motogpjimbo

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by motogpjimbo 4y ago
I was frankly amazed that Dave Cullen of all people was sent a review copy of Picard S3. Either Paramount/Amazon don't know who he is, or there's a legitimate attempt to extend an olive branch to "the fans" going on
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by motogpjimbo 4y ago
Are you aware that black people commit crimes at higher rates in countries that have no history of slavery or the various other social problems that have existed in the US?
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by motogpjimbo 4y ago
It does, but it turns them off on any article that is even remotely controversial.
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by motogpjimbo 4y ago
A perfect illustration of the grandfather comment.
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by motogpjimbo 4y ago
Up to and including refusing to acknowledge demonstrably provable facts?
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by motogpjimbo 4y ago
I'm sure she was, but her work on Jordan's novels wasn't effective. Under normal circumstances, a writer wouldn't be able to get away with releasing 5 or 6 books in a row in which almost nothing of consequence happens.
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by motogpjimbo 4y ago
Robert Jordan's wife was his editor. Once you understand that, you understand why his books are so poorly edited. A competent and empowered editor would surely have insisted on literally thousands of pages of cuts across the series.
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by motogpjimbo 4y ago
I've spent the last 10 years working for a succession of companies that used PHP yet have never worked on WordPress and I doubt I ever will. If you're in the tech startup bubble it's easy to come to the conclusion that Python
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by motogpjimbo 4y ago
Have you got a source for him being a convicted Nazi?
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by motogpjimbo 4y ago
> The big win is that each function that gets split out has fewer reasons to change. The individual functions are therefore easier to maintain and understand. Yet the namespace becomes more polluted and the interconnections between the f
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by motogpjimbo 4y ago
I think you're putting too much faith in frameworks there. My employer's large PHP application is written in a framework that was once popular but then was abandoned years ago. Since that framework defines every aspect of the appl
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by motogpjimbo 4y ago
I wonder whether you would post a comment similar to this if it turned out that the donation money had been funnelled to right-wing think tanks and had then subsequently been distributed to right-leaning commentators?
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by motogpjimbo 4y ago
The point is that the school won't reject a child because their parents don't work in a particular industry or belong to a certain religious organisation, as was sometimes the case with "private" schools previously. Both
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by motogpjimbo 4y ago
She and her chancellor announced a series of tax cuts at a time when inflation is running at 10%. Even worse, they sidestepped the usual processes on fiscal responsibility and declined to explain how the tax cuts would be funded. The bonds
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by motogpjimbo 4y ago
This sounds like you're opening yourself up to situations where you have rows in data_journal that have status='Loading' but which have started_loading_at=NULL, in violation of your data model. Your premise is slightly flawed
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by motogpjimbo 4y ago
This is one of the weakest smears I've ever seen attempted on this site.
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by motogpjimbo 4y ago
I love to see effective yet brutally-simple "redneck engineering" solutions to software problems, particularly ones that straddle the line between genius and stupidity in a way that makes architecture astronauts feel uncomfortable
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by motogpjimbo 4y ago
The person you're responding to is probably referring to the plans to release direct sequels to Ghostbusters 2016, which were shelved after that film flopped.
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by motogpjimbo 4y ago
Unless you're paying money to Twitter, you're not their customer.
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by motogpjimbo 4y ago
I would argue that the problem is less due to franchise fatigue than it is to low quality and needlessly confrontational writing. Classic drama tends to have a universal quality to it that transcends any particular time, place and culture,
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by motogpjimbo 4y ago
The evidence doesn't back you up here. The Rise of Skywalker made half as much money as The Force Awakens. Rey and Rose Tico merchandise didn't sell. Viewing figures for recent Disney Marvel TV shows have been extremely low. Star
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by motogpjimbo 4y ago
> Usually, there's just no time to build internal admin apps when you're a solo founder or a small team. At my current job, the "admin UI" is rolled into the same CRM we present to our customers, and often takes the f
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by motogpjimbo 4y ago
If a customer ever changes their billing rate, you will need to keep track of when it was changed and what their previous rates were, otherwise you'll have no audit trail and no way to bill customers correctly. One approach would be to
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by motogpjimbo 4y ago
If you're going to jail for 15 years, isn't running up a debt with your lawyers the least of your concerns?
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by motogpjimbo 4y ago
I know several people have already mentioned it, but SQL. Over the past nearly three decades I've learned and used many programming languages, frameworks, tools and development methodologies, most of which have turned out to be here-to
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by motogpjimbo 4y ago
The difference is that on those old 8-bit microcomputers BASIC was the standard way to write programs. The only other choice was assembly language, which was mostly used by games for performance reasons. So BASIC programs written by the use
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by motogpjimbo 4y ago
PC-DOS's predecessor, 86-DOS, was allegedly reverse engineered from CP/M. The subsequent lower development costs probably account for at least some of the price difference between the two products.
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by motogpjimbo 4y ago
Or even worse, when the ORM is written in a programming language your organisation no longer uses and is part of codebase that is no longer under development.
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by motogpjimbo 4y ago
It has always amused me when developers try to make their application's database layer vendor-agnostic. Not only does that restrict you to the most vanilla dialect of SQL imaginable, it's also a pointless exercise generally becaus
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by motogpjimbo 4y ago
So, not only is your arrogance out of control, you're fragile too. So fragile that echoing your own intemperate words back to you triggers you. In future, remember that you're on Hacker News, not Reddit. If you can't be civil

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