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by shaftoe 11y ago
As someone who has built homemade firearms, I'm amused by your example. It seems like municipalities with emissions testing requirements could easily catch these "socially offensive hackers" if they use the older hook-it-up-t
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by shaftoe 11y ago
The spaghettios and burritos comment rang true, however. Particularly for families with both parents working. I get how some people derive great pleasure from making a meal from scratch, but for people in a great hurry, it's one of ma
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by shaftoe 11y ago
Why not both? It's not unheard of for a deploy with index issues to cause a load spoke in production. Yes, you need to know about the query to fix it, but also killing runaway queries agree they're obviously orphaned can mean th
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by shaftoe 11y ago
I love when people pretend that money not taken in in taxes is lost money, as if the government has default claim to it and is missing out by not confiscating it.
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by shaftoe 11y ago
That's my favorite Turtledove story. He also wrote a sequel.
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by shaftoe 11y ago
I'm finding the article hilarious as a father. Let's see how long she maintains this production if she ever has kids. Have fun scrubbing cloth diapers out in a bucket.
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by shaftoe 11y ago
We've been using PXC, which is still Galera but a Percona variant of MySQL instead. No problems at all. I've been strongly considering MariaDB on Galera for encryption-at-rest. Is there something about MariaDB that was not worki
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by shaftoe 11y ago
That's abnormal for any place I'm aware of. There's something between "zero contact outside work hours" and a sweatshop. I don't work at Google, Amazon, or on the west coast.
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by shaftoe 11y ago
Yeah, I get a kick out of suggestions around getting more sleep. Between work and kids, the uninterrupted time required to get sufficient sleep is a luxury. It just doesn't happen regularly.
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by shaftoe 11y ago
And the fact that a M/F radio button is being called discrimination shows just how far we've come since the days of firehoses, police dogs, and internment camps.
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by shaftoe 11y ago
Sometimes, you just want to find out if someone is a girl or a guy. Not every question needs to become a forum for minorities to express themselves. Not every worksheet or webform should worry about "reinforcing the incorrect idea tha
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by shaftoe 11y ago
I have never felt so old as I did when I read this article.
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by shaftoe 11y ago
How well does Cache interoperate with other languages? Is it wrapped up in a library and consumed from another language that handles web requests/responses? Can you extend the Cache libraries by writing code in another language (even
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by shaftoe 11y ago
I use culture fit as a reverse filter. We show the candidate a pretty open view of what working for us is like and let them decide if they're excited or turned off.
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by shaftoe 11y ago
You could always check that box on your tax form that says you wish to make an additional contribution. That is, assuming taxes benefit the common good. I'm sure the money will be spent wisely.
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by shaftoe 11y ago
It says something that my comment is getting downvoted, though I'm not sure what. Is it sensitivity to saying scenarios that are statistical anomalies "edge-cases"?
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by shaftoe 11y ago
Summary: Facebook has an overly rigid process governing names and this guy has an edge-case problem. Is this not a solved issue? How do women who change their name upon marriage use Facebook? Does Facebook recognize legal name changes? Is
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by shaftoe 11y ago
I use hiking and reading. This is a lot easier to explain to a stranger who forming a judgement than "in the rare moments I'm not watching my kids, working, cleaning, or sleeping, I like to go shoot guns that I built."
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by shaftoe 11y ago
No issue is, ahem, just black and white. Actually living in the south, there is still a generational memory of being invaded and occupied. There are still cemeteries where the graves are unknown as the bodies and headstones were thrown asi
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by shaftoe 11y ago
Can one ever be cynical enough when politicians are involved?
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by shaftoe 11y ago
http://copy.sh/v86/ It's turtles all the way down.
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by shaftoe 11y ago
Perhaps it's worthwhile to have a mild counterbalance to the tendency to spend an ever increasing amount of other people's money. It's not like "better service" is a driving force behind any government, ever.
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by shaftoe 12y ago
Apparently they're basing this design on experimental feedback from programmers or something. I'm skeptical of this going anywhere, but it's an interesting academic exercise.
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by shaftoe 12y ago
I don't get it. I read his comment as self-deprecating humor. If he had used white, jew, or whatever else may apply, it would still be self-deprecating humor, which is generally non-offensive for the simple reason it applies to the se
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by shaftoe 12y ago
Ignoring the issue of slavery for a moment (which the North was not initially attempting to abolish), did they have any right to force the South to "be brought back into the union with fire and sword?" Can lawfully elected governm
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by shaftoe 12y ago
Two wolves and a sheep voting on dinner.
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by shaftoe 12y ago
HTTPS. They can't tell what URL a user is requesting.
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by shaftoe 12y ago
You think any country has the right to censor news from reaching the people who live in its borders? That that regime has rights that supercede the people? That free speech must succumb to the wishes of government censors? How totalitaria
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by shaftoe 12y ago
So we roll over to a bully?
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by shaftoe 12y ago
I don't understand how forcing people to do business, under penalty of law, is promoting "tolerance." I also don't understand creating these laws and then creating loopholes for pet causes. People are either free to ass

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