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> I can't even find a half decent http client which handles all the important stuff. I'm guessing you don't count cURL as half-decent. Because it's API is C++k let alone idiomatic,…

> comply with the law It's not a defense of a bad law to say that it forces people to by "comply with the law".

It also depends on the country. I had family hand me a 500 Euro note because they couldn't even get get it changed at banks in France. I took it on my trip to Austria a week later …

It's a joke. The whole point is for the author to cast themself in a negative light.

Yeah, it's an amazingly creative technique: explain the fuck your thing is, so that people might decide they want it. I suspect the market does not lie though, and if you are pedal…

Most versions of the American accent are a bit nasal compared to other English speakers, so I guess that makes it higher pitched on average -- even if I wouldn't call it "shrill". …

It would have been a great title. But the pedants like me would have crept up to say "but Liskov tells us we can accept substitutes".

Is there an actual explanation of how the design fridge works?

> ..., you often get no feedback after job interviews. There is nothing new in this.

Now you are confusing me, because in Australia "mall" means something else -- and in Bondi Junction there's a mall right outside the Westfield. I had some visitors from from Washin…

Because in America these things are designed by zoning and the political process. What you describe in Japan sounds like the Horrors of Captialism and can't possibly be allowed in …

> Complexity will increase, but our level of abstraction will increase to match, as with any technology. But this is no panacea. The complexity will still be there, and ops folks w…

That looks, on it's face, like a violation of the 14th amendment equal protection clause.

A public safety rationale would be about cops service weapons. The parent post sounds like he means individual cops can buy guns on the open market as private citizens would be all…

> why didn't they test before panicking? Because that's the sort of thing that can blow out a lawsuit or result in bad press.

What does ISTM stand for?

Are you talking about in house spies, or spies placed in companies by governments? If the latter, then the answer is all of them .

> British idiomatic spellings Let's get this straight. There's "American English" used in the US and Canada. And then there English, where "colour" is spelled with a "U", and that'…

The Nazis got away with going around beating up opponents with truncheons. The authorities turning a blind eye to that stuff was not an upholding of anyone's civil liberties, it wa…

That's a of an odd reading of an article that is going out of it's way to point out that the "marketplace of ideas" idea was (1) not the justification for the 1st Amendment and (2)…

It's interesting to see how Hamilton's arguments against a bill of rights hinges on the idea that the government doesn't have power unless the Constitution grants power to the gove…

> copyright enforcement. Ahh, but copyright won the last war, by moving to centralised platforms. The privacy mavens are going to lose, but they are going to lose to Big Brother, n…

>> "A generation of lazy people who don't work hard" >I am sorry for derailing, but how does that happen, did they come out like a faulty batch from a factory? One generation is un…

> shady work-for-hire deals Is that the kind of deal where you work for an employer and they pay you? Kind of like the deal most software engineers take.

> grant money as possible rather than build a successful product. You are not thinking the right way. Machinery for writing good grant applications is a successful product. This is…