DrSprout

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by DrSprout 17y ago
I would bet it's a cultural leftover from posting in forums and chat rooms with naive profanity filters years ago when the Internet was young. There are likely still places where sh!t will get you past someone's laughable idea of a profanit
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by DrSprout 17y ago
But you need trained programmers to use the right language. Also, Python is clearly a step up from English on a variety of metrics, including the reduction of the ability to monkey-patch.
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Weren't we getting lots of reports about how unprofitable the iPhone app store was at this stage in the iPhone's evolution? Also, it still seems like the app store does more to benefit established players and Apple than it does someone just
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by DrSprout 17y ago
You're still confusing uninformed desire with informed desire. If someone takes a programming course or two, and decides they are not cut out for programming, that's fine. But what's clear is that women are not taking programming courses, s
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The main issue I see with your argument is that you're supposing interest to be correlated with anticipated ability and enjoyment of the profession. Unlike French Fashion trends, programming is an important driver of our society, and as suc
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by DrSprout 17y ago
Classic strawman argument. (Straw woman, dare I say?) You simplistically assume your opponent is attacking men, when the issue is much deeper. Both women and men have the same root for their poor choices: irrational hangups fed by systemic
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by DrSprout 17y ago
Oh, it's definitely just as much an issue for women's studies. And I don't claim to have a solution. I was taking issue with the assertion that there is no concrete evidence that CS presents an inhospitable environment for women. Yes, it be
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by DrSprout 17y ago
>It makes evolutionary sense for women to invest heavily in being good-looking and men to invest heavily in, y'know, accomplishing actual stuff. You really have no understanding of what housekeeping entailed before the washing machine,
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There were no women in my class of 15 Computer Science majors at a small liberal arts college. There were definitely women in my class who took some CS, and took classes initially intending to complete the major. Now, while there are I'm su
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>There were several free apps in the top-grossing list last time I checked. Okay, how many of them are making a serious profit? How many are breaking even? How many are profiting primarily due to an existing customer base? (I'm thinking
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by DrSprout 17y ago
Doesn't seem like a real counterpoint. The NYT article was a news piece, as such it was descriptive, not prescriptive.
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I suspect by "industrial-strength" what he actually means is "something you have to pay a lot of money for." rather than "is widely acknowledged as a useful and powerful tool by the industry."
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I hope they do elect to store the actual URLs when URL shorteners are involved. Really, though it would eat a hole in the URL shorteners' business, I really think sites like Twitter should be dynamically 'fixing' those links before insertin
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by DrSprout 17y ago
> Since 99.999% of the people only ever encounter http:// , ftp://, and https:// (did I forget any?), why not create a standard set of easy-to-understand icons to replace them, in cooperation with other browser makers? For me at leas
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>He added: “Editorial cartoons of all stripes should get a pass when it comes to the license agreement with the exception of those that espouse violence.” Which means that Apple is in fact censoring content? Or does this exclusively ref
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>The whole thing looks and feels like its made out of recycled plastic. Wait, I thought that Apple was the eco-conscious company.
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by DrSprout 17y ago
But you do see Linux everywhere. Servers, embedded devices (including Android) tons run Linux. The Desktop is just a sliver.
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Few significant achievements come without putting yourself through a lot of bullshit. The closed model is really only valuable for a toy. A real tool has to be a little dangerous to be properly useful.
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I'd really like a full-size laptop with these exact specs (and a full-size battery.) What really detracts from these things' portability is that they basically have to be plugged in every day. It's even the same with my Droid.
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by DrSprout 17y ago
What you refer to as macroevolutionary effects are equally problematic for a small village. It will quickly be destroyed and any wealth it has taken by a neighboring village whose warriors are not afraid to give their lives in service of th
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by DrSprout 17y ago
Decreasing finger movement reduces the number of distinct motions you make without reducing the overall number of distinct motions (though it does reduce overall motion.) I'm not convinced this is as good a proof against RSI as it's often c
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by DrSprout 17y ago
You're at least partially confusing individual survivability with group survivability. Absolute cowardice, while beneficial to an individual, is ultimately so problematic for the group that it will result in everyone's death. Dumbly repeati