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by ytinas 17y ago
I would submit that the reason we still don't do async very well is because callbacks are just not a very good technique for some reason. If you look at Erlang (which the article mentions), I don't feel like I ever do the kind of Async prog
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by ytinas 17y ago
Personally I find it more of an example of how screwed up the US government is at this point. They seem to ruin everything they try to do. A lot of other first world countries have reasonable protections for workers without killing the
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by ytinas 17y ago
This isn't reddit. Disagreement doesn't equal downvote. Having unemployment benefits is not optional. Even 3rd world countries have this. However, I don't know that charging the companies directly for the unemployment is the best. Where
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by ytinas 17y ago
You're confusing a few issues here. Your story highlights a problem with the law system in the US. Plenty of countries with more worker friendly labor laws deal with these situations without forcing people to defend themselves in court.
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by ytinas 17y ago
Companies tend to make NDAs that are much more restrictive than what they could actually enforce.
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by ytinas 17y ago
"Windows today is so much more secure than OS X" That's a pretty bold statement. The security model might be theoretically better but since most applications force you to run as administrator anyway I don't think it's currently buying you
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by ytinas 17y ago
Wait, what? I would be just as happy as the next guy to see MS go down in flames, but "Linux is much nicer to program for"? In what way exactly? GUI? Nope, the opposite. [1] The server? Not so much. I mean, if you were actually writi
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by ytinas 17y ago
Does it not occur to you that if good governance is impossible than perhaps we should consider that governance itself might be a flawed concept?
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by ytinas 17y ago
If you're storing people's password in plain text in your db you should make your potential users aware of this so people (like myself) can avoid accidentally using your site.
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by ytinas 17y ago
Ironically your post has shown the true power the US has. Abnormal levels of patriotism. America has declined. Drastically. Look at what the middle class has today compared to years prior. Did you know there was a time that middle
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by ytinas 17y ago
You say things like "investor experiences a real loss of assets (decreased net worth) whereas an unemployed person merely ceases monetary gain" and say my logic is terrible? The investor, in most cases, lost some number in a computer som
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by ytinas 17y ago
So they can go back to themselves and their family having almost literally nothing. What is offensive about your post is the suggestion that the US is somehow "not good at" production because we don't have the option to utterly disregard
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by ytinas 17y ago
Yea, from my perspective the "company man" doesn't exist anymore for the most part. There are people who buy into the cool-aid, but most people treat the company they're with with the same loyalty it treats them: almost none. When a bette
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by ytinas 17y ago
It was posted 6 hours after my post. :)
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by ytinas 17y ago
Fair enough. In your case it makes sense then.
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by ytinas 17y ago
Wow, that's a pretty arrogant/offensive post. I would assume you were trolling if I saw this on any other site. You are really suggesting that violating countless human rights laws, more or less using slavery, etc. is how one can "manufact
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by ytinas 17y ago
So they have a lot less to risk than you do (for most investors, losing the entire investment wouldn't hurt them bad enough to force them into the work force. If you lose your job however...)
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by ytinas 17y ago
Has this actually been verified? I haven't happened on any stories yet about someone "doing their time" at google to go pick a job making way above their normal range.
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by ytinas 17y ago
Companies always have rules about raise limits and such. If you want to get an increase in pay you nearly always have to switch to another company.
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by ytinas 17y ago
Is the work you will be doing on these "interesting projects" the thing you would pick if you were a multimillionaire and didn't have to work? If not making as much as you possibly can, with the lowest living standard you can get away with
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by ytinas 17y ago
Well, the very obvious difference between the made up $100k and $200k is that you can build a much bigger nest egg. You're saying half your pay now, so lets say this would let you live off your savings for 2 years to try and make a start up
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by ytinas 17y ago
Exactly. I'm not flying through intersections without even touching my brakes. My point was about following the law to the letter.
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by ytinas 17y ago
You misunderstand me. I slow down at stop signs to thoroughly verify that no one is coming (and if it is a dangerous stop then I tend to stop completely), but I simply don't follow "the letter of the law". There is no logical reason to in
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by ytinas 17y ago
I think you really underestimate the desire of people to not have to be bothered with this kind of stuff. No matter how insane things get people tend to say "well, it could be worse. We've still got beer and football". I would, for exampl
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by ytinas 17y ago
Are you sure you wont get that regardless? I guess my perspective comes from just seeing the US government as a failed experiment at this point. It has so many problems and those problems themselves prevent any solution (e.g. how are you
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by ytinas 17y ago
>I know its fun to rag on public officials on Internet forums. But most of the ones I know have been fairly decent people who are just doing their jobs. This could be said about a lot of people who did incredibly horrific things. Virtu
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by ytinas 17y ago
Given the track record which is more likely to be effective? Continuing to wish for common sense and latitude in our public officials or protecting yourself from their normal behavior?
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by ytinas 17y ago
I think by "Western nations" you mean North American nations. Even in the UK (probably the most "US-ized" country in Europe" make-from-scratch food is common. In much of Europe you will find that instant foods make up only a slightly large
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by ytinas 17y ago
Fair point. But I would point out that the only things this works with are things we have thoroughly mastered (e.g. walking). People have issues talking and driving (e.g. in parts of Europe it's illegal to talk on a cell while driving b
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by ytinas 17y ago
I don't think you need full multitasking for this. If the OS handles that situation (e.g. one app is allowed to access the screen, one the speaker) then that's enough and it avoids the complexity of having full threading.

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