ringzero

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by ringzero 7y ago
I'm gonna quote this part: > and he sees the same game being played that has been played by the Left for centuries to gain control of institutions and then completely subvert them from their original purpose """Out of
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by ringzero 7y ago
You know, this really sucks for me personally. Not the ban, but the sorts of things Eric appears to stand for. I read The Cathedral and the Bazaar when I was 13, and it was probably my gateway into advocating for open source. Somewhere arou
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by ringzero 7y ago
Repeating a point without adding proof doesn't make your point more valid. When people say "code wins arguments", they're referring to using source code to prove something , not "it wins because it has more source
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by ringzero 7y ago
Yes - I don’t think it’s a stretch to say that most people who appreciate fine arts feel this way. Tech is more of a, “why is a painting of a triangle worth so much!?” crowd (see: other comments).
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by ringzero 7y ago
You may have accidentally reinvented https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fail2ban :)
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by ringzero 7y ago
> 90% of the time, the gains from streaming aren't worth the added effort. I gotta disagree with that estimate. Virtually any time I have a backend service operating on (mostly) arbitrarily-sized user input, I use streaming so that
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by ringzero 7y ago
Apple Music, and particularly iTunes Match, are the opposite of "just works". I wanted to switch back from Spotify, but I found that Match had made a complete mess of my library. Half of my album art gone. Albums were striped with
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by ringzero 7y ago
I don’t follow - are you asserting that, by contrast, the greatest programmers in the world can write bug-free single-threaded code?
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by ringzero 7y ago
> I'm in a software leadership role. > Tomorrow, I hope someone asks me for an update on my progress ; ) Suggestion to take or leave - instead of being asked, volunteer your status and set the tone for how you'd like others
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by ringzero 7y ago
Ah, so you’d also agree homosexuality is a mental illness that “political groups” lobbied to change? Because, from the perspective of someone who isn’t a conspiracy theorist or bigot, it looks like the DSM updated their definition as more r
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by ringzero 7y ago
Ah, the what.cd strategy. Minus the exclusive content.
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by ringzero 7y ago
It's funny to think that, of all the products Google kills on the regular, the one thing most everyone wants them to be done with (AMP) is probably gonna stick around forever.
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by ringzero 7y ago
Does the content on wikihow not deliver on what it promises to do? And if so, have you considered editing it - given that it’s a wiki? Of the things destroying the internet (Google AMP, and Pinterest, in that order), I wouldn’t include wiki
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by ringzero 7y ago
> I suspect IEEE and ACM have much more complicated infrastructure to handle submission, peer review, production, etc., To the tune of a hundred million dollars? I can’t even remotely imagine how. If someone asked you to design a system
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by ringzero 7y ago
Just a point of clarification that I found helpful - the patches offered to correct soundness problems, in this case, didn’t significantly impact performance. Your hypothetical still stands, but it’s not necessarily a huge trade off.
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by ringzero 7y ago
I find PayByPhone pretty convenient, especially now that it's got a few years of polish on the app. The key thing is that the signs are legible, and have the number you care about (parking zone?) right there in bold print. And hey, - a
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by ringzero 7y ago
> What if you were labeled as a bigot for refusing to participate in mandatory diversity training? "The gay guy who wouldn't go into the room we labelled as 'for homos' is such a bigot for not Going Along" This