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by bulatb 13y ago
Brendan Eich, the creator of JavaScript, was accused of homophobia for donating $1000 to the Prop 8 campaign. https://www.google.com/search?q=brendan+eich+homophobia
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by bulatb 13y ago
No one said anything about condoning evil. And the quote you end with is exactly what I'm saying. > Trying to apply a physical law to a philosophical construct is folly. That's not what I'm doing. A government is not a phi
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> [Freedoms] are not being eroded by irresistible laws of nature. Yes they are. Without infusions of external energy—in this case citizens who work to keep their rights—entropy increases, complex structures rot and crumble, and order fad
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> But how in hell can't you make it possible to use map(print, ..) in python2.x? `from __future__ import print_function` lets you do that in >= 2.6.
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by bulatb 13y ago
Not pretty, but it does the trick. Kinda. Or at least it won't destroy the stack if you recurse too deep. from collections import namedtuple TailCall = namedtuple('TailCall', ['function', 'args'])
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Please forgive my liberties with science words. :) The purpose of refactoring is to remove the entropy that builds up in a system, organization, or process as it ages, grows in complexity, and expands to meet demands it wasn't meant to
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They specifically ask people not to do that.
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"Those companies are full of hipster kids with fancy Ivy League degrees, spoiled with perks and massive salaries, making useless products that are scary because your kids understand them and you don't. They're coldly taking s
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by bulatb 13y ago
That seems like wishful thinking. Nerds don't run for office. They're not interested and mostly busy doing other stuff. Spending Valley lobby dollars might buy our industry a timeshare in a politician, but "our" rep won&
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by bulatb 13y ago
Another possibility, avoiding Hanlon's razor: They honestly have trouble understanding how or why someone could in good conscience disagree. They don't want control or censorship in the abstract; they just want to legislate morali
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by bulatb 13y ago
> Do people believe in a free and open Internet, or do they not? Not really. They want a special kind of freedom where censorship is not allowed... unless the stuff that's getting censored is the kind of stuff that they don't l
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by bulatb 13y ago
Having kids is no excuse to let your brain check out when someone tells you they're in vague, amorphous danger. When those kids grow up, they'll be inheriting a world where civil liberties can be (and have been) eroded by cynical
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by bulatb 13y ago
> The possession of "extreme pornography", which includes scenes of simulated rape, is to be outlawed. Certain scenes in Game of Thrones might trip this rule. More interestingly, the show is partly filmed in the UK. I guess Mar
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Why are people who hate ads more likely to be influenced by them?
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Thanks, I'll give it a try.
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by bulatb 13y ago
Mine is opposite your opposite. :) On my 2.5GB, 1.8GHz Core Duo Thinkpad from 2006, Chrome handles dozens of tabs in multiple windows like a champ. Firefox pre-24 was noticeably slow with just a few tabs in a single window. It's been u
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by bulatb 13y ago
I think the large, bold story numbers draw too much attention that would otherwise be focused on the headlines. What a story is about is more important, and contains more information, than its ranking on the front page. Hacker News may not
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by bulatb 13y ago
"Voters said 63 - 25 percent [that X]" means that 63% agreed with X and 25% did not. I guess the other 12% had no opinion.
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That last map has it labeled as the US Secret Service James J. Rowley Training Center. Zoom in on the little blue-roofed building closest to Powder Mill Road.
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Until those committees start selecting the committees.
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Breaking rules has consequences. The 4th Amendment is a rule that says the government cannot conduct illegal searches. It should follow, then, that the consequences of a 4th Amendment violation include the inadmissibility of any evidence th
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by bulatb 13y ago
Or purposely invented Homo Sapiens just so we could kill it.
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Any "right" can be revoked by someone with a bigger gun.
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Which is still a theoretical concern until it's actually used against you.
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The way this is presented really isn't cool. If the Post has evidence to back their annotations, they should cite it or at least say it exists in other sources they have access to. If the annotations are correct, they basically confirm
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The moral basis is irrelevant. International dynamics are a might-makes-right affair.
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by bulatb 13y ago
The headline seems to be misleading: it's 97% of the last 100 comments .
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That semicolon (;) in your footer should be a colon (:). [0] [0] http://i.imgur.com/VHYGbSd.png
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The Medium machine is hungry. It must grow .
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> What are Google, Facebook, and the like looking for in graduates? Experience, sure, but incredible technical savvy. I think that's overstating it. They're looking for above-average competence.

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