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by batista 14y ago
> I still managed to max out my personal IRA as well as hit the match on my employer's 401k. Sure, I was single and living cheaply...but that's the point. The point is if you're not making enough money don't have a family? Or choose be
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by batista 14y ago
What that has to do with anything? The post I replied to said that "language neutral bytecode project neve worked" and brought up Parrot as an example. He was not specific to them not working for Javascript. Now, besides off context, your c
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by batista 14y ago
> He claims it's "ridiculous" to expect people to save responsibly. Yet it happens in east asia, and it happened historically in the west. Ive worked in east asia. The retirement conditions are attrocious, and grand masses of old peopl
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by batista 14y ago
> Which one? One which resembles our own, duh. The idea is that each group came to develop in a specific way. So, no, a counter-example with some foreign to us animal wont cut it. > Should we throw marriage out because nearly no ma
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by batista 14y ago
No, it's called being a corporate (or startup) cog in a PC hegemony. As a matter or fact, it is very far from adulthood: for one, all kind of childish behavior is ok if its within PC bounds (from super hero comics to LoTR, and from pop musi
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by batista 14y ago
> Besides: I can't think of language-neutral bytecode projects that ever worked. Remember Parrot? Really? Remember the CLR and JVM?
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by batista 14y ago
So basically an environment where everyone must self-censor himself and avoid all jokes, fun and adult talk except maybe the most childish kind of fun (say, nerf guns).
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by batista 14y ago
Same difference. PC sillyness has crossed the Atlantic.
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by batista 14y ago
There is a classic geek reaction to such things that goes like: "There is nothing to fear because tech can't be bad / more tech will get us out of this mess / it's always been that way so no way it's man made / etc". Particular among Ayn-Ra
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by batista 14y ago
> Dave McClure posted a really thoughtful post about late bloomers recently, and the general reaction was "Wait...Dave McClure wrote that?" Yeah, you can't tell, because his blog looks exactly like 20+ other ones! You're supposed to id
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by batista 14y ago
Check my later post above --or the general internets, it's not like Google is more than a new tab away.
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by batista 14y ago
Actually it's the idea that they are equal that is a "talking point" without a citation. It's pure ideology: "we should be, and therefore we are", which takes for granted what it ought to prove. Plus, when we are faced with some thousands o
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by batista 14y ago
> Interesting. Citation please. I don't like giving citations, because we have this thing called Google, now. But here it is: "The NICHD study of Early child care was designed to assess the long term outcomes of non parental care givin
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by batista 14y ago
Yes, why not? It's selfish, whoever does it. That said, the implication that a mother being close to a new born child is completely equal to a father being close to a new born child is PC ideology. We're not inter-changeable thinking machin
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by batista 14y ago
No, they want him to be smart enough to tailor his response to the audience. Feynman was a smart guy, by all measures, but he knew how to speak at the appropriate level for his audience.
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by batista 14y ago
By research they mean nothing of the kind Guido can produce for Google or in general.
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by batista 14y ago
Your rant is relevant to the insightful parent --which also provides arguments for what it says--, how exactly?
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by batista 14y ago
Why, are Americans, especially inside the two coasts, sensitive that foreigners may be not aware of their cultural norms?
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by batista 14y ago
> Clearly, he means "different as compared with the United States," where it's legal to photograph anything in a public space. Despite this being the law, it can still get you in trouble with the police (in the US).
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by batista 14y ago
> No one at an ordinary McDonald's would even notice such a device. Ergo this was not an ordinary McDonald's, but one with security people looking for cameras. Why would a McDonald's have security people looking for cameras? Possibly be
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by batista 14y ago
> All it gives us is insight into his taste in composition styles. That, coupled with the fact that music is a highly unscientific endeavor and the reasons he gives for disliking some of the works might be the exact reasons why others m
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by batista 14y ago
> Not to say that politics doesn't enter into it, just that it should be brought to the table and discussed by other actors. How so? You seem to be distinguishing between politics actors (politicians?) and technical actors. In a democr
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by batista 14y ago
> I think it probably is slightly misogynistic. Not my personal intent, but inherited from history? Do you _hate_ women? If not, then it's not misogynistic. Enough already with the stupid guilt trips over everything and anything!
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by batista 14y ago
> I'm quite certain HN participant aren't all programmers or designers. They're not all guys, either. Wishful thinking aside, I would guess that the percentage that are not: "(programmers || designers) && guys" is insignificant
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by batista 14y ago
There are many idiots who would write that without joking though. Absent the /s sarcasm tag, we don't know.
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by batista 14y ago
> Well if 95% of the population use a term to mean one thing, then arguing that no it really means something else doesn't get you anywhere. It's not about getting "somewhere". It's called computer SCIENCE, remember?
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by batista 14y ago
> That would require all forms of media be passed through a distribution chain, which would be ridiculous. It will happen. It's very easy for the bad guys to mandate at some point that all media must be passed through a distribution ch
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by batista 14y ago
> The Content Industries and their supporters are a threat to the intellectual and cultural lives of our societies and the development of the human civilization. Yes, but not so much for restrictions such as mentioned above. Primarily
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by batista 14y ago
> I think there may well be a point in the future where replacing an entire studio / live rig with iOS may come to reality (and I'd love to see it) but this is still a long way off. Well, I was there in 1996 when they were saying the s
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by batista 14y ago
> I read feature lists of editors like this and wonder why people just don't use a good IDE like IntelliJ. It does everything in this list and a lot more with minimal configuration. Because we don't want a slow, Java based IDE, that go

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