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by human20190310 7y ago
Even worse, I've skimmed the discussions that precipitated the ban. I don't even understand why the ban was applied. It's not as if the person couldn't take "no" for an answer; the administrators seem unable t
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by human20190310 7y ago
Index funds aren’t a safety cushion. Vanguard rates it’s own S&P 500 index fund as a 4 out of 5 for risk. [0] [0] https://advisors.vanguard.com/iippdf/pdfs/FS540.pdf
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by human20190310 7y ago
> ...will drive the market down So what? Let the weak long positions panic and sell at the bottom. Everyone else gets a few years of discount prices to buy. The hardest hit will be those who are leveraged and arguably deserve to get h
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by human20190310 7y ago
If TDD fails quickly enough against real-world challenges, it would leave little evidence in the fossil record.
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by human20190310 7y ago
I stand corrected. That turns the whole matter into a complete WTF.
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by human20190310 7y ago
> put [your money] into individual companies you understand and believe have long term profitability If anyone was able to do this, they'd be a successful money manager themselves. Yet few professionals actually manage to do this
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by human20190310 7y ago
It's 6 million real dollars.
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by human20190310 7y ago
I never type -f or --force on the same line as git. If someone feels it needs to be done, I try to stop them; failing that, I make sure they're the ones doing it. I don't need that kind of risk.
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by human20190310 7y ago
There's so little transparency as to what employees get paid that "outsiders", i.e. those who don't have an informal network of pals providing them confidential salary information on-the-side, don't have a way to de
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by human20190310 7y ago
The most surprising thing to me is that one submitter gets dinged for a line break in review, yet another submitter can re-order logic, (seemingly) without being reviewed at all.
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by human20190310 7y ago
I think "growing exponentially" is technically correct. Anything that grows at a rate proportional to its size is growing exponentially. The transportation innovations allowed cities to keep doing that, i.e. growing at X% per yea
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by human20190310 7y ago
The issue is that traffic apps turned non-main roads into main roads, not that people bought on main roads then tried to block them. NIMBYism can be a problem, but it's still important to characterize the issues at hand accurately.
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by human20190310 7y ago
I prefer not to delete, especially to an official answer, but it’s hard to let the obnoxious comments stand at the same time.
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by human20190310 7y ago
At this point I just ask a question, get an answer, and if I don't like the commentary, I just delete it. I post there under my real name, which means I either have to address or accept dumb/nit-picking criticism, which is a no-w
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by human20190310 7y ago
I've dealt with it by wishing I had reproducible builds. If I'm debugging a production issue and want to create a debug build from the same source to step through things, it would be nice if I could just build both debug and relea
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by human20190310 7y ago
How do you know your configuration management plan is doing what you think it's doing if you're getting different output from the same source? It's hard to tell if the sources of variation in the output are harmless or meani
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by human20190310 7y ago
Americans develop a "feel" for this, to the point where one can drop a handful of coins on the ground and know the total value just by the sound it makes.
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by human20190310 7y ago
The inevitability of people trying to beat the system isn't a reason to abandon the principle.
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by human20190310 7y ago
This is a great article. I can't remember the last time I saw so many concrete details about how and why a product went from zero to profitability.
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by human20190310 7y ago
I'm in a similar boat. Although I prefer Firefox in general, I was surprised to see how much better Chrome's performance was when doing development on a super-low-spec "travel laptop".
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by human20190310 7y ago
I was prepared to disagree with the idea after reading the title, but the author makes a pretty good case in the article.
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by human20190310 7y ago
I think there is a difference. You can't really operate a competing company off of the contents of one person's brain. You need a documented body of knowledge that the whole company can refer to, with meta-information including
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by human20190310 7y ago
Pseudonyms should be allowed if that's what people want for themselves, but that doesn't solve the problem of people who want to use their real identity but might be targeted for harassment as a result. Pseudonymity by expectation
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by human20190310 7y ago
I'd love it if they simply re-issued the 2013 model. I have a 2013 MacBook Pro and it has been great. Every iteration since then has been worse (keyboards, batteries, touchbar, etc). Logic Pro is the only thing that might force me to
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by human20190310 7y ago
Wouldn't lose me though. I don't use RSS, and never have.
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by human20190310 7y ago
It's a pretty narrow window of global chaos where this approach is advantageous. You're optimizing for a situation where cloud infrastructure is demolished, but the power grid and/or fuel supply chain required to keep your s
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by human20190310 7y ago
What is the purpose of having "the cloud" in your home at all? To me "the cloud's" primary value is that it is running off-site, in an environment that capably and regularly deals with broken equipment. If my work
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by human20190310 7y ago
I'd like to see a pushback on privacy intrusions and the dark user-interface patterns that trick people into allowing them. I just installed Windows 10 for the first time, and the number of things I had to turn off just to get to a sub
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by human20190310 7y ago
When software on your machine starts doing things before you ask it to start doing things, it calls into question who it's really working for.
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by human20190310 7y ago
Many of these canvas wallets include features such as "full-grain leather trim" which defeats the purpose of the search. Those that don't mostly look like fragile garbage.

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