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by slantedview 12y ago
I'd argue that Congress has not done a good job of anything (at least not anything that the majority of Americans would care about) because our motivations are not aligned. That's the point of this campaign - to remove the motivat
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by slantedview 12y ago
For some more background on Lessig and his focus on campaign finance, check out his TED talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mw2z9lV3W1g
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by slantedview 12y ago
> This isn't even a hard problem. The solution isn't hard, but getting there is very hard indeed. The system is entrenched.
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by slantedview 12y ago
> I think people get who they vote for. I don't think it's even that simple. The policies that are pitched by politicians who are voted into office are often different than the policies they end up supporting after pressure fro
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by slantedview 12y ago
I don't know that the two situations make for a good comparison.
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by slantedview 12y ago
It's terrible that shame is used as a mechanism to prevent victims from bringing justice (in whatever form) to their victimizer. The power you have is in the truth, all of it - names included. I'm glad you spoke up.
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by slantedview 12y ago
Yes, Go is boring, but it's interesting that the people who hate on Go for being boring are not the same people who hate on Java for being boring (though Java 8 is much improved).
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by slantedview 12y ago
Yes - the fact that many/most promising OSS projects are built by professionals who would either need to leave their job or take time off from their job makes this a challenge.
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by slantedview 13y ago
I think you mean, strategically.
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by slantedview 13y ago
"The NSA's job is to spy on behalf of the country." Spying on the country and spying on behalf of the country are not really the same thing.
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by slantedview 13y ago
And yet it was worth 10k to google.
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by slantedview 13y ago
Understandable move, but in solving one problem they've simply created another.
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by slantedview 13y ago
Not everyone in the bay area makes a lot of money. There are a lot of blue collar/service workers who don't even know what hackernews is who would kill to make that 70k a year.
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by slantedview 13y ago
Worse than the anti-competitive angle of this story is the idea that Jobs prevented engineers, with families, from obtaining jobs. That's just inexcusable.
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by slantedview 13y ago
Using a Lisp does not necessarily preclude static anlysis.
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by slantedview 13y ago
This fits with my experience. It's not that Indian engineers are inherently bad, it's that they are often uninterested in what they do for a living. They're not passionate. They feel forced into engineering because of social
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by slantedview 14y ago
Wait, so, you wrote off the JVM because of XML and IDEs? Really?