RobertKerans

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by RobertKerans 6y ago
> Environmental issues aside, there is a lot of downside - it's not just like all that industry can be shifted from one part of the economy to the other. Yep. But the planning for it has to be done, because this change is visible on
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by RobertKerans 6y ago
But from a practical point of view, if you are building a design tool (which is what the demo is), and the purpose of the tool is to apply adjustments across screen sizes, it needs to be in an environment which allows for different screen s
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by RobertKerans 6y ago
Yep, my experience as well. I worked in a busy club all through university, and we never had an issue accepting £50 notes, but at the quiet bar I sometimes worked at we were sometimes hesitant to accept them as it tended to wipe out the flo
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by RobertKerans 6y ago
How's that? It's an article about fluidly resizing typography based on viewport size: it would make sense that a [proof of concept] demo tool would be built to work in an environment where you can actually change viewport size. Ho
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by RobertKerans 6y ago
It's not normally "being caught up in their own bullshit" though. Design + development + user research + user testing of software is expensive (in time, in thought, in arranging coordination, in cash). In this case, the thing
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by RobertKerans 6y ago
Why are developers unquestionable dictators and tyrants these days? You get vast seas of "NO!!" and the projects are like "well sorry, mr engineering school over here used a UI framework at some point and liked that and also
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by RobertKerans 6y ago
...all the while, giving more time for lobbyists to harangue ministers for relaxation/rescinding of the regulations and (maybe this is just my cynicism causing me to see ghosts but) to push PR that is explicitly anti-regs
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by RobertKerans 6y ago
This is a very Twain-esque definition. It's very good, thank you for posting it (and for providing entertainment by patiently replying to those arguing vainly against its irrefutable logic).
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by RobertKerans 6y ago
Just to expand on that, I love Malevich as an artist. I've travelled specifically to see exhibitions of his and his contemporaries' works. If I had large amounts of spare cash and I were in a position to buy an original, I probabl
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by RobertKerans 6y ago
The example you're using isn't contemporary, it's over a century old, and it's a design for a stage curtain. It's not valuable for the effort put in * (it's literally just a solid black painted square), it&#x27
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by RobertKerans 6y ago
Nobody's arguing that, so I'm not sure why anyone would need to defend a position they don't have. "I can't buy an uncommented copy of Mein Kampf from eBay" isn't the same thing as "I'm not allow
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by RobertKerans 6y ago
Ebay is a company, not a website, and company policies specify which products can be listed by their users. It's not neutral, you're being deliberately obtuse here.
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by RobertKerans 6y ago
They are, nobody stops them doing that.
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by RobertKerans 6y ago
Before you're dead, yeah. I don't think it's controversial to say that in a public arena (for example, an office) you have to be careful with subjects like politics and religion, and with humour. And that's always been
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by RobertKerans 6y ago
Copes totally fine and it's trivial to memoise them anyway.
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by RobertKerans 6y ago
It works because that's not the calculation being made. You're not giving up money specifically to a "Steve" or "Joe". What you are doing is putting money into a pool. From that pool, the money is redistributed
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by RobertKerans 6y ago
Right, I fully agree with that, but that's not what the comment I was replying to said: the parent said that society (in a nation) was stupid for not recognising [what is to parent] the self-evident importance of the scientific special
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by RobertKerans 6y ago
That's seems a bit unfair. It's not about "products" or "advertising", or society being stupid, there has to be communication from researchers to wider society, research has to be allied to education.
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by RobertKerans 6y ago
As stated by siblings, there's a specific reason it's called that. But they used to all have open comments sections. They didn't start shutting down replies for articles because of civil disagreements. Generally they're
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by RobertKerans 6y ago
That particular question is actually quite sensible (/s), it tests whether you actually have some experience coding in C and are looking to get hired in the late 1970s/early 1980s -- it's a "weed out the interviewees who
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by RobertKerans 6y ago
Maybe studio just got caught up in it, lost objectivity? Or they just hit a point of no return and hey, it's a Pixar film, it's not going to lose money even if it's very average, is just a possible hit to reputation. It&#x2
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by RobertKerans 6y ago
Yes, I was trying to think of a US example that wasn't Ezra Pound. I find the article a little off. It feels a bit fetishistic. It's got an appeal to a fictional past where people discussed weighty moral issues (compared to nowada
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by RobertKerans 6y ago
Yeah, he's a very well regarded novelist. So is Knut Hamsun. Ezra Pound is a well regarded poet. Marinetti is quite important w/r/t the modern art movements of the early 20thC. Pirandello is pretty brilliant. Henry William Wi
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by RobertKerans 6y ago
I've used SVG pretty heavily for years, in particular for the last couple of months as I've been writing libraries/tools that render SVG output (parsing for the cli tool side, lots of hand-writing & testing, cleaning, ren
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by RobertKerans 6y ago
Oh definitely. In terms of reference model what I'm looking at is how easy it is use that exposed taxonomy, how fast it is, etc. I can only make inferences about the taxonomies from that (though the quality of the search gives extremel
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by RobertKerans 6y ago
Ah, Digikey is excellent. I've used McMaster-Carr for a while as a reference model when I'm writing catalogue/search UIs, nice to have another one to hand.
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by RobertKerans 6y ago
Nobody's questioning it exists. This is a wilful misrepresentation of why people have issues with it -- the reason why I got pissed with the things you've written is that they match the stereotype bitcoin enthusiast speil almost t
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by RobertKerans 6y ago
I think you're seriously misrepresenting the questioner. People who question the point of it understand that the aim is to be currency . Calling people questioning the point idiots who don't understand technology doesn't an
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by RobertKerans 6y ago
That doesn't really answer the question "what is the point of it" unless the only point is to create wealth for the people who do have it.
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by RobertKerans 6y ago
It won't work in JS because arrays are compared by reference, so it would always fail to match (I think immutable data structures, at proposal stage 2, would provide one potential fix for this, otherwise need a workaround such as bit

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