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A Tennessee school board removed the graphic novel 'Maus,' about the Holocaust(cnn.com)
13 points by drunkpotato 5y ago|2 comments
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by drunkpotato 5y ago
What was the Facebook group? "Apparently inappropriate" is too vague to know what the problem was!
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by drunkpotato 5y ago
This surprises me. I've never heard of anyone losing an internship or co-op position for such a reason. I can't think of it happening anywhere I've worked. As both of us have anecdotes however, perhaps some data on this could
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by drunkpotato 5y ago
A decently nuanced take. We don't want universities to be an echo chamber, however, neither do I want it to be a place where we pretend that "both sides" are equally valid. Rather, a spirit of inquiry should be welcome, and c
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by drunkpotato 5y ago
For a store that's true, but it's also happening in residential care facilities where it can be a matter of neglecting care or even life or death when they are severely under-staffed, and the staff who do come in have more work, l
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by drunkpotato 5y ago
A generation later my kids are loving Kirby on the NES Classic Mini, so I'd say they succeeded!
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by drunkpotato 5y ago
It's a common trope to say it's their duty to shareholders, but it's not. Their duty is to be diligent and transparent to their shareholders, but not to pursue short-term profits at any and all costs no matter what. Specifica
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by drunkpotato 5y ago
You get a ticket, and too many of those tickets and you lose your license, so yes.
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by drunkpotato 5y ago
Yes, but to be closer to my parents, and to nature. I didn’t like WFH at first to be honest. But I’ve grown used to it and appreciate the flexibility especially with kids.
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by drunkpotato 5y ago
You get out of a college education what you put into it. I wouldn't recommend it just for a job, and the debt is an unfortunate modern heavy consideration to keep in mind. However, consider that it can be a force multiplier for your in
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by drunkpotato 5y ago
Now that you mention it, things have been more pleasant recently!
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by drunkpotato 5y ago
AWS is so difficult to use securely by default that there is an entire thriving industry of vendors who will analyze your permissions and try to bring them down to meet the standard of principal of least privilege. I'm not at all surpr
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by drunkpotato 5y ago
Deleted my Facebook account years ago, and no regrets.
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by drunkpotato 5y ago
The irony here is that if you use the log4j equivalent of parameterized queries, parameterized logging strings, you're still vulnerable to this CVE, even if you did everything right.
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by drunkpotato 5y ago
Please don't use Python package management as a baseline. Aim higher. I love Python, but I cringe whenever someone asks me why a Python program isn't running properly on their machine. Obligatory xkcd: https://xkcd.com&
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by drunkpotato 5y ago
Seems that people don’t like it when you point out the con!
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by drunkpotato 5y ago
Take a vacation! The company will be okay without you for a while. Disclaimer: I’m about to say stuff that are just my impressions, without a lot of “I think” or “I believe.” Take those as implied. Generally the stress of management is in c
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by drunkpotato 5y ago
I didn’t get a sense of arrogance at all. It feels like a gentle poking with love!
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by drunkpotato 5y ago
It’s important to keep a sense of humor and humility about working with logic machines from our squishy salt water meat brains. There are only two kinds of programmers in this world. Those who don’t make anything, and those who create sev 1
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by drunkpotato 5y ago
I think this is half of it. From my experience, the other half is that "agile" is a wonderful excuse for managers and product managers not to have to plan anything or commit to any priorities, and for software companies not to hir
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by drunkpotato 5y ago
Yes, that is the marketing brochure pitch for microservices. In the real world, poorly designed microservices make the ball of mud problem much, much worse, and whatever pain you had in deployments in a monolith are now magnified ten-fold.
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by drunkpotato 5y ago
"A fraction?" How much less do you think they can pay? This sounds suspiciously like the myth of off-shoring, get the same work for a fraction of the cost, but from what I've heard the competent ones quickly command more pay
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by drunkpotato 5y ago
In addition to python version issues, I was also running into JVM and gradle version compatibility issues, which I was handling with jenv and some aliases that would swap JAVAHOME environment variable as needed. asdf-vm cleaned all that up
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by drunkpotato 5y ago
pyenv is pretty good for working around this problem. I've recently switched to asdf-vm which I like even more, since it handles versions for multiple languages and tools.
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by drunkpotato 5y ago
I think this is spot-on. No-code solutions allow non-technical folks in marketing and sales to build some amazing things that would have required teams of software engineers: marketing, shopping cart, and email integrations; email onboardin
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by drunkpotato 5y ago
It's possible, but I'm skeptical, because the hard part of coding isn't "typing words into a text editor/IDE." It's thinking algorithmically in enough detail, with edge cases, fallbacks, error handling, et
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by drunkpotato 5y ago
It's a neat game! I dig the art style and the music. I think my kids are going to have a blast with it too!
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by drunkpotato 5y ago
I agree that's bad, but what does it have to do with the current conversation? It seems like a non sequitur.
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by drunkpotato 5y ago
The IRS did nothing wrong here, and it certainly is not an example of the IRS penalizing people for social infractions. As with any movement with lots of money and momentum and rapidly gaining popularity, there were a lot of fraudsters capi
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by drunkpotato 5y ago
WARNING: This site has an obscenely obnoxious terms & conditions blocking modal. I would prefer this link to be removed, it is so egregious. Post something, or don't. Don't put up a blocking modal to force me to read some te

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