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by mbillie1 13y ago
How are shopping malls paragons of bureaucracy? Paragons of shallow consumerism, if anything... and while the DMV et all are surely dehumanizing and Kafkaesque, the mall is a special and unique sort of revolting to me. But different strok
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I hope they're dying - malls are miserable places to spend time.
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Yeah but you can legally appeal to government regulations. What recourse do you have with Airbnb? Writing a blog post?
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Right, but the regulations do tend to grant the customers some sort of protection in the face of this sort of behavior, which is the whole argument in favor of financial regulation. That said, I did smile and chuckle at your response :)
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Some percentage of the workforce essentially manages to not-get-fired and little else. I don't necessarily think that's a rationalization about a specific hiring circumstance, rather that it's a fairly general observation th
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The number of page hits the article gets? Come on - Bitcoin is news, and it's been made news by people like us. Don't be too surprised or appalled when the general media tries to latch on to the publicity train.
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It's a bit sad that we keep reading these articles and keep falling into the same trap of rush-to-defend-your-favorite-language and rush-to-complain-that-your-favorite-language-was-omitted. I find these articles seldom thought-provoki
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> and some people stood to lose their entire savings. While I am not defending MtGox, having your entire life savings wrapped up in Bitcoin is hardly a sound, proven financial decision and evokes absolutely zero sympathy whatsoever. Los
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Very cool! This has been, in my experience, a factor limiting the use of GUI editors in places with a heavy emphasis on remote pairing. Of course not everyone does this, but if you work someplace that does, this is a big selling point. I
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Hmm, I remember having this issue with RHEL also, but I thought it was fixed in maybe tmux 1.8... although I could certainly be wrong.
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Leader-d should detach your session safely. "tmux ls" will list running sessions, and "tmux attach -t session-name" will connect you to session-name.
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An absolute staple of my development setup, and one of those rare tools that always just seems to work. Thanks for all the work! Sidebar: if you're a die-hard tmux user in Linux, and you do something like, say, open vim and then reali
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That is a very reasonably response, and I certainly wouldn't push the idea that pair programming is great for everyone. It definitely works better for people with a particular personality type, and worse for people with other personal
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by mbillie1 13y ago
That is very true, but there's still an enormous chasm for your average person between being mostly-law-abiding (I'm not counting things like jaywalking or going 5mph over the limit) and participating in drug sales, which could la
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> Like, when you facilitate selling drugs, there is no victim. Ah, I'm pretty sure only libertarians feel this way...
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There's a difference between supporting a free and peaceful drug trade and participating in a very-much illegal drug trade. It's possible to be a hemp-wearing, tree-hugging hippie and be pro-death penalty - it also happens to be
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A super lazy, low-effort method is just googling "what time is it in..." and I'm ashamed to say I do that quite a bit :)
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One of those rare "making x work" articles that was actually filled with awesome, actionable tips. I really enjoyed this and will be passing it around at work, thanks.
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I wish he had left that out, only because it was obviously going to lead to lots of reactions like this. Pair programming, at least on HN/reddit, is a fairly polarizing issue. I'm in favor of it, but plenty of folks aren't,
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by mbillie1 13y ago
"Why do we drive on the parkway, but fetishize an impossible and ridiculous masculinity on the Hemingway?"
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> a centralized way to stay connected This is what FB has pushed all along iirc, or at least it's the argument I've always heard, and only recently (I'm 31) have I noticed that this is really what I use it for. It's
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> One thing I don't see mentioned but once or twice is that one of the reasons the model fits MySpace is BECAUSE Facebook came around and offered a better model. Salient point. I can't name another popular one among older-than
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So there's 'we know the way social media plays out' and there's actual science and the two phenomena have nothing in common beyond 'we drew conclusions based on what we saw'. The difference is that the latte
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Yes - 'a broken clock is still right twice a day', and scientific conclusions cannot be accurately or scientifically applied via analogy.
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> Is there a name for the phenomenon that the first entries in any contested ranking tend to be less interesting? 'The fanatics are picturesque; mankind prefers to see gestures rather than hear reasons .'
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Perhaps the main reason why we are so strongly inclined to talk of the head as the locality of our thoughts is this: the existence of the words "thinking" and "thought" alongside of the words denoting (bodily) activities
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Modern browsers have made it much easier to get to the page you want, I think. If you're in the address bar, probably for most people "f" or at most "fa" will pre-fill facebook.com, then you're talking 3 butto
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Except that a pull in VCS is a separate thing. "An ask" seems to always mean "the thing that we are asking for," not some nuanced alternative or domain-specific concept.
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> an ask Can this new idiom be stricken from our collective lexicon? I've heard this a lot lately in the tech community (although mostly from manager types) and it's a linguistic abomination. "...he ends by asking ...&q
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by mbillie1 13y ago
I assume he means: any gems that monkey-patch any of the built-in classes. I believe ActiveSupport modifies things like Fixnum (1.days.from_now, for example).

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