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by spopejoy 3y ago
I wouldn't mind if they just fixed their global search, it's pretty terrible. I say this as a devoted longtime user who will never switch.
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FCP 7 was dominant but the disaster of early versions of FCP X forced a bunch of shops to switch to Premiere. There are still things that make Premiere better. Recently I couldn't get an mp4 from a Sony cam to play at the right speed i
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How Britain’s Unions Took the Fight to Amazon(jacobin.com)
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A startup ushered thousands of Indian women into gig work, for better and worse(restofworld.org)
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Twitter blocked 122 accounts in India at the government’s request(restofworld.org)
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> Actually a super-power of Haskell is how easy it is to refactor from "quick n dirty" to "reasonable quality" without introducing defects. I call haskell "the language of maintainable spaghetti" in this spi
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by spopejoy 3y ago
Do you see overloading as must-have?
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I'm actually speaking from experience. I'm certainly glad to hear there are capable lawyers for tenants, but when I needed one, nobody would take my case until I found my own "bottom feeder". Eventually I did retain a be
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by spopejoy 3y ago
> There is no lawyer who will defend tenants against landlords because there's no money in that. > nonsense ... Every major city has some form of a tenant legal aid society. As far as legal representation goes, it is dominated by
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by spopejoy 4y ago
One HN phenomenon that is genuinely puzzling is illustrated in this thread, where a view is expressed in a non-inflammatory way and is moderated into near-invisibility because of it's unpopularity. OK fine ... but then there's a n
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by spopejoy 4y ago
> 50 years ago? Surely that can’t be terribly dispositive of what the city is today It's relevant because at the time, like today, SF was seen as exhibit A of liberalism run amok, and yet couldn't unite against a homophobic ass
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by spopejoy 4y ago
> it seems that you can either have police brutality and criminalized homelessness or you can have non-enforcement NYC shows you can have broken policies AND do a better job on homelessness. NYPD brutality, stop-and-frisk, broken windows
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by spopejoy 4y ago
Because the current overinflated housing market is a direct consequence (in the US) of loosening credit requirements for mortgages, the product of a herculean lobbying effort by investment banks in the late 70s to get the government to allo
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by spopejoy 4y ago
As a former elisp package maintainer and emacs bigot ... ... I really just use it as an editor/IDE these days, and couldn't be happier. Emacs is how I learned LISP which forever transformed me as a programmer and I'm grateful
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by spopejoy 4y ago
This wasn't some accident of demographics though but a specific objective achieved by the banks in the late 70s and early 80s, as documented in Liar's Poker. They had to push congress hard to do something they knew was dodgy, that
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by spopejoy 4y ago
> The diploma -- especially from an elite school like Columbia -- [is] first and foremost is a signifier that you deserve entrance into an upper middle managerial class I think that while this take is largely accurate, it's incomple
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by spopejoy 4y ago
> And it is obvious that affirmative action can be at best too little, too late, compared to the things most urgently in need of fixing. This argument is at least 40 years old and twice as tired. Richard Rodriguez was plying this in the
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by spopejoy 4y ago
One big upside of having access to video in your music collection is all the independently-uploaded songs and song versions that have not officially found their way to streaming. If your tastes are more eclectic this can be a really big thi
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by spopejoy 4y ago
The OP's point is a subtler one, which seeks to explore _why_ journalists do what they do in the first place. Sure, it's charitable: they are undoubtedly some who seek to go "straight to the top" by aping whatever bias t
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by spopejoy 4y ago
I don't know what you're criticizing here. I was contrasting "mocks" and "fixtures" in the context of unit tests as ways to instrument services depended on by the code under test. A "mock" in this par
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> Well, I largely think that NIMBY is still at play Citation needed? The argument that "those gosh-darn environmentalists ruined nuclear" have been countered repeatedly by simply focusing on the huge economic headwinds facing a
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by spopejoy 4y ago
The unit test story is indeed bizarre. Done right unit tests should test the unit, and you'll never hit these problems. The villians here were monstrous test fixtures instead of mocks, "testing the fixture" instead of testing
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by spopejoy 4y ago
I guess the article title is a "bold statement" but maybe the biggest insight in there is that people don't think hard enough about throwing old data away, and it hurts them. This is a liferaft for drowning in data and is mor
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by spopejoy 4y ago
Chrome's support is way more invasive on google sites. Once you "go multi-profile" you are forced on every google site to do the same thing, because of the borderline-illegal tight integration of Chrome with google sites. For
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by spopejoy 4y ago
LOL look at where the "contrarian" views are here: voted to the bottom after 30 "I hate tipping too!" "It's irrational" "No really in MY ideal technocracy you just wouldn't need tipping!" Ev
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by spopejoy 4y ago
This is documented in Michael Pollan's story about how he raised and sold a cow in the modern US meat system https://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/31/magazine/power-steer.html
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by spopejoy 4y ago
Presumably you mean that as a criticism but "being supported by a multibillion company" is normally a fantastic sign of success, and "a single hardware configuration" is an indicator of seriousness about guaranteeing a g
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by spopejoy 4y ago
Not a plug, but roku's search makes finding a stream incredibly easy. More than once I've signed up for a sub on the spot because it had what I was looking for. Not a plug because there are many things to dislike about roku, above
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Guess you've never been simjacked
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> I still think it's less likely to get banned from gmail than my local hdds to fail Uhh the whole discussion is about exactly this problem which you've decided won't happen to you because ... ? Thunderbird rules and isn&#

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