jack9

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by jack9 8y ago
The idea is to create a lambda that's sole purpose is to act as a closure for member access restriction. I'm not sure how that could be misinterpreted, but here's your prize.
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by jack9 8y ago
It is easier, but it's physically more demanding (including being far more dangerous).
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by jack9 8y ago
> However, Python does not have a real privacy model. > This is unsettling if you’re coming from a Java or C/C++ world and are expecting access modifiers It's unsettling to a lot of people, but so what? I still don't se
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by jack9 8y ago
> run map(), reduxe() and filter() on a series of events. Can't you do that with a btree already?
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by jack9 8y ago
Also, poverty is relative. The cost of living has soared, alongside a nice boost to production, naturally crushing the livelihoods and a large number of people under the weight of it or as a consequence in a vicious cycle. This cycle makes
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by jack9 8y ago
You definitely can have armed revolution. Some form of "imbalanced economic conditions" is the most common STATED reason for violent revolution, which the starving poor inevitably participate in.
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by jack9 8y ago
No right click is a pretty big deal breaker for any application I would want to develop. https://github.com/gabrielrcouto/php-gui/issues/46 If there are problems hooking up something as simple as a new mousec
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by jack9 8y ago
Adding a responsive subdomain to any domain you control is trivial and isn't registered anywhere (necessarily). I'm not sure you can achieve this, without additional requirements.
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by jack9 8y ago
> the only relevant metric is units sold. That's an arbitrary statement. The only relevant metric is revenue outside of whatever bars you would like to matter. Over time, units sold is a poor return and D3 was disappointing against
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by jack9 8y ago
> One is to appease "the gods". The other is to protect society Defining 2 things then calling the definition different is not compelling. The thinking that makes them less different is that they both serve "a greater good
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by jack9 8y ago
It's fundamentally a philosophical question. I think it's a surprisingly insightful observation.
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by jack9 8y ago
> If there isn't trust and discipline within a team, then that team is unlikely to be highly effective and may even slide into dysfunctionality. > building a process into a team which signifies a lack of trust is unlikely to eve
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by jack9 8y ago
> Mozilla as an organization makes me a bit uncomfortable I thought you were going to mention the betrayal that caused a lot of ppl to switch (other than the slowness, inferior default tooling, etc). The deal with yahoo. Same thing that
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by jack9 8y ago
> I want us to transcend all the categories. I don't think that's a happy outcome. Identity is important.
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by jack9 8y ago
> Ethics is never a question of goals Not to be nitpicky, but to ensure you don't actually try to use the phrase again...that's exactly what ethics are about.
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by jack9 8y ago
I used the same method, got the same result(s).
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by jack9 8y ago
> If the tax cuts didn't vastly improve performance then they hurt a lot. The timescale for the determination is not left up to months. I don't personally think they were good, but to assert that you can tell right away, is dis
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by jack9 8y ago
And everyone in the middle pays for it. Again, ISPs are forced to upgrade to deal with Netflix traffic. Saying that isn't the case and the market sets the price is willfully ignorant. There's a reason there are no more small ISPs
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by jack9 8y ago
> That's not nothing. WA passed a law to ensure it. That's not nothing. Waiting for a decision and hoping the status quo sits (I mean it's a great story to ride on the coattails of and tell your constituents you did someth
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by jack9 8y ago
> The WWDC, sacred nerd summit of Appledom, is where they announce things like a new “night mode” for the operating system and try to convince programmers that Apple Watch matters. Bloomberg got an honest laugh out of me.
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by jack9 8y ago
Indeed, a terrible and obviously immoral decision by the supreme court to appease. How this has been downvoted so heavily, causes me concern.
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by jack9 8y ago
> Release: Let go of people who don’t align with your values. I hate the "similar values" proposition, like that's something practical to align with the working members of teams. How about the same attitude and similar ab
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by jack9 8y ago
> A proper analogy would be to compare your citations to the ethical condemntations of Facebook made 50 years from now. When the findings are published has no bearing on the ethics of the experiments. Ironically, the half century lead t
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by jack9 8y ago
> What do you think Microsoft would do to harm Github? GVFS. I believe Github will only deploy to Microsoft's GVFS sometime after acquisition. This is one of the more obvious plans, I thought shrug
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by jack9 8y ago
I can use it just fine too. It's not unusable, it's a barrier. The defense of arbitrary syntax as no-consequence is misguided and ultimately irresponsible (in a lazy sense).
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by jack9 8y ago
What do you mean by bias here? Some languages are practical, some more/less efficient. The BEAM was BAD in 2005. The language is ugly and this has hindered adoption in a myriad of applicable areas for decades. Elixir was a wrapper for
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by jack9 8y ago
> Monocultures like this interest me. Just because they call it a monoculture, doesn't mean it has anything to do with social behavior per se. It's a technical choice. Might as well ask why every function isn't implemented
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by jack9 8y ago
Emotions (and the feelings that combine to form attitudes) are delusions does not make sense. Physiological responses from an infant onward, are informed, but does not suppose a mental model that diverges from reality. The psychological ass
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by jack9 8y ago
You illustrated the point. The GPs comment is philosophical but there's still people who are fooled by these comments into thinking they have novelty, when it's simply a position that has existed since inception.
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by jack9 8y ago
A polyglot is harder to reason about than a single language, due to social concerns. Mostly this is due to the efficiency of singular concern and custodianship as opposed to disjointed languages with their own.

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