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by CrystalLangUser 9y ago
It seems to me that this is partly about Twitter, and a lot about the author’s personal addiction to it. I never really got into twitter because of the reasons he listed: way too short messages, echo chambers, and people spouting inane stre
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by CrystalLangUser 9y ago
German, where noun gender doesn’t make any sense? and things like dative case have to be specifically marked? German and English have the same lineage anyhow, both have irregular verbs (in many cases English irregular verbs are also irregul
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by CrystalLangUser 9y ago
Since when is ham and turkey associated with Christmas? I’ve never heard of this.
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by CrystalLangUser 9y ago
Why is !! useful? Asking as a ruby programmer.
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by CrystalLangUser 9y ago
Master password. Use the website, app, or terminal. It’s brilliant.
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by CrystalLangUser 9y ago
False. Young Americans not only acknowledge different cultures, they even do things like use them in debates about ways to improve our healthcare, for example. Our education system even discusses Native Americans as pertaining to US history
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by CrystalLangUser 9y ago
And how is it stupid if it fills a niche / solves a relevant problem that people have? Seems to me this person figured out a solution to a real world problem lacking a substantial alternative.
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by CrystalLangUser 9y ago
Ah I see, upping the font-weight to 400 helped when viewing it on my laptop screen. I didn't really have that issue on mobile, though.
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by CrystalLangUser 9y ago
I don't mean this pejoratively, but how old are you? I'm just curious as I had no problems with the color / font weight. For my sites I usually use something like #232323 instead of pure black.
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by CrystalLangUser 9y ago
Can you go more into detail about the Thoughtworks culture? I applied there while in Chicago and got a strong sense of that from the culture portion of the interview (after the programming challenge).
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by CrystalLangUser 9y ago
I personally think the bubble takes way too long to pop up. There are hotkey alternatives to a lot of the common characters. alt+u makes the next character have an umlaut (¨). alt+e -> ´. alt+s -> ß. alt+c -> ç, etc.
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by CrystalLangUser 9y ago
> tics or dots that are unique or very unusual It's almost like a lot of languages have a shared ancestry. Differences may be unusual to you . Are ș, î, or ț unusual because they don't exist in English? Those phonemes aren&#x2
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by CrystalLangUser 9y ago
Reddit is only marginally better than twitter. * They're launching new user profiles that center around the user; see the Washington post's Reddit account * Reddit's model of communities is fundamentally broken. Each sub, unl
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by CrystalLangUser 9y ago
Congrats on that! Always nice to hear an alternative education story, as I was homeschooled myself. I just wanted to say that calculus in today's society, for most people, is irrelevant. In day to day stuff for most people it's ju
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by CrystalLangUser 9y ago
A few people in jail < total government surveillance and flippant disregard towards human privacy. I'm sure oh so many attacks are stopped, but really the government uses that as an excuse to spy and track data on anything and every
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by CrystalLangUser 9y ago
Yeah, it's unfortunate what happened with Voat. Eventually what happened to Digg will happen to Reddit. Even now people are questioning things like the new profiles and the direction Reddit is taking. I agree, and I've even though
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by CrystalLangUser 9y ago
This is something I'm torn about. On one hand, I agree with this sentiment and wish I would've just gone to a trade school instead of a traditional college. That would've been much more useful than a non-STEM degree. On the o
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by CrystalLangUser 9y ago
Check out Crystal. That's it's goal, essentially. We could always use more contributors!
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by CrystalLangUser 9y ago
A competitor can compete by building a platform that handles user load & doesn't shill out for advertisers. And one that focuses on actually improving the site's functionality (search, anyone?) instead of user profiles which d
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by CrystalLangUser 9y ago
The problem is building a viable alternative community wise. That's what Voat.co tried to do and look where they are now. Reddit's leadership is beyond terrible- anyone remember their CEO shadow-editing users' posts? Where
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by CrystalLangUser 9y ago
I originally started as a ruby / rails dev and while I still do that, Crystal is phenomenal to work with. https://crystal-lang.org/ It's still a smaller community so frameworks and such are still being developed.
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by CrystalLangUser 9y ago
Schadenfreude?
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by CrystalLangUser 9y ago
It's not unreasonable to not care about torrents and deeply care about software that takes away people's privacy. It is possible to draw ethical lines, like not building surveillance tools.
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by CrystalLangUser 9y ago
Maybe you ought to respond. Sarcasm or not their point was crystal clear, it seems like you're deliberately avoiding an answer.
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by CrystalLangUser 9y ago
Vilifying
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by CrystalLangUser 9y ago
If the vast majority of people assume browser == web browser, then yes.
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by CrystalLangUser 9y ago
Yes, but that doesn't have anything to do with just age , which is what the parent was trying to assert. People do talk like this, but certainly not everyone. Outside of actual frats and sororities in colleges, this isn't common
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by CrystalLangUser 9y ago
I don't think it's an IRL issue really either. Recently there was that uber article. But in general I don't really see it or it's usually exaggerated. People have been making jokes since the beginning of time.
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by CrystalLangUser 9y ago
I don't disagree with you, I'm just stating why people make those statements. I would go even further than just frats/sorities, that type language isn't uncommon with college aged people. I'm not sure what you mean
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by CrystalLangUser 9y ago
> teaches impressionable young coders (the college kids that typically have time to write sarcastic open-source one-off projects) that this kind of thing is okay. Teaching that what , exactly is ok? Using the word "bruh"? In

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