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by Volpe 15y ago
I explained, there are more drivers than 'success' in the real world, that are not simulated by grades. The example in the OP illustrates a 'crash' of a socialist system, by saying everyone gets Fs, if you convert that into money, you are t
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by Volpe 15y ago
It's a strawman arguement. You can't substitute grades for money. Because there are more drivers than just 'success' in "the real world" In reality... The people who were getting "F"s would be earning no money, so they'd all starve, their
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by Volpe 15y ago
How is that any different to Adobe releasing a patch? Chrome updates a darn site more often than Adobe products do. So surely this is a problem regardless who releases?
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by Volpe 15y ago
No, he is right. It is html5 (or commonly referred to as such). html5 is used to describe more than just the markup, it is also used to describe, location services, localStorage, etc.
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by Volpe 15y ago
Is this not similar to "Free-to-Air" TV stations promoting their own shows rather than competing stations shows. Seems identical given the fact they both generate revenue from advertising, are "anti-competitive", and free (to the viewer of
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by Volpe 15y ago
Is that problem really caused by compulsory voting, or more Australian society in general? Australia was sporting the White Australia policy up until about 30 years ago, and still requires citizen applicants to pass an 'English' test. It's
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by Volpe 15y ago
> ...robbing the people who have made the wealth wealth for themselves... How about I flip that then, the wealthy robbed the people to generate their wealth, and then complain when they have to give (some of) it back. It is very rare to
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by Volpe 15y ago
> This seems to refer to equal starting points, equal liberties, and equal opportunities So you are saying all americans have equal starting points/liberties/opportunities?
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by Volpe 15y ago
I (being optimistic) would like to believe most people want to be productive. So as long as you make it 'easy' to be productive, then the problem should be minimal. You can always find fringe cases where people are undeserving and insultin
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by Volpe 15y ago
I think it's important to distinguish Philsophy from Critical thinking here. The practical skill Philsophy teaches is critical thinking and logical reasoning. But you don't need philosophy to learn either of those. "general skill at persua
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by Volpe 15y ago
There are democratic countries where it is compulsory to vote . This of course brings it's own set of problems...
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by Volpe 15y ago
I'll take the slightly more extreme point of view (that will probably be shot down as "pinko-commie bullshit") You should pay as much tax as is required to lift the rest of society to (or close to) your level (of lifestyle/income etc). (obv
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by Volpe 15y ago
> Good architects can code... Is synonymous with good developers are also good architects. I think (if I can articulate my thoughts correctly) my meaning was, that there is an obsession with breaking tasks into specific roles that are t
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by Volpe 15y ago
top 5% you are earning more than 95% of society... you are rich (relative to the rest of society). Stop complaining, and pay more taxes.
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by Volpe 15y ago
> ... Architects, Test Designers... The two examples you use, would have to be the best examples of 'waste' in the software industry. I liken them to having someone on your team who is "The Debugger" where all he does is debug the deve
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by Volpe 15y ago
> Almost anyone can learn playing the guitar, but it takes a special talent to excel at it. Curious about this notion of 'special talent' - So some people are just born to be better guitar players? Are you saying that something in the b
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by Volpe 15y ago
Personally, I think it's a good thing that completing university is no longer == to high paying job. Universities were created for a pursuit of knowledge. Not a highly pretentious certification system (Where some how your Havard degree is
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by Volpe 15y ago
I'm curious as to where the line between 'copying' and 'competition' is drawn. Generally, chinese companies that 'steal ideas' (if you subscribe to such a notion). Release to a chinese market, that you don't (and likely never will) have ac
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by Volpe 15y ago
yes
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by Volpe 15y ago
> black quarterbacks get weeded out at the collegiate level is because their superior physical prowess I thought this article was pointing out how racial prejudice around 'athleticism and blacks' was out right false. So then you justif
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by Volpe 15y ago
Yeah, 'cause HN invented orange and white text.
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by Volpe 15y ago
They are talking about 'cross functional' teams. So Devs/QAs/Ops can be in the same team, even the same people. Because they (Heroku) are handling all the edge-knowledge of server setup/maintenance etc. You only need to track revision num
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by Volpe 15y ago
I'm confused by the quote of number of pixels required to match the eyes resolution. I don't see a definition of the size of a pixel in that calculation? Though the whole thing seems way to thorough for them to have missed that, so I'm as
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by Volpe 15y ago
I think you nailed the TINY niche of things that amazon could take issue with and pull your site down. So now back to 99.9999999% of content producers on the internet: S3 is "extremely durable" I've heard of other (large) providers pulling
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by Volpe 15y ago
Care to elaborate?
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by Volpe 15y ago
Unless I misunderstand what you mean, don't a host of languages do this? io, ruby, javascript?
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by Volpe 15y ago
Could you expand on that? From my point of view, it's money in vs money out... I'm not sure how "creative" you can get before you are "lying".
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by Volpe 15y ago
Creative accounting? How can something that is supposed to report 'reality' be 'creative'. It's analytical, and highly objective... where is the creativity?
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by Volpe 15y ago
Australia has record low unemployment, and consistent growth since the GFC. (Largely due to the resources boom driven by china) N.B Australia's whole economy is worth about the same as the U.S's debt.
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by Volpe 15y ago
I'm the one with blinders? - Seriously? The browsers implement the standards... hence the front and centre. IE defined the "standard" for a long time (and still does). Dreamweaver is a horrible example of 'front and centre' of HTML/CSS. I

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