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by jowiar 10y ago
When "politics" is treated as "things that affect other people that we opine about", this decision makes sense. But this decision is the epitome of privilege. To enter a space thinking "I'm not going to think a
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Key points in here: - Thinking differently about Values vs. References (which you may or may not be used to depending on your language) - Mutable "values" are dangerous (and it might be worth thinking about what constitutes a &quo
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I think a large part of the issue with syntax highlighting is that our "standard" for syntax highlighting is rather dumb. A few thoughts: - Who the hell would write prose by making all the verbs blue, the nouns red, and the adverb
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> detachable displays, alternatives to keyboards, other modes of interaction Add built-in always-connected internet and you have an iPad Pro. The software isn't there quite yet, but it's really damn close.
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The big advantage with Magsafe was when battery life was ~2 hours and it was a necessity to haul a power cord around all day and the laptop was primarily plugged in. Now? My power cord lives permanently at my desk -- I can't think of t
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Seeing Odersky's talks, that is a gross mischaracterization of what he has said on the topic. There's a certain readable, elegant, concise style of code that is expressed very naturally in Scala, and if you take Odersky's cou
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Yes, but you're not committing a felony, risking jail time and fines. Also, you've identified why GOTV is a big deal in campaigns. That said, rounding up a big group of people together to all vote is a whole lot easier than roundi
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The basic reason we're okay with it is there is almost no compelling reason for an individual to falsely claim to be other people -- at least none where the risk/reward factor pays off. The reward for casting a false ballot is alm
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As I've grown up, I've realized that "such assertive terms" tend to translate to "I have an unfettered view of the inside of my ass, and I'm positive what everything looks like in here".
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Sam Brownback?
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"Scapegoat" is probably less accurate than "symptom". In that, in many states (i.e. Kansas), the education system has been deliberately hamstrung by people empowered by the "entrenched problems".
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The number where you use it to harass others? "Political beliefs" is another word for "opinions", and the crazy thing about opinions is you can change them. And the ones that you hold reflect on you.
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Woe is me, poor little billionaire, unable to work because I managed to find more money than most people will see in their lives burning a hole in my pocket and, in my billionaire wisdom, thought it was worth trying to elect the closest thi
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For me, tools that I find useful are ones that make something no longer be my problem as an application dev. For JQuery, it was low-level browser implementation details. Sure, browsers were different, I just didn't need to care anymore
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Along these lines, this is why Dan Abramov's Getting Started with Redux[1] is one of my favorite tutorials to anything, ever. The concepts are simple, and half the tutorial is walking through creating a naive implementation of Redux. T
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I was bullied out of my Catholic youth group in high school for my beliefs (read: A bunch of people I had considered friends started calling me a baby killer). It happens. It pushed me to hanging out with better people (read: The new youth
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Not really "binding" per se -- mostly because "binding" implies you're attaching events to objects and thinking about "changes", and object lifecycle is still something you're concerned with. React is
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The fundamental problem solved by React is being able to express a UI as a function from Application State to DOM, and not having to worry about manually computing the changes to the DOM that need to occur to reflect the new state of the wo
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Depending on what their beliefs are, I may well choose not to engage in business with them, or hang out where they hang out, or whatnot. Others may choose to do the same. This may result in firing. So it goes.
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I don't give a damn who you vote for in the privacy of the voting booth, and I'm not going to go digging in your background to figure out who you might have voted for. But when you make an announcement to the world that "This
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Get a bunch of men in a room, and discuss abortion. Get a bunch of straight folks in a room and discuss AIDS research funding. Get a bunch of white folks in a room and discuss police treatment of African-Americans. Get a bunch of 5th-genera
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> A lot of Libertarian tend to vote Republican because they feel stronger about economic issues, high taxes, 2nd amendment, freedom of religion, etc, than they do about social issues But that's the problem. Who exactly are affected
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It works on both ends: - Voters holding candidates responsible for where their support comes from, and whether that will influence their actions in office. - Consumers / collaborators / whatnot holding financiers responsible for w
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I don't follow what you're trying to say. Could you add a few words?
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Sure (and to some extent, Obama did it in '08, and Bernie did it this year). It's 100% reasonable to run a campaign on a message of "My opponent is funded by $BANK and $PHARMA and whatnot. I'm funding this out of my own
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I made it then, and I'm making it now. One of the best ways we can fix campaign finance is by holding campaign financiers responsible for what they're funding.
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> (of course, if Peter said some of the things Trump says himself, he would no longer be part of Y Combinator) This is the difference, in my book, between casting a ballot and writing a big check. Casting a ballot is what you h
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That wasn't the argument I was making. What I was saying is that a policy of "We will allow people to express their political views free of judgement and consequence" only really works when "political views" is take
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> No, to us destroying a person for their political views is disgusting, even if we disagree with them. And this is some seriously oppressing bullshit that has (wittingly or not) prolonged white/male supremacy. People creating a spa
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How do you justify that price, though? It involves a whole lot of growth that isn't really there. Google and FB are probably the only companies that could turn Twitter profitable, but probably only at a point that justifies a sale pric

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