untothebreach

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by untothebreach 10y ago
Wren is great, I participated in the community for a while but then got on to different things. Glad to see it is still going strong.
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by untothebreach 10y ago
The problem here is not that an unhappy spouse will cause the employee to leave, but rather that the author makes the assumption that the employee will be male, and that the male will have a female SO.
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by untothebreach 10y ago
maybe it hit the flamewar detector? maybe people were flagging it?
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by untothebreach 10y ago
seriously. by the time he gets to "watman," uncontrolled, screaming laughter, every time.
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by untothebreach 11y ago
He does: https://twitter.com/RT_Erdogan Plus there is: https://twitter.com/trpresidency . The trpresidency account has blocked me for tweeting the picture of Erdogan next to Smeagol, haven't been blocke
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by untothebreach 11y ago
yes, but in this context it's called "capitalism"
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by untothebreach 11y ago
My cynical opinion is that, unfortunately, "trump stories" == "clicks/viewers" == "more ad revenue", to the point where no news organization can afford to _not_ cover every ridiculous story about Trump.
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by untothebreach 11y ago
I disagree, I believe there would definitely be effects to freedom of the press and free expression. Trump's opinion of the press is well-documented[1], as well as his opinion on free speech[2][3]. 1: http://www.politicususa
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by untothebreach 11y ago
Ah, I was just thinking about doing something like this for a different package manager. I'll be interested to see how this works out.
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by untothebreach 11y ago
codinghorror no longer works at SO http://blog.codinghorror.com/farewell-stack-exchange/
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by untothebreach 11y ago
Flask is my favorite tool for writing web apps in python. Django is nice, but I like the idea of building a framework up around the application, instead of shoehorning an application into a framework, and Flask lets you only bring in the pa
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by untothebreach 11y ago
I think the conflict here is that, for the "non-IDE" programmer, Rust's tooling is best-of-class (IMO). If your idea of an ideal programming environment is running vim/emacs/sublime/atom and maybe a terminal, R
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by untothebreach 11y ago
Any decent self-defense instructor will tell you that the best way to win a fight is to not get into a fight at all. So why do something to encourage violence? Let's say you do get a gun, you go to a shooting range, you get good at sho
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by untothebreach 11y ago
no, you can have "trait objects" in Rust, which are boxed and use dynamic dispatch instead of static dispatch, but they lose the original type (type erasure -- another similarity with java :)), so they aren't true generics. F
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by untothebreach 11y ago
I have mixed feelings towards unions. I grew up just outside of Flint, MI, so the UAW was a big part of my life (though my parents were not GM workers, so it was not as big a part of my life as it was for my friends). I am in favor of union
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by untothebreach 11y ago
Just to give you an idea of why you might be getting downvotes, the HN guidelines say: > On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, &g
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by untothebreach 11y ago
Wow, I identify with a _lot_ of that article, though as much as I love(d) The Oregon Trail, I'm not sure I could call myself a member of the "Oregon Trail Generation" while keeping a straight face :)
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by untothebreach 11y ago
I mostly agree with this. As someone born in 1983, I am usually grouped in with the "Millenials" (Back in my day we were "Generation Y!"). But when I see what the stereotypical characteristics of a "Millenial"
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by untothebreach 11y ago
holy cow...just went looking for the origins of "yinz" and found out about "western pennsylvania english." My wife does the "needs/likes/wants + past participle" thing listed in the wikipedia article[
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by untothebreach 11y ago
Only if you have control of every device between your sender and your receiver. Don't get me wrong, I love SCTP, but good luck consistently making SCTP connections over the public internet...
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by untothebreach 11y ago
I don't have any links but I know there have been statements by core devs that, when/if there is another major version of python being developed, there will be an upgrade path to make the 3->4 transition much better than the 2-
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by untothebreach 11y ago
Nah, just use CGo to link to a lower-level Rust library :)
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by untothebreach 11y ago
I think there was the added wrinkle of "programming language made by the company that also makes Chrome" vs "programming language made by the company that also makes Firefox". Google's and Mozilla's browsers we
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by untothebreach 11y ago
Yea, I've been thinking about that too. A few weeks ago my 3 year old saw it snowing out and said, "Mom and Dad, it's winter!" A visitor we had over said something to the effect of, "well, actually it's not win
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by untothebreach 11y ago
I agree with you on 1), I much prefer `print(..., file=sys.stderr)` to `print >>sys.stderr, ...`. For 2), though, I have always used auto-inserting parens in my vim, so I never really experienced any pain w.r.t. parentheses. I can see
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by untothebreach 11y ago
Genuinely curious, why do you prefer `print` to be a statement rather than a function? I've heard a lot of criticisms of Py3, but this is the first time I've heard this one.
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by untothebreach 11y ago
I grew up in the Flint area, lived and worked there for a number of years. Roger & Me is pretty much spot on.
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by untothebreach 11y ago
Davison actually closed the city "hall of fame" when someone put his name in as a candidate for it.
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by untothebreach 11y ago
Also grew up there and live just outside of it. My favorite Flint River joke I heard when I was young, was that you didn't need to wade across it, you walked across the dead bodies. Dark, but when you're a kid, funny enough.
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by untothebreach 11y ago
I can't tell you the exact reasons, but I would suspect it all comes down to money. I grew up just outside of Flint, went to school in the city, and worked there for a few years. There were winters where the city couldn't afford t

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