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Obama was supposed to be the change candidate, it's what he ran on, but he didn't really do anything. That's part of why Trump won. People have been wanting significant change for that long, yet we never got it.
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I was ok with Trump winning and the random element is why. I wasn't really behind Trump, but I wasn't behind Hillary either. I just think atleast Trump has a chance to do something different, Hillary wouldn't have.
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If hardware was the only factor then consoles wouldn't exist because everyone would play on their PC.
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That would make him a horrible human being.
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I've felt like that for a long time, and I think Obama is partially to blame for Trump getting elected. When he made the compromise he did with Hilary during his first election I knew then he was going to be a political creature (and I
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There's a difference between loving your work and loving your job.
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10y ago
Because there's an extremely large difference in complexity and reliability.
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I don't necessarily agree with software people solving problems that might happen unless they have a lot of experience in the domain. Do the simple thing and if you're wrong then you have less work to throw away.
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If we're going whole hog we also have to include the various drug users and people of differing ages. What if that 18 year old prostitute druggie has a perspective that isn't covered in our scrum standups!
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oh horsecrap, stop with the theatrics. You've been a drug addict who's gone to jail and had a hard time, but even you've never seen anything as horrible as white class workers presumably looking down on other white class work
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No one is going to explain how they're wrong, if he was ticketed the officer involved had a perspective that included him not being in the right.
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> The review committee does this for hours a day, and they see far more cases. That's like saying that it's better for you to assess the condition of the transmission of your car, because you care more and are more invested. I&
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10y ago
So you did it on purpose. That just makes you a bad actor in the conversation.
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Or we were severely disappointed when we realized Rust doesn't really give you that safety.
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You completely misunderstood what he was trying to tell you.
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I don't read as much as I used to, and when I really think about it I get regretful. I definitely read more than 1-4 books/year, but I just don't have the time to devote to it anymore. I strongly prefer actual books, but I&#
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10y ago
Or it's that they're posting a specific type of list.
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10y ago
> We're already seeing the early signs of this with the explosion of indie games and youtube personalities. That's a non-sequitur, you may as well say we're seeing this with the explosiong of freelancers and personal busin
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10y ago
agreed, It was amazing because everyone automatically knew what was at stake and sides no longer existed in that conflict (temporarily atleast).
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It has my absolute favorite car chase in a movie ever.
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> Thus, in such languages, there shouldn't be a conceptual or syntactical difference between values and references. The fact that C# allows to differentiate them from each other is a leaky abstraction imho, built in to satifsy peopl
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I don't even know what that means.
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10y ago
people who get paid really well and don't want to kill other people? Who wants to pull 30 hour shifts?
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The issue isn't just one of performance, but form factor and input mechanisms.
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I've never understood why people use templating engines in PHP. I've been an on again off again user of PHP for atleast 7 years now, and I've never understood it for exactly the reasons you outlined.
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> It turns out that it makes it really hard to share people, libraries, and learning between teams The idea is that you don't do that. It's a matter of duplicating functionality across teams so that each team isn't behold
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10y ago
overlap the shifts by 2 hours. Why is that not an acceptable solution, outside of economics?
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strangely enough, I've been expecting that as well, but reading your blog post, I differ on how it will be realized. I think it's more likely people will instead carry identities that describe the applications they have access to,
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> Agile is old enough that many people don't know what pre-Agile development was like. Often teams would pretend everything is fine until months after projects should have shipped. Pretending things are great while looking for a job
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> That's a false equivalency and completely ignores the fact that C++ is one giant `unsafe` block. This is exactly what I meant when I said rust people miss the forest for the trees. > Could you please explain what kind of eviden
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