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by ubertaco 9y ago
Yeah, the mass migration of tech companies out of the Bay and to Austin, Raleigh, Boston, and Atlanta is definitely a sign of "red state decline".
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by ubertaco 9y ago
Evan McMullin. I know this, because I voted for him.
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> If you want to express a political view at work then the people to whom you are expressing it have a right to dislike you for it. Do those people have a right to take action to negatively impact your career/livelihood/ability
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by ubertaco 9y ago
Yes, but this thread is about people being "punished" by large groups for voting differently from those groups (and how difficult it is to "keep your politics at home" when those groups go to your "home" to tra
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by ubertaco 9y ago
Christianity is an "exclusive" religion: "Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." (John 14:16). It is a core doctrine of Christianity that there is ex
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by ubertaco 9y ago
See also: Brendan Eich, who was booted from his job at Mozilla because someone went digging to find his personal voting record and found something they didn't like.
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by ubertaco 9y ago
Indeed; several months ago I used an anonymous-at-the-time internal feedback mechanism to submit a note about how the CEO's top-down religious decisions affect me. Since then, the only thing that's happened is that the internal fe
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by ubertaco 9y ago
1. Agreed 2. While I understand what you're trying to say, I don't think you'd be remiss, and in fact, I found it a bit presumptive to assume that I advocate for Christian viewpoints being "flaunted at employees" an
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by ubertaco 9y ago
This is a two-way street. As a Christian, I get upset when I hear my employer promote Bhuddist values (inviting Bhuddist monks on-site to otherwise-nonreligious corporate events) while also parading their role in defeating legislation to pr
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by ubertaco 9y ago
Some prefer the more-charitable, longer-lived term "fiction".
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I like this kind of article not necessarily because it's revolutionary or groundbreaking (because it's not), but because it serves as a helpful reminder sometimes, and can help stick an "observation bias" bug in my brain
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by ubertaco 9y ago
Transplanted example of this same line of reasoning: JimBob's Cake Bakery also has a constitutional right not to do business with same-sex couples (or really, anyone else they disagree with). You are protected from the government restr
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by ubertaco 9y ago
Paraphrased: By and large the people outraged about this are...people we don't like, whose opinions don't matter, and who I think should be marginalized anyways. If he's the hero of people we don't like, so what.
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by ubertaco 9y ago
>Im pretty sure most plumbers don't get into plumbing because they are passionate about it. I'm pretty sure most office desk jockey computer nerds don't get into being stuck sitting at a desk all day because they're p
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by ubertaco 9y ago
> If you want people like him to actually change their minds, you have to be willing to hear them out first. You can't show someone where they went wrong if they're too scared to tell you what they think in the first place. I a
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by ubertaco 9y ago
Yes, but plenty of other non-programmers also learned what it means, when they first heard the English word. So it's not a huge conceptual leap. Whereas "prototype" has completely different English dictionary meaning, and thu
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by ubertaco 9y ago
Which is easier, explaining to your hypothetical total beginner what "Person.prototype" is and going down the rabbit hole of prototype-inheritance, and explaining how Javascript functions (unlike just about every other language&#x
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by ubertaco 9y ago
It wouldn't be such a big deal, except that the last three times I ever ordered from NewEgg, I got the wrong product entirely once, a damaged product once (that was listed as new, yet the CPU socket pins on the motherboard I'd ord
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by ubertaco 9y ago
Yeah, except "Fuse Tools" still sounds like tools that you'd use for the fuse filesystem. I'm pretty sure there's at least one fuse-util or fuse-tools package for the major linux distros out there that has nothing t
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by ubertaco 9y ago
As a software developer from the southeast, my two visits to San Francisco taught me one thing: you couldn't pay me enough to live there. It's overcrowded, it's overly-expensive, and it's jam-packed with two kinds of peo
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by ubertaco 9y ago
Seems appropriate that #D15C05 (DISCOS) is an ugly, 70s orange-brown.
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by ubertaco 9y ago
Ah, yeah, the good ol' fashioned public void doStuff() { // ... } Everyone loves those!
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by ubertaco 9y ago
I think that's probably why you're not getting much traction (and getting downvotes): the sum total of your point is "I personally don't like this stuff", and the way you conveyed that was through hyperbolic put-dow
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by ubertaco 9y ago
Here's the thing: guided, interactive refactoring is not the same as automatic refactoring. If I can hit a button to inline all usages of a method (as in IntelliJ), that's not the same as using a tool that can point out candid
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by ubertaco 9y ago
Or they want to allow for case-insensitivity of some data, like for example email addresses on login forms. As much as postgres is overall better than MySQL in so many ways, it's still ridiculously difficult to set things up such that
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by ubertaco 9y ago
This is worth noting primarily because the original almost got me: he kept mentioning Riot.js over and over, and I thought "huh...I haven't worked with that...I must be out of date." Instead, this is a case of "I wrote
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by ubertaco 10y ago
Apple putting minimal effort into developer tools? Surely not! /s
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by ubertaco 10y ago
"Daily driver" is a common idiom for "the thing I use every day", borrowed from the automotive world where someone who's into cars may drive various vehicles at times for work/personal purposes, but the one the
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by ubertaco 10y ago
From the Gitbook: [0] (;module: {#;doc "This will be our program's main module."} lux (lux (codata io) [cli #+ program:])) (program: args (io (log! "Hello, world!")))
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by ubertaco 10y ago
Over in Cherokee County, meanwhile, it's $70/mo with Comcast for 75Mbps. I was hopeful for a Google Fiber rollout when they announced it, but no dice.

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