throwaway_egbs

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by throwaway_egbs 5y ago
> I wonder what people like this would do if faced with a real lifelong challenge? Rethink this.
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by throwaway_egbs 5y ago
Same here, and I’ve worked at everything from mom-and-pops to a couple of household names. IME this (seemingly endless) discussion about how to manage commit history is the tabs-versus-spaces of source control.
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by throwaway_egbs 5y ago
The claim I was responding to is, "In a democracy, there is no reason to hide behind anonymity while fighting for a just cause." What I'm saying is that there absolutely are reasons. This is also not a binary proposition. I
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by throwaway_egbs 5y ago
Just when I thought tweetstorms couldn't get any worse, here's one where every tweet is a quote-tweet of the author. I don't even understand how I'm supposed to read this. > Copyright has concluded that reading by rob
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by throwaway_egbs 5y ago
The Supreme Court of the United States has ruled repeatedly that anonymity is protected by the First Amendment, specifically because anonymity enables free speech. A person who does not speak because they've been cowed into silence is
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by throwaway_egbs 5y ago
Ah, I see what you were saying now. It was a little confusing for me in the context of a discussion about police.
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by throwaway_egbs 5y ago
You can record on-duty police officers in California without their permission. https://www.jmllaw.com/blog/keep-mind-9-rules-of-filming-pol... https://www.solutionlawapc.com/criminal-defense/the-ri
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by throwaway_egbs 5y ago
I've seen a lot of people lately making the "you’re made out of animal parts, so eat animals" argument, which is reasonable on its face. But there's a pretty serious problem with it: those animals get everything they nee
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by throwaway_egbs 5y ago
This reply from @AzureDevOps is bizarre: "We understand. However, the way to report this issues related to Windows 11 is through our Windows Insider even from another device. Thanks in advance." I think I'm gonna give "A
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by throwaway_egbs 5y ago
Welp, guess I'll be taking all my code off of GitHub now, lest it be copied verbatim while ignoring my licenses. (I'm no John Carmack, but still.)
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by throwaway_egbs 5y ago
Really wish you'd been on my last hiring panel. (Quit after six months.)
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by throwaway_egbs 5y ago
The article is about link rot, not cultural rot.
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by throwaway_egbs 5y ago
Yeah, I get all that too. I think my problem was that I sort of misunderstood what Node is. I've always thought of it as a web server, not a language runtime. So to me it seemed like using Node to run command-line tools was akin to doi
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Ask HN: Where to start with getting back into front end?
8 points by throwaway_egbs 5y ago|14 comments
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by throwaway_egbs 5y ago
Right, I get that. What I don't get is why Node is a requirement for a JS compiler. Is that just to get the runtime? I'd always thought of Node as a server on top of a V8 runtime. (Thank you for your patience with this backend dev
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by throwaway_egbs 5y ago
> a working Node.js environment Sincere no-snark question from someone who's been out of the frontend game for a while: Why do I need Node in order to do "quick and dirty" frontend development? (FTR I'm with you that
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by throwaway_egbs 5y ago
Along those lines (I'm in my early 40s, been programming since I was a kid, working in software since I was 20) my tolerance for BS is at an all-time low and I've been at this long enough now to know my own worth. There are loads
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by throwaway_egbs 5y ago
Agreed, this is creepy, unnecessary, and possibly even damaging to whatever litigation is pending. (Assuming the litigation thing is even true, which I personally doubt.) Even if they do need an image of the drive, the people in IT shouldn’
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by throwaway_egbs 5y ago
Honestly, I don’t know. I have some general ideas from my own experience but I also know better than to be confident they’d stand up to reality. Especially since I’ve dodged the issue by deliberately not having children. I’m not sure there’
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by throwaway_egbs 5y ago
*fist bump*
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by throwaway_egbs 5y ago
I’ve gone back and forth on that question a thousand times. I’m almost pathologically agreeable so it’s easy for me to minimize and slip into a place of, “oh, it’s ok, I was off my rocker and extreme measures were necessary.” But just becau
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by throwaway_egbs 5y ago
Thanks. I understand why my parents did what they did. I was addicted to meth and probably would’ve wound up dead without a serious intervention. Out of the frying pan, into the fire. (Clean and sober now.)
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by throwaway_egbs 5y ago
I was sent to an “emotional growth boarding school” in the ‘90s. I wasn’t kidnapped but many of my schoolmates were. A few years later the department of education (can’t remember if it was state or federal) shut the school down after storie