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So why are you paying attention to him?

Trump and Obama got elected because they knew how to get peoples attention. Anglin is playing the same game. He is not a constitutional scholar or a regulatory expert but he gets propped by the attention economy. The attention economy validates his message nothings else.
The route in the attention economy to get propped up is to give people what they want to hear. Obama, Trump, the Kardashians, Games of Thrones or Star Wars its all a mordern day version of what religion did back in the day - an opium for the masses.
As Tim Wu the coiner of Net Neutrality in his new book the Attention Merchants says - you can slow the spread of the message, you can remove the monetary incentive of the new class opium sellers(who take adv of the speed and scale of social media) or you can dismantle the attention economy, cause its just going to keep propping the best panderers up.
Over the last 5 years my salary has doubled, so I suppose I can look at this thought experiment pretty objectively. The short answer is that you're right but so are they. I am happier, but not as happy as I thought I'd be because my expenses have also increased. Also, beyond increased expenses the horizon of what is possible has also improved and those things are more expensive.

So yes, there's all of that. But as i started with I am happier due to having more money. There are all sorts of things I'm able to just do without thinking about it now, things where I'd previously need to consider "if I do X I wont be able to do Y next week". I don't have to trade a retirement savings for a comfortable lifestyle. I'm able to afford more and better leisure activities. And then, to tie it back to your side, I go visit my friends who make twice as much as I do and I realize how much better off I could be.
I agree, I avoid talking politics or religion in the workplace. For some people it’s difficult, because who they voted for in the last election or things that happen at church are part of their personal identity - and I get it, but you should keep it to yourself when interacting with people you work with (this is why I have a strict policy about keeping anyone I work with in a professional relationship only - we work together, we’re not best buds).
I think there's a case to be made that it is possible to judge whether people's behaviours are helping them to enjoy their lives to the best extent.

It is a very extreme position to say that there is literally nothing which can be generalised about people's experiences, and so one person's heroin main-lining hobby is as good as another's model railway collection so long as they both profess an equal belief in their respective enjoyment.

There must be something more than this that we can say, since we have the distilled thoughts of millennia of some of the most capable humans thinking about these questions (what makes a good life) and lots of case histories of how people's lives have gone.

This is different from judging someone's moral worth or probity or what have you, and I think it is harmful to gloss over the distinction because it creates a kind of skeptical collapse.

This might be what the prior comment means to indicate by getting a life - that we should each individually research this question and not presume we've got a good answer already. If it is what they meant, I agree that their phrasing was unskillful.
> Now I've got total control over the speech of anyone around me. I can shut down anyone, making any statement on any topic.

Not really. This only works if your opinions are part of the current zeitgeist. If not, then nobody will really care what some loner is hurt by, and will probably just avoid talking to you, period.

> At a certain point, people do need to be told to grow a thicker skin.

OK, but that doesn't work. It only makes people angrier and even more determined to exclude you.
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I don't think you understand the conservative objection to 'safe spaces', or else you are intentionally misinterpreting. The problem with 'safe spaces' is precisely that they hinder free discourse and mutual interaction between people with differing opinions, not that they prevent people's feelings from getting hurt. You don't get to redefine the concept.
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"It isn’t widely known that Vim has interfaces into several popular scripting languages: Python, Ruby, Perl, Scheme, and Tcl."

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1) Ever try to upgrade msvc versions? It's always a huge problem if you're using libraries you don't have source for. Not to mention the 50 million linker issues if one library is linked statically and the rest dynamic. There are still people on like msvc 6 because of this.

2) Header only libraries are horrible for compile times, especially heavily templated ones (and if you use c++ generics it basically has to be a header library). The reason boost is banned from a lot of cpp projects isn't because the library is bad, it's because of compile time.
I was going to ask: what happens in small town Texas if you are an atheist, don't support the war, support a woman's right to have an abortion, etc.?

It's been my experience that each region has its dominant sociopolitical culture and that there are always people who are unable to see beyond that and who become angry when confronted by anything other.
Were you aware that Android has built-in tinting capability? It's under Display > Night Light. There's a quick tile for it too.
I find a lot of irony here.

First of all, you are associating conservative beliefs with the trades. That's exactly the sort of thing that is being brought up here - you're effectively saying that the left claims white collar jobs, particularly those in tech, and that anyone who doesn't fit that mold shouldn't even bother.

Secondly, you're implying that welding is a lower-status field. Nothing could be further from the truth - of the two people that I know that became welders after high school, one is now an underwater welder working on offshore oil platforms and the other has specialized in heavy industrial stuff. Both of them make more than any developer I know, including myself.

