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by eldude 13y ago
These are non sequiturs. Corruption or ineffective government are not exclusive to Texas. You're just spouting more ignorance and from your lower comment are clearly bigoted against Texans. My original point stands that the use of exur
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by eldude 13y ago
So the worst case here is that the poor might move to GASP Texas! And enjoy a better quality of life associated with a smaller government. What a bizarrely narrow-mindedly ignorant perspective, which I imagine will resonant quite well wit
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by eldude 13y ago
I would argue history disagrees with you that "state and local governments [...] most abused peoples' rights." See the American Revolution / British Empire, Nazi Germany, Communist Russia, etc... etc... Also, sorry, my p
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by eldude 13y ago
In a way, this is mostly in line with what I'm talking about in that the question we're posing together is whether the government must necessarily be smaller, or is merely buckling under the weight of an outmoded model and infrast
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by eldude 13y ago
The sad thing is that people on both sides of the political spectrum complain only about the other side, failing to realize that their own side is equally responsible. I see a lot of people declaring, "This is not the country it used t
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by eldude 13y ago
Since this is entirely devoid of any discernible facts, it's a little disturbing that this has made it to the front page of HN. When did random assertions become unquestioned truth? This feels a lot like a sensationalized modern day wi
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by eldude 13y ago
Michael Crichton's novel "Next"[1] was a fantastic exploration of the implications of such issues being brought up here like: liability when the infringing patents are in you, in animals, in human-animal hybrids capable of hu
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by eldude 13y ago
A historical correction to the misplaced tone of your 3/5ths reference, the 3/5ths compromise was by the anti-slavery republican north to prevent the southern democratic slavers from dominating the House of Representatives and the
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by eldude 13y ago
I think it ended up on the front page today because it was the Google IO presentation today that really showed off what they are accomplishing with Polymer. I'd encourage everyone to watch the demo[1] starts at 3:51:30. [1] https://develop
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by eldude 13y ago
I was at the Google IO talk and talked to Matt McNulty, my old boss from Palm, and was blown away with what they're building. This is the future of UI in the browser. The declarative nature, the encapsulation, the data bindings, the attribu
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by eldude 13y ago
3 years ago I could no longer fall asleep before 5am and it was severely affecting my ability to concentrate, which as a software engineer is a death knell. Like most, I internalize my problems, exacerbating my frustration, worsening sleep,
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by eldude 13y ago
Anecdotally, having been born and raised in Orange County, CA (11yr), then Arkansas (5yr) and finally Texas for High School and College (7yr), followed by Denver (liberal) and now Silicon Valley, I can confirm this liberal bias toward both
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by eldude 13y ago
In other words, he didn't get it. You cannot say someone truly gets that something is in their best interest if they think it's best to continue to do the opposite.
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by eldude 13y ago
This article is true to a T. An avid gamer all my life, I joined a game company to work on a gamer centric non-gaming project. Without saying much about my time there, it culminated upon completion with the entire team being laid off, with
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by eldude 14y ago
None of those provide value. I think you're confusing a hack that only takes advantage of the government in a context where the government takes advantage of us and that's meant to provide value ultimately to someone else.
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by eldude 14y ago
Unfortunately, in practice promises end up making your code more difficult to reason about by adding cruft and unnecessary abstraction. They're also very limiting from a control-flow perspective. This is especially noticeable when you hav
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How errors should be handled in node.js(github.com)
3 points by eldude 14y ago|0 comments
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by eldude 14y ago
One of the most effective coding interviews I ever had involved giving bringing in my own laptop and mirroring it on an external monitor. I was asked typical "whiteboard" questions, but I was able to program in the style I've grown accustom
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by eldude 14y ago
Just a quick calculation leaves: $45M * 380 * 7% = $1.2B split 4 ways? Congratulations for creating so much value and giving so many of us a great community.
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Node.js: Returning 500s w/ Asynchronous try/catch(github.com)
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by eldude 14y ago
Accountants are highly paid b/c they save companies money. If I charge $300/hr, but I save you ~$100k in taxes, it's a no brainer that actually makes you money . The same direct profitability cannot be said about programmers. At best it is
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by eldude 14y ago
As someone who took 11 AP courses in high school and received 5/5 on each for ~35hrs of college credit at Texas A&M University, a nationally respected engineering college, I feel I can speak authoritatively on the benefits this has for
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by eldude 14y ago
You have no clue what it's like [experiencing] constant [racism] from black people, it MIGHT make you not like black people, but for me it never has.
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by eldude 14y ago
Two words: Wake light. Simplest and single greatest natural cure for sleep inertia. http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_1?url=search-alias%3D...
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by eldude 14y ago
This is a lot like how node.js handles Errors and exceptions only its "panic" call is throwing an Error either intentionally or via an uncaught exception, which will crash the process and is difficult to catch due to node.js' asynchronous n
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by eldude 14y ago
I couldn't disagree more, and forgive me for saying, but I believe this to be an incredibly shallow summation of what is an amazingly deep and moving piece of art and perspective from a historic time in our (US) nation (the Cold War). I bel
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by eldude 14y ago
Glad to see long-stack-traces is getting an update! Any chance you benchmarked it? I'm curious how the various long stack trace solutions compare. Anyone that's interested in this should checkout domains, now shipping as experimental in v0.
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On Why JSConf Rocks(blog.noderiety.com)
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by eldude 14y ago
I've been having a lot of conversations around intrinsic value of stocks that echoed this a bit: dividends or voting rights. If this were the case though, I don't think you would see the levels of investment that you're seeing. Facebook's s
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by eldude 14y ago
You could accomplish the same thing using local storage in an iframe with postmessage and it'd be a lot more robust with fairly significant browser support. (IE8+) I built a demo a year ago that let you store personal data and exposed a pos

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