njharman

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by njharman 6y ago
I like kk.
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> why so much effort is spent on who initially owned People with normal reading comprehension would never conclude that quote means "no one should". We should not let the government succeed in shifting blame or allow other &quo
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by njharman 6y ago
TDD has nothing to do with Testing and everything to do with Development. It is a development methodology (test driven), not a testing methodology. It is a means to focus development and structure code into isolated "units". And
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by njharman 6y ago
Your attitude comes off as selfish and entitled. You're the one lacking knowledge, the one needing help, the one who can't figure it out themselves. The experts don't need to be teaching anyone anything. No one owes you anyth
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by njharman 6y ago
> is going to be a lot more survivable than an AWACS. AWACS have vastly superior radar and electronics. It's going to see threats long before they are in range. And it's going to direct interceptors to deal with those threats l
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by njharman 6y ago
This and other related issues to "decision makers being so very far removed from any actual work" is why I'm very happy I have never had to work for a company of more than a few hundred people. And hope I never will.
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by njharman 6y ago
Replication includes replicating deletes (and overwrites, and subtilier changes). Replication is READ / WRITE. Backups are WRITE ONCE. They persist if the original is deleted or modified. Separate infrastructure and geographical distri
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by njharman 6y ago
Opposite. I can't stand languages that require programmer to do menial tasks such as add additional punctuation to indicate blocks that are clear from indentation. Or for end of line when there's a carriage return. And that produc
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by njharman 6y ago
> You can't claim copyright on something you copied, you have to be the original creator. Depending on jurisdiction and when copyright was claimed (laws change) that is not necessarily true. In USA use to be first to file was awarde
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by njharman 6y ago
> db.users.find({ foo: "bar" }) I don't know MongoDB query language, but gah! that looks horrible. It uses three different syntaxes; dot notation, curlies/brackets and colon key value. Full of punctuation and doesn&
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by njharman 6y ago
The point is we do allow apps with deep USA interests. USA propaganda, censorship, and surveilence is not "good". There is universal, unalienable, human rights. Governments do not own their citizens. They do not have absolute cont
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by njharman 6y ago
Am I the only one who was confused by title. Thinking it was about illegal animalnsales on dark web?
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1 this exists and is way worse with wages. People are forced to work, and at mercy of their employers. UBI frees people from wage slavery. 2. This is no different than now. Endless scams- advertising, etc all the time to extract peoples mon
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by njharman 6y ago
Books music art all flourished just fine before copyright was invented.
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by njharman 6y ago
In USA the comment you wrote is your work, copyright granted to you. I just read it for free!!!
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by njharman 6y ago
> It's illegal in the real world, and should be illegal in the digital world It is illegal in the USA. And is easily an arguable civil case as well. The problem is identifying the perportrator. Organizations are only way to hold poo
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by njharman 6y ago
Voice quality, speaking mannerisms, etc. are extremely critical. Probably more so that visual. It's a major boon having a charismatic personality whether you look good or not. A video with just poor sound quality (bad mics, noise) but
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by njharman 6y ago
Same, well not winter, I assumed I'd die in initial strike living near major targets. I, and many people of similar age I've talked with since, did not believe they would live into adulthood. Believing nuclear war was imminent and
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by njharman 6y ago
Huh, the fact that we have not discovered (or they discover us) any advanced civilizations or even evidence of any in our galaxy makes me believe it extremely likely that civilizations wipe themselves out before very long. Right now, Global
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by njharman 6y ago
My favorite activity (in life really) is to "make order out of chaos". Refactoring from tiny feature to full rewrite is prime example of this. Adding tests, adding documentation, all of it. Loves it! In real life I get "chaos
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by njharman 6y ago
Total PC 2019 255.7 Mobile Phone 2019 1,743.10 and is 4k, higher refresh rates, curved displays, ultra ultra wide, very very thin (comparying my new to old monitor, and less energy usage; not innovations?
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by njharman 6y ago
Improved components: nicer card stock, thicker cardboard, wood, metal etc. Piece organizers, additional players expansion are also good stretch goals.
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by njharman 6y ago
That's inherent in the definition of "mob [in]justice". The mob is driven by passion, not justice. At worst, at the instigation of charismatic or influential people with ulterior motive. At best, missguided by fear and othe
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by njharman 6y ago
The main differentiation (and risk) with BDFL projects is having (or not) a very competent (like one percenter) BDFL. The structure of a committee project doesn't make it better or worse than BDFL. It just makes it more average. Any gr
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by njharman 6y ago
Because they're not in the business of providing information, transparency or journalism. They are in the business of exposing you to as many paid ads as possible. And they believe providing outgoing links reduces their ability to do t
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> could have written yourself This. Is a divide between programmers. Some are thrilled by this. Others, like me, see the power and flexibilty and front disagree it can be good. But their day to day problems are not lacking the most expre
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by njharman 6y ago
That is fucked. That makes me believe scrap the whole organization and start over, aka a version of refund the police, is the only way to fix in short time. Years instead of multiple generations. But clean slate scrapping seems impossible.
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> with a decent (or better) UI I want no UI. It should transparently work like any other filesystem.
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It's not so much as they aren't an established company it's that that their business model has been broken/bypassed by technology. They've been reduced to being a middle-man that obstructs value rather than providin
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by njharman 6y ago
Me too. The success of blender really sold me on Open Source.

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