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by vonwoodson 6y ago
But, can we just say: f ck Fortnite. This is the wolf calling for homes to be built of straw. We hate “free to play”/“pay to win” and in-app purchases. We HATE* them. Thank god that Apple is taking a stand. I haven’t been so happy wi
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by vonwoodson 6y ago
Free markets don’t care about quality. So, no. My question stands. Why is this a problem worth discussing.
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by vonwoodson 6y ago
I am uncertain why this is such a travesty. Everything else is free market. If these folks want to pay more for school... so be it. If a school is willing to accept sub-par students then they will see their own stats decline, and maybe scho
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by vonwoodson 6y ago
Relevant The Onion clip: https://youtu.be/hRoSJ1y1FSY
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by vonwoodson 6y ago
Go has a distinct C flavor, and Rust has a moderate C++ flavor. Go has the key design features of asynchronous concurrency (go-routines) and message passing, as well as fast compile times. Go is backed by Google. Rust has the distinct de
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by vonwoodson 6y ago
Rust, too. WebAssembly is going to be a big deal to some people, and the rust tools are good for that.
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by vonwoodson 6y ago
You nailed it, but, “illegal orders” actually called “unlawful orders”. Soldiers and Sailors are only required to follow “lawful orders” not “moral orders”. The Patriot Act is The Law . Any person who is a conscientious objector to The Pa
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by vonwoodson 6y ago
If you use a third party to transmit data, then yes. If it’s not literally “in the envelope” then it’s public data. Weak argument or not, that’s how the laws work. Think about that very hard next time you type something into the Google se
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by vonwoodson 6y ago
“I laugh out loud when my kids get giddy about little features of their car like turn signals and breaks.” -somebody who thinks that it’s not worth the effort to learn how to use the tools they use every day
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by vonwoodson 6y ago
You can’t hold a random analyst, usually a contractor and not a “government official”, for not sharing your opinion on what a 200-year old, intentionally vague, document meant about who-was-contacting-who on a pice of technology that wasn’t
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by vonwoodson 6y ago
Never forget The Ludlow Massacre: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludlow_Massacre
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by vonwoodson 6y ago
That moment when your iPhone says “your usage is down 30% to 4 hours a day”
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by vonwoodson 6y ago
“English-Klingon names for girls” FTW
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by vonwoodson 6y ago
The US government actually put this idea into law 10 years ago: https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/PLAW-111publ274 More interesting link here: https://plainlanguage.gov
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by vonwoodson 6y ago
Dr. Richard Hamming said in his lecture series “Life Long Learning” given at the Naval Postgraduate School: a perfectly engineered bridge would collapse if an extra pound was driven across it. I used to think this was a joke, or at least s
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by vonwoodson 6y ago
This is the most important lesson on 2020. But, how do I find an employer who will agree with me?...
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by vonwoodson 6y ago
“I found learning a new language was easy” Proceeds to explain why a language that was designed to be easy to learn, is easy to learn.
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by vonwoodson 6y ago
Our hubris is rooted on our systems. We expect accelerating growth without bound. And, by Conway’s Law: “Any organization that designs a system (defined broadly) will produce a design whose structure is a copy of the organization's com
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by vonwoodson 6y ago
Thanks. I hate it.
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by vonwoodson 6y ago
Web assembly is going to change everything. Rust compiles to web assembly, maybe start there with single page apps as a start. Smart contracts. Writing a smart contract is pretty easy. They use web front ends to work. Bringing quality UX&#
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by vonwoodson 6y ago
My grandpa didn’t get the opportunity to empathy much wisdom on my before he died. But, he did tell me “Never take wooden nickels” and that sounds like good advice to me.
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by vonwoodson 6y ago
Ok, but for real: TikTok is a propaganda machine for China. End of story.
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by vonwoodson 6y ago
Many very successful mathematicians “only had a few tricks up their sleeves” when they developed their life’s work. They reused these “tricks” over and over. Don’t feel like you have to know everything. I’ve never been more satisfied (an