I'm not sure how you can say hierarchical organizations that use violence/coercion are in any way anarchist. Anarcho-capitalism requires voluntary engagement in a system of contracts and so forth. (Whether that could…
Anecdotal, but PostGIS is the reason I started using Postgres several years ago in some of my own projects, which later came in handy at different jobs. At one place, we standardized on Postgres partly because of…
In Oregon, yellow essentially means stop. A lot of Oregon transplants (and apparently many commentators in this thread) aren't aware of this. http://www.oregonlive.com/commuting/index.ssf/2014/02/joseph...…
This perfectly articulates something I tried to get across to upper management last time we hired a manager for our team. It seems so obvious and reasonable, but they wouldn't hear it. So, we ended up hiring someone who…
The one problem I have with this is that I want `mail.example.com` to always open in my work container, but `mail.example.com` redirects to `mail.google.com` and the latter is what ends up being saved, so it's not…
Java EE != Java
5a. There are some genuinely shitty people out there that don't necessarily deserve a pass just because no one is perfect and everyone makes mistakes. Dealing with such situations can be exceptionally difficult. Avoid…
Because everyone simply decided to participate in the prevailing social/economic system? I wish I could simply decide to opt out.
A "good way to start a dialogue" is by starting with a trick question and likely putting the other person on the defensive?
What if one chimpanzee sometimes stepped away from the group and all their bickering, noise, ego-driven shenanigans, and other distractions? Maybe that chimpanzee would pick more bananas (and share them with the group).…
> ...schedules, robbing your life with all the waiting, limited load carrying capacity, forced interactions with antisocial individuals, etc. Reading this, the first thing that comes to mind is daily traffic in the…
Hmm... so executives/managers aren't as affected by open office plans and also tend to lack empathy... so we get open office plans or maybe, if we're lucky, cube walls. I know I'm generalizing and not all managers lack…
Is it possible that companies, teams within companies, and/or individuals might exploit "Hanlon's Razor" to their own benefit? It's easy to say "Oh, whoops" and often there's no easy way to prove incompetence vs malice.…
This lets people get away with playing dumb. Maybe it's not wise to automatically assume malice if incompetence could be a factor, but it's also not correct to rule out malice just because incompetence is a possible…
You might say that programs that encourage girls are "discriminatory" in some pedantic sense, but they don't keep boys from learning about math and science, nor do they discourage boys from going into STEM fields. The…
Aiming STEM programs at girls isn't sexist. That just isn't what "sexist" means. Those programs exist to correct an imbalance caused by actual sexism.
I'm confused. Are you saying that Trump is not part of what you're calling the "Republic Elite"? Or that he's not part of the billionaire class? That he's not highly connected? Are you saying he actually cares about the…
You're making the incorrect assumption that vegetarians are replacing whatever meat they were eating with the more-expensive meat substitutes. As I noted in my comment above, there are plenty of meat substitutes and…
You might like to hear about such things, but most people only want to hear about weekend activities they consider "fun" (e.g., going out drinking) or "normal" (e.g., doing stuff with the kids). If you say you spent the…
Can you explain how a basic income equates to "communism"?
In Django, the validation & type coercion would typically happen in a Form object (or, if you're using Django REST Framework, a Serializer). That step at least is outside of the ORM and seems much more explicit to me.…
> I can find a restroom ... Did you mean "can't" or maybe "can never"? In most cities I've been to, including SF, it's been really hard to find public restrooms.
