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by Smudge 14y ago
Pro-tip: Victim blaming and sexist generalizations don't help your argument. Edit: While I'm glad you removed the remark about "fugly chicks", your attitude still enforces an exclusionary environment.
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by Smudge 14y ago
It's not a dichotomy. It's risk aversion. When we share/publicize our work and ideas, we have control over what people see/hear. When it comes to references, we do not have control. One bad reference (from a spiteful co-worker, a bad manage
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by Smudge 14y ago
I was recently part of a brainstorming session where it was decided that we needed something that could do exactly this. (The way we described it: something like the "Joyride" feature in Zurb Foundation, except it could also highlight the r
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by Smudge 14y ago
I see both points here. My response would be similar to nicksergeant's. The parts of Google Reader I found useful were the parts where you could read RSS feeds. Will RSS be incorporated into Google+ somehow? I don't really understand what
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by Smudge 14y ago
> that might just have saved Windows 8 ...for traditional mouse and keyboard users, that is. This solution would make touchscreen usability much worse, IMO. (Disclaimer: I work at MS. I don't work on Windows. My opinions are my own.)
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by Smudge 14y ago
> Not a programmer? It’s cool. Be good at something. If you’re awesome at making pitch decks for your boss, spend a weekend making a killer pitch deck about your own idea. This is great advice. While it's important to push your limits a
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by Smudge 14y ago
I wish Github made it easier to capture the fact that forks often diverge and become their own distinct (but related) projects. Right now you have to email support and ask them to detach the fork, which detaches everything from the previous
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by Smudge 14y ago
I understand what you're describing to be their purpose. But the first thing I tried to do was click on them, and got confused/frustrated when they didn't do anything. This tells me their purpose is not in line with what I (and possibly oth
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by Smudge 14y ago
> You can get it to do anything you want. But in addition it should generally do what users expect . If the dots aren't clickable, why are they there?
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by Smudge 14y ago
> In developing nations people often use antibiotics in the worst way - a short course until they feel better, not a long course until the bacteria are all killed. This is partly because they don't know any better and partly because the
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by Smudge 14y ago
> There are a million of those on the Internet already. Experts Exchange and Yahoo Answers come to mind. ;-)
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by Smudge 14y ago
It's all just a matter of taste and preference. If you find yourself consistently misreading commonplace ruby, maybe ruby isn't for you.
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by Smudge 14y ago
Fair point. It is a bit odd. IIUC the low/reverse-precedence operators came from Perl, and whether or not to use them is just a stylistic choice. It's clear what this means: > raise "ooops" unless do_something() But even so, it reads a
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by Smudge 14y ago
Stack Overflow should realize that they're actually the perfect platform for asking open-ended why questions. Not having a definitive answer is what makes many of these questions so interesting. Who would be harmed if those questions we
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by Smudge 14y ago
> Pick one and go with it. They did. It's `&&` and `||`. I understand your point when it comes to it being a potential landmine, and honestly I never use them myself. But I've never seen any ruby guides or docs use `and` instead
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by Smudge 14y ago
Read the article.
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by Smudge 14y ago
Sorry, but your site uses a gears icon: http://iplaws.info/img/mechanical.png Clearly this infringes on LayerVault's copyright.
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by Smudge 14y ago
This is just the default "dynamic views" theme for Blogger. And it's also unusable on my (android) phone. Bizarre that Google hasn't fixed any of the glaring issues.
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by Smudge 14y ago
The comparison breaks down when you remember that you can't copy-paste a chair. Or download one. OH WAIT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hM4zV77cFhU 3D printing will bring a ton of disruption.
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by Smudge 14y ago
As stated in the post, "they fixed this some time ago, but..." -- As in, it used to be a premium feature, and while that has changed, it may still say a lot about their priorities.
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by Smudge 14y ago
When it comes to "spectacles" on which people fixate, things like school shootings get a lot more attention than the American Revolution. Not that I'd call them that. (How about "tragedies")
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by Smudge 14y ago
"If you’re not different then you’re boring." You're unique, just like everyone else.
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by Smudge 14y ago
The way you describe it as "time" and "history" is confusing. In your gist, essentially you want to roll backwards, fetch the value you had in the previous layer of the stack, and then jump forward to your current execution, but with that r
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by Smudge 14y ago
I used to be a "cross on my own terms" type. Then I moved to Seattle. On my first day exploring downtown, I crossed when no cars were coming (or even approaching from far away) and got dirty looks from the gaggle of Seattlites in front of m
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by Smudge 14y ago
> People expect to be returned to the index of that website/subdomain when clicking the site logo. I'm not sure most people really understand the difference between "something.startup.com" and "startup.com", especially when the logo is
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by Smudge 14y ago
> The tax would be tiny for investors who buy and hold, but could prove to be significant for traders who place millions of orders a day. So we could finally put a damper on high-frequency trading and start focusing on longer term bets?
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by Smudge 14y ago
Happy birthday :)
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by Smudge 14y ago
My impression was that solarmist just holds a book to his/her head and immediately grasps the material.
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by Smudge 14y ago
I'd be shocked if those 12-16 hours you apparently put in for "weeks on end" are truly your most productive. They may certainly feel "mentally strenuous," but that doesn't mean your cognitive limit isn't decreasing as the days and weeks g
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by Smudge 14y ago
But which are the "outside" organisms -- us or them? ;-)

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