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by _qulr 6y ago
> During an argument I think it actually benefits all participants to stick to a consistent viewpoint and defend it as strongly as possible to make sure that its strengths and weaknesses are fairly represented. My feeling is that a &quot
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by _qulr 6y ago
> I didn't mean celebrity but more like knowledgeable people. That's my point though. A celebrity like Torvalds will likely get upvoted, but in my experience, non-celebrity knowledgeable commenters often get downvoted by people
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by _qulr 6y ago
> Virtually every stable system humanity has ever devised is stable precisely because that stability is adversarial. Where's your argument here? > Your argument against people becoming hostage negotiators relies, as far as I can
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by _qulr 6y ago
> Imagine a discussion on Linux and Torvalds comments on it. This seems like a rarity. The vast majority of HN discussions don't have this situation, and it seems odd if the only purpose of HN voting is to upvote "celebrity&quo
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by _qulr 6y ago
A really great app for this is Suspicious Package: https://www.mothersruin.com/software/SuspiciousPackage/
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by _qulr 6y ago
> HN discussions very often have input from experts. Who are predictably downvoted! I think the upvoting/downvoting mechanism by itself makes discussions unnecessarily competitive and hostile. Here's a crazy alternative: make t
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by _qulr 6y ago
PROTIP: Select your LaunchAgents and LaunchDaemons folders in /Library and ~/Library, select Folder Actions Setup in the Services menu, and enable folder actions. You can use "add - new item alert.scpt" to be notified wh
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by _qulr 6y ago
> and everyone learns from it Do they? > where both sides end up arguing the same philosophical issues over and over again Funny, I would describe HN as the same. I'm on HN because the topics interest me as a computer programme
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by _qulr 6y ago
> You've crossed the digital divide here and misused the word "bubble" in the process. Yeah, well, you know, that's just like, uh, your opinion, man.
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by _qulr 6y ago
> Thanks for helping me realise this mistake and gain a better understanding of the issue. Are you on Twitter? I'd like to follow you. :-)
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by _qulr 6y ago
> Over time, these add up into real change, even if you don't see it happening in the course of a single thread. Without evidence, this is a difficult claim to accept.
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by _qulr 6y ago
> the author is right that conflict is also productive Could you explain why? > The actual Greek meaning of the word idiot is 'private person'. Someone who had withdrawn from the life in the polis, the political community. T
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by _qulr 6y ago
If you state your opinion in a room with 3 other people, the chance that at least 1 of those people vehemently disagrees with your opinion are probably low. Especially since people self-select who to congregate with in rooms. If you state y
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by _qulr 6y ago
Daily news needs easy reliable filler material, and sports provide that. Another commenter mentioned the stock market report. Again, easy reliable filler material. Despite the fact that the Dow Jones Industrial Average has a tenuous effect
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by _qulr 6y ago
> Also a surprising number of people in the US believe that poverty is a moral failure of some sort. Yep, there's a marriage in the US between business and religion that seems contradictory until you realize that these people believ
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by _qulr 6y ago
> For me, if I actually skip 2 nights sleep (e.g. travelling) I'm barely able to speak in coherent sentences or make decisions, my vision blurs, I feel derealization etc. Then do an all-day on-site technical job interview.
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by _qulr 6y ago
This submission should be labeled (2016). My whole brain is awake the first night in a new place. I just can't sleep.
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by _qulr 6y ago
D'oh, right. A good test might be difficult. In the absence of that, I guess the safe bet is just to count every Swift binary as a false positive for ObjC, though that's not quite fair, since you can mix the two in the same code b
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by _qulr 6y ago
Fair criticism. I'm not sure why the author didn't try to detect the use of objc_msg functions, for example. So the ObjC binaries may be overcounted a bit. Still, the test for Swift binaries seems accurate, and if you look at iOS
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by _qulr 6y ago
> The number of binaries of _all languages_ in iOS increases year over year This is not true either. "the number of binaries written entirely in C is now stagnating" > the number of Swift binaries in proportion to the number
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by _qulr 6y ago
> there's every indication that all new Apple frameworks are being written in Swift There's no such indication. "The number of binaries using Objective-C is still growing with each iOS release." https://blo
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by _qulr 6y ago
This is missing the broader context: workers are competing with each other for jobs and promotions. If one worker finds that they can achieve a competitive advantage by working more hours, then other workers will copy that strategy. They ma
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by _qulr 6y ago
> If Michael Jordan wasn't such a workaholic would he still have become 'The' Michael Jordan. 1) Michael Jordan retired from the Chicago Bulls (for the second time) at age 36. I suppose in tech with rampant age discriminat
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by _qulr 6y ago
> So lets say each person can be productive for X hours per week. I don't think productivity is the right way to frame things. This makes it sound like a human is nothing more than a tool. The reason people should work fewer hours i
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by _qulr 6y ago
> Welcome to agile? Agile is not essential to software development. IMO Agile should be thrown in the trash heap of technology history ASAP. Does Firefox even need a "release schedule"? Why? There's rarely a good reason fo
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by _qulr 6y ago
> This is almost a natural law of wealth. The article is about how the post-1975 period differs from the pre-1975 period. So it's demonstrably not a natural law. Natural laws don't change over time.
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by _qulr 6y ago
> I'm making no claims about Apple's behaviour on any other issues and I'm not going to be derailed on a tangent. It's strange that you think this issue can be discussed as if it's sui generis and completely unre
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by _qulr 6y ago
> You ignore their existence and role implicitly without the slightest consideration; their right to choose is _the_ consideration here. This is silly. I said, "Apple takes away choices from users in many other areas". iPhone i
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by _qulr 6y ago
You avoided my question: from your perspective, why wouldn't Apple ban them if it could? What's wrong with banning? Why is that such an inconvenient narrative for you? Why is it inconvenient for Apple? This feels like just a game
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by _qulr 6y ago
I'm not. I'm complaining about the claim "It's not a ban! It's not a ban! Apple isn't doing anything!" This whole argument seems like a variation of "Guns don't kill people, [X] does." If Ap

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