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by benaiah 13y ago
Just because I think words can have different meanings by no means implies that I think any meaning of any word is valid. So my correct, formally acceptable use of "he" implies nothing about my opinions on the slang, informal dero
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If I may be frank: you're completely missing the point. You're the one adding masculine connotations to a usage that is well-established, well-documented, and connotationless. When someone uses "he" that way, it isn&#
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by benaiah 13y ago
I don't think you're thinking this through. Using "he" as the neuter is not assuming the subject is masculine. It's reusing "he" for another purpose. It's one word with two meanings. It's fine
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So, the extent of your argument consists of telling me I'm wrong without even trying to back up that claim? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender-neutral_pronoun#Generic_...
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While this is true, and it's a great freedom that's not offered in many industries, it can lead to an unrealistic "I will build the perfect system from scratch in my parents' basement" effect. It's equally impo
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That makes sense, though in an ideal world there would be an abstracted header that said "hey, I'm not gonna render JS the way a regular browser will, so send me something prerendered". Then you could write something that wou
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by benaiah 13y ago
While "they" may be the more common usage (though I personally doubt it), it doesn't really matter: it's fine to use whatever you want, and there's no reason to call him on it when it's not actually sexist. I h
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Something similar to that, albeit slightly more elegant, is the work that AirBnB has done with their rendr [0] project, which serves prerendered content that's then rerendered with JS if it needs to be changed . You can do similar thi
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Not a technically different page, specifically different content . Serving different pages to Google is fine, as long as they contain the same primary content that the real pages do. That's the whole point - so you can serve prerender
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Hiding keyword spam behind JS doesn't make any sense in this situation - the whole point is that the JS isn't being served to Google. That's who keyword spammers are trying to fool, not actual humans.
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by benaiah 13y ago
This is a great point. It might seem extreme, but I would advocate never using the User-Agent string to make decisions about what to serve a client. There is too much hackery and history that clouds up the User-Agent (such as every browse
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by benaiah 13y ago
About your PS: using "he" and its associated pronouns as the neuter pronoun is a well-established and common occurrence. It's not being sexist, or non-gender-neutral, it's just a way to have neuter pronouns without awkwa
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For a site that large and well-visited, with almost entirely user-generated content, all of which are on technical problems many of which could involve illegal activity? I'd agree that that's very, very rarely.
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by benaiah 13y ago
Thanks for the response. I was half-expecting you were using localStorage, and I sympathize with your AppCache trouble. It's a pain when it does work, let alone when it doesn't. One other idea I had, which I'm not sure if y
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by benaiah 13y ago
Suggestions: - Autofocus the url bar, if this is possible. Make the search field the first tab field (it's currently the second). - Do a live fuzzy filtering of my webapps, not a submit-based search. This might work better if you had t
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Slight quibble: his JS example is a bit contrived. He gives the following: js> a = 5; 5 js> f = function(x) { return x+a }; function (x){return x+a} js> f(10) 15 js> a = 100 100 js> f(10
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http://anchorage.craigslist.org http://bootstrap.com (need to fix this one, it's because of frequent mistypings of getbootstrap.com) http://cracked.com http://docs.meteor.com http:/
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by benaiah 13y ago
If you want to compare languages A and B, have them write it in language C first for the domain knowledge, then the two languages. That seems like a better option than giving one a bias on purpose.
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God, you're whiny. If you want a conference without drinking, organize one without drinking. The vast majority of people clearly enjoy the drinking, and they're the ones that are organizing them. I live in Alaska, so I can't
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You're missing my point - I'm no genius, just a bit academically oriented. My brother is the complete opposite - yet he still is far above what the public schools are pushing out. My younger siblings seem to be turning out the sam
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by benaiah 13y ago
I think one of the most important takeaways from this article is that you can fix this problem, for your own family, now. Homeschooling is legal in all 50 US states and in a number of other countries [1] - Gray mentions it in the article as
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You don't want the correct answer on the client before the answer is submitted - it would be trivial to cheat by extracting the answer with a little bit of reverse engineering.
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Yes, but neither Twitter and Facebook are in the "social provider" business - they're in the ad business. This is why they've had so much friction with their 3rd-party developer ecosystem. Dalton wants App.net to be a so
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by benaiah 13y ago
First, thanks for being a quite reasonable commenter. The guilt by association essentially means it seemed were implying that because I espoused certain views also espoused by a certain political party (i.e., my comment about disliking gove
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You're right - the threat-of-death argument is not a primarily practical one, though I think it's far more practical than you give it credit. Al Capone didn't go to prison for tax evasion out of respect for the courts. But th
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Well, ignoring the meaningless guilt by association tactics ("fox-news-worthy neocon propaganda"), it's quite simple. I don't care about being "forward-thinking". I care deeply about freedom. I have relatively
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I'd disagree that "abusing people's addiction for financial gain" is equivalent to violence. It amounts to judging the psychological state of other people and making legal judgments based on that, which is something that
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Ultimately, all the rest of the threats have to be supported by the one at the bottom, which is death. Prisons can be overthrown by a rebellion, and the only way to stop a rebellion that won't negotiate is with deadly force. The reason
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I agree that obesity and lack of exercise are terrible things - the latter is something I struggle with. I agree that it's quite ironic that diabetes magazines are sold next to junk food. I agree that many people have screwed-up priori
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by benaiah 13y ago
Looks quite nice - I really like the new theme, as it allows you to go for a gradient look but appears much less intrusive than Bootstrap 2's theme, in addition to being optional. Better documentation is also a huge plus.

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