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Pieman103021 | 4 years ago | on: Wrapping Up 2021. Leaving C++

Not OP, but I can tell you why your comment seemed armchair-psychologist-y to me. The issue is saying "it doesn't seem like her problem is actually X, it seems like it's Y." You read a short article written by someone who, based on the tone and explanation up top, was not in the best frame of mind.

The bigger issue with your comment from my perspective though is that you said "But it seems to me that they're still some way off from understanding their condition", which to my ears is just demeaning. Someone posts an article about leaving a community, with a lead in explaining their state of mind as of writing it, and your response comes down to "sounds like you don't understand your condition you were recently diagnosed with".

Personality disorders are hard, they don't go away and they can take years to get a handle on. When the top response to your article where you mention your disorder is someone saying you don't understand it, it becomes that much harder.

Pieman103021 | 6 years ago | on: Amazon.com Credit Builder: Build credit with no annual fee

You get 5% cashback if you have Amazon prime. Assuming you are a student trying to build your credit, that's $60 a year. That means for the 5% cash back to break even you need to spend $1200 on Amazon per year. That's not obscene, but it doesn't really seem worth it to me unless you use Amazon a lot.

Pieman103021 | 8 years ago | on: Elm changed my mind about unpopular languages

I definitely disagree that java is looking like - or even starting to - python did in 2004, it still has a huge market share, even compared to python. Yes python is definitely more popular now, enough so that the python paradox doesn't even apply, but it will probably never apply to java, or at least not in the current computing paradigm.

Pieman103021 | 8 years ago | on: Bezos should put his billions in public libraries

You are 100% correct, that was an incorrect argument to make. I guess that was the whole point of the article too, so I really got that one wrong. It is important to recognize the incredible amount of money and social benefit going into and out of libraries, and I don't think they should be so quickly discounted just because it is 2017 and we have the internet.

Pieman103021 | 8 years ago | on: Bezos should put his billions in public libraries

You are absolutely correct and this was my oversight. That being said, the net social benefit is still great and the parent commenter's opinion that they are not important because of the internet is a flawed argument. Still, you are correct.

Pieman103021 | 8 years ago | on: Bezos should put his billions in public libraries

A library is free, even if all of the world's knowledge is online it would cost money to access in addition to paying for internet. The point of libraries is to remove any barrier to entry for knowledge. I can go to my library and get access to journals and articles I would have to pay for otherwise. It is not a huge waste of money, it is a great way to save. Taxes are paid into the library and as a result the community as a whole benefits.

Ignoring all of that,you say people can get all of their knowledge online now. Please remember that you're fortunate enough to own a computer or cell phone with a data plan. Many people only have access to the internet at the library.

Libraries have survived through all of history for a reason, the internet will not kill them. If they are defunded they will be formed by people like Bezos who recognize the huge benefit they provide to society.

Pieman103021 | 8 years ago | on: Update on Bitcoin Cash

Similar experience, locked out of my account and was asked to reply to the ticket I submitted to keep it open before I even got a response. Of course I can't reply because I don't have access to the account associated with the email.

Pieman103021 | 8 years ago | on: Avast welcomes Piriform, creator of CCleaner, to its team

"Hi Anthony, we are committed to the CCleaner brand and Piriform’s product portfolio, and will continue to offer the CCleaner as a standalone product and brand."

I think this answers the immediate question everyone is going to have. Glad to see that they are keeping CCleaner around, but also interested to see if anything comes of the acquisition.

Pieman103021 | 8 years ago | on: My Family’s Slave

Absolutely, my immediate reaction was just wow. Past the amazing story, the way he tells it really makes it seem so real. I never imagined modern slavery to be so casual to the slave master, and I certainly never thought about how it would effect the slave master's children.
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