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by Volpe 15y ago
That's a bit harsh, it is at least a grey area. Mass-assignment by-default, with disabling fields you want to protect vs Mass-assignment off by default, with enabling fields you want to mass-assign. It's hardly just outright arrogance.
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by Volpe 15y ago
He didn't WANT to tell github, he wanted Rails Core to pay attention to him, and github was the sacrificial lamb. He doesn't deserve props from github, he just exploited their app to make a point (to rails core) he never disclosed anything
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by Volpe 15y ago
tl;dr; - Learn about: attr_protected[1] [1] http://guides.rubyonrails.org/security.html#mass-assignment
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by Volpe 15y ago
Trying to encapsulate what happiness (of yourself and other people) in an HN comment is going to fail. Don't trivialise other peoples motivations because they aren't your own.
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by Volpe 15y ago
Sure if you believe in inequality/social injustice... I believe most first-world economies have some form of wealth redistribution[1]. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redistribution_of_wealth
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by Volpe 15y ago
Googles explanation (set inside the P3P cookie): http://support.google.com/accounts/bin/answer.py?hl=en&a...
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by Volpe 15y ago
Why?
578.
by Volpe 15y ago
Can we put the actual url in [1] Looks very inspired by by Sparrow.app [2](OS X mail application). Though they have improved on the UI in some aspects. Great that people are still trying to make email better. [1] http://fluent.io [2] ht
579.
by Volpe 15y ago
Once they do something they've explicitly said they have no intention of doing any time soon...
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by Volpe 15y ago
Have you seriously seen (non-computer) people write simple arithmetic as + 1 3 ? This feels like a discussion based in fiction...
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by Volpe 15y ago
Weak arguement. So rather than form a language around our existing learnings (in Math as you say). We should change all our existing learnings to suit a particular language... then it's more readable... riiiiight, good luck with that. :)
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by Volpe 15y ago
Probably because it's not a one sided affair and both sides in a (China/US) confrontation have a lot of leverage over each other so a conflict is not in the interest of either party...
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by Volpe 15y ago
It's better when "everyone tries to at-least appear to follow the rules" ? Isn't that worse than blatantly not following the rules, because at least you know what they are doing?
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by Volpe 15y ago
Because it's hard work using a set of skills they don't have (i.e finding relevant academics to peer review papers, organising reviews, conflict resolution, collecting papers... etc). Plus they already have to teach like 6 hours or somethin
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by Volpe 15y ago
Great to see this happening! Good on foxconn for responding, and hopefully they keep improving their conditions of work.
586.
by Volpe 15y ago
True... that would be relevant if the world began and ended on the borders of california...
587.
by Volpe 15y ago
> where Apple and Microsoft make the decisions for me and never let me double-check them. yeah because Webkit isn't open source...
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by Volpe 15y ago
Really... didn't pg himself do exactly that RE: TechCrunch and Curebit ripping off 37signals (among others) designs. Seems like just a reality of the tech world, everyone just discredits everyone else in the hope of increasing the value of
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by Volpe 15y ago
Could only really work if ALL cars are autonomous. How many car accidents involve only 1 car? Also insurance is hardly an innovative industry... I'd bet they don't change anything about how they insure people for a LONG time.
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by Volpe 15y ago
I'm pretty sure it should stay that way... no?
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by Volpe 15y ago
Regardless whether it's a design or engineering problem. It is pretty clear evidence there is tension between the teams (design and engineering). Which is the opposite of what Gruber is arguing.
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by Volpe 15y ago
Mostly the same, Volume/Silent switch are a little bit higher. And the steel rim now has more breaks in it (which was apparently a cause of the reception problems, when your finger went over the only break)
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by Volpe 15y ago
eek, No, the awkwardness comes from empathy reading your responses. I don't quite know how to respond (in honest bafflement, not back pedalling or because I feel some how convinced otherwise). The RDF (as coined by the Mac team) was a very
594.
by Volpe 15y ago
... Okay. I'm pretty sure the "Reality Distortion Field" was coined by people on the Macintosh team[1]... To describe exactly what i was talking about with regard to Steve Jobs. Sooo, now I just feel awkward responding to the rest of your
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by Volpe 15y ago
Gruber managed to do that without offering much evidence to the contrary. Do Apple engineers and Designers really work side by side? Or is it just that Apple prioritise design over engineering. So rather than the engineers throwing a brick
596.
by Volpe 15y ago
I've never interpreted the claims of "Reality Distortion Field" as being part of his marketing spin. I'd always read about it as a management style, that he used on his team (internally). (This seems to be backed up by his recent biography
597.
by Volpe 15y ago
Really? I remember reading about all the crap between Apple/Microsoft/Xerox (in the late 80s/90s) none of it could be described as even close a 'gentlemen's game". Are we that different to any other industry?
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by Volpe 15y ago
Which purpose are you ascribing the inefficiency to?
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by Volpe 15y ago
Specifically "chinese-style"... Chinese are mad about NBA, do they really play different rules?
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by Volpe 15y ago
What's the difference between "US-style" basketball and "other" style? (i.e "chinese-style"?) Doesn't everyone play the same game/style?

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