abiox

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1. 721.▲
   by abiox 11y ago

   while i'm decidedly unenthused by the amount of pro-MS dialog on HN, the premise of a business being "fundamentally evil" is rather dogmatic and not very conducive to discussion.
2. 722.▲
   by abiox 11y ago

   > Why would the US be upheld to "higher standards" (whatever it means)? Are we supposed to believe in some form of American exceptionalism? here's an example: i think most people would agree that every country should ha
3. 723.▲
   by abiox 11y ago

   this is the stance of the legislators. the point is to show they're fully in the "good intentions paving the road to hell" mode. they didn't want dudes in the ladies' room, so now they have dudes in the ladies&#x2
4. 724.▲
   by abiox 11y ago

   if nothing else, the US tends to have fewer existential concerns diverting it's attention (economics, infrastructure, etc).
5. 725.▲
   by abiox 11y ago

   seems like a faulty comparison.
6. 726.▲
   by abiox 11y ago

   we should legislate that all men must be under constant video surveillance. not being on camera makes it too easy to break the law.
7. 727.▲
   by abiox 11y ago

   Care to elaborate?
8. 728.▲
   by abiox 11y ago

   > So a porn website (by far, the most effective mean to objectify women) i find this phrasing to be curious. perhaps you're only suggesting that it "objectifies women". well, sure - but it also objectifies men. rarely
9. 729.▲
   by abiox 11y ago

   one downside being that you risk creating obscured islands of mutable state, complecting engineering efforts.
10. 730.▲
    by abiox 11y ago

    the swell thing about "OOP" is how ill-defined and vague the notion can be. just like "correct OOP" and "incorrect OOP". as a consequence, discussions can go back and forth, frequently resulting in little but
11. 731.▲
    by abiox 11y ago

    > Is there a joke I'm missing here? other than the unmitigated absurdity that is the patent system these days?
12. 732.▲
    by abiox 11y ago

    > instead of porting VS i imagine that the vs gui is rather platform specific and would require a complete rewrite. so "porting" would, i guess, resemble something like what we're seeing with VSCode. would rather the gui
13. 733.▲
    by abiox 11y ago

    Awesome. I very recently grabbed the first two entries, though I haven't worked through them yet. I wondered at the interesting title and date, but it seems legit. :D
14. 734.▲
    by abiox 11y ago

    whois[1] says the registrant's name is Bryan Liles, which is the name of a Digital Ocean employee[2]. [1] http://who.is/whois/pifft.com [2] https://www.digitalocean.com/company/about/
15. 735.▲
    by abiox 11y ago

    i seem to recall he was somewhat... unenthusiastic about the amazon-canonical team up.
16. 736.▲
    by abiox 11y ago

    i feel like a variation of this comment appears on every javascript library discussion.
17. 737.▲
    by abiox 11y ago

    some people get really weird about comments. in a case like this, i actually like the dialogue/conversation nature of the comments. i think the opinion of "not needing them" seems miss what they're accomplishing.
18. 738.▲
    by abiox 11y ago

    what constitutes "meaningfully achieve that result"?
19. 739.▲
    by abiox 11y ago

    E37: No write since last change (add ! to override)
20. 740.▲
    by abiox 11y ago

    more likely it's an intermediary thing. it's smooth for me.
21. 741.▲
    by abiox 11y ago

    so we're going on implicit nonverbal body language sorts of things? how does this account for diversity? people from different backgrounds, different socializations, etc give and receive signals differently. this is like communicatio
22. 742.▲
    by abiox 11y ago

    so, ideally, undesirables couldn't find shelter because nobody should be forced to have undesirable tenants. undesirable shouldn't be able to find food, because no entrepreneur should be forced to sell their goods to undesirable
23. 743.▲
    by abiox 11y ago

    if you can't speak to someone without consent, how do you get consent?
24. 744.▲
    by abiox 11y ago

    New MSFT, same as the old MSFT.
25. 745.▲
    by abiox 11y ago

    you seem to say that windows is objectively good and worth the money, irrespective of their circumstance. otherwise, what could "wouldn't change your bias" mean?
26. 746.▲
    by abiox 11y ago

    i didn't have any lockups in chrome.
27. 747.▲
    by abiox 11y ago

    i don't know, but wow, that's a really cool idea.
28. 748.▲
    by abiox 11y ago

    well, it is a textbook after all. perhaps the textbook industry isn't so virulent in your neck of the woods.
29. 749.▲
    by abiox 11y ago

    also seems to work fine on my end. scroll wheel, middle mouse button work too. seems normal.
30. 750.▲
    by abiox 11y ago

    if someone decides to sms bank account info to their spouse, is it then appropriate that their account info is published, because they have no expectation of privacy?