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721.
by ng12 7y ago
JavaScript is not multithreaded.
722.
by ng12 7y ago
It is definitely acceptable to comment on his experience -- and I think it was a fascinating read -- but I'm mostly reacting to the idea that accepting it as a facet of Japanese society is normalizing racism.
723.
by ng12 7y ago
Is that form of racism still bad if it's culturally accepted? There are places in the world where it is not only culturally but legally encoded that non-natives are second class citizens. Should those places be denied the opportunity t
724.
by ng12 7y ago
> "If you don't like persecution of gays, stay out of Nigeria." "If you think women should be able to drive, stay out of Saudi Arabia." (recently changed) I mean... yes? I cannot recommend living in either countr
725.
by ng12 7y ago
Or maybe we could provide a better social safety net and more incentive/assistance for having children.
726.
by ng12 7y ago
> His position is that the content in Blizz games is kinda subversive to the authoritarianism practiced by the CCP. They've already been censoring this subversive content. Two Overwatch characters are revealed as LGBT in the comics
727.
by ng12 7y ago
It assumes none. It walks you through the very fundamentals of computation.
728.
by ng12 7y ago
I think that's an exaggeration but it doesn't matter -- you cannot weigh real, tangible, impactful good against theoretical harm.
729.
by ng12 7y ago
That's exactly it -- 30 years of flourishing with RMS very publicly documenting his opinion on everything the whole time. That's why I find it hard to believe that his behavior was so harmful to the organization.
730.
by ng12 7y ago
Their mission is his mission. FSF didn't hire Stallman, he created it. I think it's baseless to say that Stallman is either trolling or harming the FSF.
731.
by ng12 7y ago
The problem is we are rapidly heading towards a world where all of us are 'on', public-facing or not. Remember this wonderful bout of collective insanity: https://reason.com/2017/04/18/drupal-develop
732.
by ng12 7y ago
I would argue the delta between calling someone a pedophile and a pedophile apologist is pretty negligible in the age of clickbaity news bites.
733.
by ng12 7y ago
Well I'm sure part of it is that he's been unjustly branded as a pedophile. Also I doubt he cherishes the prospect of starting FSF Round 2.
734.
by ng12 7y ago
I think we need to keep in mind that RMS was posting this stuff very publicly all the while FSF was a runaway success. If RMS were being nominated to lead the FSF today, sure it might be appropriate to point out that he seems like a wack-jo
735.
by ng12 7y ago
> The question is whether an organization should have a designated leader who is on a sustained, public campaign advocating about an unrelated issue that many consider controversial. I don't understand this. Are people in prominent
736.
by ng12 7y ago
> However, current and former students say that they've been disappointed that Lambda School's teaching staff isn't diverse, in turn: most of the school's instructors are male or are not from underrepresented groups.
737.
by ng12 7y ago
Doesn't ring true to my experience at all. I recently polished off a ~50k LoC application that runs blazingly fast even on IE10. My experience is when people complain about slowness it's usually because the application architectur
738.
by ng12 7y ago
> Can we try combine the actions, types, and reducers into a single domain so they aren’t seemingly repeated in 3-4 different locations. This is what the "duck" pattern is for: https://github.com/erikras/d
739.
by ng12 7y ago
Most popular programming languages got popular by aiming for the LCD in some capacity, e.g. Java. It's the reason why we're not all writing LISP or Haskell.
740.
by ng12 7y ago
How about how condescending of a programmer not knowing JS causes you to be :-) Either way, if the number of idiosyncracies in your language is confusing to junior developers it's absolutely something worth considering.
741.
by ng12 7y ago
It's protected in the US. You can advocate for all the crime and violence you want: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imminent_lawless_action
742.
by ng12 7y ago
> contributed to free speech. What does it mean to "contribute to" free speech?
743.
by ng12 7y ago
I don't understand this utopianist view. Yes, I would like to see oil companies go away but we can't switch off our oil dependency like a light. Whether we like it or not, literally the entire world runs on oil in some capacity an
744.
by ng12 7y ago
> at least supposedly voluntarily This is the implication. As an example very, very few CEOs are fired but a great many are sternly asked to voluntarily resign by the board.
745.
by ng12 7y ago
> Stallman’s behavior over the years has undermined a core value of the GNU project: the empowerment of all computer users The notion that empowered means shielded from opinions you might disagree with seems odd.
746.
by ng12 7y ago
Well, good. An FSF without Stallman doesn't seem very relevant anymore, but GNU is still very important.
747.
by ng12 7y ago
There's only one Chinese-majority team (which, oddly enough, also has the only Taiwanese player). In total it's probably less than a dozen players.
748.
by ng12 7y ago
The government can absolutely remove them. That's what prison is.
749.
by ng12 7y ago
https://twitter.com/InvenGlobal/status/1180954142396710912 It's honestly not much. Goes to show how fragile the PRC's ego is.
750.
by ng12 7y ago
I'm not sure what you mean. Obviously UMD cannot support native es6 modules since they're syntactical invalid for non-es6 applications.

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