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by mwfunk 10y ago
"These people"? Who? People who live in California? There's a lot of people who live in California. They have lots of different opinions about lots of things. The LA Times? People who live in LA? People who back Calexit? Who
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by mwfunk 10y ago
What's obfuscated about the second form? It's my personal preference, so I'm sure there's some personal bias there, but one doesn't seem more or less obfuscated than the other one. They are both equally readable to
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by mwfunk 10y ago
There are lots of people in the intelligence community that are appalled by domestic surveillance efforts as well. Besides, if your accusation is correct (that they are so mindless and stupid as a group that their reaction to a controversia
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by mwfunk 10y ago
What in that excerpt conveys smugness to you?
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by mwfunk 10y ago
"web link" != the link with the title of the article. It's literally the link with the text 'web' on the line below. That goes to a Google search for the article. Clicking the first hit takes you to the article, no
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by mwfunk 10y ago
This explains it much more concisely yet thoroughly than anybody could in a post here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.NET_Framework It's a (in theory) OS-neutral platform. It's a huge software stack with many
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by mwfunk 10y ago
Why?
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by mwfunk 10y ago
That's a more concise way of saying what I was trying to say. The person I was responding to appeared to think it was a statement that the other variables were insignificant, rather than controlled (at least that's how I interpret
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by mwfunk 10y ago
The phrase "all else being equal" does not mean what you are presenting it as. It's only used to introduce a thought experiment where someone is trying to understand the effect of one variable independently of all the other f
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by mwfunk 10y ago
They probably just wanted to show off the 6-display config for that photo. Stock traders are much more likely to use that particular display arrangement than engineers.
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by mwfunk 10y ago
He did set the norms, but it's not like he's a godlike being with infinite wisdom or something. If people in his community don't agree with the norms he's established, there's nothing wrong with trying to buck those
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by mwfunk 10y ago
What is a "stargazer" in this context? I've never heard this term used in the context of software development before.
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by mwfunk 10y ago
Totally anecdotal of course, but I think as people get older they also tend to appreciate alone time a little bit more, while other forces in life (family, career) start making peaceful alone time that much scarcer, if not nonexistent. By &
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by mwfunk 10y ago
Yeah, this should not be a surprise to anyone who's been paying attention for the last 10 years. GPLv3 was incredibly divisive, both inside and outside the open source community. Admittedly, for some people this may have been part of i
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by mwfunk 10y ago
So, you're saying that Obama winning in 2012 was a validation by the electorate of the work he did during his first term? I can see that. Well, since by your logic the electorate has already validated the ACA, I'm sure that the in
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by mwfunk 10y ago
It's all context and the work environment and the habits of the people you're dealing with. Phone calls can potentially be rude and disruptive because effectively you're telling another person that whatever you want in this i
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by mwfunk 10y ago
Click the 'web' link, which will go to a Google search for the article, then click the top search hit. No paywall.
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by mwfunk 10y ago
I can see why you as a consumer might not want hardware that you can't install custom software on. I can see why it might not be the best solution for legitimate non-nefarious engineering problems as well. What I've never related
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by mwfunk 10y ago
Just about the only thing Congress has been doing for the last 6 years is preventing the president from doing anything. Seriously, that's it. So if that's your criteria for congressional success, mission accomplished. However, pus
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by mwfunk 10y ago
Well sure, I would hope so- if copying and pasting from one LibreOffice application to another didn't work that would be an even worse state of affairs.
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by mwfunk 10y ago
Sadly, a large chunk of the free people of the world just decided that they want a world that's more like China in many respects, and they want leaders who are really committed to not telling corporations what they can't do as a m
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by mwfunk 10y ago
I take it back! I am very happy to be wrong about this fact. :)
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by mwfunk 10y ago
I agree that a disturbing percentage of mainstream USA in on board with it, I don't think it's 100% of them though. Democrats have generally been opposed to torture. That's half the country right there. For the other half of
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by mwfunk 10y ago
They are lovely places. I wonder if, statistically, it's a function of how long a given family has been in the country. A first generation immigrant (or immigrant family) seems more likely to initially move someplace where they already
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by mwfunk 10y ago
Some people do have real issues that rightly or wrongly get blamed on immigration, but there's also no shortage of actual racism among those who really, really seem to care about immigration. It's not like you don't see tons
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by mwfunk 10y ago
http://www.weeklystandard.com/trump-torture-works-ok-folks/a... A typical quote, and hardly the most disturbing thing he's said on the campaign trail: ""Torture works. OK, folks? You know, I have these g
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by mwfunk 10y ago
I don't have an encyclopedic knowledge of federal regulations but I seriously doubt that anyone posting here does either. Trump's policy is based on the idea (taken as a truism) that the majority of existing federal regulations ar
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by mwfunk 10y ago
I think it's more, "democracy is broken in America", and the victors are in a position to hasten its demise.
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by mwfunk 10y ago
Most human constructs exist for a reason, but that doesn't mean they're good reasons.
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by mwfunk 10y ago
That's what the 'web' link is for. It takes you to a Google search for the article. Click the top hit to bypass the paywall.

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