I wonder if you show this kind of disdain toward all types of fashion--like the clothes you yourself wear--or just toward certain things you likely associate with "hipsters" or some other easily-disparaged group? I'm…
In response to your last paragraph, what if an organization is more good than bad and the bad they do is really bad? Does it really matter if there are also good people working there? Even if you can argue that we need…
You're denigrating her because of her hairstyle and perceived political leanings? How is that relevant to the content of the article? You don't think she could possibly have relevant experience in spite of these things?…
I'm not sure how you can say hierarchical organizations that use violence/coercion are in any way anarchist. Anarcho-capitalism requires voluntary engagement in a system of contracts and so forth. (Whether that could…
Anecdotal, but PostGIS is the reason I started using Postgres several years ago in some of my own projects, which later came in handy at different jobs. At one place, we standardized on Postgres partly because of…
In Oregon, yellow essentially means stop. A lot of Oregon transplants (and apparently many commentators in this thread) aren't aware of this. http://www.oregonlive.com/commuting/index.ssf/2014/02/joseph...…
This perfectly articulates something I tried to get across to upper management last time we hired a manager for our team. It seems so obvious and reasonable, but they wouldn't hear it. So, we ended up hiring someone who…
The one problem I have with this is that I want `mail.example.com` to always open in my work container, but `mail.example.com` redirects to `mail.google.com` and the latter is what ends up being saved, so it's not…
Java EE != Java
5a. There are some genuinely shitty people out there that don't necessarily deserve a pass just because no one is perfect and everyone makes mistakes. Dealing with such situations can be exceptionally difficult. Avoid…
Because everyone simply decided to participate in the prevailing social/economic system? I wish I could simply decide to opt out.
A "good way to start a dialogue" is by starting with a trick question and likely putting the other person on the defensive?
What if one chimpanzee sometimes stepped away from the group and all their bickering, noise, ego-driven shenanigans, and other distractions? Maybe that chimpanzee would pick more bananas (and share them with the group).…
> ...schedules, robbing your life with all the waiting, limited load carrying capacity, forced interactions with antisocial individuals, etc. Reading this, the first thing that comes to mind is daily traffic in the…
Hmm... so executives/managers aren't as affected by open office plans and also tend to lack empathy... so we get open office plans or maybe, if we're lucky, cube walls. I know I'm generalizing and not all managers lack…
Is it possible that companies, teams within companies, and/or individuals might exploit "Hanlon's Razor" to their own benefit? It's easy to say "Oh, whoops" and often there's no easy way to prove incompetence vs malice.…
This lets people get away with playing dumb. Maybe it's not wise to automatically assume malice if incompetence could be a factor, but it's also not correct to rule out malice just because incompetence is a possible…
You might say that programs that encourage girls are "discriminatory" in some pedantic sense, but they don't keep boys from learning about math and science, nor do they discourage boys from going into STEM fields. The…
Aiming STEM programs at girls isn't sexist. That just isn't what "sexist" means. Those programs exist to correct an imbalance caused by actual sexism.
I'm confused. Are you saying that Trump is not part of what you're calling the "Republic Elite"? Or that he's not part of the billionaire class? That he's not highly connected? Are you saying he actually cares about the…
You're making the incorrect assumption that vegetarians are replacing whatever meat they were eating with the more-expensive meat substitutes. As I noted in my comment above, there are plenty of meat substitutes and…
You might like to hear about such things, but most people only want to hear about weekend activities they consider "fun" (e.g., going out drinking) or "normal" (e.g., doing stuff with the kids). If you say you spent the…
Can you explain how a basic income equates to "communism"?
In Django, the validation & type coercion would typically happen in a Form object (or, if you're using Django REST Framework, a Serializer). That step at least is outside of the ORM and seems much more explicit to me.…
> I can find a restroom ... Did you mean "can't" or maybe "can never"? In most cities I've been to, including SF, it's been really hard to find public restrooms.
I wonder if you show this kind of disdain toward all types of fashion--like the clothes you yourself wear--or just toward certain things you likely associate with "hipsters" or some other easily-disparaged group? I'm…
In response to your last paragraph, what if an organization is more good than bad and the bad they do is really bad? Does it really matter if there are also good people working there? Even if you can argue that we need…
You're denigrating her because of her hairstyle and perceived political leanings? How is that relevant to the content of the article? You don't think she could possibly have relevant experience in spite of these things?…