Viewing profile — glesica

It was open sourced because it was a cool piece of technology and it would have been a shame to keep it back, but it is no longer in use at Workiva. Source: I work there, although …

Isn't the Python interpreter implemented in C? How could Python run someplace that C can't?

> Wikipedia is good for historical references (pre 1900 or so), and a good place to start if you just don't know anything about the thing you're looking up. Whenever I see people s…

Meh, Americans also don't like dying horribly and will freakout if they think something makes that more likely. The FDA is relatively conservative compared to many other countries …

I haven't used Photoshop in quite a few years, but I'm pretty sure it works (or worked) the same way as Gimp. Maybe people who do a lot of work in image editing software are accust…

> This will probably be the last release. I won't be able to work on Shoebill going forward (by contractual obligation), so I wanted to race out one last release. Really sad that c…

I don't know a ton about Common Core (I don't have kids and I'm not a teacher). However, I know enough to agree with you that, assuming they got it right, Common Core should be a t…

> buy deferred annuities from AAA rated insurance companies and build their own "pensions". Which, in a post-financial crisis world, also obviously involves relying on government-b…

The same can be said for private companies. The difference is that private companies are allowed to weasel out of their obligations and the federal government picks up their pensio…

Then quit and take a lower-stress job. Once you're at that point you can afford it (in fact most people in that position these days could just quit and reduce their living costs, m…

It's a shame that casino rights is the only meaningful form of recognition being offered...

People like Warren Buffet talk about things being "mis-priced" all the time, that's how people like him make money. So yes, some risk might be priced in, but how much, and how accu…

There are a ton of reasons for the price to be "wrong" if a particular practice is unusual or new. Markets only function as well as the people involved in them. If the people are a…

I didn't downvote you, but I also don't agree with your assumptions. First, I don't think that desktop sites are such a big problem on mobile (though some are, admittedly, unusable…

One important side-effect of a an author providing data and code, even though it is only good for re-analysis, is that it provides completely unambiguous documentation for what the…

> how people thought it would be in the first place. Naive educators desperate to show they are doing everything possible to improve outcomes + mountains of marketing and lobbying …

Yeah, but wouldn't it really be a different crime anyway? I mean, state A would charge you for ripping off people in state A, state B would charge you for ripping people off in sta…

But have any Republican elected officials actually put these policies into action? I mean, let's take Scott Walker. What has he done in Wisconsin? Seems like a lot of giveaways to …

> Even showing no understanding of basic math when deduction + flat rate taxes are suggested. As a left-winger, my views and yours probably aren't that far off. I would be fine wit…

Weird that the logo on the tail of the plane appears to be hockey...

Meh, maybe the people whose first-ever programming experience was CS 101 prefer OOP, at least at first, because it is all they may have ever seen [1]. But Haskell and Lisps, among …

I guess I've never really associated privilege and blame. Maybe other people do, I can't speak for anyone but myself. I do, however, think that blame is appropriate when a person r…

> you should be ashamed for being white, check your privilege shitlord You had to work pretty damn hard to get this out of that quote. His point was that a lot of people who say th…

> All the more reason we as a society need to come up with a better solution to "unskilled people need to eat" beyond blaming the greed of silicon valley companies. I think part of…

> Email seems to carry the notion of importance, which is not true of chat messages I think. The reasoning behind this is, I think, an incoming email stands alone, whereas a chat m…