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by pionar 13y ago
The hipster attitude I've experienced (and not all the ones I've known behave this way, but it's typical) is a contempt for anything "mainstream". Their coolness lies in the fact that they have secrets, like their
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by pionar 13y ago
Here in Indiana, for a couple of years in the early 2000s, the highest paid public "employee" was a basketball coach that had been fired, but was still getting paid according to his contract.
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by pionar 13y ago
I'm replying to digisign - I would argue that it's the media that's stirring that anger up and the fact that partisan hacks turn every small thing into an OUTRAGE more than everything truly being outrageous.
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by pionar 13y ago
I don't get all the apologies in this thread. The US is a great country! Has its warts, but I've lived in Europe, and I've been to Australia, and I wouldn't live anywhere else. It's the maverick, can-do entreprene
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by pionar 13y ago
According to the medical examiner's report[0], Jack's girlfriend and a friend told the investigators that he "would take opiates and use Xanax," and that he "would drink and occasionally use cocaine". So the an
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by pionar 13y ago
When I was in college (99-2000ish, maybe?), one of my roommates was an art major with a graphic design bent, and he had this high end printer and would copy and print $1 bills and take 20 at a time over to the vending machines around the co
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by pionar 13y ago
However accurate I think you are, I think the point of the article was that one shouldn't feel guilty for taking time off. I know that every time I do, I feel extremely guilty.
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by pionar 13y ago
> Would people flip out if there was a bill proposed to require all guns in the US to have a GPS tracker? As a gun control advocate who also owns guns, yes, I would flip the f * out. While I have no problem if the government knows I ow
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by pionar 13y ago
Saying that everything people do needs to be backward-compatible is what leads to having to support IE 6. I'm sure you had the foresight a year ago to know that they'd want to attach different covers in the future, why didn't
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by pionar 13y ago
I think what jerf means is that, being mostly used as a scripting and web language, it's easy to create legacy code in it. Remember ColdFusion? PHP 3? However, more to your point, there's legacy C and Java code, but that's
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by pionar 13y ago
> Is there a word which means a government acknowledges their laws were wrong and the people prosecuted under them were guiltless victims? It's called an apology, admission of guilt, and usually some reparations are involved.
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by pionar 13y ago
They would not be storing the CVV2, as they would not collect that at POS (and if someone does ask you for that when you swipe your card, be very suspicious). It's the CVV1 that they've stored, which is still utterly forbidden by
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by pionar 13y ago
Not to nitpick, but he has said numerous times that his inspiration for his charitable work is Warren Buffett.
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by pionar 13y ago
That's not correct. Unmanaged code, by it's definition, is not run on the CLR. It's run natively by the OS, and is compiled to machine code, not IL. Managed code, on the other hand, by MS' own definition: "All of
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by pionar 13y ago
Are BTC "values" not just hypothetical right now? Does anyone really do heavy trading in BTC-USD?
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by pionar 13y ago
Wait, are you saying that artists rely just on Spotify for income? That would be foolhardy. I would think that Spotify would be just one small chunk in a wide portfolio of distribution channels. Also, artists have generally never been ver
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by pionar 13y ago
Well, and most HN readers would know "salad cream" as the genericized trademark "Miracle Whip". :-) One of my favorite memories as a kid was being at my grandma's house and having a ham sandwich with potato chips o
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by pionar 13y ago
Since I can't edit it, I'll just say that both of the responses below mine are correct in that I shouldn't have made the last paragraph so snarky. I meant that we don't jump on the latest bandwagon technology because th
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by pionar 13y ago
Never say never :) A bubble bursting could certainly drive it way down, sub-$100. Don't forget that less than two months ago, it was hovering around $200. 2 months does not a trend make.
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by pionar 13y ago
Not true. I'm a "dark matter" developer. I don't blog, I only use Twitter to keep up on sports, I only use Facebook to keep up with far away friends and family. I post something programming-related on Facebook about o
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by pionar 13y ago
Yes, and it will still hang in the amount of time it takes to restart rsyslog.
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by pionar 13y ago
> IMHO, you can't teach a designer who isn't talented how to make beautiful things. Likewise, you can't teach a developer who doesn't "get it" how to make beautiful things in code.
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by pionar 13y ago
Ha, I had to laugh at the "unintuitive software" bit. It's only unintuitive to a Mac user. I'm not insulting here, it works the other way, too. I recently bought a Mac to see what all the fuss was about, and am findin
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by pionar 13y ago
It's interesting, DHH has a book to pitch, and he has all these link-baiting, low quality posts that automatically get upvoted because it's DHH. And surprise, they're all about how working remotely is the best situation for
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by pionar 13y ago
>People are dying constantly due to the failures of the industry. Wait, what? Not even anywhere near true[1]. The CDC says 3,000 people in the US die every year from foodborne illnesses. That's .1%, one-tenth of a percent. I&#x27
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by pionar 13y ago
Just because it's not true for you, doesn't mean it's not true for everyone. I was rather indifferent about the changes.
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by pionar 13y ago
It seems that in saying that having a One True Way attitude is wrong, you've developed a Not True Way attitude. Waterfall methodology might work just fine in some situations, software-as-spec works on smaller applications moving to a
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by pionar 13y ago
So, not wanting to maintain two separate codebases is laziness? How about the ROI on such a solution is hideously low.
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by pionar 13y ago
I don't know how you can say the C#'s development is practically stagnated. Evidence? Async/await was just added in C# 5.0.
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by pionar 13y ago
Wow, I didn't know fluoride conspiracy theorists still existed. Thanks.

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