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by hnruss 7y ago
There are a few reasons to not rely on unofficial forks. The chance of malicious code is one. Also: unwanted changes, missing updates, maintenance confusion... These issues already exist in the world of open source, as you note, and the onl
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by hnruss 7y ago
Yes, that's my point.
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by hnruss 7y ago
No laws are voluntary. They are all enforced under duress. Men will come to your house and jail you if you don't follow them. That's why they're called "laws", not "options".
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by hnruss 7y ago
If you pay taxes, you "support" the entire government. That doesn't mean that you are in favor of all of the things that it is doing. If you pay taxes, you are a citizen, not a "customer". These things are not the s
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by hnruss 7y ago
My first job was to finish building a website that used MS Access as the database. I only learned years later how bad of an idea that was. Guess that’s what you get when you hire a programmer for minimum wage.
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by hnruss 7y ago
I ran into a similar issue a few years back. There was the same non-space whitespace character spread throughout the codebase. I tracked it down to a single developer, who had no idea why that was happening. My guess was that they were copy
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by hnruss 7y ago
When natural habit is destroyed by human development, it is not replaced by something "better". It is replaced by something different , which benefits some species over others (mainly humans). Coastlines and wetlands are never &q
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by hnruss 7y ago
I'm referring to coastlines, estuaries, river deltas, wetlands, etc. In terms of surface area of the Earth, it seems easy to make the argument that those places are relatively rare. Development of this land hasn't been off-limits
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by hnruss 7y ago
That’s not the topic of the article and not what I’m arguing against, just to be clear.
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by hnruss 7y ago
It is not equivalent. Ecosystems take many years to develop and often host unique species that don’t just pack up their bags and move where we want them to. When habitat is lost, extinction occurs— maybe not all at once, and maybe not speci
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by hnruss 7y ago
”Making more land” requires destruction of relatively rare marine habitats. Sure, there’s a lot of ocean out there, but many species thrive where the land naturally meets the sea. Bays and estuaries are treasures, not just bits of water wai
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by hnruss 7y ago
Popular web design frameworks like Bootstrap consider accessibility and encourage it in their documentation. See: https://getbootstrap.com/docs/4.3/getting-started/accessibil... Are there any accessibility-fi
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by hnruss 7y ago
Don't build it. Entrepreneurs occasionally ask me to take their idea and make it a reality. Their most common request is for me to build them a website so that they can sell stuff. Sure, I could take their money and build it, but it&#x
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by hnruss 7y ago
Wonder if I'll get another $25-50 from a class action lawsuit over this.
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by hnruss 7y ago
I went back to college after having worked as a developer for a few years, which helped me focus on what mattered. That book looks like a good overview of many important CS topics. I recommend the following topics (in roughly this order): -
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by hnruss 7y ago
I learned programming on a TI 83+ while ignoring math lectures in high school. I grew up to become a full-time software developer, so IMO that $100 calculator was money well spent. I also learned some stuff about math and graphs on the TI 8
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by hnruss 7y ago
This appears to be limited to well-known musicians. IMO those musicians don't need the help-- people are already finding their shows just fine. There's a ton of great musicians out there that want to be discovered by wider audienc
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by hnruss 7y ago
My wife and I recently paid off all of our credit cards and started saving up for a house. We started trying to pay off our credit cards about 4 years ago, so it feels like a big accomplishment.
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by hnruss 7y ago
I like to learn by doing. Either I’ll create something new or contribute to open source. Creating something new is usually easier for me and leads to a deeper understanding. The hard part is thinking of something that I want to spend my tim
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by hnruss 7y ago
I don’t see the point of CLI ads for open source software. If the maintainers want money for it, they should simply require a paid license for commercial use.
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by hnruss 7y ago
My anti-virus software flags the "File a Claim" page as a phishing site.
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by hnruss 7y ago
Encrypted data that can be decrypted without the key is merely obfuscated.
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by hnruss 7y ago
51.4% voted for this governor in 2018, so I have to conclude that this is the outcome that most voters wanted. When you vote for a party that wants smaller government, it should be no surprise when you get fewer government services.
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by hnruss 7y ago
Do or do not, there is no 'try'.
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by hnruss 7y ago
As a show of respect and professionalism, I do my best to listen intently and to not interrupt my coworkers. If I am interrupted, I will stop and listen-- provided that the interruption served a purpose. If someone repeatedly interrupts me
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by hnruss 7y ago
I generally try to prevent large amounts of data from being automatically downloaded or uploaded, so I disable things like automatic git fetch (when working with a large repository), automatic cloud backups, automatic updates, etc. This con
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by hnruss 7y ago
Spraying nanoparticles sounds like it could easily lead to air pollution, but I am not an expert. Is this something we should be concerned about if this ever becomes industrialized?
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by hnruss 7y ago
If they're going to sue Chase someday, more power to them.
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by hnruss 7y ago
Losing the master tapes is like losing the source code. As the years pass and new OS versions are released, eventually that old executable will stop working. Sure, you'll always be able to run it in a VM, but it'll never get any b
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by hnruss 7y ago
As a software developer, my income has quadrupled since graduating with $25k in student loans from a state college. It was totally worth it for me. However, everyone should do the research to understand their career outlook before going to

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