jwalgenbach

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by jwalgenbach 6y ago
Yeah, not so much. The difference is in the legal definition of protected class. It is illegal to discriminate against someone based on their membership of a protected class -- ethnicity or disability for instance. Removing an opinion or ba
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by jwalgenbach 6y ago
Seriously? How about a Hippocratic Oath for CEOs and other corporate executives? They exist in a world that encourages sociopathic behavior, and they are coming down on engineers?
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by jwalgenbach 6y ago
Start by repealing the Citizens United ruling. If corporations can't have free speech, then this isn't an issue.
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by jwalgenbach 6y ago
Are you sure you are dealing with the same issue? Twitter didn't restrict Trump's tweet. It added their own speech (and not masqueraded as Trump). Follow me here: Citizen United says that corporations have the same free speech rig
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by jwalgenbach 6y ago
What a maroon.
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by jwalgenbach 6y ago
Why don't you choose one that has approximately the same population and same population density -- that's why choosing an individual U.S. state might be a better choice because the U.S. is large and has a wide range of population
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by jwalgenbach 6y ago
No. Wasm is still executing on a virtual machine, and native compiled go code will still be native.
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by jwalgenbach 7y ago
This isn't a programming discussion. It's a discussion of the policies around an open source project. It's totally politics, albeit not on a national scale.
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by jwalgenbach 7y ago
If you have a breaking change in a new version of the code with lots of changes, or don't discover the break until several revisions later, git can help find the responsible code with git bisect. The idea is to manage and track change
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by jwalgenbach 7y ago
One of the reasons I use go is the production of static, self contained binaries. Wouldn't binary artifacts make that much more difficult?
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by jwalgenbach 7y ago
Python doesn't really scale -- it just calls out to C code for heavy computation and perl could do that too. The more difficult part would be making perl easily maintainable. You can write unmaintainable code in any language, but perl
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by jwalgenbach 7y ago
Originalism in what respect? The Second Amendment specifically stated that a well regulated militia was the purpose of the right to bear arms. The "originalists" on the Supreme Court had no problem interpreting that to mean everyo
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by jwalgenbach 7y ago
I'm actually with you on C. C has the excuse of being portable assembly and from the dawn of time. Javascript is just the result of shoehorning something into the browser quickly.
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by jwalgenbach 7y ago
Meh. Wanting to replace javascript for frontend webdev is no different than wanting to run javascript on the server. It's not perverse or petulant. Everyone has opinions... I've written a lot of python, javascript, C and go in my
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by jwalgenbach 7y ago
Correct, and they aren't losing money when they sell to consumers that don't need to full capabilities. Yet the tractor itself is already capable (and purchased -- or at least financed which amounts to legal ownership going to the
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by jwalgenbach 7y ago
Yeah -- it's the same thing, and I'd argue it's a scam. Companies are not losing money on the lower horsepower tractors or lower speed CPUs. So they are manufacturing a single product and artificially limiting it so it can be
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by jwalgenbach 7y ago
The cost to JD to manufacture the tractor with lower horsepower limited by the software lockout is the same as it is to manufacture the tractor without the software governor. That's why it looks like a scam -- JD doesn't spend a d
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by jwalgenbach 9y ago
Not in favor of death threats, but if you are a public official and you do something so unpopular without a clear moral agenda (such as equal rights in the 60s) that it results in the vast majority of the people you ought to represent being
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by jwalgenbach 9y ago
Do you really need to tell people when there aren't any new jobs? No one is telling taxi drivers that their industry is shrinking fast due to Uber/Lyft, but they see the writing on the wall. The world is full of employment markets
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by jwalgenbach 9y ago
Plumbing. Seriously.
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by jwalgenbach 9y ago
So shockingly, people who have been fooled by a con artist (Trump) refuse to believe that they've been fooled. And I get the argument that learning is difficult for some, and that union jobs are better than non-union jobs, and that it
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by jwalgenbach 9y ago
Yeah, that's crap. Let's translate that philosophy to other "wrong" activities, shall we? "Spending money is more exciting when it's stolen. Saving is much more meaningful if there is the possibility that someo