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by batista 14y ago
> In the US, the purchasing power of that range has dramatically increased over the years. We live in bigger houses, consume better medicine, more food, more education, more and better electronics and entertainment, etc. I think you'll
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> Could you define "middle class", and perhaps explain how income inequality "destroys" it? It's political economy 101. I don't understand your bizarro counter-arguments. Take the first for example: > Taking a typical relative defi
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> I think you're making an awful lot of assumptions about my point of view from my merely pointing out that nobody, no matter what government programs are available, is going to raise him or herself out of poverty working 27 hours a wee
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> Why is he only working 27 hours/week? If he's serious about raising himself out of poverty, finding another part-time job would seem to be a priority. Have you accounted for the commuting time? Like the bus that eats away 2 hours eve
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by batista 14y ago
>* But as the proliferation of such essays and books suggest, we are far from forgetting about the offline; rather we have become obsessed with being offline more than ever before.* Really? Because we bitch about not being offline enoug
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> The most infuriating aspect of Chrome’s search suggestions is that they change after you’ve stopped typing. That!
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by batista 14y ago
"Super judgmental" for saying to close your laptop during a conference talk? This is common, fucking, courtesy. I cannot even fathom how one would find that "narcissistic". The part about "opening them" if the presentation is boring, though
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Really? Rats and copper harvesters? Like it's gonna be some unprotected plastic cables 1 foot under the ground?
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> Frantz washes dishes at the Capital Grille restaurant, a posh steak house near the harbor in Miami's financial district. He nets $200 for a twenty-seven-hour week and receives no food stamps or government assistance of any kind. I HA
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by batista 14y ago
Note that I specifically wrote >1m visits per day. Note also that the mention of one site is too literal and meaningless interpretation of my question, which is more rhetorical, and should be read like: "There are TONS of high volume PH
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> I wasn't disagreeing, and in fact I didn't even express an opinion regarding this. Success means a lot of different things to people; I was stating your definition of success for clarity. Oh, alright. Thought you meant it was not a g
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by batista 14y ago
Does he sound like the right person to ask about the matter? He wonders if "wasn't ZeroMQ supposed to be the lightweight alternative" --which means he never bothered to go read the source code or use to find out. Then he feels "validated" o
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by batista 14y ago
> I'm feeling better about my decision to ignore all the whole MQ circus.* Yes, because a random, 1 paragraph (and content-less, at that) comment on a social media site is very good grounds for verifying your technical decision. (And r
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I had used it before the HR, so it might have improved. At the time It was like voodoo, and you had to triple-check your datastore actions, because they could fail for no reason at the backend.
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> The first half of your post is basically a long-winded appeal to popularity. No it's not. We're not talking about music --how popular Bieber is vs Bach, for example. So he didnt just say "tons of people use PHP", he said "tons of peo
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by batista 14y ago
Yes, and it's a standard redefinition of better in CS that you seem unaware of. Go and read the canonical "Worse is better" paper.
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> Adobe famously continues to release worse and worse experiences with their products, and still have a popular costumer base. Famously? Really? As in "some random non professional designers/adobe users complained on the intertubes".
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If you mean GAE, its even worse...
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> You're measuring the success of a website in terms of traffic. Yes, me and all Analytics and SEO guys. You either sell ads or stuff. In both cases you want as many eyeballs and wallets as possible. > The number of hits a website
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Note the use of the word "major"
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Or he said it because he does prefer Python. Thought of that, Sherlock? Or should I say Bekas?
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Any major websites done on Lisp, Smalltalk or Haskell? Besides Viaweb? Now count > 1m visits per day websites done in PHP.
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totally irrelavant and off topic...
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I use to run Eclipse 3 in a 1GB G4 2003 iBook (I now have an 4GB i7), so don't tell me "it's slow" with a modern CPU, 16G and SSD.
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In the third world country I live in, $50 is 4 months salary. I'm pulling your leg now, but wanted to make a point. Plus, it doesn't matter if $50 is equal to 60 minutes of my time or not. What it matters is if $50 is a fitting price for su
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> It means that the OPs implied assertion that I fit his (probable) stereotype of the ignorant gringo is obviously incorrect. No. You could still be fitting his stereotype to a T. It's just that his way of determining it was inaccurate
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~3,000 years of recorded history point to it.
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You're seriously mentioning Lilith, Spin, Singularity, Lisp OS, MarteOS, Smalltalk machines et al to challenge the 99.9% thing? OS X and Windows have some C++ (mostly wrappers) but otherwise are C.
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by batista 14y ago
Bob was the most likable guy from all the public Apple guys for me, YMMV. (Not comparing with Jobs etc -- just talking about "likable person" factor).

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