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by ropeadopepope 8y ago
You mean evidence like this? "South Korea’s Foreign Minister tells me in Seoul that “clearly credit goes to President Trump” for bringing North Korea to the negotiating table." https://twitter.com/camanpour/st
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by ropeadopepope 8y ago
Is it possible he's not highly irrational at all and you're projecting your own fears onto him?
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by ropeadopepope 8y ago
It makes code less readable for me. To each his own, I suppose.
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by ropeadopepope 8y ago
I would be very curious to see how many 50 year old engineers are doing web development. I'm only 34 and my experience the past 5 years is that experience is not respected and being out of your 20s makes you a poor culture fit for most
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by ropeadopepope 8y ago
> This is so true (also in Bay Area). I am still in the process of job hunting. The first onsite was in mid March. I thought my last onsite would be last Friday, but no, a few more are still being scheduled (I probably have to withdraw s
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by ropeadopepope 8y ago
What field do you work in?
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by ropeadopepope 8y ago
What field do you work in?
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by ropeadopepope 8y ago
Why stop there? Let's go to cap'n proto or protobuf.
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by ropeadopepope 8y ago
This reminds me of the following by General Freiherr von Hammerstein-Equord: > "I divide my officers into four classes as follows: The clever, the industrious, the lazy, and the stupid. Each officer always possesses two of these qua
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by ropeadopepope 8y ago
OT. If you want to discuss it off-site, send me an email here: halibetlector@0hdear.com
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by ropeadopepope 8y ago
Nobody knows. Coca Cola lists most ingredients, but the secret sauce is listed as "Natural Flavors". That's where all the heavy flavor science in conducted and not just in Coca Cola. Most engineered foods in the US have &quot
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by ropeadopepope 9y ago
The problem with both yours and the parent's assertion is context. Newspapers are easy to move so the portion you're reading is in your field of view. Your monitor isn't and it's used for much more than just reading stat
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by ropeadopepope 9y ago
> Of course, this all varies by task, but I imagine this is a big reason why 16:9 came about. The other one is internal real estate. Wide screens mean wider keyboards and larger batteries.
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by ropeadopepope 9y ago
Because there aren't any alternatives that are as easy to use and understand. QML could be if it was available for any language other than C++. Ditto with Lazarus and Pascal. I hear XAML WPF isn't bad, but it strikes me as having
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by ropeadopepope 9y ago
Care to share same examples?
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by ropeadopepope 9y ago
I like this one. It's funnier. "This reminds me of north korea" https://ytcropper.com/cropped/YZ5ad7ac55e5e3b
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by ropeadopepope 9y ago
Play all the sophistry games you want: over a 20 year period, a poorly armed force beat not one, but two forces that had superior firepower and numbers.
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by ropeadopepope 9y ago
> Can you mention some insurrection where armed protestants won over a well-equipped state Vietnam. Korea. Haiti. > this reasoning for the 2nd amendment comes out only as a power fantasy That's the reason the 2nd amendment was wr
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by ropeadopepope 9y ago
Collapsing bridges take priority over temporary website outages.
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Colonization by Indian Leftists–the Downside of “Merit-Based Immigration”(unz.com)
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by ropeadopepope 9y ago
I'm still working on it. I fear the only viable solution is going to be to drastically change how I interact with computers and the internet. There was a period of about a week where my home cable internet was down and I had to pair my
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by ropeadopepope 9y ago
I don't think most single owner businesses do cash flow forecasting. Do you?
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by ropeadopepope 9y ago
TurboTax, QuickBooks and Mint. They're all owned by Intuit and not open source.
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Silicon Valley Is Hot for Civil War(investinginchinesestocks.blogspot.com)
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by ropeadopepope 9y ago
It doesn't work for me. Editing a file isn't nearly enough friction to dissuade me. Even more advanced blocking programs didn't work for me. Instead of spending time browsing the internet, I spent lots of time figuring out ho
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by ropeadopepope 9y ago
The police won't report on the violence for fear of being called racist, which is a crime that comes with jail time. Ditto for journalists. That is why the 1st amendment is so important. When it becomes illegal to tell the truth, nobod
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by ropeadopepope 9y ago
> I'm guessing this is similar in Sweden. It sounds like specific areas have increasing violence, and that this looks even worse, given the country's historical low rates of violence. No, Swedish violence has been accelerating
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by ropeadopepope 9y ago
Eat, sleep and exercise. Most devs I know who have burned out (myself included) hadn't ate well, slept well or exercised at all for months if not years before they burned out. Also, there are a lot of comments here that basically amoun
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by ropeadopepope 9y ago
Better energy storage will revolutionize everything from phones to electric cars. I can't wait for the e-ink patent to expire. We'll see an explosion of research on color screens that don't need a backlight. There's a lo
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by ropeadopepope 9y ago
> I think this is the biggest part, and less the "sleep in your car while you commute for 5 hours each way!" which sounds fucking terrible. I'm actually looking forward to that. It gives a whole new meaning to the phrase &

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