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by vec 10y ago
"Build a wall across the Mexican border and force the Mexican's to pay for it" is an extremely clear proposal, and it's been repeated often enough that I'm willing to believe that Mr. Trump sincerely believes it&#x2
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by vec 10y ago
The Econ 101 answer is that we'll have some number of people going into STEM fields would be more productive to the economy (and probably personally better off) as lawyers or cops or bakers or whatever. More realistically, it's l
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by vec 10y ago
There are two essential traits I look for in a leader. They should have goals that align with my own, and they should advocate for policies that could reasonably be expected further their goals. At least in American politics, I usually se
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by vec 10y ago
There's essentially no such thing as pure democracy at a national level. Even in cases of public referenda and ballot initiatives there's still a small group of (usually) professional bureaucrats of one variety or another that co
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by vec 10y ago
Let's Encrypt doesn't offer EV certs. Which is reasonable; EV certs can't be automated (and they're a dumb idea anyway), but they're still necessary for some of my sites.
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by vec 10y ago
Do you have any examples? I completely believe you, but I'd love to know exactly which flavor of mass delusion we're dealing with.
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by vec 10y ago
C/C++ no,but it's not uncommon for me to stream of consciousness sizable blocks of Javascript or of HTML plus templating language special characters.
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by vec 10y ago
No, the argument is that humans are tribal creatures. Imagine going off to live in the woods with a handful of other individuals, 100% off the grid and with only the tools you can carry. Inevitably, it wouldn't be long before you star
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by vec 10y ago
Be very careful with this logic. I'm in the middle of cleaning up a project where the original developer did this calculus and stored a lot of metadata as JSON strings in text fields. Now, three years out, we have new reporting requi
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by vec 10y ago
Historically speaking, it's an incredible luxury to expect all of your children to survive past infancy. That doesn't mean it shouldn't be a basic expectation for citizens of an advanced modern nation.
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by vec 10y ago
If a third party can inject arbitrary JS onto your page then how you store your session token is far from your biggest problem.
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by vec 10y ago
Part of the idea is that if it takes more than 3 or 4 "why"s to get to some really fundamental business goal (i.e. "Because I want to make more money"), then it might not be a problem worth solving in the first place
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by vec 10y ago
Extremely well. Stakeholders are supposed to present problems to engineers, and engineers are supposed to propose solutions to stakeholders. The underlying meta-rule is that problems should be solved by the person with the most expertise.
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by vec 11y ago
It will, but it's still a net win because Google's not actually optimizing for time to load. They're optimizing for time to usability. Moving all of the non-essential CSS out of the head and into a post-load request increas
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by vec 11y ago
It's completely legal for the police to make note of who enters a public storefront. It's also legal for the police to dig through your trash. Once it's placed on the curb to be picked up it's not your trash anymore, i
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by vec 11y ago
I think the real question is "does the existence of unicorns provide an incentive to the average founder?", and I'd say that question's a lot less definitive. Sure, some founders have gotten filthy stinkin' rich off
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by vec 11y ago
Probably a lot of overlap, but they're separate projects with different versions and release schedules.
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by vec 11y ago
Because then they'd have to change the semantics of how `require()` works. As it is, node packages are not version aware at runtime. Instead NPM is designed to place packages such that any library will have the correct version first
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by vec 11y ago
So, assuming I have two libraries, A and B, that both require the same version of library C, do those libraries still get their own separate in-memory copies of C, or do they share a singleton? It's terrible practice, but it's not
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by vec 11y ago
Data types aren't the bottleneck, the deployment model is. Editing a Go application requires the following steps: 1. Edit the project's files. 2. Open the (scary and alienating) command line. 3. Run `go build` and hope
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by vec 11y ago
I don't think you're going to see a serious competitor to Wordpress in anything but PHP for a long time. The core target audience for a CMS is content creators and designers without strong compsci backgrounds. The things that ma
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by vec 12y ago
"Face consequences" doesn't necessarily mean "get fired". In this case it may be as simple as his boss pulling him aside to explain exactly how stupid what he did was. It may mean being pulled off the interview te
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by vec 12y ago
Short selling is necessary and good as a stopgap measure, but there's at least one good reason we shouldn't want it to be a go-to reward strategy. Most investments have a bounded worst-case loss. You can only lose as much money
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by vec 12y ago
It's not inappropriate for discussion, it's just wrong. People who are rich and healthy don't have kids above replacement rates. We don't know why but we've observed the effect within countries, between countries,
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by vec 12y ago
This[1] suggests that fighting poverty is a pretty effective way to fight overpopulation. Most rich countries are reproducing well below replacement rates, and as poor countries become rich their average fertility reliably plummets. There
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by vec 12y ago
This is correct, of course, in principle, but in the real world its often not feasible. As a freelancer, the author likely spends much of his time working on small business blogs and brochure sites. These are frequently set up on a single
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by vec 12y ago
> Imagine you make a tool and someone proposes making a change to that tool that would be potentially useful to slavers, people who enslave other people. This makes you hesitate. No, it really doesn't. "Bad people might use it
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by vec 12y ago
Triangle is "back", actually; the circle is "home". And the square thing is the app switcher history thingie. More evidence, I suppose, that the new icons aren't very intuitive. On the other hand, floppy disks hav
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by vec 12y ago
Yes, and I think I can safely say I've never used this feature (in either Ruby or PHP) for anything more serious than a code golf challenge. This might just be me, but I don't think an ordered hash is a particularly easy data stru
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by vec 12y ago
You can't actually solve a lot of problems by throwing money at them. Ensuring that scaling your core application to arbitrary traffic sizes is in the class of money-solvable problems isn't trivial and should guide your architect

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