robwilliams

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by robwilliams 11y ago
What's scarier is who's inside the prison.
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by robwilliams 11y ago
You make this sound like a common occurrence. Anecdotes work both ways, though. I'm sure hundreds of readers here could say that they've never been falsely accused and had to fight a rogue DA to get their name cleared (sounds like
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by robwilliams 11y ago
You fear entering the USA because you're afraid you'll go to prison? How often do you think random people get through into jail for "things that would be considered minor"? Racist cops are outliers and I've never he
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by robwilliams 11y ago
>Hulu only has commercials on their second-run (day-after-air) content from broadcast sources. They have a substantial back catalogue of stuff that doesn't include said commercials. Did they change to this recently? I had a Hulu Plu
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by robwilliams 11y ago
steam.com is another
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by robwilliams 11y ago
>a lot of the audience uses Netflix like TV and they just want something familiar on in the background That's exactly how I use it and their "Watch it again" section is very helpful.
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by robwilliams 11y ago
Why is it racist to showcase African media? The founders readily admit in this thread that they are trying to get more exposure for all African cultures, not some African monoculture.
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by robwilliams 11y ago
Many large subreddits are going private to force the admins to respond.
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by robwilliams 11y ago
Extended version w/ quotes: Roberts: - "[T]his Court is not a legislature. Whether same-sex marriage is a good idea should be of no concern to us. Under the Constitution, judges have power to say what the law is, not what it shoul
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by robwilliams 11y ago
Spotify itself also has some frequently-updated curated playlists for most genres that are great for discovery.
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by robwilliams 11y ago
It doesn't sound like Uber is "writing their own regulations" in the above examples...
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Patriot Act Faces Revisions Backed by Both Parties(nytimes.com)
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by robwilliams 11y ago
After opening a few files it's up to 100-150MB, so not as lightweight as I originally thought. That doesn't affect its responsiveness, though, and I have plenty of free memory.
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by robwilliams 11y ago
Code is only using 20MB on my Win8 box.
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by robwilliams 11y ago
The comments in /r/programming are much more light-hearted, which is a welcome break from the near-extreme seriousness of HN. I certainly appreciate having an "intellectual community," but sometimes you want to read hone
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by robwilliams 11y ago
I feel like there's this stereotypical .NET dev in everyone's head on HN. Your friend, for example, didn't even know that Entity Framework was an ORM, and he likes "magic" and not understanding any lower level imple
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by robwilliams 11y ago
Beyond having to pay extra, no rental property I've ever lived in has had any recycling services (I'm in the Midwest), not even a community recycling bin next to the garbage. You've often got to put in a ton of effort to recy
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by robwilliams 11y ago
I was on Vyvanse for 3 years and I never had any dependence or tolerance issues. Quitting was equally as easy. I think the long-lasting pills help separate the euphoric feelings from the actual action of taking the pill, opposite of Adderal
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by robwilliams 11y ago
Presumably to prevent warrant canaries. Once a company stops saying they've received 0, the public knows they had been served a secret order.
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by robwilliams 12y ago
The only way to keep their population in check is to kill them, no? How would you humanely kill them without shooting them? Couldn't introducing another predator to hunt them cause even more unforeseen ecological problems?
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by robwilliams 12y ago
Assuming that this isn't a troll "le wrong generation" post... > I guess I can't really be sure, but I don't get the feeling people care about music like that anymore. People in high schools still define themselv
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by robwilliams 12y ago
And what would happen if the US ships got to the oil rigs? You think they would attack and initiate war with Brazil...? That's absurd.
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by robwilliams 12y ago
Why all of this talk about a dystopian future? I can choose to refill on a particular brand of paper towels without giving up my right to choose what I eat. This entire thread is full of absurdity.
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by robwilliams 12y ago
I've got to drive to the store, find it, wait in line, check out, put it in my car and then drive home. That's much more friction than just pressing a button.
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by robwilliams 12y ago
I think it's a joke about the mobile games industry being dependent on "whales" (players that spend an absurd amount of money on IAP) and Zynga's business model being so horrible that one whale dying makes them go out of
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by robwilliams 12y ago
>Go will go far, just look at Java. How did you reach this conclusion? I also don't understand the odd comparison to communism. Who's the communist in this scenario?
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by robwilliams 12y ago
node.js has been used heavily inside Microsoft for quite some time so even if they created this for internal use only it wouldn't be a waste of time. Microsoft employee here. And I think you vastly underestimate how popular Visual Stud
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by robwilliams 12y ago
Considering it's replacing C++ as the starter language at many universities this may not be true for too much longer as younger developers get more exposure to Python.
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by robwilliams 12y ago
>they don't have unjust control over my computing I don't understand this. What is unjust about a software author charging for their work? I and many others are happy and willing to pay.
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by robwilliams 12y ago
That's not what they said at all; they said they some autistic students that were nasty and rude without being aware of it.

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