prodigal_erik

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by prodigal_erik 10y ago
"Collective labor action" is another kind of threat used against managers who might otherwise accept a better offer from other workers. We've surrendered and begin to encourage unions to perform their extortion in open court
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by prodigal_erik 10y ago
Extortion is the only power a union can wield. We have a name for that kind of organization and it's a hell of a lot more damning than "scab".
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by prodigal_erik 10y ago
Snopes says I'm wrong and even absentee votes are eventually counted, sorry for the misinfo: http://www.snopes.com/2016/11/13/who-won-the-popular-vote/ We have a first-past-the-post system in which
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by prodigal_erik 10y ago
I want you to benefit from my work only if I also benefit from your work. If you seek an unfair advantage over me, I will not cooperate.
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by prodigal_erik 10y ago
2% of the popular vote is not a vast majority. (EDIT: I said "and we aren't even certain about that number because states generally don't keep counting after the state outcome is certain" but I was mistaken).
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Google shutting down Hands Free pilot app for payments(get.google.com)
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by prodigal_erik 10y ago
If my mom arrives at the airport and needs a ride, am I supposed to refuse because of the strike? Will the union let me vote on the strike on that basis?
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by prodigal_erik 10y ago
If you're rich, you probably benefited from free trade and mass immigration. Trump's base are the people who suffered the most from these trends.
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by prodigal_erik 10y ago
In 20 years I've never worked on a project that had a test suite strong enough to merit blind faith. Usually the weak points are * realistic test input: either you carefully scrub actual production traffic and replay it (these require
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by prodigal_erik 10y ago
I would hope any Trump supporters in YC have read http://www.paulgraham.com/say.html and taken to heart "My advice is, don't say it. Or at least, pick your battles." The Overton window of the left is surprisi
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by prodigal_erik 10y ago
Costly private health insurance is meaningless to the unemployed.
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by prodigal_erik 10y ago
Does the bootloader choose a kernel entry point based on the CPU features?
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by prodigal_erik 10y ago
And businesses routinely get ripped off for that kind of recklessness. I've had to deliver the bad news to management about a body shop who obviously hadn't learned C++ yet because their deliverables were full of syntax errors the
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by prodigal_erik 10y ago
Half of developers complain about these stupid tests. The rest complain about working with people who can't pass them. The industry is full of people who don't belong, and your record isn't meaningful unless your references a
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by prodigal_erik 10y ago
Then there's "End Of User" which makes their terminal explode. http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/E/EOU.html
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by prodigal_erik 10y ago
Makes me wonder whether they launched Fi to get their pool of phone numbers un-blacklisted because now some people have only that number and no others.
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by prodigal_erik 10y ago
Racism is the name of certain kinds of prejudice, not results. When different races start out in different concrete circumstances and different norms taught by families, different results for them may or may not be caused by people acting o
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by prodigal_erik 10y ago
If I'm not a Mac user, I won't recognize a window manager that's only available on MacOS. And isn't there a (crappy) iTunes port for Windows?
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by prodigal_erik 10y ago
You also need a penalty for accepting a ride and never actually showing up. That's how useless the SF taxi system was when Uber started its more expensive offering.
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by prodigal_erik 10y ago
"Hop" comes out strongly aspirated for me. Certainly "mop" and "mob" don't sound the same.
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by prodigal_erik 10y ago
UTF-32 isn't easily seekable either because Unicode text has combining marks that shouldn't be separated from their base character. Almost every language has a "string" type that doesn't handle this correctly.
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by prodigal_erik 10y ago
RFC 7159 is sort of sloppy, saying "JSON texts that are encoded in UTF-8 are interoperable in the sense that they will be read successfully by the maximum number of implementations" while allowing UTF-16 and UTF-32 and not actuall
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by prodigal_erik 10y ago
It's a good thing GetPDF.aspx is there. Otherwise their web server would have no idea how to handle a GET request for a PDF file.
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by prodigal_erik 10y ago
If we can rely on a shortage of desperate workers, we don't need to send mafia goons after them. The ethical, nonviolent way to reject bad pay or working conditions is to quit, accepting that the employer might find someone else. That&
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by prodigal_erik 10y ago
It made sense coming from SGML where you're mostly reading and writing text with an occasional bit of markup. Now it seems some people don't even know that text can appear on a page without first being munged in using the DOM.
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by prodigal_erik 10y ago
Types like Object and Comparable<T> allow heterogeneous collections and algorithms, which are occasionally useful even in an otherwise statically-typed language. Think of it as a set of types where otherwise you would have required bo
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by prodigal_erik 10y ago
The best possible outcome is that everyone agrees on the same preprocessor/macro-expander and we start treating Go as a compilation target that isn't suited for human beings to read or write. Others have pointed out this is how we
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by prodigal_erik 10y ago
If the world has already written 90% of the code I need, how likely is it that the remaining 10% is valuable enough to make a viable business?
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by prodigal_erik 10y ago
As jwz put it, > It hardly seems worth even having a bug system if the frequency of from-scratch rewrites always outstrips the pace of bug fixing. Why not be honest and resign yourself to the fact that version 0.8 is followed by versio
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by prodigal_erik 10y ago
Dividends. I think that system (reward investors for funding profitable companies) was healthier than today where shares exist only to be flipped and prices have no connection to performance other than speculators' psychology.

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