nikdaheratik

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by nikdaheratik 7y ago
What helped me understand this better was thinking about writing software as a subset of all types of writing. People do write for free because they enjoy doing so or because they feel like they can advance knowledge in a particular area. T
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by nikdaheratik 7y ago
> What I don't understand, is this idea that firing people in response to media shit-storms is somehow something to be applauded. 1. RMS wasn't just some random guy in the foundation, he was supposed to be a leader which means
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by nikdaheratik 7y ago
Except it's not just about "free speech", it's about protecting the organisation's integrity which was already shot because of Epstein. Context matters, and in this case MIT couldn't afford to just let him off
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by nikdaheratik 7y ago
> To whom? To those that endorsed questionable business relations that drew attention in the first place that still are in leading positions at the MIT? Side note: Ito, at least, is out at MIT. Others may be as well. As far as to whom, i
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by nikdaheratik 7y ago
I feel like your position would have more traction with me if we as a society were better about enforcing the existing laws regarding sexual assault and consent. Adults in that situation are willing to go on the record and state that the
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by nikdaheratik 7y ago
If it was just a one-off thing isolated from other recent events, you might be correct. But due to Epstein's association with MIT and his other history of controversial statements and actions with FSF, they couldn't just let him m
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by nikdaheratik 7y ago
Except your opinion is as an anonymous person on the Internet, while his was the director of the FSF and a trusted member of an academic community in a public forum. He has to be willing to think about the people and organisations he repres
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by nikdaheratik 7y ago
I think that it has next to nothing to do with technology. MIT was still reeling from the fall out with the Media Lab and Epstein. If it wasn't for that, they might have gotten by with a simple apology, but that wouldn't be enough
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by nikdaheratik 7y ago
The "turn of events" in this case is losing his job because he made the organisations associated with him look bad. And I think it's completely fair for them to kick him to the curb in this case. No one person too important t
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by nikdaheratik 7y ago
I think your response is very self centered at best. Feeling of being "`raped` of your free agency" is not enough to make a law unjust. It certainly doesn't outweigh the actual exploitation that was what led to these laws to
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by nikdaheratik 7y ago
It's not just about free speech, it's about his position of leadership in those organisations. He needs to either moderate his public viewpoints in order to look out for the best interests of the people there, which is what a good
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by nikdaheratik 7y ago
The site you're linking to is junk. Your comments about records ignores the fact that the hottest record setting days are not distributed randomly, but are in fact clustered around the turn of the 21st century. On top of that, the over
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by nikdaheratik 7y ago
The problem is that they aren't as rare as they used to be, and they are pushing the overall average up. If you look at other natural phenomena, like the tide coming in, it comes in waves and each wave is higher than before. You still
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by nikdaheratik 7y ago
Microsofts worst enemy, IMO, is their OEMs who are allowed to put all kinds of custom side-hustle garbage into the OS and it takes alot of work to remove it. Essentially, you have to pay a premium to a manufacturer to signal you're a &
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by nikdaheratik 7y ago
You're right that the off-the-shelf experience with Windows can be very dodgy depending on what your OEM is and what crap they decided to put into the core OS. I'm conflicted about all this myself because I have a good experience
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by nikdaheratik 7y ago
I can't speak for symphony, but that's just not the way it works in laravel. The "artisan serve" action is used when you want to make a quick demo (maybe). The actual deployment is in an apache server like everything els
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by nikdaheratik 7y ago
Well I've been gainfully employed for pretty much my entire career using PHP and I've never had a problem with recruiters. It really depends on the city, the companies in that city, and the overall market in your region. Big busin
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by nikdaheratik 7y ago
I've spent basically two years working to convert a legacy project built on PHP 5.x into Laravel on PHP 7.x and I can agree that it's come a long way as a language, and that frameworks like this help. The biggest issues, however,
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by nikdaheratik 7y ago
Or maybe he actually did it and deserves to go to prison for it. Hiding in a cupboard for seven years rather than going in and facing the charges is a good way to look guilty. Blaming "foreign spies" in an attempt to hide what you
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by nikdaheratik 7y ago
Assange, and his lawyers, made all kinds of arguments and appealed his extradition to Sweden all the way to the High Court and lost. He hasn't actually had any court time related to the U.S. extradition because he fled. I would assume
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by nikdaheratik 7y ago
That isn't true about war and it certainly isn't true about public utilities. People went to jail all the time for overcharging the government during times of war. Money is a way to measure value and it always matters. As far as p
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by nikdaheratik 7y ago
You seem to be leaving out the fact that most nuclear plants have a fair amount of downtime as well in order to refuel. While I don't have UK statistics, in the US it's typically 30-40 days per year when they don't run (so 10
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by nikdaheratik 7y ago
Again, if nuclear power is such a great idea, why aren't more companies lobbying for it? The reality is that every place in the U.S. that it is economically feasible to build a plant, already has one. There's a nuclear plant in th
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by nikdaheratik 7y ago
And yet, very few companies (in the U.S. at least) want to build them. It's because the worst case scenario they're planning for is very bad indeed, so they have to spend all this expense to keep it from happening. Compared to eve
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by nikdaheratik 7y ago
You say that, but Detroit is a pretty good counterexample. Tons of money / land just left to rust because it wasn't worth the effort. And that was just due to industrial changes not even something approaching a natural process. If
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by nikdaheratik 8y ago
I don't know if they could do much more with it, but that was a darn enjoyable video game. I've recently read some of Glen Cook's "Chronicles of the Black Company" and I think that was very much in line with the sto
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by nikdaheratik 8y ago
Been reading through the full book of this guy who designed alot of the dungeons in World of Warcraft. He's realistic about alot of the challenges they faced but overall had a good experience with the project. Site: https://
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by nikdaheratik 8y ago
It's not a very weak argument to say that learning LaTeX just so you can write your paper is a waste of time. The caveat is that, for some kinds of papers, it is less of a timewaster than other kinds. Especially if they have alot of ma
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by nikdaheratik 8y ago
Emacs has always had a reputation of being a text editor for wizards. And it's even worse as modern computer editors have gone in a completely different direction. IMO, nano is probably the easiest of the standard editors on command li
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by nikdaheratik 8y ago
Paralysing fatalism is just as bad as living in a denalist fantasy: both embrace doing nothing rather than facing up to the difficult work that needs done. The IPCC report is not "a complete joke". Nothing in it requires the inven

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