jlarocco

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by jlarocco 6y ago
Maybe part of the problem is that Facebook and Twitter are positioning themselves both as social networks and as media outlets. As a social network, they should protect users from obscenity and hate speech, but as a media outlet they real
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by jlarocco 6y ago
My feeling is that focusing on Twitter and Facebook's response is missing the point completely. Trump's threats were repugnant and disgusting, but it's not Twitter or Facebook's place to tell people that. It's impo
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by jlarocco 6y ago
I think you're forgetting that monetary cost is only one way of assessing value. To me, it doesn't sound like the OP is suffering much at all, and they see the increased monetary cost and inconvenience as a worthwhile trade off to
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by jlarocco 6y ago
Is it so hard to click "hide"?
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by jlarocco 6y ago
For the benefit of everybody else, #+ does feature checking. The Common Lisp standard defines a standard "special variable" (kind of like a global) named * features * (shouldn't be spaces, but HN italicizes it otherwise), and
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by jlarocco 6y ago
I don't buy that argument. Game console developers don't develop on the device they're targeting, and it hasn't really hindered them. So why do mobile devs need to develop on those devices? Mobile form factor and UI j
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by jlarocco 6y ago
> They sent an email with no guidance whatsoever. Did they, though? The email seemed pretty clear that the problem was requesting more permissions than necessary. I'm no Google fan, by any means, but if it's that hard for th
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by jlarocco 7y ago
You're missing the point. People don't want "nothing" up there, they want the keys that belong there. It's great that it doesn't bother you, but some of us use those keys. It have an easy solution, though... I
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by jlarocco 7y ago
Sunlight is bad for you in high doses without sunscreen. Moderate exposure is healthy, and may decrease the risk of many other cancers and heart disease. https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/260247#3 https:/
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by jlarocco 7y ago
The most annoying is the way it handles updates. There's no easy way to turn off auto-update (I get updates via my package manager), and the functionality in Firefox is completely broken. It downloads the update and then refuses to o
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by jlarocco 7y ago
I'm a little bummed out that I just switched back to Chromium after several months on Firefox, but Firefox has some very annoying bugs that were driving me crazy. On the plus side, it's the only Google software I use on a regular
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by jlarocco 7y ago
Nothing is dropped. At a very high level, it works like this: New versions of stuff go into Unstable. When they've been tested a while they get pushed to Testing. Periodically Testing is frozen and branched into a new Stable release.
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by jlarocco 7y ago
Hopefully people realize it's an Ubuntu problem, and not a general Linux problem. I pin my Debian machines to the "Testing" branch and "apt-get dist-upgrade" once a month, and I've never had a problem, except o
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by jlarocco 7y ago
Maybe they should ask the investors for the money... Or give the ticket holders stock in the company. I'm tired of corporations doing this, and people making excuses for them. It's all about the free market when they're rak
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by jlarocco 7y ago
I enjoy learning, so I try to learn new things as part of my day to day routine to keep things interesting. I just started following OCW's Finance Theory class and I'm starting to read the text book on corporate finance and watchi
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by jlarocco 7y ago
Any headline is going to be pushing some kind of narrative. Personally, I'd like if they highlighted the government's role, with something like, "Government taxes large companies less than small companies, shows new research
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by jlarocco 7y ago
Seems like they could cut out a lot of that code by using macros. Here's a quick and dirty Common Lisp script that reads the CSVs from the .zip file and generates classes at runtime using the headers in each CSV for the slot names. I
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by jlarocco 7y ago
I don't even like Slack, but that complaint seems petty and easy to avoid using threads... It's easy to nitpick anything if you put your mind to it, but at the end of the day most people find chat pretty intuitive and useful for c
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by jlarocco 7y ago
I was thinking about this the other day, and came to a similar conclusion. I've been working fully remote for 18 months now, and the last few weeks have been unusual and more isolating than normal due to everything being closed. No co
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by jlarocco 7y ago
To be fair, I don't think the manager in question did it purposely to monitor me, but it made me uncomfortable nonetheless. TBH, I should have asked him about it, but I couldn't think of a way to bring it up that didn't sound
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by jlarocco 7y ago
I understand how that could be frustrating, but as a user I find styled form elements pretty annoying. I would love to have control for myself (i.e. be able to customize Chromium's built-in date picker that gets used everywhere), and l
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by jlarocco 7y ago
That's not true. I've been working in software for almost 20 years and have never had spyware like this installed on my PCs. I've worked for companies with over 70k employees, down to start ups with fewer than 100. Both in
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by jlarocco 7y ago
Off topic, but related to this... I had, what I felt, was the best seat in the office at my previous job. We had an open office with short cubicles and standing desks, and the cubicles were arranged so that two people shared a small area w
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by jlarocco 7y ago
Vegans do make that argument sometimes, and it's often countered by the fact that other diseases and bacteria can spread on veggies, like salmonella and E. Coli on lettuce. And proper handling and cooking will kill viruses/bacter
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by jlarocco 7y ago
"If hidden files didn't exist" doesn't matter because they do exist... I actually also prefer putting config files in HOME. I don't feel strongly enough to argue about it, I just prefer it.
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by jlarocco 7y ago
What's the problem, exactly? He's quoting a paragraph out of a document, and appropriately used a blockquote... Maybe it's a bug on your phone or the HN codebase?
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by jlarocco 7y ago
Not really. I'm mostly on Debian, only using OSX for photo editting and some development, but I honestly didn't realize 32-bit desktop apps were still a thing. I understand the frustration, though. Apple's spent the last 5
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by jlarocco 7y ago
It happens all the time here; it's ridiculous. At my company's last benefits meeting (where they go over the yearly changes to our insurance coverage) a coworker described a situation where they had a surgery at an in network (acc
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by jlarocco 7y ago
> The flexible hours come in exchange for contractor status. You keep saying that, but there's nothing backing it up. Contractors typically have more flexible hours, but companies are free to allow flexible hours if they want to.
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by jlarocco 7y ago
> Suppose the people driving for Uber could get a job somewhere else as an employee. In this case they willingly chose the driving job with e.g. more flexible hours over the other job with employment status, so why are we second guessing

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