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by colllectorof 5y ago
>It's not clear that he's being treated differently than other people would be in the same situation. Empathy and benefit of the doubt for billionaires who vacation in Fiji and whose kids get a medevac flight to a major city
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by colllectorof 5y ago
You're confused by the fact that people are fed up with various elites pushing for restrictive policies, then routinely bypassing and ignoring those policies when it comes to their personal lives? What is so confusing here?
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by colllectorof 5y ago
Yeah, that's an annoying typo. Fixed.
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by colllectorof 5y ago
This is silly. I for one is fully ready to return to the office. Sacrificing two hours of my life to commute five days a week is a small price for making my boss feel more in control. And what's a bit of traffic congestion and burnt ga
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by colllectorof 5y ago
Gaslighers gonna gaslight. You don't need a Ph.D. to see this "research" was guided by motivated reasoning rather than genuine desire to figure out what is going on.
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by colllectorof 5y ago
More like "I'm tired of anticipating the inevitable, while being relentlessly gaslit about its probability". Whether or not edX is sold to a third party, the underlying problems are already in the system. It's the effect
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by colllectorof 5y ago
This is an excellent question/framing. The security model used in the industry right now is insane and doomed to fail, and yet it is relentlessly pushed forth and defended.
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by colllectorof 5y ago
ECS (which I have not used) sounds a lot like Traits. The name and core concepts for Traits were defined in 2003 in an ECOOP paper [1]. I think traits were first implemented by Squeak Smalltalk in 2005. [1] http://scg.unibe.ch&#x
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by colllectorof 5y ago
1983 Smlltalk-80: The Language and Its Implementation by Adele Goldberg and David Robson had pretty good example with none of this animal/mammal/dog crap. Not sure when the trend for giving awful examples like this really started,
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by colllectorof 5y ago
>In all my experience with OOP, it's always been inheritance that is the root of all evil. It's not, though, and the fact that people keep repeating this meme shows that most developers don't even bother thinking about i
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by colllectorof 5y ago
Alan Kay spent the last 40 years educating people on OOP and system design. His talks and research papers are now widely available on the internet. There are free, modern and easy-to-use versions of Smalltalk. Anyone who still remains ignor
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by colllectorof 5y ago
After seeing how Twitter nuked Unity 2020 campaign[1] using "authenticity" as an excuse, and how that garnered zero attention from either tech or political media, I am hyper-skeptical of all claims regarding "authenticity&quo
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by colllectorof 5y ago
Why does every article on mis- and dis-information I see on HN these days starts with some primer that encourages the audience to assume that it's predominantly the product of the political right? In this case the primer takes the fo
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by colllectorof 5y ago
This is a horseshit reply that tries to counter an observation about how something actually works with a contrived hypothetical about how something else could work in theory. It ignores the impact of how a medium is organized on the messa
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by colllectorof 5y ago
MDN should be a separate company. Personally, I'm no longer interested in supporting Mozilla in any capacity. Their management behaves in a way that's consistent with the idea that it's barely more than controlled opposition
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by colllectorof 5y ago
That's assuming that those companies want outside developers to be knowledgeable. That's a questionable assumption. If anyone here remembers how old Microsoft used to operate and why people went to get MS-something certificates yo
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by colllectorof 5y ago
>Nostalgia for the simplicity of the past ends up having ugly cultural implications. It's easy to say "let's go back to the time when things were simple"; it's a lot harder to say "folks in (e.g.) Israel sh
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by colllectorof 5y ago
More often than not a problem that looks simple and has insane complexity once you dig a bit deeper is based on some faulty assumptions. Assumptions that either changed over time or never made sense to begin with. The wast majority of softw
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by colllectorof 5y ago
Could have something to do with literally all major sources of information in US showing ideologically-charged garbage in front of people who want to focus on other things in life.
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by colllectorof 5y ago
>The blue badge is one of the ways we help people distinguish the authenticity of accounts that are of high public interest. This is gaslighting. That's not how blue checkmarks work in practice. They are a completely synthetic cre
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by colllectorof 5y ago
>Smallish non Chinese or Taiwanese company producing a mechanical keyboard with replaceable keys, QMK firmware, LED's and you are most times at a price around this. Like I said, LEDs seem pointless in this design. Also, I don&#x27
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by colllectorof 5y ago
I rarely use Discord these days, but when I need to link something next time, I'll use this service. (Discord still doesn't support hyperlinks.)
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by colllectorof 5y ago
$285.00? Too expensive. It's not even a matter of whether I can afford something of this sort. I simply feel awful when I overpay for something that seems like a hipster product. Cut out the USB hub and seemingly useless RGB LEDs, brin
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by colllectorof 5y ago
https://factorcode.org/ One of the most impressive languages you've never heard about. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_0QlhYlS8g
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by colllectorof 5y ago
Yes. Communication software that can be set up by anyone with some technical skill is bad. Communication software run by centralized corporations is good. No drama possible when your entire chat system can be nuked with a press of a button
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by colllectorof 5y ago
>As for the remaining millions, only a tiny minority of them will even know this is a thing, let alone care enough to make the change or contact a developer who can do it. These are the folks who have hosted their wordpress site with Go
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by colllectorof 5y ago
>> You're "renting" something that can be effortlessly replicated ad infinitum. >This is only slightly less true for books and optical media. You are never paying for the paper or plastic - even on the lowest margin
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by colllectorof 5y ago
The reality is that most big tech companies want to get all the benefits of "going digital", while shifting all the costs or downsides of that move to the consumers. This is not accidental. This is a long-term strategy backed by a
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by colllectorof 5y ago
>The ordeal at our Capital proves there's a problem that needs to be monitored. Unlike, say, nightly riots in Portland, that require neither monitoring nor federal response of any kind? It would be one thing if posts like the one
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by colllectorof 5y ago
It's not "language speed", it's memory consumption per request that makes the biggest difference in practice.

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