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by autarch 9y ago
If you include all sentient beings in your analysis there's no question that the world has gotten _much_ worse over the past 50+ years. The number of animals living lives of unending torture has gone up and up during that time period.
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by autarch 9y ago
It has a number of milk derivatives if you ready the ingredients, but no liquid milk.
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by autarch 9y ago
Yes, I know. But that doesn't help at all with the lack of releases, changelogs, etc. As I said, it's a decent start.
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by autarch 9y ago
I wouldn't exactly call Go's standard library _good_. It's got a lot of stuff in it, which is nice, but the API design ranges from excellent (net/http) to "how much crack?!" (time.Format and .Parse) to not-quit
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by autarch 9y ago
Extra Credits did a good video on AAA game pricing recently ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VhWGQCzAtl8 ) that talks about why developers are going down the lootbox and microtransaction roads. Their argument is basically th
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by autarch 9y ago
Cool, I'm glad it's still helping people. For the record, I was not the creator of the package. That was Jon Swartz. I did a lot of work on it for quite a few years in the early 2000s and maintained it for quite some time after th
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by autarch 9y ago
But the whole point of the novel is that neither system really works very well! I think you're doing it a disservice to characterize it in that way. She did her best to imagine a communist system that was nearly ideally designed and it
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by autarch 9y ago
I've read most of her books but The Dispossessed was the one that had the greatest influence on me from a philosophical standpoint. Such a great book!
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by autarch 9y ago
Wow! Still? As one of the primary maintainers of Mason for many years I enjoyed telling non-technical friends that they used my work every time they went to Amazon. But I'd kind of assumed that was no longer the case these days. Appare
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by autarch 9y ago
I was just referring to my restaurant experiences, which ranged from fine to excellent.
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by autarch 9y ago
I agree that SPAs are always harder. For me, there are two main reasons to consider an SPA. 1. It _can_ let you build a much nicer UI/UX. That said, it's probably easier to build an _okay_ UI/UX with a traditional webapp, and
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by autarch 9y ago
I've been to four places without tipping in restaurants, Italy, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Japan. I would say all of them had better service than here in the US. In particular, the East Asian countries I visited all have _excellent_ servic
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by autarch 9y ago
I thought this was an interesting essay, though I'm not sure I agree with all of it. I do wonder if he's proposing somewhat of a false dilemma here. Maybe it's possible to ship often _and_ have high quality _and_ make big cha
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How Often Should You Ship?(thecodist.com)
2 points by autarch 9y ago|2 comments
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To Serve Man, with Software(blog.codinghorror.com)
20 points by autarch 9y ago|1 comments
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by autarch 9y ago
He was CEO of KFC Japan, not KFC worldwide.
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by autarch 9y ago
I appreciate this article's focus on rehearsal. A lot of people not familiar with classical music see someone waving their hands around on stage and wonder why they're needed. The answer is that they're not really needed _for
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by autarch 9y ago
Git does have a revert command.
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by autarch 9y ago
They reference the implicit bias tests that have now been widely debunked (to the best of my knowledge). This makes me question the other psychology studies they cite as well. The whole psych field is notorious for unreproducibility. How se
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An epic treatise on scheduling, bug tracking, and triage(apenwarr.ca)
3 points by autarch 9y ago|0 comments
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by autarch 9y ago
I've donated to streamers a few times, though it was more in the $5-20 range. Mostly I did this because I enjoyed the stream, and after watching for more than a few hours, I figure it was only reasonable to pay the streamer for the ent
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by autarch 9y ago
Personally I'd rather take the opiates. I have GERD and other GI problems. Ibuprofen is likely to lead to extreme pain and discomfort. I've taken a variety of opiates in the past. They did work for reducing pain but I couldn'
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by autarch 9y ago
The idea of choice as free will untethered to outside influences is clearly nonsense. However, people do respond to external stimuli when making decisions. Translation: the machine that is my brain considers things like cost when followin
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by autarch 9y ago
I'm an American in my 40s and I occasionally have a (vegan) donut for breakfast, but I recognize this as the ridiculously caloric and unhealthy choice that it is. I don't really consider donuts breakfast food.
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by autarch 9y ago
I love that video (and all of the other videos from that channel). Fortunately for me I already hated most modern action scenes from years of watching Jackie and other Hong Kong film greats. There are a few decent fight scenes that happen f
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by autarch 9y ago
Corn ethanol _is_ an inefficient biofuel. It uses more energy to produce than it generates, but thanks to the federal government there's a mandate to include it in gasoline, so we keep producing it.
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by autarch 9y ago
> things like Chinese starts that are specific to certain cultures While it's true that there are national styles of play, the Chinese opening is not called that because it's really popular among Chinese people. It's calle
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by autarch 9y ago
I wrote up what I think is a good hiring process for technical positions on my blog - https://blog.urth.org/2017/07/14/a-technical-hiring-process/
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by autarch 9y ago
Sadly, most companies will not let interviewers do this for fear of lawsuits.
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by autarch 9y ago
The part about SQL makes little sense to me. The author seems to be equating relational databases with SQL, but I don't know why. Yes, that's how everyone learns about relational databases (or the approximation thereof that SQL pr

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