vcjohnson

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by vcjohnson 8y ago
As mentioned in my comment, I realized mid-writing I didn't necessarily have point of contest to the thread OP. In retrospect, there was probably a more coherent place elsewhere in this thread to put my comment. Just providing context
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by vcjohnson 8y ago
Grew up in the Permian basin (Odessa, UT grad as well), there really is a disconnect between larger cities and smaller towns in the state on ethos of renewables. DFW will likely be one of the first major metroplexes in the US to be powered
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by vcjohnson 8y ago
But I didn’t imply causation? I literally gave the same “could be skewed due to healthier lifestyle choices” in my comment...
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by vcjohnson 8y ago
>fruit is not healthy for you https://academic.oup.com/ajcn/article/105/6/1462/4569801 Fruit consumption is inversely correlated with all-cause mortality as best we can tell. Probably something t
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by vcjohnson 9y ago
Personally love .NET and Visual Studio development, especially when I was forced back into Java recently. I'm not a huge fan of Windows 10 and but I really would love to stay in the development ecosystem for the foreseeable future. Tha
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by vcjohnson 9y ago
For what it's worth, the stuff I've read on societies that flatten our social pressures for job roles, specifically the most egalitarian societies like in Scandinavia, have larger exaggerations of traditional job preference for th
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by vcjohnson 9y ago
Ah I see what you mean. I suppose I do identify with both the arguments then. Grateful to be born into a society that is as prosperous and free as the one I live and also cognizant that it was at least partially obtained using ventures that
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by vcjohnson 9y ago
Could you expound a bit on what you mean by immorally gotten?
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by vcjohnson 9y ago
>the most obvious poor decision here being the choice to post his manifesto on corporate services using corporate equipment Why is this a violation? Not trying to be argumentative, actually just curious. Seems like putting personal thoug
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by vcjohnson 9y ago
>it has many flaws and inaccuracies Can you expound on these a bit? Seemed like most of the adverse responses were appeals to emotion rather than dealing with the statements and I'd like to hear a rational critique of the issues.
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by vcjohnson 9y ago
I used the gnome theme for the movie Live Free or Die Hard on linux back in 2008 or so https://www.gnome-look.org/content/show.php/Die+Hard+4.0+-+M... for reference this is what it looked like in the movie: https
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by vcjohnson 9y ago
That question appears to be addressed in the post to which you are responding. I won't be as bold as some to lay causation purely on biological differences, maybe there could be some factor we're not accounting for on why socially
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by vcjohnson 9y ago
I don't think it makes that claim? Clearly women can be capable and competent software engineers. I think the study was showing there is an inherent preference for different interests among large population of the sexes and then people
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by vcjohnson 10y ago
What is being censored? Maybe they should have a disclaimer about only putting forward non-controversial search recommendations to be transparent but, to my knowledge, you have no right to know what other people search for on google.
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by vcjohnson 10y ago
Google puts more positive search queries in all their recommendations...as was explained in the r/the_donald thread you got the idea from.
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by vcjohnson 10y ago
Yeah I'll admit I hadn't considered lack of instructor diversity. Subscription fees are thankfully paid for by my employer so it's not a huge issue for me personally but I could understand how that would be difficult to justi
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by vcjohnson 10y ago
I've had no experience with Lynda but what's underwhelming about PS? It definitely seems to lack of depth in a lot of courses but provides a good overview/refresher on things in my experience.
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by vcjohnson 11y ago
>In effect, they are standing outside schools giving away cigarettes. Jesus Christ...
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by vcjohnson 11y ago
Do you often get death threats from people who are simply having a bad day and disagree with you? Trivialization of the horrific elements of online interaction is just as bad (if not worse) as conflating them with legitimate dissent.
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by vcjohnson 12y ago
>Every new major release of OS X is a day or week spent disabling things To be fair, I'm a .NET dev who has to do this in most Windows releases as well. It's a part of the customization of the OS. They don't tailor it to d
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by vcjohnson 12y ago
Pretty sure IE has an adblock extension
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by vcjohnson 12y ago
>This should make people understand, that hiding knowledge away in obnoxious expensive science publications is one of the biggest hindrances to innovation today. I'm still not sure how we get away with publishing items behind paywal
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by vcjohnson 12y ago
Yeah Austin rents are pretty high in the main area of the city now. You can get decent places/rates a little farther out, but the boom has risen rent prices considerably in the last 5 years. Still much, much less than SF/NYC thoug
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by vcjohnson 12y ago
>he problem, though, is that not only could this limitation manifest itself as incremental annoyance Eh I'd hazard a guess that the vast majority of mobile office users don't need unlimited cloud storage (especially with 15GB f
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by vcjohnson 12y ago
While I can tolerate most of your post, Hanselman's blog is not silly. Well it is, but not in the disparaging way you mean.
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by vcjohnson 12y ago
>A lot of this effort could go instead into finding a better cohabitation between humans and the other species with whom we supposedly share the planet. This is a false dilemma. We have 7+ billion people on the planet. There is most cert
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by vcjohnson 12y ago
No offense, but this sounds more like a self-control problem than an issue with technology.