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by secstate 12y ago
Pssh, XML is so Java. They'll just use YAML or JSON ;-)
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by secstate 12y ago
I think the bigger issue is how little the vast majority of technology users understand these issues. To them, so what if the movie studio wants to limit what people can do with a copy of their movie. "We've got streaming movies f
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by secstate 12y ago
I feel like if I were a pilot with even a modicum of engineering and language experience, I'd be pretty frustrated that they aren't using something like Haskell that provides a certain level of runtime security. C++ seems like it
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by secstate 12y ago
I was actually just thinking about how this clone would make a good blog post pointing out the pain that hovers around many substantial ruby/rails projects versus other tool sets. To be able to download the binary and just run a web ap
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by secstate 13y ago
And this is why DevOps has gained traction. Automated deployments, continuous integration, and software that functions identically whether in development env or production. You can wax poetic about how it used to be, or complain about peopl
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by secstate 13y ago
No. For the same reason that being a white supremacist hasn't really ever been "okay." Eich was not anti-gay, he was anti-civil rights. Legal marraige and religious marriage are unfortunately poorly named, but two very differ
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by secstate 13y ago
Thanks for the flippant comment. Eich resigned because while talking heads on TV would have you believe otherwise, the gay rights movement is a civil rights movement. By actively donating against it, he was making a strong statement about h
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by secstate 13y ago
Well then this is just post-modernism applied to flat design. An amorphous ball of nothing that has no rules so do whatever you want. Want drop shadows in two directions, cool, cause we can do whatever we want now! I'm not buying it. P
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by secstate 13y ago
Thanks for the well-positioned comment. I had half a mind to nod my head at this article, but you're so right. The problem with Eich's donation was that it made an otherwise-unnecessary personal opinion perfectly obvious. Actively
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by secstate 13y ago
Um. I do grow my own food. Not all of it granted, but a little household planning makes my wife's trips to the store pretty efficient. The rest comes from the garden, which we've had no problem managing ourselves without a databas
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Useful and Obscure Linux Tools(labs.fiveq.com)
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by secstate 13y ago
Perhaps the most unsettling part of Michele's observation is that it is not clear how to get around it. Calls for gender neutrality in the work place are a bit like asking for world peace. There is no neutral, so long as sex and instin
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by secstate 13y ago
Well said, sir. Worth noting that this overview of where we've come from and how not far we've come was posted by a fellow is both clearly a genius, and who has his most popular github project written in x64 assembly. So I'd
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by secstate 13y ago
I'm sad that you got downvoted, though I have a feeling its simply your choice of language, as your points are spot on. This is a wonderfully curated list of where computers have come from. But to go further and claim that we're a
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by secstate 13y ago
Considering the resources required to DDoS a site like Github these days, and the sheer amount of motivation you'd need to achieve even a 30 min takedown ... I and my tinfoil hat are right there with you.
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by secstate 13y ago
LOL. And then if you're Hulu, start cramming ads back into paying users' faces. I miss the days when people threw sledghammers into giant TV screens to free us from this hell. Or was that a movie?
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by secstate 13y ago
Yes, but as noted in the post, if the pull request author misses that email notification the request goes into a purgatory. And the pull request page has not way to glance down a list and note who's on what. This isn't an individu
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by secstate 13y ago
Your random reference is funded by the ASAS which has every reason to promote industry practices that keep costs down: https://www.asas.org/membership-services/member-information/... However, you're right. T
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by secstate 13y ago
Sorry I criticized your claim of being a supertaster. But before we go off on a tangent about how certain markets encourage production of low quality goods, let's go back to your original claim that somehow qualitatively some people pr
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by secstate 13y ago
That's a fair point. Though I would argue that it's awfully hard to find an American chocolatier that doesn't scrape the bottom of the barrel in terms of quality. The only one I can think of off the top of my head is Ghirarde
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by secstate 13y ago
1. Are you calling yourself a Supertaster? 2. No one can argue with preference. But as linked to earlier in these comments, it is well documented that the U.S. has a very very lax policy on what is allowed to constitute "milk chocolate
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by secstate 13y ago
Seems like this is much more likely Google's goal. Couching their arguments in ways the consumer will benefit left me feeling woefully unimpressed with the possibilities. But clearly PK Dick's self-aware advertising will not be po
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by secstate 13y ago
I pretty much stopped reading when they were going through the possible applications. Find my way around a super-store, shit I'd rather just stay out if at all possible. In the meantime, I'm sure this will revolutionize something.
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by secstate 13y ago
Indeed, and it doesn't take much data crunching to realize that the vast majority of habitable space on the planet is in the northern hemisphere. No slight to Africa, S. America, Australia and parts of India, but most of us are up here
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by secstate 13y ago
Seems to me the vast majority of habitable area lies in the Northern hemisphere, so this would likely be an issue of statistics, not subconscious superiority. Also, magnetic north on a compass is a natural way to orient something.
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by secstate 13y ago
No, but if your theory of healthcare is that private healthcare produces the best, most advanced treatments, then by all rights you should fear the world getting better than us at medicine. Healthcare is by it's nature a social issue a
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by secstate 13y ago
But 90% of the world doesn't die from exotic cancers, at least not below the age of 50 (or 60 ... keeps creeping up). The idea that advanced medicine is an justification for for-profit medicine is a straw man argument. The reality is t
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by secstate 13y ago
That's new in the past 45 days. For what it's worth, under the ADA the insurance subsidy I get from taxes is enough that I actually am insured, but it doesn't bring the monthly cost of an insurance plan down any ... just push
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by secstate 13y ago
The problem with your Rand-esque proposal that if we all saved and lived below our means would be rolling in it, is that we don't all have the privilege of living in state or region that provides reasonable healthcare. Any guesses what
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by secstate 13y ago
Oh, you're still dumping your own content on someone else's server and hoping they stay in business long enough for your URLs to benefit from the longtail? That's adorable. Wordpress and Ghost are not in the same league. If I

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