swasheck

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   by swasheck 11y ago

   I can't tell if that's a joke or a legitimately held belief. Reading the rest of the charter (and vaguely from memory), it seems like the developer believed God literally told him about this OS. Also, the KJV-only perspective is m
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   by swasheck 11y ago

   Thanks so much for this summary. I've always wondered why USSR used a similar design. Based on this, and other comments, it sounds like this was a good design for the mission at hand and that it's debatable that the mission at han
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   by swasheck 11y ago

   you get a space program. YOU get a space program. EVERYONE GETS A SPACE PROGRAM!
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   by swasheck 11y ago

   you're conflating "Christianity" with "religion" though. it was addressed above but it bears repeating, social and religious constructs were inextricable in antiquity. the concept of separating them is fairly modern
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   by swasheck 11y ago

   this is the crux of the issue in that government policy is, in large part, based upon a private contract. neither government nor judeo-christian sects (which, if we're honest, is whom we have in view when we speak of "religion&quo
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   by swasheck 11y ago

   I so desperately want to like Atom (and Code), but I have a window refresh issue with it ( https://discuss.atom.io/t/display-does-not-refresh-when-focu... ). This issue is still present in the current release. It seems l
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   by swasheck 11y ago

   BAH! you're right. i'm more ashamed that i misattributed it than the fact that i went boilerplate on HN.
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   by swasheck 11y ago

   if only i cared what about my +/- is in a popularity contest. thanks for asking about it, though. :)
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   by swasheck 11y ago

   hm. seems like we're not fans of 2001 here.
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    by swasheck 11y ago

    who said anything about a "default mode of social interaction" anywhere in this thread? additionally, i think you'd do well to cite your sources for the assertion in the last sentence because right now it sounds like you&#x27
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    by swasheck 11y ago

    i still can't agree with you. are you implying that playful office banter with my coworkers is childish and should not exist? are you stating that joking with friends is childish and should have been discarded in primary school? what i
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    by swasheck 11y ago

    probably the same kind that our schools are using to evaluate educational success. one that fits a narrow perspective of success.
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    by swasheck 11y ago

    i agree with jeremya. i have both a son (older) and daughter. my daughter is the one with whom we must be more stern because she is a free-spirited boundary-pusher. our parenting emotions swing the greatest with her as well. however, we als
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    by swasheck 11y ago

    not necessarily. did you read the article?
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    by swasheck 11y ago

    that's a potentially interesting link. i hadn't thought of that.
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    by swasheck 11y ago

    agreed. i'm not sure why one would choose to implement an inadequate function here over against something like nltk ( http://www.nltk.org/book/ ), which is excellent.
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    by swasheck 11y ago

    the great python migration of 2010 broke a few things for folks who didnt read the announcements that `python` was going to point to python3.
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    by swasheck 12y ago

    why would you submit and terminate a batch halfway through a transaction? that doesnt really make a whole lot of sense so i cant really take this criticism seriously.
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    by swasheck 12y ago

    the irony of this is that if ms were to leave powershell open to run any scripts from anywhere at any time, they'd be ridiculed for lax security policies.
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    by swasheck 12y ago

    was expecting a nick cage movie sequel ... all i got was this retirement patent.
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    by swasheck 12y ago

    > anything else i know i'm late to the party, but it just seems like place like HN, with a group of people who so vociferously speak in favor of online privacy and person data ownership, would have no methods of completely removing
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    by swasheck 12y ago

    I agree that there's no link between CC and standardized testing, I was just attempting to note that all of these things when taken together with how they're being implemented are a collective disaster.
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    by swasheck 12y ago

    PARCC, Common Core, and the heightened focus on (even more) standardized tests is an unmitigated educational disaster. My children have been wasting their time taking practice tests instead of actually learning. The school has to jump throu
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    by swasheck 12y ago

    saying that it's the database is also a blanket statement and assumption. why was the majority of the time spent in the database? was it because of suboptimal code? was it because a subsystem has not been implemented properly? pointi
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    by swasheck 12y ago

    i'm curious about which banks in the real world use an eventually consistent transaction management approach and if you'd be willing to cite your sources.
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    by swasheck 12y ago

    While I completely agree with your statement --- the Internet filters at my place of employment block access to many of the keywords associated with finding these numbers.
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    by swasheck 12y ago

    Thanks for the downvote. I can see I've hurt the hive-mind's feelings.
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    by swasheck 12y ago

    How does this combat my point? Are you referencing the line "correlation does not imply causation"? If so, never once did I imply that the sole cause of human trafficking is pornography.
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    by swasheck 12y ago

    So your perspective is, "meh. We can't do anything about injustices to humanity so we'll just roll with it?" I find your analogy flawed by comparing viewing pornography with water. I don't see how they compare.
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    by swasheck 12y ago

    In theory the community moderation element forces a user to cite their sources or face the backlash of deletion/downvoting, etc.