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by mreiland 12y ago
More than that, I've never had a bad experience with Amazon. I'm not saying they don't happen, I'm saying I personally have never , in all the years I've been using Amazon, had a bad experience. I have nothing but
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by mreiland 12y ago
just no. It's a whinefest. Yes, the young today have it kind of shitty. So did the young of yesteryear. Not everyone young person is "brokenhearted", and the idea that everyone has "psychological issues" extends
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by mreiland 12y ago
honestly I was trying to figure out how this is something new. rootkits have been around for a long time now.
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by mreiland 12y ago
I don't know that it's a lack of remorse or empathy as much as it is good business sense. Decisions have to be made sometimes. I'm not defending assholes, but it's amazing how perceptions can be skewed of people and the
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by mreiland 12y ago
I can't believe you just put Linus is the same boat as Steve Jobs and Bill Gates. You may not like how the man presents himself, but that is just flat out unfair.
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by mreiland 12y ago
It completely amazes me sometimes the shit people know.
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by mreiland 12y ago
security is a thing. When I went into freelancing I did it easily since I lived so cheaply. My monthly bills were under $1k and I was making an above average wage for software dev in my area. I knew a guy who wanted to get into freelancin
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by mreiland 12y ago
years ago I posted much the same sentiment on stack overflow when I was attempting to use Powershell 1 to build and deploy software that used SVN for it's SCM. It was a pain in the neck and I felt like the PS integration was awesome as
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by mreiland 12y ago
I liked the storytelling as well, the only part that annoyed me was the way he continued to drop back into the romanticizing of the characters. You've already hooked me, I want to know what happens next, I don't give a shit about
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by mreiland 12y ago
The problem being solved at the high level is one of how to entertain. These problems tend to be solved by the game designers themselves. Every solution involving software has many many layers of software inside it, and every single one of
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by mreiland 12y ago
That's not actually how it happened.
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by mreiland 12y ago
That wasn't the point. The point is the default reddits draw people in specifically by magnetizing them on an issue and getting them to discuss it vehemently. Also, I've been a part of reddit for 7 years now, and was a part of di
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by mreiland 12y ago
how about answer his question? Who is currently JPay's competitor? You can't answer the question for a reason bub.
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by mreiland 12y ago
right, reddit is "doin' it rong!", that's why their projected growth is so high. Part of the reason they've been successful is because the default subreddits draw people in. This isn't about some high and migh
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by mreiland 12y ago
I'm not a fan of idealism for the sake of idealism. It's practical to be able to tell at the callsite that the parameter can be changed by the function/method.
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by mreiland 12y ago
It's been a C++ convention to use pointers for parameters that are meant to be changed for a long time. func_call(&var1); is most definitely a C++ convention bud, and it has nothing to do with google.
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by mreiland 12y ago
pretty much how I feel about it.
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by mreiland 12y ago
I suspect that over time the C++ community will settle on a set of conventions around the use of auto in this context. Much like how passing in a mutable reference is considered a no-no and you're expected to instead pass in a mutable
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by mreiland 12y ago
citation please.
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by mreiland 12y ago
The company is still responsible for that, it doesn't mattter why . Do you think that consumer cares if the lack of PCI compliance caused them to have their CC information stolen and used because someone internally thought someone els
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by mreiland 12y ago
does it really matter when they did the thing in the first place? It's like congratulating a car thief for being an upstanding citizen because they admitted to the thievery and promised never to do it again after paying a fine.
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by mreiland 12y ago
things do not merely become better because of critism, criticism becomes worse as things get better. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5I94bT23cQ&t=1m34s
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by mreiland 12y ago
if it aint broke, don't fix it, and PHP's stdlib aint broke. It just aint perfect. It will never BE perfect. And that's ok. There's a million things I'd like to see before people start trying to "fix"
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by mreiland 12y ago
because you're involved in a strawman. funny how that works.
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by mreiland 12y ago
right, and then it becomes even less readable because someone calls in the namespace somewhere and half of your project uses 1 version, half the other. No, just stick with the consistency of using the stdlib as is. If someone really has
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by mreiland 12y ago
> You keep writing backlog. Backlog and back catalog (the latter being what the rest of us are talking about) are two different things. It's been long enough that I don't recall if it was you or not who originally started using
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by mreiland 12y ago
Again with the bullshit, this conversation is over.
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by mreiland 12y ago
As a rule of thumb, when you find yourself telling the other person what their argument is, you're generally involved in a strawman.
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by mreiland 12y ago
So now a company is required to have it in their name in order for it to be a 'back catalog', and since IBM doesn't have it in their name, the fact that they do a hell of a lot of work with older tech doesn't mean anythi
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by mreiland 12y ago
and IBM is still supporting software and hardware from 40+ years ago, are they a back catalog company too? You're trying to redefine words to mean what you want them to mean, I hope you don't approach technical decisions in the sa

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