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by gyardley 13y ago
Chile's a bright light by South American standards, it's true - but there's more to corruption in society than the behavior of officials. For instance, there's more nepotism and cronyism in Chile's private sector th
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by gyardley 13y ago
Please forgive me, oh great overlords of HN, for copying and pasting the contents of the original gist without bothering to edit it.
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cd ~ curl -L https://www.atom.io/api/updates/download -A "Atom/0.1 CFNetwork/1.5" > Atom.zip open Atom.zip mv Atom.app /Applications/ rm -rf Atom.zip
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by gyardley 13y ago
Worse yet, the TDD in that tutorial didn't even use the standard test framework built into Rails - so you're taught from the start to use something non-standard. So irritating. I always recommend the Pragmatic Programmers book for
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by gyardley 13y ago
Shucks, that's terrific. Send it to all your relatives. Now, why is it posted here ?
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by gyardley 13y ago
Gee, I didn't have an opinion on Edward Snowden before, but now that I know what Matt Damon thinks...
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by gyardley 13y ago
If I have nothing to hide, I'll use whatever the people I want to communicate with are using. If that's Hemlis, I'll use Hemlis. If it's not, I won't.
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by gyardley 13y ago
Wait -- do you believe Communications Security Establishment Canada never spies on Americans? If they don't, someone in the motherland isn't doing their job.
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by gyardley 13y ago
After seeing the blatant double-standard and after the hostile Palestine grouse-fest I tend to get from people the second they learn I'm Jewish ( not Israeli, not anything about my personal politics), yeah - I'm going to call i
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by gyardley 13y ago
In most cases inter-country opinions are just a way to manifest bigotry in a polite and acceptable way. The Europeans holding the American government to a different standard on privacy are doing so because they're reflexively anti-Amer
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Bad for the 'buy downloads' industry, good for the 'buy reviews' industry. Of course, since you have to download an app in order to review it, the 'buy downloads' industry and 'buy reviews' industry a
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by gyardley 13y ago
Of course conservatism isn't very accepting of new ideas and viewpoints. Nothing political you can slap a label on, and that includes any of the left-wing varieties, is very accepting of new ideas and viewpoints. Otherwise, the label
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by gyardley 13y ago
It's called 'Al Jazeera America'. No one who makes a point of watching it disagrees with them one iota on climate change - or for that matter, much of anything else.
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by gyardley 13y ago
Well, some people live in San Francisco because they think it's wonderful and they can, but that's not a universal opinion. Some people are annoyed by San Francisco but live there just because that's where the work is. Ot
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by gyardley 13y ago
The political opinions of Hacker News commenters aren't that different from the general public's in their respective nations. There's plenty of people around America, at least, who think the TSA is just fine. You're su
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by gyardley 13y ago
The crypto.stackexchange.com forum has some traffic and isn't focused on any specific technology.
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by gyardley 13y ago
Hey, original poster - this is a blatantly and thoroughly political article. While it might very well be interesting and worthy of discussion somewhere , that somewhere should be somewhere else .
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Silicon Valley Spends A Week Behaving Childishly(theguardian.com)
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I don't really think the government should be in the student loan business at all -- but if the government absolutely has to be in the student loan business, then they have to be in the cost-control business as well. That's pretty
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by gyardley 13y ago
Why does GMail allow users to see images in email? I assume it's because their users want to see images in email. I believe loading images is turned off by default and users have to enable it on a case-by-case basis, though.
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Yes, I think Patch's 'point' was local news for smaller communities - if I'm remembering right, with a focus on affluent areas that could support ad sales.
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'Owner of Russian social network offers Edward Snowden a job' is pretty clunky, and if you titled the article 'Pavel Durov offers Edward Snowden a job', it would be meaningless for 99.99% of its American readers. The tit
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by gyardley 13y ago
You've described how cops in small towns in Texas treat locals, while the article describes how cops in small towns in Texas treat outsiders. The sheriff is elected by the locals, after all.
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I'm pretty sure the pipe could and would be considered 'drug paraphernalia', and therefore possession is a misdemeanor in Texas. Of course, pretty much everyone has 'drug paraphernalia' lying around somewhere. My co
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by gyardley 13y ago
Not really, no. A person with a degree from a prestigious school is likely to be smarter than a person selected at random from the population, sure. But that doesn't mean they should be deferred to in areas where they lack knowledge an
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by gyardley 13y ago
Using an unknown 'purpose' to justify being a selfish jerk to someone won't make you any less of a selfish jerk. If you really want to be a jerk to someone, stop looking for ways to justify it to yourself and just go own your
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When many people hear you have a degree from a prestigious school, they automatically assume you're smart and talented and right about whatever you're talking about, even if it's unrelated to your degree. This is a general ef
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If it's not going to make you kill yourself, go back to school. In American society, a degree from an elite university is a skeleton key to opportunity. It's a clear signifier for 'upper-class' in a society that likes to
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Ethical rules exist for a reason - they help people avoid major pitfalls in life with serious consequences. People from higher social classes have a cushion that protects them from the consequences of their ethical lapses. A mistake that wo
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by gyardley 13y ago
No, most of 'these stories' have been about the minutiae associated with Snowden's asylum requests. Reading one of these stories or the associated discussion is like watching an old episode of Three's Company - the detai

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