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by deeg 8y ago
Is there any reason we don't require the government to create software that largely does the taxes for us? They have the W2s, etc. and it seems like they could fill most of the forms out. We'd just need to set the deductions.
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by deeg 8y ago
I think this is a great explanation for consumer products. We can't possibly research every product in our lives and so we take short cuts. Great advertising allows us to make a quick decision that we can feel good about (i.e. we bel
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by deeg 8y ago
What's the incentive for Eastern District to be so conducive to patent trolls? Is it otherwise too small to support the judges and staff?
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by deeg 8y ago
A good article but needs "(2012)" in the title.
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by deeg 8y ago
You left out the most important line in the whole treatise :) > But do not program in COBOL if you can avoid it.
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by deeg 8y ago
Why aren't insurance companies putting pressure on the market to get more inexpensive options? Is the overall savings (~$200 every few years) just not worth it?
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by deeg 8y ago
It's a good op-ed and I largely agree with Brooks but I find this point interesting: > I’d say civilization moves forward when we embrace rule of law, not when we abandon it. What Emily did that got called out (cyber-bullying) isn&#
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by deeg 8y ago
I like the list although I disagree with it some. I think luxury goods are still a status symbol (iPhone X?) and I think she/he left out experiences. People want to look they're always having a good time and living life to the f
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by deeg 8y ago
Dunno about Keeweb but KeePass automatically wipes the clipboard after a configurable number of seconds.
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by deeg 8y ago
I hear what you're saying but the problem is that, when retelling the history of a large battle, no foot soldier plays a large enough part to give the reader a good sense of the overall event. An author can try to incorporate the grun
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by deeg 8y ago
If I recall correctly 'depends' is the name of a similar tool in Windows for debugging DLLs.
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by deeg 8y ago
If I understand the article correctly, Rubin was released due to credible evidence of sexual misconduct but was given $90M going out the door. How is this appropriate punishment? The "news" of the article is that this needs to c
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by deeg 8y ago
Agreed. And as bad as software is, humans are worse. Imagine how many things would go wrong if everything had to be done manually.
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by deeg 8y ago
Agreed. Perhaps the first thing a "best practices" post should start off with is what kinds of problems serverless is best suited for.
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by deeg 8y ago
I look at it this way: change is not going to be forced on the Chinese government by US corporations. That can only come from the Chinese population (with possibly a small assist from foreign governments). So what's the best way to h
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by deeg 8y ago
I'm sure there's a good reason for this and I just don't know it: what's the advantage of wasm over the JVM; i.e. why not just use the JVM in the browser? I assume there are complexities in compiling C/C++ to the JV
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by deeg 8y ago
I'm the same. I do probably 90% of my non-food shopping on Amazon (and have for years) and I've had only one minor bad experience.
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by deeg 8y ago
I'm pretty similar. I especially do this when the title has a click-baity title. I will usually open a topic if it has a lot of comments, even if it's something I normally have no interest in. I've learned more than a few t
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by deeg 8y ago
This quote on whether to always use braces with variable names (e.g. "${var}" or "$var"): > These are meant to be guidelines, as the topic seems too controversial for a mandatory regulation. It's nice to see that
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by deeg 8y ago
I thought the same thing when Node.js started to become popular: why would anybody go through the trouble to set up an environment to run single-threaded, interpreted applications on a server when we already had C/Java/.NET/e
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by deeg 9y ago
It wasn't that long ago that we were lauding the Twitter Revolutions. I don't think social media is going anywhere but it will certainly change.
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by deeg 9y ago
According to the OA there's only two years left on the patent. Spacing them out would at least limit the number of small companies targeted.
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by deeg 9y ago
And it adds to the already high level of churn in the UI development arena. Dart is a perfectly fine language but is it noticeably better than Kotlin? To use Flutter I have to learn a new framework, a new language, and rewrite pretty much
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by deeg 9y ago
That would seem to indicate that--at least from Google's view--PWAs are a dead-end solution. I guess I can stop going through the PWA tutorials.
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by deeg 9y ago
How does Flutter fit in with PWAs? From a high level they both seem to do the same thing: cross-platform mobile application platforms.
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by deeg 9y ago
Good comment. I think it's important that we examine our reliance on conveniences but people have been warning us about life becoming too easy since the ancient Greeks.
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by deeg 9y ago
That's romanticizing the past. Before cars horses (and the infrastructure to support them) caused massive environmental problems, people had all sorts of physical ailments from riding, and their corpses occasionally littered the stree
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by deeg 9y ago
Thanks for your effort! I'm amused that 40 years later it's still called the "New Globe".
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by deeg 9y ago
I think you've stopped listening too soon. The exact circumstances have changed but the challenges are the same. For my parents the challenge was keeping me away from TV and video games; I would have played computer games for 24 hour
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by deeg 9y ago
I'm a back-end developer (Java, Scala, some Rails) and when I first heard developers were using Node+JavaScript as a server stack I thought they were nuts to use a dynamic scripting language for enterprise software. TypeScript has a c

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