justinlardinois

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by justinlardinois 9y ago
Some US states have laws like this, but they're usually limited to certain kinds of crimes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Son_of_Sam_law
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by justinlardinois 9y ago
For "spiced" we also have the word "seasoned." It has a handful of meanings, but if you're using it to describe a flavor it should be clear that's the meaning you're using. I've also heard foods descr
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by justinlardinois 10y ago
I'm curious, does anyone else have examples of #1?
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by justinlardinois 10y ago
I don't agree with this at all. Google's projects don't always make money, but I don't think it ever does something without an intention to make money. The idea that Google Fiber existed solely to further a political c
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by justinlardinois 10y ago
> We began to see elevated bandwidth against our Managed DNS platform in the Asia Pacific, South America, Eastern Europe, and US-West regions that presented in a way typically associated with a DDoS attack. As we initiated our incident r
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by justinlardinois 10y ago
Relevant xkcd: https://xkcd.com/1665/ The talk page for San Jose (or is it San José?) has a very passionate debate about whether the article's name should be accented or not: https://en.wikipedia.org&#x
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by justinlardinois 10y ago
> I'm beginning to think none of you have ever worked in companies that actually produce IP. All software companies produce intellectual property.
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by justinlardinois 10y ago
Because executive orders have limited power and are controversial and possibly unconstitutional. Almost all executive orders direct federal agencies, which are part of the executive branch, to take a given action. An executive order that at
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by justinlardinois 10y ago
I'll take it.
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by justinlardinois 10y ago
Yeah, it's worth noting that "tree swing" isn't a common idiom; I only meant a swing that's set up on a tree. I just didn't want to call it a "tire swing" though because it only took that form in one
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by justinlardinois 10y ago
> A famous comic using the attempt of building a tree as the analogy of what is wrong in each part of the traditional development lifecycle The project in the comic actually appears to be building a tree swing . I'm sure this was j
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by justinlardinois 10y ago
Because it's dismissive.
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by justinlardinois 10y ago
Looks like I misread.
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by justinlardinois 10y ago
You don't have to use Java on Android and you don't have to use Objective C or Swift on iOS. You're heavily corralled towards them, but there are still other options.
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by justinlardinois 10y ago
That is not an appropriate tone for someone representing OpenDNS to take.
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by justinlardinois 10y ago
When did your parent talk about copying Uber?
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by justinlardinois 10y ago
I think out of all the comments so far this passes closest to the real reason. It's simple: if you're developing for the web, you almost certainly have to use Javascript . That reality corrals so many more people into Javascript
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by justinlardinois 10y ago
> People in the suburbs of Silicon Valley don't use iPhones? Agreed, I thought Cupertino was a silly example. It's actually funny that you say "suburbs of Silicon Valley," because the entire valley is suburban. Wher
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by justinlardinois 10y ago
Remember this? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_bus_protests The underlying social tension hasn't gone away.
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by justinlardinois 10y ago
For whoever downvoted me, I was asking because I wanted to know if I could directly ask them questions on this thread. I don't have a problem with self-promotion.
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by justinlardinois 10y ago
Was this posted by the author?
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by justinlardinois 10y ago
Agreed. At risk of sounding like an idiot, the K&R C book and Mythical Man-Month are the only books on that list I've even heard of , and I haven't read either of them. Also, he gives "more of a language reference"
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by justinlardinois 10y ago
From a thread about the data breach: > Investors are conflicted: on the one hand, Yahoo had a data breach that will cost them trust, but on the other hand, investors are surprised to hear there are still 500 million Yahoo users. https:&
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by justinlardinois 10y ago
PHP was the first programming language I ever used, so it holds a special place in my heart. And I use it daily at my current job. I have to disagree with this article. PHP is a heavily flawed language. It's very easy to get started wi
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by justinlardinois 10y ago
Anyone else get tripped up when the underlined "He simply does not deserve the job" turned out to not be a link?
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by justinlardinois 10y ago
Depends on how you slice it. Windows still dominates the personal computer market. https://www.netmarketshare.com/operating-system-market-share...
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by justinlardinois 10y ago
Same.
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by justinlardinois 10y ago
Needs a (2011) in the title. He passed away five years ago today.
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by justinlardinois 10y ago
> If you include the "guide" that you have the scroll through and then the 5 "Accept" popups for allowing the car to connect to the phone it's like about 9 clicks. Pretty crappy UX. Isn't that just the stand
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by justinlardinois 10y ago
A lot of "you don't need Javascript" articles show a bunch of CSS tricks that look flashy and cool but in reality are brittle, limited, and hard to maintain. There's a fair bit of that here, but props for also pointing o

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