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by ahallock 14y ago
Exactly. And this is what clients can provide over generic, one-size-fits-all solutions: fluent, idiomatic, and terse access to APIs.
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by ahallock 14y ago
While I understand the allure of writing specs and using a unified library, good API clients are more terse, as they're written to take advantage of the programming language you're using, and understand the particulars and idioms of the API
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by ahallock 14y ago
At most gas stations and some grocery stores, I have to enter my billing ZIP code before proceeding. I'm not sure how effective it is.
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by ahallock 14y ago
tptacek was giving a reason for why he voted for Obama. I was arguing that it's a poor reason. It's a digression, I'll give you that.
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by ahallock 14y ago
Fight for public schools? Public schools are indoctrination centers where you graduate without any meaningful job skills. Why? So young people can't compete with adults in the job market, and are then forced to go into massive debt for coll
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by ahallock 14y ago
You stopped watching when he brought out a poverty graph? Did you think the data was wrong? He wasn't arguing about the elderly's poverty rate. It's not relevant to the video.
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by ahallock 14y ago
Statists are always looking to point to people's freedoms as being the problem. The vast majority of gun violence is actually State-driven: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9bRDNgd6E4
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by ahallock 14y ago
> I think the US law here is dumb, but it's the law. It is what it is, huh? 'It's the law' is a dose of propaganda so you don't feel bad about being forced to do something stupid. A legal collision sounds so polite. To me, this resemble
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by ahallock 14y ago
I will definitely take a look at the site. I wouldn't want to ignore information based on my own bias. I see the appeal of what you're saying, and I'm indeed concerned with private coercive power; however, explaining the "how" behind a free
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by ahallock 14y ago
Morally you are not obligated to pay taxes. Forced taxation (redundant) violates the non-aggression principle. Forget the propaganda you hear; taxation is theft, regardless of the perceived benefits or ex post facto justification for the th
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by ahallock 14y ago
I agree with you, but I don't know how much credit she'd receive for merely trying to eliminate law. We wouldn't need this massive, inconsistent, vague, and convoluted law system if we just followed a few fundamental moral principles. An an
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by ahallock 14y ago
Completely agree. This redesign feels claustrophobic. I prefer some of the newer API doc styles, like: http://underscorejs.org/ http://expressjs.com/api.html
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by ahallock 14y ago
The spellcheck item didn't have a link. Any good spellchecker bots out there?
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by ahallock 14y ago
If Facebook removed all privacy controls, people would leave the social network in droves, and FB would be forced change their policy. Consumers are fickle, and FB is not an unstoppable juggernaut; I'm not sure why people have this idea.
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by ahallock 14y ago
Government is accountable to "the people"? That's just a platitude. The government is beholden to many special interests. The bailouts, the wars--home & abroad--, the TSA, etc. are all egregious examples. Facebook is accountable to shar
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by ahallock 14y ago
I'm not going to argue about the technology itself, but 10gen does provide excellent documentation, screencasts, and tutorials. Other DB vendors could learn a thing or two about writing better documentation and educational materials. Look a
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by ahallock 14y ago
Because States do not universalize their own rules & laws. The exempt themselves, and are above the moral obligation that the rest of us are expected to follow. They also control the language and will create a vast set of euphemisms to
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by ahallock 14y ago
Perhaps I was a bit sloppy with my wording. I was implying that people could decide with the option to not use a centralized coercive agency.
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by ahallock 14y ago
This x1000. I'd go one step further and not use force at all (or at least have the option not to), but I would still take your idea any day over the current structure.
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by ahallock 14y ago
You were so close. Instead of voting, why don't people actually decide what happens amongst each other? Some people could use voting if they want. Another group of people could use a different method. But because force is involved, we're ne
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by ahallock 14y ago
I disagree that it's an engineering problem. How are you going to model the supply & demand, the wants and desires, and complex transactions occurring among hundreds of millions of people? It just seems like hubris to me, but I'm open t
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by ahallock 14y ago
This analogy doesn't hold true in reality. Pure capitalism doesn't mean no rules, just no rulers. Look at Github, for example. Spontaneous standards, conventions, communities, etiquette, etc. happen all the time. Now, I know the Fed is priv
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by ahallock 14y ago
Doesn't have to be gold. We could have many competing currencies. Some stable, some more speculative. Use your imagination.
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by ahallock 14y ago
Existing stakeholders will protect their turf and rely as you say on the 'panic of irrational constituents.' And it would be irrational given the amount of human error already occurring--people falling asleep at the wheel, texting, drunk dr
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by ahallock 15y ago
Exactly. It's the biggest and most successful ruse ever employed: creating an exception for yourself on what should otherwise be universally accepted moral rules.