zeemonkee

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by zeemonkee 15y ago
You really don't want to let go of this idiocy, do you ? The examples I gave are ways in which the democratic process can be subverted. It's more than just whether you are black or gay. It's the very basis by which a citizen can freely e
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by zeemonkee 15y ago
OK. So suppose your voting preferences are available online. Your boss happens to be a friend of the candidate, or a member of a political party. You are told to vote a certain way or lose your job. You are turned down for a bank loan becau
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by zeemonkee 15y ago
Because I might be turned down for a job or apartment or loan because of my political views ? And because it's frankly nobody else's business how I vote ?
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by zeemonkee 15y ago
Sure, but what's the chance you hit a good dev ?
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by zeemonkee 15y ago
Unlike the troll at the top of the thread, there are some fair comments here. It's maddening when the maintainers shrug and say more or less "well, that's the way it's going to be". My pet hate is contrib.auth - the models used feel serious
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by zeemonkee 15y ago
I have my own pet gripes about Django, but then I have gripes about any framework I've used, Rails included. However, when I've seen a Django project that's a "huge mess" that's largely due to the incompetence of the developer. A more "rail
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by zeemonkee 15y ago
Sorry, WTF ? The Republic of Cyprus is a sovereign state, it's not part of Greece.
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by zeemonkee 15y ago
One problem is with the product-as-service. You have a basic product - for example a project management system - but to sell it to the big enterprise clients you have to add that one feature they need to integrate with their backend account
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by zeemonkee 15y ago
A lot of useful stuff in Django also lives in 3rd party apps that depend on Django-specific things e.g. authentication or templates.
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by zeemonkee 15y ago
> When doctors, plumbers, daycare workers, and bus drivers start targeting the 3rd world market I will too. Doctors already do: WHO, Medicins sans frontiers etc. How do you think smallpox and polio were eliminated world-wide ? Now that
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by zeemonkee 15y ago
Not the point. None of these solutions are easy or obvious to the casual consumer. Companies (and governments) should make legal distribution easy for consumers worldwide if they want to reduce illegal downloading.
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by zeemonkee 15y ago
Excellent product - been a happy customer for 6 months. The idea of increasing the price by a fraction per user is a good one - the more customers you have the more expensive it gets to run, but you also reward early adopters.
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by zeemonkee 15y ago
Good example of when governments got the job done (P51 Mustang): https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/North_America... First prototype completed 100 days after the contract signed. In contrast it took decades to build the Eurofi
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by zeemonkee 15y ago
The author seems to confuse "JVM" and "Java". The Twitter team AFAIK are using Scala.
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by zeemonkee 15y ago
There's a difference between queuing for an iPhone and queuing for G+. When you stand in a queue, you know how long you have to wait. It's fair as everyone knows their position in the line. G+ is a queue where instead of letting people in a
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by zeemonkee 15y ago
I believe Google have honest reasons to limit invites right now. That's understandable. From a public relations POV though it's very poorly handled. A better, fairer way would be to give each new member 1 or 2 invites, not hundreds or thous
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by zeemonkee 15y ago
The shuttle reminds me of one of those awful software development projects which start with clear, simple goals, until all the "stakeholders" start wanting their pet feature and need to be appeased because they will bring more money to the
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by zeemonkee 15y ago
Ideally, sure. But suppose I don't know anything about SEO. How would I judge if the article is bullshit or not ? If, however, I see "x is an SEO consultant" then I would at least suspect that the author is trying to sell me something rathe
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by zeemonkee 15y ago
So, if you read an article saying "Hire an SEO consultant today to improve your site visibility x100" and the author happens to be an SEO consultant, it would be an ad hominem to point this fact out ?
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by zeemonkee 15y ago
What, other than your complete lack of respect for human dignity ? This isn't a "straw man". It is an example of exactly what you suggested. Are you suggesting people raise their families in dormitories ? It's one thing for students or a mi
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by zeemonkee 15y ago
"rooms in a dormitory instead of housing vouchers," It's called the workhouse. The Victorians tried it. Read Dickens for example.
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by zeemonkee 15y ago
" I'm not even sure that this is a bad thing." Actually, it's been a pretty awful thing and led the US to create enemies were none existed before. The alliance with the Mujehaddin in Afghanistan in the 80s is a good example. (BTW as interes
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by zeemonkee 15y ago
I wonder if the whole restricted invites thing is part of a marketing strategy aimed at Facebook: - Preview ahead of next week to steal FB's thunder about their "big announcement" - Invites quickly pulled - Everybody who doesn't have a G+ i
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by zeemonkee 15y ago
Interesting - was watching All the President's Men the other night and they used these terms - I was wondering about the distinction.
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by zeemonkee 15y ago
Django will be fine. It certainly has its annoyances but it has a nice ecosystem (= people to help you out, open source code to learn from and packages to do just about anything you need). It also has the best employment opportunities. Once
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by zeemonkee 15y ago
I don't think even the worst 19th century robber-baron would have stooped so low as to consider asking his minions to pay for the privilege of working for him. There is much talk of a "sense of entitlement" when talking of young people toda
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by zeemonkee 15y ago
There's something going on here. I don't know about the US, but in the UK social mobility is actually worse than in the 1950s: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1555697/UK-one-of-wor... So, you have a pattern where: - More people are
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by zeemonkee 15y ago
Well, the employer gets cheap (or even free) labour - and therefore higher profits - paid for by the taxpayer. In essence, the employer is exploiting the system as much as any "welfare queen". Sure, workers on minimum wage may receive benef
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by zeemonkee 15y ago
You completely missed my point. If unpaid internships become the norm, that is it becomes expected that a person has to perform a period of unpaid work as some kind of apprenticeship, then they will be forced to do so if they want a paid
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by zeemonkee 15y ago
That's my point - why is it a controversial issue ? How did we go so low ?

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