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The Haitian Revolution(youtube.com)
1 points by bedobi 5y ago|0 comments
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by bedobi 5y ago
> Australians are a tiny minority in America. Most people have never met someone from Australia. Whether they are stigmatized or not is frankly irrelevant. They play almost zero cultural role in American English. This is an odd counter a
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by bedobi 5y ago
Both. The argument is AAVE is incorrect, or at least different from, Standard American English, that's why it stigmatized. That doesn't explain why Australian English, which is also different, is not stigmatized in the US. In fact
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by bedobi 5y ago
> First off, there is no established standard as to what is correct or incorrect in AAVE Apologies, but it's now clear that you simply have no idea what you're talking about, I literally posted above textbook examples about wha
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by bedobi 5y ago
> Or it’s because the differences between the two are smaller than the differences between regional American dialects and standard American English? clearly not - Australian English is far more different to Standard American English comp
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by bedobi 5y ago
For anyone triggered by the above comment saying Australian English really is just bad English... I don't actually believe that, I just wrote it trigger you on purpose. Now go and think long and hard about why it's ok for you to b
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by bedobi 5y ago
+ I think you're wrong about this too > Australian English is correct in Australia and incorrect in America Then how come, in the US, Australians are not stigmatized and pressured into speaking Standard American English? Because, we
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by bedobi 5y ago
> Certainly dialects are “correct” in their specific regions. But they're not. AAVE and many other dialects are stigmatized even in their own geographic areas and social contexts. The speakers "know" they're not speak
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by bedobi 5y ago
> Again, if you have no interest in the idea that some things are correct and others are incorrect, this will not appeal to you. But that is a postmodern relativistic position and not one that everyone agrees with. Sorry, but you're
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by bedobi 5y ago
> ideas of quality and correctness are important Quality and correctness are important! And AAVE does have and enforce both. If you answered a question like "where be the car?" with "it be on the road" or "it&#x2
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by bedobi 5y ago
But that's the thing, AAVE is not "just bad English", or a localism. (unlike Australian English, which really is just bad English, and a localism) You really ought to get off your high horse, watch the video. You might learn
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African American Vernacular English(youtube.com)
2 points by bedobi 5y ago|0 comments
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by bedobi 5y ago
Yeah nah mate, the example is good. Assume you're not dropping the c bomb all the time. The point is, no one would say it's OK to pressure speakers to not speak Australian English. And not only are they not stigmatized the way AAV
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by bedobi 5y ago
That's why I deliberately used Australian English as an example. It's not clear why most people would intuitively not stigmatize a speaker of Australian English, but (consciously or otherwise) simultaneously stigmatize a speaker o
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by bedobi 5y ago
> the reason a lot of the sort of African American vernacular you're addressing is discouraged is because there is no inherently african/black language What? Of course there is no "inherently african/black language&qu
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by bedobi 5y ago
Male contraceptives are here, they're just on the cusp of being approved for widespread use... but as equality minded as I am, I'm not sure I would pick up on it. They're basically designed to shut you down just like anabolic
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by bedobi 5y ago
"Hoodlum lingo"... Reminds me a bit of something a random thought I had: How would you feel if you were constantly told your manner of speech was "wrong" and you constantly felt pressured not to use it? Would it be OK fo
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by bedobi 5y ago
Apologies, I didn't mean to say you were fetishizing, just that there's a lot of Scandinavia fetishizing on HN (and everywhere else for that matter) in general, haha
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by bedobi 5y ago
For sure! It gets talked about every now and then, this one generated a bunch https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24886659
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by bedobi 5y ago
> would you go into the time machine and like, not go to school, as a young person? Kind of, yeah. I'm not saying school is 100% useless, but I like to think I would have been better off with maybe 80% of the curriculum cut out. I c
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by bedobi 5y ago
Haha hate to break your bubble but I am born, raised and schooled in Sweden :) I don't live there anymore though, I left as soon as I could, can't stand the place, but that's kind of a side note, lol. Finland and Sweden'
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by bedobi 5y ago
In my experience what's worked the best is making the team that own the product (or feature or what have you) cross functional and let everyone own everything. Of course everyone brings different skillsets, and of course everyone has f
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by bedobi 5y ago
This article did a great job of articulating something I've always felt strongly about but haven't been able to put into words. I'm sure I'm not the only one who felt like my schooling was mostly a giant waste of my time
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Databases Are Hard(medium.com)
1 points by bedobi 5y ago|0 comments
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by bedobi 5y ago
One of the APIs I maintain is for user profiles. A user profile has all kinds of stuff, eg name, email, phone, timezone etc etc. Forcing callers to send a PUT with the whole user profile object every time someone updates a single thing is p
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by bedobi 5y ago
A huge reason why undoing things in Git get needlessly confusing is using merge commits in the first place. I've always advocated ONLY squash commits to master. It makes things much, much easier to understand, and much, much easier to
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by bedobi 5y ago
https://old.reddit.com/r/NominativeDeterminism
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by bedobi 5y ago
This is more or less how my teams' back end REST API server code is written as well. It's far, far superior to the idiotic God classes most Java devs tend to write - the ones covered in attributes that are sometimes populated, oth
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by bedobi 5y ago
A lot of Robert C Martins pieces are just variations on his strong belief that ill-defined concepts like "craftsmanship" and "clean code" (which are basically just whatever his opinions are on any given day) is how to re
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by bedobi 5y ago
Some copy paste from previous posts Exception based error handling is so bad and unsafe that adopting functional error handling with Either, Try etc as implemented by functional addon libraries for many languages, while not yet common, in t

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