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by pgsandstrom 12y ago
We are all dependent on the government already, but have mechanisms to prevent such abuse. Couldn't the government aready threaten to close down all hospitals? Open up all prisons? But they dont.
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by pgsandstrom 12y ago
Agreed, it is completely useless. I have never heard of anyone benefiting from this the slightest. A side effect could have been that people actually stopped and learned what cookies was, but as I've asked my non-technical friends, no
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by pgsandstrom 12y ago
If one honest hardworking person is living in poverty and one honest hardworking person is a billionare, then I do have a problem with it. I'm greedy myself, does that make it wrong of me to want to change the system?
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by pgsandstrom 12y ago
There is surely a correlation, which I would think was what (s)he was implying.
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by pgsandstrom 12y ago
What you argue is not that LOC in itself causes bugs, but that certain programming syntaxes are both complex (thus induces bugs) and takes up more LOC.
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by pgsandstrom 12y ago
My worst one was a quotation: "Every moron can pick up CSS and PHP; apparently, every moron did pick them up."
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by pgsandstrom 12y ago
The thing is that insurances and checks on vehicle brakes are not visible for the consumer, and so an uninformed consumer won't care about it until an accident happen. By then, it's too late.
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by pgsandstrom 12y ago
But can you really say how high the probability of bad or good effects from MDMA is? Perhaps most people do not get long lasting positive effects, and we only hear about your case due to survivor bias.
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by pgsandstrom 12y ago
Just because the real reasons wont be admitted, it will not automatically be considered a hate crime.
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by pgsandstrom 12y ago
The homicide rate is more than 50% higher than the european average: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_intentiona...
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by pgsandstrom 12y ago
You know, you catch more flies with honey than with vinegar.
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by pgsandstrom 12y ago
The problem with micro-payments is that the customer is always reminded that they are paying for the service. The subscription-model will always be superior in this way.
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by pgsandstrom 12y ago
Quento has 3353 gradings, Quento Lite has 6.
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by pgsandstrom 13y ago
Is it just me, or is mouse wheel the ONLY way to scroll in those lists? Not even "page down" works.
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by pgsandstrom 13y ago
Now we just need to switch those images with numbers, and we are golden.
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by pgsandstrom 13y ago
While I really like node.js, I always feel skeptical about "re-implemented gave X% improvement". Often a re-implementation is done because the domain-knowledge has improved significantly since the project was started. There should
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by pgsandstrom 13y ago
It was about 2-4 years ago. However, I was only in touch with a handful of companies. Still, my experience is that the continuous strength of java is that "everybody" knows it. Especially if the founder is not from a technical bac
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The Facebook experiment has failed. Let’s go back.(medium.com)
11 points by pgsandstrom 13y ago|2 comments
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by pgsandstrom 13y ago
My small experience from working with startups was that a LOT of java EE was used. This most likely came from them needing cheap labor, and many programmers fresh from school only knew java. I don't know if those startups qualified as
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by pgsandstrom 13y ago
I'm a swede, and I watched Rick and Morty on their official youtube channel: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SutlAKqlmNo
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Postfix Code Completion in IntelliJ IDEA 13.1(blog.jetbrains.com)
133 points by pgsandstrom 13y ago|58 comments
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by pgsandstrom 13y ago
Sometimes when dealing with high security you have to input a nonce. Autocomplete would be a nuisance.
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by pgsandstrom 13y ago
As far as I can see, they don't accept bitcoins. Hah!
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by pgsandstrom 13y ago
Those are good objections. I guess the only safe way of dealing with bitcoins is to get money into a wallet without in any way associating it with your real life persona, which could be very tricky. And after that never ever use your wallet
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by pgsandstrom 13y ago
You wouldn't have to make a payment from "JOHN DOES ACCOUNT" to "PERVERTED PORN ACCOUNT". You could easily set up several wallets in the middle, obfuscation the transaction and gaining deniability. However, beware!
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by pgsandstrom 13y ago
Personally I really enjoy reading the first entry on wikipedia for now famous sites. Especially I think facebooks first entry is charming. Facebook: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Facebook&oldid=338... T
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by pgsandstrom 13y ago
"i hope you fucking bring in hell" is meant as "I hope you give them hell".
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by pgsandstrom 13y ago
> When a person writing under the profile name "Hannah Love" responded with "i hope you [burn] in hell you fucking prick," Actually the comment was "i hope you fucking bring in hell you fucking prick". That
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by pgsandstrom 13y ago
Personally I would guess that biases such as confirmation bias interferes with or reasoning much more than any fallacies. Also, they are harder to get rid of.
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by pgsandstrom 13y ago
I was part of developing a Swedish dating app, and during this time I discussed online dating with many friends of both genders. While many women would find the attention a bit tiring, and sometimes had to report someone for the tone in the

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