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by csb6 6y ago
> This is not realistic. Performance doesn't just happen. Within limited constraints, focusing on performance will necessarily imply less feature. I don’t think this has to be the case. I’ve found that it’s not really that much hard
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by csb6 6y ago
> [Allende] noted that the declaration had not obtained the two-thirds Senate majority "constitutionally required" to convict the president of abuse of power: essentially, the Congress was "invoking the intervention of the
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by csb6 6y ago
Have you read the history of this room's interior design? Or are you judging a book by its cover? The interior design of a room may suggest something about its seriousness, but there is no inherent association. That is why stereotypes
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by csb6 6y ago
The U.S. supported a military coup to overthrow Allende. This is a fact. That seems to be what the article is stating, no? Pinochet's abuses are well-documented, and he was not democratically elected.
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by csb6 6y ago
I guess our conceptions of CLIs are different. I wasn't thinking of developing complex textual formats that need to be parsed as input to a CLI program, I was thinking more like simple flags like `--do-operation=value` as opposed to a
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by csb6 6y ago
> How do you test CLI? I do not understand this. Has the author used diff or stdin/stdout redirection? Testing CLI is trivial in comparison to testing a GUI or another kind of interface; it is all text and so can easily be compare
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by csb6 6y ago
There is some truth to Tesla issues getting covered more often, but when was the last time Ford or Toyota recalled a vehicle because a major part of the body could blow off? A component being faulty isn’t really on the same order of magnitu
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by csb6 6y ago
This is quite disturbing. It is an example of marketing as a form of social conditioning, where our brains our conditioned to perform repetitive actions until they become unconscious. While this can be useful for some things (e.g. touch typ
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by csb6 6y ago
That statistic I cited includes pension funds.
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by csb6 6y ago
> It is only hubris for some people to think some governments of their own choosing should have a piece of that It is not hubris. It is pragmatics. Moving to another county does not fully avoid contributing to the community where you liv
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by csb6 6y ago
Sure, non-wealthy people own stocks. But right now, the richest 10% of American households own 84% of the value of all stocks owned by Americans [1]. It is clear that the wealthy benefit massively from these structures and have much more us
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by csb6 6y ago
This is a very American-centric view of things. The author insists that the Internet has up until recently been mostly American, yet admits that the World Wide Web was made in Switzerland. And about most Internet users being American...does
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by csb6 6y ago
I have had similar experiences with Python. What endlessly frustrated me when looking up the documentation for Python’s standard library (I was using the classes for working with emails/imap) was that what kind of thing to pass in as
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by csb6 6y ago
Did everyone clap?
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by csb6 6y ago
Very cool toys indeed: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_rights_violations_by_t...
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by csb6 6y ago
“Can you please limit reminders of human rights abuses and other unpleasant things to other platforms instead?”
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by csb6 6y ago
Love how people criticize the Chinese security state for banning websites and apps as infringing on free speech, but of the U.S. does it, it’s a smart move.
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by csb6 6y ago
I also like how it just does one thing: key/values. It doesn’t try to be a complex serialization format or its own full language - it’s just keys and their values. Granted, sometimes data needs to have more structure, but for settings&
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by csb6 6y ago
I’ve used tools similar to quickcheck a little bit, and I think property-based testing can be useful. Generating, say, 100,000 randomized inputs over a range makes me more confident than if I hand write a handful of tests. Still, quickcheck
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by csb6 6y ago
> capitalism that enabled Free Software to exist in the first place. No, it did not. If you knew the history of FOSS, then you would know that for several decades, every major tech company strongly opposed it and was terrified of it. GNU
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by csb6 6y ago
I am not dismissing any criticism, just the problematic fact that no one talks about unions except corporate PSAs. There are no institutions or traditions to support labor organizing in the way there once was. Like the idea of joining or fo
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by csb6 6y ago
Maybe recently, with many American unions struggling just to survive, but historically (in the late 1800s to middle 1900s) American unions have been incredibly effective and pioneering.
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by csb6 6y ago
It’s partially self-interest, true, but speaking for Americans, there really is no widespread, institutional education on what labor unions are or do, and what benefits they can bring. Most people simply don’t think about them or believe wh
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by csb6 6y ago
Yeah, it’s discouraging. But Hacker News is a place for capitalists (self-identified) or wannabe capitalists to hold discussions, and the site is run by a venture capital firm, so makes sense. Still discouraging to see the lack of education
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by csb6 6y ago
I said nothing about China in my comment. All I said is that it is disingenuous and incorrect to call the U.S. a “liberal democracy” and use that to explain away the reasons that our surveillance state is “better” than theirs. I made no jud
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by csb6 6y ago
I said nothing about China in my comment. All I said is that it is disingenuous and incorrect to call the U.S. a “liberal democracy” and use that to explain away the reasons that our surveillance state is “better” than theirs. I made no jud
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by csb6 6y ago
> These are all nice ideas that don't work very well in practice Yeah I agree with what you said about Powershell, but I think there is a balance. Some Unix programs have the ‘—-‘ style verbose flags, which is good. However, I would
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by csb6 6y ago
This is a unique way to think about it. My issue with the Unix way of doings things, though, is the user unfriendliness/large amount of weirdly-named commands/syntax and one letter flags that make reading other people’s code hard.
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by csb6 6y ago
> In that world, "hacking your customers" is the only feasible path to growth. I share the upthread concern as to whether this is effective, I just don't see a way for these stores to avoid going down that path if it does
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by csb6 6y ago
This comment shows an astounding lack of anything resembling human empathy. Teachers do not want to return to work because the outbreak is getting worse in many places, and the already underpaid job of being a teacher would become even more

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