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by mildtrepidation 13y ago
From BanBossy.org: When a little boy asserts himself, he's called a “leader.” Yet when a little girl does the same, she risks being branded “bossy.” Words like bossy send a message: don't raise your hand or speak up. By middle sc
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by mildtrepidation 13y ago
The effectiveness of preparation is not random. Charting the effectiveness of such efforts, were it possible to do so, might yield a random distribution; this does not, however, imply that "all of these secondary factors" can or s
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by mildtrepidation 13y ago
I think it's reasonable to say the degree of preparation and profile management varies significantly between someone who stole a car and someone who masterminds attacks on tall buildings in New York. Preparation and profile are not &qu
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by mildtrepidation 13y ago
It's amazing to me that, a decade after HyperCard was shut down, this is still being sold for hundreds of dollars per licence. http://www.supercard.us/Purchase/orderFULL.html
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SuperCard: Still-for-sale HyperCard replacement(en.wikipedia.org)
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by mildtrepidation 13y ago
[Transactions] enabled the development of systems called databases, which can reliably maintain the state of complex data structures across incessant read and write operations as well as some level of hardware failures. This is interestin
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by mildtrepidation 13y ago
Is there a reason to dismiss the question like this? It's a matter of probability: This site just appeared out of thin air as far as most of us are concerned. Yeah, Rackspace could go out of business tomorrow. But that's a hell of
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by mildtrepidation 13y ago
I'm not suggesting you're wrong. I have a client that uses Rackspace, and while I know they're expensive, they also have extremely good (in my experience) technical support and customer service. Whether you think that justifi
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Not to be critical right out of the gate, but the site doesn't suggest any differentiation... rather than asking people to shop around just to figure out what your value proposition is, it seems to me it'd make sense to actually s
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by mildtrepidation 13y ago
Thanks very much! To be clear, my company is incorporated in the US, and we don't and won't have an office or subsidiary in Japan. On the off chance we do end up with Japanese clients, I'd anticipate them paying the American
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by mildtrepidation 13y ago
Thanks for doing this! I'm an American planning to live in Japan for 1-2 years starting later this year (I'll be studying the language and working for my existing small US business). I won't be working for (or, likely, doing
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by mildtrepidation 13y ago
Unfortunately, treating them dismissively -- while appropriate -- does not help discredit or dissuade them.
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This seems illogically dismissive, unless you're criticizing the lack of actual discourse instead of the critics as a group, which I'm not really clear on. It comes off as "The Other Side has nothing to go on but insults and
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It's ridiculous to suggest that someone's statement to that effect is necessarily true for anyone else, particularly in a place as big as the USA. The economy varies widely between towns, let alone between states. America is going
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by mildtrepidation 13y ago
Definitely true, and well put. I had a similarly, surprisingly positive experience with AngularJS (right down to the brief time frame, mentioned relevantly elsewhere in this discussion) when a client wanted it used to talk to web services,
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by mildtrepidation 13y ago
That sounds an awful lot like the scaling argument for PHP... just because a lot of people use something doesn't mean it does everything better than anything else. A project doesn't have to satisfy some snarky definition of "
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by mildtrepidation 13y ago
Call me crass, but when I'm in the functional mood, emacs puts out... er, outputs... and I don't even have to worry about side effects. Wait... that might have been contradictory.
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by mildtrepidation 13y ago
Older developers never die. They just fade away. I'm in the "start your own gig" boat as far as people who have a useful skill set and don't want to learn an entirely new set of languages/frameworks/etc. I&#x27
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by mildtrepidation 13y ago
This is a bit like saying "if you want Earth without the pollution, and are willing to contribute funding and wait a bit, terraforming is what you're looking for." I'm sure PyPy will eventually get there, but in the mean
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by mildtrepidation 13y ago
"Excuse" seems like a loaded word to use here. It's a valid reason when your dependencies don't work or haven't been thoroughly tested in Python 3.
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I can't think of any reason not to start new app in Python 3! Sorry, but my recent experience has not matched yours, so the fact that this particular project had no library compatibility issues does not mean they no longer exist. I
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by mildtrepidation 13y ago
It started as a hiring problem. Now there's still a hiring problem, but there's also this one, which is unrelated. Both should be fixed and, unfortunately, neither has an easy or comfortable solution.
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by mildtrepidation 13y ago
I'd be a lot more interested in a device that, stock, could switch between Android and iOS. A quick search suggests this may not be hard to accomplish with an Android device (which is really pretty cool if it's true). But Windows
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by mildtrepidation 13y ago
It's true that we don't have much in the way of details, but it's also very hard to imagine "very kind" fitting the bill here in any way, shape, or form. "We have a portfolio of patents that we are now going to
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by mildtrepidation 13y ago
No better than PHP? That's more than a little ridiculous. Every language has shortcomings, and there's no silver bullet/perfect multitool that can or should be used for everything. It's too bad it's apparently not g
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by mildtrepidation 13y ago
When did support for dictionary comprehensions make it into 2.x? I could've sworn it didn't used to work, but I just tried it in the shell and sure enough, it does in 2.7.3.
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I agree that live interaction is important to the quality and results of education, but as far as making money from it, I believe many will choose the option that requires the least possible effort on their behalf. Look at fad diets, get ri
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by mildtrepidation 13y ago
Call it what you want; I'm not arguing it to be pedantic, I think it's a very practical approach. But if you prefer: All other things being equal, I see no reason to write code that needlessly introduces potential bugs and maintai
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If you need to use a test like that, you've already gone too far down the road of lazy "falsey" value usage, and whoever wrote it didn't bother with the idea of sensible defaults or consistent typing/initialization.
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by mildtrepidation 13y ago
Python has dates, times, and datetimes[0]. They're all objects. So yes, you could get around this by always using a datetime. However, sometimes what you need is just a time. [0] http://docs.python.org/2/library&#x

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