degobah

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by degobah 5mo ago
SWE with 15 years of experience Location: San Francisco Remote: Open to it Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Full-stack web apps, React, Typescript, .NET/C#, ASP.NET, Electron, Bash, Python, Database design, SQL Server&#x
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by degobah 7mo ago
But POTUS 5 months ago: "If you look back years ago in the 1920s and the 1930s, they said global cooling will kill the world. We have to do something. Then they said global warming will kill the world, but then it started getting coole
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by degobah 3y ago
Very helpful, thanks!
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by degobah 4y ago
For political reasons he needs it to be more than a very popular private service. He needs it to be an essential public utility.
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by degobah 4y ago
You are more scandalized about the campaign of a private citizen emailing Twitter to ask that dick pics of his son remove, than about the White House emailing Twitter to have tweets removed?
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by degobah 4y ago
I know the Trump White House made requests for stuff to be taken down via email, (instead of the Report Tweet button), but I didn't see that President Trump requesting a ToS review for some tweets was this kind of corruption. https:&#
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by degobah 4y ago
What did the Biden campaign do that the Trump White House did not? "In 2020, requests from both the Trump White House and the Biden campaign were received and honored." The difference is that the Trump White House was the executiv
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by degobah 4y ago
What did we learn today about Democrats and Twitter?
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by degobah 7y ago
So what you're saying is that when a reporter noticed that the monthly job openings number hit a 4 year low, the Reuters service should not have released a short article stating that fact, otherwise they're "salivating over f
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by degobah 7y ago
Thanks for your work. OP maybe didn't read the first two paragraphs of YMNNJ, which clearly states: > jQuery and its cousins are great, and by all means use them if it makes it easier to develop your application. > If you're
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by degobah 7y ago
> Pages like "You might not need jQuery" try to sell the idea that it’s easy to ditch jQuery. ... good reasons to not use jQuery: if you’re writing code that you want to be re-used by others... Literally the first thing youmigh
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by degobah 7y ago
We also need to donate more to FOSS. And find more ways to monetize FOSS. It's tough for many FOSS projects to succeed on a volunteer basis.
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by degobah 7y ago
Since its purpose is to launch rockets, I assume it lands where it takes off, and might never stray far away.
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by degobah 8y ago
No one has accepted anything. "Man plans to sue his parents". Plans .
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by degobah 9y ago
Maybe this answers your question: > But beside this historical excursion, what are the reasons that I use Free Pascal in my personal projects?
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by degobah 10y ago
It's hard to take them seriously when they include statements like this on their FAQ: "Of course Ulrich Drepper thinks that dynamic linking is great, but clearly that’s because of his lack of experience and his delusions of grande
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by degobah 12y ago
tl;dr: * Netflix had a bug in their code. * But Express.js should throw an error when multiple route handlers are given identical paths. * Also, Express.js should use a different data structure to store route handlers. EDIT: HN commentors d
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by degobah 13y ago
I cancelled Netflix as a Charter customer because performance was terrible, while Amazon Prime works fine.
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by degobah 13y ago
Basically the post just says: 1. Rails is slow 2. Dynamic languages are bad
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by degobah 14y ago
A witty essay from 1908 observes that "success" is a ridiculously vague idea and that "success" books/articles of the day are vague useless drivel. Also, people should stop worshiping rich guys and mainly just try to be good at what they do
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by degobah 14y ago
You make a fair point that Chesterton seems to have a certain disdain for making money and business, but it seems like you didn't read the essay very carefully: > If you acknowledge there is skill in succeeding (with a company, say, or
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by degobah 14y ago
> We are nothing without good process, and self-help books or the actions they describe are hugely useful with that... His FIRST criticism is that the books and articles about success are vague (i.e. lacking in specific actions) and ine
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by degobah 14y ago
> Chesterton ignores the mind, the problems of concentration, focus, mental health and so forth Just how friggin' much is he supposed to do in one short essay?
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by degobah 14y ago
> Yes, he basically dismisses self-improvement and wisdom pertaining to the self as inherently mystical. There are so many things wrong with that statement that I don't know where to begin. Maybe with the question, Where does he say tha
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by degobah 14y ago
>Ironic that this chapter fails to get its own point You're not making your case very well. The two passages you excerpt are about useless vagueness in "success" books/articles. You are completely missing the point of the passage about
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by degobah 14y ago
"At least, let us hope that we shall all live to see these absurd books about Success covered with a proper derision and neglect." - G.K Chesterton, 1908.
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by degobah 14y ago
This works: http://g.msn.com/1me10IE10ENUS/WOL_Win7_64Full
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by degobah 14y ago
Technically powered by the effort of lifting it.
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by degobah 14y ago
I looked into this, and apparently flotr2 is forked from flotr. flotr was "inspired by" flot, but uses Prototype instead of jQuery. Note that flotr2 removed the Prototype dependency so: flot: the original uses jQuery flo