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by joshuacc 3y ago
It interrupts, yes, but you’re not in a position to judge what is in every individual’s best interest.
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by joshuacc 3y ago
Interestingly, in the US, slavery is explicitly permitted by the Constitution as a punishment for crimes. (Though whether prison labor should count as "slavery" or as a different form of "involuntary servitude" is an int
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by joshuacc 3y ago
Subtitle. Subtext is the meaning implied but not stated by a given text. :)
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by joshuacc 3y ago
Game rules are generally not copyrightable. The particular written expression of game rules may be, though. So it becomes a question of how much it took from the game books and whether it presented them verbatim or in a new way.
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by joshuacc 4y ago
Asimov got there first. :) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Statue_for_Father
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by joshuacc 4y ago
That’s true about most important questions. But you’re factually wrong about the implications of most religions. Many (most?) major religions teach that we are not the only intelligent life in the universe. The Abrahamic faiths teach the ex
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by joshuacc 4y ago
“Nobody would say "It is sad that you need that glas of Prosecco to celebrate New Year's with your friends."” There are actually quite a large number of people who would say exactly that. It’s a minority position, but there a
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by joshuacc 4y ago
It’s interesting to note that this decision did not come down along typical ideological lines either. The majority was three conservatives and two liberals, while the minority was two conservatives and two liberals.
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by joshuacc 4y ago
Which case are you referring to? I haven’t heard anything about it.
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by joshuacc 4y ago
It's entirely possible for both things to be true at the same time. Tons of developers prematurely optimizing things that don't matter because they make assumptions about performance. Those assumptions can also mean an epidemic of
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by joshuacc 4y ago
Isn’t that essentially semantic versioning plus version ranges ala npm?
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by joshuacc 4y ago
Most of my career has been working at places using scrum/kanban. And the vast majority of those projects delivered valuable software to customers at the estimated pace. The ones that didn’t were easily attributable to outside factors o
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by joshuacc 4y ago
I’m not sure what you’re trying to say, but that’s not true at all. There are other metrics for code complexity, including fairly simple but useful ones like number of logical branches.
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by joshuacc 4y ago
This depends on exactly which executive functions are impaired, which are not always the same even for those with an ADHD diagnosis.
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by joshuacc 4y ago
It goes both directions. Without the printing press, the rise of mass religious movements prioritizing literacy would not have been possible. But once the printing press was there, the religious movements pushed literacy forward faster than
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by joshuacc 4y ago
Sounds like very poorly taught phonics. Well-taught phonics covers all the variations of sounds that letters make alone and in combination.
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by joshuacc 5y ago
Many cultures and religions would say that the hermit did, or at least might have. :)
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by joshuacc 5y ago
Having worked at both a mid-size EdTech company and now in a smallish part of Microsoft, every codebase for public-facing software that I've seen would take at least 1 year to achieve actual expertise in (while guided by an expert!) an
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by joshuacc 5y ago
I’m not sure why. “Venting” doesn’t seem to have much overlap with CBT other than words being involved.
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by joshuacc 5y ago
Why do you think that drilling is one dimensional? Drilling at an angle, and even at gradually changing angles is common.
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by joshuacc 5y ago
In English, the term murder usually means something closer to "the intentional unjustified killing of a sapient* being." If it's not intentional, it's not murder, it's an accident. If it is justified, then it isn&#x
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by joshuacc 5y ago
What else? This is the only one that I am aware of.
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Prose for Programmers(proseforprogrammers.dev)
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by joshuacc 5y ago
The word norm can mean either “prevalent” or “the desired state of things.” So I’m assuming the previous comment was engaging in a bit of wordplay. https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/norm
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by joshuacc 5y ago
1. It’s much faster. 2. It won’t catch type errors. Regarding #2, I assume that things are set up so that type errors are caught in some other way, such as in CI or in a precommit hook.
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by joshuacc 5y ago
“Mental energy” is a pretty common phrase, and it refers to the ability to start and sustain work on tasks which require mental effort. Eating a candy bar can provide a temporary boost to mental energy, but it’s not an effective everyday ap
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by joshuacc 6y ago
And when someone is in love we say they "walk on clouds." That doesn't mean we're literally ascribing the power of levitation to them.
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by joshuacc 6y ago
> some bearded dude sitting on a cloud You do realize that this idea is explicitly condemned by Christianity, Judaism, and Islam?
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by joshuacc 6y ago
> Their parents can't afford a laptop? Yes! There are millions of kids in the US whose parents can't afford a cheap $300 laptop. The federal government pays for school lunches because there are so many kids who otherwise wouldn
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by joshuacc 6y ago
Yes, absolutely. Every company that I've ever worked at had a list of officially supported browsers that included Chrome, FireFox, Safari and Edge/IE. QA engineers would make sure to rotate through various browsers while testing,

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