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by ep103 11y ago
> If some women and feminists are blind to the problems of men, is that really a surprise? Yes, honestly, though perhaps it shouldn't. The point of feminism was to bring equality to the sexes. In places where it has been successfu
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by ep103 11y ago
> It was not feminism that painted the picture of the man as incompetent parent. No, but it is the reason that this is the modern trope men are reduced to in modern media. Matt Groening has gone on the record saying that the reason he c
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by ep103 11y ago
The Ron Swanson character is humorous specifically because it pokes fun at the traditional male role by exaggerating it to an extreme. A better example might have been the men in Mad Men, but there too, the narrative goes out of its way to
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by ep103 11y ago
I've deleted this comment based on replies, I may have had wrong information : )
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by ep103 11y ago
I was thinking of the drones in the Culture series, but yeah, basically!
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by ep103 11y ago
Maybe avalanche wasn't the best example, but still, a robotic lassie seems like it would have uses!
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by ep103 11y ago
yeah, but this could be more general use case, like a robotic lassie!
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by ep103 11y ago
It would be cool if the remote in your pocket had a "Call 911!" button. So like, if I was out snowboarding, and saw an avalanche coming, I probably wouldn't be able to call 911. But this little drone is a good deal above me
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by ep103 12y ago
Jesus, that's basically a 6x increase.
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by ep103 12y ago
Honestly, every time I see google pushing for another JavaScript change, I end up not liking it. Its like they're trying to slowly transform all of js into typescript / @script
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by ep103 12y ago
That's extremely impressive. Dang.
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by ep103 12y ago
iirc the best two pieces of software in the world are approximately 2dan
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by ep103 12y ago
That last part isn't naive at all. The last time all of the browsers were owned by private corporations, was called the browser wars, and we all know had bad that was for innovation and development.
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by ep103 12y ago
I really don't want to develop web code in a world where the only two popular browsers are one developed by and for Google, and one by and for Microsoft. But every time I come to a thread that mentions Firefox on this website, there a
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by ep103 12y ago
Exactly, It seems like the biggest threat isn't some dystopian future, its rather the ability for automation to lock in and increasingly enforce the inequalities and prejudices of our current system.
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by ep103 12y ago
I assume you've already installed the web developer toolbar and firebug? FWIW, I do all my primary web development in FF, and don't have that network problem.
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by ep103 12y ago
I'm so tired of these "Why can't JavaScript be just like my favorite static-ly typed language" conversations. Leave my javascript alone please.
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by ep103 12y ago
If that was the case, then they would have prepared their servers to actually handle the load. As it stands, we know they lost millions of records of input
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by ep103 12y ago
large news websites are targeted by marketing firms with shell accounts in an effort to slant a story. Hacker News is still very much under the radar, and doesn't warrant that level of manipulation (as much) yet.
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by ep103 12y ago
yeah, you're right, I misunderstood the question
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by ep103 12y ago
I strongly disagree. The idea of a directive isn't unnecessarily complex because it isn't needed. And yes, there should be a pattern to force their use, for exactly the reasons you specified. The claim that's being lobbied
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by ep103 12y ago
which, I think, was the entire point of this article. But it speaks a lot to the angular community, and the heavy hand Google has used to build and maintain it, that the top half of the comments on this page center around people intentiona
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by ep103 12y ago
... why?
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by ep103 12y ago
Node already has most of the features from requires built in, and between that and npm, you don't really have much need for grunt, browserify or require. Those three tools are very useful on other stacks, in order to get a node-like ex
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by ep103 12y ago
Can't be worse than what we have, and our current course
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by ep103 12y ago
Could you go into more detail on where I could learn more about this / where I could work on such types of systems? (outside of high frequency trading)? I've started working on similar types of technology recently, but purely by w
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by ep103 12y ago
Correction: There are very few people who are so disabled they are unable to work long term. But I don't know what the numbers look like at any given point in time. I imagine someone who understands the U1-6 scale would probably have
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by ep103 12y ago
1) Unemployed is a mixed category of people who can work, and those who can't. Without meaningful statistics on how those two groups make up the sample of people in the survey, it might make complete sense for so many people to not ha
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by ep103 12y ago
I like to listen to music that was clearly personal when it was originally written. I use genius a bit, because the only alternative is songmeanings.com, and genius is clearly better, when it has the content I'm looking for.
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by ep103 12y ago
What are the other types of software engineering that you mention? I mean this sincerely, I've only ever worked in or around web development.

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