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by oconnore 14y ago
You are so full of shit [1]. Tens of millions of people do not share data about their day to day lives. If they did, it would not even be a valuable process. Small groups of friends and family share data about their day to day lives, in a s
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by oconnore 14y ago
Robust systems aren't hip. Get back to work and ship, ship, ship.
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by oconnore 14y ago
I downvoted you because I think that during a discussion about how people (in this case women) learn, figuring out common ways that people (in this case women) seek help is a pretty valid concern. Maybe men do similar things when they are c
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by oconnore 14y ago
That isn't a conspiracy, it's one of the major reasons that anyone open sources anything ever.
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by oconnore 14y ago
It works fine for me, too. I don't understand why anecdotes of problems are seen as interesting data points (for anyone other than the developers attempting to improve the software), especially in a community of technical people who presuma
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by oconnore 14y ago
> I've never heard someone ask the same of a founder-CEO-dad, worrying about a slightly different dirty little thought: "An expectant father/CEO will fail his company." Well, of course I don't have any way of experiencing both and compa
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by oconnore 14y ago
How does a 9% job cut actually work? How do you reliably pick 30,000 people who are less valuable than others? Is it just by department? Do middle managers make arbitrary lists? Dice?
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by oconnore 14y ago
Have you ever tried to run in jeans? It sucks. Generally I do it in athletic shorts, but feel free to do what works for you. Also, by similarly irrelevant logic, flip flops should be a developer faux pas. They aren't.
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by oconnore 14y ago
My suit is very comfortable. It doesn't fall apart. I paid under $100 for an entire outfit (I paid $120 for my jeans sans t-shirt). My shoes are super comfy and I've never had to get them serviced?
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by oconnore 14y ago
> rarely-worn, extremely expensive and generally inconvenient Victorian-era ceremonial dress This annoys me. The 'dev-uniform' of t-shirt, jeans and sneakers is just as constraining as the 'business-uniform' of suits and button downs.
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by oconnore 14y ago
'for' loops
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by oconnore 14y ago
The assumption he implicitly makes is that Google is not going to do anything malicious with his password, and has a secure enough network. If you take this assumption to be true, then his practice of emailing himself private information (o
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by oconnore 14y ago
Do you have a link? That seems incredibly shortsighted.
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by oconnore 15y ago
As someone who has been using 12.04 + Unity on my primary work computer since Alpha with minimal issues, this is awesome! It works great! Download it!
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by oconnore 15y ago
Where, exactly, did I make any accusation at all? I said we don't have enough evidence to make meaningful claims, which I still hold to be true.
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by oconnore 15y ago
Do you have any evidence to support them being especially ethical, or is this just a gut reaction? The facts are that we don't have enough facts, we have an unsubstantiated accusation that should be treated as such.
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by oconnore 15y ago
It's not a problem with javascript so much as a problem with the issue of knowing what code is actually running in your browser.
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by oconnore 15y ago
Why not just whip up a simple method dispatch mechanism in C and skip Java/C++ entirely? edit: </internet sarcasm> ducks
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by oconnore 15y ago
Livable, walkable, affordable cities are dense. That is the primary factor in whether or not you can afford to live within walking/biking/subway distance. The rich people that want to live close to work are going to get first dibs on usable
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by oconnore 15y ago
There are also a lot of people at Google who aren't OS experts.
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by oconnore 15y ago
I actually don't think it's a mistake. Contra and counter are synonymous, but one is more common (as far as I can tell with brief googling). I learned something too, no need to apologise.
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by oconnore 15y ago
Well, "why such behaviour is good" is stretching it. Maybe just "why such behaviour is "?
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by oconnore 15y ago
Totally off topic: why did you use contra- versus counter-? I have never seen that before.
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by oconnore 15y ago
Hmm, torrentfreak, I don't think this is how the US legislative system works. Luckily the actual source, < http://a.fightforthefuture.org/sign/obama-sopa/&#62 ; has a more reasonable request: Tell Obama to promise: "I will never advance
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by oconnore 15y ago
As someone who occasionally solves hiring problems with little intention of applying, it was nice to hear that my hobby is less annoying than I had imagined.
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by oconnore 15y ago
If you are providing a communication routing service, you MUST have information about sender* and recipient. That is not a problem with PGP encryption, it is a problem with people who wish to use public routing services like Gmail. Furtherm
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by oconnore 15y ago
I think you overestimated how obvious that was. While rebutting a particular appeal to authority, you made your own.
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by oconnore 15y ago
What sort of problems? You lose the ability to do pointer arithmetic on native objects, since they can change address on any instruction boundary.
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by oconnore 15y ago
Most [1] modern GC implementations use generational copying collectors. A copying GC does not need to maintain a bit for each allocated object, and therefore will not break copy-on-write. They are also much faster for many common loads. [1]
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by oconnore 15y ago
This should never be an issue. A page load should trigger page generation code (I'm not a Rails guy, but the view in traditional MVC), not some massive 10+ second operation. What you should be doing is caching that big time consuming job (I

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