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by jonfw 7y ago
I absolutely agree, and that is why Java is a great choice for monolithic applications. It's verbose and it's extremely flexible. The real reason to move away from Java is to move towards different software architectures (microser
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by jonfw 7y ago
Obviously with proper marketing you can target the niche. There are more than enough women interested in computing to make up 50% of a tiny school's program. There aren't nearly enough women interested in computing to make up 50%
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by jonfw 7y ago
https://stanmed.stanford.edu/2017spring/how-mens-and-womens-... We still have very little understanding of the human brain- but we understand enough to know that women and men are different. The theory of evolution als
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by jonfw 7y ago
> fixing the gender imbalance An imbalance doesn't inherently need to be fixed. If the imbalance is because women are simply less interested- an imbalance is desirable. Equality in opportunity will not neccessarily lead to equality
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by jonfw 7y ago
to build on this- among younger age groups- women are more likely to be college graduates than men. Women willingly choose different education paths because of different interests.
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by jonfw 7y ago
One thing I like doing with podcasts is pausing them often to consider my own position. Form my own argument- given the new information I've just obtained. Often times the wheels just keep turning and I'll forget I was even listen
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by jonfw 7y ago
I only own a compact and I use it for camping, mountain biking, dog hauling, etc. very regularly. I have utterly destroyed the interior of this car. The carpets are coming off of the floor, the seats are a mess, the headliner is well past w
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by jonfw 7y ago
That's not a python thing- that most likely has to do with your package manager. In my archlinux installation, python resolves to 3, and I have to use python2 if I want 2
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by jonfw 7y ago
I don't bother with dynamic DNS- my home IP has never changed, and if it does change- I don't host anything where some downtime would matter much. But this site has been recommended to me before- https://freedns.afraid.
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by jonfw 7y ago
This comment sparked my interest and I looked into it, ended up disabling js by default on my browser! Thanks for the tip. I use Qutebrowser, which has really handy keyboard shortcuts I can use to either temporarily or permanently whitelist
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by jonfw 7y ago
I've used openVPN for this in the past. It's nice because you only have to secure one point of access, and than you have all of your local devices easily accessible. It also allows you to tunnel through your home if you're on
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by jonfw 7y ago
Duckduckgo has an inherent advantage- nobody cares They have a tiny percentage of the market, so there will be a tiny percentage of money invested in gaming their algorithms.
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by jonfw 7y ago
With similar HP ratings!
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by jonfw 7y ago
> what about all of the working poor who are doing the right thing, but still have to pay half of their income in rent? I thought that the claim was that everybody got free housing to correct for perverse incentive structures. The SLC pr
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by jonfw 7y ago
> more sensible systems Can you give me an example of one of these systems?
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by jonfw 7y ago
The false moral equivalence of american government with the totalitarian dictatorships of China and Russia is extremely misguided.
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by jonfw 7y ago
Housing prices aren't a measure of inflation. The average size of a house has gone up, the average quality of a home has gone up. Houses have more appliances, air/cooling, and electronics which increases pricing. They aren't
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by jonfw 7y ago
Can you show me the simple arithmetic, please?
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by jonfw 7y ago
> There is a reason the many eastern religions that were the inspiration for a lot of new age ideas forbid drugs and alcohol. I'm sure they had reasons. We do studies like this to determine whether or not those reasons are any good.
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by jonfw 7y ago
GINI coefficient should not be used as a target measure at all. It's entirely irrelevant. If you want a target measure for the economy, let's do it this way. GDP per capita should be as big a number as possible. Wealth distributio
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by jonfw 7y ago
The larger the correlation between effort and reward, the more motivation. A more marginal reward would result in more marginal motivation. A significant reward would provide significant motivation.
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by jonfw 7y ago
People always try to tie income inequality things like standard of living and centralization of power. Why not attempt to measure those things directly? Income inequality may be a useful factor in an attempt to quantify those things (or it
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by jonfw 7y ago
I searched a startup name in a seperate tab, came back and had an inescapable subscribe screen. If your going to attempt to hold the rest of the article hostage pending a subscription to your newsletter, at least let me get interested first
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by jonfw 7y ago
There were a lot of hours spent and features unimplemented those days in want of RAM. Now we don't have to do that- we can do more, and we can do stuff way faster as developers. If you spend a half hour over the entire life of your mac
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by jonfw 7y ago
> “Will this trend lead to haptic computer modeling interfaces, as tactile and accessible as folding cardboard, molding clay, or bending a strip of wood?” The most interesting point of the article for me. I'd never really considered
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An 8 gig stick of ram costs about thirty dollars. It doesn't make sense to run 4 these days.
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> Forking and keeping up is likely too expensive. There are no limits to the number of open source projects that suggest otherwise.
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There isn't anything inherently wrong with the chromium web engine. Lot's of open source browsers use it's backend without having to communicate to google whatsoever. It's fast and it works everywhere
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> made up numbers And here lies the problem- you're using made up numbers. Obviously if we can cut healthcare spending while expanding access while maintaining our contribution to medica innovation, that would be a great thing. Peop
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by jonfw 7y ago
Forcing somebody else to "share" against their will isn't really in the spirit of sharing.

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