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by vturner 9y ago
"The problem is that it’s not against the law to be a gang member" I thought I read somewhere that MS-13 had been classified as a terrorist organization, no?
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by vturner 9y ago
Target customer + planned obsolescence.
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by vturner 9y ago
Yes, yes, yes to Lego Mindstorms. It was the bridge from make believe play to the real world. It was real enough to be a challenge but not so real that I could not grasp it. Did you always use the block based programming language or ever us
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by vturner 9y ago
When I read your story, something jumped out to me: willingness to take on risk. Whoever was building all those lines was willing to take on a lot of financial and other risk to themselves, right? Why they were willing to do so, I'm no
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by vturner 9y ago
I can't agree more with you and wish so much we as a nation would see the wisdom the founding fathers had when they wrote all rights not given to the federal government belong to the states. They were weary of powerful central governme
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by vturner 9y ago
Maybe because SV, at least from my outside SV vantage point, projects itself as working on life changing, world altering, every day simplifying products. From their ignorance of life outside SV, their self image is arrogant.
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by vturner 9y ago
Agreed, I would on occasion skip class and read the text for an hour in grad school. It was amazing how much more I learned by reading and processing the ideas at my own pace instead of the lecture. The issue was you never knew when the pro
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by vturner 9y ago
"Give someone an inch, and they will ask for a mile!"
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by vturner 9y ago
> the electoral college How inconvenient that the minority vote of states without mass populations centers is valued. > Johnson & Stein I voted for Johnson, it was not a "Nader." If we don't like the system, then we
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by vturner 9y ago
That's incredible! What stunning dishonesty on their part.
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by vturner 9y ago
Ah, I see now :) I didn't catch the irony there before. My apologies fory hasty comment.
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by vturner 9y ago
It's most certainly not funny when you've lived it. My mother is routinely frustrated by her android phone I bought her due to unending UI tweaks. It's striking how to us software developers what is an exciting new feature or
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by vturner 9y ago
Interesting article until one notices a couple points...theres the geographic metro dot plot but there's also this statement early on? "(The study notes some limitations to these O*NET data, which are reported as aggregates, and n
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by vturner 9y ago
Purchased a Pure water filter shipped and sold by Amazon for my girlfrend...it arrived yesterday. I go over to her apartment to install it and wow what a surprise. It was a used filter. The filter element was in a ziplock bag. One of the fa
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by vturner 9y ago
There's plenty of comments on saying no your career is not doomed. I'll add that using HackerNews is not a strong way of grasping industry needs. If one took their advice solely from HackerNews, one might think the only tech that
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by vturner 9y ago
Ah, maybe it's been abandoned for JavaFX as others have pointed out?
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by vturner 9y ago
The HTML5 parsing in Java is awesome now! built a desktop app with Bootstrap 3 recently and the logic in Kotlin, fun stuff. Your Swing metal L&F is great :)
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by vturner 9y ago
Not true, you can get the platform feel easily. I've seen swing do Windows XP through 7 easily. Never tried 10 yet.
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by vturner 9y ago
Curious project I wonder how it compares in actual portability to a project like Kotlin? Been enjoying that language and the possibility of the apps core functionality being cross platform.
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by vturner 9y ago
Thanks for the good memories. I remember those days of Java 1.4 start up times and the first talks of modularization coming out. It was so exciting! Then 1.5 came and startup speeds boosted a lot. I recently gave Java another try with a Kot
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by vturner 9y ago
Thank-you for illustrating the reason we have elected, republican governments in the west and in addition have a non-popular voting system for the president in the United States(I don't mean the party of the same name, I mean the style
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by vturner 9y ago
Agreed, modularity definitely helps us minimize the mental load of understanding all the objects at once. But how does it handle this situation: Write function in module A that expects some complex data structure that comes in. In a static
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by vturner 9y ago
This is an honest question, what's the size of projects you have written in Python? For me, once a project gets beyond some size, the aggravation only grows of debugging old code and adding new. Mostly, I see this is as a lack of compi
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by vturner 9y ago
Glad to see Columbus off the list and hope it stays that way, if we must give tax breaks, I'd rather it be to small businesses, not monopolies.
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by vturner 9y ago
Totally off topic, but isn't it bizarre how our politicians nor anyone else in the overseeing agencies/industries can seem to understand why "healthcare" is so expensive...until we actually open up the market for entry o
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by vturner 9y ago
Just for all the inevitable comments about "the government should have just given X people Y dollars instead..." Iowa isn't "giving money." It does not have the additional revenue before Apple arrives, thus, it can&
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by vturner 9y ago
Young developer here too, but I started about a decade ago with robotics/desktop development. Thus, I can sympathize with the comment earlier that desktop UI has done all this: clients that range from tiny phone screens to full desktop
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by vturner 9y ago
"I have to confess, the build setup is the most intimidating part of modern web development for me." Here here.
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by vturner 9y ago
Interesting response with lots of "You <x>..." in there. I'm also a conservative minded person (leaning more libertarian) and thought I would add a response. First off, the conservative/libertarian discourse is not
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by vturner 9y ago
Yes, but that box is oh so hard to check. ;)

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