cobralibre
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Comment · 7 years ago
Comment · 7 years ago
Whatever data Apple has on me evidently tells them that I have giant hands and inexhaustible disposable income.
Comment · 8 years ago
I doubt that specialists are keen to adapt their terminology to reflect popular usage and would much prefer things to work the other way around. It looks like the word we should be using is 'avemetatarsalians'?
Comment · 8 years ago
I love the name. I realize that the word appears in many contexts, but it invariably reminds me of the General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales.
Comment · 9 years ago
I had a lot of fun building a small app with Ratpack several months ago, but its online manual is full of TODOs. If you're comfortable with Groovy or Java, I'm sure they would welcome your contributions.
Comment · 9 years ago
A probably apocryphal story claims Cutlar said to Griffin, "It was eating my potatoes." Griffin replied, "It is up to you to keep your potatoes out of my pig."
Comment · 9 years ago
Webpack supports the former if you use [hash] (or [chunkhash]) in the output filename. [1] This is what create-react-app uses. [2]
[1] https://webpack.js.org/configuration/output/#output-filename
[2] https://github.com/facebookincubator/create-react-app/blob/m...
Comment · 9 years ago
> People have a right to their beliefs, even if their beliefs are stupid. If not, than what kind of country are we?
Politics is a process of conflict and negotiation between varied, competing interests. In a liberal democracy, "people have a right to their beliefs" is the starting point for that process, not the endpoint.
Comment · 9 years ago
That's true.
http://www.economist.com/node/1897472
"Initiatives are also responsible for another feature that makes the Assembly unworkable: term limits. These may sometimes be desirable but in California they are simply too short. Proposition 140 set them at six years for Assembly members, eight for state senators.
"As a result, representatives do not have a good grasp of the details of bills, have little long-term loyalty to the institution they serve and can sometimes be unduly influenced by more experienced lobbyists. No sooner do people become head of the assembly, or of an important committee, than they are term-limited out. Legislative leadership becomes almost impossible."
It certainly wouldn't have been unusual for a young Beto O'Rourke (or any other Texan) to have tacos on his mind for any number of reasons, but "Taco Land" was the name of a punk bar in San Antonio. It was well known to Texas punks and their ilk and was immortalized by the Dead Milkmen in the late 80s by their song "Tacoland".