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by candu 9y ago
Do we really have to crap all over this person's work? It's clearly intended as a learning exercise / tutorial written by someone who's in the process of learning themselves, and not as "breaking news" or a pr
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by candu 9y ago
At least since the days of the Moral Majority, I'd say. (Or possibly since the House Un-American Activities Committee. (Or maybe since Industrial Revolution-era strike-breaking? (Or maybe - if you're gay, transgender, etc. - rou
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by candu 9y ago
...and, if I understood their tables correctly, use of tranquilizers (benzodiazepines, etc.) is associated with significantly greater risk.
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by candu 9y ago
...or, perhaps, these rifts are merely shouting contests between small (but extremely vocal) groups on extreme opposing ends of the political spectrum, and are greatly exaggerated for the usual clickbait / attention economy reasons. ..
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by candu 9y ago
There are most certainly human inventions / discoveries that are, in some sense, "hard" (either to discover in the first place, or to explain / grasp). We have a biased view here: we can look back at, e.g., Einstein&#x2
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by candu 9y ago
If the senior developers around you are worthy of that title, they've reached that point by making more mistakes than you have - and learning from them. Here are some techniques I use to learn from mistakes: Double-checking. To take
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by candu 9y ago
If someone takes a pallet of hundreds sitting in the open on the back of the truck, and it doesn't belong to them, it still meets the legal definition of theft. It might not be the best idea to leave it there, but that doesn't ma
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by candu 9y ago
There’s a tendency to accept without question, in these sorts of conversations, that “trivial entertainment” is bad, or at least qualifiably inferior to either “good entertainment” (less Skinner-box-ish games, going outside, socializing, et
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by candu 9y ago
To me, this is like saying social engineering isn't a security problem. It seems pretty obvious that, if your aim is to accumulate capital, regulatory capture is a pretty damn efficient strategy as compared to marketing or product deve
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by candu 9y ago
...and to me this looks like they've (quite reasonably) reached the decision that skirting labor and transportation regulations is not a legally valid form of "disruption". (See also: Airbnb's ongoing regulatory tussles
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by candu 9y ago
...because we have documents (e.g. the Federalist Papers [1]) that explain their philosophy and arguments. Moreover, significant technological advances aside, our basic psychology / neurobiology remains virtually unchanged, and so man
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by candu 9y ago
Sure, it's only a few minutes... ...if you're making a relatively small change to a non-mission-critical, non-distributed system that can be taken offline briefly while you migrate; then you can just shut everything down, migrate,
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by candu 9y ago
None of the above, IMHO; it's merely a reaction to what, from the "outside", looks like a speculative bubble fueled by the usual hype cycle mixed in with a dose of wanton techno-utopianism. We're quite used by this point
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by candu 9y ago
For some perspective: take a few sites that you use every day (e.g. Google, possibly Facebook, any news site that you visit regularly) and check on First Versions ( http://www.firstversions.com/ ) to see what their first publ
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by candu 9y ago
You say "protect a country's border", I say "potentially kill innocent people without human judgment or intervention". Regardless of your personal stance on the moral / practical utility of national borders, s
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by candu 9y ago
Following the law isn’t a moral imperative. Most of us have broken the law before: speeding, using proscribed substances, “forgetting” to declare items at customs, etc. A cursory glance at history turns up all sorts of cases where civil d
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by candu 9y ago
FWIW, I've been using Vue for the last couple of projects and have been extremely satisfied.
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by candu 9y ago
Yup. Purely Functional Data Structures (thesis as linked, book: https://www.amazon.com/Purely-Functional-Structures-Chris-Ok... ) is awesome. I especially found some of the tree-based recursive algorithms eye-opening (once
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by candu 9y ago
It's worth noting that BSA has STEM programs / badges, as do other national Scouting organizations elsewhere (e.g. Scouts Canada). So if it helps motivate this, it's really just extending availability of an existing program.
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by candu 9y ago
...except without any meaningful equity or expectation of convertibility to liquid cash.
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by candu 9y ago
Easy: a lot of states teach abstinence-only sex education, and there's a prevailing set of social norms (often imposed by "pro lifer Christians") that makes frank discussions of birth control, sex, reproductive biology, etc.
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by candu 9y ago
One problem with this is the "long tail" issue: in many applications, you have a highly active small minority of users, and any server assigned to enough of those users will be overloaded while other servers are underutilized. Si
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by candu 9y ago
This is the sad reality behind much of content creation nowadays. Now that everyone's a blogging streaming indie-gamemaking content-spewing machine, the marginal expected value of new content - in a lot of areas - is close to zero.
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by candu 9y ago
My current solution: ssh -v -C -D 1080 {server_i_own}, then set application proxy settings to localhost:1080. (I’m aware this isn’t really the same as a VPN, but for my current purposes it’s Good Enough.)
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by candu 9y ago
[citation needed]
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by candu 9y ago
If we’re making decisions that could have been predicted, on the basis on known scientific evidence, to lead to measurably worse outcomes, I’d argue that does indeed make those decisions less valid. There’s a troubling tendency these days t
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by candu 9y ago
One counterargument to this reasoning is that many of his promises are for policies that, according to the best available evidence, are counterproductive. If the base consistently votes for things like “get tough on crime!” or “keep drugs i
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by candu 9y ago
+1. title and aria-label attributes would go a long way here.
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by candu 9y ago
This. There's no global bargaining chip to be gained here: if anything, the rest of the world has now fully realized that American exceptionalism is in rapid decline. Witness, for instance, the global reaction to Trump's decisio
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by candu 9y ago
Sure, but having `util.promisify` in core modules means you no longer need an external dependency here.

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