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by curun1r 9y ago
Additional structure like, say, a numeric error code? An HttpError could definitely contain the corresponding status code. But I think the bigger point is that, for libraries, errors should be an enumerated set of possible error conditions,
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by curun1r 9y ago
Or anyone who's used a language where errors aren't as stringly-typed as Go and where the compiler can enforce error handling. Exceptions have benefits and drawbacks, but any language that can return a Result type will have better
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by curun1r 9y ago
As sad as the photo of the rhino makes me, I find the photo below of the elephants in the palm plantation even sadder. So much of Southeast Asia's forests have been destroyed to create palm oil plantations. It's not only devastati
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by curun1r 9y ago
24/7 isn't required. Since last call is at 2am, running until 3am on Sat and Sun would make a huge difference and cost them 5 hrs of maintenance time. That's probably still a problem, but it seems like a solvable one.
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by curun1r 9y ago
Ride sharing is of tremendous value in the Bay Area since BART irresponsibly stops service at 12:30am. People living in the East Bay often go into SF to drink, so getting home after bars close is a lot easier now. Of course the somewhat iro
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by curun1r 9y ago
My interpretation of his comment was that drunk driving was basically required if you wanted to go out and drink. Public transportation in LA didn't work and cabs were too expensive for people who wanted to go out more than once a mont
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by curun1r 9y ago
Your car isn't the sum total of what you spend on transportation. Every loaf of bread and gallon of milk was also transported a fairly long distance to arrive at your local supermarket. All the Uber stories here would lead you to belie
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by curun1r 9y ago
Until someone goes on vacation, their area blows up and everyone else has to panic fix some code that they've never seen before. As a manager, one of my main jobs is ensuring that the team's bus number is always above 1 and schedu
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by curun1r 9y ago
You can say the same thing about anti-depressants too, especially the part about it making thing MUCH WORSE. I lost a decade of my life before I realized they were just numbing me to my situation and allowing me to not deal with it. There i
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by curun1r 9y ago
> I am running away and trying put enough stuff behind me that it can't catch me I'm not sure I like that way of looking at it. I choose to look at it like I'm an addict. Addicts, even once they're sober, consider the
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by curun1r 9y ago
> So what do we do about the "fencification" of Democracy? Is the problem that politicians are too good at debate or is the problem that voters lack the critical thinking skills to recognize that they're being played? I&#x
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by curun1r 9y ago
Heh...I had a similar take. My reaction on reading the title: "That's a dumb decision, why didn't they go with MLB Advanced Media?" Then I read the article and found out they've just changed their name. Yawn...I gue
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by curun1r 9y ago
Back in 2000-2001, I worked up a prototype of something similar using Adobe's FDF SDK [1] for PDF. We had a PDF-centric application that would render to PDF using an HTML -> PDF library and it was hugely problematic, so the prototyp
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by curun1r 9y ago
The other analogy that I've used is to asbestos and lead paint. Both of those products were very good at accomplishing their immediate purpose but had pretty devastating health consequences that were only discovered after they'd b
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by curun1r 9y ago
The part that gets missed in most affirmative action discussions is the value of constituting class that is diverse goes beyond the value to individuals that are chosen despite lower objective selection criteria (GPA, SAT, etc). It also ben
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by curun1r 9y ago
Right...if we're interested in UX, why are we still using numbers as a proxy for who we want to call. Shouldn't we start typing letters and have previous call recipients show up on top and suggestions from some search service show
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by curun1r 9y ago
What I meant by citizenship being artificial is that I, a citizen, do not owe a greater allegiance to other citizens above non-citizens. Of course citizenship has its implications in the ability to vote, work legally and such. But its membe
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by curun1r 9y ago
You're the one calling out people for lack of compassion towards the poor people in the article. Who's to say that they haven't decided to focus on the immigrants in their own states over the plight of the poor in those other
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by curun1r 9y ago
> "Undocumented immigrants" are not citizens being oppressed They're not citizens being oppressed, but they are human beings being oppressed. They're often fleeing war-torn countries and, by definition, have taken a p
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by curun1r 9y ago
> He promised the disadvantaged he'd get their jobs back from Mexico and China All candidates promised jobs. Trump was promising jobs that either no longer really exist due to automation or are soon to be automated out of existence.
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by curun1r 9y ago
The problems from the article are definitely human problems. The comment I was replying to was about why more people don't care, which absolutely is a political problem.
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by curun1r 9y ago
> Blue Blood Democrats pushed Bernie off the national stage attempting to elect Hillary Clinton What the DNC did in last year's primary was shameful, but... > leaving the disadvantaged to only vote for the candidate who offered t
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by curun1r 9y ago
I don't disagree with you, but I think there's a lot of people see the kind of people in the article as the opposition to progressive social issues like #BLM, acceptance of immigrants and the very same socialist policies that they
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by curun1r 9y ago
I have the opposite experience. FedEx and UPS just get to the address, get confused and mark it "delivery attempted" without my ever knowing. They don't even try the buzzer. FedEx won't even allow me to create an account
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by curun1r 9y ago
Another Nexus 5X user here and also dissatisfied. A while back, my phone stopped being able to answer calls. It rings, but no UI dialog appears on screen to let me answer. This is a known issue that I've seen on support forums, but not
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by curun1r 9y ago
I don't want to push you towards any specific practice, but I'd highly encourage you to find the time to do a full retreat that gets you away from your daily routine, computing devices and other distractions. The first retreat I d
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by curun1r 9y ago
> What we as citizens can do is demand that elected officials hold DAs accountable for their wrongful convictions Way to pass the buck. In 47 states, district attorney is an elected office, not an appointment. If we want better behavior
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by curun1r 9y ago
Beyond the other answers you've received that mention the paper trail, district attorneys are elected officials and police officers aren't. The citizens of a city choose the district attorney as a proxy to make decisions for them.
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by curun1r 9y ago
I'm surprised no one has mentioned the other part of the equation: New Orleans: 70% non-white, median household income $37k Flint: 63% non-white, median household income $44k Puerto Rico: 98% latino, though most are also classified as
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by curun1r 9y ago
IIRC, that 3.3% is just for the 5 branches of the military and doesn't include intelligence spending (~$80b/yr) or the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq which are around $2.4 trillion dollars thus far over ~14 years. A more honest numb

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