jordan0day

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by jordan0day 10y ago
There's a small bit of irony here in that there was a rash of "Why I'm leaving X for Rails" posts between 2008 and 2012 or so.
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by jordan0day 10y ago
> Since there are infinite things about which we are wrong That's... ahem... wrong. How could there possibly be an infinite number of things "we" (humanity, I presume?) are wrong about, given that there have only been a fi
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by jordan0day 10y ago
One of my disappointments with the original Raspberry Pi was that I felt that its genesis story was from people whose early experience with programming came from Apple II's and QBASIC. It was pitched as a way to expose kids today to th
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by jordan0day 11y ago
What about the term "American Indian"? I feel like that would be useful in headlines to set the context, so that then everyone knows which "Indian" is being referred to.
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by jordan0day 11y ago
I'm not sure I understood your comment correctly, but I hardly think either group thinks a large black market would be good for their cause. The difference I see is that the anti-saloon league obviously underestimated how large the b
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by jordan0day 11y ago
You might not be wrong, but your concern seems reminiscent of the fears raised when seatbelts became mandatory: That someone would get into an accident where the car went into a lake or pond, and the seatbelt trapped the occupants inside th
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by jordan0day 11y ago
I'm kind of uncomfortable with this line of reasoning, and definitely uncomfortable with this statement: > '"True freedom of speech" is an awful thing.' That is, a good use of freedom of speech is to "speak
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by jordan0day 11y ago
I'm pretty sure the point of the article was about women and Amazon, not "about a (painful and harsh) health insurance screw-up". The health insurance "screw up" only occurred because she was on maternity leave. As
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by jordan0day 11y ago
Is there supposed to be a cause-and-effect here? Because I'm not seeing how that's related?
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by jordan0day 11y ago
Obligatory link to Jim Gray's "Why Do Computers Stop and What Can Be Done About It?": http://www.hpl.hp.com/techreports/tandem/TR-85.7.pdf TL;DR: Most software bugs that make it past testing are tra
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by jordan0day 11y ago
What's extremely funny to me is that this article is at least half about how much we underestimate (or flat out don't know much about) the people of the 19th and early 20th centuries. And the sole comment thread here is full of
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by jordan0day 11y ago
A couple weeks? I don't know much about the state of the railroads in 1905, but the Pony Express could get a letter halfway across the continent, on horseback, in 10 days. Fifty-five years beforehand. It seems entirely reasonable to me
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by jordan0day 11y ago
I've been noticing a trend recently whereby all the standard BCPL advocacy articles, tutorials and feature overviews are taken, have 's/ BCPL /[some newer language]' run on top of them and reposted as if they&
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by jordan0day 11y ago
You're not wrong, but it just seems like bad design. Why do they still show shipping rates at all, if the separate price/shipping prices are meant to deal with the uncertainty of shipping fees? I'm not sure if they're al
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by jordan0day 11y ago
> We can't get it without shipping. Don't quote prices that are impossible to achieve. This, exactly. When I first glanced and thought "Oh, $150 a year? That's not too bad." Then I looked closer and saw the shipp
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by jordan0day 11y ago
> Why would a developer work in such a place? I imagine you would be forced to be all professional yet always play second fiddle to the traders, no matter great your skills were. This is generally the case at most places where software d
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by jordan0day 11y ago
I feel like people need multiple-pass compilers for their logical arguments. On the face of it, your analogy kind of makes sense. Both trucks and women (<strike> Allegedly . I don't know if your claim is actually based on fact?&l
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by jordan0day 11y ago
[insert whynotboth.gif] Seriously, though, it seems like it wouldn't be too difficult to market a "lesser of x% or $50" type of product? > Another issue, it is proportionally harder to execute a larger portfolio than a s
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by jordan0day 11y ago
I don't know much about the market, and know even less about actual investing strategy-ish stuff , but what does the loss look like five years later? I guess what I mean is, for an "index fund", crashes don't seem to be
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by jordan0day 11y ago
touché
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by jordan0day 11y ago
It's amazing how many programs that most people would consider "core unix utilities" totally eschew the (alleged) unix philosophy of "do one thing well."
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by jordan0day 11y ago
I think Elixir and Go solve different problems -- but for the problem space the author mentions here, web services, Elixir is clearly superior.
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by jordan0day 11y ago
I get what you're saying, but I'm actually happy the FBI is getting involved when it's a matter of "hacking" (regardless of the appropriateness of that term) involving a multi-million (billion?) dollar companies. Or
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by jordan0day 11y ago
Another way to phrase "corporate wrong-doing" is "crime." So that's probably why the FBI would care.
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by jordan0day 11y ago
I liked the video, but to a layperson like myself, the title seems to not necessarily match up to the content of the video itself. That is, it seems like more of a "How did we get here from the big bang?" explanation, and not so m
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by jordan0day 11y ago
So, presumably this was all "okay" (or legal at all), because "the client" owned 51% of the company. Would it have all suddenly been illegal if "the client" only owned 49%? I'm very curious about how this
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by jordan0day 11y ago
No, I don't believe it's necessarily illegal to pay someone "hush money" (though it probably depends! laws are awfully vague). I do believe it's illegal to demand to be paid "hush money", though, norma
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by jordan0day 11y ago
This is very interesting, in large part for the reason the author of the article mentions -- it's not the sort of thing most of us think about very often. And when we do, we usually leave off having no more insight than when we started
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by jordan0day 11y ago
> Either way it doesn't mean it isn't foolishy dangerous to get close to wild alligators. You're absolutely right. But what is "close?" An alligator swimming right alongside the boat? Sure, that's definitely
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by jordan0day 11y ago
Obviously there are limits, but pushing your kids to do things they are uncomfortable with or afraid of is part of being a good parent.

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