jmcgough

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by jmcgough 10y ago
people were still very positive about it
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by jmcgough 10y ago
Does this include local bay area news (housing discussion etc)? A lot of that can be borderline political but still very relevant to startuppers.
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by jmcgough 10y ago
If they're so incompetent that they're running on a poorly secured Windows 2000 box, they're probably not performing regular backups. Depending on how critical what they lost is, they may have little choice.
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Statistician calls for audit to address election hacking fears(news.berkeley.edu)
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by jmcgough 10y ago
Protection against healthcare discrimination, housing discrimination, and bathroom use. Under Obama, I was also able to get a passport with the correct gender marker, which I wouldn't have been able to do before without being forced to
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by jmcgough 10y ago
I'm transgender and my people are in mourning. This might seem like a game to you, but there are very real consequences that will felt by vulnerable groups of people. He's already promised to repeal LGBT protections.
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by jmcgough 10y ago
I think the idea is that, by making it OSS, it's software that now belongs to "the people".
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by jmcgough 10y ago
Block scoping (using const/let instead of var which is scoped to the function) alone is really nice, but I also make heavy use of destructuring, arrow functions, template literals, export/import syntax and promises. Es6 makes java
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by jmcgough 10y ago
I've been working with es6 for two years now and never even heard of this happening to someone. Given the huge number of people who use babeljs, if there were to be a bug in it, it'd be reported and fixed rather quickly. Yes, tran
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by jmcgough 10y ago
https://www.reddit.com/r/fuckedcompany/
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by jmcgough 10y ago
That's part of the frustration for me - 0.1% of the time they uncover something of real value that no one else noticed. It's just that 99.9% of the time it's just noise, memes and conspiracy theories. I guess that's why
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by jmcgough 10y ago
I've been really surprised how influential /pol/ has been this election, which has been really weird and a little scary. It's not uncommon to post something on 4chan stating that you have inside information on events tha
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by jmcgough 10y ago
Wonder if this translates over to hormone replacement therapy in transgender people :\
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by jmcgough 10y ago
It's not about being afraid of computer science, it's about being pragmatic and efficient about the problems that you choose to solve. By choosing to develop your own closed-source language, you now have two projects that need to
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by jmcgough 10y ago
I stopped seeing him as an unfailing source of truth after he okayed developing fogbugz with a private, in-house language, that (unsurprisingly) was a huge waste of resources.
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by jmcgough 10y ago
Sure, but it's impossible to prove that brain training has no benefits, all we can say is that essentially every well-run study has failed to find any benefits. They're just saying that stuff to cover their bases - most neuroscien
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by jmcgough 10y ago
I'm not familiar with RethinkDB - what was their monetization strategy?
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by jmcgough 10y ago
I treat pair programming as another tool in my toolkit. - It can be great when starting out on a project (where I have someone to talk to about patterns for the code and bounce ideas off of). - I also like it as a means of quickly introduci
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by jmcgough 10y ago
I started renting a PO box for deliveries that I can swing by after work. It sucks to have to carry heavy stuff the last mile, but the alternative is just not getting deliveries ever, and I buy most things through amazon these days.
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by jmcgough 10y ago
It's actually the opposite of ad hominem - I'm addressing his beliefs, not him as a person. I recognize that he's contributed value to the OSS community, but over the last decade or two I think he's done far more harm th
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by jmcgough 10y ago
As a reminder, ESR thinks that women shouldn't be allowed around software engineers because they're part of a complex conspiracy to file false rape claims against them ( http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/11&#x2
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by jmcgough 10y ago
A Random Walk Down Wallstreet. Great introductory book on investing, especially if you're interested in personal finance.
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by jmcgough 10y ago
Great article. He was rightfully charged with manslaughter, but it's hard to see the full picture sometimes (what lead up to this point, what are his life circumstances). Empathy is important, even towards criminals who do awful things
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by jmcgough 10y ago
PHP has garbage collection now, so it's a lot harder to cause a memory leak. Before PHP 5.3.0, cyclical references were one of the biggest causes of memory leaks. However, you can still create memory leaks just like you could in Ruby -
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by jmcgough 10y ago
There isn't a significant health benefit to using honey over refined sugars. Sugar is sugar.
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by jmcgough 10y ago
"From February 2014 to July 2016, over 55,000 kilograms of kratom material were encountered by law enforcement at various ports of entry within the United States. Additionally, another 57,000+ kilograms of kratom material offered for i
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by jmcgough 10y ago
That's a fair argument, but it's impossible for me to compare them because there's no data on how many people use kratom. I'm not saying it's less dangerous than NSAIDs necessarily, as kratom is poorly researched at
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by jmcgough 10y ago
There were 15 recorded cases of people dying from kratom from 2014-2016. To put that in perspective, 15,000+ people die each year in America from NSAIDs like aspirin, and from similar causes (taking massive amounts, preexisting conditions,
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by jmcgough 10y ago
"That might seem like a small shift (or just sound like sour grapes from an old geezer), but it has been a striking difference in who gets started. For a long time a lot of DJs fit a certain archetype of music nerds.. often the most in
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by jmcgough 10y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triclosan#Resistance_concerns At best, antibacterial soap is ineffective. At worst, it's contributing to resistance in some microbes.

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