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by kedean 11y ago
Yup, many states have 'click it or ticket' laws, yet school buses have no seat belts. The argument I heard growing up was that its 'actually more dangerous to wear one on a school bus'. I was never given a real justifica
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by kedean 11y ago
Yeah, but the original idea was a social welfare plan. The target isn't those who will take initiative to find and buy a tiny parcel for their trailer (tiny parcels are a very hard thing to find), but the people stuck in a rut of trail
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by kedean 11y ago
Of course, but most people out there got into it because of the money or because there's nothing else for them. It's not a job where a new entrant to the workforce will think "yeah I think I'll do that for a living"
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by kedean 11y ago
Sure, but owning the entire property is a superior option because it means they are not paying anyone for the privilege of living there (minus taxes to the government).
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by kedean 11y ago
In a system like that, you would have fewer doctors yes, but the ones you have would be the ones who actually want to BE doctors. In the US you have a huge group who couldn't afford med school but really want to save lives as a doctor.
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by kedean 11y ago
Sure, mortgage on a house isn't good for these people, because they don't have the money for a down payment, or the money to pay for a regular house. Give them the opportunity to purchase a small house on a small plot of land, tho
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by kedean 11y ago
The Affordable Care Act
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by kedean 11y ago
Ok, lets say I instead decide I don't like how companies sell their cars, so I 'protest' by stealing a copy of the schematics for the new 2016 model of some car. I construct and sell them for the price of materials, meaning I
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by kedean 11y ago
Different strokes. It's a common idiom in JavaScript, for instance. You can do multiple lines if you want, nothing stops you.
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by kedean 11y ago
Well, no cables, for one. It's not a huge complaint, but fewer cables on the desk is a beautiful thing. Also, easier transport.
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by kedean 11y ago
I'd imagine it's because nobody will want to use the 32-bit version for anything commercial, so there's no worry about it. If some company wants to use the 64-bit version commercially, then the team is going to want to have s
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by kedean 11y ago
Solid point, that would be a downside of the slf4j approach.
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by kedean 11y ago
For completeness of the argument, this particular problem is solved in the Java world with string formats. With the slf4j interface, that would be: log.debug("expensive %s %s", debug, message) The message is not actually formatted
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by kedean 11y ago
He wasn't talking about closing void elements, he meant self-closing void tags, like <img/>, <br/>, and <hr/>. These were introduced by XHTML to fit with the idea that every tag needs to be closed. HTML
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by kedean 12y ago
That comment is mostly by gamers, not modders. Also, the difference is that one assigns a worth, while the other is someone saying 'hey I appreciate what you do'.
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by kedean 12y ago
The core of the issue came down to the effects on the modder community. 1. Modders are hobbyists, not professionals. Many modders came right out and said they would no longer make mods under this system, because the pressure to charge means
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by kedean 12y ago
This isn't about deciding whats in their store, its the justification given. In the US, an at-will employee can be fired for any reason, excluding special cases like sexism, racism, or homophobia in some states. A store can decide to n
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by kedean 12y ago
An important point is that its the other way around, Apple Watch replaces the Pebble.
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by kedean 12y ago
Every campus safe-ride I've heard of is free for all students no matter what. The issue here is the breathalyzer, not that they provide free rides for the drunk ones. At the college I went to, for example, you could use saferide as lon
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by kedean 12y ago
You have that backwards. Gherkin is a spec language for writing tests, Cucumber is a library for Ruby and Java that interprets Gherkin specifications.
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by kedean 12y ago
The tool many people use isn't always the best one. Most of the world runs on coal for power, but that doesn't mean it's a good choice, it's just the easy one. PHP is not a good choice for anyone, it's the easy one.
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by kedean 12y ago
I always kind of wished that MooTools had won out in their battle to overtake Prototype's crown. It had a much more sensible namespace, and focused much more on solidly structured code over "how short can I make this".
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by kedean 12y ago
Honest question, trademarked according to who? The Internet is a global thing now, so who wins if there's two entities that happen to both have valid claims to a trademark?
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by kedean 12y ago
And I would have to say that keeping things you purchased and paid off before having lowered means is not living above your current means. "Living above your means", to me, is making purchases and going into debt to maintain a sta
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by kedean 12y ago
I don't think anything in this article implied that they were living above their means.
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by kedean 12y ago
I don't think DES is an accurate comparison here. The world abandoned DES because a) everyone suspected it had a backdoor, and b) it was demonstrably broken by the EFF in 1999. We rely on a primitive until someone who's job it is
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by kedean 12y ago
Unfortunately if you have too stringent of standards, the curriculum to teach it becomes implicitly standardized as well. If you mandate too many things, then there is no room for the teachers to make any decisions based on their knowledge
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by kedean 12y ago
Not all games should be 80+ powerhouses. The Costume Quest games, for instance, each clock in at approximately 8 hours to complete, maybe a bit longer for 100%. And that's perfect. Any longer, and you get tired of the combat and repeti
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by kedean 12y ago
It's not about the best solution, and everyone needs to stop pretending it is. This sort of thing comes down to which solution has the most corporate backing. The only exceptions are when an open solution happens to hold on for long en
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by kedean 12y ago
This is also a different case than jenkins/gitlab/etc, because communication of this sort doesn't need to be permanent. Unless some dev wants to use a different client, there's not really any limitations from using a pro

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