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by slimed 7y ago
So you believe that the label "Communist" is a deception? Akin to their inflation of economic indicators?
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by slimed 7y ago
What exactly is it then? Why should we not take the CCP's description of their own system of government at face value?
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by slimed 7y ago
Someone may be speaking honestly but still be incorrect. When I believe someone I am making a judgement that they are not deceiving me, not that they are infallible.
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by slimed 7y ago
Have you considered that it is not your job to make a determination? If someone shares a story like this you politely believe them and move on, comfortable in the knowledge that it may or may not be true. "Your understanding" is p
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by slimed 7y ago
This is exactly the problem. You want to determine guilt based on what you believe is generally true about the world. Not about the facts of the case at hand. The negative ramifications of this mindset for the accused are hard to overstate.
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by slimed 7y ago
The woman admitted she lied, in private, to friends. Where is the coercion? Are you saying we should only believe women when they are accusing men of rape? And disbelieve them later?
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by slimed 7y ago
Do you not realize that you sound absolutely unhinged? Or is that your schtick?
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by slimed 7y ago
Are you of the opinion that opioids have no legitimate medical use? How else could suing generic manufacturers be justified? The issue with Purdue is that they lied about the risks of the drug. Presumably, they lied to the generic manufactu
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by slimed 7y ago
Nicotine does not cause cancer.
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by slimed 8y ago
Not without tech companies paying them to live there, no. As romantic as living in NYC is, tech workers wouldn't live there without tech jobs.
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by slimed 8y ago
Why would their tech sector employer not rehire for their position?
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by slimed 8y ago
The weather is the least of your worries in a place like Manhattan.
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by slimed 8y ago
Sri Lanka is off the coast of India. Your lack of attention to detail does not give one confidence in your argument.
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by slimed 9y ago
They would get much more value out of their team if they took the time to help them to be proper software developers. Companies these days do not focus nearly enough on mentorship and continuing education. Instead they hire a team, treat th
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by slimed 9y ago
I ran into such serious issues with Django and Django-CMS that we were unable to upgrade a Django 1.7 app to 1.8 without a ton of work and the possibility of data corruption. "Kitchen sink" frameworks like the ones mentioned above
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by slimed 9y ago
Put another way: If you're always outsourcing work like upgrading Rails versions so that your devs can focus on "features" they will never learn which design decisions they are making are extremely costly in the long run. Lik
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by slimed 9y ago
I've spent many months upgrading legacy Rails services. One particular project was upgrading several microservices from Rails 3.1 to Rails 4. The projects made use of Rspec, Test::Unit, and Capybara. There were unit tests, integration
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by slimed 9y ago
Nice for you. Not so nice for the companies wasting their money on paying you. Yeah, managing software teams is hard. But paying contractors every year to upgrade Rails is malpractice. Can you honestly say that you are capable of going into
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by slimed 9y ago
Being "too busy with feature work" is exactly the mindset that forces us to spend months and months of developer time every couple of years to upgrade Rails and an ever growing list of other gem dependencies.
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by slimed 9y ago
I too have spent a ton of time doing this. It's a product of Rails architecture and the prevailing design philosophies in the Rails community.