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by skwirl 10y ago
The NY Times article says up front that tech companies donations in the Presidential race went overwhelmingly to Clinton. It's the House and Senate races where the rightward shift has occurred.
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by skwirl 10y ago
>for how long ? I dont blame him for reading about C++ in 1989 and saying "hrmmmf! hogwash!". But in 1995 ? in 2000 ? It sounds like he got set in his ways, and how is that NOT an "age problem" ? I'm also 32, and
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by skwirl 10y ago
I had a six month co-op in college where I worked for a major defense contractor working on software for an embedded system. I really enjoyed the work and had a few offers from defense contractors doing embedded development when I graduate
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by skwirl 10y ago
>I look at the skillset between when I was 25 and now (30) and it's astounding. I can't imagine what the difference between 50 and 25 will be. I completely agree (I'm 32), but what is worrying is the possibility of a funda
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by skwirl 10y ago
Do these plugins care if content (images, in particular) loaded by the scripts is hosted on the same TLD? What do they do about sites that use Google's CDN hosted libraries for things like JQuery? Do they have a whitelist?
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by skwirl 10y ago
I personally think that it's unreasonable to expect websites to work without JavaScript at this point. The "JavaScript disabled" edge case is something I've honestly never even thought about.
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by skwirl 10y ago
>Now your $1K DDOS bill is a $1K AWS credit. Nice! >Hardly any better. ...what?
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by skwirl 10y ago
8% in a year is plunging. Factor in inflation, and 5 years at that rate and real rents drop 41%. That would be a massive decrease in a short period of time and it's hard to imagine it happening - which just supports the notion that 8
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by skwirl 10y ago
I would recommend responding to Apple when they attempt to contact you. It appears that this developer did not do that.
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by skwirl 10y ago
I see it mentioned quite often that the people who tended to vote leave were older and wouldn't have to "live with the consequences for very long" but it's never mentioned that they were the ones who voted to join the EU
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by skwirl 10y ago
"Actually" this theory doesn't make any sense once you consider the fact that the racist statements that ended his career were on this tape. He went through his long public career without making racist statements despite har
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by skwirl 10y ago
I'm not sure what you are trying to correct or clarify in the comment you are replying to. Did you mean to reply elsewhere?
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by skwirl 10y ago
The big difference is the method. The people you cite made arguments based on premises and those arguments taken together (to their belief) were consistent. When people attacked the arguments and premises, they defended them. When the ar
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by skwirl 11y ago
At the risk of coming across like a shill, I loved his "Hack Yourself First" course on Pluralsight. He does a great job of covering the basics of web security that every web developer should know and he makes it interesting by co
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by skwirl 11y ago
I think you have it right. They are looking for a way to try PINs until they are in without the feature being invoked that wipes the phone after X incorrect PIN entries. I can't think of a technical reason why this shouldn't be p
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by skwirl 11y ago
Things are looking really bad for Linode: http://wptavern.com/linode-confirms-data-security-breach-tha...
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by skwirl 11y ago
Perhaps that points to a problem with Germany's climate for entrepreneurship. http://www.economist.com/news/business/21587209-vigorous-sta...
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by skwirl 11y ago
This definitely reads like an ad for Linode to me and it really is turning me off from your company. Does the company know you are posting these comments on HN?
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by skwirl 11y ago
>I think that Hilary may be known in the future as the one that lost presidency twice. What about Romney and McCain?
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by skwirl 11y ago
A much different take from another person with extensive experience with the system in question: http://iowastartingline.com/2015/12/19/sanders-campaigns-rec... The person who wrote the submitted article is a
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by skwirl 11y ago
My point was more on the quality of the article. The article's point is a valid one, if you can find it. To constructively disagree, though: I keep backups. I have a Synology NAS device that I really like. But for your average perso
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by skwirl 11y ago
This article doesn't really stand on its own; it comes across as a rambling diatribe by someone who is out of touch. If you have to know who the author of an article is to be persuaded by the argument given then it isn't very goo
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by skwirl 11y ago
Are there any studies that reach "negative" conclusions on the impact of welfare systems? I thought surely there must be given how messy real world data is and how widely varied opinion is on the topic. A quick search only revea
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by skwirl 11y ago
I was really surprised at how positive the chat was. I also expected it to be toxic, but instead it was good-natured and often funny. I didn't participate, but I glanced at it whenever something significant happened in the stream.
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by skwirl 11y ago
I don't fully understand this line of thinking. To me, it's like saying "The belief that seat belts save lives might come as a surprise to these people who died in automobile accidents while wearing seat belts." It may
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by skwirl 11y ago
Like in their search engine indexes? The EU has been attacking that for a couple of years now.
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by skwirl 11y ago
My life experience has been that Christian vs. non-Christian is not a valuable lens through which to view the world and will lead you to some pretty crazy places, and it looks like you have landed in one of those crazy places.
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by skwirl 11y ago
What I've been gathering is that there is no way the text of the TPP could have been interpreted favorably because people had already made up their minds before seeing a word of it. Every single thing in it is getting the most negativ
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by skwirl 11y ago
A society that treats suicide as a rational way to treat mental illness is not a society I want to have anything to do with.
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by skwirl 11y ago
I didn't get the impression that mbrutsch was referring to assisted suicide. Check out the quoted line. He/she was referring to suicide as the rational option for "an increase in general despair and decline in quality of li

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