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by stephen 13y ago
If it is, it's incredibly well played by Greg Stein. He's riffing off the oft-lambasted git/svn politics, private lists, etc. bureaucracy of Apache, which, to me, made the ticket seem really believable. ...will have to wait u
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by stephen 13y ago
Well, despite the initial "haha" reaction, I feel bad for the Subversion project team for all of the attention/politics they're going to get from this. As you can see on the ticket, they'll already getting the usual
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by stephen 13y ago
Agreed about raganwald's bias; surprised to see such a naive (IMO) "don't use class hierarchies" post from him. Your point about "don't access superclass variables" is also spot-on--I don't see how he
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by stephen 13y ago
The papers asserts they controlled for that (in the Conclusion): Nor does it appear to be proxying the effects of other biomarkers, nor parental background. Also, since it wasn't due to education: The effect of creatine
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by stephen 13y ago
> So yes, I enjoyed programming in Java, and being relieved of the responsibility for producing a quality product. Wow. What a pompous thing to say. How does this have 91 points and is on the front page of HN? Per the "most horrible
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by stephen 13y ago
I wonder what/if his drug regimen is (testosterone replacement therapy, steroids, etc.). Not being judgmental, as most Americans who are 70+ are on a litany of drugs for various chronic conditions anyway. I recall reading that most&#x2
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by stephen 13y ago
Ouch.
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by stephen 13y ago
> The team gets a nice payday Part of my naive negative reaction to acqui-hires is that the investors/founders get more of a payday (not VC-dream 100x but I assume more than 1x) than the team really does (maybe some retention bonuse
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by stephen 13y ago
True. SaaS FTW. Git wasn't really their codebase though, although, true, they do employ core people now (IIRC/AFAIK). Pessimistically, given that Atom is not initially/wonderfully open source, if Git had been Github's
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by stephen 13y ago
There is a legitimate problem in the software/developer tools ecosystem that everyone wants everything to be free, which means no one can make money building it. I'm actually looking forward to Github's solution to this, give
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by stephen 13y ago
Interesting that Misko himself implemented this in AngularDart first , and then is going to backport to JavaScript.
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RemoteDebug: Initiative to unify remote debugging across browsers(remotedebug.org)
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by stephen 13y ago
Both Go and Rust are evolving fast, but they have teams of full-time/paid programmers behind them. Dynamic languages rarely even have their creator paid full time to work on them, let alone teams. IIRC? So, true, perhaps instead of &qu
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by stephen 13y ago
My assertion is that dynamic languages evolve faster because they are much easier to build--many of them start out as hobbyist languages (Ruby, Perl, etc.). Just grab the dragon book and you're off to the races. In contrast, how often
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by stephen 13y ago
It was admittedly a good hack for getting into the otherwise non-customizable iPhone mail client. I feel like if a scrappy startup had done it, it'd be innovative, but with LI, well, the reaction was not that great.
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by stephen 13y ago
True. But usually when you judge others, the assumption is that you personally would pass the same judgement. E.g. the speck in your brother's eye vs. the plank in your own. I was admittedly assuming you work in the tech industry, just
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by stephen 13y ago
> should we think people who make pop music are doing a good thing? ...and the tech industry is any better? We're mostly driven by advertising and consumer software/electronics. (Yes, exceptions exist, but they aren't the
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by stephen 13y ago
> Psychiatric services are just one more Health benefit. Right. AFAIK Yale has those, and is where the gal went. And they made the decision "this is too serious for us" and sent her to Yale-New Haven, which has a real psych war
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by stephen 13y ago
> what's the deal with schools doing this stuff The school didn't. They sent her to Yale-New Haven, which is a real hospital, with a real psych ward. That's where she went through the standard "dangerous person"
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by stephen 13y ago
> the message [...] you won't be wanted here You're taking a very specific, dangerous situation (an active psychiatric illness) and making a large extrapolation to "any deviation from the norm". People will active psy
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by stephen 13y ago
The "reasonable accommodation" for someone with suicidal/self-harmful thoughts and actions (active cutting) is sending them to a psych ward for treatment . Which they did. If a person in a wheel chair had their legs bleeding
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by stephen 13y ago
> What can we do to not get sued? I don't understand why this is a bad thing. Lawsuits are society's way of telling organizations, "don't let this happen again". So, let's assume, yes, this college is worrie
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by stephen 13y ago
> How is cutting off a depressed person from the positive factors in their life (future, friends, studies, activities) considered taking care of the patient? This "positive" environment was an environment where she was suicidal
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by stephen 13y ago
> You're paying for the "community" and the experience and the brand. Totally agreed. But my point still stands; slightly refined: providing a snobbish "education" != providing a safe place for people with psychi
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by stephen 13y ago
> Having Rails/Django/(Framework of your choice) automatically notice the need for a column to exist and make appropriate modifications you could work with it the same way you would managing a document relation in your code. Hi
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by stephen 13y ago
Yes, well, unfortunately but realistically, this is just standard admittance practice for psych wards (per the article this all happened at Yale-New Haven, not Yale itself). I'm sure it's horrible and humiliating, but a) it's
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by stephen 13y ago
I really don't understand the comments here. "Lie better"? Wtf? The gal has obviously sick. Yes, Yale sent her away, but is there any actual psychiatrist here who would recommend keeping a suicidal/self-harming patient i
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by stephen 13y ago
The $60k is for rendering an education, not providing psychiatric counseling and a safe environment for recovery. You probably charge your employer $60k (+/- whatever) for rendering services; are you now obligated to help your boss (or
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by stephen 13y ago
What would I say? Just what I'd said; that searching for a "solution" that allows working 80 hour weeks + having a healthy family life is futile because, IMO, it doesn't exist. At least when you have kids. I could see a
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by stephen 13y ago
> The solution, at least for me, is as elusive as ever. If you define "the problem" as "I want to work 80 hours/week + have a healthy family life", well, yes, that's always going to be elusive. I.e. impossib

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