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by truffdog 5y ago
https://www.howtogeek.com/402888/looking-for-a-microsoft-sig... looks like they dropped the program
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by truffdog 5y ago
I'm sad, I really liked Developer Story and used it as a resume builder.
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by truffdog 5y ago
The nice thing about microservices is that you don't need iron discipline to maintain modular boundaries, instead its just how things work. I like to analogize it to assembly vs structured programming languages, or C vs Java- you can w
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by truffdog 5y ago
Blue collar unions probably don't have bad unions because they are uneducated, and you probably won't love a programmer's union because the leaders have postdocs. For white collar equivalents with bad unions, consider the tea
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by truffdog 5y ago
https://www.vice.com/en/article/xgxp5z/what-happens-penis-en... girth is doable, length, not so much, is my understanding.
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by truffdog 5y ago
Nat and Alex worked together at Ximian when they were younger, so it's plausible. People make friends at tiny startups where everyone is very young. You can confirm that by Google their names and 'ximian'.
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by truffdog 5y ago
Yup. Apparently some of the broad strokes of the plot are accurate, including the move to industrialized p2p production.
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by truffdog 5y ago
That's a potential COVID complication, right?
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by truffdog 5y ago
They are currently fighting about Chevron deference, which would functionally be a way for the courts to squash agency independence. Clarence Thomas has this bit where he says "you guys are doing all these crazy contortions to do stare
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by truffdog 5y ago
This is a reference to the NIMBY/YIMBY fight, where the YIMBY position is that most non-single-family-home developments, other than the super high end, have been effectively been made illegal through a combination of zoning laws, neigh
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by truffdog 5y ago
The Pruitt-Igoe Myth is a pretty accessible introduction to one of the most notorious public housing disasters in the US. It was available on Netflix at some point. The name for welfare discouraging marriage is "the marriage penalty&qu
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by truffdog 5y ago
As long as this is done via Congress passing laws to cover up loopholes, it's not going to work. It takes too many years to push through legislation, and the health care industry can reorient to bilk their customers some other way too
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by truffdog 5y ago
He is referring to 20th century social services meant to fix slums, that wound up making marriage something that could get you kicked out of public housing and on-books work something that could get you kicked off financial support. This is
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by truffdog 5y ago
Single family sprawl is more cost efficient than dense development when you include regulatory compliance.
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by truffdog 5y ago
It reminds me of http://dresdencodak.com/2009/04/19/onald-creely/ , which meant a lot to me when I was younger for no reason that I can explain.
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by truffdog 5y ago
How is Oxide doing these days, have they launched anything?
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by truffdog 5y ago
Their staff- who do the research and write the laws- are almost entirely under 30 though.
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by truffdog 5y ago
Also SF is bad at infrastructure safety- https://missionlocal.org/2021/12/gas-lines-embedded-in-concr...
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by truffdog 5y ago
A lot of blue blood northeastern old money got their start selling opium to China during the opium wars. The Forbes family, the Astor family, the Delano family of Delano-Roosevelt fame. The US also got a treaty after the opium wars that exe
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by truffdog 5y ago
Nothing creates affordable housing like violence and bad schools.
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by truffdog 5y ago
Yup. But sometimes people get excited about all the time saving convenience of 'eval()'.
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by truffdog 5y ago
I worked at a company that switched to a PEO, people seemed weirdly outraged.
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by truffdog 5y ago
Ivermectin being cheap and widely available is really important here. Something like that- instead of a novel vaccine made with novel tech in very specific first world factories- is very attractive to cash strapped governments and public he
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by truffdog 5y ago
> America is the Ivy league college where everybody is keeping the score of their social status and nobody talks to anybody else. You could make friends with old or working class people instead of moving to Mexico. The freeze is very muc
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by truffdog 5y ago
I think that in general it's freeing to be outside of your native language, because you don't understand it well enough to catch all the possible subtexts, the hidden cruelties, the subtle status signals.
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by truffdog 5y ago
Last year one of the fires was blamed on a metal hook wearing through after 75 years in the field. It seems like doing a slightly better job at maintenance might be possible.
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by truffdog 5y ago
AFT is definitely biased- one of the big things they did post Katrina is union busting. It's interesting their article doesn't include the normal dispute of the post-Katrina improvements, the fact that the cohort of students is ve
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by truffdog 5y ago
Probably some EV1s kicking around still- https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Motors_EV1
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by truffdog 5y ago
I suspect many immigrant landlords are renting to people from the same background, doing zero paperwork, and responding to no surveys.
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by truffdog 5y ago
I don't think thats true, having worked with teams in Russia, Belgium, and India. The cultural differences can be a huge deal and sink projects.

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