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by dangerface 4y ago
They claim that being politically correct is not learned by children. > they enforce "political correctness" of speech without being told but then claims that they have learned the difference > When I was a kid "gay&quo
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by dangerface 4y ago
> If OOP was a solution to anything really, we wouldn't need design patterns, clean architecture, or SOLID design principles. He's not wrong. I loved moving from C to C++ polymorphic code is such a cool concept but after a whil
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by dangerface 4y ago
Yes I am sure. [0] The first Canadian school I looked at on google maps doesn't even have a flag pole never mind the flag. If this school was in America I would expect it to be burnt out by the end of the day for such a disgusting disp
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by dangerface 4y ago
> So, if they make so much sense, why are queues left out of the first implementation Sorry what? How do they make so much sense? The article gives a full backstory and diagrams for event sourcing pattern it says every one knows but has
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by dangerface 4y ago
Most people don't want to be an asshole but it's easy to convince oneself it's not a big deal if you only think of yourself. Once you know people have a problem with it you lose your justification, you can continue sure but n
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by dangerface 4y ago
> all the stupid rules that feel so far fetched in a European society. And all the security nightmares credit cards come with. Those rules are written by the EU and then implemented by visa and master. If we cut out visa and mastercard w
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by dangerface 4y ago
This is much more like migrating to a new server without the new server to migrate to, yes the old serve is gone forever.
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by dangerface 4y ago
Its very much a US thing. Sure other countrys have flags and they like them but Americans really take it to a whole other level. In the uk every school I wen't to had a flag pole but would only fly a flag on special occasions such as s
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by dangerface 4y ago
Religious freedom is just marketing like equal rights for all men, its easy to say and then debate what is a valid religion or who is a valid human.
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by dangerface 4y ago
What evidence is there that spying on the public will reduce child molestation? When you consider that the majority of perpetrators are family members how would spying on the publics chat help detect or prevent that? I don't think ther
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by dangerface 4y ago
I have to say I hate that. I do not miss the "Is this actually failing?" debate I get every time I write C. Joel complains about exceptions being invisible but how is returning errors any better? If a function returns 0 has it fai
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by dangerface 4y ago
I throw exceptions for anything that isn't an expected result. Request a row from a database that doesn't exist throws an exception NoResults let the caller decide what to do. The caller can then recover from the exception by sear
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by dangerface 4y ago
Its generaly attributed to Sir William Garrow a British barrister who made the notion that people should be innocent until proven guilty in trial in 1791. before that the justice system was guilty until proven innocent, so the salem witch t
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by dangerface 4y ago
If an applicant asked me these questions the answer would be no to all of them. Do other organisations put that many limitations and control on their developers? Is there any space for developers to take charge of their own projects and hav
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by dangerface 4y ago
> How exaclty are farmers "stealing" from the soil, when the same patch of land has been used for monocultures a hundred years or more? Before the world wars and invention of artificial fertiliser we didn't have monocultur
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by dangerface 4y ago
> Edit: and there are ways of maintaining a healthy soil without animals. I have done it in a very small scale for my plantations (just 40m2) and there are examples of people doing it on a much larger scale. I have yet to find data about
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by dangerface 4y ago
Im pretty sure it was implemented because of the amount of mob justice that was going on during the period of the salem witch trials.
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by dangerface 4y ago
> Multiple credible accusations, corroborated by contemporaneous accounts, collated by a reputable journalist is definitely enough to call the accusations founded. Journalists build a narrative and then find facts that fit their narrativ
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by dangerface 4y ago
If they didn't drink the whisky it would have burned down more houses those people are true Irish heros.
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by dangerface 4y ago
Tooling for embedded development? Please back in my day you just didn't get any tooling even the programer was left to the manufacture to make. > It is kind of like demanding you understand and set the timing advance on your car&#x2
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by dangerface 4y ago
> I showed up without knowing the subject at all This is so interesting I had the same feeling and now as an adult it seems so strange, school was supposed to be about learning not testing what you already knew so why was I worried about
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Ask HN: Carbon Neutral CDN
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by dangerface 4y ago
Sounds like money laundering, some one gets your credit card info then uses it to make purchases with clean money then pays off your credit card with dirty money. Make sure it all balances out to 0 at the end of the day and you probably won
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by dangerface 4y ago
> Am I a bad engineer or do I come across wrong to management ? My performance reviews go great. What can I do or change ? You are given legacy projects because you are one of a small group that has experience with those legacy projects.
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by dangerface 4y ago
What if instead of throwing them away I give all my clothes to oxfam is fast fashion still a problem? Im much more worried about e-waste. If it costs more to run than modern hardware thats an issue for those in the used market / develo
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I understand why they arrested him but it doesn't seem like he did anything thats illegal so it will be interesting to see what charge they bring or how they intend to differentiate between tornado cash and HSBC laundering money for ca
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by dangerface 4y ago
The quotes around computers is kind of annoying because they are actual computers and the machines we use are "computers"
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by dangerface 4y ago
Theres a saying the only secure computer is one thats turned off with no networking buried in a block of concrete. I haven't heard of a technical solution which is impervious to destruction.
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If the result could be publicly verifiable like a bitcoin transaction then yea makes sense. We could create a distributed public ledger of votes with a setup similar to bitcoin. Every vote is encrypted with malleable encryption so that I ca
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by dangerface 4y ago
> This is somewhat surprising and undesirable especially because one cannot turn it off. It's surprising that when using the internet other computers you communicate with get your ip? You can opt out by going outside and not using t

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