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by m12k 6y ago
Policy proposals such as "the rich should be taxed more" routinely get approval from ~65% of voters. Thankfully for that party, they've found a way to get people to vote based on fear, racism, abortion, guns and other divisiv
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by m12k 6y ago
One of the two major parties has economic policies that are so wildly unpopular (see e.g. https://www.vox.com/21502189/preexisting-conditions-trump-re... ) that they've resigned themselves to using gerrymandering,
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by m12k 6y ago
Here you go: https://outline.com/2c97Ca
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by m12k 6y ago
Computer Science is just academic/theoretical programming. While having a relevant education usually beats not having one, real-world experience usually beats theoretical knowledge when it comes to achieving real-world gains. E.g. if I
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by m12k 6y ago
Correct, not all programs suffer from the Halting Problem.
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by m12k 6y ago
Overall isn't serverless just a cost optimization for intermittent compute workloads? That's handy, sure, but I also figure that costly workloads like that are rare enough that it's obvious why the "revolution" woul
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by m12k 6y ago
If Linux is running in Azure, Microsoft still gets paid. They don't need to sell Windows licenses, they need to start getting a piece of the pie when web developers deploy to Linux servers. Getting Windows to be an attractive developme
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by m12k 6y ago
The thing is, by building backdoors into the widely used platforms, we gain maybe 10 years of arresting idiot criminals until they learn to use Signal, the same way they learned to use burner phones, but at the same time throw everybody&#x2
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by m12k 6y ago
It was recently pointed out to me that health insurance costs roughly the same to purchase for each employee, so with wildly different wages, the percentage that health insurance makes up of the total cost associated with an employee also d
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by m12k 6y ago
> As applied to Java, individual method signatures like min and max might not be copyrightable, but someone had to go in and organize those individual methods into classes, and organize those classes into packages. That act of organizati
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by m12k 6y ago
Modern game engines can, yes
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Sure, and tax havens are the most popular place to have the top of your corporation's ownership hierarchy. Doesn't mean it's good for society at large or the people working there.
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by m12k 6y ago
Especially the video game industry should take a good long look at how Hollywood uses guilds to create saner work conditions for its various production crew. It's a very different thing to work at a 'stable' company with sust
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by m12k 6y ago
You are not in their audience, because you're not a (pre-)teen. It's a mobile 3D game which also serves as a kind of platform and hub for accessing user-created mini-games. If you think Second Life for kids, you're not too fa
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by m12k 6y ago
When you pick a door, there's three possible scenarios: A) You picked the car door B) You picked a goat door C) You picked the other goat door. All three are equally likely. But in B and C, the host only has one goat door available to
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by m12k 6y ago
It's a common pattern: The main revenue source (in this case licensing money from Google) isn't cutting it/drying up, so the company tries all sorts of things to try to come up with another success. In reality they're ju
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by m12k 6y ago
My point is no matter what your commit strategy is, the reality of what actually happened is debugging info, and worth preserving to help debug later. While debugging and digging through history I'm often asking the question "what
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by m12k 6y ago
If you use the standard merge commit message in git, then you can still tell what branch things came from when being merged. As someone that has used both mercurial and git, the trouble with named branches (and having to remember to remove
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by m12k 6y ago
And what do you think about the linked article that shows how it's easier to find exactly which code is buggy if you have it in small commits instead of one big squashed one?
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by m12k 6y ago
> If I rollout a rewrite of an endpoint and run into a weird issue in the QA environment, I'm a simple git revert away from fixing the issue I'm firmly of the belief that any benefits that squashing brings would be better achie
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by m12k 6y ago
What do you use your "cleaner history" for? I seldom go back and look at historical commits unless I'm debugging, in which case I'd prefer to know what actually happened at the time with as much information preserved as
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by m12k 6y ago
And Outline already has Slack-integration. So someone ported the Slack integration to Teams and is selling it as a new product? Clever, if a bit provocative. I wonder if there'll still be a market for it once Outline gains Teams suppor
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by m12k 6y ago
They. (I'm assuming you did your research and the CTO is in fact female, but it's better to teach people to use a gender neutral term when they don't know the gender of the person in question, and it is irrelevant to the disc
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by m12k 6y ago
Running Darwin on Linux - Dar-ling. Plus nobody dreams of being the sidekick. But yeah, it would have been clever - I'm still disappointed that PyQT isn't called QTPy.
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by m12k 6y ago
Philosophers have been trying and failing for millennia to come up with hard rules for ethics. A rule that is essential in one context invariably leads to absurdity in others (there are many examples involving people strapped to train track
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by m12k 6y ago
That's an easy stance to have just as long as nobody is trying to politicize your gender, sexuality, skin color, ethnicity or other things that you literally can't do anything about or go anywhere without. Your skin color is eithe
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by m12k 6y ago
I don't think we disagree. One of Unity's founders once compared what they did, making a game engine for Mac, to building a ship in the desert. Then the iPhone App Store came along, like a tidal wave through the desert, and they&#
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So the trick to being in the right place at the right time is to find the right place, then just wait there for the right time to arrive.
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All I'm seeing is a completely black page. Wonder if it's uBlock origin, Firefox, or macOS that the page doesn't play nice with.
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To be fair though, keeping politics completely out of any aspect of life becomes increasingly hard when things like science and the definition of "truth" are being politicized. A statement like "I believe the 99% of climate s

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