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The only two Republican presidents in my adult life have both been directly associated with mass death and economic collapse. That's why I care.
Re:Majority of Americans favor wealth tax on very rich: poll on Friday January 10, 2020 @01:46PM (#22013814)
In the same way you'll at some point have to sell property to get the money to pay your taxes.
Re:The Danger of “Simplicity” on Friday November 22, 2019 @01:38PM (#21608514)
Names can and do lie, types are checked by the compiler. Also in you example, is an entry a string? a dict? its own class? who knows.
I 100% think cloudflare, google, facebook, or whomever should shut down 8chan.

I 100% don't think the US government should.

I don't know why everyone is conflating these two very different scenarios.

Re:The forgotten joy of soap on Tuesday July 09, 2019 @12:38PM (#20393641)
Oh no millenials are killing bar soap.
Re:Absolute truths I unlearned as junior developer on Friday June 07, 2019 @12:26PM (#20126235)
You say you've never understood the benefit of unit tests but you list three really great things: they help you debug stuff while you're writing it, they help you understand what you're writing and the edge cases, and they help others understand your code later. That's all great stuff.
Yeah, it turns out destabilizing the climate is a big fucking deal.
that's still not great.
Re:The Vast Re-Education Program of the Superbowl Ads on Wednesday February 06, 2019 @09:58PM (#19102600)
I mean i was being in tongue in cheek, but it really seems like a "Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother's eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye?" kind of situation.
Re:The Vast Re-Education Program of the Superbowl Ads on Wednesday February 06, 2019 @02:26PM (#19098808)
I'll take my warnings about insidious cultural programming with a grain of salt when they come from Catholics. Thanks.
Re:Monorepos and the Fallacy of Scale on Tuesday January 08, 2019 @11:20AM (#18856673)
The original "Monorepos please don't" article really just convinced me how great monorepos are when you aren't at scale. So you know, put your shit in a monorepo, and then when it gets painful, break it out.