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by secstate 10y ago
Two things. One, he's used Twitter to post some seriously absurd but significant charges, like an fact-less opinion that there was widespread corruption in our last election cycle. Second, I'm in the middle of reading the Undoing
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by secstate 10y ago
To point one, a former co-worker of mine cooked up a great algorithm that measured how much time a user spent on your site and how far down they scrolled and then presented that as aggregated data on the different levels of engagement users
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by secstate 10y ago
The hedonovat was a construct of the American pragmatist John Dewey to understand at a relatively simple level, what motivates people. Why would you want to live forever? The human condition is predicated on birth and death. As an academic
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by secstate 10y ago
I have to respectfully disagree with you here. Death is most definitely NOT nothing but pain and loss. For those living in chronic pain, it is release. For those of us who manage to live our lives forgetting those who have hurt us as a copi
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by secstate 10y ago
That's a fair point. But in my limited sample size, there are plenty of companies that at least for a few years function just fine with full remote.
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by secstate 10y ago
I think we'll have to agree to disagree here. If you're heads-down on a project and it's not contributing to the value of the product, there are other issues with your business than remote-v-office culture. If pivoting your e
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by secstate 10y ago
An interesting reflection on fasting while trying to work. Curiously, I have had the opposite experience of working while fasting, though it may be very different to fast for one day at a time. Still, I fast between dinner on Sunday and din
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by secstate 10y ago
Ironically, the thing we've been told to cut out of our diet for the last 50 years might be what we've needed all along. Vitamin D is fat soluble and generated by sunlight. Lard from a factory raised hog is going to have almost 0
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by secstate 10y ago
I actually really appreciate JLG's tone when reporting on Apple. Given his history with the NeXT-BeOS debacle, I wouldn't expect him to be so charitable. Of course, time heals all wounds and I get the impression JLG is pretty well
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by secstate 10y ago
I think it's a reference to how some businesses go out of business when the the theory that people will pay money for a product fails to hold true. Tower Records being one such example. That said, the tenses and general grammar of the
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by secstate 10y ago
Thanks for the elaboration! That's what I suspected. Personally spacemacs makes me a much faster developer and I think blends the strengths of emacs and vim nicely.
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by secstate 10y ago
Would you mind elaborating on your philosophy against Spacemacs? I'm an avid user, but I'm totally open to arguments against it.
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by secstate 10y ago
No, but neither was Batista.
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by secstate 10y ago
Like some sort of Eternal September for hardware :)
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by secstate 10y ago
I think he means putting it in a mobile platform that is hidden behind a gorgeous display. Of course you can build your own for cheaper, but by the time your done sintering aluminum parts and building a custom mainboard to fit the housing,
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by secstate 10y ago
Docker was originally built on top of LXC. It is now becoming more flexible with what is underneath, but there's a reason you need a VM running in the background on macOS to use Docker. Docker is tool to interact with LXC (and hopefull
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by secstate 10y ago
The plan isn't 9-dimensional, and it's never "an election." The next leader of what is, at least for now, still one of the powerful nations in the world is about change. Only a fool wouldn't take advantage of having
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by secstate 10y ago
It's when you go to check out ... there's a footer.
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by secstate 10y ago
There's a notice that they're a Gandi reseller.
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by secstate 10y ago
This is on our ballot because the last two gubernatorial elections included a third party that pulled Democratic votes leading to Paul LePage becoming governor once with 38.1% oft he vote and the second time with 48.2% of the vote. The seco
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by secstate 10y ago
Would it were universally applied sir. PG himself banned reps from companies in support of SOPA from Demo Days five years ago. I'm not saying that was a bad decision (SOPA, ugh ...), but sometimes who you don't invite says as much
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by secstate 10y ago
An excellent point. Thanks for the clarification! I would argue, however, that hedonism is a human philosophy that leads to pleasure maximization, which means consumerism and excess compliment it. There are other ways to live your life, tha
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by secstate 10y ago
That's fair enough. But a lot of business spends a lot of hours creating a value proposition for it's employees. That turns this idea into a self-fulfilling prophesy sort of work environment.
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by secstate 10y ago
I think the problem with your statement is that the Information Revolution came with a philosophy that automation would end the need for 9-5 Industrial Revolution ideas of work. It hasn't, and we're still working 40 hours a week,
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by secstate 10y ago
Having been in this situation and been supervisor to people in this situation, it's possible to not be lying but also to not have complete understood the task or have it mis-spec'd. Having someone rip into for lying when the spec
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by secstate 10y ago
Haha! That analogy works so well. Especially when you consider the Bondo-esque way in which higher-level language constructs have been ... well, bondo-ed on to the language.
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by secstate 10y ago
That's a solid point, but the Ariane 5 does not do manned flight either. SRBs are less safe than liquid fuel engines too, no way to shut SRBs down on ignition ... sweet.
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by secstate 10y ago
Indeed. Too bad Boeing and Lockheed didn't have competition in any real sense for the past 40 years or we'd be a lot closer to Mars. Sometimes it boggles the mind how much money the gov't spends to achieve fairly pedestrian e
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by secstate 10y ago
I don't know if it's only Java, but I agree whole-heartedly about the general health of the Python framework community. I love Django, but it's also pretty easy to excise parts you don't need for a particular project, wh
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by secstate 10y ago
I love ash trees. They are also a "bailout" tree up where people still burn wood in stoves for warmth, as they can pretty much be burnt the day they're cut, they're so dry. I spent at least one winter burning quite a bit

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