trprog

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by trprog 10y ago
>"Why should I pay for someone else's healthcare?". >and I don't really have an answer to that. Why indeed? Because you don't know what is going to happen in the future. One day you may wind up broke and be di
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by trprog 10y ago
>That you shouldn't write an application if you can use an off the shelf tool? Who does that? Lots of people? Everyone who ever bought, downloaded or otherwise acquired any software not written by themselves?
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by trprog 10y ago
People get weirdly apologetic when they have to tell you that code you have written isn't getting released/merged. I think its great. My future support burden just decreased. That is a big piece of code that will result in zero bu
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by trprog 10y ago
I'm curious where you live and whether it is illegal to use your phone while driving wherever you are.
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by trprog 10y ago
>I'm not sure if their understanding of data or statistics has decreased, but the level of journalism has definitely taken a nosedive. Not really surprising. The number of professional journalists is shrinking yet those that remain
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by trprog 10y ago
>Could a company be sued for hiring someone grossly incompetent on the basis they did not vet the employees competence? Not sure. I have personally never heard of it but that is hardly conclusive. Its not the kind of job where individual
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by trprog 10y ago
>who hired you on the presumption of qualifications? This whole line of thinking doesn't really apply to software development. Formal qualifications are, at best, only required to get you a first interview. Formal software developme
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by trprog 10y ago
>If I can prevent a single reader from needlessly dropping $6,000-10,000+ on a diamond engagement ring, this site will be a success. Financial worries are the #1 cause of stress in a married relationship - there is absolutely NO excuse t
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by trprog 10y ago
Sharing economy is certainly a lot more catchy and friendly than more accurate descriptions of airbnb or uber like "monetising surplus capacity".
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by trprog 10y ago
It doesn't matter who eats the apples. It matter who owns the orchard. The US is eating the apples but China owns the orchard.
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by trprog 10y ago
Likely part of their valuation is built around expected future growth and innovation. It becomes hard to maintain that story if you cut your engineering too deep.
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by trprog 10y ago
It also sounds trivial to game. So we want to add new regulation A. We have removed regulation B and C. Purely by coincidence the new regulation A is roughly the same length as A, B and C combined. But its one regulation.
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by trprog 10y ago
>Soylent is trying to do something more ambitious than other packaged food manufacturers. I have never understood why people think Soylent is doing something so interesting. It is essentially baby formula for adults. And its not like the
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by trprog 10y ago
>He went on to explain that other factors that often go hand in hand with meditation (for example, exercise, diet, even exposure to incense) could help explain these improvements. “So that as well remains to be more fully resolved in fut
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by trprog 10y ago
I can't imagine how painful that would be if the pile of documents also contained outright bogus documents that were never ever accurate.
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by trprog 10y ago
Don't seem that puzzling to me. If a site is very valuable to its users then they probably don't care too much what it looks like. And I suspect that teams working on producing something extremely valuable or useful probably put
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by trprog 10y ago
Had never heard of it before now which is probably a hint as to why it was shut down.
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by trprog 10y ago
Because moving an existing site to another platform is non-trivial. Sure I could figure out how to move over my theme, hundreds of posts, my menus, sidebars, hundreds of images, and all of my registered users. Or I could just stick with the
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by trprog 10y ago
Serious suggestion. Assuming it is legal wherever you are consider periodic visits to a brothel. Attractive young ladies (or gentleman) whose job is providing convenient sex to people they probably wouldn't otherwise have sex with. I h
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by trprog 10y ago
It is definitely bizarre looking back. You can clearly see all of these opportunities to have a good shag with someone whose company you enjoyed when there appeared to be mutual attraction but they were passed up because you were both so wr
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by trprog 10y ago
Although in this case they may be trying to reduce the volume of people who get the police involved. If they are pleasant to deal with throughout that seems likely to diminish people's enthusiasm for demanding legal consequences for th
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by trprog 10y ago
>Feels like this is probably the result of telco networks wanting as much friction as possible to change providers I don't understand how you came to this conclusion. I move between networks very regularly due to frequent travel to
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by trprog 10y ago
While the addition of anonymity would certainly be appreciated by would-be burglars you seem to be leaving out a small detail. It is trivially easy for a burglar to determine if someone is home. They can just walk up to the front door, knoc
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by trprog 10y ago
Its not quite what was described but refeeding syndrome is an interesting somewhat related thing https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC390152/
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by trprog 10y ago
>how can they get away with claiming to be from the IRS and demand money? I feel like these sorts of scams increasingly involve calling/emailing people in one country from a different country. This is presumably because enforcement
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by trprog 10y ago
It may just be a supply Vs demand issue with demand rising with the population while supply takes time to increase as you can't pull new timber out of thin air. I suspect environmental protection laws play a part too. These days there
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by trprog 10y ago
Both I would think. Genetic chimerism is a thing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chimera_(genetics) Not sure what other conditions can lead to being intersex but I imagine there are others.
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by trprog 10y ago
>gutted all the needless features in order to produce the small programs I want. Which is fine for you to do of course but it is probably inaccurate to assign no value to the code you are removing. Someone took the time to write it. Peop
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by trprog 10y ago
Spending tends to rise inline with income if you are some combination of foolish, bored or unhappy. Most people are some or all of those things at least some of the time. In particular people safely ensconced in comfortable long-term, well
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by trprog 10y ago
Although it is advice that an alarming number of people don't seem to follow. I have spent the last decade and a half working with plenty of reasonably high earning individuals. Although I have only occasionally got any insight into th

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