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by benaiah 13y ago
HN has murdered the server, cache here: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http%3A...
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by benaiah 13y ago
Thanks a lot for mentioning this - I was about to have to dive into setting up a build for an Angular app I'm working on (which I need to learn eventually, just not right now) so that project really helps.
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by benaiah 13y ago
Then you might like Office Publisher. But this seems like an entirely different use case. In this case, writing/editing/collaborating is the primary purpose, and formatting and style is only there for those purposes. This is not a
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by benaiah 13y ago
Thanks for the clarification - that does sound more nuanced than what I gathered originally. It actually sounds like a quite interesting way to do discussion - I'd love to hear more, if you've fleshed it out any further.
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by benaiah 13y ago
Forgive me if I'm missing the point, but it looks like it's just a complicated description of tagging, with commenting on the tags instead of the individual articles. That said, it could still be interesting. The problem is, unles
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by benaiah 13y ago
Could I have an invite? My email's in my profile.
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by benaiah 13y ago
Granted, but that's an incidental problem, not one arising from JS being a bad language. Also, I highly doubt there is much advertising code that changes the value of "undefined" - certainly not any I've encountered. Thi
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by benaiah 13y ago
Isn't this whole issue just a minor version of the problem Ruby has with monkeypatching? The fact that a Ruby guy can define `method_missing` to allow for bare strings shows how Ruby is cool (though you should never do that), but the f
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by benaiah 13y ago
It's not Flash - I have Flashblock, and there is a flash video on the page lower down, but the upper two are some HTML player. Right-clicking them doesn't show the Flash context menu items, which is another giveaway.
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by benaiah 13y ago
This could be really huge for me. I've tried using Google Calendar to get Google Now, but none of the todo apps I prefer sync with it, and Google Now isn't that useful on a Wifi-only tablet anyway. EDIT: Wow. This is the best-desi
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by benaiah 13y ago
Looks like it's not two different fonts, just that Neue Haas isn't recognized as a font name by OSX, so it falls back to the default font - a serif, in this case.
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by benaiah 13y ago
> (If not, you probably don’t care about fonts, so it will be Comic Sans.) So, you either have to have a Mac or spend >$1000 (the price of a full desktop license of Helvetica Neue) to care about fonts? Well, screw my burgeoning intere
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by benaiah 13y ago
Yeah - I do agree with your main point, it was just the malaria thing that bugged me. Saying that hackers can't be effective in the public sector, whether as hackers or jut as people, seems myopic to me, which we appear to agree on.
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by benaiah 13y ago
Malaria killed 660,000 people last year alone, with 219,000,000 cases. From the WHO 2012 Malaria Report: > Between 2000 and 2010, malaria mortality rates fell by 26% around the world. In the WHO African Region the decrease was 33%. Durin
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by benaiah 13y ago
That's fair. See my replies to your comment's siblings for a further explanation of how this isn't an ad hominem .
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by benaiah 13y ago
As I've mentioned in another comment I just posted (after your comment, that is), it's not an ad hominem regardless of whether the "poor grammar -> poor design" argument holds, because there is an argument present
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by benaiah 13y ago
Good point, and one I missed. Thanks for helping clear things up.
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by benaiah 13y ago
I may be assuming unfairly, but the than/then confusion referred to is a problem I have seen almost exclusively in native English speakers who try to spell phonetically. Non-native speakers have other problems, which I generally gloss
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by benaiah 13y ago
"reading" doesn't necessarily have to be done by a human. As PRISM has shown, the government has capabilities we weren't aware (or at least sure) of. Would it be that ridiculous that they would have algorithmic scrapers
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by benaiah 13y ago
It's not deceptive - he never indicated that the correspondence was seized, illegally or surreptitiously snooped on, or even that it was electronic until the message where he clarified it was a printed email. Until then, it could have
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by benaiah 13y ago
Interesting - the animation for the unlocking is somewhat similar to the animation when swiping between pages in the app list on Android Jellybean (I'm not criticizing the copying, just noting the similarity). Given the focus on layers
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by benaiah 13y ago
It's actually not an ad hominem . A firm grasp of language, grammar, and communication is actually recognized, albeit informally, to be a good signal of technical skill and design effectiveness. If he can't refine his linguistic
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by benaiah 13y ago
Interesting. Do many people really use LinkedIn as a central online identity, like many use FB or Twitter? It's always seemed to me to be more of something to show employers than something used as an identity or social presence.
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by benaiah 13y ago
Aaron Swartz's death ended up taking over the entire front page at one point. There was an image showing that at the time, but I can't recall where it was off the top of my head.
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by benaiah 13y ago
I'm almost entirely certain DanBC was being sarcastic. Hence the second paragraph of his comment, which makes no sense whatsoever if he was telling it straight.
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by benaiah 13y ago
As someone who actually lives up in Alaska, I think you guys may be romanticizing it just a tad. Sure, it's adventurous and everything, but do you really want to live somewhere where you have multiple feet of snow nine months out of the yea
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by benaiah 13y ago
Again, I am in favor of government, just not its economic interference. Reducing its economic interference actually reduces the motivation for corruption and bribery (not that I think that's enough). Bribery and corruption should still have
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by benaiah 13y ago
I don't mean to imply I have the perfect system (though it obviously doesn't contain any errors I'm aware of), but rather that advocating a free market does not imply what he says it implies. Advocating a free market does not imply endorsin
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by benaiah 13y ago
Don't confuse free market advocacy with anarchy. Buying up judges, bribing other officials, and other fraudulent transactions, including stuff like misrepresentation of goods and other deceptive business practices, are not necessarily okay
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But the concept is still useful in other scenarios - it isn't limited to cars just because that's where it's shown. Also, a HUD for driving would be pretty sweet, especially for the driver.

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