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by gizmo385 7y ago
Why was the name of this post adjusted to remove mention of Kenneth? I think that the fact that this is Kenneth Reitz is a major element of this story.
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by gizmo385 7y ago
> There are a lot of moving pieces in our system and sometimes there are things outside of Google's control. Are you implying that the cause of this outage is not Google's fault? If so, can you go into more details about that?
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by gizmo385 7y ago
Maintaining? What sorts of difficult maintenance tasks are you having to do on your phone that I've apparently been missing out on?
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by gizmo385 7y ago
Which deals specifically with preventing the government from censoring your speech. You are not obligated to use YouTube, nor is YouTube obligated to host your speech.
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by gizmo385 7y ago
This just feels like another example of Python slowly creeping more esoteric syntax into the language, making it harder for beginners to approach the language.
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by gizmo385 7y ago
This reads almost like a sports statistic with how arbitrary it feels.
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by gizmo385 8y ago
> Actually, I voted for Trump because I thought that he would make the breaking point come sooner rather then later (because the way it's going, that's how it's going to end anyways). I'm a bit confused here. You vote
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by gizmo385 8y ago
The employees? Why do you think they should be fired?
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by gizmo385 8y ago
> But to do it "properly" for most people - where properly means getting the most back that you can legally get back - then it's quite cumbersome and involves a lot of reading. I would bet that the majority of Americans ge
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by gizmo385 8y ago
As a fan of Clojure, I would love for Python to get rid of most of strange and archaic (IMO) unpacking syntax and just switch wholesale to Clojure-style destructuring. In my opinion, it's a single solution for all of those problems and
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by gizmo385 8y ago
> In this case, you need knowledge of motors, flight controls, sensor fusion, etc. Expertise which should be readily available at one of the world's foremost designers of high performance commercial aircraft.
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by gizmo385 8y ago
I think this is a major enough event in the news that something like this should be allowed.
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by gizmo385 8y ago
As someone who isn't the OP you're responding to, I definitely interpreted the title to be a reference to the essay. I think "A Modest Proposal" is one of those phrases where it is hard to use it without immediately conn
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by gizmo385 8y ago
Yes, but those are all reversible relatively quickly. They aren't something that I would think ought to take almost an entire day to resolve.
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by gizmo385 8y ago
We have one unexplained crash where early reports about what happened /strongly/ match the circumstances that brought down the LionAir flight. We also have hundreds of public complaints from pilots across the United States of simi
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by gizmo385 8y ago
Yikes. How would ya like to be a passenger on one of those planes: "We're returning to our departure airport because this airplane has been grounded."
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by gizmo385 8y ago
Sure it only affects 50 people /now/, but this kind of a thing is really slippery slope. What's to stop the application of this process to other issues that the government would rather journalists not be looking into?
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by gizmo385 8y ago
There is not rule of math stating that + must always be commutative. It is commutative for real numbers, yes, but there are plenty of use cases mentioned elsewhere in this discussion where + is not commutative.
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by gizmo385 8y ago
> it's missing the core features that tickle fancy of Tesla buyers Can you clarify what you mean here? I would think that the "core features that tickle fancy" would be things like autopilot, but that's an expensive a
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by gizmo385 8y ago
> engineers are often left holding the bag when other participants of the process leave out important details That sounds like a process problem and not an engineering problem. If I've been given requirements, I'm going to tru
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by gizmo385 8y ago
My guess is that it's a combination of a larger user base attracting more attention from law enforcement agencies. That relationship doesn't necessarily need to be linear. Once you've gotten to a certain size, I imagine the n
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by gizmo385 8y ago
> like "lying (not volunteering incriminating evidence) to an investigator" This is literally the purpose of the 5th amendment. If you get asked a question where the answer would incriminate you, you are well within your rights
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by gizmo385 8y ago
Maybe this is me being in a bubble or something, but I've never heard a developer (in school or at work) claim to have Aspergers. I've encountered many software developers who have experienced Imposter Syndrome.
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by gizmo385 8y ago
Okay so the car frame itself lasts 400-500k before being replaced? I'm assuming there are multiple stints of heavy powertrain maintenance during that lifetime. Similarly, if your car's battery gets degraded after 200k miles (or wh
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by gizmo385 8y ago
If this were to continue for several months, I would assume that most of the employees would quit those departments, which would probably be catastrophic, both socially and economically.
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by gizmo385 8y ago
Am I missing the details in their blog post or do they detail the customizations that they've made to Python 3.5 to suit their purposes?
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by gizmo385 8y ago
If you're interested in things being implemented in non-standard languages, I would check out the Make-A-LISP project on Github [1]. Someone even took it upon themselves to write an implementation in AWK :) [2] [1] https://g
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by gizmo385 8y ago
Where do you see this 60k/year figure? Estimates that I'm don't even come /close/ to 60k/year for a WeWork space.
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by gizmo385 8y ago
tmartn's trouble was especially disgusting because he owned the site that we was "advertising" that he had "found".
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by gizmo385 8y ago
> It was public knowledge that the owners of the corporation were TmarTn and Syndicate. So was the argument here that they expected children and teenagers who were primarily consuming their content to look up the public ownership record

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