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I assume you mean s/scrap/scrape/ .
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I hereby propose that the term "hate speech" be written as one word: hatespeech . It's Newspeak, and we should spell it as such.
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immeasurably worse I think you mean inequality was higher , not worse . Executing all American billionaires would lower inequality in this country, but it wouldn't make it better.
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It's not easy for everyone, but I'm pretty sure most professional software developers can pull it off if they try. And renting probably makes it easier, not harder. (I rent.) A side-effect of having a year's living expenses saved up is that
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And maybe a few hundred devs will struggle to pay their mortgage. It sucks to lose your job, but there's a simple and time-honored solution to this problem: savings . It's amazing how much less you're pushed around by life when you have
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No one has solved the micropayments problem (yet). Given the way the world works at present, Stripe would lose money on every micropayment.
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I do have a point, but I think you'll be more inclined to consider it if you first make a guess yourself. So, what might my point be? Hint : Read some more of the entries at http://stuffwhitepeoplelike.com/full-list-of-stuff-white-peo...
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Now it's redirecting to http://www1.webplatform.org/ . So the address of the website for website standards starts with... www1 ?!?
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Stuff White People Like #120 Taking a Year Off When someone goes through a stressful experience they usually require some time off to clear their head, regain focus, and recover from the pain and suffering. Of course, in white culture th
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I haven't been back in a while, so I've got no inside information. But it's great to hear from you!
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I met Ikai through the Silicon Valley Rails Meetup, which I co-hosted back in 2008-2009 and which met at LinkedIn HQ in Mountain View. This post is a great contribution to the recent discussion about Rails at LinkedIn, and I hope it gets th
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It's hard to hire great people, so Square acquired a company full of great people wholesale. It's roughly equivalent to hiring with a large signing bonus, but with a very different (and more egalitarian) psychology.
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Maybe you're just trolling, but rational numbers are numbers that can be expressed as p / q , where p and q are integers . Neither i e nor i is an integer, so your proposed quotient has no bearing on the (ir)rationality of e .
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Print edition of the Ruby on Rails Tutorial book(news.railstutorial.org)
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He didn't miss anything. He's replying to the serious points obtained by inverting the sarcastic statements. Steve Jobs didn’t work constantly Missing the sarcasm : "Actually, Jobs worked really hard." Getting the sarcasm : "True, Jobs
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How Apple's Obsession with Google Is Hurting Apple(cultofmac.com)
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I'm curious to know in which communities this is true. At least in the Ruby on Rails world, Macs are overwhelmingly the most popular choice among developers. Is this not the case for, say PHP or Python/Django devs?
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I suggest that, whenever you make a post like this, you indicate WTF the software does, like this: We're pleased to announce version 0.1 of Tent, <insert description of WTF Tent is>. The description should preferably indicate not
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In late 2008, I attended an "open-source CEO" dinner, at which I was coincidentally seated between the CEOs of SourceForge and CollabNet (principal developer and supporter of the Subversion VCS). I asked the CollabNet CEO what he thought ab
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This bet that current total effective tax rates are supra-optimal for economic growth is based on what? It's based on intuition. That's why it's a bet, not a concrete claim.
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Of course a 100% tax rate is absurd, but it's not completely irrelevant. In particular, I bet that the current total effective tax rate (including not just income taxes but also FICA, sales tax, property tax, and implicit taxes from marke
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by mhartl 14y ago
Happy to hear it. I think it's time to try a 100% tax rate and see how that goes.
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There is a natural monopoly in a lingua franca , or common tongue. The original lingua franca was a Mediterranean trading language that drew principally on Italian [1]; with modern communications and media linking the world, this monopol
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There have been various attempts to make English the national language of the United States, but they have all failed, due in part to being perceived as vaguely racist or xenophobic. This is especially strange considering that virtually eve
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Strange that they didn't include quantity and quality of media available in a given language, unless it's somehow covered under "Socio-literary prestige" (which is never precisely defined). This metric may be English's biggest source of inf
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For the curious, confused, or uninitiated, this whole phenomenon is almost certainly based on the coincidence that "separation" and "Kevin Bacon" sound similar, combined with the well-known phrase "six degrees of separation" ( https://en.wi
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Right you are: "Dammit, will you get in here!?" "Dad, I'm Jesus Christ!" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwYVqMj5i6k
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The Rails Tutorial is at least as up-to-date as Agile Web Development with Rails. For example, two weeks ago I bumped the version of RSpec used in the tutorial, fixing a few minor bugs in the process. Just be sure to use the online version
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"Imagine" ... is virtually the Communist manifesto, even though I'm not particularly a Communist and I do not belong to any movement. —John Lennon Before proposing "Imagine" as a founding document for your political phil
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My comment wasn't intended to defend current Chinese government policy. My point is that using official education for brainwashing and political indoctrination is par for the course in a country founded on the principle of popular sovereign

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