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by shrugger 10y ago
I feel like an actual solution for this is more literal. I mean, if a box-carrying robot actually hurts someone, then the proper course of action is to detonate something inside it, and completely immobilize it, cut it off from whatever it&
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by shrugger 10y ago
If you want to hand over all of your financial dealings to any government that wants to look at them, go right ahead. If GNU projects are so wonderful, then I should applaud those who stand by them.
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by shrugger 10y ago
GNU projects are really awesome until people start implementing them.
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by shrugger 10y ago
Whoa, who would've thought that a multi-billion dollar company would ever make a decision in order to promote newer versions of their own software?!?! /s The whole point of Messenger is to consolidate messaging infrastructure. Bei
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by shrugger 10y ago
Coercion is criminal. Should I stoop to the level of a common racist by FORCING him/her to speak a certain way? I've no right to tell people what they can and can not say, nor will I hold myself responsible for their thoughts and
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by shrugger 10y ago
Moderation of discussion is unethical, imo.
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by shrugger 10y ago
Yeah, because Reddit has turned out great, hasn't it? /s
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by shrugger 10y ago
HN censoring is terrifyingly rampant, dang is an extremely egotistic, and objectively biased moderator. I don't disagree that HN is capable of producing interesting conversations, but it's a very limited window imo. HN suffers gre
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by shrugger 10y ago
I've never been hindered by Reddit's speed myself. Is this a real issue in other places?
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by shrugger 10y ago
I know it's one of those 'tabs or spaces' questions, but are there any decent alternatives to Reddit? I've tried Voat, but it's literally just Reddit. The world needs a p2p, anonymity-first, censorship resistant lin
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by shrugger 10y ago
I really enjoy Julia, and I see such amazing potential from it but I talk to so many people who hate it, or complain about it. I know most people haven't had the pleasure (/s) of programming in MATLAB and so some of decisions migh
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by shrugger 10y ago
Those sorts of games are heavily vetted. Eve alone hires several economists in addition to extremely rigorous software testing to ensure that the economy isn't subject to any abject arbitrage from players. It does happen, and I would
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by shrugger 10y ago
Amateur hour. If you want to rob a bunch of ATMs and get away with it, try keeping your vulnerable window longer than 2 hours... I mean, it's going to be pretty straightforward to gather a bunch of footage and see what happened those 2
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by shrugger 10y ago
Which is not at all what I said. I didn't even mention coding abilities. A developer does a lot more than just write code, but let me clarify: Anybody that's smart enough to hold a job should know when they are being asked to work
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by shrugger 10y ago
Don't they have the right? I mean, a developer that's talented enough to attract attention from Google then surely they'd be smart enough to know what constitutes working 'too much.' I don't think Google exploi
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by shrugger 10y ago
I understand the distinction, and you've articulated what I was trying to say. Where I think we differ is that I would argue the shirt is implying a positive, upbeat attitude. To me, that shirt says "Yeah, you rock, keep going&quo
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by shrugger 10y ago
Yeah, fuck enthusiasm! /s I can understand that we might want to avoid the obsessive behaviors of some developers that could be considered unhealthy, but blaming a simple catch-phrase isn't going to get us anywhere. What if the sh
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by shrugger 10y ago
Uploaded this page as an image to imgur with no ads: http://imgur.com/DVwIQj0 Shameful that developers resort to blocking ad-blockers, especially with malicious adjacking becoming more and more prevalent.
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by shrugger 10y ago
I've had similar ideas, and I've tossed a couple back and forth to my Dad but the problem that I've always run into is that it is REALLY hard to sell those sort of solutions to companies already locked-in to COBOL and Rexx an
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by shrugger 10y ago
Whoa, that is super cool about how they trained you and everything. I have actually heard bits and pieces of sort of like folklore from my dad about CICS and other mainframe pop culture, it's always fascinated me in a certain sense. Th
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by shrugger 10y ago
Out of curiosity, is it a very lucrative trade anymore? My dad has always wanted me to learn the trade, I've always assumed it's that paternal 'pass the baton to the seed' instinct, and I've never bothered because I
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by shrugger 10y ago
Just the Javascript module the world was waiting on! I'm sure this will have a meaningful impact! /s In seriousness: My dad was a COBOL programmer for about 30 years. It would frustrate him to no end to look upon Javascript progra
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by shrugger 10y ago
I swear this is just for headline generation. I mean, a billion IS a lot of money, but it's a very small risk on BH's part, and an even smaller part on Apple's. That amount of money is a lot of money relative to other money,
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by shrugger 10y ago
Patents have a shorter shelf-life than Google. I think eventually we'll come to the conclusion that software and hardware patents are counter-productive and abolish them.
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by shrugger 10y ago
All the sweeter it'll be for someone to come along and stomp them. Considering how high the bar is, there's all the incentive in the world to try and be Google better than Google, at least the way I look at things. I mean, the com
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by shrugger 10y ago
I think this is a GREAT thing for other implementations like JRuby. Rusty Ruby would be able to learn from some of the implementation tricks that impls like Jruby and rbx have learned along the way, and maybe those guys will learn something
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by shrugger 10y ago
I'm not really prepared to explain why being ignorant about your tools is toxic to good work, but I'll offer this: If everyone knew C, would they keep writing the same code over and over? Obviously not. They'd find new ways t
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by shrugger 10y ago
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by shrugger 10y ago
It's even a meta-issue! So, how do we find out which people are whining and which aren't? How do we encourage people to just learn and self-improve rather than sink to escapism?
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by shrugger 10y ago
I don't agree with this. Developers should try to always understand the code they are working on. Keep your stack small, understand it as best you can, and use that knowledge to solve problems. That's what programming is . Smushi

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