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by nocman 8y ago
While I agree that it is good to not always dwell on the negative, there can be a lot of value in pointing out the deficiencies of programming languages. Some folks will just use a language without thinking about its downsides. If you use
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by nocman 8y ago
Well, depending on what you mean by that, it isn't necessarily true. If you mean "References can say whatever they want without any potential legal ramifications", that's not true. If you say anything that is demonstrab
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by nocman 8y ago
LOL! "this place has got everything!" Thanks for linking to that -- I've always gotten a kick out that scene. :-D
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by nocman 8y ago
I'm trying to understand your point. Are you saying that in support of habitue's comment, or as a counter-argument?
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by nocman 8y ago
If you are speaking on experience, yours is much different than the person I was speaking of. I've heard of plenty of cases of legal action taken because someone was fired. I've never heard of a single case of someone taking le
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by nocman 8y ago
While it is true that you can mislead by omission, every ommission of information is not an attempt to be dishonest. Sometimes you just don't want people to know one way or the other. That is the scenario I described. Many in this thr
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by nocman 8y ago
> You didn't say that talking to people was like computer code, you are describing talking to people like it's computer code so it is relevant. That's your opinion, which I disagree with. So from my view it is still irrel
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by nocman 8y ago
Neither of those things is relevant to the point I was making. The legal costs often incurred by firing someone (and they are very real) makes it more difficult to fire them. Also, the time spent by employers dealing with legal issues is
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by nocman 8y ago
"Talking to people is not computer code." irrelevant. I never said it was. Also, saying "thank you for making it" isn't answering a question at all , so it isn't "answering a different question". &q
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by nocman 8y ago
It's actually very simple, and not at all mental gymnastics. It's not a lie because I didn't say something that was not true. Again you are saying that me not answering a question is equivalent to me lying, and you are simply
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by nocman 8y ago
There's a difference between avoiding answering a question to prevent hurting someone's feelings, and doing so just to put yourself in a positive light (for selfish reasons). The scenario I was envisioning was the former. Yeah I
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by nocman 8y ago
Maybe something is being lost in the lack of tone, but I don't in any way believe that anwsering "thank you for making it" could be construed as being selfish. And it has absolutely nothing to do with ego, it's about bei
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by nocman 8y ago
"In America it is incredibly easy to fire someone--stop being so paranoid." ^ uh, that is very often not the case. Well I guess it is if you are willing to live with any legal consequences that are the fallout of firing someone
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by nocman 8y ago
> >I could answer with "thank you for making it" > You are carefully crafting a response to the question to make everyone believe that you liked the food without directly stating that. NO -- see that's the problem.
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by nocman 8y ago
Avoiding answering a question directly does not make you dishonest. If my wife's grandmother had asked me how the food was (assuming the food was awful), I might say "it was very much appreciated" -- and I could say that with
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by nocman 8y ago
Holding your tongue does not make you a liar. Not sharing every thought you have does not make you a liar. Everyone is not required (Thank God!) to reveal everything that crosses their mind in order to be truthful and honest. You have a ver
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by nocman 8y ago
"Some amount of dishonesty is required if you want to avoid being an awkward social pariah." Actually that's not true. It is possible to be completely sincere, yet tactful. And you can do it in a way that doesn't come
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by nocman 8y ago
Wow, I'm glad I don't work where a bunch of folks here evidently work. I've make plenty of friends at work and I don't see a lot of backstabbing and jockeying for positions. I simply would not stay in a work enviornment
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by nocman 8y ago
Maybe it depends on where you live, but I'm over 30 and I've made friends with coworkers from probably every job I've ever had in my adult life. Sure I've dealt with a few jerks at work, but very few of the relationship
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by nocman 9y ago
> Laptops and Desktops are, more and more, being reserved for power users and computationally heavy tasks I'm not seeing this in the business world. Yes, there are some tablets in use, but their numbers are still very small in comp
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by nocman 9y ago
^ actually, IMHO the fact that you assume that "The idea that Facebook is doing this is just ridiculous." is what is ridiculous. Some companies do "highly illegal" things all of the time. It all comes down to the fact t
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by nocman 9y ago
Well, I guess it depends on the actual wording that was used, and I'm by no expert on the subject (by any stretch of the imagination). However, some visa's require sponsorship, and as far as I know it is perfectly legal to not h
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by nocman 9y ago
Well, those kind of comments do get downvoted, but people on HN do also downvote comments simply because they disagree with them (often regardless of whether the comments are perfectly civil, and just express a point of view that the downvo
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by nocman 9y ago
Yeah, I know many businesses still have to use IE11 because some web app they use requires IE (often on an intranet, but sometimes still even in the internet). Sad state of affairs.
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by nocman 9y ago
I guess if you don't include IE11 as one of the "major browsers". I wish that was the case. Yes, I know it is only receiving security updates -- but it will supposedly get those until Windows 10 is no longer supported (if I&
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by nocman 9y ago
As I said in my reply above, I'm all for the clarification of what Lisp programmers mean by "code is data". I just disagree that the fact that someone may misunderstand what Lisp programmers mean when they use the phrase som
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by nocman 9y ago
> But "code is data" and "code is expressed as lists of lists" are not the same statement. And the difference matters. Except that when a Lisp programmer says "code is data" that's exactly what they mea
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by nocman 9y ago
> First, the idea that "code is data" is a popular aphorism, but even the most casual reflection on what this slogan actually means will reveal that it can't possibly be the right answer. I disagree with this statement. S
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by nocman 9y ago
"It's a fact of life that Electron will become increasingly popular." Very likely, perhaps, but it is not "a fact of life", especially in the long term -- Electron's popularity in the future is far from a decid
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by nocman 9y ago
"We all know why one might prefer something over Electron." Actually, that's not true. There are most likely some folks reading who don't know much about Electron. Also, just because there are a number of well known re

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