malfist

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Comment · 11 hours ago
The first 90% is always the easy part. The second 90% is the hard part.
Comment · 11 hours ago
It seems all too common these days for tech startups to try to wall off a common good and try to sell access to what used to be free
Comment · 16 hours ago
> Before, people were responsible for the dependencies they were importing.

This is an attitude not reflective of reality for those that wrote code in the pre npm days

Comment · 1 day ago
Might does not make right. Even if your assertion is true.
Comment · 1 day ago
Andy Yen wants us to live in a dystopia where we all pray at the alter of maximum profit and sacrifice everything to it.

I refuse to believe we live in that world. While we're a long way from a star trek utopia, there's no reason to believe standing for morals and principles is impossible in this day and age. A lot of social media and the news are here to tell you thats a hopeless dream, but it's not. Get out an meet people especially the up and coming generation. People have been raised to be kind, and it shows.

The long arm of history bends towards progress not because of inevitability but because _we bend it_. Get out there, do the right thing and leave the world a little bit better than you found it. There's still plenty of profit in that. Enough to share even

Comment · 1 day ago
Oh no, the military is training to be a military. What is this Jade Helm 2.0?
Comment · 1 day ago
You just did?
Comment · 1 day ago
Bitcoin was launched in 2008 way before the Dodd Frank act was passed
Comment · 1 day ago
High dosage of water have also killed people. And easily achieved through energy drinks? I strongly doubt that. Most energy drinks are not any stronger than coffee
Comment · 1 day ago
Maybe is a security measure, can't hack something if it's never available
Comment · 1 day ago
I'm glad no one can steal from my bank, they stop 98% of thieves
Comment · 2 days ago
When I rewatch TNG those lines always stick out because of the song
Comment · 2 days ago
This is becoming a speech

You're the captain sir, you're entitled

Hmmm, I'm entitied to ramble on about something everyone knows

Captain Jean-Luc Picard of the USS Enterprise

Captain Jean-Luc Picard of the USS Enterprise

Make make make make it so

Comment · 2 days ago
For every complex and difficult problem, someone has an easy, simple and wrong solution. Usually the presence of "just" is a good clue.

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