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by jqm 11y ago
Ya well... nothing human is perfect. Doesn't mean it can't be better (and it will be). But regulation generally trumps people behaving ethically on their own. Sadly. Also, couldn't small bribes also be a problem in things lik
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by jqm 11y ago
I don't even know Ruby (well I did play with it briefly years ago for a week) and I didn't have any trouble parsing what @sentence was doing. There is undoubtedly much tightly packed cleverness in code but I don't think this
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by jqm 11y ago
I trust regulatory policy much more than badges of honor. I always laugh when I see "fair trade coffee". Is it really fair trade? Do most people care about it? Would the socially conscious hipster just as easily drink non-fair tra
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by jqm 11y ago
I'm using peewee for the first time on a project starting yesterday. Not using the ORM (I like writing SQL for some reason) but the connection pooling on Postgres is nice and I'm really enjoying working with it. Thanks for your wo
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by jqm 11y ago
While all that is certainly true there were likely at least some advantages to ancient thinkers which we don't enjoy today. If one was an elite a bunch of tasks that take up our modern time were taken care of via slavery. No thinking a
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by jqm 11y ago
That's an interesting perspective and I hadn't really considered it like that. But I believe there is a reasonable point at which people should not be expected to go beyond because it becomes ultimately too harmful for them (ok...
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by jqm 11y ago
No, not at all. I agree... this kind of problem exists even with criminalization and I agree on the pretty obvious (to me anyway) need to do away with criminalization. But problems of this kind could become worse if taking meth were legal.
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by jqm 11y ago
I'm of the opinion people should be able to do what they want. And certainly drugs being illegal causes more problems than it solves. That being said, here is a case to think about. When I was in my early 20's (20 years ago) I got
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by jqm 11y ago
"The future is having older wise folk write out proposals to ambitious projects, and have young people fill in the necessary parts." That's generally the past and present as well. With some notable exceptions I think that&#x2
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by jqm 11y ago
That does sound cool and things like that have been tried in the past. The traditional type of problems seem to be (human nature being what it is) that the guru in charge of the yoga studio proclaims he is the second coming of Jesus Christ
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by jqm 11y ago
Some of us still do. The whole world has not moved on to client side frameworks contrary to popular opinion on HN. (I probably actually will move on at some point... when the dust settles and there are clearer options. And when I can go thr
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by jqm 11y ago
Curiosity can also decrease likelihood of survival. See: saying about curiosity and cats. But as a species you might be correct.
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by jqm 11y ago
Sometimes not working towards a goal for a day gets me closer than working badly towards goal. And sometimes, waiting until the moment is right is better than trying to seize the moment. It's a very fine line though and can become a go
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by jqm 11y ago
There is an inordinate amount of noise being made about the issue. Often people make less noise when really trying to get what they want. Sometimes noise is for other reasons. Not saying it's a conspiracy but jeeze.... enough already!
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by jqm 11y ago
What a ridiculous incendiary article. Certainly has no place here. Flagged.
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by jqm 11y ago
Yep. Pretty much anyone not Ottoman.
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by jqm 11y ago
I live in a small town and used to work with a guy who was Microsoft Windows phone support at one point before they transferred the role to India. He wasn't a programmer. He wasn't an admin. He was phone help support as in "I
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by jqm 11y ago
? It's an easily checked fact. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ibn_Saud Excerpt: "After World War I, he received further support from the British, including a glut of surplus munitions. He launched his campaign
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by jqm 11y ago
It was the British who backed the Saud family initially. Towards the end of the Ottoman empire. They gave the Sauds advisers and military support.
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by jqm 11y ago
I listen to soma.fm groove salad while programming. ( https://somafm.com/groovesalad/ ) I've discovered some great artists on there. Jens Buchert for instance. https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=p
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by jqm 11y ago
for a 120 pound adult.... But I weigh over 200 pounds. So 9+ potatoes a day from me to get all the essential amino acids. That's a pretty high starch to protein ratio and would be nearly my whole intake in calories to get a bare minimu
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by jqm 11y ago
All food may have protein, but all food does not have essential amino acids (which cannot be made by your body) in the quantities required to maintain health. This is why non-meat eaters must be sure to add certain foods (or certain combina
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by jqm 11y ago
No worries. I actually think it might be better for the locals if (a more enlightened and less hard-line) Israel governed a bit more of the Mideast but this is a political impossibility right now and certainly better left unsaid. I should h
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by jqm 11y ago
Well, there would be generally less tensions with many other countries acting in an expansionist manner than with Israel doing so. Given the history short (modern) history of Israel and the religious animosity of the neighbors etc. it would
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by jqm 11y ago
Circumstances may change and at that time it may be in Israel's best interest to appear expansionist. But for now and for the foreseeable future, it will probably help keep the peace if they aren't.
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by jqm 11y ago
Either interact with an external database... (an existing company db for instance...this is just a front end) or else use a sqlite file on the local machine for smaller stuff.
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by jqm 11y ago
I like Jinja2 templating and haven't fully jumped on the client side generation train. But I'm partially on that train and do do some client side generation. Particularly for elements that need to appear and disappear with the dat
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by jqm 11y ago
Falcon ( http://falconframework.org/ mentioned at the bottom of the article) does look interesting. I've also had good experiences with bottle ( http://bottlepy.org/docs/dev/index.html ) for bui
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by jqm 11y ago
He also predicted Mexico and Poland would become world powers soon. Although there are some interesting insights, I take his predictions with a whole shaker of salt.
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by jqm 11y ago
Sound bites taken out of context are pretty easy to do with Trump. But this is hardly the place for political flame wars.

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