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Plivo outgoing SMS down for second time in two days(status.plivo.com)
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by secstate 9y ago
Same here. The other day my supervisor caught me working late and told me to leave ;)
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by secstate 9y ago
Not meaning to be snarky at all, but have you tried reading about mindfulness first? I found that in my 20s running was awful and I was almost literally counting the steps until I got to the end. But as I've gotten older and embraced a
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by secstate 9y ago
I think the biggest problem with polemic blogrants like this are that the author has encountered their own personal bankruptcy with ORMs and proceeds to indict the entire enterprise of mapping an object-oriented language environment to a re
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by secstate 9y ago
If we're being honest here, I don't think most world leaders are quite as blindly caught up in our significance as the majority of humanity. If anything, world leaders play the game and understand that it's all a house of car
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by secstate 9y ago
Healthy skepticism is important in ALL facets of life. You would join the union because the organization of labor gives you more power than individually. This is all pretty basic democratic theory here. Why would an independent state join a
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by secstate 9y ago
You seem to critically misunderstand democratic governance. In a union, as a member, you have a vote. In a corporation, as an employee, have no vote. That is not to say there hauven't been corrupt unions. But generally speaking, as the
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by secstate 9y ago
In fairness, I've been to rather expensive conferences that had talks that didn't start on time, seemed to have whole tracks that were only loosely related to overarching conference topic, and had many presenters who either starte
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by secstate 9y ago
The greatest equalized economic growth. Go ahead and ask miserly monarchs how it works to grow the wealth of the few at the expense of the many. The U.S. could not long have tolerated robber barons without major social trials.
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by secstate 10y ago
Thanks for the thoughtful reply :) At the end of the day, I suppose there's a certain inevitability to the sort of service you're providing, and I'd rather there were 20 smaller companies, than just CloudFlare. So carry on, a
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by secstate 10y ago
I'm sure the tech is really neat, but after the last CloudFlare debacle, piping all your HTTP requests through a for profit company just seems like it's ripe for abuse. This is not meant to slander Fly, and I'm sure the devs
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by secstate 10y ago
Basically, yes. Classical stoicism applied to modern life, with concessions made where needed to adapt to reality. Thankfully, ancient stoics were quite avant garde in many of their social norms, so it doesn't have be modified as much
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by secstate 10y ago
I should add that I am blessed to have a housewife for a partner, though I realize I may get thrown under the PC bus for acknowledging that. Also, I'm not wealthy enough that money is not a priority (i.e. my debt exceeds my income), bu
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by secstate 10y ago
Yeah, typing too fast. Thanks for parsing my terrible grammar. Ah to be human :) First off, I mean I don't get angry about the disruption. Honestly, nine times out of ten, volunteering once a week to do something like take my daughter
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by secstate 10y ago
So much this. As a practitioner of modern stoicism, the idea that my productivity should be tied to external influences is anathema to my philosophy. Working from home and having three kids between 6 and 10 months, the onus is on my to mana
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by secstate 10y ago
Properly spec'd and implemented language structures are the opposite of logical puzzles. JS is not fluid, it's broken.
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by secstate 10y ago
Take away the parens (which python is pretty explicit such structure should not be required to be legible). msg = if status == 0 "done" else "error" From a compiler perspective that's a bear to parse.
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by secstate 10y ago
Comprehensions were inherited from the math and science community where such constructs are used a lot. It happens that Python is very popular in those communities.
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by secstate 10y ago
Because that scans as: Variable x should be assigned if condition a true, otherwise b.
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by secstate 10y ago
Nevermind that Javascript has a hideous side too: http://callbackhell.com/ And don't get me started with Java's verbosity. Half the time Java seems completely unusable without an auto-completing IDE. And in all ho
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by secstate 10y ago
I don't think self-driving in and of itself will decrease ownership, but the combination of self-driving, flexible car sharing services, and ubiquitous ride sharing services will continue to make car ownership undesirable. A car in a d
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by secstate 10y ago
More like, -> you are not playing the right game --> you will only win by luck
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by secstate 10y ago
PostgresQL is an RDBMS and has increasingly been demonstrated as able to hold it's own against closed source rivals. I think the OPs tossing NOSQL in there was poor form, and I think "SQL engines" could be replaced with DBAs.
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by secstate 10y ago
Kinda surprised no one has mentioned TiddlyWiki yet ... truly the hackers notebook :) http://tiddlywiki.com/
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by secstate 10y ago
Your last comment really rang true. The extent to which Twitter is being used as an official communication channel by so many is very disconcerting to me. Never mind the fact that Twitter is not terribly profitable and could very well cease
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by secstate 10y ago
Perhaps I'm just a grump, but when the article says "couldn't find instructions for installing WeKan on other cloud providers like Vultr or DigitalOcean" did anyone else groan a little bit. Heroku is a cloud provider. Vu
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by secstate 10y ago
Exactly! And kudos on figuring out a system that accomplishes the goal (what's everyone up to), but works well for the most people.
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by secstate 10y ago
I think the biggest challenge to your statement is "listen to what they want." Much of our modern psychology suggests people don't always know what they want, or don't want what they think they want. This is not meant as
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I can find you some property in Maine that is closer to 2K/acre as long as you're okay being off grid. Well drilling would only be $3-5K depending on the site, and you might even get lucky and have a natural spring on the property
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Grave robbing and the destruction of historical artifacts are definitely an issue, but you should refrain from using the word Moslem, and in it's place use Muslim. The meaning is actually very different, and rather insulting in Arabic:

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