gitgacutils

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by gitgacutils 8y ago
What personal attacks? I responded directly to the guy's comment. It was an attack on what he said, not who he is.
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by gitgacutils 8y ago
Job ads being one. Also, HN has behind the scene deals to peddle certain news organizations ( nytimes, wapo, wsj ) and certain ngos with certain agendas. What do you think HN is? What do you think dang, sctb and the mods do?
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by gitgacutils 8y ago
> This is a great solution for hacker news types How is it a great solution when hacker news has ads that most ad blockers can't block?
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by gitgacutils 8y ago
> It is like Milo Yiannopoulos; it looks like communication but it is better to think about it as noise, static, or nerve gas. You surely don't have an agenda. /s So much HN comments are also just noise, static or nerve gas as
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by gitgacutils 8y ago
> How do you avoid being in a bubble? Simple. By exposing yourself to a variety of ideas, opinions, viewpoints. >Whether it is curating the subreddits you see, or selecting the news sites you visit, you are only ever going to see a ti
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by gitgacutils 8y ago
> Not only that, but the US government is neither as aggressive nor as forward-looking about such partnerships What? The chinese modeled their economic system after the US. We love to portray ourselves as having a separation between the
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by gitgacutils 8y ago
> If you write code on .NET, you should adopt this release ASAP. If you require the new features maybe, but if you are writing enterprise code, you shouldn't rush into things. > Doubly so if you care about runtime performance. Ev
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by gitgacutils 8y ago
> Colon and rectal cancers have increased 51% among adults under age 50 since 1994, the cancer society said. Percentages can be deceiving. 51% off what base? Was it 100 people in 1994 and now it is 151? > Preventative medicine is chea
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by gitgacutils 8y ago
> Are you referring to the missing warrant canary? That's certainly part of it. But even before then, reddit was sharing data with the authorities. Just like google removing "don't be evil" didn't mean that they
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by gitgacutils 8y ago
> I am a heavy Reddit user and I don't notice any of these things You don't see politics related content on reddit daily? I used reddit since reddit was days old ( years before the digg migration ) so maybe we visited different
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by gitgacutils 8y ago
> Reddit works because it’s anonymous, information-dense and relatively ad-free. Reddit is none of those now. It's not anonymous ( they track your identity and feed it to the government ). You may be "anonymous" to fellow
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by gitgacutils 8y ago
A couple of us got flashlights and went to the main street and it was pitch dark and quiet and eerie. That was fun. Other than that, living without power got real boring, real quick.
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by gitgacutils 8y ago
I guess that's one way to look at it. Another way to look at it is America has a truck driver wage/compensation shortage. I'm sure if the companies increased wages that shortage would magically disappear.
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by gitgacutils 8y ago
> Citation needed. So you want a link snope or politifact link? Even if people provided citations, wouldn't you reject them because it isn't snopes or politifact ( the approved "fact" finders )? The fact that much of
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by gitgacutils 8y ago
Reversing engineering cracks, visiting porn sites just for warez passwords or just wasting time reading 2600. It was the golden age for young kid with a passion for computers.
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by gitgacutils 8y ago
> Amazing how, a decade or more after the python-perl skirmishes, some still ... still ... cannot give up their attacks on perl, using the mask of accounts created in the last day. I'm a fan of perl. I'm old school. I like C, p
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by gitgacutils 8y ago
awk is a fundamental part of the unix ecosystem. It's in the hall of fame of utils along with the likes of grep. If you use unix or linux in any semi-serious capacity, you are familiar with awk.
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by gitgacutils 8y ago
Monitoring heavy trafficked interstate corridors is one thing. This is entirely a different. Amazon/tech is at a point where we could get blanket surveillance on most streets, in our homes, in our offices, etc. It's the difference
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by gitgacutils 8y ago
It's definitely an end of an era. Some other telling factors. The level of activity/projects in perl compared to python. http://twimgs.com/ddj/images/article/2014/0114/Tiobe1.gif http:&#x