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by ergothus 7y ago
I was taught ( in the US - Pennsylvania) that the US lost just about everything - in fact, the only victory was the Battle of New Orleans (?) that was actually fought AFTER the war was over but before word had reached the Americas. Plus th
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by ergothus 7y ago
> The researchers observed multiple species of tuna larvae throughout this protected expanse Somehow I've gone over 40 years without realizing that fish have a larval stage.
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by ergothus 7y ago
I'm in agreement about jail, but also with the despair that causes the desire. A monetary fine would be trivial. Anything else likely wouldn't create any counter-incentive. At a minimum though I'd like to see someone convict
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by ergothus 7y ago
> If this were actually a serious issue, we would I fail to see how the choice of response (or not) determines seriousness of the issue. We've seen plenty of people stick their head in the sand in the past.
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I found this to be a rather refreshing take on the traditional "tech people didn't consider the consequences" - it doesn't place blame on the tech person, and reflects thought and awareness before and after. (It's
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by ergothus 7y ago
I remember it distinctly from when it occurred...but I'm unable to find any news articles from the time (in my defense, i'm struggling to find any news articles from the time AT ALL - my google-fu grows weaker) - so while I remain
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by ergothus 7y ago
I assume that after that "liked" wasn't adequate.
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by ergothus 7y ago
> Somehow I think if the poster conspired to steal your own cell phone, you'd feel differently I'm not sure I would, depending on what you mean. Would I be more upset about someone conspiring to harm an individual as opposed to
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by ergothus 7y ago
> Stopping after you're caught doesn't right your wrong. Nope! I still remain happy to see that something gets stopped without legal action, and seeing a company that didn't go for the throat succeeding in their defense.
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> Because a nice fella from the security team at RIM will give you a call on your personal cell phone one late night and tell you that they know what you’re doing and to stop it. I don't know if anyone else has this reaction, but I
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by ergothus 7y ago
...and they (1) altered their behavior because they were in those court proceedings AND (2) lost only to open source competitors (Firefox, Apache, Linux, etc). MS had already declared that IE6 would be the last version of IE, and only revi
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by ergothus 7y ago
> "if it's good for consumers it's legal" is short sighted It's worse - the attitude has been "if it can theoretically lower prices in the short-term it must be good for consumers" - they've totall
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by ergothus 7y ago
Not the above poster, but if they only hire 10% of their interviewees, that's a sign that not every interview is a "close call', which is the context of an interview being high signal here.
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by ergothus 7y ago
Incremental rewrites (aka refactoring) is best, but sometimes that's just not viable, which is where I feel conventional wisdom breaks down. If your code is trying to get updated, you can usually refactor. If your code is having a par
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by ergothus 7y ago
I keep hearing all of these "Vue just makes more sense than React" converts, and I'm baffled. I recently did some Vue after doing React for a few years, and it felt like a major step backward. It felt very JSP - here was a
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by ergothus 7y ago
Do investors care? If WeWork succeeds, he can cut into the profits, but it also means he's invested in the company succeeding.
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by ergothus 7y ago
This is definitely, painfully, normal. It also impacts where a worker will go - big companies have immigration lawyers on staff to help with this, while smaller companies have to leave the workers to largely fight the battle on their own.
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by ergothus 7y ago
As a baseline, I'm in favor of a lot of immigration and think people have way too many hoops to jump through in general, but the H1B crowd in particular is a group that matches even what most of those opposed to mass immigration claim
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by ergothus 7y ago
> the inability to serve HTTPS traffic should be considered a breaking issue > "Reduced security" is not a valid fallback option. Agreed! But if my HTTPS is broken, I might well want to replace my site with an HTTP page ex
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by ergothus 7y ago
> That misdirection is useful for people in power, including self-help gurus who want to sell books. (Orman didn’t respond to a request for comment.) You always see reporters give the "I'm going to report one watmy or the othe
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by ergothus 7y ago
Are you equating moral reasons and economic reasons?
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by ergothus 7y ago
The real pain is that most of us think we ARE good at it. We think about our intentions, and not what comes across. Intent rather than impact. But it's the impact that matters.
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by ergothus 7y ago
> focus on technical ability, that’s a hell of a lot harder to come by than “powerpoint skills”. I'll agree and disagree: Yes, the target audience here SHOULD focus on technical ability. Not because it's "harder", bu
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by ergothus 7y ago
I've explained how I and others felt like we became more "outsiders" because we couldn't follow references made my friends, coworker, and general media (how many GoT references came out in the week after the finale?) You
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by ergothus 7y ago
I'm a cord cutter and have been for over a decade. When I initially made the switch, I didnt use an antenna (my complaint is about commercials, not (just) the cable company). I discovered that I lost the ability to participate in a lo
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by ergothus 7y ago
Excellent point! Isn't age a protected class though? At least in the US, discrimination over 40 is covered by the EEOC.
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C14 dating loses precision dramatically past a certain age (~50k years, IIRC), because of the nature of half-lives. Since this is in the 200k range, C14 wouldn't be the go-to.
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by ergothus 7y ago
time for me to insert my pet theory: consciousness (and the higher-level awareness that feeds general intelligence) costs calories. Thus, we are evolved to MINIMIZE THE NEED. We like to think of ourselves as self-aware, and we can be...bu
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by ergothus 7y ago
> By default, under the same origin policy, a browser won't allow requests cross origin. Save a rather short-but-impactful list of exceptions. > CORS is a mechanism to loosen security, not increase it. Would that everyone shared
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by ergothus 7y ago
As the objector above, I feel the need to defend myself despite the lack of an attack :) I think you are correct. There will always be those people. I hope I don't fall among them - I raise the distinction about being "like"

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