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by barberousse 7y ago
Javascript was never designed with the intent of ever being anything like Java is terms of reach and magnitude though, that's a hindsight thing.
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by barberousse 7y ago
China has a lot of power in a few African countries
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by barberousse 7y ago
W.E.B. DuBois wrote about this same exact scenario a hundred years ago as well, though writing about the reconstruction period in the South after the war
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by barberousse 7y ago
>Re: systems of monitoring and control. The even crazier thing is that upon only the lightest of introspection you can find that there isn’t even some “ego” system controlling or reigning in some other “id” system. It’s just one thing! I
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by barberousse 7y ago
Hi, black software engineer from Chicago's West side. From 1st through 4th, I attended a community elementary school where my older sister and I were the only students who could effectively read at all. The entire school was participat
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by barberousse 7y ago
/r/nba has also proven plagiarism in the past
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by barberousse 7y ago
I'd hypothesize many large firms track relevant subreddits
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by barberousse 7y ago
It's almost as if human communities are inherently driven to splinter, like a living cell
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by barberousse 7y ago
So were FF tab groups the answer after all?
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by barberousse 7y ago
Which brings us to an even more important facet of humility, being aware enough to know you're uncomfortable with certain people _because you're unfamiliar_. Most people are not nearly as cosmopolitan as they imagine themselves t
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by barberousse 7y ago
Dunno about that spam claim, stuff gets through Fastmail's filters
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by barberousse 7y ago
The fate of one of Daenerys' dragons in Game of Thrones comes to mind. A real good look at ecology and evolution really reveals how fragile everything really is.
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by barberousse 7y ago
Funny, I remember a blog post way back when about how Christmas is ritual emotional blackmail, a holiday which rather clearly declares that there is no existential value outside of the celebration of "family", inadvertently (or no
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by barberousse 7y ago
Quite frankly, most of American politics is deranged by the fact there is almost a ban on class discourse, my guess a remnant of McCarthyism since there was a strong socialist discourse prior to WWII which almost disappears afterwards.
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by barberousse 7y ago
I think it'd be naive to suppose that there's some company out there that's gonna stand up to the mob. A company is first and foremost attempting to make money. The mob isn't ever going to review the history and action
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by barberousse 7y ago
The other side this exposes to me is that America, in terms of its overall European-descended demographic, is more Irish, Scots, German than Anglican by far
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by barberousse 7y ago
Those aren't equivocal? We're just putting the emphasis on one end or the other it looks like
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by barberousse 7y ago
>>In other words, you don't execute code by calling it by name: you send some data (a message) to an object and it figures out which code, if any, to execute in response. In fact, this can improve your isolation because the recei
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by barberousse 7y ago
Not just English in England wrt New England, but everywhere in the new world this is the case: Quebecois descends from an older form of French, Brazilian Portuguese from an older form of Portuguese (modern European Portuguese is insane to
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by barberousse 7y ago
I'm from Chicago, have you been to one of our community colleges. They're not that great. I know, I went to one for a year before transferring to a more renowned college. Not to mention if you don't think the people around
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by barberousse 7y ago
Or high school has always been the "baseline" shared social model for all the different subgroups/subcultures in America.
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by barberousse 7y ago
They probably never migrated when the Tumblr company blog trend ended
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by barberousse 7y ago
Probably the middle: management makes the executive call and deliberately leaves the explaining to the bottom of the pyramid who themselves are largely trained in providing technical responses, not intricate PR spin
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by barberousse 7y ago
This is strangely approaching Nietzsche's notion of Eternal Return of the Same with the caveat that he additionally speculated that if particles and their configurations are finite, then moments in lived experience necessarily repeat t
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by barberousse 7y ago
To be absolutely clear, we don't know shit what Socrates thought of Democracy. Socrates wrote absolutely nothing down. We do know what Plato thought of it though, since he is the author of all the dialogues. Moreover, Plato came from
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by barberousse 8y ago
Greek myths aren't directly a source of significant monetary value, the Amazon rainforest is. Also, the rainforest was named so because the Portugese conquerors were surprised as fuck to find women fighting them alongside the men in ce
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by barberousse 8y ago
> I just don't write code that way and don't know why someone would. I mean what is the point of this comment if you don't know? What comparative warrant is there to even discuss? Having attempted to move to Sublime, Atom,
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by barberousse 8y ago
You're either really mentally disciplined or have your gitconfig and scripts setup
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by barberousse 8y ago
DM me if you know someone in Haiti with my username for a surname
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by barberousse 8y ago
>though you also need a credit card and access to a computer with Internet), so it's not too exclusionary You'd be surprised

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