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It would apply just as well, hence the "Why not the government?". You probably don't want to be the first/only fancy restaurant to fight racism.

> if there are companies so desperate to hire engineers that they're turning to immigration law to try to increase the supply, why aren't they simply offering large enough compensation packages to attract the existing pool?

I don't get this argument. If there are 100 open positions and 80 eligible candidates, 20 (at least) positions will remain vacant, regardless of compensation. Not saying that this example reflects the real world, just that the argument is not sound from a logical/mathematical standpoint.

This rhetoric in this reply is implying that you may be skeptical that white people are as valuable and capable at basketball as the majority black player population. Please reconsider.

Not all emotions have equal rights. Sadness elicits sympathy, rage elicits fear and hostility.

> (and a lot of women in my recent environments, but that is another story)

Sounds like a titillating story, I'd be love to read it if you post it.

You may enjoy this comic: http://existentialcomics.com/comic/1

<pedantic>"brief" would be a closer translation</pedantic>

Beef jerky?

How about Canberra?

Damn. I am on okc and I am ball-busting women all the time. Ok admittedly I got lucky a few times but they didn't stick for long and most of them were meh anyway. I think the crucial difference in the GP's case was that she initiated it; she had already preselected him for whatever reason. This almost never happens to me and when it does it's not from women I'd be thrilled to get together with. Sigh

Great post. What I find most striking is how does one's (future) wife just "came along" when spending most time at home building open source projects. I mean, I rarely code any more for fun after work (and to be honest, often during work), I am actively looking for someone to get together and let me tell you, it's a bitch. Granted, I'm only searching online but then again I'm not looking for marriage material necessarily; even a semi-casual affair that would last more than a few weeks or months would be an improvement but it remains an elusive goal.

Not a ruby dev so don't know how they compare to pry but I've been a happy heavy user of ipdb [1] and pdbpp [2].

[1] https://pypi.python.org/pypi/ipdb [2] https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pdbpp

Monopoly money stocks

Someone created an issue to add non-US content: https://github.com/jlevy/og-equity-compensation/issues/26

This would imply that all/most posts about popular culture figures are highly upvoted in HN but I doubt this is the case (no data, just subjective impression).

I like to think of such "strange" highly voted posts as revealing a hidden correlation. Yes, there may not be any obvious prior reason to expect that people who frequent HN find David Bowie or his death significant. And yet they do. There doesn't have to be a cause-and-effect or "logical" explanation. It is what it is.

    GIT_COMMITTER_DATE='$BOGUS_DATE' GIT_AUTHOR_DATE='$BOGUS_DATE' git commit

is your friend ;)

Honest question: do you find, say, police enforcement in a representative democracy also non-understandable? Is the idea that only a few designated individuals have the right to arrest or interrogate someone equally revolting, and that in an ideal society we should either all have this right or nobody?

I trust democracy to decide on complex financial issues as much as I trust it to design a chemical factory or offer medical advice: not at all.

In case you're not just trolling, I'm wondering if your argument would change in case of matters that require medical or nuclear engineering expertise.

Not the OP but my guess: religion

> I don't care if that opinionated path changes every month

Good for you, you'll feel right at home because that's exactly what's happening in JS-land, and it's a major reason many of us opt to stay the hell away from such a fad-driven development ecosystem.

Conversely, articles like this remind me I'm just a dust in the wind that exists for a speck of time; a few less friends here or few more books there mean nothing in the grand scheme of things, so don't sweat it. I'm repelled and paralysed by the thought of death as much as the average guy but "fear of missing out" is not among the reasons.

In similar vein is valideer: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/valideer

I can imagine your facepalm.. Wondering how many of these "up to N characters" rules are actually there because there is a `password CHAR(N)` DDL declaration for storing plaintext passwords...

"Sounds good, call me up when you get funding" click

Long time Python dev here so choice #1 is a no-brainer and #2 looks reasonable too but I'm not so sure about the other two. Regarding #4, `obj.method` has already a different meaning than `obj.method()` in Python, so how does Nim express it?

As for #3, I kinda see the motivation in statically typed languages for integrating independent libraries and frameworks with different naming conventions. In a dynamically typed language though refactoring is already bad enough, this would make it even harder. My "refactoring tool" of choice is grep (or rather ag, https://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcher), with choice #3 you can't just grep for an identifier anymore.

TIL there's a (big apparently) FOSS project called "Bro". Is this an acronym, humour, sarcasm or what?

Premature generalization is the root of all evil

> I wonder how they thought the SEC would not find this out, that there's two companies outside a financial centre with owners of the same name and birthdate, alternating their trades.

I'm wondering how harder is to find this out if it's not so blatant, say two owner who are friends and based on different locations. Or for added stealthiness, if there's a third party between them so they never contact each other directly (at least online).