Xdes

9 ms·

31.
by Xdes 12y ago
The economy is increasingly moving away from a market model and into a social model. This requires conformity and homogeneity since the economy is driven by morals and ethics instead of voluntary mutual benefit. This means that every world
32.
by Xdes 12y ago
Got an invite, but I don't have a Mac. Still waiting on a Windows build.
33.
by Xdes 13y ago
We live in what is called a free country.
34.
by Xdes 13y ago
>At the age of 70, after a long -- and I'm assuming successful, based on his highest salary -- career, having only a "meager" savings is no one's fault but his own. I sympathize with him. I do not intend to save since
35.
by Xdes 13y ago
Well this is a life lesson learned: don't mess with upper management. What they are doing is exploiting their workforce (I mean c'mon a guy saves them $5000/mo and he gets a $50 pizza party?) and the only thing you can do is
36.
by Xdes 13y ago
>I see the behavior of people like Eich as a personal affront to me and people close to me. Yet you aren't going to get fired for having expressed those views five years ago. How would you feel if your boss decided to fire you over
37.
by Xdes 13y ago
I think it depends on the context of content. If the article were actual research then having contextual terminology is acceptable. However, when the article is read by a general audience then the contextual terminology should be simplified
38.
by Xdes 13y ago
The content of the article is reasonable. Men and women have different biological tendencies and that is likely not the first thing to pop up in a device designer's mind (if at all).
39.
by Xdes 13y ago
The title makes me feel like the author is trying to linkbait.
40.
by Xdes 13y ago
I'm thinking it is the first step to a data type like Ruby's symbols. For the case of spaces I could see the underscore (_) getting used. var bigKey = $key_with_spaces;
41.
by Xdes 13y ago
He should consider leaving Mozilla for Microsoft Research.
42.
by Xdes 13y ago
If you like Sinatra then check out Nancy.
43.
by Xdes 13y ago
It's like XAML for the web. I can't wait to write some SPAs with it.
44.
by Xdes 13y ago
>If bitcoin succeeds, credit mechanisms will be built on top of it, and they'll behave almost identically to credit cards, including have fraud. Why? One way transactions cut down fraud. It's not inconceivable to have a hardwar
45.
by Xdes 13y ago
I've been working on an autominer, but there appears to be one in the thread. (function uniMine() { $.getJSON('/unicoin/rock', function(data) { setTimeout(function()
46.
by Xdes 13y ago
I definitely want to explore the requirements to launch an exchange. Stock market bots seem boring compared to the infrastructure the bots are playing on.
47.
by Xdes 13y ago
>the state cannot imprison a defendant who has been convicted of a crime that has a sentence of a fine and is legitimately unable to pay. That's assuming the court is obligated to evaluate the person's ability to pay. A person
48.
by Xdes 13y ago
I doubt I'd find a YC-ruined-my-startup article. To me this seems like more confirmation bias for those that drink the kool-aid.
49.
by Xdes 13y ago
So corporations aren't supposed to make money from their products? Google docs does not work well on the iPad and I would love something that conforms to the iPad properly.
50.
by Xdes 13y ago
Can't wait to buy a Mill and mess around with it. Hopefully it isn't more expensive than current desktop or server processors.
51.
by Xdes 13y ago
Companies that want foreign talent should setup branches in the originating countries. Countries will not grow when their talent is poached. Immigrants also put local workers into unfair competition when their home countries offer social pr
52.
by Xdes 13y ago
>It might be a stupid question but I wonder what's considered a leaky abstraction in this case. I consider poking a hole a leaky abstraction because you are exposing the internals of your stack. The consumer should not know or care
53.
by Xdes 13y ago
This skips over the hard part: managing docker containers. Poking a hole directly to the container is a leaky abstraction. A reverse proxy like HAProxy or Varnish should be sitting in front of the container. Once you have the reverse proxy
54.
by Xdes 13y ago
>converts an HTML-based template into the view that mithril expects So basically XAML?
55.
by Xdes 13y ago
I was expecting the article to educate me on why holacracy is less effective than hierarchy. However the argument that "holacracy does not work because rich white men fill power vacuums" is fluff.
56.
by Xdes 13y ago
I think 'icon' fits better.
57.
by Xdes 13y ago
If only I could drive long distances (300+ miles) in a Tesla.
58.
by Xdes 13y ago
The project lead explained that he didn't accept unsolicited commits. My code ended up getting merged with some other guys refactored code which eventually made it into the code base.
59.
by Xdes 13y ago
I'm terrible at open source because I usually fix things that don't need to be fixed (aka refactor). Then people yell at me to go away.
60.
by Xdes 13y ago
I saw one posting for a C# consulting position January and February. Wanted 5+ years of experience and a degree with no remote option.

More ›