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by stray 13y ago
The same justification I use for buying books on programming: I am trying to make myself a better programmer and I'm willing to take a gamble on myself. But book stores, unlike the company that produces mocl, won't give my money
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by stray 13y ago
It's funny to me that people will happily spend $40 for a t-shirt, $100+ for a pair of shoes, $300 for an ounce of weed -- but ask them for $200 for a professional development tool and they won't budge. I for one, think the price
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by stray 13y ago
Perhaps after the Ministry of Privacy has finished with it.
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by stray 13y ago
That's not a woman. It's a kid with huge ear gauges.
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by stray 13y ago
Put it on your own server.
396.
by stray 13y ago
But a woman can choose to not have the child. It is only fair to give the man the same right.
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by stray 13y ago
The terrorists had won the moment the "PATRIOT" act came onto being.
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by stray 13y ago
Nice try, Verizon.
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by stray 13y ago
It is pretty slow.
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by stray 13y ago
And Keychain stored in iCloud, yeah, nice try there NSA. FTFY
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by stray 13y ago
Great balls of fire!
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by stray 13y ago
It's not meant to be accurate. It's meant to calm the masses.
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by stray 13y ago
The gulag.
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by stray 13y ago
You cannot trust any electronic system.
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by stray 13y ago
Of course not.
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by stray 13y ago
Dissidents.
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by stray 13y ago
Feed 'em fish heads.
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by stray 13y ago
That is surprising and somewhat troubling.
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by stray 13y ago
I'm not saying it as a statement of fact. But rather as a plausible explanation for what OP experienced. But if I were google I would definitely give people free tools with which they could perform, with actual human intelligence, tasks
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by stray 13y ago
Did you access that URL with Google Chrome mere seconds before googlebot miraculously found it?
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by stray 13y ago
The first two weeks' lectures are already up.
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by stray 13y ago
Can't speak for OP but Steve Jobs ruined my day by dying of cancer.
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by stray 13y ago
I think you're looking for a different kind of "Hacker News". The word "hacker", as used around here, has more to do with the creative process. Often one of us might say we're hacking rackspace or we're hacking rails -- but that doesn't mea
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by stray 13y ago
You misspelled "emacs".
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by stray 13y ago
I like comparing it to clothing. There's a huge cost difference between grabbing a pair of pants at Walmart and having a good tailor craft a pair of nice slacks. And the difference between the two is glaringly obvious.
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by stray 13y ago
> But even if we did choose to rewrite at some point, how do you choose? I'd pack my bags tomorrow for a Lisp job.
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by stray 13y ago
Well there's the problem. It isn't that php isn't the newest technology -- but rather, that php is a horror to work with. I'd jump at the chance to work with Lisp (which is far older than php) because it's a joy to work with. I'd dearly lo
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by stray 13y ago
What is it? What is it built with? Do you offer part time? Telecommute?
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by stray 13y ago
When you begin to wonder whether it's tiredness or burnout, it's burnout. And it's already too late.
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by stray 13y ago
"But when our hypothetical Blub programmer looks in the other direction, up the power continuum, he doesn't realize he's looking up. What he sees are merely weird languages. He probably considers them about equivalent in power to Blub, but

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