Deestan

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by Deestan 14y ago
I pop into Facebook daily, and have not noticed anything.
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by Deestan 14y ago
I promise you that it looked even worse in context.
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by Deestan 14y ago
You can't form opinions on that by watching a video filmed 5 meters from the stage, right inbetween the relatively very few (and mostly drunk - there had been free beer for the past 3 hours) people who seemed to appreciate the show. The con
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by Deestan 14y ago
Yes. Even knowing Microsoft's general marketing clumsiness, it's very impressive how out of touch they can manage to be. Also, when they were referencing the speakers, "Lea Verou will make your dreams come true" might have looked good on pa
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by Deestan 14y ago
> I would have thought that the developer community has come to realize that sexism is out I was there to see how it worked out. The developer community reacted negatively to this. During the show, a lot of people backed away to hide i
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by Deestan 14y ago
> The content of the article really wasn't that bad Oh yes it was! Some quotes: - "this new weapon is twenty times the size of earlier cyberbombs and far more powerful, making it practically an army on its own" - "Flame is likewise a f
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by Deestan 14y ago
And if you like piano punk music, listen to his wife.
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by Deestan 14y ago
That's a nice response to the frustrating "good programmers can create working software in any language/technology - stop complaining about WPF/VB6/Delphi7/CVS" statement.
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by Deestan 14y ago
> When it's so easy to do it right the first time, why not? a) Because it isn't "right" as such. It's just "better" if the code is going to be reused. Which it isn't. b) The code style serves as documentation. I can clearly read fr
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by Deestan 14y ago
As long as it's "single page bound" JS like this, I honestly don't think it matters one bit. Reusable components and utility libraries is something different, of course.
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by Deestan 14y ago
Yes, that's the point. Dell are the ones to blame for putting that guy on stage, and they are getting the criticism. MC, however despicable, just did his thing as advertised.
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by Deestan 14y ago
They are not selling the product in Brazil.
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by Deestan 14y ago
No. I already have a ton of other vegetables on my plate. Lambda calculus, compiler architecture, Haskell arrows.
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by Deestan 14y ago
Instead of saying "load of BS" and leave it at that you could explain which parts of the article you disagree about and why.
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by Deestan 15y ago
Having "spent the effort" over and over again, I fully understand why hobbyists don't bother: The Proper Way on Windows is a largely undocumented minefield strewn with broken glass and lack of a sane package managing system. Personally, I
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by Deestan 15y ago
I deposit money in my bank. My bank is located in Bank Street. Therefore, I have dumped my money in the street.
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by Deestan 15y ago
Flagged for linkbait title. Bruce Schneier isn't even involved.
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by Deestan 15y ago
And server configuration snapshots.
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by Deestan 15y ago
> a pointless language war that nobody on earth cares about. The comment section disagrees with you. He's just writing his damn code the way he wants to , which a large number of people seem to care about.
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by Deestan 15y ago
> It's not like there haven't been games with instruction sets before. So what if it's not conceptually new? Why would people not be excited about a very good-looking entry to a fantastic genre?
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by Deestan 15y ago
One of the school math topics that I have made us of a lot is function transformation and translation. Being able to see things like "what I really need here is this part of a sine curve, stretched along the X axis, compressed along the Y
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by Deestan 15y ago
I'm imagining that will cause unpleasant friction between the two. The Feature group get all the credit and are heroes for solving things quickly, while the Maintenance group have to clean up their bloody mess without getting any recognitio
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by Deestan 15y ago
This is the reason that CEO of Omgpop keeps saying in his interviews that he has never (extremely unlikely) played, seen or heard about Pictionary before making this game.
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by Deestan 15y ago
I appreciate the beauty, but you are breaking the web when doing things like this. Some breakages: * PageUp and PageDown doesn't work. * Home and End doesn't work. * Long-clicking the scrollbar doesn't work A: Should react immediately, not
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by Deestan 15y ago
> Whoever wrote or approved this post ought to be fired. Fast. Thus solving the problem once and for all.
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by Deestan 15y ago
> If they have a problem or complaint about their job, their company, their customer, or anything else, they are encouraged to bring the issue to the manager or someone who is in a position to address the complaint. And what if this man
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by Deestan 15y ago
> How many of us have raised our hand and asked a "stupid" question about something we didn't understand in class or a company meeting only to find that most everyone else in the class/meeting was wondering the same thing - but was afra
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by Deestan 15y ago
That's not what atheism means. Do us all a favour and stop calling yourself one.
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by Deestan 15y ago
If it's a small company, it's very likely the interviewer's manner is a good reflection of the company culture.
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by Deestan 15y ago
> I don't know of any other language where people can CHOOSE to follow syntax. Your argument is incorrect. :) Omitting semicolons is perfectly valid and correct syntax. The spec is explicit about it being allowed and how the code sha

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