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by Smudge 14y ago
Still, even most horrible Android tablets from last year were way more usable than the Fire, in my opinion. And prior to February there were some pretty decent tablets too. (Transformer Prime, Galaxy Tab, etc)
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by Smudge 14y ago
Assuming screens stick around. Perhaps it's a long-shot prediction, but what if Retina is the Blu-ray of flat panel displays? (Inarguably superior to most of its predecessors, yet fails to gain critical mass and is soon replaced by a whole
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by Smudge 14y ago
> Hilariously, it’s still the best non-iPad tablet you can buy. Really? Pretty low jab at Android, calling the Fire the #1 tablet that isn't an iPad.
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by Smudge 14y ago
It's ad hominem if dhechols' point was that a scientist's work should be ignored if he/she also holds religious beliefs. That's not how I read it. I see no fallacy in simply pointing out a disparity between scientific reasoning and (unscien
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by Smudge 14y ago
Yes, apologies. I misunderstood your meaning. I also think we interpreted dhechols's post slightly differently. (I did not assume he was actually making the argument that "one can't be both a scientist and a believer in God" -- I thought he
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by Smudge 14y ago
Thousands of scientists throughout history have conducted research while simultaneously holding beliefs in any number of things. It would be fallacious to discount their scientific work because of this fact, at least as long as they held to
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by Smudge 14y ago
Being civil about these issues is important. (dhechols could have been more civil.) But one of the problems with belief systems is that people often do "expect special rights and privileges." In my opinion, one of those widely regarded "s
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by Smudge 14y ago
The internet is harnessed for piracy. I guess we'd better turn it off then.
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by Smudge 14y ago
The tongue twister was a dead giveaway. Personally, I'd walk out (or hang up) as soon as the Oxford Comma came up, but I have less patience than most.
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by Smudge 14y ago
Yes, and I didn't intend to sound like I disagree with Kicksend's approach. Being broken for a fraction of your users is just the nature of the web. It's the reason I don't usually bother to support IE7 and below. That said, there's a case
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by Smudge 14y ago
I don't feel entitled to a working non-js version of the site. Far from it. (As I stated, it's probably not worth it.) Kicksend should do what works best for them. That said, it would be nice if they at least told me they require JS instead
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by Smudge 14y ago
0.002% is an exaggeration, but I understand your point completely. Wasn't intending to come off as crass. Just pointing-out a trade-off. (And I do believe there are more non-JSers out there than we realize, many of them not by choice.) Kick
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by Smudge 14y ago
> The Kicksend web app [...] consumes our API the same way as our other apps do. A result of this is that your app does not work if javascript is disabled. And as a NoScript user, I'll have to carefully consider if I want to whitelist y
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by Smudge 14y ago
I stated this in a different comment, but, to repeat myself, I would call this class by what it is ("CommentPoster") instead of what it does ("PostComment"). CommentPoster.new(@comment).post Looks slightly better to me.
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by Smudge 14y ago
I think what you are saying is very valid. Personally, I tend to pull things out into stateful classes (e.g. CommentPoster, OrderMailer, ElephantCleaner, etc) for two reasons: 1. Testability. Isolating these bits of application logic and te
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by Smudge 14y ago
I would call this class by what it is ("CommentPoster") instead of what it does ("PostComment"). CommentPoster.new(@comment).post In this case, it might be a premature optimization, but I find that classes like this are a lot mor
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by Smudge 14y ago
But not having any credit cards can also negatively affect your credit score.
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by Smudge 14y ago
Whatever was serving their .js files seemed to be down.
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by Smudge 14y ago
Plenty of sites have generic layouts that are clearly "inspired" by other sites. But blatantly re-purposing an entire site's code goes too far. You are right to call them out. Will this fiasco harm your business? Probably not. If anything,
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by Smudge 14y ago
> In iOS 6, the system now protects Calendars, Reminders, Contacts, and Photos as part of Apple’s data isolation privacy initiative. This shouldn't be an "initiative." This should have been a standard practice from day one.
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by Smudge 14y ago
Tyranny of the crowd, eh?
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by Smudge 14y ago
Yes, we seem to disagree about whether there exists a category of people who a) work hard and b) are not "successful" and, if so, are even relevant to the discussion. This world-view may boil down to left vs. right, or populist vs. libertar
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by Smudge 14y ago
The point of the speech wasn't that you shouldn't apply yourself. Your hard work, passion, and focus likely correlate with your successes. But that doesn't mean you weren't also extremely lucky to be in a position where those factors (thing
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by Smudge 14y ago
Ah, makes sense. Thanks for the clarification.
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by Smudge 14y ago
> One more- Google saves file revisions, so this is +1 to them, since Dropbox doesn’t do this. Dropbox saves earlier versions of your files for 30 days, or indefinitely for Pro accounts. Not the same as the easy revision history in Goog
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by Smudge 14y ago
Not to veer too far from the main discussion, but 'git' isn't just some giant monolithic binary. The 'git' command is a wrapper around a bunch of different, relatively modular binaries. They each even have their own man page. (e.g. 'git pus
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by Smudge 14y ago
None of this is false, exactly. But if you put data on the internet for people to view in their browsers, you should not be surprised when people consume the data and use it for their own purposes. Site scrapers fall in this category. As mi
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by Smudge 14y ago
1 and 3 are the most effective. Option 2 is useful until there is any real demand for your data, and then you're back to trying to prevent automated scraping by your paying customers.
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by Smudge 14y ago
As far as I know, they have yet to disclose the full developer story around WP8. We can certainly speculate, but I doubt they'll do anything too disruptive or they'll risk losing the small amount of market they've worked so hard to gain.
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by Smudge 14y ago
Welcome to consumer electronics. Comparatively speaking, Microsoft has fared quite well.

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