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by _greim_ 11y ago
But if the bottleneck is publication, not data gathering, then why does the Chinese government bother cracking down on map making activities? > Three British geology students discovered this the hard way while “collecting data” on a 2009
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by _greim_ 11y ago
Interesting. Why can't maps be produced using satellite photos?
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by _greim_ 11y ago
Here's an alternate POV. jQuery is fading from the spotlight not just because there are better ways of handling the DOM, but because the mindshare and code ecosystem that grew up around it got completely blindsided by modern module-loa
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by _greim_ 11y ago
There's a perverse incentive in software, where toolsets requiring memorization of arcana not inherent to the problem domain but inherent to how the tool maps onto the problem domain , will generate irrational loyalty among its users.
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by _greim_ 11y ago
> who's to say what's going to be loaded after the site gets hacked Never mind even getting hacked. Ad providers routinely violate the trust of content providers by activating audio, throwing up full screen overlays and who kno
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by _greim_ 11y ago
Generally those workers are also moving around, not standing absolutely still with their arms held out in front of them. Standing desks don't insulate you from the need for frequent breaks.
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by _greim_ 11y ago
I'd think that for any given type of disaster, one could find a correlation between it and witch-hunting, somewhere , if one searched through the annals of history for long enough.
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by _greim_ 11y ago
So is there no economic pressure to develop a fabric weave that's both efficient to manufacture and stable over time?
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by _greim_ 11y ago
Is there a "grain" to the fabric or something? Why not turn it 90deg and have the shirts increase in length and decrease in the chest instead? I'd prefer size to stay the same over time, but if I had to choose I think I'
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by _greim_ 11y ago
A less sensational title for this would be: > Thinking realistically about automated browser testing. But great article none the less.
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by _greim_ 11y ago
I've heard mixed things about salt. For example, look at the results in this Google search[1]. "Salt is obviously bad." "It's a myth, salt is probably fine." Etc. My takeaway has been that, as long as you don&#
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by _greim_ 11y ago
True. I keep hoping she was just doing that, or mindlessly parroting something she heard, rather than internalizing subtle cultural cues!
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by _greim_ 11y ago
WRT the tie-in to the "nerd" phenomenon. Lots of things compete for kids' finite mental resources. It becomes a variation of do I invest in Social Status, or Subject Matter X? Those investments happen in a small way at firs
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by _greim_ 11y ago
Probably around age eight. We corrected her immediately of course and have been continuing to do so, but yeah culture runs deep and kids pick things up fast!
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by _greim_ 11y ago
My daughter once remarked about something STEM-related: "he can do that <technical thing> because he's a BOY." We tried so hard to not raise her that way, and I'm sad the "meme" still managed to slip th
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by _greim_ 11y ago
> The GitHub issue tracker does need to change. Popular bug trackers suffer particularly from a curse all popular software faces: a constant barrage of criticism from a variety of user bases with disparate needs. Appeasing any one of the
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by _greim_ 11y ago
> how come anything remotely questioning of Microsoft when there's an announcement is met with downvotes? Selection effects! Posts about Microsoft doing something cool will attract a readership in which Microsoft fandom is over-repr
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by _greim_ 11y ago
> putting it all up under MIT. There's little you can do to get more open and honest than that. I disagree. Node was OSS-licensed under GitHub back in the Joyent days, but the inner circle was still very much closed. PRs languished
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by _greim_ 11y ago
Since it's v8, does this mean someday certain Node.js modules could be written in wasm, but still be callable from JS?
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by _greim_ 11y ago
Balance that though against the fact that OSS has been massively, mind-bogglingly successful, and all we're doing here is nitpicking various annoyances from the privileged vantage it has given us.
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by _greim_ 11y ago
Too many use cases to list, but generally a nice way to for...of anything, for example a recursive binary tree traversal: [Symbol.iterator]() { if (this.left) { yield* this.left[Symbol.iterator](); } yield th
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by _greim_ 11y ago
> As it stands, it's a barrier to learning and a detriment to consistency in style. Not true. It's actually super-easy to learn and meshes well with existing variable declaration styles.
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by _greim_ 11y ago
> We shouldn't do A, because even though A is okay, it will likely lead to B, then C, then D, which is definitely bad. I don't think this is a valid form of reasoning by itself. The onus is on you to show that the A > B >
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by _greim_ 11y ago
Brilliantly executed pun, or clueless poster? Not sure which.
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by _greim_ 11y ago
> The bigger and sweeter, the better. This isn't true, at least for some geographies. Ability to ship without bruising or spoilage is the dominant factor that drives breeding, and usually results in smaller and less sweet varieties.
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by _greim_ 11y ago
Am I the only one who's skeptical? Here's the scenario: I want to instrument my production system using free and/or self-built tools. So I take a crack at it, and discover it's poorly documented and otherwise hard to fin
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by _greim_ 11y ago
> I've used node on several high-volume production apps, and I haven't seen any instability. Not sure if this is what you meant, but I read the ancestor comment not as being about "will the process crash randomly?" bu
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by _greim_ 11y ago
I can kind of see how jQuery + mainstream jQuery usage patterns would get grandfathered in as a sort of ad hoc, primordial framework.
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by _greim_ 11y ago
> brighter Or shrill. > muddier Or warmer. (Just a nit, but I think it's important to present these qualities in both their positive and negative forms.)
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by _greim_ 11y ago
Similar project: http://greim.github.io/hoxy/ - It also has throttling and latency simulation, but not as fine-grained. It's focus is more generally on debugging and traffic manipulation.

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