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by apotheon 17y ago
Apparently, Google has decided that its formal complaint system is "the Internet". We should all abide by Google's wishes and, as long as no internal complaint system appears, use the Internet as our complaint system, calling public attent
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by apotheon 17y ago
Yes! That's the one. . . . and no, I'm not willing to buy a trackball off eBay. Maybe I should start searching for old stock of these things again, though.
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by apotheon 17y ago
I think that's the point -- encapsulation is achievable in many non-OO ways, and encapsulation is basically just a subset of namespace management. In other words, encapsulation itself isn't necessarily bad, so griping about encapsulation
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by apotheon 17y ago
I think the problem the author has (but fails to articulate well) is that the variance in consequences of doing things in different orders is not explicit. In short, it's like you are never allowed to know what the balance of your account
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by apotheon 17y ago
> I know it's popular around here to dislike OOP, but this guy's main objection is to mutable state. Analogous situations can occur in an imperative paradigm without objects. To be fair, the guy's one reference to imperative programming
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by apotheon 17y ago
These are principles many of us have been telling bosses, clients, readership -- anyone who would listen to us -- for quite a while. They're principles that get ignored every time they're brought up, though. It's awesome that Craigslist i
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Open source, not $19 billion, may be best health care stimulus(news.cnet.com)
1 points by apotheon 17y ago|0 comments
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by apotheon 17y ago
I think the main reason the G1 didn't do better is its lack of effective advertising. It's actually a better device (though I hear the G2 is actually going to do away with some of the advantages of the G1, the morons).
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by apotheon 17y ago
. . . but you can't tell anyone about it except by linking to it, because Wolfram Alpha copyrighted it.
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by apotheon 17y ago
Good god . . . the FSF has outdone itself on the subject of ill-conceived, asinine publicity stunts (as long as we don't count RMS appearances among its publicity stunts).
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by apotheon 17y ago
Excellent! I think we've figured out the mechanism for prohibiting comment downvotes. . . . unless it's more complex than it at first seems. I don't really have the LISP Fu yet to figure it out from the source.
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by apotheon 17y ago
Let me know if/when it's there, please.
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by apotheon 17y ago
So -- are you saying that I'm doing things in the wrong order? Should I always know for sure whether I want to submit something before I check to see if it has already been submitted? What if I want to check whether it has been submitted
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Making Butter (video)(youtube.com)
1 points by apotheon 17y ago|0 comments
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by apotheon 17y ago
Ahhh, Internet time -- a hoary old tradition, skewing our perceptions of newness since 1993.
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by apotheon 17y ago
Does it somehow allow me to search by target URL for the headline link?
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by apotheon 17y ago
I said I'd like to know without having to submit it -- in short, without a submission showing up if it doesn't already exist on HN. Sometimes, I just want to know if something has already been submitted, and am not trying to submit it.
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by apotheon 17y ago
My all-time favorite pointing device was an optical trackball from Microsoft (I forget the model name). I haven't found one of those since the last I had one was stolen (yes, really) back in 2003ish. The IBM Model M [1] (and certain imitat
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Ask HN: How do I find out whether something was submitted?
3 points by apotheon 17y ago|10 comments
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by apotheon 17y ago
A quick search didn't find anyone else suggesting this, so: I'd like a link on the page for a particular discussion thread that takes me immediately to the top of the entire discussion (the initial submission, in other words). That way, I
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by apotheon 17y ago
> The person commented that disturbed characters "seem to infest every area of life" even including "the ranks of doctors, therapists and public officials." The person says that like the idea that "disturbed characters" infest politics
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OPML Browser for WordPress gets a new parser(chipstips.com)
2 points by apotheon 17y ago|0 comments
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by apotheon 17y ago
. . . but it's copyrighted, so you're not allowed to tell anyone.
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by apotheon 17y ago
I'd like to be able to filter by license. More specifically, I'd like to be able to show banners only for copyfree licensed projects.
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by apotheon 17y ago
Actually, I appear to have the ability to downvote both this comment of yours (which is in discussion following my comment above about "curiosity") and the comment just before my "curiosity" comment, so I don't think the "can't downvote som
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by apotheon 17y ago
I must have misread or misremembered something, then. I had the definite impression that downvoting articles was supposed to be something some people could do, based on their karma totals.
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by apotheon 17y ago
Perhaps ironically, I agree that Microsoft had some good keyboards and pointing devices -- but that was about ten years ago. Since then, they've trended downward in quality. I'm not so impressed in even the mice and keyboards these days.
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by apotheon 17y ago
If that's what he's really saying, I think he's also saying ". . . and this is a good thing!" I'm not so sure that's what he's actually saying, though.
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by apotheon 17y ago
> Facebook does what Twitter does (status updates), and does it better, IMO. Twitter actually does it better -- but, because Twitter doesn't do anything else , everything on Twitter goes into the "status update" interface, which result
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by apotheon 17y ago
Professional tennis players and bicyclists with no interest in the technology themselves pay people to maintain Twitter accounts for them. I think that pretty much fits the definition of "majority adoption".

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