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by frank_nitti 7y ago
The only obvious explanation I can see is that they don't like the way it reflects on their image within their customer community. I imagine it would be similar to unwittingly having someone set up a GoFundMe page for me as an individu
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by frank_nitti 7y ago
I've listened to a few interviews with Titus Winters on CppCast and gained a tremendous amount of insight on C++ systems development and software engineering in general (as well as Google's approach, obviously). IIRC he is a funda
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by frank_nitti 7y ago
Right. And the person they were responding to was evaluating Mint on the basis of "first class support" for declarative UIs in XML, where ostensibly Mint defeats React/Vue because they "require transpilation".
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by frank_nitti 7y ago
Semantically, yes. But I assume they are referring to the what people would consider the usual suspects for "big city" pollution, i.e. exhaust, aerosols.
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by frank_nitti 7y ago
You don't really have to look much further than the US public opinion and media messaging on Israel to verify that there is a double standard in place here. Is criticizing a government's actions tantamount to racism against the pe
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by frank_nitti 7y ago
Would this not also affect individual bloggers, many of which often make the HN front page with high quality content? Perhaps there is a more sophisticated approach to this problem than simply raising prices across the board.
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by frank_nitti 7y ago
Not OP, but probably just the dictionary definition of the word "exploit", to use a resource for one's own benefit. If there are business models that cannot function without this particular resource, what will become of them?
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by frank_nitti 7y ago
Very refreshing approach, as someone deeply interested in this topic but without the time to dive in to the docs myself
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by frank_nitti 7y ago
Very insightful, thanks. I was familiar with the problems you covered regarding RFPs and vendor contracts, but had not considered the issues regarding access to information for an individual seeking a programmer role.
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by frank_nitti 7y ago
That's very interesting, haven't heard this complaint before. Do you have an example of such a restriction?
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by frank_nitti 7y ago
As a dev coming from private sector and now in government, your comment rings true to my experience so far. It's true that there are many programmers in government who were promoted from within, learned on the job, and are limited on t
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by frank_nitti 7y ago
The "tax man" may actually represent the will of more individuals in your scenario, but those that are fighting against him are far more rich and powerful. When the rich and powerful unite against the tax man and the "proleta
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by frank_nitti 7y ago
Is there really no difference between eating 1500 calories at once vs. over the course of 5 meals? Of course, there is no weight loss without a calorie deficit, but are all calorie deficits equivalent on magnitude alone? I struggle with the
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by frank_nitti 7y ago
Okay, thanks for the information. I suppose I was referring to those candidates which met the threshold of support to be included in the debates on national television. And indeed, that seems to be a reasonable place to "draw the line&
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by frank_nitti 7y ago
It is a bit disingenuous (to say the least) to claim that having to configure a few dozen presidential candidate's accounts is tantamount to letting "anybody" get around Google's fraud controls. I could understand your l
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by frank_nitti 8y ago
I suppose we will see. The Republican establishment thought the same thing about Trump in 2016 -- a small but vocal minority. By and large, people I spoke to during 2016 were not fans of Hillary Clinton, but had resigned to the fact the s
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by frank_nitti 8y ago
The "left" is too broad a stroke to paint with for this situation. The left in the US is quite split on these issues (and an increasing number of other issues). The so-called "New Democrats" (think Clinton, Biden, Kamala
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by frank_nitti 8y ago
In my experience in the aerospace industry working closely with USAF, it depends entirely on the program (as in military/civil program, not computer program) as well as the systems being targeted for deployment. I worked on projects th
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by frank_nitti 8y ago
When it comes to source code, yes. Are you able to view the entirety of the code running the systems that control your information and operations? The answer to that question cannot be a shade of gray. RMS has been proven more correct with
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by frank_nitti 8y ago
Seriously. I would say that also applies over to the author's claim that "doctors produce doctors, lawyers produce lawyers", etc. Sure, kids whose parents/relatives have forged a career in a particular industry have a mu
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by frank_nitti 9y ago
Maybe - I think the missing component is their level of "laziness" as Bill Gates defined it. A brilliant, but "lazy", coder will find the most efficient way to compose a solution that meets the requirements. But it'
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by frank_nitti 9y ago
I got my BSCS from this school, and landed a great gig within a month of graduation. As a "re-entry" student on a tight budget (30 year-old working food service), I met many others who were similarly driven to build the skillsets
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by frank_nitti 9y ago
I mean, the loan industry still does deserve scorn when they make loans that hurt society rather than help. They should at least strive to focus their efforts on deals where everybody wins, especially when the taxpayer is the one who foots
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by frank_nitti 9y ago
Yeah. But most of the beast Python programmers at my work are guys that used C for decades, and have a strong grasp of classic programming and the full toolbelt of awk, sed, perl, bash etc.. I think the "danger" of these lists is
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by frank_nitti 9y ago
Mexican people I knew while livong there put tuna salad in it during lent
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by frank_nitti 9y ago
If HRC is any indication...