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6 years agodiscuss

Programmers actually hate working on the same thing for longer than necessary. They like new problems and new challenges, as your identifying in your misguided take on always wanting new libs/frameworks. If you are finding that you actually believe this, you've somehow cultivated a very toxic technology environment where your developers are hiding necessary tasks from you and attempting to make up the difference wherever they can. You have probably browbeat them and cowed them from speaking about their ideas in the past.

6 years agodiscuss

Keeping the peace was a concept in both countries when they split and was the duty of the sheriff which still exists in both countries and is actually still very functional in the US. That some localities with very large populations evolved an even more local office for keeping the peace is entirely consistent with the evolution of police tracing back to England before it existed as a modern concept. The simple fact is that slave patrols just did not morph into the general-purpose peace keeping organizations that today we call police.

6 years agodiscuss

Police in england are an evolution of how the King's peace has been enforced, starting, very simplified, from when the King himself enforced it in very early days to delegating it to members of his court and his sheriffs, and ultimately to localities and special departments of the modern day. Cities did not generally have a "police department" but they had the sheriff and whoever the sheriff commanded into service to enforce the peace. As populations have increased the enforcement of these duties have evolved to be taken on by more local organizations that are modern police departments.

6 years agodiscuss

Your sources very accurately reflect the history that slavery was enforced by the legal system and peace officers upholding it. They don't lend any credence whatsoever to the notion that slave patrols morphed into modern police departments. The actual history is that police have slowly become more localized and detached from central authority (like the Kind or his officials - sheriffs, etc) over time as populations increase.

6 years agodiscuss

I'm not denying slave patrols existed, I'm denying this rumor of them being the root of modern police because it's straight up not true.

The very simple historical trend that brought us the police we have today started with the King enforcing the peace, was delegated to sheriffs who enforced the peace among other things, was inherited in the colonies where the sheriff took on a primarily peace officer role in early states, and as the population grew and cities got bigger were augmented with more specialized and local peace officers. Slave patrols being the root of police is just propaganda.

6 years agodiscuss

It's become popular to regurgitate that bit about police and slave patrols but it has no real basis in reality. That isn't to say that there isn't some example of a slave patrol that was pressed into service as police, but Police are a concept that all of America inherited from the English roots of our governments.

6 years agodiscuss

We've tried free and low cost housing for decades in the US and its been a disaster every single time. Every. Single. Time.

6 years agodiscuss

The CEO of Boeing graduated with an accounting degree. He is literally an accountant.

6 years agodiscuss

It's not a forgone conclusion that the ships will be there. In liquidation those ships have valuable equipment and scrap metal that could be broken down and sold, returning value to creditors and investors.

Ship breaking is big business.

6 years agodiscuss

Honestly since I discovered the Stylus plugin for Firefox (Stylish for other browsers) powered by https://userstyles.org/, I have dark mode everywhere and more.

6 years agodiscuss

No, the data is always coupled to how it is intended to be processed and useless otherwise. Integration is always a giant headache on projects that don't capture intent clearly with a good API.

6 years agodiscuss

Yup! And reference Ivar Jacobson's OOSE: Use Case Driven Approach for just how long of a history this successful approach has had.

6 years agodiscuss

There are no sure things. We don't like the current situation because its risky. But no risk no reward. If we wanted less risk our only option was to have done it way earlier - under Bush 1 or Clinton.

6 years agodiscuss

In no way does it make sense to blame the courts for doing their job. The authority for these stay at home orders is by and large derived from temporary emergency powers granted by legislative authority in the first place. If the legislatures want the governor to have this power, they will grant it. It is trivial to do so. Legislatures are not doing their job, blame them.

In fact, blame the governor as well for not acting within the clear boundaries of their power. By trying to cloak themselves in authority they know is not legitimately theirs, they are actively contributing to the problem. The one party blameless in this is the courts.

6 years agodiscuss

So did Vox, Washington Post, New York Times, and CNN. Nobody knew much in the beginning and that's completely fine and not a hit on anyone's credibility.

6 years agodiscuss

When 99% of people say "REST" what they mean is "RESTful" in that its a ball of JSON garbage. That's just a trade and 99% of people are in that bucket.

That last 1% actually have read the OG paper and when they say REST they mean REST and its real theory.

6 years agodiscuss

I had irritation during the first few weeks of wearing my fitbit charge hr but being a bit more diligent about washing it made everything go away.

6 years agodiscuss

Yes but when did it become a "city" versus just a caveman camp?

6 years agodiscuss

Same. I wish HN had a filter I could set up to hide entries form domains that do this. Won't catch one offs like this but I can add it along with NYT and other paywalls so I don't waste my time.

6 years agodiscuss

People always value quality, but don't view quality the same way.