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by lectrick 11y ago
downvoted hard for assuming that most of the energy consumption by kerosene goes to visible light, LOL, come on man
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by lectrick 11y ago
The fact that PHP is hated by anyone who learned PHP and moved onto other, ostensibly better things is the reason why all the hate exists. Given any programming task, you're just going to end up with better code in pretty much any ot
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by lectrick 11y ago
TBH if you use Chrome, More Tools > Task Manager will show you the hogs, and you can kill whatever makes sense
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California is always ahead of the game vs. the rest of the U.S...
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by lectrick 11y ago
> However, this means that guarantees of minimum wage and paid overtime, family and medical leave, and unemployment insurance are also non-existent. That's the real problem. The lack of a social safety net without being an Employee
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by lectrick 11y ago
This is not only overblown, it is misguided. All banning does is make people continue in secret. In any event, research in that area will produce knowledge that is both useful for non-weapon purposes as well as weaponizable... The same as a
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by lectrick 11y ago
In a creative job (such as programming) it's extraordinarily difficult to evaluate how valuable someone is, but I would suggest some sort of human valuation ("you know it when you see it"), a LIGHT metric used only as a data
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by lectrick 11y ago
Every time you aim a gun at an innocent persons' head without first doing due diligence before escalating, you increase the chances of an accident or misunderstanding which results in an innocent person dead. Which we hear about all th
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by lectrick 11y ago
Hilarious. I also know it's entirely possible that some of her twitter output is a "persona"... but she drew a lot of negative attention to me at some point (quite unnecessarily I think) so I unfollowed her. Glancing at her l
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by lectrick 11y ago
I once got into a twitter fight with Shanley. She's a bit... un-nuanced. I'd say "immature" but that's ageism, I'm surely double her age. ;)
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by lectrick 11y ago
Guy Kawasaki is awesome, but this is a bit derivative
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by lectrick 11y ago
> Just because the upper level of the upper level of upper level management (which is a different group of people than engineering) might have been hostile towards it years ago doesn't mean that everyone there agreed with that stanc
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by lectrick 11y ago
> If Microsoft open sourced Windows and Office they would instantly stop making money It's funny because I don't actually think this is the case. Not completely, anyway. That's their fear, but I think that the upside in th
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by lectrick 11y ago
But were those companies ever openly hostile towards open-source? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend_and_extinguish and http://techrights.org/2010/09/17/microsoft-management-
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by lectrick 11y ago
Oh I also saw it that way too. See my other big comment in this thread lol
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That's... a good counterargument.
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by lectrick 11y ago
I knew I'd get downvotes, but we are real people in a real community and feelings DO matter and have consequences which cannot simply be brushed aside, and those are my honest feelings on it, and I lived through it and saw it all (been
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by lectrick 11y ago
I'm glad that Microsoft is absorbing enough young guys who went through college realizing open-source is cool to actually influence their future direction, but based on the entire self-interested history of Microsoft ( https:/&#x2
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by lectrick 11y ago
I liked this analogy. Why is it getting downvoted? It's totally true. Too much cognitive dissonance between open-source on a for-profit foundation.
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by lectrick 11y ago
So they intelligently crawled the web for music files to download which were... not purchased. The reason why they failed is because they, like many others, were "nebulously/quasi legal." (You know what was ALSO awesome yet n
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by lectrick 11y ago
I have built some small projects with it and really like it... in fact, after getting atop most of the learning curve, it's hard not to want to just work IN it. Which is a pretty good endorsement, in my book. I will say that the produc
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by lectrick 11y ago
> You somehow interpreted that as saying that every single user who uses the site is guilty. So. No. Seriously, where did I say this? I just reread my last comment and I said "on average" aka "on net." I did not cla
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by lectrick 11y ago
And I'm not saying that these people didn't already set all the dominos up to fall themselves. I just wanted to make the point that if the dominos falling is painful, keeping them up in defiance of truth and gravity is not. > I
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by lectrick 11y ago
> I'm pretty confident that the people running the site are contributing to net misery in the world. To be perfectly, bluntly clear- There isn't actually any suffering (and in some cases, still almost none) until the secret
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by lectrick 11y ago
Granted this is speculation, but I've done my homework: 1) Extreme concurrency due to Erlang underneath, which means not only being able to handle lots of connections at once, but very good DDoS resistance. See WhatsApp's blog pos
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by lectrick 11y ago
Elixir all the way. It's going to be a big deal. I've been doing Ruby for over 10 years. Never seen anything like Elixir. Rust, Haskell, Clojure will have their niches too. But Elixir will probably take over back-end web developme
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by lectrick 11y ago
> Was driving an automobile so much more inconvenient in 2000 than it was in 2009? I don't understand this logic. The answer is "no, it wasn't, because there were fewer vehicles." What would happen is that stations wo
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by lectrick 11y ago
Not necessarily. Used Tesla Model S's will come down in price, and still have fairly extreme (in my estimation) reliability (which may actually work to keep the price from coming down as much as an ICE vehicle, but still...)
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by lectrick 11y ago
> and to sign up for a cheaper energy usage plan at home Wait... What is this??
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by lectrick 11y ago
Spoken exactly like someone who has never driven a Tesla. ;) > a used Lexus that cost us $8,000. It's an extremely comfortable luxury car that seats 5 and can easily be driven across the country How much did that Lexus cost new? How

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