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by pjlegato 11y ago
I agree completely. Apple should open source it so the community can package it up as a drop-in shim for running older software. That said, given that they haven't, it'd be nice if Blizzard would assign a programmer to this for a
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by pjlegato 11y ago
I'm not sure if this is a troll, or just someone who is massively out of touch with how most people live. Median household (not individual) income in the US was 51k in 2013.[1] A 10k vacation to Europe is indeed out of reach for most
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by pjlegato 11y ago
And a sad and remarkable example of what developer neglect can do. Despite numerous pleas on their forums, Blizzard lost all interest in WC3 after WoW came out. The planned expansion packs were cancelled, major bugs in the client went unfix
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by pjlegato 11y ago
Food processing doesn't happen that way. There are, for example, FDA guidelines for acceptable levels of hair, rodent feces, larvae, and "insect fragments" in food. And you eat it all every day! https://en.wikipedi
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by pjlegato 11y ago
This. Rich kids are also much better positioned in terms of parental funding and familial social connections to do things that bring them international acclaim afterwards. They then get a platform to tell a worldwide audience about their li
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by pjlegato 11y ago
How can they fail to even mention Warcraft III, an epic multiyear development effort and one of the most commercially successful video games of all time? Its debut was an epic win for Blizzard. It made more money the year it came out than a
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Should I use SQL or NoSQL?(databaselabs.io)
2 points by pjlegato 11y ago|0 comments
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by pjlegato 11y ago
The disadvantage of NoSQL is that you do the migration in your app rather than in your database. This requires all programs that touch the database to know about every historic migration that ever happened, since there is still data in the
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by pjlegato 11y ago
Er. Do you imagine farmers and chefs all wear gloves and hazmat suits while handling the produce that you eat every day? And that's just the tip of the iceberg. If the idea of a few skin cells disturbs you, you'd better not look t
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by pjlegato 11y ago
> due to class warfare to keep the "riff-raff" out of desirable neighborhoods Actually, the exact opposite is the case: US zoning laws were created by the 1910s/1920s era "progressive" movement as a leftist socia
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by pjlegato 11y ago
Empirically, all historic efforts to alleviate the heartlessness of market forces with centralized planning ("us" making necessary changes) have resulted in even worse and more heartless outcomes for even more people. Talk to some
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by pjlegato 11y ago
Telcos are actually a great example of how the free market (eventually) routes around incumbents who fail to satisfy market demand. The telcos have stalled residential broadband for decades, leaving most of the US stuck with early 2000s-lev
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by pjlegato 11y ago
> Not something to be very excited about. Why not? The economy demodularizes if and only if it is economically cheaper and more efficient to do so. In other words, demodularization only happens when many, many people can derive a huge e
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by pjlegato 11y ago
> People say you vote with your wallet, but they don't. They do; they just don't vote the way you think they ought to. Empirically, given a similar quality item, almost all people vote for lower prices, almost always, despite a
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by pjlegato 11y ago
Cognitive bias (and dissonance) is heavily involved in the maintenance of religious belief.
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by pjlegato 11y ago
Everyone has flaws. Viewing the entirity of one's accomplishments constrained through the lens of one flaw is absurd and unsupported by evidence. In other words, there is no evidential reason whatsoever to suppose that the larger fears
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by pjlegato 11y ago
You missed my point in your eagerness to put out the Marxist version of Roman history. The reasons why the basic income was instituted in Rome are indeed fascinating, but not the point here. The point is: once a basic income was instituted
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by pjlegato 11y ago
The institution of a basic income was a primary factor in the downfall of the Roman Empire. Once people grew accustomed to it, they supported any politician who increased it, regardless of any other factors. https://en.wikipedia.
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by pjlegato 11y ago
After you've been writing it for a while, reading Lisp / Clojure at a glance is not nearly as scary as it seems at first. You get used to it, and that one-liner becomes a paragon of elegant simplicity rather than a strange collect
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by pjlegato 11y ago
If you'd like to know what the daily life of mid-Victorian poor people was like in excruciating detail, check out "London Labour and the London Poor" by Henry Mayhew: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_
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by pjlegato 11y ago
Orwell wasn't describing a mid-Victorian diet at all. He wrote that nearly a century after the mid-Victorian period, when sugar and processed foods had already become much cheaper than they were. In mid-Victorian times, eating margarin
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Bring Back MST3K(kickstarter.com)
2 points by pjlegato 11y ago|0 comments
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by pjlegato 11y ago
> My point is that there are a couple billion people that articles like these completely ignore and treat as if these people are martians... Developing a comprehensive and objective view of human digestion wasn't the goal of the res
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by pjlegato 11y ago
I'm sure there are 5 startups already hard at work on packaging up exotic feces and delivering it by bicycle via an on-demand mobile app.
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by pjlegato 11y ago
The author seems to think this wealth accumulation dynamic is somehow unique to free market capitalism, produced by a capitalist culture that explicitly values money, economic efficiency, and wealth accumulation. It's not. Every cultu
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by pjlegato 11y ago
Hey, send me a message, pjlegato at databaselabs dot io.
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by pjlegato 11y ago
Completely aside from the merits of anti-drug laws, the number of perfectly legitimate applications for "weighing things" is vastly larger than the number of illegal ones.
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by pjlegato 11y ago
The company doesn't own your phone. You do. Surely YOU should be the one who decides what constitutes "proper" software to run on hardware that you purchased?
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by pjlegato 11y ago
I thought this was a great article, until the end where the author not only gives up, but writes a meek apologietic stating that Apple is clearly and wholly right to block people from running any software it doesn't like on their own p
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by pjlegato 11y ago
The fundamental premise is flawed: inequality is not created by helping some people aggregate more wealth, since wealth is not a zero-sum game. New wealth is continually being created through economic activity.

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