maximus1983

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by maximus1983 7y ago
Sure I’ve written some awful code in the past but I am at the point that when building certain application types I know exactly what I am doing. If I was writing code in c++ I would probably create something awful because I wouldn’t know wh
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by maximus1983 7y ago
I think their definition of terrible and mine are very different.
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by maximus1983 7y ago
> Doing “something else” means (1) rethinking your code so that it is easier to maintain or less buggy (2) adding smarter tests so that, in the future, bugs are readily identified effortlessly. Investing your time in this manner makes yo
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by maximus1983 7y ago
I totally disagree. The Guardian has outright lied about people I have personally spoken to. They also constantly call people Alt-Right. I actually emailed them about them calling people Alt-Right (which is a very specific meaning these day
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by maximus1983 7y ago
Lets get one thing straight. The Allies didn't go to war because of holocaust, they were dragged into a conflict by Hitler. In fact the only reason why the UK went to war against Hitler at the time was because Winston Churchill was det
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by maximus1983 7y ago
You obviously didn't read what I said. > There are subjective things and there are objective things. What you're doing at this moment (trying to justify both sides) is intellectually dishonest. Well you didn't really justi
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by maximus1983 7y ago
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4055162/Killing-hat... If you don't allow them to be part of the world you end up alienating them forever and they can never redeem themselves and change. Society has
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by maximus1983 7y ago
> Yes, society as a whole has a collective opinion that forms the mainstream and defines a) what's outside of that and b) what to do with those outside of it. The Overton window (which is what you are referring to) changes over time
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by maximus1983 7y ago
You do realise that most of this language is from people that are deeply frustrated at the situation they live in and vent on the Internet. Yes they said mean words on the internet? Who cares? I don't. > Pretty much any place on the
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by maximus1983 7y ago
Far right is a dog whistle. It doesn’t really mean anything. E.g criticise the immigration policy, you will be labelled far right by some of the rags that are still somehow trading. As for whether free speech benefits those in the far right
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by maximus1983 7y ago
I am sure there will be many people cheering. However people don't seem to realise that just because it isn't you getting censored now, it may well be you in the future. What is deemed acceptable and what isn't deemed accepta