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by CodeMage 8y ago
I'll go out on a limb and say you're being downvoted because it's not actually "the best decision a person can make for the planet/sustainability". It's not even a good decision, really.
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by CodeMage 8y ago
I don't know what "the general position" seems to be here and I don't really care. My reply to the grandparent comment was on point: the age of a belief is not a valid measure of its correctness.
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by CodeMage 8y ago
Would those be the same ancestors that believed in the healing power of bloodletting and leeches? Or are we taking about those who knew for a fact that the Sun went around the Earth? Or are we talking about my ancestors in particular, who b
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by CodeMage 8y ago
That's just an oversimplification to avoid discussion. By that definition, a shortage is "real" even if it's been artificially caused by an interested party, because there's a whole bunch of people who really don&#x
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by CodeMage 8y ago
> I'm guessing you haven't spent much time looking into how oppressive regimes work. > They aren't going "to realize that they are being an oppressive regime" and have an epiphone where they realize, "
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by CodeMage 8y ago
In this context, "what do I get in return?" is a question that is only (seriously) asked by two kinds of people: those who can't stand the thought of having less than the absolute maximum they could get, and those who parrot
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by CodeMage 8y ago
While it might not be their fault those flaws were never fixed, it certainly is their fault that they exploited those flaws willingly and knowingly, to the detriment of the culture at large. Let's stop pretending that "they are
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by CodeMage 8y ago
It's almost as if you could arrive to similar results in different ways, not only one... Seriously, though, your comment seems to assume South Korean suicide rate is motivated by loneliness. If that's the case, you might want to g
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by CodeMage 8y ago
I cannot agree enough. I'm okay with most of the interviewing practices out there, but there has to be some kind of balance between the company's needs and mine. One of the most mind-boggling interviewing processes I've been
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by CodeMage 8y ago
I think that restricting the word "choice" to narrative choices is an overly narrow interpretation of Meier's definition. I see no strain in applying the word "choice" to gameplay choices.
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by CodeMage 8y ago
I think that's close to the mark, but not quite there. To quote Sid Meier, "A game is a series of interesting choices." It's hard to make a good game with a great plot: the better the plot, the more you restrict the play
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by CodeMage 8y ago
Facebook is not the problem we need to fix, it's a symptom of an underlying problem.
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by CodeMage 8y ago
Either Overton window does not mean what I think it means, or you misunderstood me. Sure, privacy-conscious people have been warning others about a whole bunch of things, but the general discourse has shifted, so those people were frequentl
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by CodeMage 8y ago
On the contrary, everyone's willingness to accept this kind of behavior as normal indicates how far the Overton window has moved when it comes to the trustworthiness of our digital services. We need a collective effort to shift things
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by CodeMage 8y ago
Whenever I hear that brought up as an argument, I recommend listening to what Jim Jefferies had to say about gun control. Despite Jim Jefferies being a comedian and phrasing his arguments in a comical, comedic way, I've yet to see anyo
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by CodeMage 8y ago
Yeah, it's already happening, that's why I brought it up. Right now it's not a huge problem, because it doesn't happen too often or on a large scale. Like you said, it's usually a couple of songs in a larger playlis
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by CodeMage 8y ago
> First off, the term assault rifle probably isn’t what you think you’re referring to. It probably doesn't mean what I think, either, yet we're all still perfectly capable of understanding GP's point. > Second, the r
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by CodeMage 8y ago
I think you underestimate the annoyance and frustration users feel when content disappears from their library. This is especially noticeable in playlists: when half of your favorite workout playlist suddenly disappears, it's not someth
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by CodeMage 9y ago
Are we looking at different things here? When I click through, I get a page in English.
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by CodeMage 9y ago
From what I'm seeing, they don't relabel them. What they do is host the open source project "Foo" so that you don't have to figure out how to host it yourself and they name that hosting service "FramaBar".
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by CodeMage 9y ago
I believe people have a hard time with Git because it's simply not user friendly. Once you've grokked a handful of essential concepts, Git becomes easy to use proficiently, but both the user interface and documentation are so user
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by CodeMage 9y ago
I was really glad to see that Hacker News community was able to recognize white knighting and deal with it decisively. While it's indisputable that "chick" can be interpreted as derogatory, context is even more important than
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by CodeMage 9y ago
> For several jobs in a row, I've felt that helping others on a team is undervalued and under-recorded. I've been planning to implement the "assist" metric, similar to basketball, on my own team for a while. The met
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by CodeMage 9y ago
Sounds like a "nicer" rehash of the Gervais Principle. I haven't read Developer Hegemony, but from the looks of the author's blog, I would recommend "cutting out the middleman" and going straight to the source
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by CodeMage 9y ago
I really like what I've read about Mycroft so far. Not only is it open source, but you can actually configure it to connect to servers you host. That last bit was what made me decide to back Mycroft v2 on Kickstarter.
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by CodeMage 9y ago
Not to mention that the point in question boils down to argumentum ad populum fallacy. The same reasoning could have been applied to Java in its heyday.
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by CodeMage 9y ago
Maybe I'm not following HN closely enough, but judging from this post, it seems that people are pointing out what they dislike about Go, instead of just heaping abuse on it. In my view, that's a positive and productive thing, for
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by CodeMage 9y ago
Thanks, I'm already a huge fan of Discworld, but I'll definitely give Malazan a try!
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by CodeMage 9y ago
Sorry for being off topic here, but I just wanted to express my admiration for such a great use of a Terry Pratchett quote. Vimes is my favorite Discworld character and I'm delighted to see his wisdom used so well in a discussion.
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by CodeMage 9y ago
Sorry, I didn't mean to imply that there are no positive consequences of automatic updates. Rather, I was trying to point out the difference in perception of ownership between things like cars and our hardware. Regardless of benefits a

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