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by dempseye 10y ago
People in tech shouldn't accept that kind of bullying from asshats like Craig Wright. Courtois clearly outgunned him intellectually, but he still let himself be shouted at.
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by dempseye 10y ago
Thanks for your response.
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by dempseye 10y ago
Do you see real economic opportunities in the Django-CMS space that will lead to people investing effort in it and improving it to the point where it is an option for the kind of people who use Wordpress?
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by dempseye 10y ago
That is correct, but it's an unknown unknown for most of the people using Wordpress. They're not even aware that it might be a problem.
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by dempseye 10y ago
A cloud platform like Squarespace or a managed service like wpengine.
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by dempseye 10y ago
It's important to note that the "this" in question - reckless lending - is not what the guys in Ireland are going away for.
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by dempseye 10y ago
I feel compelled to point out that his tonsils are not actually visible in the photo.
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by dempseye 10y ago
It's entirely possible that you were taught by a pseud. That's unfortunate if so. I did a degree in English lit. The poetry classes I took looked something like this: - Old and Middle English Poetry (Beowulf, Chaucer, etc.) - Eliz
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by dempseye 10y ago
Did you get them? Did you recognise, for instance, that the first poem is the poet's recollection of cancer ravaging her mother, and of how she walked to the hospital every day to see her? Did you understand and just not care, or did y
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by dempseye 10y ago
> this terrible high-prestige form is what you'll learn about if you decide to take a poetry class While there are classes in post-modern poetry, most poetry classes are not that. How many poetry classes have you taken?
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by dempseye 10y ago
He's not necessarily dumb because he made the mistake of thinking your border drones had a sense of humour. And given that English is probably not a native language for him, it's entirely possible that the sarcasm did not get thro
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by dempseye 10y ago
> In his spare time, he learned German in order to read Sartor Resartus in the original. Sartor Resartus is in English.
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by dempseye 10y ago
> This is not what happened. Tell us what did happen.
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by dempseye 10y ago
I should move to the South.
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by dempseye 10y ago
I hope he hosted the blog on its own server.
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by dempseye 10y ago
It's a quote directly out of the byline. It is also, according to the author, the main thesis of his new book. Is there some rule on here that the title of the submission must correspond exactly to the title of the linked article?
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by dempseye 10y ago
That page does not support the statement that they moved off Django to Flask.
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by dempseye 10y ago
Similar work has been done. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_English
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by dempseye 10y ago
I assume the implicit subject-predicate structure here is something like: "The Tyranny of Structurelessness" itself exercises a kind of tyranny. It would be interesting if the person you were replying to would expand on that idea.
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by dempseye 10y ago
I was once tangentially involved in the preparation of a journal. All those things you listed were done for free by professors and grad students.
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by dempseye 10y ago
From TFA: > I recovered my original music files only by using a backup I made weeks earlier.
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by dempseye 10y ago
Source for this?
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by dempseye 10y ago
Better tell every developer in the world.
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by dempseye 10y ago
Hitting your children is illegal in Germany, though. That's where this woman is living.
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by dempseye 10y ago
Perhaps that is true. I have also experienced that if I eat total shit, my hunger is boundless. Whereas if I eat well, my hunger tops out at around where it needs to be to maintain a healthy weight. It is not obvious why this should be the
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by dempseye 10y ago
Using the USDA supertracker here ( https://www.supertracker.usda.gov/bwp/ ) with the following data/assumptions: Weight: 295 lbs Age: 46 Height: 5 feet 10 inches (average height for US male) Work activity: sedentary
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by dempseye 10y ago
> how much you weight and how happy you are with it should influence how you eat. I'm pretty sure constant hunger would trump those considerations for you and most people.
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by dempseye 10y ago
> The difficulty in keeping weight off reflects biology, not a pathological lack of willpower affecting two-thirds of the U.S.A. Fifty years ago, two-thirds of the USA were not obese. Biology has not changed in that time. What has?
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by dempseye 10y ago
You can still read legendary Kuro5hin contributor localroger's writing here: http://localroger.com/
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by dempseye 10y ago
The subjunctive is ingrained in my internal English grammar model, as is the who-whom distinction. I've been thinking about dropping them, though. They have started to sound a bit elitist.

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