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by bengillies 13y ago
I fail to see what Mitt Romney has to do with this. Care to explain what exactly you're proposing?
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by bengillies 13y ago
It's perfectly reasonable to enjoy most of the things about a country and still find issues with it. It's also perfectly reasonable to question and complain about stuff when you think it's wrong. Not doing that, putting your
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by bengillies 13y ago
Just because you aren't a fan of various BBC programmes, doesn't mean that other people aren't either. Many people in the UK really enjoy all the period drama stuff that they show. That the US market also enjoys it is an adde
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by bengillies 13y ago
> Lifting barbells allows you to control the weight much more than climbing or punching things. Ok so that makes a lot more sense. Thanks for the explanation. > Barbells also allow you to start with smaller weights at the beginning of
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by bengillies 13y ago
Ok, well that makes sense, but I suppose what I'm really asking (I already kind of assumed that training with barbells was good for you) is what's wrong with every other form of exercise? To take two examples (these two because I
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by bengillies 13y ago
I'm not sure I understand the whole "The only exercise people should be doing is strength training" meme that seems to be going around at the moment. Can someone with more knowledge explain it to me? It seems (to me at least)
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by bengillies 13y ago
On the other hand, demonstrating evidence for being able to rapidly prototype systems without getting hung up on too fine detail also indicates an ability to rapidly prototype systems without getting hung up on too fine detail. And it does
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by bengillies 13y ago
It's the really small things that annoy me about Firefox. For example, in gmail, when writing an email, I can't hit cmd+right arrow to go to the end of a line. And because links are set to open in a new window, I can't cmd+cl
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by bengillies 13y ago
And yet the iPad _is_ going head to head with laptops and seems to be destroying them, despite their obvious differences. You're right: a watch != a HUD. However, in the current iteration, people would be using a watch for pretty much
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by bengillies 13y ago
> Why not? Because, while it's a perfectly valid argument to make, technically winning an argument is different to actually winning an argument. If most people don't know what a logical fallacy is, then you may as well be referring to t
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by bengillies 13y ago
Reeder isn't a full replacement, but they have confirmed they'll be using Feedly as a backend http://techcrunch.com/2013/06/03/reeder-greader-other-popula...
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by bengillies 13y ago
Pretty sure that nowhere in the definition of social does it enforce the need to meet or otherwise speak to people that you didn't previously know. Please don't confuse "social" as a general term with "social discovery". For many people, ha
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by bengillies 13y ago
> Edit: And this is downvoted for calling out the fact that people on HN can't discuss a freakin' database without hurling insults. The original comment you're replying to aside, it was likely because stating that you dismissed the enti
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by bengillies 13y ago
It wouldn't be "pretty awesome". It would be almost entirely unusable. At the moment, Photoshop is difficult to use, but has thousands of features (I have no idea exactly how many) that presumably professionals make use of, at least to some
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by bengillies 13y ago
This echoes my experiences about a year ago almost exactly (although I was looking in London). The obscure programming problems are largely a waste of time, but fairly non-threatening and generally ok (there were a few companies that did gr
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by bengillies 13y ago
What does paying taxes and drinking lattes have to do with building a website? Yes you pay taxes to the government, and yes they're in the process of updating their websites (and largely doing a fantastic job of it), but your taxes don't en
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by bengillies 13y ago
Sure but reading a code dump of a (potentially) complex algorithm is far from the best introduction to a subject. Especially given no other context whatsoever.
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by bengillies 13y ago
I don't think the issue is that it's unimpressive if you're familiar with the domain. The issue is that, for what's actually been linked to, it's little more than a video showing some pretty interaction. For a HN crowd interested in learnin
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by bengillies 13y ago
Is that even possible though? i.e. is there a party that has pledged to change the tax law to eliminate this sort of loophole?
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by bengillies 14y ago
> Is Ember worth learning? Let's see. You asked for an opinion. I gave you one (I'm in the middle of a large Ember project at the moment). I didn't expand on it as you appeared to have already made up your mind and written the whole thi
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by bengillies 14y ago
Ok: > Is Ember.js actually worth learning? Yes. > Will it make me a better programmer (like learning Haskell will)? That depends on whether you've learnt the concepts that Ember introduces before or not. If you're stuck in a Java sh
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by bengillies 14y ago
Indeed. Add to that the lack of camera access (among other things), and it leaves me wondering whether it's even possible to build something worthwhile. Especially given Google's own statements saying that pictures/video are the (current) m
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by bengillies 14y ago
Maybe they're excited because it means that more people can use their service (and won't have to suffer the terrible experience of Silverlight). Just a thought.
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by bengillies 14y ago
This is interesting, but tying a language to a particular (version of) a specific framework strikes me as a bad idea. If the aim is to bake in syntactic sugar for different constructs within Ember that are awkward in plain CoffeeScript (and
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by bengillies 14y ago
This link seems relevant here http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Cunninghams_Law
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by bengillies 14y ago
It's the extra functionality that makes it useful though. document.querySelectorAll doesn't even support event listeners or forEach loops. I wouldn't call that extra functionality, I'd call that a basic requirement. It lets you select eleme
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by bengillies 14y ago
It would be more accurate to say something along the lines of: "it's often possible to get the DOM to perform a lot faster than it currently is for you", or even: "speed probably isn't the biggest problem you'll face with the DOM; inconsist
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by bengillies 14y ago
To stay actually on topic for once, if these screenshots are anything to go by, Google Keep looks pretty bare bones and not really suitable as a replacement for anything bar the most simple use case (of course, a couple of screenshots does
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by bengillies 14y ago
Such things are hard to judge. I have a feeling that a lot of people (a lot more than usual anyway) have recently transferred their email from an @gmail.com address to a Google hosted custom domain.
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by bengillies 14y ago
The difficulty is not in migrating to a new service when the old one dies; it's in transferring all your old data across to the new one and updating all your other tools that reference it. With Reader, (apart from historical read/unread/sta

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