mighty_bander

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by mighty_bander 5y ago
By the fade-out of your comment, it seems your accurate assessment of this individual's bloviation is insufficiently self-important for the HN crowd. This is why I never post here. Worse comments than Slashdot.
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by mighty_bander 5y ago
You're comparing a guy who took pictures of people in an Apple store to a child murderer? I have difficulty with this analogy.
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by mighty_bander 6y ago
Have you tried JavaScript? All kidding aside, it takes ten years to stop being awful. If you look at code you wrote a year ago and think it looks bad, that's a good sign. On the other hand, if you look at code you wrote a year ago an
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by mighty_bander 6y ago
Coyotes come out after dark. It takes about 20 minutes for them to figure out people aren't around. Mangy jerks. Once I was walking through some brush in a city park in Calgary, AB and a siren went by. The whole area around me lit u
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by mighty_bander 7y ago
Thanks, my friend! Hopefully people will run with it.
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by mighty_bander 7y ago
In depressing times like these, I like to remember that something like 30% of users have adblockers installed. It might seem like people will mindlessly go along with this sort of manipulation, but there is still a place for independent th
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by mighty_bander 7y ago
So... Are these reviews paid for? I've known a few people who got stuck with a surface, usually because their work forced it on them, and they invariably hated it. The thing is barely a computer. They've sacrificed physical usa
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by mighty_bander 7y ago
I was in a similar situation. The "political animal" in my case managed to turn management against me, and my reward for making the business work was getting cut loose. Get solid evidence and rat the team lead out. It's yo
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by mighty_bander 7y ago
I think the question is, how much control do you want over your government? Do you want them doing this stuff? I come from a country with a stronger democracy than the US and governments will fall over stuff like human rights violations,
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by mighty_bander 7y ago
I was astounded when I mapped out a transit ride from a suburb of Amsterdam to the city center - and discovered it was 15 minutes long. I'm not a fan of compact European living (washing machine in the kitchen?!), but that's a har
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by mighty_bander 7y ago
Yeah, of course. If the chances of some success are distributed geometrically, so that "winners" are randomly chosen at e.g. 0.001% per year, then somebody who wins the dice roll looks pretty smart to themselves and the rest of t
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by mighty_bander 7y ago
From the article: > Because I’m an idiot with reasons, I have a python daemon that launches as root via launchd and remains running in the background. It is now silently failing because it isn’t allowed to access an external USB drive. T
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by mighty_bander 7y ago
An 11:1 return seems pretty efficient given the nature of their work.
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by mighty_bander 7y ago
Okaaay...
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by mighty_bander 7y ago
Yeah, "Don't reinvent the wheel" is a ballsy statement for a site that poorly replicates existing work.
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by mighty_bander 7y ago
For very simple usage, you won't see a lot of difference, but I would go with postgres. It has a lot of features that MySql doesn't, and isn't any harder to set up and use. Point 2: as long as you also write software to deal
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by mighty_bander 7y ago
It's interesting seeing the American perspective on this. The perpetual mistrust of government would, I think, be warranted were that government not elected by the populace. As it is, I am a little confused why the same skepticism is
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by mighty_bander 7y ago
Hence the prediction of their demise.
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by mighty_bander 7y ago
If there really has been fraud at this scale, and nobody at the Vision fund noticed or cared, the issue is not one of solvency.
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by mighty_bander 7y ago
I went for an old classic with "What. We spear-Danes in days gone by," and got "with our simple method of finding the best answer to question We. Let. Our. Our. The. The. What." So that could have gone better.
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by mighty_bander 7y ago
That's what I thought too. I was expecting a humourous article about the pointlessness of some tool.
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by mighty_bander 7y ago
> his friend who ... is accused It's the accused that is the problem with this. He isn't defending the proven actions of a pervert, he is defending the memory of a dead friend, suggesting that his friend was incapable of the
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by mighty_bander 7y ago
An interesting quirk of old buildings is a structure called a "transom" - a space above a door which could be opened to allow for the free flow of air. Regrettably, it also allowed for highly effective oxygenation of fire, result
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by mighty_bander 7y ago
Coincidentally, I last played this game about a week ago. The article does a better job of describing it than I could, but I will say that it's a deep game worth playing many times over. You'll keep learning quirks and tricks an
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by mighty_bander 7y ago
These companies that we all work at get millions in funding, and are happy to pay programmers 150k+ a year because they need them to succeed. The difference between a dollar and hour and five is negligible to these organisations at the lev
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by mighty_bander 7y ago
You're right, taking advantage of desperate people is OK if you give them a slightly better quality of life than homelessness offers.
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by mighty_bander 7y ago
I do remember that! I even signed up for a page during that time, which I promptly forgot about forever.
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by mighty_bander 7y ago
I hadn't noticed that angle, being fully invested in getting kids of my 256-color lawn. However, I feel a little more sympathetic towards Vogel; consistently making money in the games industry is borderline impossible. If, as he sugg
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by mighty_bander 7y ago
This is the first time in a while I've seen something that really gets me excited about software. The promise of "run anywhere" has more or less been fulfilled by the web, but it leaves a lot to be desired: shared code is dup
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by mighty_bander 7y ago
In Toronto and the surrounding communities, a typical commute is 15 minutes through traffic-choked local streets, 30 minutes on a train, and 15 minutes walking through tunnels downtown. Each part of mine is longer, although I am able to wo

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