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by wtbob 10y ago
> I understand there's obvious use cases for Go, but an amazing amount of what we do is taking data from place 'A' (web, socket, file), sending it to place 'B' (another web, socket, file), and then returning a re
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> Are you using Go exclusively? Pretty much, in my career. Sure, i know plenty of languages, but my day job is slinking Go. I honestly don't want to program in Python any more. I never thought I'd say that, but it's true
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> Clinton received the most votes, that is, the votes of most voters. The number of votes she received didn't represent a majority of the votes cast, but she still received the vote of most voters. No, that's precisely not the
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> Clinton was a centre-right corporate insider candidate. Trump was a far-right corporate outsider candidate. I'll posit that Mrs. Clinton is centre-left, not centre-right, more authoritarian/right on economics and more authori
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by wtbob 10y ago
> most voters were actually #WithHer. No, they weren't. According to the latest results, Mrs. Clinton received 48% of the popular vote: that means that most voters didn't vote for her. More voted for her than for Mr. Trump,
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Former Python developer here. The problem was two-fold: Python 3 broke backwards- and forward-compatibility (in a practical sense: there were workarounds, but libraries didn't necessarily use 'em, and Python is nothing if not a g
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> I didn't say otherwise. Well, you wrote, 'he got less than 50% (as Clinton got more votes than him),' which means that the reason Mr. Trump received less than half the votes is that Mrs. Clinton received more than half t
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by wtbob 10y ago
His phrase, 'he got less than 50% (as Clinton got more votes than him),' implies that Mr. Trump received less than 50% because Mrs. Clinton received more votes than him, which is not true: they both received less than 50% because
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by wtbob 10y ago
> Of those, he got less than 50% (as Clinton got more votes than him). Mrs. Clinton also got less than 50% of the votes. Neither one won a clear majority of the popular vote.
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> When I think about writing my own language, I think of something with as few parenthesis as possible Just swap [] with (), then they're a lot easier to hit. It's weird that parentheses are shifted but square brackets are not
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by wtbob 10y ago
I'm reminded of Mitt Romney's fabled ORCA system[1], which was also an epic failure. Indeed, it's something which has since caused me to re-evaluate my opinion of Romney: if he was as great an executive as I thought, how coul
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by wtbob 10y ago
I don't see anything about them being okay with hurting the country, but I see a lot about them wanting President Obama to fail, and fail badly. Do you blame them? Do you not think that Democrats want Mr. Trump to fail badly, and are
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> The vast majority of their time is spent in less than a dozen states, who have a total population less than that of New York and California combined, just because the race in those states is neck and neck. Those are the swing states,
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> They quite explicitly said the exact opposite the day after Obama was elected. They didn't just want Obama's policies to fail. They were willing to accept failures that hurt people, so that those people would associate the pa
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by wtbob 10y ago
> The electoral college is a net-negative contribution to the federal nature of the US because it allows a tiny, extremely unrepresentative minority to decide for the whole country while eroding the legitimacy of the executive branch, a
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Destroying the Electoral College would be one more step in destroying the federal nature of the Unites States. Perhaps you think that's a good thing, but I think it's a terrible idea: I think that we should be more , not less ,
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Have you considered that Republicans might consider their opposition and obstruction to be in the best interests of America?
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> all you're saying is that people run applications on operating systems you don't like No, he's saying that people run applications on fundamentally insecure operating systems. > They're not going to switch. That
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Thoughts on 'Docker in production'(sweharris.org)
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The thing is, you really shouldn't be using your corporate network for non-work-related things. Use your own network service for that kind of thing! Do you want your boss to see your reddit history?
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by wtbob 10y ago
Why not just switch all the way to Linux? It runs Chrome (and Firefox!) just as well as Windows, and with a browser it has the email and calendaring apps folks are using these days anyway.
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Or you just have a secondary dial. The watch I'm wearing right now has a major 1-12 dial and a secondary 13-24 dial. But my other watch has a 1-12 dial and a secondary 1-24 dial, with a funky secondary hour hand, so perhaps I'm w
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by wtbob 10y ago
> If Alice and Bob are just comparing their directories of already-known Signal contacts, there's nothing for a discovery protocol to accomplish: Alice, Bob, and Charlie are already each other's contacts! No, they are sharing (
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> If Alice shares her contacts with Bob, she may discover some contacts she has in common with Bob, but not necessarily which ones are Signal users. Perhaps Bob has talked to Charlie some time in the past using Signal, but perhaps not. T
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Many don't, but some do. Mine, for example, does. It's actually really cool to be able to contribute back.
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> The thing is you can sit here and say the dolar is 1:2000 but it doesn't really mean thats the cost, thats where everyone fails, because neither the venezuelans have the money to pay for it or people want our currency, there is an
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by wtbob 10y ago
Works fine with NoScript & uBlock!
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> Social science is not a second class citizen to natural science, as both society and nature are systems which can be observed. I honestly think social science is only slightly more scientific than astrology. But even were it not, scien
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> The protocol you describe is a synchronous online protocol where Alice and Bob have to be online at the same time (and if they're doing this at Charlie's behest, so does Charlie). They don't actually have to be online
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I think you'll find that many, many English-speakers think that Juliet is asking where Romeo is. Thus, knowing that she's asking why he's a Montague indicates that one is not one of those many people — it's a shibbole

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