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by aaronem 13y ago
Which country, and why?
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by aaronem 13y ago
Makes sense to me, and I say this as one who has posted several negative reviews on Yelp under the same name that's on his driver's license. Yelp's primacy in its field means that a negative review on the site can substantial
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by aaronem 13y ago
From what I can tell, he seems to claim that everything since the invention of agriculture is inherently oppressive. I suppose it's a point of view.
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by aaronem 13y ago
Doge is indeed originally an Italian word, but it's also a loanword in English [1], this being of course the entire basis on which rests my argument above. And I try not to pronounce the meme version at all. [1] http://en.
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by aaronem 13y ago
> I would think that a comment re-summarizing the function in natural language would also "double or triple the length of the code." It needn't; the example I had in mind when I wrote my earlier comment was some Perl code
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by aaronem 13y ago
Why assume, as you seem to, that all standards originate outside yourself? Do you not require of yourself a certain level of quality and precision, the degree of both depending on project and audience, when you write either natural language
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by aaronem 13y ago
Say what else you like about Southern American English, but we solve the second-person plural problem quite handily with nominative and oblique y'all , and genitive y'all's .
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by aaronem 13y ago
While I don't love the author and carry no brief on his behalf, I would like to point out that "you're pretentious" and "you just want to look smart[er than everybody else]" are, in my experience, the two charg
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by aaronem 13y ago
Granting arguendo that the phrase "self-expression" is useful, you seem to assume such activity is impaired both by the imposition (even the self-imposition) of standards, and by the quest for precision in one's use of lang
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by aaronem 13y ago
> The intentional breaking of form takes more mental effort than just writing normally. Perhaps you confuse intentional subversion of form with arrant ignorance of same. Judging from my occasional trawls through the reeking open sewer th
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by aaronem 13y ago
I'll happily argue that, regardless of the path by which a given meme's promulgators happened to stumble upon an actual English word of whose existence they were (and perhaps still are) entirely ignorant, the established pronuncia
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by aaronem 13y ago
My experience has been that it's endemic among people who don't care to go to the effort involved in fluency, but that doesn't really shed light on the question of whence comes the fallacious idea that "self-expression&q
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by aaronem 13y ago
If it helps, the English IPA for "doge" would be /doʊʒ/; if you need a key, Wikipedia has a good one: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA_for_English
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by aaronem 13y ago
Not quite; there seems an implicit claim that oppressiveness exists along a gradient which, I can hardly resist observing, correlates closely with the average skin tone of those who employ a given dialect. On one end of this gradient, Walla
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by aaronem 13y ago
Likewise and likewise. I never downvote for content; I do, on the other hand, quite freely downvote in cases, such as this, where there is no content of which to form an opinion.
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by aaronem 13y ago
Would you make the same argument for programming languages? Should anyone feel free to code in whatever "vernacular" style he please, because living up to a defined standard makes it "hard to express [one]self"? No doubt
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by aaronem 13y ago
That's a rule to be applied with a bit of nuance. Some things, especially in languages like Perl whose syntax already reads like a half-deliberate attempt to force an obscurantist style on the programmer, can't be made really obvi
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by aaronem 13y ago
I don't have anything against jQuery per se , but part of the idea behind a client-side framework, or so at least I had gathered in my usual imperfect fashion, was to relieve the developer of the need for a bunch of hand-written DOM-f
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by aaronem 13y ago
My first thought was 'oh, hey, this looks a lot like xevil'.
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by aaronem 13y ago
Great, so I can write a bunch of document.querySelector() and el.addEventListener() glue instead. That's a real improvement.
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by aaronem 13y ago
Not related in particular, and maybe a little selfish, but as someone who is also named Aaron, I sure would like it if people would, when referring to Aaron Swartz without honorific or qualifier, do so by last name, as is done with pretty
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by aaronem 13y ago
You're probably the only person who is bothered, because you are probably the only person who can see anything remotely resembling a "call to violent action" in something as milquetoast as the nonsense we're discussing.
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by aaronem 13y ago
Well, when socially networked narcissism is the order of the day in general, why expect anything else? I'm not particularly concerned about the Black Chamber doing what the Black Chamber does, but if I were, I'd certainly hope to
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by aaronem 13y ago
Is that why there's a whole section in the linked article talking about jQuery and how great it is and how it works really great with Riot.js? And, sure, you can use something lighter-weight than the full ca. 100Kb jQuery reference imp
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by aaronem 13y ago
That's an excellent article you linked -- thanks! From it I gather that no one really knows why serifs exist in the first place; that there is absolutely no meaningful evidence to support a contention in favor of either style on the ba
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by aaronem 13y ago
Not really a parallel; you'll never meet a long-time cigarette smoker who doesn't know how awful a habit it is, although you'll probably meet some who will lie about it. On the other hand -- and I say this as a smoker, albeit
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by aaronem 13y ago
Well, sure. When I need something like URL routing, or object-relational mapping, or templating, why not reinvent it from scratch every time? Or, failing that, why not handle things like that with a collection of favorite libraries, each of
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by aaronem 13y ago
> PHP however is still solving problems But is it solving more problems than it creates?
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by aaronem 13y ago
Of course. But no one seems to be suggesting otherwise, that I can see, and for the relatively common case in which one needs quickly to prototype and roll out something which does "fit neatly into a predefined box", a framework
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by aaronem 13y ago
Calmly, Chicken Little, calmly! Perhaps the sky is not falling after all...

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