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by ryanpardieck 12y ago
Yeah, I noticed just today that it doesn't record everything! Very strange. Could turbolinks-alike implementations be throwing it off?
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by ryanpardieck 12y ago
I think you're conflating "not actively overthrowing their government in violent revolution" with majority acceptance. That governments are inevitably an extension of their citizens' will is a thing that sounds nice to b
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by ryanpardieck 12y ago
Being an advocacy organization does not require such gross distortion of the facts. I like the EFF, but I've stopped putting any kind of credibility into their different blog posts and articles.
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by ryanpardieck 12y ago
> It's not like fan art and fan fiction ever produced anything that worthwhile though. Has there ever been any major fan fiction work hailed as literary worthy? Maybe you'll find one or two examples. I doubt you'll find te
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by ryanpardieck 12y ago
I think you've seized too tightly to the word 'interesting' here. He was rejecting the advice as too paternalistic. And after reading the blog, I think that's pretty reasonable, even as I find myself agreeing somewhat w
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by ryanpardieck 12y ago
Actually a common thread through much of the discussion about transparency/publicity/safety is that someone engaging on social media should be aware of their platform's effect on the people they talk to. I think that's a
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by ryanpardieck 12y ago
> In other words, what good is $15k/year when you've been living on $15k/month? Or $7k or $5k/month? Not much I guess, but if they're suddenly faced with the prospect of existing on $0/year, I imagine it&#x2
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by ryanpardieck 12y ago
First, I think that last tweet is actually pretty funny. What's wrong with a little black humor? Also, because of the Torvalds mention earlier in this thread, I thought it'd be interesting to compare the people you mention here to
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by ryanpardieck 12y ago
Graduating from college might be worth it, but the total societal cost of college has to include those who attend, rack up debt, but do not graduate. You can't present college as a sure thing when actually graduating from it will never
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by ryanpardieck 12y ago
I feel like it's a pretty common phenomenon for people to have their pet somewhat-arcane "gotcha" problem that they feel is the ultimate decider of who's shit and who isn't. And you're on HN, so the responses a
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by ryanpardieck 12y ago
I thought the further-up comment--where the poster apparently didn't realize that many would see 90K as quite a lot of money--was a better example of this.
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by ryanpardieck 12y ago
I think there's a very strong case to be made for programming as a prominent elective. But the context of this sub-thread is the claim that knowing programming is akin to basic literacy, which is a much, much stronger claim.
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by ryanpardieck 12y ago
I think people also underestimate just how soul-crushingly dull coding might be for many people. It's easy to assume that everyone will enjoy what you enjoy, but for some people this stuff is just extremely difficult, extremely boring,
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by ryanpardieck 12y ago
More importantly, writing is an important mode of communication in a way programming will never be (and programming shouldn't be expected to be that). Penpals don't mail source code back and forth to each other. Thinking knowing t
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by ryanpardieck 12y ago
What are the worthwhile alternatives? I used to think along these lines, but anymore I'm not as sure. I think there can be advantages to the traditional structure, and I'm not sure the more bottom-up structures bring enough concre
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by ryanpardieck 12y ago
If you use the dev channel, they no longer show this popup (or color the extension icon orange).
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by ryanpardieck 12y ago
Calling programming a dead end job is kind of outrageous. I normally associate the phrase "dead end job" with stuff like pizza delivery, or some of those severely monotonous office jobs like data entry or working in a call center.
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by ryanpardieck 12y ago
Well, I'm not sure I have as strong of a position on this as I should. The way literature is talked about in university isn't really the way I would ever prefer to talk about literature really, but it was enlightening in the same
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by ryanpardieck 12y ago
It's persistent for me. I'm on 36.0.1941.0 dev-m.
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by ryanpardieck 12y ago
I'll always love Autumn. I usually keep a small pile of "guiding light" books around, and Autumn has been in there ever since I first read it ~7 years ago. I use them kind of like reference manuals for the craft, kind of like
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by ryanpardieck 12y ago
I think sometimes it is OK to be simply enchanted. (Well I think it's always OK, but ...) I tend to favor literary "analysis" that dwells on that feeling of enchantment, tries to explain it to an extent, and sometimes even re
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by ryanpardieck 13y ago
I think a lot of the problems regarding the gray zone come from not being clear, not understanding boundaries, and not knowing when to move on. These, of course, are things I've learnt the hard way ... And anyway, is the gray zone itse
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by ryanpardieck 13y ago
I find it extremely distasteful to describe backing down in the face of slaughter as "complicity." If that's the sort of thinking that follows naturally from the model of power dynamics being discussed here, then I think the
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by ryanpardieck 13y ago
When the state has access to nukes and the populace doesn't, how can this statement not technically be true? It seems like the ability literally wipe cities off the face of the earth means that you have the permanent upper hand, in ter
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by ryanpardieck 13y ago
Honestly the more I read about predatory pricing, the more it seems like a complete fiction. One of those things that seems to make sense in theory, and maybe makes for a good political screed every now and then. If low prices drove the com
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by ryanpardieck 13y ago
I don't know that I wish ill on the woman. I was confused by the article as to how she picked up on what he said, but if she saw "I'm going to shoot up a school" and was genuinely alarmed--and even if she's a total
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by ryanpardieck 13y ago
I don't know, your reading of this is a lot different than mine. I never felt like it crossed into "the scary bad guys" territory. The good-people-in-bad-systems thing reminds me of the HBGary story generally. I don't kn
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by ryanpardieck 13y ago
This was my impression of him as well. I always thought he performed a uniquely valuable service both to anon and to those of us outside anon (and the media etc.). It's sad to hear what all has happened to him. The way they treated hi