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by billybob 15y ago
Whether they'll do it isn't the point. If a patent is, by its nature, meant to restrict user and citizen freedom, why have it? If your neighbor collects guns, that may be no cause for alarm; hunting is a legitimate activity. But if your nei
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by billybob 15y ago
One comment I found interesting: "And I didn’t check the source [of OpenBSD] for trojans or backdoors. Do I trust Theo DeRaadt that much? Not particularly, though I have nothing against him. Do I trust “the community”? No. Mostly I just did
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"In other words, if you work hard and fail, there's the presumption that you're innately not very talented. If you don't work hard and fail, you can credibly preserve the belief or illusion that had you only put forth 100% effort, it would
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How do you assess someone's Github profile?(programmers.stackexchange.com)
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by billybob 15y ago
Neither Crockford nor Sullivan is a role model for me, and I'm not following blindly. I'm merely observing that Sullivan successfully refactored the CSS on Facebook and got them onto a better development path. That's pretty hard. I'm not go
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by billybob 15y ago
...neither of which is really the point. Even if they both gave you free hardware, you've got to learn their technology stack just to try it out. Unlike, say, web development, where a few seconds of text editing gives you a "hello world" th
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With qualifications, I assume? Mexican druglords could certainly afford to buy citizenship.
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by billybob 15y ago
I know some of the things that SASS gets you, but I'm curious: how DRY and light is your generated CSS? Anecdotally, the designer where I work uses SASS, but in our last iteration of our web app, his compiled stylesheet was something like 1
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by billybob 15y ago
"the id thing is just bs." By no means am I a CSS expert, but I'd hesitate to call someone's ideas "bs" if that person has the kind of experience Sullivan has. I may not like all of Douglas Crockford's suggestions in JSLint, but you know wh
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Of course, the absolute extreme of reusable classes would be if each class applied exactly one CSS rule. Then you could mix and match them in any possible way, at the cost of having 18 classes per element. But no one would do that. You don'
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by billybob 15y ago
Hmmm. How successful does the mom and pop have to be before you feel no obligation to tell them?
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I agree with you about planning, but "test driven development" isn't haphazard; it's not just clicking around to see what happens. It's a way of formally specifying your design that simultaneously confirms that your code does what it should
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by billybob 15y ago
When the person in picture #3 makes that sign, it is described as the "victory sign." I imagine that's what the guy holding the rockets meant, too.
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by billybob 15y ago
I understand your sentiment, but imagine the process of choosing a very risky treatment. You sign a form saying "For reals, I know this may kill me, but I'm not going to sue you unless you do something crazy like jam a fork in my head durin
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by billybob 15y ago
I started programming in web development about 4 years ago: first HTML and CSS, then adding Javascript and AJAX, then PHP, then Ruby and Rails. In the process I learned a fair amount about MySQL and I can do the most basic Unix server admin
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by billybob 15y ago
"Denzel Washington and Leonardo DiCaprio are fine actors, but you don't need an actor of their caliber or pay to make a decent movie." Paying millions for DiCaprio isn't necessarily because of acting talent at this point. It's because of na
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by billybob 15y ago
-1 for the rude and condescending tone.
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by billybob 15y ago
Using the state_machine gem in one of our Rails apps, which tracks a workflow where items can be received, entered, reviewed, rejected, etc, helped me think through the business process and map that to our code. We also logged all the chang
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by billybob 15y ago
"Say you you could make infinite cheap copies of a car or a TV, would anyone make a better one?" There's a flip side: if you could make infinite cheap copies of industrial robots, how many more people would start making cars? Creative outpu
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by billybob 15y ago
This is funny, and therefore probably powerful. If it gets enough attention, it may actually pressure Sony to step up their security company-wide.
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by billybob 15y ago
Since Gmail records the IP of anyone accessing, if you're really paranoid, there could be a setting that lets you specify what IPs you will access it from. That would be really inconvenient if you wanted to check it from elsewhere...
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by billybob 15y ago
There are more than 6000 lines of CSS behind this, but only the first 500 or so are actual CSS; the rest appears to be images encoded into text. At any rate, this is very impressive and interesting. I would have sworn it was a Flash game if
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by billybob 15y ago
Yes. Welcome to web development. :) Snarkiness aside, I feel the pain behind your complaint. That's one reason I think CSS can be harder than actual programming: you have all these unknowns and contingencies to manage.
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by billybob 15y ago
I'm not trying to force you to believe anything. I'm merely observing that meaning exists in minds. If you believe that all minds will cease to exist, you must believe that all meaning will cease to exist. I'm just asking for consistency.
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by billybob 15y ago
"Needs" to be appreciated why? If appreciation is merely brain chemistry, it's no different from hunger or hate, none of which have any moral value at all, because there is none to be had. Murder and charity and the blowing of the wind: all
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by billybob 15y ago
"There's a board, there's rules, and it plays. However ask any serious player about the game, and you'll discover very quickly that there is far more to the game then just the board and how the pieces move." If by "far more", you mean "foll
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by billybob 15y ago
"We are the leaders of this new religion. We have faith that people connected can create a new world. Each one of us is a creator but together we are The Creator." It all sounds lovely until the universe turns into a cold, dead cinder. Seri
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by billybob 15y ago
I have a unique, random password for nearly every account I have (with a few throwaway exceptions). I store them all in a file, encrypted with a master password, and sync that file to all my machines using Dropbox. I open and modify the fil
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by billybob 15y ago
Your comment wins for entertainment value. :)
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"I spoke a few years back to a fax manufacturer who said the same thing about email"... Yeah, the funny thing is, SMS came along after email, and is both worse and more expensive.

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