> Aren't these the same sort that will moan ceaselessly about the ludicrousness of "safe spaces" and "snowflakes"?

One of the distinguishing characteristics of those on the right is the importance of equal application of the rules.
Not to Godwin it or anything, but...

Wasn't the passivity and meekness of the opposition the exact reason fascists were able to rise relatively easily in the intrawar period?

Personally, I think the concept that there aren't ideas worth throwing a punch over is equally as repugnant as saying you should punch anyone you disagree with.
You don't need version control if you know Homoglyphs obviously.
"(That’s in a sector where 76 percent of technical jobs are held by men, and blacks and Latinos make up only 5 percent of the workforce.)"

I think this is part of the problem.

Leadership at Silicon Valley companies want to think of themselves as enlightened and egalitarian when it comes to issues of race and gender. However, in reality, they have created an environment made up mostly of white, Indian, and Asian men.

So they are super sensitive and want to signal their virtue by cracking down on workers lower on the totem pole who seem insensitive to these diversity issues, because it's easier than making actual changes to improve diversity.
Maybe my impression comes from high school piano, when I succeeded in playing various Bach pieces (selections from Well Tempered Clavier among others), but for the life of me couldn't memorize the dang things.

Perhaps "serious" is the wrong term; maybe "methodical" or "mathematically inclined" is better.
What is harm? Lowering taxes could for example cause a lot of harm too indirectly if those taxes went to something important.

I don't like religion for example and would like organized religion to be illegal in my country. If I went on TV and said this I bet this would be a very unpopular opinion and people would most likely send me tons of death threats. I think this mentality is stupid and if you are upset the correct assement is not being a child about it but actually proving me wrong by arguments and facts.
OK, since this is being discussed here: has anybody found a use case for the Estonian e-Residency? I tried to actually register a company and a bank account and gave up after trying for several hours.
But I'd argue that even in those cases they are easier to understand if you already know numpy arrays as they share a lot of syntax. And if you're ever going to interact with other python numeric libraries you're sooner or later going to be converting your dataframes and tensors to and from numpy arrays anyway.
> yet you already insinuate this person is a racist bigot

Where on Earth did you read that into his post? He said those are the kinds of opinions that tend to elicit those responses, not anything about the OP.
Verizon is US-only; the GDPR doesn’t seem applicable.
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Funny, wonder how many moderate liberals would beg to have him back as president now. Myself included.
This is really cool. I tried introducing my 7 year old daughter to programming over the weekend and, while she was interested in being able to make things, I had a hard time keeping her attention (which is probably a reflection more on my lack of teaching ability). Maybe I'll give her a few more years and try again.
> Hungarian notation encodes types (and/or scope etc) -- not formatting details

That entirely depends on your interpretation of Hungarian - there are many. Plus "YMD" is easily valid as a type - imagine creating a struct with { y int; m int; d int; } and using that instead.

> ymd is not a type though.

Only because you have decided it isn't in this instance. There is no obstacle to it being a type.
This, too, is not unique to Russia. Joseph Nacchio was CEO of Qwest[1] when he refused to hand things over to the NSA. Lucrative government contracts were then dropped, Qwest's earnings took a hit, and Nacchio was subsequently prosecuted for insider trading. As I understand it, the accusation was that he knew they were not going to meet their earnings forecast and his contention is that he did not because the government contracts being dropped was a surprise to him.

"Since being freed in September 2013, Nacchio, 65, has repeatedly denied he engaged in insider trading, arguing that he thought Qwest had opportunities to get federal contracts that would have boosted its revenue, but those opportunities were withdrawn after the company's alleged refusal to cooperate with a National Security Agency surveillance program.

Nacchio has suggested repeatedly that the government's prosecution of him was payback for not helping the NSA."[2]

Even if it turns out that Nacchio really is guilty of insider trading and the government did nothing untoward, one can see how easy it would be for the US government to destroy the life of a CEO they find uncooperative.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Nacchio

2. https://www.bizjournals.com/denver/news/2015/04/29/joe-nacch...
you're thinking about this too much. get a life.
Top thread: People dickering over variable naming in PHP, based on a post about an open-source translation of an Uncle Bob book.

It's like HackerNews BINGO.
As a person who lived through this as a kid, I want to express my strong support for your comment, and provide +1 data point.

