waterbear

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by waterbear 8y ago
Isn’t Java a pay-to-play runtime now? I thought Oracle changed the licensing model after Java 8?
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by waterbear 8y ago
I think aspects of the operational technology should improve, but should the subway be a brighter, more cheerful space? Of that I am uncertain... I’d advocate for more reliable trains, in the same way I want the elevator to show up as soon
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by waterbear 8y ago
The subtext of my point is that if you policed the subway beyond a certain threshold, New York might cease to be attractive to the kinds of people that find New York a uniquely livable place. It’s not so much that the bar should be higher,
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by waterbear 8y ago
This feels like a troll comment, in that it asks a back-handed question, to highlight the shortcomings of a comparable example, more than the question voices honest curiosity regarding the question as it may be superficially posed. Possibly
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by waterbear 8y ago
Plus, GitHub is a Microsoft property now, and I believe that on some fundamental level, Microsoft is happy to be in command of social web properties that still see avid use, and aren’t being stifled by Microsoft’s otherwise domineering repu
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by waterbear 8y ago
Mr. McDonald said that if Ms. Thompson’s daughter took the groceries without scanning them properly, it was by mistake. Video surveillance, reviewed by The New York Times, shows her daughter trying to scan and rescan grocer
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by waterbear 8y ago
More to the point, it’s proof of mental alacrity to find new challenges worth meeting. To seek out cool things, even if they represent difficult accomplishments, and maintain enough drive to reach the finish line. Imitating one successful c
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by waterbear 8y ago
Another way to look at it is to consider that it’s really embarassing to suffer an extremely high cost in lives lost, over a misconfigured Group Policy Object or Windows Registry Key or /etc/hosts file. Something like that is akin