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by ascotan 10y ago
Mexico pay for the wall - yes, this is now a sure thing. A number of prominent Mexican politicians badly insulted Trump early in his campaign and are now in a very awkward position. My guess is that they have undermined their position at th
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by ascotan 10y ago
Your absolutely right. There is really nothing innovative here. But never underestimate the power of eye-candy. Think about apple products. You could throw your hands up and say "but there's nothing innovative here! they just bui
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by ascotan 10y ago
My favorite programmer falsehood is that you can parse HTML with regexes. https://blog.codinghorror.com/parsing-html-the-cthulhu-way/
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Mortal Combat to HTML converter(github.com)
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by ascotan 10y ago
Hmm. So people that live in Greenland/Sweden get more cancer because of the 24 hours of daytime-thing?
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by ascotan 10y ago
I was introduced to the waffle house recently. These places are open 24/7 including Christmas. God Bless America.
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by ascotan 10y ago
I moved to atom from sublime and really love it. However, it's s l o w . . . Not only the start up time, but on non trival projects it lags attempting to code color the file and periodically lags up to 5 seconds
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by ascotan 10y ago
and the paywalls continue..
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by ascotan 10y ago
another paywall.
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by ascotan 10y ago
paywall fail
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by ascotan 10y ago
I've been in that company. The problem is that without any leadership, every one is a leader. The practical result of this is that software gets partitioned into the 'parts that the idiots work on' and the 'undervalued
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by ascotan 10y ago
I remember a guy we interviewed that was 1 year out of college and was a 'senior software engineer' because at his previous company he was the only developer. As such they made him the senior SE. The same can be said of 'Lea
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by ascotan 10y ago
>>>The interviewers know the real problems facing the company, but the polite fiction is that they’re only temporary, and soon everyone will be able to focus entirely on the algorithms, which are what really matter. Since most comp
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by ascotan 10y ago
Interesting book. I'll take some time to do a read through. A few things that bother me though off the bat: 1. Anything that uses the word 'protip' can not be taken seriously. I think this needs a law. 'The Law Of Silly
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by ascotan 10y ago
Sorry but these types of studies strongly smack of eugenics. This reminds of Stephen Jay Gould's book "The mismeasure of a man". If the SNPs are inherited (and possibly racially so) and a lower educational attainment should b
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by ascotan 10y ago
I second this. Having employees that 'never engage in politics and work like a machine' sounds like a recipe for exploitation. I've seen FAR to may managers take advantage of people 1 rung down on the social ladder.
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by ascotan 10y ago
I'm sorry was this an April Fool joke? By definition a 'phenotype' is the expressed traits of a genotype. As far as I know there is no known gene or set of genes which express the 'phenotype' of 'Educational A
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by ascotan 10y ago
Sorry, I simply can't trust anything that comes out of the DPRK. Everything over there is a propaganda photo op. >>> But we were able to show local people shorebirds through our telescopes. North Korea regular issues propagand
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by ascotan 10y ago
Terrible article, however, as a remote worker myself I see both advantages and disadvantages. 1. Some people's lives are better suited for it. This is especially true in the summertime when the kids are home from school all day. 2. Hav
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by ascotan 10y ago
Most of the homeless I've seen sleep on heating grates not on benches. Am I in the wrong city?
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by ascotan 10y ago
>>>angry white men who might follow rightwing groups who are carrying out this kind of misogynistic abuse Come on. What kind of serious study says stuff like this. It appears they they determined wether or not it was 'women&#x
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by ascotan 10y ago
I approve of this. Gold star to this man.
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by ascotan 10y ago
C/C++ shared libraries are very easy to work with and distribute. Unfortunately this is becoming a lost skill in the world of javascript. People inherently thing 'old = bad' and are doom to reinvent the same thing over and ov
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by ascotan 10y ago
That's because you can simply add functionality and increase the minor version of the library. If you change the first digit you have removed or modified an interface. The same can be said about an API. Most API developers don't
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by ascotan 10y ago
Years ago I tried running my old C64 games on faster hardware was disappointed that many games from back then seemed to assume a particular CPU speed. For instance all the D&D boxed set games (like pool of radiance/curse of the azu
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by ascotan 10y ago
Nice writeup.
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by ascotan 10y ago
These studies are nothing but troll bait. 1. What is 'income'. Do you mean taxable income that is received through an employer? Because if you do, most of the 1% at the top probably don't receive 'income'. For exam
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by ascotan 10y ago
So you can use yogurt to deliver medicine rather than a pill. After reading the article this seems to be a piece paid for Seres Therapeutics in order to raise their stock price.
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by ascotan 10y ago
Being an early adopter for something that can kill you seems quite risky.
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by ascotan 10y ago
This stuff is carefully crafted to get everyone on board. Notice that the wording is 'connecting every household'. You can interpret this to mean what you'd like (pay your bill? dig fiber to your house?). For utility companie

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