joesmo

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by joesmo 11y ago
That hatred is very strong indeed. It seems to be built into a lot of people, a sort of envy of others that are "having fun" (even if they're not, like in the case of addicts/alcoholics) and a desire that they should be
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by joesmo 11y ago
"Try doing that in the States." You can't. There are essentially no public spaces in the US for this type of activity. As you noted, drinking is not legal in "public" spaces. That's minor when being in "
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by joesmo 11y ago
And of course you have raves that draw in hundreds of thousands in the US (134,000 for one night of this year's Electric Daisy Carnival for example), something unheard of in the 90's or 2000's here, so while house parties may
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by joesmo 11y ago
Legalize it or decriminalize it so that people can get help. In the meantime, it seems needle exchanges are legal in Illionis and there are some methadone clinics, though it's hard to gauge the available help in the area just from a fe
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by joesmo 11y ago
'Formatting is so much less important than most programmers make it out to be. Does consistency show that you care about your craft and does it help others read? Absolutely. But let's not waste a day adding spaces to if blocks so
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by joesmo 11y ago
The brother did not have someone do anything to his brother. It was the surgeon who decided to relive the inter-cranial pressure, as any surgeon probably would given a brain that's under too much pressure. I think the brother's po
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by joesmo 11y ago
I think you're thinking of ADD/ADHD, which is a US based phenomenon/pseudo-disease. Autism is indeed a real disease: http://www.autism-society.org/what-is/facts-and-statistics/
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by joesmo 11y ago
I think the war analogy is right, but it's a one-sided war where the only people losing money in the ad game are the consumers. It takes a significant amount of energy and bandwidth to download those ads. On the other hand, publishers
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by joesmo 11y ago
Yes.
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by joesmo 11y ago
What? A drug company hiding the fact that its drugs don't work from the scientists assigned to oversee it to make billions of dollars? Why never would I have thought this possible! Seems like for this segment of the market, they could
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by joesmo 11y ago
If he actually managed to build it into something, even better. That's more spoils when they win the lawsuit.
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by joesmo 11y ago
Don't take the prize and just release the code as open source and call it a day. That way, there's no way this asshole can claim work-for-hire (probably couldn't anyway, but just to make sure) and at least he will no longer h
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by joesmo 11y ago
Why can't I get Amazon and Netflix in 4k on my more than capable laptop? Until that situation changes, investing in such boxes just supports the idea that customers cannot be trusted with high-definition streams or any content, an idea
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by joesmo 11y ago
Oops. Yes, indeed.
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by joesmo 11y ago
So how do we get his idiot school admin fired? That's the only way to fix this now. He's essentially marked the kid for life now with an arrest record because of his own stupidity. If our society doesn't punish these people (
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by joesmo 11y ago
After using a proper debugger, I can almost say I'll never go back to a language without one. It's such a useful tool, I use it a lot even when writing code. I think if you asked a functional programmer to give up their REPL, they
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by joesmo 11y ago
I couldn't agree more. I see a ton of code that's not formatted correctly, doesn't have proper docblocks and a whole bunch of other stuff that was obviously left out because the creators were too lazy and didn't have the
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by joesmo 11y ago
Interesting, but what I'd really like to know about and the author didn't mention is the debugging situation. The debugging tools and styles available on a platform are truly a make it or break it deal for me. It's a huge fac
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by joesmo 11y ago
I don't see how this is superior to having the plant itself create THC which is much simpler and cheaper. Other than being a cool trick, how is this going to change the world, as the article claims? It really doesn't specify how t
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by joesmo 11y ago
No, you can't argue that code can be treated as a patent because then you could argue that poetry can be treated as a patent and you'd wind up in a nonsensical hell of never being able to write another line of code, poetry, or pro
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by joesmo 11y ago
Always set up an LLC or Corporation before doing any kind of business that could involve such liabilities. The $500-$1000 it costs to do that is obviously well spent money, but most people don't realize that till they're facing ba
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by joesmo 11y ago
From what I've seen, people use Waze in Romania, at least in Cluj. I imagine outside the cities there's probably no provider with decent maps though.
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by joesmo 11y ago
So these books that the fight has been about are out of print and essentially do not exist anymore. They do not make money for anyone. They do not contribute to anyone or anything. For all intents and purposes, they might as well not have e
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by joesmo 11y ago
Once a UI design is perfected, as is the case often, companies continue to look for ways to change it simply for the sake of changing it and so they can announce something new. This is true of both Apple and Google in the mobile phone space
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by joesmo 11y ago
Your first paragraph is a perfect description of working with AWS.
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by joesmo 11y ago
You shouldn't. I've spent months trying to figure out a few services to launch some apps and it's been a complete and utter waste of time. Yes, there are a lot of services, but the platform is incredibly buggy, the docs beyon
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by joesmo 11y ago
Swagger has a lot more backing / support amongst API proxy providers as well.
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by joesmo 11y ago
"Don't roll your own authentication" seems to me to be even more pertinent advice than "Don't roll your own encryption" as it's a much more common mistake that I see at almost every single place I've
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by joesmo 11y ago
People who value money over educating the public will support copyright, while people who value public education and free access to culture and media do not. It's really that simple. No argument's going to convince one side to hop
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by joesmo 11y ago
Indeed. The trust has been lost. Trust is a really simple issue that many people in our industry like the article's author simply don't get. To expect Twitter to recover in this area is absolutely ridiculous. Yes, there are plenty

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