msimpson

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by msimpson 9y ago
If you wish to take issue with the fact I called a political figure a douche, fine. But I will not refrain from using such language in the future when I feel it's appropriate. Although, if you want to declare I started what can hardly
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by msimpson 9y ago
> So you just wanted to attack him personally without having any obligation to back up your opinion? Do I understand correctly? Last time I checked, I posted useful information in this thread and only noted my opinion of Schneiderman aft
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by msimpson 9y ago
I'm not getting into a nitpick over his alliances to left-wing groups I strongly dislike or that he commonly tries to pull high ranking democrats further left than necessary, etc.
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by msimpson 9y ago
> Do you know him personally? That isn't a prerequisite for opposing someone due to their views or opinions, regardless if their actions regarding this incident are agreeable. I'm sure if Trump takes up this cause against Equif
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by msimpson 9y ago
His other interests, yes.
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by msimpson 9y ago
Not saying it doesn't. I'm saying Eric Schneiderman, alone, is a douche.
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by msimpson 9y ago
If by "New York State Attorney General" you mean Eric Schneiderman, or the guy jumping on every controversy to further his career, then yes.
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by msimpson 9y ago
This seems to be a bunch of people on Twitter, lead by a security researcher, reading legal documents and coming to conclusions which are being second guessed over the course of the thread. Some keep quoting this line from the terms of serv
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by msimpson 9y ago
I actually use this same method manually with git. I have a .theme folder in my home directory, which is a git repository, containing the directories bin and user. The bin directory houses utility and convenience scripts which are tacked on
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by msimpson 9y ago
Update: Upon first reading I thought that Unit needed to be behind NGINX to function. When actually it listens for requests as a separate server, entirely. It only provides an API for configuration purposes. However, If you want to use the
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by msimpson 9y ago
Yes, you can generally think of it as a replacement for mod_php as Unit would parse requests from NGINX, pass them along to the PHP parser, then return the responses back to NGINX. That's the same job mod_php does for Apache and what P
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by msimpson 9y ago
NGINX allows you to proxy a back-end applications giving you the ability to load balance, handle upstream failures with custom maintenance pages, employ server blocks (virtual hosts), and much more. However, you always need to do the leg wo
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by msimpson 9y ago
> I never said "all the benefits SPA structure can offer the multitude of other projects" were meaningless, in fact I specifically said there's a time and place for them. No, you said: > There’s a time and a place for J
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by msimpson 9y ago
> I used quite an early beta of Ember to build BugMuncehr’s new feedback interface. > I wanted to add a full REST API to BugMuncher, even though no-one had asked for it. > I committed to using Ember before I knew enough about it. &
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by msimpson 9y ago
At first, given the headline, I thought this was some new investigative feature.
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by msimpson 9y ago
This seems to be the same idea that Google rolled out over YouTube. Demonetize videos that "may not be appropriate for all advertisers." However, the videos which are usually being demonetized are those simply expressing a dissent
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by msimpson 9y ago
> "It’s racist, far-right violence, and that requires determined and forceful resistance no matter where in the world it appears," Chancellor Angela Merkel said. Sure. It's not like the growing number of far-left anarcho-s
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by msimpson 9y ago
Forked by snowflakes who can't separate a person's opinion from their position within a group. Nice...
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by msimpson 9y ago
You bring up stuff like this and the left is going to call for the institution to be renamed in favor of their feelings.
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by msimpson 9y ago
> If you think a 64-bit DIV instruction is a good way to divide by two, then no wonder the compiler's asm output beat your hand-written code... Compilers employ multitudes of optimizations that will go overlooked in hand-written ASM
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by msimpson 9y ago
"In the wake of the recent anti-diversity manifesto controversy at Google, the subject of women in tech has been a major talking point." 1. That memo was not a manifesto, it was a memo... 2. That memo was not anti-diversity, it wa
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by msimpson 9y ago
Others within this thread are claiming, without evidence, that this is an incorrect application of the DMCA. I'm simply quoting the portion of the law which is in accordance with Admiral's claim. I care nothing about the mechanism
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by msimpson 9y ago
It's important to note that Admiral is making the claim that this domain is used as part of their platform which protects the integrity of paywalls, which in turn guards copyrighted material of their clients. Therefore, this would be a
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by msimpson 9y ago
They outlawed "vulgar"...
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by msimpson 9y ago
> I say if you're committed to an off-color joke or gag, this is a terrible attempt to save face. Just apologize with authenticity and go more subtle. Don't turn it into another *gate or whatever the hell. Exactly, and this is
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by msimpson 9y ago
Element.classList: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Element/cla... Property Accessors (Bracket Notation): https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/
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by msimpson 9y ago
I will never understand why these examples are considered abuse as they exhibit standard behavior. It's just as if I were to write the following JavaScript: node.classList[ isHidden ? 'add' : 'remove' ]( 'h
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by msimpson 9y ago
The data does not support that conclusion as the 14% represents the whole of those surveyed, which includes both parenting and non-parenting students. There is no breakdown of such characters on a parenting vs. non-parenting basis. So it co
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by msimpson 9y ago
> For your interpretation to be right the wording would have to be, "63% of students are food-insecure and, of those students, 14% are homeless". Actually, no. For my interpretation to be absolutely correct it would need to be:
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by msimpson 9y ago
> It found that 13-14% of students were homeless ... Incorrect. The study actually found that, "63 percent of parenting community college students surveyed were food insecure and almost 14 percent were homeless..." That 14% is

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