plonh

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by plonh 11y ago
Rich people need pooor laborers to create the wealth they get 50% as capitalists and consumers.
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by plonh 11y ago
Facebook has had the most, and pressured others to copy.
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by plonh 11y ago
Why does cable company need special powers that my DSL provider does not need?
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by plonh 11y ago
Google thinks bebop is better than whatever they could do internally (including finding people to hire up) to build a comparable product for that budget.
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by plonh 11y ago
if you are thinking about "<0" on an unsigned type, you better be scratching your head already.
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by plonh 11y ago
This is Yodlee, the USA's largest financial API for consumer products (Mint, etc), endorsed by all large banks and investment firms. They have millions of users.
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by plonh 11y ago
You are ignoring the bandwidth differences between protocols.
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by plonh 11y ago
That's Inversion of Control , not Dependency Injection .
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by plonh 11y ago
This is literally textbook Design Patterns stuff. Haskell gives you executable machine-checkable design patterns, instead of just comments.
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by plonh 11y ago
Is it a disorder to have no hearing? Too have so much hearing that your neighbors keep you up at night? Is being very short a disorder? Being very tall? Having short legs with long arms?
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by plonh 11y ago
Consider: there are two diagnoses, OCD and OCPD. Both cover Obsessive Compulsive behaviors. OCD is the Disorder where OC behaviors ruin your life and cause you distress. OCPD is when you like your OC behaviors, but other people don't .
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by plonh 11y ago
Suckless.org disproves the authors thesis. Heck, UNIX itself disproves the thesis. A project can grow to include more compatible components, without needlessly cluttering each component. Finishing one program is not the end of all software
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by plonh 11y ago
There used to be a concept called "professionalism" where people didn't let their personal cultural biases crowd out contributors, and people applied their humanity problem at hand at work, and engaged in unrelated conversati
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by plonh 11y ago
You think its "phony" when someone shows up at X conference transparently focused of talking about X? You think its selfish when some knows how we wants to help, and wants to find the people he wants to help? I feel like I am tak
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by plonh 11y ago
Having lunch with your coworkers gives you 250 chances per year to have an important work-related conversation. A conference offers precious little time, so it is important to be efficient in getting people together who have things to say t
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by plonh 11y ago
Disney was anti-Communist. He wasn't anti-autboritarian. He was rather authoritian.
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by plonh 11y ago
Did memento mori comprehend death in the modern way, or did it assume an afterlife that completely changes the meaning of death?
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by plonh 11y ago
Depressive thinking existed before the Internet.
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by plonh 11y ago
> Air quality, noise levels, energy and water usage This is not the surveillance you should worry about.
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by plonh 11y ago
Ironically, that 66 page document is a massively overcomplicated discussion of the simple idea that inessential mutable state causes problems.
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by plonh 11y ago
Not sure I want to live in Walt Disney's utopia. He was great at his business, the original Jobsian, but dialed it up a bit too far. www.straightdope.com/columns/read/1623/was-walt-disney-a-fascist
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by plonh 11y ago
Minecraft is Java. It has awful performance (but it's simple enough and mixed desktops are powerful enough)
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by plonh 11y ago
Google brags about constantly doing large scale refactoring on heir codebase.
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by plonh 11y ago
Welp, they sure optimized the ad loading code. I got to see nice animated ads while staring at a Loading spinner for the app.
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by plonh 11y ago
The Community video game "Hawkthorne" (inpired by a mockup on the TV show) managed dozens of artist contributors very effectively.
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by plonh 11y ago
But Facebook only activates Safety Check on special occasions.
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by plonh 11y ago
Quite a fraction of suicide attackers were blackmailed into the act.
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by plonh 11y ago
Gwern had a very limited view of "political goals".
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by plonh 11y ago
Terrorism (attackif civilians to upset people) or asymmetric warfare against a ruling power apparatus?
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by plonh 11y ago
Gwern's analysis looks hopelessly naive in the face of modern ISIS-related acts; and ignores the difference between USA, where poison Tylenol causes a huge response, and China where people expect bad fake drugs with a certain frequency

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