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by prairiedogg 3mo ago
What could go wrong?
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by prairiedogg 2y ago
I hope this comment gets as much appreciation as it deserves.
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by prairiedogg 2y ago
The best way I ever heard this sentiment phrased was "the most radio friendly single on the album had the refrain 'I want to fuck you like an animal'".
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by prairiedogg 2y ago
Pretty heat machine.
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by prairiedogg 2y ago
Economics are not the only considerations at play. Even if economic considerations do dominate, the social safety nets of many European countries offer attractive alternatives to their US counterparts, even as they existed before Trump. F
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by prairiedogg 2y ago
China has never been a place, historically, that has welcomed foreigners as anything other than short-term visitors. To the extent that it has, those foreigners have become Chinese (Manchu, Mongol - and the "welcome" there is uh…
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by prairiedogg 3y ago
> more digestible I see what you did there.
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by prairiedogg 3y ago
No one said anything about a conspiracy. From TFA: "In addition to a base of far-right wing support, which makes up 15 percent of the population, the AfD is attracting a protest vote that takes it to slightly more than 20 percent supp
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by prairiedogg 4y ago
I'm curious where I could find an example of someone saying that working hard and being punctual are white supremacist.
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by prairiedogg 4y ago
I was a Gnucash user for a decade before switching to beacount ( https://github.com/beancount/beancount ). Can't see myself ever going back.
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by prairiedogg 5y ago
> No, it's that if you DON'T work hard, you WON'T get it. Depends on how much you start with.
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by prairiedogg 6y ago
Open source software really _has_ penetrated every niche.
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by prairiedogg 8y ago
Not a native Chinese speaker, but I am a proficient speaker of Chinese as a second language. No dog in this fight except to mention that "天真" does have a "sum of its parts" aspect for me. I sometimes think of it in rel
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by prairiedogg 8y ago
Whether there is more corruption in Africa or the United States probably depends on qualifying statements like "Where in Africa?", "Where in the United States?", and importantly "What constitutes corruption?" T
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by prairiedogg 9y ago
Clarifying question: are you referring to emotional labor as labor which is emotionally taxing for the producer, or labor which produces a positive emotional effect on the consumer / receiver?
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by prairiedogg 10y ago
Now I'm getting the feels masondixon - thanks for being so open to a discussion.
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by prairiedogg 10y ago
Hi rubberstamp! I disagree that this thread is "just nitpicking each other" - I think it's been both educational and civil. For instance, when masondixon learned that Reagan had a political career before his presidency, maso
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by prairiedogg 10y ago
> Don't you get excited at the prospect of a leader not beholden to any special interests at all? On paper that does sound exciting, but it's not something that I want at any cost. In specific, I don't want it badly enoug
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by prairiedogg 10y ago
OK, I'll accept that my analogy isn't very good. So your argument is that someone who is a good private executive will also be a good public executive? Let's accept that premise as given. Is Donald Trump a good private execut
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by prairiedogg 10y ago
Ok - thanks for clarifying. I don't think that this assertion strengthens an argument that voting for Trump is better than voting for any other candidate. I would argue that someone who does not have experience in public office should
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by prairiedogg 10y ago
Hi tomp! I was trying to summarize masondixon's stated points about the negative effect electing "statesmen" have had. masondixon listed: - two wars - Obama missed seeing the rise of ISIS - Syria is a humanitarian nightmare
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by prairiedogg 10y ago
Hi masondixon! > But look at the last 15 years of foreign policy from "statesmen". We had two wars, Obama missed seeing the rise of ISIS, Syria is a humanitarian nightmare, we had a huge financial crash, and terrorism is on the
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by prairiedogg 11y ago
Could you get away with allowing folks to manually paste in the HTML of their own linkedin page, or perhaps upload a PDF version of their linked in page? Are you scraping the page for input params? Would it be possible to just expose an AP
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by prairiedogg 11y ago
And the Objective-C community thanks you for it, Michael. We wouldn't be software developers, however, if we weren't hopeless pedants who lose the forest for the trees and point out that goshdarnblocksyntax.com is MISSING the ama
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Write unit tests for your WatchKit apps(pivotallabs.com)
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by prairiedogg 12y ago
"Todd McKinnon, the C.E.O. of Okta, a cloud-computing company, told me that top engineers are worth way more than what we’re paying them.'" Relieved to hear that Todd!
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by prairiedogg 12y ago
"something that manages your expression experiments and the context harnesses they need" This is the exact purpose of tests.
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by prairiedogg 12y ago
I've been pairing with ruby / rails developers since 2010 and coming from statically typed languages, it's unbelievable how much time gets spent playing "guess the method name". Even in rich IDEs like RubyMine, the
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by prairiedogg 13y ago
Reminds me of pixelist: http://www.pixeli.st/
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by prairiedogg 13y ago
Step 1: Create landing page with call to action to measure interest Step 2: Post on hacker news

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