goggles99

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by goggles99 13y ago
Is it??? A guaranteed prerequisite to next advancement in web tech is certainly that it does not come out of one of those 'evil corporations'...
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by goggles99 13y ago
Women typically don't want to be founders. The ones that do generally lack the physical and emotional stamina, intuition, instincts, persistence, are too emotional in their decision making, lack natural leadership skills ETC. If all th
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by goggles99 13y ago
There is really three simple reasons that we have this 'problem' today. 1. People who cannot afford it are choosing very expensive universities. 2. The government is giving money away like candy, there is a definite bubble here be
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by goggles99 13y ago
>* $400,000 in student loans. “If the money weren’t a problem I would live on my own,” says Rong. “My debt is hanging over my mind. I’m taking that all on myself.”* How typical, someone complaining that education is so expensive and yet
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by goggles99 13y ago
> Nonsense. People want to send their kids to the best schools because the best schools are the gatekeepers to the upper class. Someone who graduates from an Ivy League school gets to build a network with affluent alumni and has a high c
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by goggles99 13y ago
TL,DR... Do not close.
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by goggles99 13y ago
> How an unlikely group of high-tech wizards revived Obama's troubled HealthCare.gov website How? With another 14 million dollars... that is how. You can do a lot of things with 14 million dollars, this is not especially true when
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by goggles99 13y ago
> Do you not realise that means throwing away the entire web, and its history going back to the early 1990's? Backwards compatibility and platform stability are GOOD THINGS that we need more, not less of. Lest we perpetually build c
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by goggles99 13y ago
Well how political...
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by goggles99 13y ago
Simple, because they have personally experienced better. They are tired of libraries, CSS/JavaScript compilers and hacks to try to drag old clunky technology into new paradigms.
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by goggles99 13y ago
If XAML some open source project made by some hippie group of developers, HTML/JAVASCRIPT/CSS would be in the toilet today. It is miles ahead of the barely moving technologies held back by the standards committees.
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by goggles99 13y ago
Of course Ruby and Python are influenced by Java (there is hardly a maintained language that has not been). Not the initial release perhaps, but don't you think that Ruby has evolved over the 19 years since Java was released? This rele
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by goggles99 13y ago
What 60hr/week worker is asking for a badge of honor? Do you really think that a Badge of Honor and pride is why they are working all these hours? I have never seen this in all the startups that I have worked at. In my personal obs
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by goggles99 13y ago
> While I was seeing my episode of The Good Wife falter at what appeared to be 1.9 Mbps, I was able to measure connection speeds of 28 Mbps to my house using a Speedtest.net test from Ookla. This is exactly the dichotomy that the M-Lab d
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by goggles99 13y ago
You earned a scholarship in kindergarten?
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by goggles99 13y ago
> Even in comparison today, his school's graduation rate is 63% and is ranked 482nd out of 489 districts by state assessment scores, while my school has a graduation rate of 94% and ranks in the top 5%. I am curious if you believe
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by goggles99 13y ago
So your parents sent your middle brother to private school from first grade on and simultaneously kept your oldest brother in a stink hole situation? That sounds pretty rough. Why didn't they put the oldest in private school instead? S
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by goggles99 13y ago
You went to school for two years there to prepare for 1 govt provided test? It must have been rough to remember the history or social science questions of material you have studied two years prior huh? No rules but the laws of Canada? Well
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by goggles99 13y ago
Grow a pair, it's the internet (not much of the fake PC here [which is really just honesty suppression] that you see in society today). I don't like people trying to plant false ideologies in sheeple's brains based on fiction
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by goggles99 13y ago
So lets ask the question. Why are some people bullies and some aren't? Is is because more rules are imposed on some then others? Is it because kids aren't allowed to play bull rush or play in the mud? Bullies usually have emotiona
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by goggles99 13y ago
This is the strangest sounding story that I have ever heard. It is either fake, or there were other factors going on such the juveniles with true behavioral problems just never bothered showing up to school because they weren't require
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by goggles99 13y ago
Love the down-voted replies with no rebuttal. Shows the ignorance of HN viewers.
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by goggles99 13y ago
> Please explain how CA regulations forced manufacturers to China, and not merely to Arizona. Well more often not actually moving the factory to China, really it is just sending the designs to an existing factory there. If you (as a fac
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by goggles99 13y ago
> Are you too young to know all the asthma kids that grew up in no and so cal in the 70s/80s? Pollution in California used to be bad, then the people got serious about it, and now California has clean air. Incremental my ass. I gues
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by goggles99 13y ago
> That means that in less than two years, Google shredded 85% of the $13bn paid for Motorola. You did not even make it down to the third paragraph of the article? Under this deal the search giant will keep the majority of Motorola&#x2
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by goggles99 13y ago
Good luck telling voters that everything at Walmart now costs twice as much. Our economy and infrastructure is now dependent on cheap goods from China. Peoples perceived standards of living have gone up because we buy all this cheap garbage
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by goggles99 13y ago
That is why I used the term "swift and strangling". They were too aggressive and now the planet has to pay. This is akin to vigilantes who end up killing innocents because they are overzealous. Unfortunately, these politicians don
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by goggles99 13y ago
> How ironic CA actually gives a crap about the air their citizens breathe, wait, no, that's not ironic at all. Believe me china is beginning to give a crap also, in a major way. No one can live with sucky air, even the Chinese (and
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by goggles99 13y ago
How ironic that CA made such swift and strangling economic regulations that all the factories moved to china or shut down. Now we have no control of the egregious pollution that China produces and the world (including CA) is far worse off b
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by goggles99 13y ago
> Ugh. Please do some basic research before spouting off this nonsense. Government employment grew by 1.5% in the last decade. - http://research.stlouisfed.org/fredgraph.png?g=rs4 I like how you pick and choose numbers

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