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by mrrrgn 11y ago
Progress implies moving toward a goal. What goal are we moving toward? Our society and economy aren't optimized for scenarios involving large scale unemployment. What use is automation if it only leads to mass human suffering?
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by mrrrgn 11y ago
We already suffer from declining birthrates in the west. Your solution would make not having a child the best choice for "go-getters."
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by mrrrgn 11y ago
While you can put processes in place to improve code quality (version control, reviews, style guides/linters), there's no simple way to help a person who doesn't understand the underlying structure of software. APIs are great
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Pen and Paper Programming(mrrrgn.com)
2 points by mrrrgn 11y ago|0 comments
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by mrrrgn 11y ago
Globalism is a political philosophy, not a moral imperative. Here in our country we [citizens] get first dibs on jobs. Our land, our laws. We have every right to enforce that. If the market punishes us for it perhaps we'll change.
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JavaScript's “new Date()” causing 90% of Alibaba's internal compatibility issues(mrrrgn.com)
36 points by mrrrgn 11y ago|27 comments
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by mrrrgn 11y ago
Hmmm, no. I come from a small town in the Southeastern US. People are incredibly religious, you can't even sell alcohol there thanks to the laws they've passed. A part of the local culture is consulting preachers for counseling in
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by mrrrgn 11y ago
GitLab is pretty nice and auto-imports from GitHub!
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by mrrrgn 11y ago
Massive wealth accumulation isn't just about having money to buy things, it's about influence, and entities with the ability to marshal more than x million dollars per year (Apple, GOOG, Unicorn LLC) would still need to exist. If
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by mrrrgn 11y ago
> It makes writing software more expensive, and decreases the supply of people who can do it. That sucks for business types, but this has a real upside for professional programmers. Despite propaganda, salaries are based on supply/d
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by mrrrgn 11y ago
"Inasmuch as it is believable, this is a story about how all our lofty notions of justice, honor, purpose etc. are just bullshit, and it's really all about fucking, consuming and keeping those genes alive." When we're sa
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by mrrrgn 11y ago
Pitting the global working class against one another in this fashion will simply drive down wages across the board. Taken to the extreme, eventually the American, European, and SE Asian will be equally poor while c-level executives and inve
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by mrrrgn 11y ago
I noticed that when I hit my tethering cap, and start seeing an upsell page, my Linux vms can still access content like normal. Seems that they do all of their fancy tracking via user agent strings and consider Linux browsers as being smart
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A tweetable Turing machine(gist.github.com)
30 points by mrrrgn 11y ago|7 comments
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by mrrrgn 11y ago
I'm a child free person as well. I would really love to see tech companies offer short sabbatical periods. Knowing the people in the tech community, that time would almost certainly be put to good use: learning new skills, and finishin
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by mrrrgn 11y ago
This is an interesting thought; but your assumption that the brain would just "create its own little world" is unfounded. Like other animals, we are born with certain instincts. It's not been definitively proven that the brai
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by mrrrgn 11y ago
That's a valid point! It could be. I wasn't offended, but it's an anecdote that supports the idea that women aren't seen as being programmers. Other examples: going to conferences and being asked if I was covering it for
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by mrrrgn 11y ago
It's pretty mild; but someone sent me a twitter message after finding my GitHub account (hey nice projects, etc....) The left was my profile pic at the time, and the right is their final message. The fellow with a beard is my little br
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by mrrrgn 11y ago
It's a great way to keep our community unique and worth visiting. The world is full of vapid joke comments (anyone can make them).
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by mrrrgn 11y ago
Once again, the words you choose betray antipathy towards women. Each phrase is packed with loaded words; it makes it impossible to have a legitimate discussion. Sorry for whatever experiences you've had that led to this.
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by mrrrgn 11y ago
"procreate and provide the best environment for their children to grow in, all the while keeping a high social status and level of respectability" This is the bargain they've made. It's a rather simple exchange. "Pa
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by mrrrgn 11y ago
"The conservative way has proved to be a very stable path towards improvement. Slow, but stable. Stability and balance, are in my opinion, the most important characteristics of meaningful improvement." Can you give some evidence s
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by mrrrgn 11y ago
The fact is, transgender people have extremely high rates of suicide before and after any surgeries. Life on the margins of society is not easy, and surgery does nothing to address that problem. Here is a study, using the data from above, w
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by mrrrgn 11y ago
This is the sort of bigoted non-sense that people once said -- and sometimes still do say -- about gay folks. Luckily, society is continuing to progress socially. I imagine in another few decades (if you're still alive) your views will
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by mrrrgn 11y ago
On the other hand, I moved to the Bay Area in 2013 to work for a big famous tech company and I was utterly disappointed. Earning a high income was no fun because I was trapped in a city full of type-a, over-achievers, who only wanted to tal
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by mrrrgn 12y ago
This is why I work from cafes whenever possible. If I actually work from a quiet room by myself I start to slip into sadness. My brain craves the presence of other humans. That said, I prefer cafes to offices. It's nice to be around pe
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by mrrrgn 12y ago
It's the same for me in French. I can understand Americans (who have a thick accent) much more easily than natives. I think it's because my brain can tune into the palette of sounds produced by Americans more readily. Some sounds
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by mrrrgn 12y ago
"Web development is like an entry point for programming these days" Web development is just a _type_ of development. You're creating a hierarchy where none aught to exist. I've known many system programmers who said the
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by mrrrgn 12y ago
I think the point you're attempting to make, is that the people who let out their apartments via AirBnB and drive for Uber are entrepreneurs. This is a valid perspective, and can be argued well. My view is a little different however. I
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by mrrrgn 12y ago
It may sound horribly depressing, but it rings true to my own experiences. That said, I think it also depends on what you consider to be "learning." Most engineering jobs require a lot of horizontal learning: develop enough knowle

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