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by oinksoft 13y ago
So, does this guy win the chunk of cash that Kim Dotcom promised, or what?
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by oinksoft 13y ago
I don't think anybody is having that comic's thought bubble while using their smartphone, because it demands focus.
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by oinksoft 13y ago
I spent a single detached year at college, so I can't speak to that difference, but I did notice a big change when the iPhone surpassed "early adopter" stage. There were always people perpetually focused on their Blackberries
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by oinksoft 13y ago
I've noticed this as a "dumb-phone" user who often forgets it at home. Walking around with your head up, you feel like you're amongst a bunch of half-asleep people. You can look right at somebody and they won't noti
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by oinksoft 13y ago
Are there many notorious female gangsters? Far fewer than their male counterparts, but there are some pretty nefarious ones, like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Griselda_Blanco
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Man accused of teaching people to beat lie detector tests faces prison(washingtonpost.com)
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by oinksoft 13y ago
Agreed, this place can be really disgusting in its intolerance of mental illness. Backgrounds and persepectives represented in a tech/startup-specific community aren't bound to be the most diverse. Most people here are successful
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by oinksoft 13y ago
Anarchism rejects coercion. Pacifism rejects violence, including coercion. They go hand-in-hand. Why would you expect anarchism to be the opposite of pacifism?
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by oinksoft 13y ago
Anarchism without pacifism is a contradiction, and pure anarchism can only succeed as far as can pure pacifism. Neither are likely to happen, so again, they are more ideals that should influence a more virtuous way of living, and perhaps go
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by oinksoft 13y ago
Capitalism doesn't "win"; just like anarchism, it has downsides. In anarchism, as you said, nothing has market value, so priorities are nebulous. Well, the downfall of capitalism (from an ethical standpoint) is that everythin
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by oinksoft 13y ago
The abundance (of mostly idle drills) the author points to is one of the main ideas behind Kropotkin's mutualism ("anarcho-communism"). Industrialization and agricultural breakthroughs have produced such plenty that it is ine
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by oinksoft 13y ago
My money's on the bus in that fight, in any case.
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by oinksoft 13y ago
Still happy I chose flask + sqlalchemy for my website. OK ...
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by oinksoft 13y ago
It's mind-boggling that somebody would criticize the use of third-party libraries for a REST interface shortly after advocating an approach based on gluing together third-party libraries.
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by oinksoft 13y ago
And the rest of the world who see Django as an amazing RAD tool with a huge app ecosystem keep plugging along ... don't get me wrong, I'm a huge advocate frameworks like AngularJS, but that approach is just not suitable for most m
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by oinksoft 13y ago
Parent specifically stated that modern frontend development tools pale in comparison to VB6. You couldn't write a VB6 program and run it on Mac, Linux, a random smartphone, tablet, eReader, hell, even video game systems like the Sony P
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by oinksoft 13y ago
Are you saying that VB6 as a platform is superior to the web in its current state, all things considered? The comparison is silly, there is no competition in terms of distribution, portability, flexibility. Can you not see how it is remarka
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by oinksoft 13y ago
"You’ve got people from five different branches of government all in here - we don’t do this just for fun." Exactly. You do it because it's a secure, well-paying job; there's an infinite budget to keep bullies like you w
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by oinksoft 13y ago
Getting married, particularly when you're the primary earner, does an awful lot for your perspective. You can't be so cavalier as the author when somebody depends on you to put food on the table, and that's usually a good thi
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by oinksoft 13y ago
Sure. Just now, I wanted to make sure I was right about elements that fire the DOM "change" event for a guy in ##javascript by looking at Mozilla documentation. Unfortunately, I had DDG active in my search bar in Firefox. "md
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by oinksoft 13y ago
The contrast was/is starker: DDG would return pages of irrelevant crap, and Google/StartPage would have exactly what I wanted in the first 1-3 results, with usually 8 of the top ten being relevant. Google is simply leagues ahead o
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by oinksoft 13y ago
I used DDG for a while and really wanted it to work for me, but for any non-obvious search, it simply falls on its face. It's easy to take for granted how good Google is at determining equivalent keywords based on context, or at grokki
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by oinksoft 13y ago
I was using Roudcube, but it was not powerful enough for my needs. The greatest strength of the Fastmail UI are all of the built-in keybindings. There's one for almost every action, indeed, I find it friendlier than the best desktop cl
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by oinksoft 13y ago
I ran a Postfix/Dovecot setup for years and they were both fast, reliable, lightweight, and very flexible. The #dovecot and #postfix channels on Freenode are also tremendously helpful if you are in a pickle. (Full disclosure, I don&#x2
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by oinksoft 13y ago
I think you meant to reply to parent.
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by oinksoft 13y ago
You're focusing on the details. The huge, blaring point is that some person was flown across the country, probably took time off work, etc. for an interview that was utterly hopeless from the outset and thus pointless. It's Kafkae
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by oinksoft 13y ago
So maybe the key to a smooth recruiting experience is to first tell Google that you can't work for them: http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/2007-07-15/
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by oinksoft 13y ago
The entire narrative is intensely self-focused. You have to keep in mind that she is basically writing in the same dialect that driven careerists think with. Having so freshly made this decision, you can't expect her to relate the tran
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by oinksoft 13y ago
The technology may be great, but at the end of the day, you're still working for a company whose main business is selling ad space. Definitely not a surprise that many people find this less than fulfilling. The amazing thing is that Go
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by oinksoft 13y ago
For Firefox users, made even smoother with: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/bloody-viking...

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