CRConrad

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by CRConrad 2y ago
> People want to style things to match their page, exactly because consistency is part of usability. Consistency with industry standards is a lot more consistency than consistency just within one silly "app" webpage.
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by CRConrad 2y ago
One gets the feeling HTML in general is underused, since everything has been done in JavaScript for... How long now, at least over a decade? It's gone so far that some peole claim React (and probably other frameworks too) is "a la
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by CRConrad 2y ago
> > Google is literally not THE gateway to internet. At most, it's A gateway. > Lawmakers and courts in both the US, EU, Russia, Turkey, and other jurisdictions came to the conclusion that Google is in fact A gatekeeper.
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by CRConrad 2y ago
> Automatt does not own all the directories in the world, come on. No, only all the ones on WP.org. (So why are those different domains to begin with? They should just put the whole shebang on automattic.com, since that seems to be what
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by CRConrad 2y ago
>> Yeah, except this isn't Automattic's "own thing". It's WP Engine's plug-in, lock, stock, and barrel. > my comment specifically stated that it was not the first time a developer had something and the
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by CRConrad 2y ago
From TFA: > "So my approach to AI right now is I will basically ignore it because I think the whole tech industry around AI is in a very bad position," Torvalds added, "however, it seems like there is almost too much AI BS
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by CRConrad 2y ago
> Bonfires on the 5th of November have been obligatory for centuries, and therefore strongly associated with this season. For Protestants. Protestant bonfires. Not pagan. Burning their fellow Christians in effigy. English Protestants.
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by CRConrad 2y ago
NNTP, and the Usenet built on it.
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by CRConrad 2y ago
Probably because land has pretty much fuck-all to do with anything nowadays.
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by CRConrad 2y ago
> This is just a silly plan grounded in the idea that we need to somehow punish those evil billionaires. Or perhaps it's just a rather sensible plan grounded in the idea that billionaires also need to pay their fair share. Talk like
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by CRConrad 2y ago
But that difference has nothing to do with technology. The Stasi could do the same thing from Berlin by calling their IMs in any Hintertupfingen on a squeaky old landline.
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by CRConrad 2y ago
With that particular "acronym", it's not it that's obtuse, but the reader who doesn't get it.
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by CRConrad 2y ago
My first thought was "Teri G-something... _Frazer_'s Roz??? But naah, that's Teri Gilpin. Or Terri. Something like that.
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by CRConrad 2y ago
> Apparently Teri Garr got MS in the late 90s Mid-early eighties, according to either the article linked here or the one in the other HN post about it. IIRC.
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by CRConrad 2y ago
A: "Heresy"??? Sorry, I don't get it. (Hopefully a bit of an in-joke.) B: There's also taking everything as a joke, which is at least as annoying as taking everything too seriously. What I got from the piece is that th
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by CRConrad 2y ago
Standard HN jargon, "The Fff...ine Article".
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by CRConrad 2y ago
Are you still refusing to see the obvious parallel, or have you shifted the goalposts to some totally other subject by now? I mean, you know, I could of course read your wall of text to find out... But why should I bother? Neither alternati
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by CRConrad 2y ago
Someone should probably insert the obligatory XKCD "Emacs keystroke as space-heater" link, but I'm too lazy to go look for it. [Edit: Oh look, someone did. Of course!] (BTW, whaddayamean "the official name is not 'R
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by CRConrad 2y ago
> I don't see the amount as being the issue they pointed out, the parallel as far as I read it, is that it would be horrible if Apple kicked out an app for not paying them money. Nope, still missing it. In the G(GGG...)P's para
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by CRConrad 2y ago
> For virtually all of human history, the human diet is mostly carbohydrates. Which is rather a short time in our evolution, compared to virtually all of human pre -history. During which the human diet was most likely not mainly carbo
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by CRConrad 2y ago
The amount is not the parallel they're drawing. That's what makes your insistance on only seeing that so, to borrow a word, hilarious.
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by CRConrad 2y ago
TBF, to this bystander ncruces isn't the one of the two of you who is coming off as more of "a pompous rude brat".
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by CRConrad 2y ago
Sounds like automobiles are -- have been, until now -- an even more long-lasting example. The basic recipe has been the same for over a century: Four wheels, two to five doors, steering wheel and other controls at one of the front seats, in
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by CRConrad 2y ago
If we want to read mr Mullenweg’s unfiltered (and undigested...) thoughts on the matter we can easily find them directly from him. If you want to contribute your own take to the discussion, you'd have to... You know, develop a take of
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by CRConrad 2y ago
No, not as far as I can see. In order to make your claim plausible, you'd have to 1) Tell us exactly what “sins” those are; and 2) Above all, explain WTF they have to do with this.
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by CRConrad 2y ago
> Um, okay - apple's store is not open, and spotify is not open source - so the article is over in it's first line.. Only for people (wilfully?) blind to the screamingly obvious parallel.
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by CRConrad 2y ago
> This debate is extremely dumb, Well, yes... At least some contributions to it certainly are. > and everybody gish gallops and implies something terrible when they try to explain what Automattic is doing wrong, because they can&#x2
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by CRConrad 2y ago
> Legal issues aside, this is an extreme erosion in trust for any user of the WordPress.org platform. They can no longer have confidence that their commerical (or non-commerical) plugin won't be chopped up and have its users stolen
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by CRConrad 2y ago
> I’m not saying you’re doing this deliberately No, but by even mentioning that you're rather slyly implying they might be. And apparently forgetting — or trying to obfuscate — that the one person we know is doing something delibe
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by CRConrad 2y ago
Question assumes facts not in evidence: I'm not the least excited about it.

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