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by pyre 10y ago
You to realize the irony that in a discussion about constructive / objective / considerate discussion, you have posted something that is not very constructive.
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by pyre 10y ago
> Almost all of the popular communities online lean left, take your pick. Like Reddit where /r/TheDonald is consistently at the top of /r/all, and stories about terrorism on /r/WorldNews devolve into xenopho
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by pyre 10y ago
> Something that's worth trying is to tell the reader in that first email how many emails you're going to send Somehow I just picture the scene from A Christmas Carol where Jacob Marley is telling Scrooge that he will be visi
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by pyre 10y ago
People have suggested a few in other threads.
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by pyre 10y ago
As an example, there is one-click-to-deploy here[1] for Heroku and Azure. [1] https://github.com/rauchg/slackin
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by pyre 10y ago
In the article the term "organic" isn't used at all: > The dating seems about right, said Abigail Allwood , a NASA > astrobiologist who found the previous oldest fossil, from > 3.48 billion years ago, in Aust
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by pyre 10y ago
That particular form of formatting is part of Python's PEP-8, which has tooling around it. Maybe not all editors have something built it, though.
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by pyre 10y ago
What workflows do you have where renaming functions happens often enough that you need to optimize for it?
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by pyre 10y ago
> It's an artificial problem, that gets solved when you start consistently stripping trailing whitespaces on save and not realigning everything all the time. This is mostly solved via coding standards. If there are no coding standar
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by pyre 10y ago
Right, not now you're dictating coding style to work around the warts associated with using tabs. If you use spaces there are no such issues because spaces don't change widths between editors.
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by pyre 10y ago
Most diff programs have an "ignore whitespace" option. "whitespace noise on diffs" is pretty much a solved problem. You can even add '?w=1' to a Github URL to turn on the feature.
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by pyre 10y ago
Not all editors are smart about tabs and spaces, and when the two start to mix things get really funky if everyone doesn't have the same "1 tab = x spaces" value set on their editor. For example: function_call(really_
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by pyre 10y ago
> "Roundup ready" weedkiller I thought that "Roundup ready" described the GMO crops and that the weedkiller was just "Roundup."
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by pyre 10y ago
There were other NSA whistleblowers before Snowden, but they tried to go the legal route and were punished for it. It was only Snowden's illegal sharing of information that made sure the real story got out.
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by pyre 10y ago
If nobody was having sex, you'd wipe out a generation in a generation.
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by pyre 10y ago
You would prefer PHP[1] where the standard library has no namespaces? [1] I refer to "classic" PHP. No clue if anything PHP5+ fixed this, though I doubt that they would make such a breaking changed even across major revisions.
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by pyre 10y ago
I'm not a lawyer, but I would assume that even that could be grounds for someone to file a lawsuit. I would like to believe that a judge wouldn't let that get very far, but if the person tried to claim material losses due to (e.g.
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by pyre 10y ago
> "victim blaming" is a loaded term to avoid any examination of the responsibility of the person who got screwed. Are you claiming that "victim blaming" isn't a thing? There are plenty of people that want to shut
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by pyre 10y ago
They might open themselves up to lawsuits. Even if they will win the lawsuits, that's a money/time sink to deal with.
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by pyre 10y ago
From what I understand, at the point they declared bankruptcy they (Target Canada) didn't have enough money to meet payroll obligations, and the trust was seeded from Target's US operation. It Target Canada had just been standalon
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by pyre 10y ago
In a recent discussion, someone looking into a VP role said he was pushing for 6 months. Someone else pointed out that some wage laws dictate a specific amount of severance that usually depends on the amount of time that you work there. Mos
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by pyre 10y ago
When Target declared bankruptcy and pulled out of Canada, they setup a trust (or something) to give all employees 4 months of wages. They all got 4 months of wages, but some stores closed sooner than others, so some people ended up working
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by pyre 10y ago
I'm curious what the "H1Bs cannot be used to control employees because H1Bs have a process to move to another company" crowd thinks of this situation.
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by pyre 10y ago
> Plus we didn't have anyone matching any of the descriptions in this article. So you don't have a CEO whose headshot in the Team page is a bulldog? Or a Facebook page full of SpongeBob memes for that matter?
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by pyre 10y ago
Just look at the blog too. I'm not sure who thought that a blog post entitled "10 WAYS TO SURVIVE AT WORK WITHOUT SLEEP" would be a hit with job seekers. (Not to mention that 100% of their blog content -- 7 posts -- was poste
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by pyre 10y ago
> a claim that a CEO had violated legal duties to shareholders by not breaking the law would get instantly laughed out of court I think that real issue here is that it would not get laughed out of the board room or a shareholders meeting
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by pyre 10y ago
You're comparing a few politically motivated extrajudicial executions (which are not excusable, mind you) with the leader of a country promoting vigilantism to the entire citizenry. I'm not sure you realize how quickly the latte
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by pyre 10y ago
> Certainly, favoring Russia's invasion of Ukraine or Assad is not "left-wing propaganda", as easy examples. Didn't you hear? Putin invaded the Ukraine because he wanted to setup a bunch organic grocery stores and yog
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by pyre 10y ago
To be fair, there are many places where the police do shady things, but a certain segment of the population don't see any issue with it because it's always those "other" people feeling the brunt of it and "they were
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by pyre 10y ago
> Is there something to back that up? Did you not read the "open secret" part? While it may or may not be true, you're going to have a hard time finding an "official" source for that kind of open secret.

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