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by about_help 8y ago
Because soon you will just ask your computer to build your code after giving it a few parameters. Then you will proof read and sanity check the code and spend more time optimizing and working on the really hard problems.
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by about_help 8y ago
Do you realize that is tangential to the discussion? They shouldn't be invading privacy in the first place! And what do you mean not publicizing it? It is quite visible on the ads they show it for.
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by about_help 8y ago
There are plenty of shills paid to dismiss these articles, and plenty of apologists who have dismissed morality and ethics for a variety of reasons. Do not ever take internet comments as good representations of humanity's opinions. Mos
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by about_help 8y ago
HN is a backed by large organizations, of course they will at some point control the news feed. Idealism is only possible for small organizations or those beholden to no one. We need to stop giving the benefit of the doubt when history show
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by about_help 8y ago
Some people don't appreciate being required to run arbitrary code just to view an HTML page and the eye candy of JS is just not worth it. Sure there are cases where JS is incredibly useful and beneficial, but your website should be abl
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by about_help 8y ago
Money. Sadly morals and convictions get quickly tossed out the window for money and power. It is China's problem, why should Western companies damage extremely profitable business relations? I agree with you that they should cut off su
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by about_help 8y ago
Agreed. No need to be a dick, but bug reports are often pretty cut and dry and often some frustration does leak into the tone. Any big project, whether code or some local government thing, will have some level of assholes.
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by about_help 8y ago
The more the brain is used the better it gets. I would look at this as a co-evolutionary trait. Hands help brain, brain helps hand. Without hands it would be hard for the brain to be useful. Maybe thats why octopuses are so smart, they can
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by about_help 8y ago
As someone else said you missed the point. I will tack on my own opinion that building sites that only function with javascript is a massive disservice to everyone. From disabled people with accessibility needs, to old hardware/softwa
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by about_help 8y ago
As with the majority of security issues it was done for convenience. Not every user has access to the hosting provider so it was done out of convenience. Thankfully they removed this option in Drupal 8, the latest version. You could also