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by justizin 11y ago
I'm sorry, OP, but NTFS has resource forks as well, and they have value. The fonts are probably in resource forks because you are prohibited by copyright from copying or transferring them, but in other situations, they represent data
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I tried several times to refactor a 10k+ line switch statement which had a particular case that by all logic should be unreachable, but had a comment something like this: /* I don't know why, but if you remove this everything
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by justizin 11y ago
knowing what people will probably do and betting your life that it will happen this time exactly as planned are different things.
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apprenticeship via a union is class conscious, organized labor in software engineering would also help us to be a part of opposing our employers' doing things that harm the community / world, even if unintended consequences, and c
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by justizin 11y ago
Two stories about Twitter circulating today: First, The only black manager in product or engineering left after encountering tone-deaf collaboration in measuring and increasing diversity. Second, They changed the star to a heart.
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In the US you are more likely to be killed by a police officer than a terrorist, so I think you're onto something.
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by justizin 11y ago
basically everything that is wrong with Atom is wrong with Light Table, which also now just uses the Atom backend. I really enjoyed using light table for a few years but not working in clojure, the integrations were never really something i
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by justizin 11y ago
> Environmental externalities are not the same as children being exploited for labor, no matter how you frame it. Beyond a sufficient level of terrible, relative comparison is unnecessary.
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You do know that the CFAA was authored in response to the fictional threats depicted in, "War Games", right?
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> A bunch of people immediately ask if I work for Amazon with a hint of disdain after I state my occupation. So it hasn't felt super welcoming so far. I moved to San Francisco ten years ago with $700 in my pocket, to stay with a rel
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> Non-deterministic boot order (man 7 bootup) is one of many undesirable trade-offs. Yeah, also something I found annoying with Upstart's induction into Ubuntu. A predecessor at a place I worked at with a huge amount of traffic inst
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by justizin 11y ago
Basically DJB did this in the 90s with daemontools, which many of us now use a revamped fork of called 'runit'. You still write shell scripts, but you also still have control. Again, I'm not entirely opposed to the ideas behi
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by justizin 11y ago
Your system now has millions of more lines of code that few people understand which are vulnerable to privilege escalation, unfortunately. :/ I mean, you could just use Heroku, for free, most likely, to host what you are doing. Should
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by justizin 11y ago
If I spend 3 minutes taking a picture to post on Facebook via my iPhone Camera App's integration with Facebook, where does that weigh in?
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Great as long as the algorithm isn't hiding a bunch. I stopped using Pandora years ago when I interviewed with them and they ranted at me about how much they hate paying customers because they make more on advertising, which is when I
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All of this is true of the existing advertising system, which is a micropayment system, but instead of taking money from me, it takes resources and information about me and gives them to advertisers for a fraction of a cent.
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by justizin 11y ago
I have heard of Patreon, and used it to support a number of artists and other projects. You and your one brain and human experience are an incredibly bad sample size. :) And why in the world would they want to get PR by faking a data breach
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I’ve Looked at Airbnb and It’s Way Worse Than You Think(medium.com)
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How is going after the behavior of an organization after complimenting someone as an individual ad hominem?
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My take: I think the notion is, it will make sense to use Otto directly from the git-go the way it was for Vagrant in the past. They still work at different levels, with Otto more likely trying to satisfy needs for things like "Ruby&qu
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by justizin 11y ago
This addresses a bigger picture that some folks have been (ab)using vagrant to accomplish and requesting features that belonged in a new project, rather than on top of vagrant.
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> I think Airbnb is well aware of the housing issue and more than willing to work together on solutions. I'm sorry, that's just not true, and Sam, I admire a lot of what you've said on a lot of issues, but I cannot believe
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by justizin 11y ago
>> But getting someone's Facebook is less socially awkward than their email address. >Really depends on the setting. Quite a few people I know would be more comfortable sharing a mail address than their Facebook info, even if
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by justizin 11y ago
> So, the real anti Facebook is Facebook itself with a fresh start. I did actually start a new Facebook account for a lot of these reasons, because it was difficult to scrub the old account and it felt rude to unfriend people, but there
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by justizin 11y ago
> Yes it is slave labor, but it is legal to an extent. As outright slavery - the treatment of human beings as property - once was. An argument is often made that if a prisoner is contributing work that is essential to the operation of th
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> It's voluntary. So long as prison conditions are humane enough to make remaining in jail a viable option, this can help prisoners. California prisons are horrifically overcrowded, literally they are under court order to reduce it
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> I'm not too worried they'll jail people so they can get cheap firefighters anytime soon. You do know that the private prison system is literally leaning on state governments and threatening them with breach of contract for no
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by justizin 11y ago
"Behind all the REST endpoints, the AWS ELBs, and the HAProxy systems, sits some of most closely-guarded software in the world." I'm not sure, "closely-guarded" is the term I would use.
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Because, at least in America, all of the time is 'white male time', and people of color and women often feel intimidated in spaces that are dominated in this way, so efforts are made to encourage a focus on marginalized people.
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> If we had an education system that as a whole, gave people what they wanted, we would all be better off. Because a teacher's job is customer service and the customer is always right? ;)

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