crazy_geek

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by crazy_geek 7y ago
Selfish? Really? That's your socialist dogwhistle right there. Wasteful? That's in the eye of the beholder. It all depends on what you value. Some people value things differently than you. Worse for society? Is it better to have t
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by crazy_geek 7y ago
Am I the only one who prefers a car to shared trains/rideshare/walking? Knowing I have a portable climate controlled space when the weather isn't to my liking? Knowing I can conveniently leave things fairly securely near whe
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by crazy_geek 7y ago
With a CC, the money is taken away from your CC company, not your bank account first. So you won't have to deal with the potential cascade of overdrafts, bounced checks, etc. Secondly, CC Cos because they're first in line to being
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by crazy_geek 10y ago
> Also, do you really endorse that verse? That is: Do you think we should institute the death penalty for the crime of kidnapping? Let me turn it around: If someone stole you and sold you, or stole your child and sold them for a slave, w
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by crazy_geek 10y ago
I've run into what appear to be conflicting views, but after some study, I'm able to resolve them. Usually it's understanding things in their proper context. That is: it's by reading more and paying more attention.
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by crazy_geek 10y ago
> And the Bible never speaks out against slavery. Most people, when speaking about slavery, are only aware of American slavery. Slavery in ancient times was generally a very different thing. But yes, it does speak about what was Ameri
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by crazy_geek 11y ago
The sidecar part of this looks like what is essentially SmartStack[1] but requiring the user be aware of it's existence (due to Micro's proto3 api) whereby users of SS can more or less be ignorant of it's existence. Actually
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by crazy_geek 11y ago
"Simple", the thing to change is: we stop giving them (the pundits and the person saying it) attention; since that's what they're after. Either that, or just get over the fact that people will say things you don't l
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by crazy_geek 11y ago
I find it interesting that when the government distorts a market via pricing controls, taxes, or other means, the law of unintended consequences almost inevitably kicks in and it's result is either "bad luck" or calls to &quo
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by crazy_geek 11y ago
200% yes. I've got better things to do than go through the whole recruiting cycle only to find they're not going to pay what I'm willing to take -- especially when it's wayyyyy out of range. Happens more and more as I
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by crazy_geek 11y ago
Hear, hear! Is Java the right tool for everything? No, but for large code bases, it is miles easier to dive into a codebase, and the tooling is so much better than anything else I've seen that's not Visual Studio (as much as I&#
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by crazy_geek 11y ago
Links are not clickable because it's 2015 and I (wrongly) assume you are capable of plunking 'open office plans productivity' into your search engine of choice. But to be helpful, http://lmgtfy.com/?q=Open+off
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by crazy_geek 11y ago
When I get these, I use postmaster@domain.of.page. It seems if we can generally agree on which one we all pick (or some small number of choices), we might have a chance of making a dent when the postmaster starts getting effectively self-s
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by crazy_geek 11y ago
Study after study show that open distraction office plans are bad for productivity, and increase stress and sick days -- even among those who like open office plans.
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by crazy_geek 11y ago
FTFY: Creating websites with very light fonts and low contrast is a bad idea. tl;dr: Using the wrong tool for the job makes life difficult. Go figure.
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by crazy_geek 11y ago
Having inherited much code like this in the past, I can tell you I feel bad for the poor people who inherit this crap. Over extraction is okayyyyy-ish. Over abstraction is rage inducing. If you're over abstracting, you're making
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by crazy_geek 11y ago
It's the old Unix curses library approach applied to the DOM. Everything old is new again :)
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by crazy_geek 11y ago
For me, it wasn't so much the explicit ageism (though it was there to be sure), but more of not fitting in because since some time in my 30's, my social interests don't revolve around the consumption of alcohol anymore, and I
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by crazy_geek 11y ago
Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, USA I presume. If you're not in the know, it's another tech center in the US
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by crazy_geek 12y ago
I haven't had the opportunity to tinker with this, but what if the client sends a X-UIDH: header of it's own? Will VZW overwrite the header, or will it pass it through? If it doesn't clobber it, there's a browser plugi
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by crazy_geek 12y ago
Having worked at Google, I can say that there are definitely large chunks of the company that do not do agile. Currently working at Spotify, I can say that while the company definitely does agile, most of the teams AFAIK don't do Scru
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by crazy_geek 12y ago
For portrait lined 3x5s, if you can't find them, you can just use a guillotine on a 5x8 card and get two 3x5s and a nice business card size-ish scrap. And business card stock for an index card todo is way overkill. Also 2.5 cents vs.
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by crazy_geek 12y ago
My security senses are tingling. A server evaluating potentially hostile client provided expressions? Proceed with extreme caution.