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by batista 14y ago
> Being forced to spend your life with someone who you don't want, is far more of an imposition than that of an organisation publicly stating that they think it would be nice if people were allowed to marry who they do want. Thats what
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by batista 14y ago
> Gay marriage is not just a small detail, it's huge. Really? How so? Because gays suddenly want to take part in the antiquated, religious inspired ceremony of marriage?
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by batista 14y ago
I think he answered that question already in his comment, in extenso.
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by batista 14y ago
> But the point the poster was making is that what is "grassroots" depends on who the idea comes from. If it's someone that you interact with daily and actually get a significant chunk of time with, then it seems natural; if it's coming
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by batista 14y ago
> It's weird because the iPhone 4 pioneered the "Retina" marketing and didn't need "Retina ready" websites. That's because webpage images in an iPhone 4 screen are resized to be smaller anyway (to fit), whereas in a 15" MacBook Pro you
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by batista 14y ago
Actually, "Retina", for all the branding-ness, is more scientific (as it incorporates facts about actual human vision, display density, angle of view, distances, etc), than "High DPI" which is just an un-quantified description.
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by batista 14y ago
> Because it would seem to me that your company _invented_ a tradition like that, it's just that you didn't like that it wasn't invented from the guy sitting next to you. You don't seem to get it. The whole thing about culture is that
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by batista 14y ago
Chosing a random year for his example story gave you the impression that it was "bashing 1890"? Or that it had anything to do with the wounded knee massacre? Talk about non sequitur...
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by batista 14y ago
> It's a desperate attempt to co-opt the Red Hat approach to riches via open source support. Yes, because Redhat is doing so much better than Oracle with its OSS approach... And it's not like other major companies support OSS with thei
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by batista 14y ago
Well, other people act like monads are an easy thing to understand. YMMV.
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by batista 14y ago
The kind of "monster" that wants the country as a whole to survive, not just the few lucky ones that can "store wealth".
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by batista 14y ago
> Having to fake an exchange rate sounds like the economic conditions in badly run countries like Venezuela, Zimbabwe, Russia, etc. "Badly run countries"? Zimbabwe maybe, but for Venezuela and Russia, I beg to differ. They are doing th
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by batista 14y ago
> The discussion on meta shows no appreciation of the quality of btilly's contributions to the site. I'm not surprised he's leaving, and I agree StackOverflow will be worse without his answers. What do you think? It's not about the "qu
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by batista 14y ago
Don't let the door hit you on your way out of PHP-saloon.
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by batista 14y ago
> Am a bit frustrated reading that same description for years and still having no clue what it really means. Both values at the same time... huh? What is the physical property that is existing in two states at once? Ever heard of this
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by batista 14y ago
> The problem is that by splitting the community into these micro sites they are making the whole stack-exchange universe less valuable and interesting That's how they want it. Stack overflow is not about being "interesting", it's abou
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by batista 14y ago
> This is practical, answerable, an actual problem someone has faced (presumably for a programming interview sorry but, "faced at an interview" is far from "actual problems that you face". Interviews contain all kind of junk, abstact a
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by batista 14y ago
> Obj-C assumes that it can offload the boring tasks to the programmer because such was the fashion in the 70s and 80s. You seem to forget that it was created in the 80s. You also seem to forget that it was picked in part because of it
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by batista 14y ago
Technically it's also a toy because it tries to do async without the right primitives built into the language. Hence the async spaghetti (the 2010's GOTO), and other limitations. It might prevail in a "worse is better" way, because of popul
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by batista 14y ago
> You do realize that Go compiles to machine code and Python is a dynamically interpreted language? Which doesn't matter much if Go's machine code/runtime is inefficient or if Python libs are written in C in the first place whereas Go'
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by batista 14y ago
Well, it has an order of magnitude more Applestores, anyway.
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by batista 14y ago
> because it can be proven that it can't be proven that two plus two equals five Really? What does that even mean? In what number system it can it be proven? Does it hold for all? > This is a load of ivory-tower hogwash, precisely
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by batista 14y ago
Ah, snap. Haven't thought of that.
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by batista 14y ago
> Despite all of the rightful moaning of iOS developers, for some reason they continue to flock to the Apple platform. Yes, strange, I wonder why that is, they must be irrational or something, unlike us sane guys. It's not like there a
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by batista 14y ago
> People complaining about factual inaccuracies on Wikipedia annoy me. It's Wikipedia. The entire point and purpose of it is to fix what you know is wrong. This presupposes 1) I care about fixing it. 2) I have the knowledge to fix it (
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by batista 14y ago
> unless, of course, your language has some kind of preposterously verbose associative array constructor syntax, like PHP does array( => , => , ...) is "preposterously verbose? You should see some other languages for the "prepo
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by batista 14y ago
> If you have Java installed on your workstation, click here to launch ArgoUML (UML editor). This is what I expect from a "desktop class application" from deployment to usability Is this a joke? That would be barely tolerable for 2000.
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by batista 14y ago
This very section is that worries me. Nobody ever bothered updating it, not when the relevant WSGI spec came out, and not when Python 3.3 announced the byte str changes that would help. If even Django and Pyramid can have a 3 roadmap --and
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by batista 14y ago
>My guess is that criticizing some local supermarket (unknown outside of portland or wherever it was) wasn't as sexy as criticizing big evil Walmart. Your guess is wrong. From the online book synopsis: Ehrenreich is eventually hired b
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by batista 14y ago
> Also, simply by showing up to work on time and not being irresponsible, the author of that book had multiple opportunities to improve her situation (e.g., her managers offered her promotions Yes, and by also being white AND highly ed

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