ergothus

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by ergothus 7y ago
I've not used Perl as my primary language in over a decade, but it remains my favorite. I never used CGI.pm for generating HTML...the idea of using functions for tags seemed unneccusarily dense when HTML is a string and Perl is well su
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by ergothus 7y ago
> If person A comes along and demands that I refer to them by their "preferred pronoun" (even if it is a mismatch for their genetic sex or the grammar of the language being spoken) and I refuse, that's considered an insul
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by ergothus 7y ago
> The quality of service is low but higher than in major metro areas in US This is always my question when I hear about service being "great" or "terrible" - relative to what? I honestly have no idea if my healthcare
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But you eliminate negotiation as one of those factors using other countries as a reasoning. I've never heard that this is debunked (though I don't expect that it is the sole factor). Do you have sources? Or did I misunderstand a
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by ergothus 7y ago
> Medicare/Medicaid cover more people than many single payer systems in other countries, and their costs are still outrageous I appreciate your reasonable breakdown, but I don't understand this one. I've seen many reports
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> They've had 3 years to act. Why 2 more weeks is so critical isn't actually all that obvious in the big picture. When you dont have agreement on what to do and a deadline is looming, it seems obvious that, however much it shou
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by ergothus 7y ago
The current divisive political comment in the US has caused me to rethink my previous position on free speech, (Re-think as in think over, not just decide I was wrong) and I have ed found a lot less certainty. On the one hand, speech is a
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by ergothus 7y ago
I'll agree with your summary, but I'll also argue that moderation is often a lesson coders need to learn/remember. It is easy to "know" in theory but become dogmatic in practice. There are reasons we are still lea
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Firing instead of teaching when the person can learn isn't management. The problem isnt that maintainble code isnt worth the effort, the problem is that firing people until someone matches your demands is not the most effective way to
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by ergothus 7y ago
My understanding of the militarization of police relative to the actual NEED for such implies that the amping up is the problem. However, I can certainly be wrong about this detail. Nonetheless, if police are deciding that an anonymous cla
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by ergothus 7y ago
> the statistics are that police are much more likely to face someone with a weapon in the US. Absolutely. And one reason we're supposed to respect the police is that they take these risks. If they instead start shooting people fi
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...and had some means to determine that it was happening. I don't see a way where the incentives to cut corners vs the cost and effort of monitoring to deny the effects those incentives would actually work out. Competitive capitalism i
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> being social with pre-teens and teenagers is useless training for being social with adults in a professional environment I don't think I agree, but I've been spending some brain churn on this since you posted it so I'm
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by ergothus 7y ago
> while you might be able social-engineer your way past it, My personal experiences and various accounts I've heard make this "might" shift to "fairly easily". Why are you so confident that it has to be someone
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by ergothus 7y ago
I think you're taking a problem of "opportunity + practice = success" and pointing out that you had opportunity but not success, and therefore opportunity is irrelevant. > socialization is often meant as "acting like
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by ergothus 7y ago
I think your take is valid, but also missing large areas. Even if they AREN'T bullied for lack, they'll miss out on all the socialization. When I was a teen people talked on the phone, they hung out at the mall. I barely did. W
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by ergothus 7y ago
I feel that as parties have learned how to abuse the "neutrality" of the media, a lot of real reporting has moved to the opinions section. ...where it mingles with content that clearly belongs in the opinion section and away from
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by ergothus 7y ago
Can you elaborate a bit about Context? I've been curious but wrapping multiple context layers to get multiple values feels awkward and wrapping an object to get CD around that feels like it screws over React rerendering logic.
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by ergothus 7y ago
Why does "employee" equate to "show up at 10AM" ? Why cant they work the same hours and style they do now, but with the title of "employee"? That's an honest question, I know employment laws are complex a
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by ergothus 7y ago
Time to build an elaborate (and false) reasoning to share, and at the end of the story reveal the truth.
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I'm totally stealing this for teaching to my grad students, it's a much better way of stating what I try to stumble through each semester talking about "programming as communication"!
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You've never been on a project that was behind and management decided to add resources to it? Impressive! The book is worthwhile, not just for the central lesson, but WHY (TL;DR: communication overhead between different individuals in
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by ergothus 7y ago
I was part of a team that revised the interview process at my last company (for positions like my own, not all hiring). One thing that came up was that most everyone's "favorite" questions helped reveal a strength if answere
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by ergothus 7y ago
Is that a productive idea to push? Not to say you're wrong, but some hard human problems to solve are: - getting people to not be defensive during code reviews - getting people willing to be critical (constructively) of their peers wor
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by ergothus 7y ago
> It's essentially a prepayment penalty in disguise. I can see that. But put another way, it's a flat fee. No disguise. I see issues with you being able to get better rates elsewhere, but by calling it a fixed fee instead of
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by ergothus 7y ago
At lot of comments here are saying "this is not evil, buisness people can and should do what they can get away with" (paraphrase) Some other comments point out why investors should object, even if it isn't evil. I, for one,
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In my experience (I have a pretty TERRIBLE memory - people routinely reference events I participated in but have no recollection of, and when I consider if a particular believable event happened, I can imagine it and have no real way to dis
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by ergothus 7y ago
I'm not qualified to say anything about the Pi OR USB, but I've definitely gotten the impression that USB has a standardization problem (see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20443765 for some convincing-to-me
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by ergothus 7y ago
> Sinister things are already happening to the protestors I'm not the above poster, but I think that was their point. Right now, when sinister things happen to the protestors, there is little confusion as to the source. But if the
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by ergothus 7y ago
I agree that it is bad to embrace/shrug off memory manipulation with the rationalization that memory has always been reliable. [Edit: Unreliable] It is also bad to ignore the evidence that memories are unreliable with or without memory

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