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by thescribe 10y ago
I've never had a language click with me the way ruby has, I use it for basically any task that isn't low level. I have never liked python at all despite them being quite similar. Do whatever makes you happiest and most productive.
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by thescribe 10y ago
As a user who frequently wants to change the rendering, I don't think I would have ever thought to look under share. I associate the 'share' section with tracking code and buttons for social networks.
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by thescribe 10y ago
I think you are making an assumption of shared value. To many trump supporters the idea that international approval matters is somehow repugnant.
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by thescribe 10y ago
Given the rise of automation, it should be far harder to migrate. Situations change, why shouldn't our immigration policy?
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by thescribe 10y ago
Would you be willing to provide some examples or definitions for left/right/neither? I'm having a little bit of analysis paralysis on the registration page. Is there an RSS feed I'm missing? This is the exact kind of pro
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by thescribe 10y ago
Diversity should mean a mixture of people with different views and experience. Too often it it means hiring an expensive diversity consultant to avoid a public shame shakedown.
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by thescribe 10y ago
I suspect that there is an initial hump where investment in automated farm labor will need to take place, but after the hump it won't be rational to go back. Of course this is all speculation on my part.
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by thescribe 10y ago
The solution to the gender gap is to fundamentally change how work is done. I'm glad it was that simple.
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by thescribe 10y ago
I really like the concept of Atom, but it always feels slow compared to VI. I think it's psychological though, because I can't point to any part of it and say "This is slow".
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by thescribe 10y ago
I'd rather have people stop virtue-signaling.
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by thescribe 10y ago
Software is no more political that 2 + 2 = 4, it's just computation applied. If we start dragging politics into it we will destroy things like open source that exist only because anyone can anonymously contribute without their race&#x2
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by thescribe 10y ago
Everyone has been doing that forever. The petrol engineer simply competes with the horse feed industry.
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by thescribe 10y ago
Would you be willing to elaborate on why the state should run schools? I am probably as extreme the other way as it is possible to be, but I'd like to understand where you are coming from.
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by thescribe 10y ago
It's kind of a shame, one of the thing I value most about working in tech is the apolitical stance a lot of companies take.
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by thescribe 10y ago
Why should their drivers participate in a union strike without being in the union? If anything Uber looks more palatable to me because they were available when other options stopped.
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by thescribe 10y ago
Clearly we don't, at least for values of society that include this strike?
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by thescribe 10y ago
I think it helps to imagine the opposite, a founder being radically pro-trump. I still think it's ok, but it seems like a poor representation of the company.
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Be Careful What You Wish for (especially If It Is Hitler)(blog.dilbert.com)
23 points by thescribe 10y ago|17 comments
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by thescribe 10y ago
Honestly I've just re-adopted IRC. Instant Messengers like Google Talk, and Group Chat apps like Slack come and go along with their walled gardens, but IRC just keeps on keeping on.
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by thescribe 10y ago
It's like a form of parasitism on an already successful platform.
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by thescribe 10y ago
I don't understand how these are vital to this community, can you explain what we would be missing without them?
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by thescribe 10y ago
Software isn't politics anymore than physics is politics. The atom bomb had huge political effects but the fact that atoms release energy when split is not. The only reason software has become political is because it is in the best int
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by thescribe 10y ago
Extreme, the open office plan means I'm constantly interrupted no matter what I do.
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by thescribe 10y ago
It has been 0 days since hacker news argued about basic income without any new data.
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by thescribe 10y ago
Looks interesting, how hard is it to get an invite?
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by thescribe 10y ago
While this is serious we do need to make sure it does not become "Putin's hackers help everyone I don't like".
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by thescribe 10y ago
Personally I don't want VR until it is divorced from motion controls. I hate motion based control schemes.
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by thescribe 10y ago
Chomsky says that President Obama should, but is very light on why he should.
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by thescribe 10y ago
A lot of the money held me the wealthy isn't competing with me for potatoes. I could be wrong but if ever single person had 1,000$ more, wouldn't the price of basic goods go up to accommodate?
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by thescribe 10y ago
I'm very interested in this. My own intuition says basic income won't work, but it'd sure be nice if it did.

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