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by skwirl 11y ago
You vote. If you don't like the way other people are voting, change their minds. If you can't change their minds then you lost fairly. Throwing people in jail over things that were repeatedly ruled legal and done in good faith i
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by skwirl 11y ago
The answer is "NO" because the Supreme Court has ruled that they are not. Unfortunately the Constitution grants judicial powers to the Supreme Court and not to David Cole, Law Professor.
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by skwirl 12y ago
Logic isn't applied, law is applied. The DMCA and associated copyright law distinguishes between these cases and puts these specific restrictions on one case and not the other. Just because something is analogous to another thing in
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by skwirl 12y ago
Do you realize that your argument also justifies wholesale data interception and collection by the NSA? Isn't that "forcing us to take security more seriously?"
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by skwirl 12y ago
In a sense, Wikileaks is worse than the NSA. At least when the NSA gets ahold of your private information, they don't publish it in an easily searchable database on the Internet. The cognitive dissonance in this thread is astounding.
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by skwirl 12y ago
Instead of having different methods like open/openAsync why not have enums?
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by skwirl 12y ago
If the ecosystem you are in provides good tools and you know how to use them, this is actually not really a problem. I work with C#/Visual Studio/Resharper/Moq. I generally don't have static mock object implementations
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by skwirl 12y ago
I wish we could replace the posted article with your comment. I'm all for articles that challenge the way things are done and that cause us to reflect on why we are doing the things we are doing to make sure we're not cargo-cult
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by skwirl 12y ago
>USB ethernet controllers use the CPU when plugged in- and I'm not a large fan of that honestly. I thought the issue was that these laptops are thinner than an Ethernet port.
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by skwirl 12y ago
Your reply has nothing to do with what I posted. Thanks for the downvote, though.
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by skwirl 12y ago
Noting that overly harsh and unjust punishments are a waste of taxpayer money is not the same thing at all as opposing punishments that are (believed to be) just but that are expensive. By your reasoning, since sending someone to jail cost
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by skwirl 12y ago
I'm completely with you. I bought a Das Keyboard a couple of years ago that I ended up sending back after a week. It did absolutely nothing for me and had some quality issues anyway. I bought a Natural 4000 keyboard a couple of months
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by skwirl 12y ago
In normal circumstances, it makes sense that grand juries would always indict - because prosecutors would not bother to bring a case before a grand jury if they didn't think they would get an indictment. All you need to bring up charg
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by skwirl 12y ago
Based on the DOJ report, it seems that the case never should have even been brought before a grand jury. The prosecutor faced intense political pressure to bring this up before a grand jury - he shouldn't have done so, but he would ha
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by skwirl 12y ago
"Here are the exact specifications of the format of input and output into a console application, and the exact specifications of how the output must relate to the input. You have one hour to do this and your program must finish runnin
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by skwirl 12y ago
I'm sure they'll tell you that you can do this using Xamarin.Forms but we quickly realized that it is only useful for very basic UI. Anything of more than trivial complexity is going to require that you learn the platform specifi
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by skwirl 12y ago
I have been starting to learn how to write mobile applications with Xamarin to contribute to a friend's project and had not heard of Xamarin University until I saw this comment. Now that I have looked at it, I'm a little confuse
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by skwirl 12y ago
Since you're using yourself as a data point, I paged through your comment history looking for your grayed out comments. I have to say that your grayed out comments were all well deserved. They are a very small minority of your commen
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by skwirl 12y ago
>I found this annoying at first along with not being able to save files to the server. However, Heroku is forcing you to automate server setup so servers can be restarted, destroyed and created without losing data or functionality. If yo
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by skwirl 12y ago
My experience has been that my comments that are posted to disagree with highly upvoted (often top) comments have been my most upvoted comments. I feel like most people on HN disagree with a comment by upvoting a counterargument, which c
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by skwirl 12y ago
I remember back when I was a teenager looking at colleges seeing a private tech college with a high acceptance rate and a public state college with a low acceptance rate. The Princeton Review had rated the private tech college as much more
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by skwirl 12y ago
Sorry for not phrasing that better, I definitely would portray the scenario in the same way that you do, but I didn't want to distract from the main point. I probably should have phrased it "not globally attractive" instead
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by skwirl 12y ago
Steve works for a relatively unknown company making products for businesses, mostly using Java/C#, whose technical staff seems to be based in Atlanta, which is not a super attractive city for tech workers. Your experience comes from ma
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by skwirl 12y ago
You have gone past the point of healthy skepticism to unquestioning cynicism. The status quo can't be changed? Are you kidding? Is that why we still have slavery in the U.S., women can't vote, homosexuals can't marry, etc?
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by skwirl 12y ago
Are you parodying HN? If so, well done.
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by skwirl 12y ago
>you're also paying Amazon's profits. Are you? Amazon is not known for posting profits, and is quite possibly operating AWS at a loss. They have promised to show financial results for AWS itself with the quarterly report being
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by skwirl 12y ago
I was actually referring to our culture (see the previous paragraph for context), which leads to both the increased firings and increased business success. Can you have less firings with the same success? It may be possible, but right now
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by skwirl 12y ago
You're right, it is a very American way of doing business. But you haven't put forward any argument against it, other than basically saying that it makes you feel icky. We have a very individualistic culture in America. It has
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by skwirl 12y ago
You just completely missed the entire thrust of my argument, which is not whether something meets patio11's criteria of discrimination, but the very question of what constitutes discrimination, and how your point of view and cognitive
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by skwirl 12y ago
"Orwellian" has become one of HN's least useful snarl words that now communicates nothing aside from "I disagree with this point of view and consequently the way it is framed." If you were black, you might see it as

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