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by bobbyi 16y ago
That's not what ad hominem means. Ad hominem is when you disagree with an idea because of who supports it. For example, "gun control is a bad idea because Hitler believed in it".
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by bobbyi 16y ago
Salt is a preservative.
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by bobbyi 16y ago
Why should file uploading require a dedicated application? That has been a standard browser feature since at least Netscape 3.
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by bobbyi 16y ago
Desktop Safari and Chrome are also based on webkit but they still have names.
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by bobbyi 16y ago
Is the Android web browser really called "Android"? I thought it was Mobile Chrome, but I admit now that I look at it that the "Chrome" name doesn't appear in Android.
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by bobbyi 16y ago
> Like murderous humans or murderous rogue states, they tend to die quickly So the most prosperous human civilizations have tended to be peaceful? The states who colonized and expanded throughout the world were the least "murderous"?
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by bobbyi 16y ago
People who accidentally hit that button would not be happy.
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by bobbyi 16y ago
There's no need to store any of those things in your database in order to allow card transactions.
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by bobbyi 16y ago
taglist is the most popular vim plugin. It gives a sidebar with your tags (in the ctags sense): http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=273
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by bobbyi 16y ago
The theme I remember is people using the XBox 360 as proof that Japanese consumers will not buy hardware from an American company.
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by bobbyi 16y ago
That's what the market is. The market for cellphone applications may include the entire installed base of phones, but by definition the "smartphone market" means people buying and selling smartphones.
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by bobbyi 16y ago
If they weren't putting changes and policies in place to make the software more consistent and friendly, then wouldn't Ubuntu just be Debian unstable with a different logo and release schedule?
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by bobbyi 16y ago
> some clever applet-writer realized that you could change them and start intercepting all output and do all sorts of nasty stuff. Can someone explain how this worked? What does he mean by "intercepting all output"?
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by bobbyi 16y ago
Are you saying that you won't buy the phone because Gizmodo told you about it before Apple? If so, how do you justify that? If not, why does any of this matter?
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by bobbyi 16y ago
One of the reason there are so many iphone apps is that the people developing the apps themselves own iphones. If everyone making iphone apps can port their apps to android and test them on the phone they already have, then there will be mo
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by bobbyi 16y ago
> Do you remember any amazing JS apps from 2002? Yes, I remember Outlook Web Access providing a desktop-caliber mail client in the browser using ajax and javascript.
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by bobbyi 16y ago
I can't ever remember being "discouraged" from nursing or teaching. When does this happen? Did you have an experience in school where you were literally told that you shouldn't become a nurse or teacher?
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by bobbyi 17y ago
It's a convenience so that every iterable object in the world doesn't need to implement a join() method. I pass generator expressions to join as often as lists, so it works out well that the method is on the string rather than the list.
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by bobbyi 17y ago
So he should have said zero impressions per day since no apps currently use iAds.
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by bobbyi 17y ago
Mitigates? The fact that iTunes is going to load up ever time I plug in my ipod to charge it makes the software's bloatedness way worse.
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by bobbyi 17y ago
So their OS is the equivalent of Windows 2000? Is that really as terrible as the article implies?
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by bobbyi 17y ago
For python, the SQLAlchemy library provides excellent ways of programmatically building SQL queries rather than splicing strings together. It also offers an ORM, but that is an additional layer on top of the SQL stuff that you don't have to
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by bobbyi 17y ago
Increased shelf life doesn't just provide a cost saving for the manufacturer. It's a direct benefit to the end purchaser. People like that they can buy food in bulk and have it stay good for a long time.
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by bobbyi 17y ago
And then everyone who ever reads your code has to look up your versions of the utility methods to make sure they are implemented the way one expects.
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by bobbyi 17y ago
I tried for three seconds and realized I can't use a command line without tab-completion.
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by bobbyi 17y ago
Is visiting a svn repo via a web browser really supposed to do anything?
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by bobbyi 17y ago
If somebody actually pulls off a great MIT-style April Fool's hack, then a news story talking about it or an explanation of how they did it would be a great submission. But there's nothing hack-like about unfunny people trying their hand at
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by bobbyi 17y ago
I agree in general, but the internet April Fool's thing is beyond lame. It wasn't funny on slashdot in 2001 and it hasn't gotten better since.
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by bobbyi 17y ago
Because that's scary for users who have anxiety worrying they didn't input things correctly. If you tell them the phone number format and have a state dropdown, people rest easy knowing you will get their contact info correct.
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by bobbyi 17y ago
Don't most people on BSD also use GNU tar, coreutils, etc?

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