ta_donk_gt

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by ta_donk_gt 10y ago
I think alienating two-thirds of the population and focusing on only a subset of the problem is generally counterproductive. I can support the gp with another anecdote of growing up in an overwhelmingly white small town watching cops haras
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by ta_donk_gt 10y ago
> Why is that? Why is what? Why did I interpret this as what the author was saying? Why is censorship generally implemented in a biased way? If the former, based on the way the article was written, I interpreted that phrase as saying t
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by ta_donk_gt 10y ago
> Nazis killed approx 40M people. Communists add another 100-200M to that total. Without wanting to start a political battle here, this is not behavior that is limited to political systems. Western democracies have inflicted their fair
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by ta_donk_gt 10y ago
I took it to mean that censorship is generally one-sided and logically inconsistent...I guess we see what we want to see.
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by ta_donk_gt 10y ago
> Attacks against the power grid are weak because, in almost every scenario you can conjure, the remediation is just disconnecting the network and flipping the on switch. In two of the last four winters, I've lost power for extended
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by ta_donk_gt 10y ago
What this is actually saying, and I see this sentiment regularly, is that you want the best of the best, but you don't want to pay for it. I'm sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but you are not going to get the best of the best f
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by ta_donk_gt 10y ago
It implies that it's too easy to get another job, and that we should do something to make it more difficult to leave a job, so that companies can focus on output rather than hiring.
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by ta_donk_gt 10y ago
As an opposing anecdote, I've spent a significant percentage of my software development years in the medical arena. The overwhelming majority of doctors that I have worked with do not work as hard, anywhere near as many hours, or unde
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by ta_donk_gt 10y ago
I had a similar bad run with Seagate 3TB drives..3 out of 4 in 2 years. I was really thinking it was the NAS, but switched to WD Reds and have had no issues in 18 months.
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by ta_donk_gt 10y ago
Seems like you just want to argue, so I'm not sure anything I say matters. You continue to harp on one or two words while ignoring the main points I am making (even though I point out explicitly "these are the main points I am mak
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by ta_donk_gt 10y ago
As I stated, "usage I have seen", or how I generally see it used as opposed to the dictionary definition. Either way, the point is it is not a term invented to insult immigrants into the U.S. and deify U.S. citizens living abroad
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by ta_donk_gt 10y ago
Most of the usage of "expat" that I have seen has been as a way to differentiate between living in another country while remaining primarily a U.S. citizen (and still paying U.S. taxes, etc.) vs. renouncing your U.S. citizenship a
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by ta_donk_gt 10y ago
> What's more, the telemetry collected is of the most benign type that Apple, Google, Microsoft, and nearly all 3rd party apps have actually been collecting Do you have any links on what telemetry data is actually collected and sent
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by ta_donk_gt 10y ago
> "Tylenol" doesn't charge "$60", the hospital does That is what I stated. And band-aids are roughly the same price per instance. And there are also staff-related line items. And there is a completely separate
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by ta_donk_gt 10y ago
It's possible, but either way the same abuse would be occurring. It happens for the same reason Tylenol is charged at like $60/pill during a hospital stay, and while we're at it the same reason the criminal justice system is
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by ta_donk_gt 10y ago
Using TypeScript in Angular 2 is completely seamless, and I think most consider it the default, so 'b)' is likely close to what you describe. I don't think you could come close to approximating Angular 2's level of Type
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by ta_donk_gt 10y ago
I agree with this overall. It is a long road to significant improvement, with the occasional setback (sometimes way back), but taking charge of this yourself is the only viable path for the long term. One disagreement, though...I probably
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by ta_donk_gt 10y ago
> many startups cannot afford to pay 400K to developers. Then hire remote devs. Or move your startup to a more affordable location. If you need to have developers work onsite, and you need to be in the Bay Area, then you need to pay acc
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by ta_donk_gt 10y ago
> Math is an invention of man it doesn't exist in the real world I see this from time to time, and certainly opinions can differ, but I tend to cringe when I see this idea pushed. From my perspective, math is not an invention of man
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by ta_donk_gt 10y ago
Definitely agree about the deep TypeScript integration with Angular 2 due to it being written in TypeScript. That is the core reason I prefer it, it is absolutely awesome in that regard. (And the same is true with RxJS).
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by ta_donk_gt 10y ago
> does typescript support some kind of template-string validation for angular2 No, and that's the reason I mention jsx as a missing feature from Angular 2. There is no compile time or refactoring support for templates, whereas with
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by ta_donk_gt 10y ago
Essentially it boils down to whether you prefer a cohesive all-in-one framework/platform (angular2) or a collection of semi- and fully-independent libraries (react). Pretending that one of those options is the right fit for everyone i
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by ta_donk_gt 10y ago
> basically left me thinking Dapper is all you'll ever want Same here. And I don't know anybody who has worked on large enterprise EF systems that hasn't come to roughly the same conclusion. The type safety EF offers is
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by ta_donk_gt 10y ago
I don't think the autonomous car analogy is really apt here. For a democracy to be a real thing, the voting process needs to be open, auditable, verifiable. The current trend with any software I've seen around voting has been pr
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by ta_donk_gt 10y ago
Yeah, 9->10 seemed natural, and I remember articles when it was first released along the lines of "OS X (pronounced O-S-Ten)". I used to cringe when I heard "ecks", but it's become so common it doesn't have
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by ta_donk_gt 10y ago
Just curious what age range you are in. From what I've personally noticed, younger folks tend to almost all pronounce it "O-S-ecks" and most in my generation (~40) tend to pronounce it "O-S-ten".
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by ta_donk_gt 10y ago
Actually, a number of hardware announcements and unveilings have happened at WWDC over the years. A couple of iPhones unveiled, a few Macbook Pros (including last year, I believe, as well as 2012 with the first retina MBP), and a few other
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by ta_donk_gt 10y ago
Interesting. Mine goes clockwise, with the line between December and January at 6 o'clock. Agree I doubt it is really as rare as the article makes it seem.
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by ta_donk_gt 10y ago
Weird, I generally assumed most people visualize the calendar as a circle when recalling dates. I've always been good at associating dates with events, but never would have thought the circle had anything to do with it.
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by ta_donk_gt 10y ago
> because they don't want to address the science. Do you have any scientific evidence to back up your theory? Or, said another way, where is this science you speak of documented and tested? As far as evidence against your theory, e

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