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by tps5 10y ago
From Hunter S. Thompson's obituary for Nixon: "Some people will say that words like scum and rotten are wrong for Objective Journalism -- which is true, but they miss the point. It was the built-in blind spots of the Objective
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by tps5 10y ago
> All economics and social activities stem from the quest to live forever This is quite an assertion. > Think about all religions, they come from the quest to live forever deeply inside human's unconscious Yeah, I don't
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by tps5 10y ago
Where I grew up, in MA, canadian coins were accepted, generally. I'm in a city now and I've had people refuse to accept 2 dollar bills (which are rare, though absolutely legal tender).
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by tps5 10y ago
I got used to using workspaces to expand my desktop and I've had a hard time making use of a second monitor even though I have one now. The advantages of a second monitor over workspaces are not totally clear to me. It feels like the
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by tps5 10y ago
Chances are that your friend embellished this story. People do that, often. Think about the absurd amount of effort required to know that one of the thousands of people going through that airport that day had sex with a man of Arab descen
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by tps5 10y ago
I think these definitions of being a sociopath are demonstrably very silly. You can easily think of people who "disregard legal and moral standards" whom no one would ever describe as a sociopath. When you call someone a sociopat
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by tps5 10y ago
I think it's wrong on a few levels to use terms like sociopath in general, and especially about someone you've never met. When you use that word you're talking about another person's mental state, which is opaque to you.
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by tps5 10y ago
Clearly a lot of people don't care if their text editor is using "a lot" of memory or "doesn't benchmark well" because all they're doing is writing code and running it occasionally. There's plenty of
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by tps5 10y ago
> I think it's a toxic substance honestly, tires the adrenals and heart out Do you have any evidence for this or is it a hmm-I-better-not-vaccinate-my-children-because-I-think-it-will-give-them-autism type statement?
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by tps5 10y ago
Nothing kills a beginner's interest more than "you need to have a class and a main method, always, and I can't explain why, just trust me, you'll understand later." Java was my first language. No one explained any
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by tps5 10y ago
> there's a lot of this higher level stuff in a supposably lower level language I feel like you're suggesting that "high level stuff" is bad because it's "high level stuff." In my opinion, the goal of
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by tps5 10y ago
I believe that these kinds of debates necessarily boil down to an argument over the definition of art. One essay on a similar subject that I always think back to is Orwell's essay, Lear, Tolstoy and the Fool : http://www.or
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by tps5 10y ago
Male Hasidic Jews have a thing where they refuse to acknowledge female flight attendants. I've seen this at least 5 times.
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by tps5 10y ago
I thought this was an interesting review though I'm not familiar with the poet in question. However, I reacted negatively to criticisms like this: > Her closing lines are often summaries that feel tacked-on and avoid placing the sc
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by tps5 10y ago
I might want to read an article about a language that is fast in principle due to its specification. But the question that actually matters to me is: do actual implementations of a language's specification exist, that I can use, that
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by tps5 10y ago
Here's my understanding of this: Aysnc and threads are fundamentally different. Aysnc refers to intelligently pausing/resuming many different operations. This is fantastic for a lot of tasks, especially tasks that require io. A
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by tps5 10y ago
The specifics of how this will work are not totally clear to me, but web assembly will have a text format that will be human readable and editable according to: [0] http://webassembly.org/ [1] http://webassembly.
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by tps5 10y ago
Just an aside, I think it's insane that women in tech are pressured (or feel pressured) to wear heels. Is this common in California?
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by tps5 10y ago
> Maybe the women just hustled harder. Doubt that explains it. I went through a large software development course, about 70 people. 60-40 male-female. Was a positive experience. The women all landed jobs instantly. As in, the day th
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by tps5 10y ago
I spent my college years pretty invested in computer games, mostly dota. I stopped when I got a job that I actually wanted to have. For a while I tried to do both, and did. But I was exhausted all the time. Computer games are not passive
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by tps5 10y ago
I want to live in this world too. But we don't live there, and I don't think we ever will.
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by tps5 10y ago
I don't understand how you got this out of my post. I clearly said that some speech will be denied a platform, and that's an unavoidable feature of communities of people living together. All I said is that we need to step back
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by tps5 10y ago
No matter how much a university in 2017 might laud free speech, that university is not going to invite a speaker who openly advocates for genocide. When you accept this, you accept that "censorship" is unavoidable. Some ideas wil
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by tps5 10y ago
As far as I know there are no plans to directly compile (JIT or otherwise) typescript. Typescript is always (again, as far as I know) transpiled into javascript whereupon it gets JIT'd in the browser just like "normal" javas
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by tps5 10y ago
I get paid per hour. This isn't a freelance thing either, it's just how my company does things. So yes, I could absolutely work one more hour and get paid for it at the end of the pay period.
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by tps5 10y ago
> I see extremely wealthy individuals who are afraid of dying. This is exactly how I feel about this nonsense. It has always been funny to me that Ray Kurzweil keeps predicting functional immortality within the next decade or two. How
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by tps5 10y ago
> An appropriate real-world metaphor for the program might be something like this: In every room of every house and every apartment, cameras and microphones are installed, every letter is opened and copied, every telephone tapped. Ever
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by tps5 10y ago
Ignore this blog. Pursue whatever you like. Don't ever worry about whether you have sufficient "passion," that's a trap.
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by tps5 10y ago
I think they're likely making an example of him to send a message: "people with clearance and access to classified data, take this shit seriously."
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by tps5 10y ago
If your reaction to this news is "something more is going on here" then I think you need to take a step back and re-calibrate your bullshit detector. Could there be more to this than meets the eye? Yeah. There could also be more

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