Pacabel

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by Pacabel 13y ago
Nobody has suggested there's anything wrong with playing with hula hoops, even when it's adults doing it. It just doesn't seem like something that should be done at work, or at work-related events.
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by Pacabel 13y ago
It has been tried before. One example I can think of immediately is Grail, which was implemented in Python: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grail_%28web_browser%29 Another is HotJava, which was implemented in Java by Sun
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by Pacabel 13y ago
But those "obstacles" and "hurdles" can themselves be exploited in some cases. If they're software-based, then they can just end up making the attack surface much larger.
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by Pacabel 13y ago
Patrick, in your first paragraph you admit that there are breaking changes to Rust. Yet in your second paragraph you ask for evidence of the lack of stability? Your first paragraph provides the evidence that you're looking for! Had I (
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by Pacabel 13y ago
What's the business justification for using "dialog" when the project leader(s) have requested "dialogue", however?
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by Pacabel 13y ago
I think it's obvious that it's good to "get things right" as much as possible before deciding to limit further changes. However, at some point it needs to be realized that perfection will never be achieved. This is espec
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by Pacabel 13y ago
Why was it so critical to spell it "dialog", rather than "dialogue", as the higher-ups in the project apparently preferred?
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by Pacabel 13y ago
There does seem to be some truth to what you're suggesting. For whatever reason, there's a propensity for this sort of drama to occur within organizations and at events where Ruby and Ruby on Rails, or users of such technologies,
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by Pacabel 13y ago
Gender seems quite irrelevant when it comes to what colechristensen is saying. It'd apply equally well to a male who feels wronged in some way at his place of employment.
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by Pacabel 13y ago
"Reasons" are merely statements of why something is as it is. Justification isn't used. "Excuses" try to put an unjustifiably positive (or perhaps a less-negative) slant on the explanation of why something is as it
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by Pacabel 13y ago
Even a minority of people engaging in a particular behavior can have a very significant impact on a culture as a whole. It's perfectly valid to say that the culture thus suffers from some sort of a problem, even if not everybody associ
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by Pacabel 13y ago
Keep in mind that the level of hype often doesn't correspond to the actual amount of usage a technology experiences. Yes, Ruby on Rails has been widely and frequently publicized. Yes, there are some people who have a semi-religious dev
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by Pacabel 13y ago
What kind of Android device did you have? What version of Android was it running?
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by Pacabel 13y ago
Maybe in 4 or 5 years, if things go well. There hasn't even been a 1.0 release yet. That's the bare minimum necessary for a lot of existing C++ users to even consider Rust as a potentially viable option. Assuming Rust 1.0 is relea
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by Pacabel 13y ago
How does that help remedy the other four problems he mentioned, especially the ones totally independent of input devices, though?
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by Pacabel 13y ago
What makes you think that JavaScript will still be the flavor-of-the-day preferred by this crowd tomorrow, though? They were pretty gung-ho about Ruby and Ruby on Rails between 2005 and 2010 or so. Then their hype moved to JavaScript and No
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by Pacabel 13y ago
The consistency of a UI is quite distinct from the quality or the usability of a UI. You're incorrectly blurring these very different concepts. I never claimed that all UIs back then were "perfect", or that there weren't
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by Pacabel 13y ago
This really wasn't an issue in the 1990s and even into the early 2000s. Back then, most applications running on Windows, Mac OS and even the various commercial Unixes followed rather clear and uniform UI conventions. There were differe
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by Pacabel 13y ago
Those arguments aren't very convincing. Launching in just 16 out of 190+ countries isn't very impressive. That's well under 10% of the entire world. Likewise, having more market share than the 4th or 5th place competitor, but
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by Pacabel 13y ago
Such names become much less memorable once there are numerous ones that share the same format. It can rapidly get to the point where people remember that the name has an -ify or -ly or -joy suffix, but can't remember what the root word
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by Pacabel 13y ago
If you want to prove your point, using totally unrealistic micro-"benchmarks" such as those is by far the worst way about doing so. You're better off giving no evidence whatsoever than you are referring to those.
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by Pacabel 13y ago
How is this "pushing the envelope"? Running existing software in some convoluted browser-based environment, and giving a worse experience in most ways, doesn't really seem like innovation to me. I think we could say it was pu
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by Pacabel 13y ago
From what I can see, Mozilla is generally going in a direction that's alienating existing users, without necessarily bringing in any new ones. For example, it's widely understood today that Firefox has a much smaller share of the
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by Pacabel 13y ago
That's not a bad thing, though. That signifies ambiguity in your code. You're better off fixing problems like that than you are letting them go undetected or unfixed.
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by Pacabel 13y ago
This is a very real phenomenon. A somewhat related one is the effect that the Perl 6 disaster has had on the reputation of the Perl community as a whole, even if Perl 5 is a very different language embraced by a different segment of the com
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by Pacabel 13y ago
There's a huge difference between Perl 6 and Python 3. And Python 3 surely is not "killing Python" or "causing major problems". In hindsight, I think it's been very good that Python 3 hasn't been about dra
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by Pacabel 13y ago
Why is it that you see Android becoming irrelevant? And when do you see this happening by?
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by Pacabel 13y ago
Of course it's not an equivalence. But it's also not an analogy, either. There are really no similarities between the two. Just being capable of being a translation target for other high-level languages is totally insufficient to
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by Pacabel 13y ago
It's the ratio between the costs and the benefits that matters, not how long people have had the option of moving away from Windows XP.
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by Pacabel 13y ago
If it were that simple, it would have happened already. There are still a lot of businesses that, unfortunately, depend very heavily on Windows XP for their ongoing operation. The cost associated with switching may far, far exceed any benef

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