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by Townley 7y ago
Speaking for myself (as an American), I’d find this problematic without a referendum of support from Puerto Rico. Self-determination is important, and selling land with an entire culture and population based solely on a balance sheet seems
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National Journal (Atlantic Media) | Senior Web Developer | Washington, DC | Onsite | https://nationaljournal.com Company Description: National Journal serves government affairs professionals with the intelligence and tools th
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It's definitely viable, but I'm not sure about it being the only way. Netflix shows that there's an appetite towards paying for content, and HBO furthers the idea while demonstrating how that same approach can be much more pr
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Is a gas tax really regressive? (asking not because I don't believe it, but because I've never seen this idea stated before). I can see how it's more likely to be regressive among car-owning lower income people (who devote a
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Swapping spark plugs for nanopulses could boost engine efficiency by 20%(arstechnica.com)
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As a Python dev getting into more Rust development, I'm surprised whenever I hear of this as a progression towards better tools, rather than a way of adding new tools into my belt. Django/Flask are great tools for spinning up a CR
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Whenever my normally-silent macbook needs to fire on its fans (compilation, DB restores, or any mid-sized 3D render) I love the audible reminder of how unfathomably hard it's working, and (by extension) what cool stuff is going on behi
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Why Your Local Weather Forecast Is Going to Get Better(npr.org)
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Optimism is absolutely a double-edged sword. It can keep you motivated during difficult tasks, make you a better/more positive teammate, and encourage you to look for the better ways of doing things that optimists, by definition, belie
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It's fascinating how after periods of stability and chaos, the ant eventually forms "highways" of regular behavior. Aside from fluid motion/sand in an hour glass, I can't think of many analogies in everyday life for
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by Townley 7y ago
I think so. Among other reasons, those ads were deliberately included in the app by the people who created it (and now have explicit responsibility over the content of those ads). Since parents trusted those creators enough to give the app
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by Townley 7y ago
Acknowledging the risk of an echo chamber, maybe the ubiquity of these books means that they're tools of the trade. Knowing how to build a great software product/business is a useful skill set that these books teach well. From the
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by Townley 7y ago
It could be useful in a scenario where you trust the service provider to provide a legitimate encryption implementation. If I trust Eve to provide an E2E service, in the same way I trust Whatsapp (not a given by any means), then an open sou
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Scientists Modify Viruses with Crispr to Create New Weapon Against Superbugs(npr.org)
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by Townley 7y ago
That's not my impression at all. To me, it deepens their accomplishment by acknowledging the headwinds faced by women in tech. Your proposed headline would be a fine lead-in to an article solely about a research accomplishment, but thi
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by Townley 7y ago
The intellectual successor to This Old House's take on the entertainment potential of skilled craftsmanship probably isn't drama-filled reality TV, but rather YouTube channels like that of Paul Sellers. My drama-detesting father-i
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by Townley 7y ago
I'm a senior developer, and my wife is a corporate recruiter (at another company). The frustration both parties experience with the hiring process is palpable, and leads to some of our most eye-opening dinner table conversations. On th
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I hadn't: I jumped the gun thinking that you were sharing 10 minutes of anti-vaccination propaganda, and offering up ammunition for people who think "Well those guys over there say otherwise, so who knows?" My apologies for t
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by Townley 7y ago
This is an unhelpful contribution to the narrative that vaccines are unsafe. Consumers who don't have time or medical training shouldn't feel uneasy about vaccination except in unlikely circumstances (in which case they're mu
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My favorite idea here is how it's a developer's job to articulate the issues with a client's code base to the clients themselves. Some clients just want the problem to go away, but smart ones recognize the importance of a hig
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by Townley 7y ago
I didn't follow how this relates to docker. Does running the pydocenv command modify dependencies stored in the Dockerfile (or a file that pydocenv references within a "pip install -r ___" command inside the Dockerfile)? It s
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What's been your feeling on generalizing the idea to other products? There's certainly value in being The Vidalia Man , having connections within the industry, and owning the domain. At the same time, the lessons you've lear
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by Townley 7y ago
Talk to your supervisors about how you aren't excited about your tasks at work. If there's nothing they can do about it, quit. Find something that excites you. A family friend of mine used to play violin in a traveling rock band.
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Scientists Restore Some Function in the Brains of Dead Pigs(npr.org)
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by Townley 8y ago
> Beyond that, keep in mind that while donations keep Linux Mint and other distributions afloat, the occasional message of appreciation can be encouraging, and at times personally invaluable. Exactly. This issue isn't just something
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by Townley 8y ago
Mind helping me understand this a bit better? The link mentions that to produce a HDCP-compatible device (eg one that has an HDMI port) it needs to be licensed, pay an annual fee, and make promises to frustrate DRM-mitigation efforts. If I
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I'm unfortunately even more conflicted than that. I can't answer the question "If someone wants to take my crummy code and commercialize it, am I okay with that?" If it's a kid in his basement with an amazing idea,
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by Townley 8y ago
I recently wrote a piece of software and wanted to make it open source. GitHub's helpful dropdown of license choices gave me more pause than I expected as I struggled to choose between MIT and GPL. "I definitely want someone to be
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Wow Airline Ceases Operations(npr.org)
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