IT going mainstream made life a bit easier for us - if you say you're a programmer, people no longer roll their eyes. But that's not because geeky/nerdy lifestyle is more accepted now. It isn't. If I say to my cow-orkers that I code a lot after work, most will be looking at me like a weirdo just as much as my classmates did when I was in secondary school. People who care about technology on an intellectual level - not just on a money-making level, or shiny-trinket level, are still rare and still treated as the weird ones.
Well, on account there isnt really a working AD or SMB implementation, little printing support, and most NICs arent supported (also: no wireless at all), then I would say there is little attack surface :)
Am I missing where somebody in this thread was advocating for violence?
what are the differences between these things:

pip

easy_install

virtualenv

mkvirtualenv

pipenv

pyenv
I'm not seeing hatred towards people for arguing over correct levels of import taxes

Sure you are. You see someone vote for Trump and immediately assume it must be because they're an evil, ethically flawed person who inexplicably hates love, sunshine and puppies, whereas perhaps they mostly care about taxes. You even did it in this post. Your thinking is knee jerk and shallow, and it's people like you that are causing the problems in the first place.
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It's just a size thing and cost due to economies of scale.
That's a good point. It's probably more a cache thing than a CPU cycles thing and that might not show up on a straightforward CPU profile.

What would happen if you used special instructions to try to implement a non-cache-polluting memcpy? Or is that even possible? It's been a while but I seem to think that modern CPUs have a variety of cache control instructions. Zero copy is great but it can be a PITA.
> Now I've got total control over the speech of anyone around me. I can shut down anyone, making any statement on any topic. I need only declare that I feel hurt, scared, or angered by that statement - and such inarguable declarations have absolute unappealable power to silence.

If someone, in your place of business, says "what you just said was hurtful and offensive", then yes, I think maybe you shouldn't say it. Or at least take pause and consider why what you said may be hurtful.

None of that prevents your ability to say what you want outside the office.
Well duh.

Between cliques, crazy parties, and general irresponsibility, I ended up treating getting my bachelor's degree as I treated my HS diploma: that place I have to go to for four years while avoiding just about every so-called 'social engagement' that takes place after 5pm.

Of course students will need the requirements nerfed down to nothing - when only three or four other people besides me got enough sleep at night to be awake at the 8AM class, who can blame the schools for trying to adjust their expectations of these students?
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work and enough exposure to the code base to modify core if necessary. Oracle: never an option.
> As someone who falls on the Liberal side of the spectrum, this bothers me more than almost anything else regarding modern day politics. If you fall in line with the "right" (left) side, you are allowed to say any number of disparaging, mean, hateful, or ignorant comments without fear of consequence - as long as it's aimed at the political right-wing. If you mention you are a conservative or hold conservative views, you are aligned with the worst of the worst and anything you say is inherently wrong.

It has a name: double standard

I like to think of it like weak minded people who love to dish out insults but accuse you of being the most indecent person on the planet if you repeat their exact words back to them.

> The liberal echo chamber is just as bad, if not worse, than the conservative's version of the same thing.

I'd lean towards worse. I don't recall anyone attempting to publicly shame me for not being "conservative enough". I'd wager that most liberals have encountered some version of that.
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politics is used to divide people in this country, not bring them together. sadly it won't be fixed until we can find some means to secure a third or fourth party's ability to compete but Congress does its best to prevent any money from entering politics which does not support the norm
While I generally agree with the sentiment, if I were a manager that seems like something I wouldn't be able to allow because t would be too disruptive for no company benefit.

That's assuming it's done during work hours. If done outside it may still be an issue if it starts to effect the working relationship.
You are aware of what you're doing and the reactions it will incite. What do you think happens to parked cars with MAGA stickers in California? Well you don't have to wonder, there are more than enough "social experiments" on youtube documenting this subject matter.
OP edited the original comment to mention an alleged fist fight after getting a slew of responses directed at the "anger" aspect.
Well, to offer one clear example of harm, we have Nazis openly marching in the streets and arguing for racial cleansing of the US. As someone of Jewish decent, I find that pretty directly threatening.

Given where those arguments have lead before -- the holocaust -- is allowing people to advocate for those viewpoints truly harmless?
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"Don't talk about politics at work" has always been sound advice.
I actually think that's a perfectly reasonable thing to be uncomfortable with, and probably warrants a chat with a higher-up or an anonymous complaint.
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Long since moved to Peggo. Works just as good but even has a video saving option
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> [if someone thinks people should] be treated differently because of how they were born [then outrage they face is justified]

This has always piqued my curiosity -- would you mind explaining? Why is this such a deep tenet that I hear it so often as justification for shunning people? Apparently, there is something egregious about "treating people differently" because of "how they were born." What is wrong about this? Can you make this statement more concrete? How are the following "treatments" egregious?

* Someone is born deaf, so his parents give him care related to his disability, which is different compared to what they would have done otherwise.

