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by pekk 11y ago
The point made was that options and salary are not fungible. Which is true, they're not. Working for a very constrained kind of investment asset is not the same as working for a salary.
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by pekk 11y ago
How is that any worse than gambling with options?
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by pekk 11y ago
All the emotionally charged language you used (like "iniquities") belies this claim. Obviously you do not feel this is simply a matter of inefficiency. Now you are moving the goalposts.
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by pekk 11y ago
your lying is screwing over people who join the Peace Corps. If you don't want to be on a contract, don't sign a contract.
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by pekk 11y ago
Which country recognizes a universal right to naturalize as a citizen of that country?
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by pekk 11y ago
It is part of the marketing for several "new hotness" languages (however long ago their development started). Back when Java was new, the same marketing talk was directed at OOP, which isn't cool any more.
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by pekk 11y ago
Boto3 as a successor addresses the problem of maintenance, doesn't it?
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by pekk 11y ago
> [] and . have always acted directly on object properties. That was the bad idea, but as you suggest it really can't be fixed now.
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by pekk 11y ago
This is a property of specific communities, not everyone who works with computers.
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by pekk 11y ago
Javascript has first-class functions and anonymous functions, but so do lots of imperative languages, and there are plenty of other reasons to see Javascript as an imperative language. The reason we end up writing many anonymous functions i
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by pekk 11y ago
You can get used to it, but if it takes 5 years to get reliable at parsing line noise then that many more programmers are struggling with it at any given time. Why shouldn't languages try to help rather than hinder for 5 years?
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by pekk 11y ago
Just eliminating the words "function" and "return" doesn't make the code clearer. Anyone competent with Javascript can easily read the first form. The difference in time to read the expression may not even be measur
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by pekk 11y ago
So much in this thread suggests that influence will be exerted to permanently weld wasm's semantics to Javascript's from day one, so that there will never be a viable compile target that isn't just Javascript. In that case, w
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by pekk 11y ago
Almost nobody is using asm.js right now, and backward compatibility with asm.js should not be a top consideration for WebAssembly which (with agreement from multiple vendors) will achieve something much more important than asm.js backward c
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by pekk 11y ago
Even if that takes the idea to the limit, does that make the code any easier to understand?
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by pekk 11y ago
Why does open-web mean Javascript?
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by pekk 11y ago
I'm not far left. I broadly support law enforcement. I understand opposition to Silk Road and I support prosecution. I even support Snowden going to trial. But my reaction to this is "screw the FBI if that's what they think.&
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by pekk 11y ago
Americans have a culture. To say otherwise is just snobbish xenophobia.
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by pekk 11y ago
I don't think these generalizations about Americans are valid at all.
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by pekk 11y ago
As a disinterested third party, I know there is some criticism of ZeroMQ and I am interested in what that is about. When or why would you want to avoid ZeroMQ?
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by pekk 11y ago
There are, for example, economic ramifications of an unusually aged populace which cause modern societies like Japan's to see it as a problem.
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by pekk 11y ago
Right. PTSD flashbacks are a real thing, though.
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by pekk 11y ago
It is hard to say what feminists broadly speaking think when we do not have a survey of self-identified feminists in front of us.
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by pekk 11y ago
Calling something terrorism never implied favorably that the interest was legitimate, so it isn't a corruption to apply it to hated groups like ISIS, it's just a description. The phrase "freedom fighter" has never been u
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by pekk 11y ago
Cutting through the bullshit, the real issue behind US embargos against Cuba was whether Cuba was involved in any kind of warfare conducted against the US. The Moncada Barracks was one thing, the missile crisis was another, the Mariel boatl
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by pekk 11y ago
It is interesting to know about the distribution of military capabilities. It shouldn't be news that North Korea has a large military.
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by pekk 11y ago
https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-sysapps/2015Apr/... For typical webapps it wouldn't help because of the difficulty traversing firewalls. This seems to be about standardizing facilities f
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by pekk 11y ago
I guess people are upset that this is the "officially sanctioned" way of installing the tool.
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by pekk 11y ago
The name is annoying since what Pavlov studied was more like supervised learning (prediction given input/output)
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by pekk 11y ago
It seems that BeeWare has produced its own set of tools and has described these as "The IDEs of Python" even though they are neither IDEs, there are other IDEs, and there is nothing official about BeeWare's tools. Too bad, be

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