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by pekk 11y ago
Exactly whose stated opinion? That is the problem. DoJ and "the White House" are not exactly the same thing.
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by pekk 11y ago
Whether I should have a say depends on what the costs are, who pays them and who benefits. Given that there are so many causes of death, and each one is so hard to avoid, we could spend unlimited resources trying in vain to stamp out death
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by pekk 11y ago
That's really misleading, but I guess I shouldn't be surprised when the next election is rapidly approaching.
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by pekk 11y ago
Flask made a number of really questionable decisions that are not visible to someone who just followed a tutorial to make a simple app. "g" is a horrible thing that doesn't exist in other frameworks for a reason. If you start
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by pekk 11y ago
It isn't that there is a trend away from Python, it's that languages that are not yet very popular want to lure away some of Python's audience to augment their own.
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by pekk 11y ago
Many people who prefer Python3's way of handling Unicode are aware of these arguments. It isn't a position based on ignorance.
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by pekk 11y ago
I don't see what your site has to do with sexy female models, so I would be concerned how you expect that kind of advertising to result in "conversions"
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by pekk 11y ago
Dating services probably have difficulty getting traction unless they can attract women, and it might be harder to attract women to a dating service if you are purely and overtly offering a dating service.
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by pekk 11y ago
At what price?
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by pekk 11y ago
Establishment Republicans should have a harder time than they do distancing themselves from the PATRIOT Act.
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by pekk 11y ago
and I suppose that without Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak is just another engineer?
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by pekk 11y ago
> The entire desktop metaphor, include the Trash, the files in folders, etc. is about simplifying the user experience with the computer. The work of the first iPhone team including Jony Ive might fit into Apple's philosophy, but tho
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by pekk 11y ago
So Mozilla's clever idea to attack the low end of the market outside the US has failed and now they want to pivot. The rub is that now they are competing with Android and iPhone, which have years of head start and gigantic app stores.
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by pekk 11y ago
If it's not ethical to buy a t-shirt for $5, it's possibly not ethical to buy it at any higher price either - easy enough for a retailer to sell the same $5 shirt at a higher price. There isn't really a structure which allows
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by pekk 11y ago
Chances are that no one will contribute to any given project in any popular language either.
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by pekk 11y ago
Unlike some other languages I won't name this isn't astroturf, a fair number of people are using Go as an alternative to C++ or Java or Node.
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by pekk 11y ago
If there was a time when dynamic typing was overrated, then it is certainly possible that this time is a time when static typing is overrated.
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by pekk 11y ago
Another view is that things like GC sacrifice low-level performance stuff (you reference not having total system-level control) while the similarity to languages like C sacrifices some of the good characteristics of scripting languages.
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by pekk 11y ago
Mozilla needs the money, DDG doesn't have it
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by pekk 11y ago
Since when was Nim more for the enterprise than Python?
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by pekk 11y ago
How would you draw the line in the case, of say, text editors?
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by pekk 11y ago
No, you didn't understand. We are talking about people who are treated as employees, already required to show up at certain times, etc. They don't have "whatever contractor benefits." They are simply classified as contra
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by pekk 11y ago
Thanks, that helps me understand. The problem for scientific users seems to be to achieve enough consensus about which language to use as an "obvious choice" that a bunch of other scientific users make packages. Since we are talki
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by pekk 11y ago
The elephant in the room is that the tech industry is FULL of companies who are using contractor status to shift tax burden and avoid paying benefits. Almost nobody ever calls this out and those who do are likely to get blackballed. If Uber
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by pekk 11y ago
If I win the lottery, and I tell people, that's not really bragging. It doesn't really mean I'm great or better than others, just that I had good fortune.
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by pekk 11y ago
Sounds like an outline for a TED talk.
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by pekk 11y ago
It "works" and is "successful" to flat-out lie to people. At least in the short term. So what?
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by pekk 11y ago
The article may have made this unclear, but just being happy about good news for you isn't self-promotion. Like if you just had a baby or whatever, and you share that news, that isn't self-promotion. Self-promotion is bragging to
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by pekk 11y ago
If someone has no preferences about tools, I doubt he has any experience at all.
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by pekk 11y ago
Seeing what works and tweaking direction is part of any kind of effective program. Where things are going wrong is when third parties in the peanut gallery decide it's not fair for someone else to get anything and make up wild scare st

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