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by sdegutis 10y ago
"The simplest thing that works and still meets all legitimately needed requirements."
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by sdegutis 10y ago
Sure. Just like traffic laws. How convenient that we change the rules on how long to stop at a stop light, even though we can't change the speed of light. How convenient.
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by sdegutis 10y ago
Some of the things are legitimate rules, like the fact that priests need to be celibate. Other things are immutable principles that cannot be changed, like the fact that a Baptism requires the use of water (and not e.g. soda or orange juice
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by sdegutis 10y ago
You're confused. Celibacy for the priesthood is a rule made by the Church, not an immutable law. The fact that Baptism requires water is an immutable law.
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by sdegutis 10y ago
Yeah no that didn't happen.
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by sdegutis 10y ago
You're right, some will think so, but only those who are not familiar with how Catholic doctrine works. The rules are not arbitrary. Things like the requirement to go to Mass on Sunday are man-made rules, but made by those with authori
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by sdegutis 10y ago
They were trying to incite a moral revolution within the Catholic Church to conform to their own moral standards, but the Catholic Church is not a democracy, the morals and rules are not decided by the collective members of the Catholic Chu
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by sdegutis 10y ago
I'm not sure if this is the same group of emails you talked about, but at the very least they admitted to a conspiracy to try to incite a "revolution" within the Catholic Church using pseudo-Catholic lay organizations with mo
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by sdegutis 10y ago
Not gonna happen. If you could just buy replaceable parts, they'd lose a lot of money on hardware sales, even if a lot of the replaceable parts were sold by them. Both planned and perceived obsolescence is good for their business, fo
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by sdegutis 10y ago
Best explanation I ever heard.
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by sdegutis 10y ago
Yes, jQuery is good and most people still use it. It does its job perfectly fine. The thing is, HN is a very small like-minded community of people who are always looking for something better than the status quo, which is why you're alw
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by sdegutis 10y ago
I think we watched a YouTube video on it as a family a few months ago and I'm still confused.
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by sdegutis 10y ago
Can you explain what you mean? I haven't seen the video.
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by sdegutis 10y ago
Well you were using the wrong tool for the job. Snapchat is for sharing transient data with a small intimate group. It's not meant for business at all. Instagram is designed for the kind of thing you just described using Snapchat for.
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by sdegutis 10y ago
There's absolutely no doubt that my wife's Facebook feed was filled with misinformation on both sides of the election for weeks/months, and that many of her friends and family were using those images to prove their points or
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by sdegutis 10y ago
Tip: Make sure to turn your volume down before clicking the link.
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by sdegutis 10y ago
Oh wow. After reading your comment my first thought was "hmm that makes sense, so then something dynamic and simple to deploy universally like PHP would be ideal." Dang.
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by sdegutis 10y ago
> "A 'Professional' should be defined by the work they deliver and the value they bring, not their gear." This is absolutely silly. A professional blacksmith can't work without a proper anvil. There really is s
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by sdegutis 10y ago
Yep, banning would have been an alternative solution. But with the choice they made, it requires more human intervention, both on the shorter term (i.e. policing comments to find trolls and mark their accounts) and the longer term (i.e. pol
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by sdegutis 10y ago
That said, it's still biased. Years ago, HN admins/mods marked my account as "low-quality content" so now my comments always quickly fall down to the bottom of the parent, no matter how many points they have. They admitt
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by sdegutis 10y ago
> the list monad is used to model non-determinism See this is the kind of thing that made learning Haskell so hard for me. I'm not a math guy, I'm terrible at math. I have no idea what "non-determinism" means, and I&#
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by sdegutis 10y ago
And monads.
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by sdegutis 10y ago
Also the success of Minecraft which was written in Java might be encouraging people to make their own game engines or open source their own Java mods, etc. Just an idea, not sure if it's true.
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by sdegutis 10y ago
Out of curiosity, what's wrong with that line? Why is it slow?
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by sdegutis 10y ago
You know, I have a love/hate relationship with C kind of like what you described. In general I hate how hard it is to use and how easy it is to make gigantic mistakes in it. But on the other hand it's so raw and pure that it makes
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by sdegutis 10y ago
Yep, drastic change is probably better than keeping what we have. That's the hope, anyway. That's why Trump won.
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by sdegutis 10y ago
Yep, the key about these is moral consistency . He was morally consistent the whole time, which shows integrity. Now, whether his positions were the right ones is another story...
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by sdegutis 10y ago
Whoa. Why in the world could that have happened? Article doesn't really go into any theories.
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by sdegutis 10y ago
Thanks for the advice. Best of luck, especially if you're dealing with burnout which it sounds like you might be from your other comments. I'll definitely be taking your advice and trying something in SDL. Maybe a simple SNES Mari
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by sdegutis 10y ago
The media is entirely biased towards moral liberalism and I thought it was an "open secret" that only the most self-deluded didn't know about. Of course they're going to be biased towards Clinton, she's the morally

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