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I would argue the primary benefit of having an API even if not made public is that it will encourage better architecture , design, and development making the product more maintainable over the long run. It also means you can scale if you ev
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So I won't say whose side I am on, or where I stand on social policies, but I think it is important for both sides of the aisle to realize that once you give people any sort of entitlement, it becomes exactly that an entitlement that p
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Just figured this article (or copy of an article originally posted by Joel on Software Engineering) fit in this discussion. https://pastebin.com/VJUNqsU3
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TL;DR pentesting company gets a poorly defined and contradictory contract from the state judiciary the county uses it as an opportunity to pick a fight by pressing charges against two pen tester that were trying to break into the court hous
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Sure maybe their motive is economic rather than altruistic but to quote my mother "if it's stupid and it works it isn't that stupid" I mean Steve Jobs didn't care about anything but the profits when launching the iP
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Wait why are so many people shitting on this idea. This seems to me to be exactly what people are always comparing about, "big companies only care about the bottom line they don't care at all about suffering." Right here ther
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I thought they were replacing edge with Blink soon?
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Quite frankly there are also a lot more boring answers as well, like they need email, they need a cloud office suite, they need servers to run their interanets, more than half a dozen stupid servers and applications that don't quite wo
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7y ago
Although this sounds reasonable having everything published and voted on in real time turns out to just end back up with a representative democracy. This article explains some of the challenges with that idea much better than I can. https:
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Let's keep in mind that beyond just his tireless efforts to advocate for Free Software Stallman also built almost all of the GNU toolset. Let's put aside his politics and views on licensing and what we have is a genius developer w
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Although genocide isn't usually a part of the revolution see the Holomdor.
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I apologise if it came off that way I wasn't trying to government bash or anything like that. But we've spent the last 20 years or so trying to use a legaslative solution to produce results but that is seeming to be in large part
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Seems to me that tech is going to be much better at solving this problem than the government. After all relying on the government to force the changes necessary hasn't panned out for the past 20 years. Maybe after all that time we can
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I believe talking the first scientist to talk about Cargo Cult science was Feynman. Just small correction.
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So if I understand the article correctly the cities that succeeded were the ones that allowed for new industries and businesses to flourish whereas the ones lagging are ones that were built on traditional manufacturing industries that have
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On the flip side if they just continue to run at a deficit for extended periods then they have to cut even more as they will no longer be able to fund what they have. I get that this isn't an ideal situation but it seems like so often
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I get that this is a legitimate privacy concern, and that it fits into the larger narrative tech, but as an American I am just wondering when we are going to get over our Russophobia, I mean the Cold War has been over for more than a quarte
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So Jeff Atwood wrote an article about what SO wants to be when it grows up. ( https://blog.codinghorror.com/what-does-stack-overflow-want-... ) The answer wasn't a Q&A help site it was a high quality curated wiki of
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So I get that the infrastructure isn't as well in place to deal with things like this but where I live 100+ isn't that absurd, and that's nothing to say for places like Arizonia which is two blocks away from the sun and 90 is
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Just something to note the company Ortho Molecular is a company that sells high end vitamin supplements, probiotics and other similar things. Not that it undermines the findings, or makes it less true just something to keep in mind.
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I might disagree with his conclusion which seems to be that things are just as bad now, or worse than they were say 70 years ago. I would argue the problems we face have changed, and that some of the big problems we dealt with 40 or 70 year