adamdavis

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by adamdavis 12y ago
While I can name several modern classical composers whom I interested in* I think your point still stands and most people wouldn't be able to name an active composer after Beethoven, maybe Brahms. I have brief memories of an interview
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by adamdavis 12y ago
But there are. That is to say, if you mean exceptionally talented composers of classical music. See Gyorgy Ligeti, Arvo Part, John Adams, George Crumb. Phillip Glass, and Nico Muhly. Everyone except Ligeti (RIP homie) is still living last t
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by adamdavis 12y ago
It doesn't make it true either, and nothing that the original poster said suggested that it might be the case. Heck, we don't even know the gender of the original poster.
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by adamdavis 12y ago
Good luck with that. For what its worth, in my experience, I've found .NET development to be less painful when not using Entity Framework.
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by adamdavis 12y ago
Fair enough. I think that's where we differ - I feel the word isn't quite as ill defined as you suggest, though it is commonly misused. A conversation for another time :)
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by adamdavis 12y ago
Thanks. I'm well aware of what a hipster is and how the term is used in the context of modern slang, this doesn't really help answer my original question, however.
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by adamdavis 12y ago
What exactly about this makes it a 'hipster' domain finder? edit: Obtuse question I guess. What makes it a hipster domain finder is the fact the author called it one. Please, carry on.
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by adamdavis 12y ago
I never really got this line of thought. While creating life in a laboratory and creating life through sexually reproduction between a man and woman (or however it is other organisms manage it) have the same end result, I think it's f
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by adamdavis 12y ago
No worries. Sorry we don't have the opportunity to have a more in-depth conversation about it.
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by adamdavis 12y ago
I think you're very sadly mistaken - white people can be victims of racism, too, you dig? I grew up and went through a school system where white people were by far the minority, and yes, I had to deal with racism. edit: Downvotes? Yike
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by adamdavis 12y ago
Ah, an important distinction, my mistake.
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by adamdavis 12y ago
You can read more here http://www.asp.net/open-source
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by adamdavis 12y ago
Certainly there is more than a small difference between it being rational for you to ignore a company and to call the company itself dormant and stale.
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by adamdavis 12y ago
I'm just curious - do you mind elaborating on your thought that Microsoft has been stale and dormant? This just seems so far from reality, so I'm wondering what about them gives you that impression.
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by adamdavis 13y ago
Sure, and people who are victims of dishonest police can have evidence to support their claims. Everyone wins.
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by adamdavis 13y ago
I think the major difference, which I mention in my edit, is the risks that we're suggesting are dangerous to a programmer aren't a direct result of the occupation. In the general case, I don't believe that anything about be
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by adamdavis 13y ago
I don't have any of that data either, but to suggest that the life as a programmer working from home is as dangerous as the life of a career coal miner seems a bit absurd to me. edit: Certainly no one's making the claim that a sed
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by adamdavis 13y ago
The text in the article certainly expresses they felt Twitter took a long time.
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by adamdavis 13y ago
I may have read these posts incorrectly, but I don't think anyone made the claim that he won this money. There was simply a poster who stated that 400,000 is comparable to an amount of money you would receive if you won a lottery.
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by adamdavis 13y ago
I would disagree. There's a distinct difference between food stamps->gigantic acquisition and food stamps->comfortable life as software developer at giant corporation->gigantic acquisition. The former glosses over the entire p
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by adamdavis 13y ago
He's suggesting that this headline ignores the period after the time when his family was on food stamps. The period where he had the financial means to live a fairly 'comfortable' life. The movement wasn't food stamps to
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by adamdavis 13y ago
Word. I was looking at the numbers for MegaMillions - seems like one of the payouts is 1 million dollars - which I think can easily turn into 400k if you took a lump sum. There are also a few payouts that are smaller sums. This is a sort of
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by adamdavis 13y ago
Is Powerball the only game that qualifies as winning the Lottery?
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by adamdavis 13y ago
Except that its observably not (true).
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by adamdavis 13y ago
Forgive me - I wasn't speaking in general terms about what I believe should happen to any individual who commits fraud, which I think your reply presupposes.
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by adamdavis 13y ago
I'm just going to support this opinion as I felt in a fairly similar way to the parent comment and I'm a little disappointed to see you down voted. I don't see what benefit sending this guy to jail provides other than a simpl
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by adamdavis 13y ago
"Nobody is calling spending weeks writing a caching layer for a 20-row database "elegant" or "best practice" I don't disagree with your main points, but you might be surprised to hear some things that people wi
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by adamdavis 13y ago
This is a minor digression, but I just have to know - have things gotten so bad that not having a facebook profile actually raise a red flag to an employer or is what you're saying just conjecture?
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by adamdavis 13y ago
I assure you it had a point, and I apologize if it was obscured by way of the quote. The point being that, well, perhaps your point would be better expressed through non-sarcastic means. No ad hominem was intended, it was more of a critique
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by adamdavis 13y ago
I would agree, although I'd also say there's nothing particularly witty or clever about the one I posted.

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