jlgreco

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by jlgreco 13y ago
So did The South. I don't care what they think, I consider it slavery, and so should everybody. Cultural relativism can go to hell when we are talking about fucking forced labor. I am not going to dampen my language just because they
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by jlgreco 13y ago
From the article: • Evidence of forced labour on a huge World Cup infrastructure project. • Some Nepalese men have alleged that they have not been paid for months and have had their salaries retained to stop them running away. • Some worke
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by jlgreco 13y ago
I was thinking of concavity as a state which had the most distance outside the state between two points inside the state, somehow proportional to size or area. Florida seems particularly concave to me (it's practically shaped like a b
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by jlgreco 13y ago
Reason you might use a touchscreen over a hardware mixer: the touchscreen allows you to instantly reconfigure your input. This does not allow that. Reason you might use a hardware mixer instead of a touchscreen: you want to be able to use t
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by jlgreco 13y ago
He didn't say it wasn't.
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by jlgreco 13y ago
Well that is fine, as I said there are some situations where this would work fine, I am concerned about the other use cases though.
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by jlgreco 13y ago
Effectively? The fact that it is a mobile device. You can do it, but it is anything but ideal and people are prone to take shortcuts, particularly when something inconvenient and based on the 'honor system' appears. I'm tryi
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by jlgreco 13y ago
Because not all code that passes the tests is acceptable? I don't know about you, but I still read code during code reviews, I don't just check to make sure the tests all passed.
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by jlgreco 13y ago
> Does it just have a cult following that I've been exposed to due to my participation in online communities and other PC gaming communities? I think that would be fair to say. It left an impression on people, just not necessaril
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by jlgreco 13y ago
So I guess the idea of testing changes yourself before accepting a pull request is out the window... Sure, for some changes this may be fine ( "TRIVIAL: fix typo" ), but it seems to me this sort of thing will only encourage sloppy
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by jlgreco 13y ago
I am classifying it is a conspiracy theory because he is not rejecting his pet theory when even a basic amount of experimentation (done by @jamesaguilar elsewhere in the discussion) reveal results that do not align with the predictions his
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by jlgreco 13y ago
Point me to a particular comment, because as far as I can tell Occam's Razor suggests that if Google, Bing, and DDG are all returning the "computer" page on wikipedia for searches for "computer", then it probably
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by jlgreco 13y ago
So your thesis is that google is killing your small company by sending people interested in your business to wikipedia instead? Has it occurred to you that perhaps people are more interested in wikipedia than your business?
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by jlgreco 13y ago
I have no idea what that is suppose to mean. Is it because they have ads and large companies pay for them? Is it because they are sending people to wikipedia instead of your site? Is it because they are sending people to large companies i
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by jlgreco 13y ago
> You used your search logic and tried to suggest that all do that Well no, I suggested that I do not believe I am odd in my preference for wikipedia links when I am searching non-trademarked single nouns. I did not suggest that nobo
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by jlgreco 13y ago
Since you seem to agree with him, perhaps you can explain his complaint to me. Is he upset that Google displays ads? Or that commercial pages for particular products are not the top organic results for searches on generic topics? Is he u
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by jlgreco 13y ago
"Now so you think major computer companies are dumb to advertise and probably risk $5 a click for "computer" when users want a link to Wikipedia?" I am not sure what that sentence means, but to be clear I do not think
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by jlgreco 13y ago
Alternatively, SLAM, the (never made) supersonic nuclear powered cruise missle that would fly across a country popping off nukes as it went: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supersonic_Low_Altitude_Missile
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by jlgreco 13y ago
> You probably use Ad blockers too Nope. > or try very hard to tell an ad from content. Not particularly. For the purposes of this discussion? Yes, but not during everyday use. If the ad is what I want, I click it. > You ar
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by jlgreco 13y ago
To be honest, I am most likely to type a particular brand/model that I want, in which case I almost always get non-wikipedia pages (which in those cases are exactly what I want.) "honda accord" for example gives me honda.c
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by jlgreco 13y ago
I'm confused, are you arguing that ads are too high on search result pages, or that non-ad informative pages are? Is this just a case of "whichever is the case at the time, I can twist it to support my point." ?
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by jlgreco 13y ago
> First, I don't think we agree what desperate means. Desperate makes it sound like revenues are shrinking or something. Think of it like being at sea on a sailboat. You've got a nice solar powered GPS unit, modern top of th
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by jlgreco 13y ago
> Ever wondered why Wikipedia ranks #1 for "computer"? IMO, it has to do with forcing Dell, MS, HP and others to advertise and to increase clicks on ads. I doubt most people want to know what a "computer" is when sea
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by jlgreco 13y ago
Flowers fade, but you'll be hard pressed to forget a grenade.
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by jlgreco 13y ago
The idea isn't to be simpler than SVN, the idea is to be more flexible than SVN. I don't follow 'git flow', but git is flexible enough to allow you to develop your own style. Nothing is pressed on you.
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by jlgreco 13y ago
I have friends who make somewhere in the general neighborhood of several times less than I do, and other friends who make likely as much as twice what I do. The result of having a wide range of salaries in your social circles is that salary
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by jlgreco 13y ago
What medications do they prescribe for autism?
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by jlgreco 13y ago
I do, since I am unaware of ancient fortifications as old as the earliest farming communities. Perhaps they did exist, but it seems to me that a farm is a prerequisite for fortifications since fortifications require you to stay in one place
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by jlgreco 13y ago
I prefer the beer theory. Settling down and growing things doesn't seem like a military tactic that pays off in the short term. Quite the opposite actually... that is probably a great way to get slaughtered. However it does make sen
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by jlgreco 13y ago
I doubt they would dare. That would impact first responders as well.

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