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by herge 11y ago
Tell that to everyone who clicked on a tabloid headline about David Cameron and a pig's head.
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by herge 11y ago
The drinking age in the U.S. is 21, and is very heavily enforced. It's a lot easier to drink underage in someone's house than in public.
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by herge 11y ago
What does typing have anything to do with this 'feature' in the number parser? If atoi in C also parsed octal numbers, you would have had the same problem. Your issue is with the too liberal number parser.
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by herge 11y ago
Unemployment benefits (to which you contribute with your paycheck when you don't have kids, fwiw) pay, not the company. A company just needs to hire a temporary worker three years in a row to replace you, if needed.
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by herge 11y ago
Quebec has one of the best parental leave policies in North America, and it's all payed for by the government's unemployment payroll taxes, so there is little cost to companies (other than hiring a replacement). You basically get
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by herge 11y ago
Guff can be used from the command line in a pipe?
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by herge 11y ago
The linux project was using git before github even existed, and would probably still use it even if the rest of the world had chosen, say, bazaar instead.
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by herge 11y ago
Sounds like a great way to start a fight with a monkey in a cage.
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by herge 11y ago
> the whole Middle East fuck-up is the result of the post-WW1 partitions Blaming everything on the Sykes-Picot agreement removes a lot of agency from the inhabitants of the Middle East, especially political movements like the rise of Baa
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by herge 11y ago
> There is a sharp difference between "Computer Science" and "Computer Engineering" though colleges often conflate the two. Whenever I've seen "Computer Engineering", it's in reference to the engin
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by herge 11y ago
It's cheap today, maybe not tomorrow when the panic will have worn off.
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by herge 11y ago
"Using OPO (Other People’s Objects)" Oh boy! Who is Jon Paris, and what is this article? It's as if somebody was writing about python circa 1997.
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by herge 11y ago
Would you prefer .com? Or .org?
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by herge 11y ago
Wasn't that the point of lulzsec?
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by herge 11y ago
The employee gets any and all rights afforded by local legislation. In most at-will U.S. States, it's almost nothing.
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by herge 11y ago
Not your company, not your rights. Go join a worker's cooperative or start a union if you want more say in your employment.
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by herge 11y ago
Even very cheap houses still require a mortgage. If mortgages are harder to get since the sub-prime crisis, more people will be forced to rent than to own. By the law of offer and demand, that would raise rents and lower housing costs.
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by herge 11y ago
> The education of having to provide for yourself imparts a lot of discipline and enthusiasm I think you have it backwards. Higher learning should impart on you the discipline and enthusiasm you need for the workforce, and not the other
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by herge 11y ago
You worked in the Mile-end?x ;) I was just figuring that 1km is about what I would call 'metro-adjacent' for a residence.
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by herge 11y ago
If you use their service, you first have to agree to their terms. You can put any magical gobledy-gook in your text, but your 'active' (if only by clicking on a button) acceptance of their terms will hold up better in court. S
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by herge 11y ago
And Microsoft has been literally been pissing away billions on R&D for the last 10 years.
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by herge 11y ago
Maybe I missed something, but using cProfile to read the produced stats is a bit of a pain in the neck. I was debugging a django application, where every request involves a large call stack either through the django web server or (in my u
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by herge 11y ago
I usually try to tell my boss that there are 3-people shop solutions and 20-people shop solutions, and he's proposing a 20-people shop solution to a 3-person shop.
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by herge 11y ago
Man, if I could plan on writing shitty and non-shitty apis, I could just skip the shit ones and be a lot more successful in my work!
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by herge 11y ago
My 16 word rebuttal is: Shitty APIs are shitty, but shitty RESTful APIs are better than shitty SOAP/CORBA/etc apis.
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by herge 11y ago
Not enforcing as the final line, but reporting the error back to the user in a way that can be handled/translated/etc.
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by herge 11y ago
Good luck proving retaliation in a jurisdiction with at-will employment.
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by herge 11y ago
FWIW, I date it from the issuance of the first really convenient paper postage stamp, much like how OP probably is complaining about smartphones post 2007, as opposed to the first mobile phones in the 70's.
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by herge 11y ago
I always wonder if there were these old fogeys who complained when the first postal services were brought in in the 19th century. Like "Back in my day, I visited my friends and family because I cared, but now any idiot with a stamp can
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by herge 11y ago
Transactions are really fancy too.

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