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by contrast 4y ago
It might be worth noting that in the US, "middle class" is used in the same way as "working class" is used in the UK i.e. blue collar, non-professionals.
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by contrast 5y ago
Of course other people do this - the internet is full of trolls who get a kick out of their dishonesty, flame wars and generally selfish and disruptive behaviour. Your justification is that you get a lot of engagement, even to the point of
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by contrast 5y ago
The author’s message - which includes concluding that he’s morally superior to most people - is undermined by his blatantly partisan selection of examples. Personally, I’m of the view it’s a bad idea to spend time documenting in detail how
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by contrast 5y ago
You should ask yourself whether, after posting the same accusatory rant time after time after time to strangers on the internet, people are going to conclude that you are providing the rational side of the argument.
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by contrast 5y ago
Whatever approach you take, someone or something has to build a model of the data for end users to slice and dice. The bit you’re missing is that a “cube” usually refers to a separate data store and compute engine to the data warehouse, que
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by contrast 5y ago
While the author is suggesting some good techniques, I suspect that if your code is being criticised for being “clever”, you’re unlikely to improve the situation by arguing that in fact it’s “insightful”. In my view, the most important aspe
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by contrast 5y ago
I’m trying to figure out the point you’re trying to make. I’ve never heard of the Socratic approach as being incorrect or pointless, I just think if it as a completely standard rhetorical technique. Does using it render the argument invalid
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by contrast 5y ago
I’m watching right now in UK via iTunes as advertised.
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by contrast 6y ago
You were literally just saying that people who learn to play an instrument and express themselves through music, if they learned how to read, were no more musicians than some who can’t actually program is a programmer. I suppose you can arg
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by contrast 6y ago
Bottom line is, if you do all those things and most everybody you know does too, you’re truly exceptional. Even perfectly dutiful people usually know someone who clearly resents paying taxes (which at the very least encourages others not to
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by contrast 6y ago
I think it’s a pointless bike shedding exercise to discuss which of your shipping versions was the MVP. I note your mentor is from Google - rather notorious for keeping things in beta long after it’s shipped to millions of users, and killin
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by contrast 6y ago
The problem with assertions without any supporting facts is they can only be mirrored by the obvious counter-arguments: In fact, Zuckerberg strikes me as someone acting insincerely, making arguments in bad faith, with no regard to civic res
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by contrast 6y ago
D3 was around for years before Observable, there’s plenty of books and tutorials around that don’t use Observable, it’s an open source library that doesn’t need Observable, and there must be plenty of people like me using D3 in production c
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by contrast 6y ago
The post was by the most senior individual in government. When the commander in chief says something should happen, then obviously - completely and utterly obviously - that specifically encourages and endorses such action by the police and
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by contrast 6y ago
The post in question promotes a specific, imminent, and serious risk. The situation in question already has one unwarranted killing, and the phrase in question refers to a historical record of excessively violent suppression, so we’re well
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by contrast 6y ago
I guess the more interesting questions are how often you re-implement discarded technologies back in to your core stack after they’ve let you down, and how much time you spend re-evaluating your core tech but don’t find enough improvements
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by contrast 7y ago
Because people and countries are permitted to talk to each other before a vote - especially so in legislatures where votes are not made in a secret ballot - and therefore the majority is usually known before the vote.
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by contrast 8y ago
Even for leisurely reading, you expect an author to still be updating a book several years after it was published? What experience has led you to believe that's a reasonable expectation?
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by contrast 8y ago
Yes they did, according to the article: “Mr Simanainen says that while some individuals found work, they were no more likely to do so than a control group of people who weren't given the money.” Note this means the headline is the oppo
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by contrast 8y ago
Did you read it, though? It absolutely does not say that Apollo invented network computing, it just says it was one of the companies at that time working in that field. Of course there were unique identifiers before the first UUID standard
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by contrast 8y ago
That’s a very long article for making the core point that the author believes their kind of tolerance is better than your kind of tolerance. Fact is, most people are uncomfortable to some degree with people of different race, gender, sexual
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by contrast 8y ago
It’s an interesting choice to compare “best of all time at anything you care to mention” to “better at the core skills of my job than the folks in the more junior roles”. They are extremely different attitudes. Wouldn’t most people at the t
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by contrast 8y ago
No, the equivalent here would be saying "vote for me or my opponent will force a stranger into your house". The ads are lies targeted at people whose xenophobia is stronger than their grip on the facts.
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by contrast 8y ago
Because they are lies. Turkey is quite obviously not about to join the EU, so the advert is a lie intended to win the votes of people whose xenophobia leads them to strongly fear it is true.
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by contrast 8y ago
You do have to be pessimistic or cynical to think that the words good and evil have no real meaning, or even if they do then it’s not worth trying to use them because nothing is perfect and clear. Refusing to deal with nuance and disagreeme
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by contrast 8y ago
Yes, if you simplify the discussion by removing important differences - which is probably not the best idea when talking about classification. There is a significant difference between people classifying things differently when they exist r
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by contrast 9y ago
Read the article and explain how they could have been worse! For anyone with a basic appreciation of "honesty" or "ethical behaviour", it is fairly obvious that simple improvements would include: Don't deceive the u
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by contrast 9y ago
There is no simpler lesson than "don't install unexpected software on your users machines". So simple. So obvious. So necessary, if you value privacy. Yet they have not acknowledged the mistake or shown any signs of willing t
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by contrast 9y ago
No, it's not that blurry. Any competent manager should be able to tell the difference between "functionality directly related to what users expect of a browser" and "code that we have installed on their machines without
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by contrast 9y ago
If you take a period of time, and judge yourself by your best performance over small fractions of that time, then you are very far away from an accurate self-assessment.

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