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by methodover 13y ago
"We, as programmers, are ridiculously overpaid already." This must not have been true, if collusion was necessary to keep wages down.
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by methodover 13y ago
Democracy isn't just a luxury, I think. It isn't just a vehicle for economic progress, or for the improvement of the quality of life. Democracy is necessary for the long-term survival of the species. Nuclear weapons mean that if t
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by methodover 13y ago
I had a similar initial situation -- I was in North Oakland, in the Rockridge area, when I observed a traffic accident. I safely parked, exited my vehicle and rendered aid to the two injured individuals involved in the accident. Police and
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by methodover 13y ago
Voluntarily entering into slavery was indeed popular. Individuals would sell themselves into slavery to pay a debt, for example. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voluntary_slavery
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by methodover 13y ago
He makes an explicit case for both (1) and (2). He doesn't try and merely imply (2). Also, a transparent trade can still be exploitive. If I were to advertise for a slave, that would be an advertisement for an exploitive "offer.&q
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by methodover 13y ago
I have the same ambition. Though I haven't written a novel (other than timelines, outlines, descriptions, and other notes), I have set some goals for myself: If writing stories is like any other difficult skill, the important thing is
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by methodover 13y ago
14 minutes, 27 seconds for all 5 levels. Bah, should've done better. On the other hand I just woke up. I wanna see one of these in Python.
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by methodover 13y ago
Fascinating article! I wrote a short story a couple weeks ago that explored one possible impact of such an event from the perspective of a school teacher whose job is replaced by a computerized solution. It's not exactly a happy story,
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by methodover 13y ago
I completely agree. I went and looked at his hiring page to see what kind of folks he was looking for. He's not hiring in a framework/language I'm familiar with, but if he was, I might consider applying.
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by methodover 13y ago
The one genius thing about the body scanners is that the TSA have persuaded people who don't like them that they can protest by opting out. Opting out isn't a protest. I have no idea why people think it is. You're given a manual search that
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by methodover 13y ago
I disagree. The sheer magnitude of income inequality is a social problem in its own right. It doesn't matter all that much if the inequality happened with or without corruption. What matters is that some people work hard and are rewarded wi
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by methodover 13y ago
That's probably true. Just to expand on this idea: Notch's priorities when he wrote Minecraft were quite different from most of our priorities as an employee, I would wager. I dunno about you, but writing truly readable, intuitive, easy to
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by methodover 13y ago
26 here. I didn't get into programming until a couple years ago. As a kid, I was never really exposed to programming. It wasn't offered in middle school or high school. It just so happened that I was never prompted to try it. I majored in s
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by methodover 13y ago
Ha, I've had the exact same feelings about Austin -- I've lived and worked here all my life, and have been thinking about moving to the bay area for some time now. Austin's great. I just want to experience what it's like living in someplace
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by methodover 13y ago
For my current job, in the interview I mentioned my love of StarCraft 2. My interviewers loved it. (It was a web programming job.) If I were an employer, I'd give you major points for being good at StarCraft 2. It's a tough game. To do well
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by methodover 14y ago
I have a really basic question: What does it mean to have a Github account, in the sense the article speaks of? Is the idea that I should create an open source project and stick it on Github? Or perhaps find some open source project and sta
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by methodover 14y ago
The opinion expressed in the article is the very definition of unjust prejudice. Here we have a person who refuses to work for a person for no other reason than she is female. That is an unjust reason. It's no better than refusing to work f
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by methodover 14y ago
The response from the community in regards to SimCity is understandable -- but also disturbing. SimCity isn't unplayable. Quite the opposite. It is an engrossing, beautiful, rich game with plenty of gameplay available. I've played the game
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by methodover 14y ago
Woah. This article went from relatable to really fucking creepy towards the end there. If you and an ex have a shared account, unshare it. Don't snoop around in it, looking at pictures and notes and shit. Anyway. The part of the article bef
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by methodover 14y ago
An opt out is not a protest. It's not. The TSA doesn't keep records of opt out rates. The random folks waiting in line around you probably don't recognize that you're opting out as a form of protest. The only thing opting out accomplishes i
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by methodover 14y ago
That's what I was thinking... About a year ago, I started making $40k/year. It's just barely enough to get by. Most of my take-home goes to rent, student loans, and other expenses that I can't lower. And I'm fairly frugal as it is -- I try
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by methodover 14y ago
I wonder if there's a better way to register one's complaint rather than merely opting out. (And I happen to agree with another poster who said that the 'enhanced pat down' can be more degrading than the scanner if you get someone who gets
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by methodover 14y ago
I took a plane trip a couple days ago, and I had a new guy too. Unfortunately he was coached to move his hand along my inner leg until he 'felt resistance' which to him meant banging his hand, hard, against my testicles. It hurt. I'm not su
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by methodover 14y ago
About radiation: Let's say that the article is correct and the radiation risk is very low -- 6 to 100 additional cancer cases per year among the millions that fly. The question I have is this: Are the machines preventing 6 to 100 injuries o
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by methodover 14y ago
My day job is web app development, but for the past year or so I've dedicated much of my spare time to making games. Or, more accurately, I've been trying to make games. So far I've just published only one, a mobile game that was not succ