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by dos1 13y ago
What's his email address?
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by dos1 13y ago
Yeah, because body count is the only comparator that matters. Extremism is extremism. RMS is an extremist. I want nothing to do with someone who is incapable of empathizing with the other side.
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by dos1 13y ago
Edit: Fuck you HN. RMS is an extremist. I should hope that most of you have the critical thinking skills to realize that his extremism is just as dangerous as Timothy McVeigh's. Edit 2: Honest question, how can I delete my account on HN?
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by dos1 13y ago
Dude is so strange. I mean seriously, who knows that much about that many kinds of esoteric music? It's like he wants to be contrary to the rest of the population on purpose.
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by dos1 13y ago
As an independent contractor, one thing I feel I need to point out is that the hourly rate that the consultant gets, and the hourly rate the company gets charged for the consultant's time, are two VERY different things. For example, my rate
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by dos1 13y ago
+1 for Minneapolis. I pay pretty close attention to the start up scene here and things are starting to move. The Minne* Organization ( http://minnestar.org/ ) does some nice events.
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by dos1 13y ago
It's always interesting to hear how people go about solving math problems. You mention a pie chart visualization and then the much more labor intensive (but maybe "correct"?) method. I used a third way, which was thinking that 13/13 would
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by dos1 13y ago
Hippy :) I kid of course. I've never been able to get in to the jam bands. Many of my friends love Phish, the Dead, Umphrey's McGee, The Big Wu etc etc. I've tried to get in to their music, but every time they do those long jams I get bo
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by dos1 13y ago
I'm genuinely curious, how are standups not status meetings? From the article: - Make sure everyone is working on the right thing - Help out other team members by taking work off their plate or helping them by sharing domain-specific know
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by dos1 14y ago
This is somewhat meta, sorry. What concerns me is that even in the face blistering internet rage, she dug in her heels and stood by her actions. Just apologize. Why is it so bloody hard for people these days to just admit they made a mi
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by dos1 14y ago
Sure, she didn't need to apologize (and hasn't). Look how good that's worked out for her and SendGrid.
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by dos1 14y ago
Yes, thank you very much! I constantly make this mistake. I've edited :)
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by dos1 14y ago
Totally agree. The employer owns absolutely all responsibility for terminating the employee. However, I do not believe it would have been out of line for Adria to have said something like "I heard one of the guys in the photo I posted on
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by dos1 14y ago
One of the reasons I've taken an interest in this whole fiasco is that I occasionally make "colorful" jokes. Not dissimilar from the two guys at PyCon. I make every attempt to keep these jokes private between my friends and I, but I'm sure
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by dos1 14y ago
Yes! This is my overarching goal currently. I'm trying to make as much money as possible building line of business apps so I can work on something I think is more important. I would still write software, even if I was filthy rich, but the
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by dos1 14y ago
> Second, as the work of economists Esther Boserups and Julian Simon demonstrated, growing populations lead to increased innovation and conservation. Well I'll just bet that a shrinking population could also lead to innovation! It ma
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by dos1 14y ago
> That's the point of an event-based system, it's a decoupling. De-coupling is an abstraction. It works on pages that are based on components or modules. Right, we're on the same page. I agree that in certain scenarios these decoupled
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by dos1 14y ago
On the plus side, if they're willing to share, I bet this will be a very interesting postmortem. Presumably Amazon.com is one of the more bulletproof web properties in the world. Whatever could have occurred to take it down for nearly an
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by dos1 14y ago
So a component subscribes to some event somewhere. Who's triggering the event? When you're debugging in Firebug or someplace, what does your call stack look like? How hard is it to find the source of the event? All you know is it bubbled
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by dos1 14y ago
> When you create a component you don't get a handle to it. Consequently, components cannot be referenced by other components and cannot become properties of the global object tree. This is by design. Components do not engage each other
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by dos1 14y ago
Wouldn't whitelisting conforming input be a better approach? I realize it may be more difficult, but wouldn't that be more secure? Edit: I'm genuinely interested - I always try and whitelist things when I'm building software. Although I
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by dos1 14y ago
Client side rendering and single page applications are not the best solution for most applications. I posit that a partial page refresh approach using PJAX (or something like it) where the server always sends back HTML is a more efficient
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by dos1 14y ago
I agree with you to an extent. It's why I would choose different problems to solve than what Mr. Gates feels are important. However, I don't think the Gates Foundation and its efforts are in any way a net negative. Perhaps the poacher fro
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by dos1 14y ago
I don't get the negativity in this thread. Bill Gates is trying to solve hard problems and people here are complaining. Sure, they may not be the problems that you think are most important, and I'm sure the foundation is making missteps
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by dos1 14y ago
I'll take a page from the book of the guys you're defending and make a pithy comment to add some "levity" to the situation, as you called it. "At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be c
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by dos1 14y ago
Dude, I don't know what to say to you. You're going to argue for the sake of it, even though you're objectively wrong. Maybe you can shed some light on why people do that? The man HIMSELF admits he is intrinsically an asshole, and that eve
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by dos1 14y ago
How can you begrudge me my opinion when the only facts I have corroborate it? http://blog.steveklabnik.com/posts/2010-09-24-trolling-is-a-... This post was from 2010 where he admits he's a jerk and can't help it. I think that pretty cl
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by dos1 14y ago
> Dial down your indignation, friend: help us get rid of this reek. I agree with you and gave you an upvote. Maybe my comments do make me look like a "tosser" - but these people were behaving like bullies, plain and simple. And man,
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by dos1 14y ago
Oh sure, I've made plenty of stupid comments, but that's not what these guys did. They picked a repo on Github that they thought was duplicating functionality in Unix (oh the horror!) and engaged in classic schoolyard bullying. Publicly sh
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by dos1 14y ago
> A snarky comment and a bad apology may be an instance of the second thing. But they don't imply the first. Sorry chief, I'm gonna have to go ahead and disagree with you there. The snarky comment can be forgiven. (although I've sin

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