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by ben509 7y ago
Even though I disagree with it, I think it was still a valuable point. And everyone should deliver a litany about ducks at some point in their life.
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The issue is not consent or privacy, it's promises. An API is an "application programmatic interface" and the idea of an interface is that it's making a promise or some kind of contract. Every precocious teenager thinks
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The biggest problem of any moderation system is a majority downvoting things they don't like into oblivion. You get a majority with a high reputation taking control of your site. We complain about cancel culture, but it's nothing
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by ben509 7y ago
I suspect it was read as an argument because you wrote a few opinions in the form of a response, e.g. "And no I'm not using a OS where..."
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by ben509 7y ago
TBH, I haven't written any real games, and the simulation work I do is in finance, so if we have an account, it's really just an account. But securities and accounts and such are all well-defined abstractions that lend themselves
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I think my broader criticism of this complaint is that they aren't considering the pre-requisite mastery problem. > Here’s an example that I think would be better to use instead: the `Visible` hierarchy in [Pygmusic][], which is a k
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> You can’t add code to ducks. > You can’t refactor ducks. > Ducks don’t implement protocols. > You can’t create a new species in order to separate some concerns (e.g. file I/O and word splitting). It's odd he makes th
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by ben509 7y ago
The string manipulation he's doing is already pretty gory, though I think COBOL has better facilities that he's not taking advantage of.
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by ben509 7y ago
I've been bouncing this idea around in my head... my notion is you need to design social media* to be heavily distributed over many small sites, with a common fabric, a meta-media, connecting them. So small sites will still fail, in fa
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Simpler: in the Army, they solve that problem by yelling a lot. It works surprisingly well.
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He's responding to material accusations; "they claim that his social behavior has prevented more people from joining." And if you're evaluating a spokesman, which is a role Stallman has to fill, being unusually awkward i
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Was it a mistake, though? Languages have to be accessible to their audience, and Javascript caught on because of its relatively gentle learning curve. If SchemeScript hadn't caught on, it might have been that VBScript took over the web
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There's nothing wrong with juvenile jokes; we can be adults without being prudes. The only issue with D is the well runs dry pretty quick.
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by ben509 7y ago
If you're going to ask a language designer questions, how about these[1] or these[2]? [1]: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/language-design?t... [2]: https://cs.stackexchange.com/que
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And then use a library like json-syntax[1] to translate those into JSON. [1]: https://pypi.org/project/json-syntax/
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> You still, in 2019, cannot even move a window/app on the desktop in vanilla macOS using your keyboard? > That, to me, is crazy. How can a company with the resources of Apple not implement this basic feature? That's one sol
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Women basically asked for the right to vote, and got it.
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You're being bit by the reality that you paid for a software license, so you don't actually own anything. If you had the source, recompiling it would not be trivial, but it'd be doable. The FSF has a point here.
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That's exactly what I was imagining. You can tell it's a nicely designed base class because the dunders are all tucked away so the only thing left is actual logic.
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Most of these are pretty dumb, but there are some inadvertently good points.[5] > The philosophy of "one correct way to do things." I miss those days. T_T > A huge ecosystem of good third-party libraries. Python also has a h
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It's the histrionic piety that's the problem, not the particulars of the facts. It's in the context of watching parents killing themselves to prove to other parents how their children are their sole focus in life, and that an
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If everyone has to benefit, this seems to define philanthropy to be an impossible feat. I suspect you're thinking of some celebrities or causes you agree with and assuming their motives must be pure because they agree with your interes
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One thing I'm not following is a few remarks that they don't do usability testing because it is subjective and thus a lawsuit magnet. We're talking about universities that, as part of their mission, have psychology department
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> More importantly, we wouldn't think of buying anything for a baby that has little magnets sewn into cloth. This attitude is insane and why so many people refuse to have kids.
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Why does it matter if their motives are pure? You don't need a moral justification to do a thing that helps other people and is entirely at your personal expense.
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You're looking at a single number, his income tax rate. This is why high tax proponents are never satisfied: we can raise all kinds of rates, but there's always some tax that a "rich" (which is never well defined) person
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It shouldn't be personal identifiable information. But PII asks what that information is , not what it should be. Given that people reuse passwords or put things like DOB in their passwords, a conservative classification should trea
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There's solid evidence he was fired.
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> It was obviously wrong to be the creepy sexist. It's not obvious as we haven't heard his side of the story.
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by ben509 7y ago
Pike was piqued, too.

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