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by tolmasky 12y ago
Monopoly on life-saving medicine created by a scientist? Sold at prices out of reach for most people?
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by tolmasky 12y ago
> Rent control is more than an economic issue, it's a class and moral issue. Why should only people with the means to buy property have the ability to live a stable life? Imagine if your child had to change schools every year becau
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by tolmasky 12y ago
As long as the money is private, they should be able to do whatever they want. If they're actually bad decisions (a worse startup getting money solely due to being inside), then they'll suffer for it. If the decision however gives
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by tolmasky 12y ago
I just bought one, I'm going to give it an honest shot at being my only computer. As the reviews say, most of what I do is web (and web dev), so I would really like it to work. The question is will I be able to do any sort of docker&#x
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by tolmasky 12y ago
> 1. Design the cheapest-to-manufacture rocket with a 99.99% success probability of getting to Mars with all crew healthy. A human looks over the designs and confirms they don't involve destroying all humanity. psh, halting proble
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by tolmasky 12y ago
The issues discussed in the post are about pretty malicious acts, basically writing spyware and malware. I'm not sure how a Professional Engineer exam will really address this. We are mixing in a lot of unrelated things (tests, apprent
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by tolmasky 12y ago
Why don't we instead write better security tools, encryption, and fight to get backdoors our of our existing systems? Unlike bridge-building, we actually create most the problems we face --- and have the tools to stop them . This is t
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by tolmasky 12y ago
> Companies can only sue for a percentage of the revenue they themselves generated from sale of the product related to the patent. This would nullify one of the original purposes of the patent: to protect "the little guy" who
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by tolmasky 12y ago
Given the ES3 style creation if components (which appears to have no "superclass"), can you also just do "class MyComponent" (no "extends React.Component"?)
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by tolmasky 12y ago
Alternatively, if people devoted their time to writing drivers/fixing issues on platforms where the creators were happy to take their contributions (i.e. any pc manufacturer that has no vested interest in a competing OS), then the impr
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by tolmasky 12y ago
> Apple does have some bugs to iron out, but in six month's time when they're fixed, everyone will forget and start complaining about something else. That's the whole point: we'll start complaining about something e
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by tolmasky 12y ago
QuickTime and iTunes. I used to watch tv or a movie on one of my displays while coding on another. Instead I got to watch linen one screen while watching a movie (double whammy here because even showing pure black on the other screen would
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by tolmasky 12y ago
1. The operators are abstract (most people have never seen >>=). 2. Even IF they were functions, (say "bind" and "return"), the actual functions themselves are known to be hard to understand for people. 3. Needing
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by tolmasky 12y ago
The biggest difference being that both Python and Ruby were module cultures, so saying that a gem existed actually means something. On the other hand, Mac dev didn't have Cocoapods until 2011. Apple dev at the time (and I'd argue
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by tolmasky 12y ago
JSON was invented (discovered ;) ) in 2001, the website went up in 2002. Major services like Google and Yahoo were providing their data in JSON format in 2006. If this article is correct, Apple didn't include JSON functionality in Coco
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by tolmasky 12y ago
> since their negotiating position is somewhat compromised by them needing another employer to transfer this visa to (possible, but very stressful). There is also likely a sense of indebtedness to a company when someone is first sponsor
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by tolmasky 12y ago
> ut, if I'm an entry-level, US-based programmer, what I see are floods of cheap talent, some with questionable skills, coming over to compete for my job. I don't understand this dichotomy. Why would companies here go out of
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by tolmasky 12y ago
Warning, anecdotal data ahead: I would not want to work under remote conditions again. In my career I have worked mainly under "startup conditions". At Apple on iPhone, everyone lived in the same place and worked non stop on the p
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by tolmasky 12y ago
One potential side effect of a minimum income is to make the U.S. (or any country implementing it), even more immigrant hostile. These programs usually only consider the effects in a vacuum, not with respect to much larger population that w
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by tolmasky 12y ago
> You say its ruined through software updates, but then go on to say that your gripe is the interaction interface? Yeah, imagine that, multiple complaints: 1. Software updates made Apple TV AirPlay incredibly unreliable for me. And it
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by tolmasky 12y ago
Animation in general is just plain broken in Yosemite (and iOS 8). I'm not up to date with the latest frameworks, but I believe there's been a fundamental API change, because its basically possible to break any animation by just c
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by tolmasky 12y ago
The phone thing was infuriating. After upgrading all of a sudden every device I own would start ringing like crazy: phone, computer, Apple TV STOPS airplay because the iPad streaming to it was also buzzing like mad. I KNOW I KNOW, you can t
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by tolmasky 12y ago
Nah, you're just being lazy. I could have said the same thing during the colonies: "revolution isn't viable right now, we'd being going up against the most powerful military in history . Its a way better strategy to s
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by tolmasky 12y ago
> Yes, unfortunately. We are effectively slaves, so absent a revolution (or alternative that leads to viable third parties) we don't have a choice about this. > It's very simple: when you make the best possible righteous cho
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by tolmasky 12y ago
Spoken like someone who's always had the privilege of never being unemployed. I love it when people talk down to people that can't make ends meat and explain to them from an ivory tower how their concerns and family don't mat
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by tolmasky 12y ago
Ah ok, so next election though you should definitely vote for the party that was previously unthinkable to vote for, but is now the lesser of two evils and thus the "blameless" choice. So under your system of responsibility, as lo
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by tolmasky 12y ago
Interesting thought experiment. What if that party you voted for, which was the lesser of two evils, then commits an act that makes them worse than the other party? Do the people that were previously "on the hook" now switch to be
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by tolmasky 12y ago
> Half the country effectively voted in favor of torture. > Such people rarely change their beliefs. You honestly believe that 50% of the country rarely change their beliefs? That we are actually divided into the "rational
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by tolmasky 12y ago
Yes, dividing the country further into two halves that hate each other isn't playing into the hands of the people in power at all. Its hilarious that one of the results of this report might be to further bolster the two-party system. Y
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by tolmasky 12y ago
The article is clearly critical of uber and even ends by explicitly saying they should get phone support. It sounds a lot like a piece that is trying to argue for them getting phone support.

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