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by macu 13y ago
This sort of question, in fact the entire uproar, presumes that Brendan Eich is a hateful bigoted person with an agenda, or at least that he has some kind of dangerous impulse we should worry about. Do you think his stomach turns when he&#x
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by macu 13y ago
I think we can recognize that Bob and FizzBuzzCorp are separate entities, and that Bob, if competent as a CEO, is also able to recognize and maintain the distinction.
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by macu 13y ago
I haven't seen a single grain of evidence in support of the claim that Brendan Eich hates gay people. He said it himself, "the donation does not in itself constitute evidence of animosity." And I can stand behind him on that.
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by macu 13y ago
There's nothing to apologize for, besides causing hurt. He's not going to apologize for the views he holds, or for contributing to a cause he believed in because he had the means. Even if his views have since changed, which person
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by macu 13y ago
> Can you tell me a way to switch that will not significantly reduce my productivity for the first few weeks. The only way I can imagine doing this is to time-travel and give myself a crash-course in all the stuff I struggled to figure o
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by macu 13y ago
It doesn't have the same aim as Martini, which provides more of a full middleware manager. Sleepy is a simple wrapper for RESTful resources that takes a few steps out of the handler work, e.g. internally handles the work of encoding a
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by macu 14y ago
Yes possibly, although I wouldn't expect so many to drop on the road by coincidence when the fields are far more vast. The particular case could be interpreted from many angles, all speculation without testing the bees. Perhaps it was the s
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by macu 14y ago
My own hypothesis comes from an experience I had walking down the street one hot summer afternoon. It was a low-traffic country street and yet all along it, every few feet it seemed, there were dead and dying bees. It struck me as a tragedy
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by macu 14y ago
taking another of many possible perspectives, here is a strong case for hoping that we don't find life on Mars: http://www.nickbostrom.com/extraterrestrial.pdf
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by macu 14y ago
I'm glad to see others do this. I don't think I would use a browser plugin; selecting with the mouse is completely satisfying for whatever reason I do it. I think it's a way for me to feel connected with the text, too. reading a book, I eit