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by gryfft 8y ago
This is the real answer. Semver is a tool to keep code from breaking while communicating useful information to developers and engineers. Branding is an entirely different game, and the branding doesn't have to be machine-readable or ad
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by gryfft 8y ago
A Mars colony is something humanity should start thinking seriously about once we successfully run a production-grade lunar colony for about a decade-- long enough to recognize and tackle the worst bugs.
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by gryfft 8y ago
>The rich suffer during a recession too; I believe we're thinking of different definitions of the word "suffer." The qualitative difference to which I refer is that for one class of people, the "suffering" is res
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by gryfft 8y ago
My criteria didn't change. I was talking about people who were ruined by the market, and your example seems to be someone who was ruined by his own crimes.
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by gryfft 8y ago
Batista is currently under arrest and has been sentenced to 30 years in prison for bribing disgraced Rio de Janeiro governor Sérgio Cabral, in order to secure public contracts, according to Wikipedia[0]. I'd prefer an example that isn&
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by gryfft 8y ago
I haven't read it, but I have a feeling we're not talking about the same people. I'm not talking about successful investors and millionaires. I'm talking specifically about net worth north of $200M in today's dollar
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by gryfft 8y ago
Yes, they lose more. They lose proportionally less. They're not winding up on the streets. It's disingenuous to pretend that it has anywhere near the impact on their lives as it does the other 99.9% of the participants in the ec
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by gryfft 8y ago
I agree with you, and felt the article was well-written. While reading the first half of the article, I was mentally preparing the comment I would leave, thinking that the author was casting a false dichotomy: that, in keeping with the exho
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by gryfft 8y ago
That's my point exactly. Most of these programs have command line flags you can pass to indicate the configuration file that should be used. Doing that, and then by default putting my configuration in the most reasonable place for it--
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by gryfft 8y ago
From a user standpoint, a lot of of unrecognizable things show up if you pass that -l flag. In my opinion, having a conventional place to look for user configuration in plain text is a good thing, not a bad thing, and of course I would wa
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by gryfft 8y ago
I appreciate the sanity check with a depth and viscerality I can't properly express. I also apologize to you and anyone reading for any inaccurate terminology on my part.
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by gryfft 8y ago
As someone who is extremely unfamiliar with category theory, types, and C++, something is bothering me that I would love to have clarified. Polymorphic function templates are introduced with addEm: template <typename T, typename U&gt
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by gryfft 8y ago
I like to be able to attach to my customary sessions quickly, or reinstantiate them quickly in case of reboot etc. I use something like the following in my .bashrc: alias f='tmux attach -dt f || tmux new-session -s f' That
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by gryfft 8y ago
Maybe I'm not understanding, but if you attach to a tmux session with the -d flag, it will detach the session from any other clients and resize it to the window you're using.
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by gryfft 9y ago
To clarify, it produces energy equal to the difference between the mass of the fuel and the mass of the final byproduct multiplied times the speed of light squared. Energy and mass are conserved, but some mass is converted into useful energ
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by gryfft 9y ago
Bizarre in comparison to what?
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by gryfft 9y ago
"You also had some very fine people on both sides."
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by gryfft 9y ago
Would you mind enlightening me as to the fallacy you perceive in that post? It seems well-formed to me.
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by gryfft 10y ago
The discussion as I understood it was centered on professionalism rather than friendship. When you do business with someone, you can and should take into account their publicly-known actions and public statements. Anything else is bad busin