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by jackhack 9y ago
I read a book by a French philosopher about this very subject. The main character remained optimistic even though he and his professor friend encountered a world of trouble. It described a brutal, yet somehow ideal world filled with endless
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by jackhack 9y ago
For anyone who wants to understand the mindset underlying poverty (whether cause, or affect, or a mixture of both), I recommend "Life at the Bottom: The Worldview That Makes the Underclass" by Theodore Dalrymple. He's British
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by jackhack 9y ago
It's not just the ticket. It's the whole legal machine spinning up and siphoning a pile of money off of you:court costs, lawyer/legal fees, auto insurance increases for the next x years. And as you've mentioned, time awa
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by jackhack 9y ago
The real question is whether it is appropriate for a government to be using weapons of war against its own civilian populace, in direct violation of human rights and constitutional prohibitions.
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by jackhack 9y ago
For those who enjoyed "ZenATAOMM", I found another in a similar vein: "Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry into the Value of Work" "...author Matthew B. Crawford questions the educational imperative of turning every
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by jackhack 9y ago
Agreed. A painting tells us more about the painter than the canvas.
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by jackhack 9y ago
There is no reasoning nor bargaining with evil. It simply is, and its job is to destroy.
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by jackhack 9y ago
Impressive!! Though I've never seen the Accumulator referred to as the "A register"... LDA #$c0 ;Load the hex value $c0 into the A register
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by jackhack 9y ago
Bigotry is a clear violation of HN rules.
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by jackhack 9y ago
a load of shit, indeed! This degree of hipster self-pity is intolerable. I couldn't make it more than half-way through the stupid article. "Barbaric." I wonder if he realizes how insulting and patronizing that is. I wish he c
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by jackhack 9y ago
Because nothing beats dying at the ripe old age 30 with a toothless mouth, body failing of undernourishment and disease (especially parasites), common death in childbirth, the slightest infection becoming a death sentence, and so on.
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by jackhack 9y ago
Enough so that in Hawaii, for instance, they are providing airline tickets to those who will volunteer to leave the island (and its welfare system) and go be a burden on the mainland, instead.
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by jackhack 10y ago
Secret laws, Secret courts, hush orders... Hardly the USA described by the Constitution I read.
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by jackhack 10y ago
And if someone in tech isn't interested in tech and doesn't like conversations about tech and feels excluded when others talk about tech... remind me again why they are in tech?
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by jackhack 10y ago
I didn't see anybody mention compile times. Today, it is instant -- click to run. My first programming job - our product was a CAD package for Windows 2.1 and the new v3.0 beta. It took 9 hours to do a full recompile on our fastest com
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by jackhack 10y ago
You forgot the biggest scam: 40 YEARS of rolling back odometers on used cars, and selling them as new (or substantially less used) http://articles.latimes.com/1987-06-25/news/mn-10607_1_odome... My mom bought a Ch
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by jackhack 10y ago
Modern multi-blade drones do this very thing : attitude, altitude and heading hold. They are incredibly stable, and even have a "return home" feature, obstacle avoidance, and more. Very sophisticated. Could this be adapted to a f
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by jackhack 10y ago
>clarify what you mean by "pretentious" It just strikes me as so preposterous that I assumed that surely it must be a put on; like he chose the most outrageous thing to write about and slapped together a sing-songy, corny tune
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by jackhack 10y ago
>>they feel obligated to entertain instead of allowing one another to be he entertainment A most excellent pithy summary!! When I have friends over, we end up in my workshop or the kitchen or just sitting on the stairs by the front do
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by jackhack 10y ago
I've never been able to tolerate Lou Reed's music ; the stuff I've heard on the radio (esp "Walk on the Wild Side") strikes me as pretentious and not especially lyrical nor musical -- but I feel like I must be miss
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by jackhack 10y ago
If only. With some corporate cultures there is little to no value placed on retention . In fact, as crazy as it sounds, employees are seen as a liability. This was especially obvious during the great offshoring wave of the last decade wher
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by jackhack 10y ago
Finally, a workaround to the lack of support for printing code! (not just VSCode, but all the major editors -- Atom, Sublime, etc.)
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by jackhack 10y ago
Duke University School of Medicine | Jr. and Sr. level Software Developer | Durham, North Carolina, USA Office of Research Informatics Developer I Requisition Number 401227399 Office of Research Informatics Developer II Requisition Numbe
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by jackhack 10y ago
Yes! This was a practice beat into me (not literally, but close) at my first programming gig in the 1980s. "A compile should not produce warnings! If the code producing the warning is truly intentional & deliberate, then grab a sen
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by jackhack 10y ago
This is the one "killer feature" that keeps me on a Mac. Stealing focus is more than annoying -- it's dangerous. When a Windows dialog pops up with focus set to "OK", all it takes is a press of the space bar and poo
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by jackhack 10y ago
AWS is a future target for the nanobox.io Elixir project. update: Ah, Didn't realize it was already released. How quickly things progress! Thanks for the update, folks.
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by jackhack 10y ago
My worry: It will someday let agents scan your images for items of interest in an automated fashion. Firearms. Flags. Knives. Religious symbols. It's not to great a leap to imagine this happening in a very restrictive culture where pos
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by jackhack 10y ago
Thank you for pointing this out. This was "settled science" of the day and to question it put one against much of the world scientific community. Just as a flat earth and an Earth-centric universe were once completely accepted wit
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by jackhack 10y ago
Similar here. Mac & Linux for work. Mac for home. I only keep Windows for gaming. In fact, I only recently upgraded to Windows 7 on my gaming computer. XP was working fine, but for DirectX 10 compatibility (baked into win7 and above, on
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by jackhack 10y ago
Corrected title: "Mac sales declined nearly 10% as the company failed to release any hardware improvements for several years running, combined with yawn-inducing changes to MacOS 10.whatever, focusing instead on a watch and phones.&quo

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