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> & I doubt selling remote work (if I can find a reliable income stream) to my partner. I'm confused. You think your partner would stop you from working remotely with a reliable income stream even though you're miserable in
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What a ridiculous statement. Forgetting about the false hyperbole of "completely ignorant," HTTP is no more the basis of my job than the mixing of asphalt is the basis for a trucker's job. The basis of my job is making electr
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I thought the reason to soak the beans was not for texture or flavor, but to make the easier to digest. Ya know, that whole 'beans beans are good for your heart' thing?
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Offtopic but: >that users could accept an URL as their "identity" Does this imply Jeff Atwood pronounces URL as earl?
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They're not wrong in that people often rationalize their 'instinctual' choices, but to imply that nobody is cognizant of any of their thoughts or biases and that we're all slaves to our lizard brains is a bit of a stretc
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12y ago
Please. This piece is not about empathy for people who've been disrupted. It's a self-proclaimed intellectual bemoaning the fact that the change that is inevitable isn't happening the way he thinks it should. He's not fe
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12y ago
I don't think that's a rule so much a consequence of following DRY and YAGNI to the letter. If you don't make something until you need it, and you don't repeat yourself, by definition, you'll make generic solutions
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What do you suggest that would be better and also not upset people?
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Yawn. A whiny, arrogant, grass-is-always-greener post with a bunch of hypotheticals about the filthy unwashed masses encroaching on "our" turf and how much greater it was "back in the day." Bonus points for laying out th
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Didn't the Saturn V go faster than the Space Shuttle? Or did it just have more capability to go far (i.e. more delta-v), not necessarily faster?
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If customer service is stressed so much at Zappos, I imagine working in their call center would be a different experience than most?
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12y ago
This seems to be the summary of the article: > These errors are not random; there is a method to the muddle. The filmmakers see their hero above all as a martyr of a homophobic Establishment, and they are determined to lay emphasis on hi
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12y ago
A pull request where two guys acted like jackasses towards each other, and where we instinctively try to pick sides based on our past experiences and beliefs. I think really thinking on why I'm siding with one person almost immediately
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12y ago
Sounds frustrating. I'm in a patient mood this morning and I feel like testing my patience; do you have any links to these discussions?
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> XML-hating JSON community What are you even talking about? It seems like you think that XML and JSON are two mutually exclusive technologies and that if one is bad, the other is good. Or that if one is used, the other can't be? I
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12y ago
I think it's less harm and more about principle. Nodejs is presumably maintained by hardworking people who devote their time to making it as good as they can. Presumably there's a bug tracker and they'd love contributions, an
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12y ago
I love this. There are a ton of web developers out there who know JavaScript, and there are a ton of scripting systems written in Lua. It makes a lot of sense to add support for putting (what I'm assuming is) the most widely distribute
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I would bounce this back and say, if the hiring manager doesn't know the difference between Red Hat and Linux, do you even want to work at that place?
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I think most of those gifs are hosted on github. I tried to post a linked image, and it only showed the hyperlink. When I uploaded the image to github, it showed up inline.
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>This is why I believe that we need older people, women, educators, and artists Remember, if you're a young man, or you don't have the title of artist or educator, you're obviously not a people person and you're fuc
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The commit is great. I love that the comments have spiraled completely out of control. At this point, 30 minutes after the link was posted, the comment thread is now a competition to see who can post the best gif. I know we're serious
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The first time I saw it, it was rising up into the clouds and I was reminded of the first time you see The Citadel in Half-Life 2. http://media.moddb.com/images/mods/1/13/12001/citadel3.jpg
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>I don't see myself spending over $100 for a thermostat. Ever. If my thermostat could figure out the ideal time to heat and cool my apartment to maximize my comfort and minimize my cost without me having to mess with it, I would gla
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Is there a reason there aren't any braces around single-line if statements? Is that a C thing? It seems kind of inviting to bugs to me.
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You're really picking at surface issues in the first few paragraphs that are wholly unimportant to the message of the article (which wasn't overly conservative or political at all). It's worth a read if you can manage to look
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6th month old Macbook Pro, I'm getting jank on this page in both Chrome and Safari. This is legitimately disappointing.
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> I got a little sad because perhaps I am doomed to never be such a great speaker. There is no better way to doom yourself to something than to say you're doomed to that fate. If you want to be a better speaker, practice. Some peop
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>By contrast, Tim Cook continued contracts with Foxconn with the sole goal of minimizing production costs by using underpaid overworked labor Do you have any proof of this or citations on it? Everything I've seen about Apple regardi
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Who pays for it? The State or the employer?
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No idea why they're so common. I was born in the early 1980s and I've noticed this trend happening in my lifetime. It wasn't always like this.
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