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Comment Re: Why stop there? (Score 1) 825

Indeed it is. My last trip there was so bad that I am reluctant to ever go back. It wasn't just seeing poop and piss on the streets- it was seeing people pooping and pissing on the streets in plain view. My wife and I had to step over a frothy stream of piss on the sidewalk from a woman squatting against a wall 5 feet from me near the trolly stop while staring at me with her pants around her ankles.

Comment Re:Flip Argument (Score 4, Insightful) 1128

I submit to you that you do not know what happened. Don't feel bad- very few people outside of the 12 members of the Grand Jury have heard all of known facts of the case. I certainly don't know what happened.

But please keep this in mind. Things that you accept as fact are not really facts. Case in point: your assumption that Brown had surrendered. Some of the sworn testimony that was released tonight following the prosecutor's press conference indicates that Brown had not surrendered, and in fact was charging the police officer "like a football player" with his head down and fists clenched. And at the same time, as the prosecutor detailed in his press conference, much of the early eye witness accounts that indicated that Brown had surrendered did not hold up under further scrutiny.

As I said, I don't know what happened, but I think this is enough to move the narrative that Brown had surrendered out of the "fact" category.

Comment "Right to be forgotten"==Opression (Score 1) 224

"The right to be forgotten" requires a great imposition on others. If I observed you in a cafe, what would it take for you to assert your right to be forgotten? Why is it any different in the case of a group of individuals or a corporation?

My memory of you is part of my identity, something you have no right to.

Comment Re:Change? In the web? Not really. (Score 1) 246

Does anyone actually hire pure HTML/CSS web developers anymore?

I can get any PSD converted to pixel perfect, clean, well written HTML/CSS overnight for about $20. Im not about to hire someone who can't code server side.

For fulltime work they had better be strong on some server side stuff as well HTML/CSS or be truly pro at something like Angular or D3. All of the above require basic understanding of datas structures and design patterns.

Comment Re:Rumers..demise..exaggerated. (Score 1) 289

http://www.tiobe.com/index.php...

C is still the undisputed king of enterprise, and growing.
Java has about 3x the adoption of C#. Both are declining. C# peaked in 2012 and is plummeting.

Finally there, like C# and .Net, there is a big difference between Java and the JVM. You are right that for many things C# the language is better (though fuck the eco system) then Java. However the JVM is amazing.

Watch out for Scala. Its actually starting to woo C devs.

Comment Re:Biology workbook (Score 4, Interesting) 770

Is this behavior really different then what goes on in Texas public schools? Of course not. We get the same sort of anti-science stuff from traditional public schools down there. The fact that this is a charter school isn't the problem. This is just a feature of Texas.

Of course in places like NYC, we see charter schools dedicated to math and good science. Charter schools reflect a community's desire for education. Thats it.

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