nebabyte

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by nebabyte 10y ago
> I checked out at "I am not yet a programmer." Comments that lead with "I immediately stopped reading" are puzzling. If you could not sit through someone else's opinion long enough to get to their actual point,
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by nebabyte 10y ago
Except that the former describes useful PRs that could be confidently contributed by someone who doesn't know the deep technicals of the item being documented, while the latter could just as easily need such knowledge. Bad docs can b
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by nebabyte 10y ago
Hah, that seems like a terrible idea. Do instructors think there is a limitless well of trivially-findable bugs that could be correctly fixed by beginning/intermediate CS students...? I suppose if the instructor is running the project
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by nebabyte 10y ago
- Some hobbies use the word "scene" to refer to the 'subset of the general public that does this thing', so there's that - A community can also refer to a diverse set of individuals who happen to have something in c
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by nebabyte 10y ago
Other than the archival for $25, I don't see what I'd pay for that my own bookmarks don't already get me. And the archival itself is likely only useful for stuff other people have already archived anyways; in the rare instanc
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by nebabyte 10y ago
Image hosting is so much heavier
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by nebabyte 10y ago
> This doesn't have to be true. What should and can happen is that more people take the high road "Doesn't have to be" is not "is" for a reason. What "is" evolved from what "was", and wha
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by nebabyte 10y ago
> The blog would've been much better if it had been written in a less confrontational style, so the mistake becomes more of a learning experience for everyone instead of this finger-pointing match. I wholeheartedly agree, both in th
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by nebabyte 10y ago
> What are you getting at? Are you telling me that I shouldn't think poorly of people who participate in wars, domestic violence, substance abuse, abuse of power, and organized crime? Probably just that you should recognize that the
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by nebabyte 10y ago
To each their own :)
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by nebabyte 10y ago
WKUK did a skit on this; well, more a commentary on the social/political contract, but still related and amusing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKERC6F7mSM
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by nebabyte 10y ago
It's sort of the "why it works on paper" for capitalism. Nominally, it plus low barriers to entry/conversion plus anti-anticompetitive mechanisms/trust-busting/etc lead to power structure wherein only businesse
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by nebabyte 10y ago
While I don't know how far your advocacy will go in business environments for which nearly every actor - applicants, employers, customers - in the majority operate on pragmatic considerations, and in markets which destroy any non-pragm
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by nebabyte 10y ago
Right, but your response to scummy practices was "which is why I use [other thing with scummy practices]." I'm sure you can justify why a button isn't as bad as spyware to yourself, but to anyone who puts up with neither
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by nebabyte 10y ago
How do you envision 'morality' working in the corporate context for an engineer, then? Do you fault them for not asking their boss each time they are assigned some work how it will be used, with what presets and so on, and refus
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by nebabyte 10y ago
Exactly. It's not like it's even going to be 'a devil in the details' kind of thing; once the mechanisms are built, they could be used securely or maliciously depending on any number of factors such as presets. The eng
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by nebabyte 10y ago
So should we be filtering our applications to companies who are hiring by their dev environment? (Nah man I'm for it, let's kick the platform holy wars into gear again lol) As I mentioned elsewhere, idealism is all well and good b
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by nebabyte 10y ago
Airgap 7 for debugging/interoperability; refactor on a modern OS that isn't W10. Problem? If your business relies on legacy software that can't be refactored without prohibitive cost, you're probably about to be 'di
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by nebabyte 10y ago
> When I close my eyes, it's almost like I can vividly picture the crappy NSA PowerPoint slides that must exist, detailing "Windows telemetry exploitation" or some such With approval from the gods-on-high at Microsoft, you
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by nebabyte 10y ago
False dichotomy. Other distros/envs not supporting scummy practices exist too.
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by nebabyte 10y ago
If it is, I applaud their balls if nothing else
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by nebabyte 10y ago
"It won't phone home, just make sure to keep it offline or it might phone home"?
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by nebabyte 10y ago
"Moral integrity" doesn't really have anything to apply to to the day-to-day work of an engineer. A moral compass can't work without a magnetic field of context. Considering most engineers' main concern is just to m
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by nebabyte 10y ago
> internal pushback I'm really curious what you're imagining the corporate structure to be like here - what kind of "internal pushback" are you envisioning? In particular, I don't see engineers as particularly ge
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by nebabyte 10y ago
> Hype is an interesting thing especially when it comes from laymen. Agreed, as can attributing value to said hype. An argument can generally be made for many things for why they "can be useful, in X situation" (like 'a la
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by nebabyte 10y ago
> if politicians aren't scared of armed mobs, we don't have real democracy anymore I've never accepted that idiotic premise. If your ultimate trump card is armed mobs ousting a 'regime' if it occurs, you're
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by nebabyte 10y ago
"Surely we can wait for another corporatocracy to save us from this corporatocracy!"
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by nebabyte 10y ago
Yeah, it... Kind of misses the entire point of LEGO lol. and catastrophe*. Not OP but I just have to
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by nebabyte 10y ago
> Every time two Scuttlebutt friends scuttlebuds?
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by nebabyte 10y ago
> Travis's Page pfft hahaha > there's nothing the press loves more than a turnaround story There're plenty of things that they love more. A "rise and fall" story, for instance. Schadenfraude sells; eespecially

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