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by dylukes 12y ago
Ask someone anywhere in the lower-middle range who's sent a kid (moreso boy than girl) to college recently how they feel about whether we're there or not.
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by dylukes 12y ago
This is a common piece of spam copy-pasted onto basically any threads involving gender dynamics. It's not worth replying to, and least of all upvoting. Don't feed the trolls.
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by dylukes 12y ago
More likely than not people start yelling loudly about who's advertising their skills better. In the end not enough businesses and institutions are equipped to accurately assess skill. So rather than being hired based on skill, what yo
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by dylukes 12y ago
Copy-pasted spam. Flagged.
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by dylukes 12y ago
Something like this became a bit of a meme. http://geekfeminism.org/2009/11/29/questioning-the-merit-of-...
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by dylukes 12y ago
Men (and many women) would strike and refuse to go to work in the first place, because they know they have absolutely no job real security, and run the risk of being shot at work purely because of their gender. So, it wouldn't solve th
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by dylukes 12y ago
This is sarcasm... right? If not then... I'm not even sure where to start with the problems in that plan.
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by dylukes 12y ago
zsh is also vulnerable. (it's a bash derivative)
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by dylukes 12y ago
A type system is a tool. No tool makes anything better without actually using it. Saying that applying a type system to an incorrect program doesn't make it correct without refactoring is like saying hanging a painting with nails doesn
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by dylukes 12y ago
I disagree. Unit and feature testing are vastly overrated for what they do, and their current use is faddishly subscribed to in a seemingly cult like fashion. Unit tests are excellent for testing non-stateful behavior of code. That is, they
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by dylukes 12y ago
C#'s var keyword tells the compiler to infer the type. It still has a statically determined type so that shouldn't interfere with type-polymorphic functions such as serialization routines...
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by dylukes 12y ago
This. If you're writing code before having at least thought out a preliminary solution, you're doing it wrong. Types let you codify your idea, and then make sure your implementation aligns with it as you write it.
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by dylukes 12y ago
To expand a little bit: I have found at least anecdotally that the benefits of a strong, rich type system are multiplicative with other features, not additive. For example, types in Java are largely a nuisance. The type system lacks facilit
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by dylukes 12y ago
This article misses the point of what a type system brings to the table. The key benefit isn't catching errors. The benefits are largely discoverability, enabling better tooling, improving the number of optimizations compilers can make
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by dylukes 13y ago
A very interesting mix of sites "advertising" here, to say the least. Everything from swingers and warez to bat conversancy.
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Humor: WHOIS as a bulletin board
5 points by dylukes 13y ago|1 comments
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by dylukes 13y ago
Agreed. It seems less likely that Snowden is necessarily a brilliant/genius level hacker, and more likely that the permissions/logging/granularity/etc were screwed. For example (hypothetically), you're asking for tr
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by dylukes 13y ago
So, on the topic of the (not provided) "data hiding" and now this... if it's just because of users using secure search, is this really as big of a travesty or a problem as its made out to be? To me it looks like SEO/Mark
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by dylukes 13y ago
Amusingly, I had almost this exact experience in middle school. I'd figured out that the barcodes used on our school lunch cards were just plaintext for our ID numbers. With minor cooperation from a nice lunchlady, I discovered that there w
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Bill Gates offers Prize for Futuristic Condoms(independent.co.uk)
1 points by dylukes 14y ago|0 comments
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Ask HN: doctype geocities
1 points by dylukes 14y ago|0 comments
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by dylukes 14y ago
I think there's a tendency to underestimate the cost of large scale projects. Even a relatively 'simple' enterprise site can run a few thousand dollars, just to cover a single designer and programmer's wages. Factor in the cost of the hirin
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by dylukes 14y ago
Almost ended up working for the fine fellows at Plivo. Very smart and very ambitious guys. This is likely only the start. Keep up the good work!
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by dylukes 14y ago
Either way, you can bet the major news companies will either make a huge deal of this, or say nothing at all...
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Google ending Wallet prepaid cards (google.com)
4 points by dylukes 14y ago|0 comments