dynamichype

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by dynamichype 14y ago
This post shows exactly why "just use code to get things done" can be taken too far and why a solid theoretical background can be essential to growing as a programmer. The author bravely admits, "The async-style of programming is almost ent
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by dynamichype 14y ago
While I don't think it's to the same degree, I do think that "fix it" is at least in the same category of "things that turn people off OS" as RTFM. There are different level/kinds/what-have-you of users/coders. There are wizards who write o
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by dynamichype 14y ago
I'm not sure about in China, but in the South another way such buildings are "see-through" is that the buildings were built elevated over completely empty parking lots. There are streets where you can see two or three streets over "through"
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by dynamichype 14y ago
I'm going to possibly expose myself to some ribbing by assuming this this a genuine question instead of a statement that just presses the joke. By "see-through" I assume the author refers to (mostly motel style) apartment buildings that are
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by dynamichype 14y ago
You are correct regarding the impotence of votes, but I'd say the situation is even worse than you describe. Pragmatically, the FBI and your local police do get the choice of which laws to enforce by choosing their allocation of resources
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by dynamichype 15y ago
Just to have you elaborate then: you are against all forms of civil disobedience that cause harm? Is it that you believe movements can succeed without such tactics (e.g. that the civil rights movement would have succeeded without the race r
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by dynamichype 15y ago
One of the arguments made against repealing Jim Crow laws was the harm that would come to business owners in terms of infrastructure and other spending. There were many such businesses whose owners were not racist but who had invested in lo
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by dynamichype 15y ago
Innocents will only be hurt during the transitional period before they learn that they should avoid relationships with patent trolls for the same collateral risk reasons they avoid befriending gang members, child-molesters, and other anti-s
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by dynamichype 15y ago
It's a tough question, but so is: what is just? Like justice value is a possibly unknowable, possibly immeasurable communal platonic. We forged, refined, and sanity check our justice system using a few simple tricks from measurement theory.