MaxfordAndSons

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by MaxfordAndSons 10y ago
The author of the post at no point blames Ruby for Rails' failings... But also I'd contest your argument that they're unrelated. Ruby is what enables the too-clever metaprog that make Rails stack traces so opaque. Also Rails
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by MaxfordAndSons 10y ago
The implementation details of the American criminal justice system are considered (by mainstream media gatekeepers, as well as politicians) to be much too unsightly, and fraught with difficult philosophical conflicts (i.e. the matter of whe
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by MaxfordAndSons 11y ago
You're gesturing here at a general lack of engagement in solving these difficult social problems, then coming to the nihilistic conclusion that, since nobody else (that you can perceive) is engaging with them, it's a lost cause. I
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by MaxfordAndSons 11y ago
You're right, the absolute quality level of support structures is not sufficient. The sufficient cause is given by the relative decrease compared to the expectations established in the latter half of the 20th century, which the most af
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by MaxfordAndSons 11y ago
While there may be a baseline level of risk for falling and hitting your head as an accidental occurrence in most sports, it's not much higher than in other areas of everyday life. But some sports (football, boxing and some other comba
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by MaxfordAndSons 11y ago
This is not relevant to the parent comment. Being active, or even playing most sports, can be mutually exclusive with putting yourself at risk for CTE.
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by MaxfordAndSons 11y ago
Haha, I get it. I was too quick to defend Genius as a proxy for the universal annotation platform of my dreams. But the idea is that, in wide adoption, such a platform would be much more resilient to comments like your example. Sort of like
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by MaxfordAndSons 11y ago
I'll take your word for it; it's pretty shocking that it wasn't there from day one. As I've written elsewhere, it seems like Genius's vision of universal annotations is not really lined up with the/my/some
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by MaxfordAndSons 11y ago
This is great! But what about fixups? I often prefer a fixup to a squash when the commit in question was a WIP or something, and I don't have any desire to preserve the message in the final commit.
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by MaxfordAndSons 11y ago
Yea, I agree that her reasoning isn't entirely well founded. But I'm nonetheless empathetic, because she's an embattled blogger fighting trolls to justify her work all the time, and the gap between that experience and the ide
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by MaxfordAndSons 11y ago
> I think you're severely overrating the quality of Internet comments Maybe so, but I think perhaps you're underrating the desire by state and corporate actors for tools to suppress free discourse. > there isn't even a
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by MaxfordAndSons 11y ago
Odd, I don't see the link there. But anyway, reading Ms. Dawson's post does make me seriously reconsider the ethical motivations for making this tool. I suppose my initial negative reaction was more based on the 'platonic ide
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by MaxfordAndSons 11y ago
What is the motivation behind this? It strikes me as something like an anti-ad-blocker tool, except instead of serving to protect your sites ad revenue it's just trying to suppress free discourse about your content through a third part
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by MaxfordAndSons 11y ago
Yea it is rather frustrating when the top comment spawns an enormous tangential discussion and you have to scroll through it; it doesn't help that there are no indent guides to at least make it easier to tell when you've finally s
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by MaxfordAndSons 11y ago
What value is gained from naming them? What value is there in starting a mass media speculation frenzy about them, their family and friends? What value is there in galvanizing popular sentiment against the demographic groups they belong to,
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by MaxfordAndSons 11y ago
Well, consider the percentage of police killings that are classified as murder... .1%? .01%? If someone is killed in a SWAT raid (swatting or otherwise) it's almost always written off as a police officer "justifiably fearing for t
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by MaxfordAndSons 11y ago
I came here to say the same, so instead I'll add this: "I'd open an umbrella up me ARRIS for her" - Super Hans