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by CodeMage 10y ago
I think the idea is that if advertising on the web respected users, they wouldn't feel the need to block ads. The users have heard that too often. We're all out of trust to give. If every web user blocked all ads, content creat
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by CodeMage 10y ago
Deleting your FB account actually is a lot easier than most people imagine. Instead of spending my idle time [1] on stupid online arguments, I can do all sorts of fun and productive stuff. Migrating away from GMail or Google search? Now tha
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by CodeMage 10y ago
You're joking, but the weather can really be an issue for some people. For me and my family, it's not so much the rain as the appalling lack of sunshine year round and the early nightfall in winter. And the "Seattle Freeze&qu
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by CodeMage 10y ago
> This sort of comment etiquette is unacceptable on YC I feel that the above statement is more applicable to your comment, than to the comment you were talking about. I would like to politely suggest silently downvoting a comment that
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by CodeMage 10y ago
Of course it doesn't make sense when you remove the context. Here's the original, with the context properly included: > not everything is worth money, and if you really love what you're doing, you'd give it away free
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by CodeMage 10y ago
That's why I love "Black Mirror". They tackled the risk of class breaks in the episode called "Hated in the Nation" (season 3, episode 6) and they did it in such a way that everyone can understand the problem, not j
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by CodeMage 10y ago
Does anyone else find this PWA thing extremely ironic or is it just my age showing? It seems like we're basically reinventing the days of Delphi and VB, but this time it's over the Internet.
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by CodeMage 10y ago
At this moment, the top comment points to the explanation. TL;DR: The author is learning how to do PWAs.
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by CodeMage 10y ago
I'm willing to bet that most people who "want someone else to pay for services" mean "corporations" and "super-rich people", both of which get away with not paying nearly as much as we're told they sh
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by CodeMage 10y ago
I regard that as a valuable teaching moment: "This, kids, is a great example of what you'll have to deal with all the time. Computers are not smart and neither are compilers. Forget a semicolon or some whitespace, and it's yo
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by CodeMage 10y ago
And they're called Alice, Bob, Chris, Dave and Eve.
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by CodeMage 10y ago
People aren't computers, they don't just run the company culture program in their brains. Sure, developers are influenced by company culture, but they contribute to it as well. At one end of the spectrum, you have junior devs, fre
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by CodeMage 10y ago
I would amend that to "don't put the blame solely on the developers". I've seen way too many developers whose mentality is "ship it, it seems good enough, we'll fix any bugs as we go".
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by CodeMage 10y ago
In my humble opinion, based on my humble work experience, this trend has not originated with overconfident engineers, but rather with cost-cutting managers.
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by CodeMage 10y ago
The Artificial Inanity and bogons, yes.
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by CodeMage 10y ago
Funny, that. The industrial revolution brought very real problems and caused very real suffering. True, humanity doesn't die, it just changes, but that's cold comfort to significant chunks of humanity that die precisely because of
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by CodeMage 10y ago
I'm just waiting for someone to hook this sort of stuff to some kind of machine learning system, to learn and adapt and come up with new replies. And some 100 years hence we'll be explaining to kids that the singularity arose out
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by CodeMage 10y ago
True enough. However, I'm willing to bet that a non-trivial amount of nightmarish code in C++ comes from the language itself. Also, I'm willing to be that a Rust build would be an improvement over a C++ build. As an example, I&#x2
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by CodeMage 10y ago
I'd love to see someone write a game engine in Rust to compete with the "big boys" like Cry or Unreal. C++ game code can be such a nightmare.
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by CodeMage 10y ago
Sorry, I don't get it: which democratic nation has the community that polices itself in the same sense FB (or HN) community is expected to?
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by CodeMage 10y ago
I think Tim Minchin expressed it quite eloquently in his song "Confessions (Feminism, Altruism, Environment)": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmnxF_WTOgg
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by CodeMage 10y ago
Every time I feel our industry has evolved beyond the "devs vs. managers" culture, something like this comes up to make me despair again. I find it absolutely horrifying that you don't stop at the false dichotomy of diving ev
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by CodeMage 10y ago
> There is no incentive to improve the software under those circumstances, and the people that get paged aren't in the position to fix what's broken. Sure, one solution is to make developers responsible for support, too. I fi
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by CodeMage 10y ago
There is at least one big company out there, where every dev is part of what they call the "on call rotation" -- where being "on call" typically means being on pager duty -- without any special compensation for that. The
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by CodeMage 10y ago
Maybe it's just me, but I find that there's a strong parallel between that argument and the reason why many people voted for Trump. And I could try to give you my own views on why that might be morally questionable, but Joe Scalzi
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by CodeMage 10y ago
> Yes, this is bad. It goes against human rights, freedom of speech, globalisation and many of the principles of the free world. I find it very interesting that you're putting the globalization in the same group as human rights an
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by CodeMage 10y ago
> Direct democracy can go badly wrong. Very badly wrong, and I don't neccessarily mean Hitler-level wrong. The very idea of giving anti-vaxxers a more direct influence over healthcare policy is almost Hitler-level scary.
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by CodeMage 10y ago
A country is not the same as a person. All analogies break down eventually, but using an analogy that is broken right from the start doesn't add anything to the discussion.
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by CodeMage 10y ago
It always amazes me how readily people defend ads on moral and ethical grounds, without ever considering the moral and ethical aspects of dictating how people should consume content. It's always a useful exercise to try to imagine this
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by CodeMage 10y ago
> In addition, I'd also point out that the term "nutritionist" doesn't even mean anything is most jurisdictions That bears repeating. Dietitian actually means something, whereas nutrition doesn't. Dara O'Bri

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