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by sethrin 9y ago
Uber has been a fantastic means to lose billions, so far. It's not clear that they have a way to profitability. Are you going to invest in them? Do you trust their numbers? If so you might want to explain why.
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by sethrin 9y ago
And do you know, I had started that reply with a fuller explanation, but reconsidered it as a waste of words. I had thought I had been fairly clear: the Continentals did not do most of the fighting, unless you choose to exclude whole catego
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by sethrin 9y ago
Would you perhaps mind giving your opinion of Ruby?
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Your comprehension and civility are both wanting, it seems.
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Wouldn't that be the definition of a proxy war? However, even that claim is suspect. The Continental Navy was a joke and had zero effect on the war. The French fought a global naval campaign with the world's largest navy. They als
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by sethrin 9y ago
Ah, you're talking about the start of the web. The person you responded to was talking about the start of the Internet -- ARPANet or one of its later incarnations. When the traffic started exploding, yes, it became possible to be pseud
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by sethrin 9y ago
"with the help of the French" is an understatement. It was better described as a proxy war between Britain and France.
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If you're defining Linux as the free-for-all open source community product, you're inherently defining why it will never take off for the casual user. That's not who that's for and that's not what the casual user do
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by sethrin 9y ago
> You can see an educational portal listing the cost of the management license at $30 here, which isn't really a complete picture, but demonstrates that we aren't talking about something they give schools for free You need to s
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by sethrin 9y ago
For an educational environment I would be hard pressed to name a more appropriate device than a chromebook. From a hardware perspective the Chromebooks are cheap, practically disposable. ChromeOS is open source, but also secure and easy to
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by sethrin 9y ago
It's possible to be a "wordpress programmer" in any language, but man, I have read a lifetime's worth of bad PHP code. WordPress is of course the worst of all possible PHP worlds since it was a fork of an even more ancie
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by sethrin 9y ago
I'm really not the person to talk about styles of address, current or historical. Referring to someone solely by their surname is typically a male-only thing as far as I am aware. I believe that it's especially prevalent in englis
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by sethrin 9y ago
2nd Amendment issues are that warped and conflicted. When this country was founded, there were no police. Our adversarial justice system was you deciding you were wronged, going and swearing out a warrant in front of a magistrate, and then
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by sethrin 9y ago
I think it's something we inherited from the Brits. I don't believe it would be 'proper' to call a woman by her (unadorned) family name. But generally yes, it's a way to disempower women built into our language.
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by sethrin 9y ago
I don't know about the teens, but the first decade of this century definitely needs to be the 'naughties'.
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I'm sad both that I can't upvote this more than once and that I can't think of any way I'd ever get to steal this line.
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by sethrin 9y ago
I wrote a small book on the shell, and I have no idea why anyone would prefer Bash as a scripting language. Or as a shell interpreter, for that matter. Sometimes one lacks alternatives, and sometimes the Bash version of some task is too sim
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by sethrin 9y ago
Thank you for provoking a vigorous debate on this subject. It's clear that many people disagree with you, which hopefully should not be a good reason for downvoting. I had mentioned two days ago at a meetup that I had been intending to
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by sethrin 9y ago
I attended a coding bootcamp recently. It was fun, but it turned out not to be a good use of resources. I suppose I'll need to explain my situation there. I had been coding in relative obscurity and isolation for some years, and (1 I w
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by sethrin 9y ago
It's worth noting that Dijkstra was a computer scientist, not a programmer. From Wikipedia: > Despite having invented much of the technology of software, Dijkstra eschewed the use of computers in his own work for many decades. Even
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by sethrin 9y ago
The Cathedral and the Bazaar was not an excellent piece of writing, but it was sort of necessary at the time. It has served its evangelical purpose well, to the point where it's no longer necessary. Open Source won the day, in no small
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by sethrin 9y ago
You seem to have misinterpreted my objection. There are better books on databases, and MySQL is not necessarily a good example of a database. It tends to do things in its own way. When you get into the sort of situation where the difference
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by sethrin 9y ago
That "epiphany of discovery" may be a good feeling, but I disagree with the idea that knowledge should only be bought with hardship.
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by sethrin 9y ago
I have a pretty negative opinion on ESR these days. I could find technical arguments about many aspects of his good pieces of writing, and much of his writing is not good. His abilities as a coder are not generally remarkable, either. But m
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by sethrin 9y ago
> "Understanding MySQL Internals" Why this, as opposed to a more general text on databases? MySQL is popular, but few would accuse it of actually being a good database. I feel like the point at which knowing about the internals
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by sethrin 9y ago
Is there anything in particular about climate science that you need help understanding?
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by sethrin 9y ago
Is there some criterion by which GoDaddy is not the worst service provider? Given their popularity with domain parkers and other less savory parts of the IT world, I would assume that the blame was entirely on their shoulders. That said, co
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by sethrin 9y ago
> NYC and SF are likely to be the only exception Portland should probably join that list.
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by sethrin 9y ago
Not in particular. I appreciate the suggestion of the official documentation. I do need to rtfm, however after that I will be looking for further examples and explanation. Oh, but if there is any useful tooling I should be aware of that wou
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by sethrin 9y ago
Can someone point me towards some more in-depth explorations or books on this topic?

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