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mongmong | 8 years ago | on: Programmers who want to change how we code before catastrophe strikes

"The software was doing what it was supposed to do. Unfortunately it was told to do the wrong thing" I feel the value of Domain Driven Design more and more every day and I think it is one method to make the business intent be reflected clearly in the code base, using domain language and modelling the domain to be self documenting.

mongmong | 8 years ago | on: I’m 35 and I may suddenly have lost the rest of my life

My mother died of kidney cancer last year. Doctor said unfortunately modern medicine had nothing to offer her.

She turned to alternatives, tried everything from vegan diet to juicing to vitamin c (intravenous twice a week over 6 months). No salt diet. Stone heat mattress. Hydrogen rich water. She exercised daily getting as much sun because someone told her that's good.

That didn't stop the metastasis spreading all over her body. She passed away 8 months after her diagnosis, coincidentally exactly what the doctor guessed when pressed for her honest prognosis.

You accuse the pharma industry of preying on the desperate for money, but in my experience it was the opposite. Pharma told her sorry nothing we can do. In desperation she turned to alternatives. I was willing to believe anything if it cured my mum.

mongmong | 8 years ago | on: I'm a startup founder and I had sex with an investor

Found this very interesting and brutally honest in the details around the circumstances of the consensual night out (she mentioned several times that the meeting being purely business was all made up in her head) and her equally honest opinion on what happened to Cheryl Yeoh (she doesn't agree that was assault).

Pity how a personal account with no clear villain or wrong doing is not getting much attention as it deserves, she is being very honest here and leaving herself vulnerable to being called both a SJW and a traitor to other women. I appreciate her honesty and complicated analysis of her own motivations and subsequent reactions.

mongmong | 8 years ago | on: Fake online stores reveal gamblers' shadow banking system

I would think this is primarily to hide gambling activities so it doesn't affect your credit score. If you're applying for a loan or credit card your bank statements can be assessed and if it finds transactions to known gambling sites or ATM withdrawals from known gambling venues or hotels then that will affect your credit rating badly.

mongmong | 9 years ago | on: Thousands of deadly U.S. military airstrikes have gone unreported

I dont understand this notion of media responsibility to report on matters of grave importance and substance. As long as media is profit driven (which the vast majority it is) I expect nothing from them other than to please their shareholders. If reporting on drones drove more clicks and generated more page views we'd see media rushing to report on such coverage. The fact that they don't to me says it's a demand problem. People just are not interested in facing up to news that their government is bombing other countries in their name.

Public news organisations, on the other hand, should definitely be held to the expectation of reporting on issues in priority of importance, with not a shred of concern placed on how popular the reporting will become.

This is not surprising at all that npr has been covering this extensively, and also nobody bothered to listen.

mongmong | 9 years ago | on: Fake News Challenge

This is not something you can make people do through education though. Even among people i know that are highly educated and have achieved top marks and went to the best companies, there are those who just don't give a shot about politics. They are not interested enough to look or dig further.

mongmong | 9 years ago | on: Don’t Tell Your Friends They’re Lucky

I agree with you if youre saying we should acknowledge that bad luck can trump effort, but i don't agree this is a healthy attitude to carry over in your day to day life. Effort is something I can control. Could I fail no matter how much i try? Yes absolutely. Ask Hillary. But you won't know until you try.

mongmong | 9 years ago | on: Obama Commutes Bulk of Chelsea Manning’s Sentence

All that tells me is she was a politician playing the political game. Or do you think it is mutually exclusive to play politics and caring about doing good things with power? Do you think emails between Sanders campaign staff would not be discussing talking points and tactics if their campaign emails were leaked?
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