* Someone was born with a great vocal range, so people encourage them to become a singer.

* Someone is born with great mathematical abilities, so later in life they are top-pick by quantitative companies, which pay them extra for the value they are expected to deliver.

* Someone has many insecurities and a history of nervous breakdowns and psychological damage, so we don't give them a high-stress job (for instance, the military doesn't hire them).
MS windows ships with a lot more drivers, and translations, or one.
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> make it possible for a "generic AOSP image" to be installed on virtually any mobile device that came with Android

I would really love that. It would take the "how crappy is the vendor UI?" problem out of the equation when looking to purchase a phone.
I don't think it's clear to most people that this is a data collection initiative. It's marketed more as a let us show you cool things we think you'll like.

Rewards like this are bullshit also, you usually end up with a coupon that lets you buy something for slightly more then you could if you waited for a sale.
"Amazing, really, that people think less of you when you specifically say you think less of others (which is the core conservative stance.)"

And here you are, thinking "less of others" in the very same sentence in which you decry it.
The Uber blog post got a lot of things wrong and if that is representative of their knowledge of PostgreSQL I would not suggest using them as an authority on PostgreSQL or databases in general.
I'm seconding this reading and I'd like to remind everyone that for many here, programming is still an intellectually stimulating experience first and a job second, if at all. Not all code - especially not the interesting one - is made at work.

I suppose GP meant "work-life balance", but for some of us, code is more part of "life" than of "work".
so, theoretically, if i used the asm.js port of ffmpeg.js to do the conversion clientside that would be ok?
I love the stance many take on partaking in the activity. Like the first second of engagement will forever ruin their sexuality towards real human beings.

It's possible to separate reality from fantasy.
Being called a communist by US conservatives isn't really something worthy of notice, as anything that goes against them is called as such.

That said, with the polarization of political debate, people rabidly defend viewpoints they don't even understand or never thought about rationally. It means you cannot have interesting arguments because you don't share any axioms with the other party, and you have different opinions on basic stuff such as "do poor people deserve to die" or "should gay people be reeducated" or "do we put immigrants in concentration camps", at which point you can only give up and break contact with resignation. Sure, I can interact with people like that on trivial stuff if I have to, but don’t ask me to be overly nice to someone who would rather see me or people I like dead.
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I agree, and I don't actually engage in political arguments at work, but the compulsion is there for the reason I specified.
And the result is just as predictable. People with conservative views will stay quiet and get more isolated and annoyed. They'll identity with other "underdogs" that are being attacked, even if they wouldn't otherwise really agree with their positions. Then everyone acts all surprised when a more extreme candidate shows up to overwhelming support.
You don't need to know everything to be arrogant; you just need to know one complete way to build a system from the ground up and have an implementation to show it. At that point, everything which you don't know is unnecessary and the conditions are set for a vigorous arrogance to flourish.
I've stopped using any other virtual env managers than asdf[0]- it has one simple API for pretty much everything.

You can define a .tools-versions file in the root of your project, which lets you install the correct versions with a simple `asdf install`. We even use this in CI for zero-config language version upgrades.

[0]: https://github.com/asdf-vm/asdf
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Agree - we would need to introduce term limits in D.C. and a bunch of other changes. Not going to happen until the SHTF.
Yeah, the comment was a little tongue-in-cheek. I didn’t think just writing yet another Vim clone would be very interesting, whereas trying to keep it minimal yet usable would be an interesting challenge.
Totally!!! It's wild. I feel like growing up it was normal to identify as say a very social leaning fiscal conservative. These days if I say everyone should be allowed to be married and everyone should be allowed to carry a gun, I'm likely labeled the opposite view of the person I'm talking with (I don't re: guns, to be clear). Very strange times.
I think this is still a false dichotomy. Some of us just don't want the government subsidizing marriage at all. Why should any dual-income pair get tax benefits? I say this as a married person.

The thought I'm guessing at the time was to encourage new families to build up society, but not even all straight, married couples are doing that. Why not just take the government out of the equation and let anyone declare any kind of relationship status they want. It's not like I have to take part in it.
Oh yikes, I didn't recognize her. That's even worse.
So glad I exist in a timeline where youtube-dl exists.

Having culture locked up in these corporate sites that can wipe it out or remove it in less than a second makes me so anxious.
Tenants are not paying for your mortgage. They are paying for a habitable home. If you cannot provide that product, then you cannot charge for it - it's pretty simple.
What a narrow-minded parody -- no, perhaps "deliberate misrepresentation" would be more correct -- of what "conservative" means.
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