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by vonkow 8y ago
IMHO, the United States lacks a true left wing party and the Democrats are the party of moderate regulation/legislation (which is unfortunate for a number of reasons).
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by vonkow 8y ago
While only tangential to the article, the short story from which Eudora gets its name is fascinating in both its depth and simplicity: http://art-bin.com/art/or_weltypostoff.html
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by vonkow 9y ago
No, that's my way of saying, who cares how many points I have on an internet forum and how are said points relevant to what I am saying? I glance at what's on HN in the morning and occasionally comment when something is super rele
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by vonkow 9y ago
I didn't say anything about anything beyond the fact that that's the classic defence of trolling and it's a piss poor one. Cool that you looked at my karma tho, like it means something. I've been around the block more th
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by vonkow 9y ago
Ah, the #1 go to defence for terrible people when they get called out for their actions, "it's just a joke, I was just kidding, don't be so sensitive."
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by vonkow 9y ago
That's going to be up to you, the Amazon employee. Personally, I'm unwilling to work for a company who's values are in severe opposition to my own, so I would probably quit my job over something like this (if I felt strongly
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by vonkow 9y ago
I'm an engineer at Rover and we're definitely hiring. If you enjoy writing python and want to work with a great team of people (and dogs), you should totally apply.
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by vonkow 9y ago
Oh man, that really takes me back.
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by vonkow 9y ago
Erlang is an amazing language for learning how to effectively use OOP principles. I feel like anyone who works primarily with class-based languages owes it to themselves to write a few server-like modules in Erlang even if they never touch
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by vonkow 9y ago
Check out spacemacs, it works beautifully out of the box.
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by vonkow 9y ago
Yes. Personally, I think VRML's biggest flaw was that it was ahead of its time.
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by vonkow 10y ago
"triggering" someone is not the same thing as triggering a seizure.
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by vonkow 10y ago
Just like yelling "fire" in a crowded theater (where there is no fire), sending someone a gif in the hopes that it causes a seizure is not protected speech. It's assult.
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by vonkow 10y ago
Not very, according to it's website http://arcadia-unity.github.io/ Also looks like the last commit was 2 months ago, FWIW.
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by vonkow 10y ago
Just my personal observations over the past 15 years or so, but I think laptops and headphones killed the cafe.
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by vonkow 10y ago
I used to skip class in high school to go drink turkish coffee, chain-smoke, and discuss life, poetry, code, and philosophy at Cafe Algiers. I think I learned more there than I did in class. Sad to see it go, kicking myself for not dropping
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by vonkow 10y ago
On paper that sounds great, but 51% computing power rapidly becomes a "central/political/technical institution" in the real world.
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by vonkow 10y ago
I don't really disagree, but it's a 50 minute (uphill) walk from Pike Place to Volunteer Park, whereas it's 15 minutes to the edge of SLU. I don't really mind walking an hour, but many people do. Golden Gate is a little
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by vonkow 10y ago
They're all lovely parks, but none are within walking distance of downtown.
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by vonkow 10y ago
Terraform + any old CI + Elastic Beanstalk works wonderfully for deploying docker apps on AWS.
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by vonkow 10y ago
I'm pretty sure the kind of people who used to move from Akron to, say, Philedelphia for more opportunities before middle america's mobility and income were severely reduced by the march of progress can't quite afford to move
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by vonkow 10y ago
Very true, but even with graphics mods the difference in ease of use between DF and KSP's interfaces is vast.
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by vonkow 10y ago
Depends if they like starting at ASCII. KSP has a much more familiar interface and would probably be the better route to go.
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by vonkow 10y ago
I'm really surprised that the author didn't get into one of the main ways a fortress fails. It's humming along smoothly and then suddenly the population doubles in size when a group of settlers (VC cash) arrives and the whole
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by vonkow 11y ago
Yes, you can (mostly) implement this behaviour in pretty much any modern server framework or language. The point is, you get this behaviour for free as a core part of the language. I write a lot more javascript than erlang these days and I
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by vonkow 11y ago
Don't talk smack about IE 5.5, unless you think AJAX was a bad idea.
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by vonkow 11y ago
Access to primitives such as lines, polygons or pixels, you say? Canvas, SVG, and WebGL fit that bill.
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by vonkow 11y ago
Learning vim is like learning Kung Fu, you practice the same awkward route motions until they're so natural that you don't even notice you're doing them. Sadly, it's not a quick process, but it's worth it.
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by vonkow 12y ago
I grew up in Cambridge. When rent control went away, the rent skyrocketed and a large swath of the lower/middle class was forced to move to the suburbs. It sucks, because only 2 or 3 towns in MA had rent control, but developers scared
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by vonkow 14y ago
I still haven't gotten around to going to college, don't think I ever will, unless I get bored and someone wants to take a PhD candidate with no formal education. Currently, I build websites and educational software for WGBH. My parents, st

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