burnthrow

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by burnthrow 6y ago
"Pay no attention to the second densest city in the country over there."
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by burnthrow 6y ago
Boston is a major tech hub.
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by burnthrow 6y ago
I would never do it, but there's some convincing evidence (the experience of eunuchs) that castration evens out the male/female longevity difference.
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by burnthrow 6y ago
Two things I don't like FUD around: My Linux and my heroin.
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by burnthrow 6y ago
You're so right. First give me all of your money, it's an illusion anyway.
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by burnthrow 6y ago
We can talk about anything we want. Don't even have to open the link. Now let me tell you what I think about Ruby...
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by burnthrow 6y ago
You have a lot to say!
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by burnthrow 6y ago
I've not yet found a reliable way to experience statistics.
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by burnthrow 6y ago
Hair saloon, must be a Texas thing.
40.
by burnthrow 6y ago
But he used the word "I" too many times. Case closed. Throw your unread TAOCP at him!
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by burnthrow 6y ago
Relax, the submission is a troll.
42.
by burnthrow 6y ago
Start by getting off of HN and Reddit. Turn off non-local news.
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by burnthrow 6y ago
Nobody said it's malicious. In this industry, every year of experience has diminishing real returns. That is to say, I'm embarrassed by my relative effectiveness many years ago as a new dev. It was mostly thanks to defaulting to t
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by burnthrow 6y ago
Over the past year, the graphic illustration of most peoples' blind idiocy and superstition has been a bit much to take it all at once. The best thing is that I no longer care what anybody thinks about pretty much anything. The worst t
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by burnthrow 6y ago
Oh please, your behavior will depend on what's socially acceptable at the time and you know it.
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by burnthrow 6y ago
Having reliable electricity during a dangerous heat wave and heavy wildfire smoke that forces you indoors: Priceless.
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by burnthrow 6y ago
You may want to visit first.
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by burnthrow 6y ago
Maybe you've never experienced the anguish of having to pair program with a TDD purist. I honestly wonder how these people tie their shoes without performing a few deliberate face-plants first "just to make sure."
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by burnthrow 6y ago
Or when emotional politicians decide that wrapping your mostly unused park with CAUTION tape is a good idea (it stops the virus, and my dance starts the rain).
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by burnthrow 6y ago
> I expect this is how most of HN's crowd grew up, too. Why. Maybe you're comforted by the thought that your experience was not abnormally privileged, but it was.
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by burnthrow 6y ago
Because the thread is an echo chamber of irritable pricks whose time and focus is valuable .
52.
by burnthrow 6y ago
Have you tried making enemies instead? Then you can befriend their enemies.
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by burnthrow 6y ago
I chose Fastmail for business, as an upgrade over self-hosting, because it seemed to be a solid provider, not because "Google, ew!" Turns out, Google's the more solid provider (three years as an FM customer before reaching th
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by burnthrow 6y ago
My experience was that Fastmail has regular hiccups, they just don't make the news. I left for Google Apps years ago mostly for that reason.
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by burnthrow 6y ago
I think people are tired of the same politically-motivated dog and pony show every time inventing a new totem. Like WaPo/NYT-fabricated "pop icon" Ruth Bader Ginsberg last year. It's the same chorus of vapid praise each
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by burnthrow 6y ago
That approach sounds like it would yield many false positives.
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by burnthrow 6y ago
> I mean, it gets down to about -17F here in the winter. Did you know that Minneapolis is considered the best bicycling city in the US?
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by burnthrow 6y ago
Go's Memory Model documentation specifically recommends modeling a counting semaphore with a buffered channel. https://golang.org/ref/mem#tmp_7
59.
by burnthrow 6y ago
> rides his bicycle around even int he dead of winter That maniac!
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by burnthrow 6y ago
Okay, now do McCarthyism!

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