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by andos 15y ago
Questioning specific advice is part of the learning, I believe.
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by andos 15y ago
I disagree: the author is to blame. Every message has an audience and the author must know that when they write. At Hacker News we are, well, hackers in the broadest sense. While some of us might appreciate typography for what it is, I bel
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by andos 15y ago
That passage is trying to emulate Robert Bringhurst's tone in his Elements of Typographic Style . See for yourself: One of the principles of durable typography is always legibility; another is something more than legibility
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by andos 15y ago
Sure enough. I think it is incoherent to stand against a viewpoint of multicultural interpretations of historical events while condemning Facebook's tailoring of news because it hampers multicultural interpretations of current events. I mig
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by andos 15y ago
Yes, it was my opinion. Did it seem otherwise? If so, I'm sorry.
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by andos 15y ago
How is Call of Duty different than a soldiers account of how a battlefield looked like? Between a WWII veteran's personal account of the battles and playing CoD, which one would you pick? If you pick the veteran's account, you know that C
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by andos 15y ago
What caught my challenged attention was the juxtaposition of this: “ Mr. Khan stands exposed as possessing a historical perspective steeped in academia’s standard issue, postmodern, left-leaning narrative of cultural relativism, multicultur
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by andos 15y ago
While that might certainly be what people like to call its "killer feature," the iPhone redefined what we expect of smartphones. The gold standard before 2007 was the Blackberry. Look at the Android prototypes before 2007 and the phones rel
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by andos 15y ago
People seem to forget that not all innovation is disruptive. There's room for incremental innovation, too. A lot of room.
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by andos 15y ago
Yes. And the other commands that do not map to an HTML5 construct should be "data-" attributes.
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by andos 15y ago
You missed the point: they are talking about people who do not know those aspects of the LAMP stack, not the ones who can afford delegating them to DBAs and sysadmins. The first group are indeed glorified web page editors.
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by andos 15y ago
If, instead of getting myself a Chromebook subscription, I put $28 in a cookie jar every month, after 3 years I could buy myself a 13" MacBook (or a MacBook Air!) and have some change left for a beer to celebrate my choice. Maybe that's how
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by andos 15y ago
Some of the examples at the end are laughable. If new[] throws an exception, this leaks a ﬁle handle and deadlocks the next caller. Poorly written code is buggy? No shit, Sherlock! — to paraphrase the OP. The Frequently Questi
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by andos 15y ago
I'm here just to cause a 25% increase in the number of comments in this thread.
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by andos 15y ago
Do hardware people report directly to Jobs now? That's the kind of wrong I was talking about.
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by andos 15y ago
The single most important feature, however, are pull requests.
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by andos 15y ago
Could be handy for a hackathon or such I suppose? That's exactly the scenario I had in mind. I have attended some hack fests myself and, besides the general chaos and lack of coordination, there's the particular issue of how people share
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by andos 15y ago
When the project allows me to go hosted, then the problem is already solved. Thrice. When it does not, but I still need versioning, a wiki and some issue tracking and I don't feel like sporting my masochist hat, good news for me: there's no
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by andos 15y ago
The chart is certainly old . Wrong in what aspect?
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by andos 15y ago
The noteworthy stuff is that Jonathan Ive reports directly to Steve Jobs, while Bob Mansfield, SVP of Hardware¹, reports to Tim Cook. That shows what Apple is all about. ¹. The chart says "SVP of Mac Hardware", but on the iPad 2 video h
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by andos 15y ago
Maybe you already know this link, but it's worth mentioning anyway: — www.folklore.org The whole story of the Macintosh, told by the people who built the Macintosh. A great read.
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by andos 15y ago
Have you ever tried to set up a Gitorious box? Not that it's difficult (it is) but it is a complete waste of people's time. If I want to fiddle with every aspect of my development tools, maybe I'm not Fossil's target. Next time I need to se
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by andos 15y ago
Yes! People think that contributing to OSS is some kind of moral duty. OSS is not a cancer hospital for kids. Do you work on a project that depends on OSS? There will be bugs ( lots of bugs — OSS is generous in this regard) and the need to
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by andos 15y ago
In a plain folder where each revision gets its own subfolder named as the revision number? That, yes. What's the point of versioning a build? After it's built, it will never change. Back it up, of course. But don't version it. Automate yo
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by andos 15y ago
As long as everybody decides consciously whether to propagate garbage or raise flags, the world is safe.
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by andos 15y ago
1.0/0.0 has to be handled somehow. Yes, by raising an error [1]. Or whistling innocently and pretending it's not my code while leaving the room. handling it as "+infinity" has a 50/50 chance of being "correct" It has zero chance of be
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by andos 15y ago
It will never be the case, fortunately, that humanity will have to navigate a missile or spaceship across the observable universe (or the galaxy) with fixed point or otherwise.
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by andos 15y ago
When I visit your website I can't find out: - What the app looks like -- there's a lot of talk about how beautiful, simple and well designed it is, but not a single screenshot; - If it accept payments; - Whether it is a complete solution. W
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by andos 15y ago
for example, you only want one piece of code drawing directly to the screen therein lies the problem: most of us are, in general, terrible at predicting the future. By the time I notice I now want more than one piece of code drawing direc
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by andos 15y ago
That's a pretty serious breach of user trust, no matter how many times it was covered in the 47-page lawyered-up doc that nobody reads. Yup! The crowdsourcing part (how they initially assembled and now maintain the hotspot database) needs

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