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devsquid | 4 years ago | on: Media Bias Chart

I only skimmed the page, but if you think CNN represents a left wing view you do not understand left wing politics. Ranking CNN along sides Jacocbin or Fox News alongside Breitbart just shows your political ignorance. This site just comes across as painful arrogant.

devsquid | 5 years ago | on: Elon Musk moves to Texas

Both what are true? Have you ever lived in Texas?

Yes the like most urban areas they trend left and more ethnically diverse. Thus Texas is also trending left. I'm not sure what your point is.

Is your point that change is coming for Texas? I totally agree with that, but I think it's going to be a longer and harder fight than most think. From my experience a lot of the white population there are some of the worse bigots I've ever met.

My point was it's not a very free state, lol there are just certain specific things allowed. And it has low taxes so it's great if you're already rich and successful.

devsquid | 5 years ago | on: Elon Musk moves to Texas

Lord you bought this story hook line and sinker...

> But its pretty diverse, and it seems that folks with opposing viewpoints can still coexist here. I like that...

You hear this a lot lately from tech bros. It's hilarious considering how many things are illegal in Texas. Ya you can buy an assault rifle, but its illegal to buy hard liquor on Sunday. Have you ever looked at their gerrymandering? Did you know during the 2016 election they didn't allow mail in ballots?

devsquid | 5 years ago | on: Hexagonal Grids (2013)

I went with what they call the "Axial coordinates". I think the alternative, "Cube coordinates", causes a lot of issues and confusion when writing game logic.

devsquid | 5 years ago | on: Hexagonal Grids (2013)

This is cool. I recently wrote an A* pathfinding system for a hex based game. Choosing a good coordinate system 100% makes this easier.

devsquid | 5 years ago | on: Why to Start a Startup in a Bad Economy (2008)

I feel like a lot of the things I've read from Paul Graham suffer from the survivor fallacy. The tech industry idolization of him is itself a form of survivor fallacy and its infatuation with "wealth makes right" is almost incestuous. Most of what he writes is just a one line fortune cookie drawn out into a 3 page essay.

I HIGHLY recommend tech workers to actually break out of your bubble. So much of our ethos is being "free thinkers", but most of the "thought" is just repeated business pep talk.

devsquid | 5 years ago | on: Is Rust web yet?

> Can I replace my Rails/Django/Flask already? Yup! Rust has mature and production ready frameworks

> If you can't get the nuances why Rails/Django/Many other frameworks are a better solution for writing a web server than I dunno what to tell you.

devsquid | 5 years ago | on: Is Rust web yet?

I love Rust and I love the direction its pushing. But these kinds of websites are awful. If you can't get the nuances why Rails/Django/Many other frameworks are a better solution for writing a web server than I dunno what to tell you.

devsquid | 5 years ago | on: AWS services to avoid

As with all things it totally depends on the scale you're at.

Redis is an extremely reliable service. I've never "lost" data with Redis.

devsquid | 8 years ago | on: What happened to Steam Machines?

Both Valve and Alphabet have shipped amazingly successful software. I think w/e they are doing works, that doesn't mean theres other ways that work 2.

devsquid | 8 years ago | on: Differential Privacy

Its cool they are using DP for some analytics. But its not quite the holy grail Apple and its fans has been selling it as. Because any analytics campaign using DP will always eventually average out to pure noise or end up being non-anonymous.

Heres a great interview from the ms researched that invented the technique http://www.sciencefriday.com/segments/crowdsourcing-data-whi...

One of the quotes I always liked from it is "any overly accurate estimates of too many statistics is blatantly non-private"

devsquid | 9 years ago | on: Web Development in Go

Theres lots of reasons to use Go. Mine is the language is really stupid simple.

Theres nothing fancy in the syntax, you can pick up a project you put down months ago and easily start working on it again

devsquid | 9 years ago | on: Swift 3.1 Released

Yea, but the Swift compiler is extremely buggy. Plus its gotten buggier with each release.

devsquid | 9 years ago | on: Affordable Care

The fact my nation is as wealthy as it is but it does not want to invest in the health of its people is insanity to me. Health insurance is essentially a bet that someone's health cost will be less than their monthly premium. Why would my country not take on that bet? It seems like something that would be way more effective if it was orchestrated on a national level. (ノಥ,_｣ಥ)ノ彡┻━┻
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