EdiX

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by EdiX 10y ago
In what way a group of people that has the almost unanimous support of mainstream media, the current government and the (most likely) upcoming government can be called marginalized?
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by EdiX 10y ago
Is twitter UX considered good? Because my impression is that it's one of the worst UX ever made and has been that consistently for years. Just one example, trying to view an image on twitter: on the timeline images get cropped to some
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by EdiX 10y ago
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by EdiX 10y ago
This should be called YouTube Large Scale Stanford Experiment.
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by EdiX 10y ago
The only way to lose work with git is either to (a) not commit it or (b) run a garbage collection.
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by EdiX 10y ago
All of those things and more are way easier to do with gitk and git gui.
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Mmmhhh I would have drawn the opposite conclusion, most people estimate ±1 star away from the real result, it's not bad considering the actual performance is not entirely objective. Glad to see that once again Dunning-Krüger proved wro
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by EdiX 10y ago
names are central to our identities I have never experienced this.
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by EdiX 10y ago
> Although I don't think it's that new to also use "they" to refer to a specific person whose gender you don't know (perhaps because you haven't met them). That's possible but I've never seen any h
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by EdiX 10y ago
Only as a bound variable pronoun, it's use as a singular personal pronoun is very very recent and not very common.
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by EdiX 10y ago
This post is currently in page four where it's the most recent post of the page (by a large margin) and the third most upvoted post in the page. Sometimes it's weird how algorithms work.
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by EdiX 10y ago
> For example, I consider this idiomatic golang code (from the standard library, no less) to be entirely unreadable Really? It's a binary parser that's parsing data from a byte array and stuffing the results into a struct, it s
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by EdiX 10y ago
Because if there was one thing regexp needed it was COBOL.
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by EdiX 10y ago
> Richard Gabriel and Guy Steele (MIT AI Lab) wrote the original Emacs AFAIK the first version of Emacs was written by Richard Stallman and Guy L. Steele, both wikipedia and jwz give partial credit to Stallman. [0] https://www
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by EdiX 10y ago
I think he means the reduction of the number of things made with atoms. It's a weird way to put it and it's even weirder considering AR so far hasn't really been successful at all.
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by EdiX 10y ago
Least interesting thing I have read this year. I'm starting to think that use of the word 'performative' is a dead giveaway for pointless navel-gazing.
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by EdiX 10y ago
The rest of the runtime probably was already human-written in Go find -name '*.X' | xargs wc -l in src/runtime says Go 1.4: 21701 .c 33348 .go 19160 .s Go 1.7b2: 3340 .c 77597 .go 33827 .s The ass
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by EdiX 10y ago
What does this mean? How can an emoji not have an emoji presentation?
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by EdiX 10y ago
Because Unicode is the Celestial Consortium of Benevolent Encoding.
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by EdiX 10y ago
> So which is it? Does each code point represent a visual image? Look it's pretty simple, every code point represents a semantic meaning, except for: 1. those characters who also encode the width of their visual image (U+FF00..FFEF)
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by EdiX 10y ago
And yet still no klingon...
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High production values, they even shot on location.
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by EdiX 10y ago
More users start forms than finish them Imagine if the opposite happened!
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by EdiX 10y ago
Can't speak for nefitty (because I disagree with the parent comment) however wealth imho does imply a lower expectation of privacy since with wealth more of your private activities become a matter of public interest. That said, I don&#
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by EdiX 10y ago
Yes? Unless there was something newsworthy...
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It didn't. His racist rant was published by the National Enquirer three years after Gawker leaked his sex tape.
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by EdiX 10y ago
I agree 100% but is someone else's sex tape speech? It doesn't inform the public of anything it needed to know and it doesn't express an opinion.
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by EdiX 10y ago
grep -R, grep -r, cp -r and cp -R all recurse into subdirectories. Sed and less don't because what would that even mean?
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by EdiX 10y ago
I do not think that this: >>> print("my home is $HOME") my home is $HOME >>> echo "my home is $HOME" my home is /home/snail constitutes progress in user experience. And th
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> Another example: bash. Clearly an awful awful language/shell but it sticks around because too many people can't admit that the thing they know is rubbish. You should try thinking about what a better bash would look like, it&#

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