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America's Most Underappreciated Right: Public Assembly(theatlantic.com)
84 points by welcome_dragon 7y ago|66 comments
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by welcome_dragon 7y ago
Checklists are stupid. Using them can make you feel like you're following a stupid set of obvious rules. Having to demonstrate that you followed a checklist seems childish. ... but you know what? Time and again, they are proven to work
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by welcome_dragon 7y ago
I like the optimism in this article. It will be interesting to read follow-up entries as he progresses in the role
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by welcome_dragon 7y ago
> My company is now moving to putting their docs in confluence, which I hate. Still better than SharePoint! ... Though I've taken to writing as much in markdown and storing with my code as possible. Our build process can compile cod
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by welcome_dragon 7y ago
At least this isn't being reported from Sparta, TN (aka Limetown)
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by welcome_dragon 7y ago
Interesting article but wow. What a click bait title
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Justice for Pearl Harbor: How America Assassinated Admiral Yamamoto
5 points by welcome_dragon 7y ago|5 comments
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by welcome_dragon 7y ago
Da
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by welcome_dragon 7y ago
If the documentation has any code snippets, they absolutely should have unit tests around them to ensure the documentation stays current with the code
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by welcome_dragon 7y ago
That this was over 50 years ago will never cease to amaze me
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by welcome_dragon 7y ago
I really miss Dr Dobbs (when it was a thicker physical magazine). As a budding programmer, I learned so much from it
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by welcome_dragon 8y ago
I once worked with a solutions architect who said things like "so? There are laws against people accessing this illegally. We don't need SSL"
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by welcome_dragon 8y ago
... and I used to live in Darien, IL which was named after Darien, CT
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by welcome_dragon 8y ago
And they don't charge for distribution per se but their cut more than makes up for it.
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by welcome_dragon 8y ago
That's how the internet works ... and Apple is hosting the app only. It doesn't deal with the streaming
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by welcome_dragon 8y ago
What do you mean by "distributed thousands of terabytes of Spotify to iOS users for free"?
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The patent office lax standards gave Elizabeth Holmes the BS patents she needed(boingboing.net)
7 points by welcome_dragon 8y ago|1 comments
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by welcome_dragon 8y ago
Wtf guys? You can't have a reasonable discussion like this!
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by welcome_dragon 8y ago
If you don't mind some growing pains, Nashville TN. The tech scene is growing very rapidly so there's no shortage of work, and the population is well educated. Vanderbilt is here as well as other excellent universities nearby. Win
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by welcome_dragon 8y ago
I don't think that pay is anywhere near Bay area rates
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by welcome_dragon 8y ago
Plus there's Lil Porgy's
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by welcome_dragon 8y ago
I disagree, as long as getting the right answer isn't important. I flat out tell people I don't care if they get the right answer, that I just want to hear their thought process. Such questions used in this way are extremely valua
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by welcome_dragon 8y ago
Ah yes. Use an overloaded term like fascist which has a definition but is thrown around to usually mean "anyone who doesn't agree with me".
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by welcome_dragon 9y ago
I can only imagine the level-headed discussions this is going to spark.
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by welcome_dragon 9y ago
Having lived in the South for the past 8 years and the North for ... Well many more ... I 100% agree with your statement. I've learned that people here (the South) are far more accepting and far less racist than up north.
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by welcome_dragon 9y ago
An extremely accessible article on higher dimensional geometry!
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by welcome_dragon 9y ago
Wow. Great answer! Sounds like you also have experience with crappy outsourcing s well
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by welcome_dragon 9y ago
I for one am happy to see a true apology here, not an "I'm sorry if I offended you" statement that so many people make the days. This has all the points of a proper apology: an understanding of the wrong committed, acknowledg