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> They chose not to release the ones from the party whose candidate said he cares less about NATO. Did they actually say: "we have emails from both parties, however we will only release the democrat ones because we hate NATO"?
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If you imply that the democrats had no dirty laundry, then the Russians couldn't have messed with the elections if they exposed it. > you were niave If calling me some adjective is your best argument then I guess there is no point i
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> Any hard evidence the US has is most definitely top secret. The problem with this logic is illustrated by the following: You stole 1 million dollars from me, I have hard evidence, but I'm not going to disclose it, because it'
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10y ago
Imagine if there would be overwhelming evidence that it wasn't Russia after all, it was an American named Bob. If that would be the case would you say that Bob has messed with the American election? or would you say that Bob has expose
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10y ago
It's posted on a what looks to be an feminist blog, I don't think they care too much about quality. I also don't think you much chance, to become a good developer if you are not practicing it at a younger age. It's just
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10y ago
There is a difference between wanting equality of outcome and equality of opportunity. Don't believe me? look at some documentaries about communism! You also brought up #BlackLivesMatter, after 3 seconds of googling I get things like:
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10y ago
I would be interested to know that in your view, which VCS would have solved this problem better assuming they would have done the same thing. It seems to me that they chose the worst possible option each time they hit a problem.
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10y ago
Lot of these studies overlook the fact that it might have more to do with culture than race, also, I didn't see them try to do their experiments in reverse, maybe 'Asians' have bad stereotypes towards others that set them bac
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10y ago
To me Slack was always just a shiny IRC clone where your sensitive communication data sits inside an American company. I find it ironic that Slack calls Microsoft out for making something like Slack for the enterprise. I sincerely hope one
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10y ago
> Lots of people have been complaining online that the new macbook pro isn't a 'pro' machine because it sacrifices performance for portability. > I think the majority of users I do agree that the new Mac Book Pro is wh
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10y ago
I like the idea that she wants to look at data, however, I'm not convinced that she'll look at right data and draw the right conclusions. In my CS class, the women had better grades in general, I was barely passing. Looking at the
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10y ago
It's not what people say, it's the intention behind it. If I say "I'm too white for that" or "my male brain cannot process that many stuff at the same time", am I'm being racist and sexist? No, becaus
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10y ago
The same way we have 'mercury free', it would be great to have a 'social justice warrior free' label. A conference has the right to hand pick the speakers, however I also have the right to vote with my wallet and boycott
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10y ago
The whole point of abstractions is for us to not have to worry about the underlying complexity. If I want to program in a way that is close to how the hardware works, I'll pick a language like C, however when I choose a high level lang
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10y ago
> “I am literally sick to my stomach,” wrote group member Carolyn Farino. It was a stupid comment, how can a stupid comment like that induce sickness in another human being? Make a joke about typical male stereotypes, nobody bats an eye
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10y ago
I'm a contractor with a decade's worth of experience, I automatically turn down places that ask me to do implement a linked list on a whiteboard, I do appreciate tests where I get an IDE and have to solve a simple problem, because
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There is more to this than globalisation. You can't just bring a bunch of muslims who have never been to the west into a liberal christian society and expect it to work out on it's own, the EU has failed miserably on this front, a
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10y ago
I google for solutions all the time, does that mean I can be replaced by anybody who can type a question into a search box? If that would be the case then, companies would not hire highly skilled developers, they would just hire people who
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10y ago
> I don't assume that they considered all corner cases or found the best design or written things in a way that makes sense to other people on the first try. Are you then assuming that the person who will review the code will consi
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I have yet to work in a team where everyone is 100% on the same page, agree on absolutely everything and totally objective and emotion free. The reason I don't trust these methods is because they seem to ignore human nature.
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> Humans cannot write correct code, and the way to keep high code quality is to maximise our ability to fix the errors that result from having humans involved. This kind of breeds a dilemma: If humans don't know how to write correc
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Code reviews: * signal distrust by default - the work I do is not to be trusted to be merged in and by extension, I'm not to be trusted * can create a culture of passive aggressiveness - you do something that I don't like, I'
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10y ago
I know I can write a working JS application without semicolons, however I can also write a working JS application where with `eval` and `with`. The issue is not whether or not one individual can learn to use dangerous feature X. If you are
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11y ago
Have you tried Chef, Puppet, Ansible etc?
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> Having worked for some time with configuration management and backend development and seeing the growing pains that happen after any "non-trivial" use case of it like: obscure declarative languages/DSLs, tangled messes
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> Men don't, or don't want to, realize they frequently misinterpret so-called "signals", or don't pay attention to them at all. There's a sad truth that women actually send signals men completely miss, The
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> In hindsight and with more experience, I now can say, “Yes, I shouldn’t have tolerated even a little bit of misogyny or mistreatment. I should’ve immediately given him feedback that it made me feel extremely uncomfortable.” But regard
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11y ago
Caching cannot help you with initial page loads, which is probably important when you have a content focused sites. Rendering the content via JavaScript is slower than just having it in your HTML. It's true that JS execution has become
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> Detractors of veganism often like to tout the fundamental right of personal choice: "I respect your choice to be vegan, now respect mine to eat meat". What such proponents are failing to consider is that when a personal choi
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11y ago
You can run Puppet in a decentralised way: sudo puppet apply --verbose --debug --modulepath=./system system.pp You can also use BASH/Python whatever with Puppet and still take advantage of Puppet's declarative sema
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