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by ben336 13y ago
"people and companies have the right to choose not to associate with those who hold those views" If his beliefs are religiously motivated, actually companies do not have the right to discriminate based on that. And imagine a modi
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I don't have strong opinions on whether open floor plans are good and bad but I strongly disagree with "The primary task of a programmer is writing code, which involves sitting at a desk and thinking and typing." The primary
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The issue of whether our political system's dependence on campaign finance seems a bit irrelevant to me on this. He had money and he did something with it that he had power to do. As for the rest, are you saying the difference is beca
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by ben336 13y ago
I said 52% of Californian voters. Obviously things like this skew to extreme opinions. I'm just curious if the people who believe that donating to the cause make Eich untenable as a CEO also believe that the 7million other people who
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by ben336 13y ago
Just out of curiousity would you say that voting for Prop 8 would have been equally politically toxic? Since that would eliminate 52% of Californian voters from 2008. I recognize that a donation is different than a vote, but I want to und
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by ben336 13y ago
Yes you can change the theme. Sublime is a text editor, so it doesn't offer debug/refactoring or other IDE features for languages out of the box. But you should find plenty of plugins that can help with different things, and it wi
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by ben336 13y ago
The analogy was to C# and Objective C, not to those other languages. The argument went 1. Facebook might abandon Hack at some point 2. No, Hack is like Objective C and C#, which Microsoft and Apple support just fine 3. No here is how Hack i
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by ben336 13y ago
Anyone who can run IE9 can run IE10 or IE11 at this point. IE9 is only supported on Windows 7, which now supports 10 & 11.
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I think the author is conflating "quality" of documentation with "usability" of documentation. They are probably correlated, and this might make a good filter for ignoring BAD documentation, but a documentation site can
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by ben336 13y ago
Do all your friends come with 2 taps though?
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Ironic title coming from a post on Google+. In all seriousness though the title is misleading. Its not increasing user numbers, its increasing perceived relevancy, and misleading users into evangelizing its platform.
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...Thats not how percentages work :)
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Maybe I'm missing something but I don't get "4. Slow, flaky tests". I understand that Selenium et al can be a pain, but how does server side generated code excuse you from using it? Are you only validating the html str
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by ben336 13y ago
vim and xargs are less commonly used commands? Seems to be a mix here of small unix-y utilities and larger programs (like vim and tmux). Good stuff to know though.
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this isn't Microsoft. This was Nokia's thing and started before Microsoft bought them.
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Can you give an example of Coffeescript interacting poorly with the existing js ecosystem. I've seen complaints about the need for a build step, but since it compiles down to vanilla javascript, it works everywhere JS does, and its no
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by ben336 13y ago
> Obviously Nazi Germany is an exception Thats the only exception you can think of? > The USA has been the prime beneficiary throughout history For values of history starting later than the late 1700s :)
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by ben336 13y ago
I don't think the argument is that you need to "have proof". Its that the work you do during the weekday isn't amassing you long term value. If you lose your job/want to do something else, you have minimal "c
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by ben336 13y ago
Unless you're programming in Binary or manipulating the hardware directly, every programming task is built on layers of abstraction. You just have to decide what level is best for you and the project you're working on.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe's_law
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Which is exactly why they're willing to make an offer like this :)
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Thats not really how enterprise computing policies work :) If its not centrally administrated, its probably not allowed. At least in the type of environment where people are still on IE7.
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Sources? Examples? Where are you getting this from?
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they're legally required to rename it: http://gizmodo.com/microsoft-has-to-change-skydrives-name-be... (Edit: technically it didn't get quite that far. They're preemptively renaming to settle a lawsuit that
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by ben336 13y ago
This piece doesn't seem to make any distinction between jQuery core, and jQuery plugins. If the lesson is "don't just stick random 3rd party scripts onto your site" then thats obviously good advice. If it's "
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by ben336 13y ago
Am I the only one who is a bit skeptical of this? Seems incredibly hard to believe, with no hard sources. (Email from Friend of a Friend of a gadget blogger is not where I want to be getting my credible news of law enforcement overreaching)
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by ben336 13y ago
As an original Pittsburgh native, I'm curious which attributes of Pittsburgh you're thinking of when you say "Canada's Pittburgh"?
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Hoefler and Frere-Jones set for $20 million court battle(theverge.com)
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Nope. He's written a lot within a clearly defined scope "the human side of software development", so his articles are often related. Beyond that, self-linking is a great form of self-promotion and getting readers engaged in
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by ben336 13y ago
That was my mistake. I posted it after reading, and didn't notice I was on the home page.

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