for above-the-median-wealthy, enough to influence opinion outside of the populist opinion. Why you choose to go partisan over a systemic issue,
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by TooBrokeToBeg 8y ago
> So what are you saying here? You only hire great programmers? I'm not sure how you could have confused what was posted, to be interpreted that way.
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by TooBrokeToBeg 8y ago
My initial thoughts...of course Scrum disempowers developers but that's not what the article is about. I see a hyperbolic title and a bunch of complaints about how "in the real world" things work differently (entrenched oppos
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by TooBrokeToBeg 8y ago
> But there's a lot of systems out there that download code, inspect a text, YAML, Dockerfile, or whatever kind of file, then sandbox it to run it. I've never seen this. It smacks of terrible practice that would not last long i
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by TooBrokeToBeg 8y ago
I've found it perfectly serviceable. Especially when youtube is blocked by corporate policy.
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by TooBrokeToBeg 8y ago
NPM is still not secure. So dangerous, many companies run their own NPM repos with analyzed packages.
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by TooBrokeToBeg 8y ago
I've found that Fountain Soda (in addition to not containing huge amounts of tooth destroying acid) does not make me hungry and does seem to fill me. I've been a single meal a day guy for decades (as well as a soda fan). The switc
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by TooBrokeToBeg 8y ago
Also the Nestle and other commercial water rights holders from the 1800s who siphon the southbound rivers dry, flowing toward Los Angeles. Good thing they just bottle that water and sell it back.
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by TooBrokeToBeg 8y ago
Arguing about the progress in philosophy is sophistry. There's been plenty of progress that has affected lots of lives. It just doesn't happen to fit someone else's narratives or views.
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by TooBrokeToBeg 8y ago
> Regulations exist so that entrenched players can use the lethal force of government to block new challengers. That's not how it appears to everyone. That's often how they are crafted, but this is not a problem with the concep
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by TooBrokeToBeg 8y ago
it's more complicated than that. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2644251/Un-scrambl... Not all eggs are treated the same. I don't see how this study accounts for what kind of eggs or how they h
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by TooBrokeToBeg 8y ago
I would suggest PHP, then Java, then Erlang. These are useful skills that will carry you forward for the next 20 years.
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by TooBrokeToBeg 8y ago
> That is an interesting response. It's a terrible idea. Writing and running scripts from Scala is incompatible with certain actions. Specifically provisioning and kernel configuration. There are lots of tasks that Scala is a bad to
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by TooBrokeToBeg 8y ago
> http://harmful.cat-v.org/software/ruby/rails/is-a-ghetto > https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2016/02/will-t... > https://jelastic.com&#x2
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by TooBrokeToBeg 8y ago
First opportunity is always something to capitalize on.
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by TooBrokeToBeg 8y ago
> So this idea that they're part of "every engineer's" day-to-day work is, quite simply, disconnected from reality. > Like these things known as "pen" and "paper", for example. When you need to
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by TooBrokeToBeg 8y ago
America seems fragile.
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by TooBrokeToBeg 8y ago
> So your logic could be applied to GPG and argued that it is broken. That's a pretty common claim and has been for a long time. It's not just verification of identity, but verification of integrity that the encryption is suppo