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by benihana 13y ago
Please, the EU is made up of individual countries with individual languages with individual histories and cultures. Comparing it to the US is ridiculous.
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by benihana 13y ago
I currently live in NYC, and I've lived in Raleigh. It seems pretty clear that tearing up New York City to lay fiber is a much more expensive and tedious process than it would be in Raleigh. The state and local governments also seem mu
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by benihana 13y ago
That person made some good points about Bioshock, but their self-important ramblings about video game reviewers got old really quick.
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by benihana 13y ago
> my local municipality has a binding, perpetual contract with Comcast. That doesn't feel very free or open. Think about those sentences compared to your second sentence. > So glad that deregulation works to open the free market
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by benihana 13y ago
Why is iOS better than Android? Why is Linux better than OS X? Why is BMW better than Mercedes? Why are Pink Lady apples better than Granny Smith apples? Why is being an omnivore better than being a vegetarian? The way you answer
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by benihana 13y ago
Sounds like Samsung made the exact right move then. They let google eat all the cost of launching and maintaing the OS, and they just sell hardware. They're the only company other than Apple making money off smartphones, so while it&#x
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by benihana 13y ago
Please, that's the easiest gold badge to get and probably not a good indicator of anything. For a user interested in badges, this is the easiest way to get a gold without having interesting content.
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by benihana 13y ago
tl;dr: "If the world doesn't operate at what I deem to be just the right level of openness, we're all doomed."
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by benihana 13y ago
The latest in a string of things people who don't handle change well are saying is killing the game industry.
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by benihana 13y ago
I wish I would have known this in high school and college. I was convinced I sucked at math because I did poorly on math tests. It wasn't until I started programming that I realized I was good at math; I was just bad at the chickensh
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by benihana 13y ago
>It's build in already. Just unsubscribe from shitty subreddits and subscribe to quality ones. This doesn't work on r/all, which is a great place to find new content you haven't discovered yet.
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by benihana 13y ago
Okay, how about backing that up. What point is OP missing?
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by benihana 13y ago
> It's also functional so now LISP hackers can pretend they're both JavaScript Oakland Living Node.js gangsters and high class San Franciscans with their functionality snobbery. Oh Zed. Don't ever change, our industry nee
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by benihana 13y ago
>People see software projects like this, and they develop impressions that software programmers are not professional. Who other than programmers do you think is going to see the readme?
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by benihana 13y ago
Great production values and music and a really cool video. But I have no idea what the gameplay of your game is. It looked more like a really cool music video than a game trailer. I'm just a little confused about what it is. But everyt
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by benihana 13y ago
I have a hard time taking these kinds of articles seriously, because the main premise seems to be "you should feel some sort of moral guilt because you're not solving problems that are important to the author."
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by benihana 13y ago
Sigh. Hacker News top comment. It's not "wow this is great!" or "nice work, great illustrations, I'll show this to my students!" It's "I'm so irritated that I already knew what you just told me a
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by benihana 13y ago
Ha ha ha! Because he doesn't look different enough! Get it? Cause he's basically a white guy with darker colored skin, get it? Because being born in a different country and moving here basically makes you white, get it?
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by benihana 13y ago
Anytime someone says CSS is well designed, ask them how to vertically center something and look at their face as they go through the five stages of grief. I'm pretty good at CSS I suppose, and it's not something you can learn logi
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by benihana 13y ago
This is also possible with jQuery's proxy function if you can't target only modern browsers. http://api.jquery.com/jquery.proxy/
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by benihana 13y ago
Ugh. "I'm going to fixate on this one word, get completely pedantic about the semantics of the word and use it as the basis of my argument." If I were this guy and I was looking for a job, I'd be less worried about not h
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by benihana 13y ago
Not a C guy. Why are these functions unsafe?
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by benihana 13y ago
> Singletons are always a lazy solution to the problem The fact that you said x is always y in programming is troubling. Sure singletons are usually a lazy solution, but saying there isn't a single case EVER where a single is t
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by benihana 13y ago
What happened to California? It used to be the center of counter culture, now it's biggest symbol of The Man around. It's a big terrified nanny state where everyone in charge seems to be too scared to let anyone do anything cause
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by benihana 13y ago
>Android will acquire a monopoly share in smart TV, exactly like it did in smart phones and tablets. what.
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by benihana 13y ago
>Or you can keep aiming for 6-figure salaries with a sports car. And a bottle of anti-depressants. I was with you until you brought out this incredibly smug false dichotomy, and this presumption with the anti-depressants. Up until this s
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by benihana 13y ago
Oh cute. Condescension and sexism. The only thing this comment is missing is the classic HN trope "I almost built this, but didn't, but I'm just as accomplished as the person who did cause I almost did this."
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by benihana 13y ago
I think people are much less interested in owning the content than they are in having their content promoted. The end goal seems to be internet fame, not having a huge archive of content. When viewed in that light, it makes more sense why p
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by benihana 13y ago
It's funny. Every year, since 2007 I've heard this argument, that the market isn't big enough and every year: record growth and profits. No but seriously. This year is the year that Apple's iPhone success catches up to t
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by benihana 13y ago
I think about my friends from high school and college who are struggling to find meaningful work when I read things like this. I try to imagine what it be like from their point and it comes off like an entitled prima donna is complaining ab

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