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by braythwayt 6y ago
"Ok, we want to know Raganwald's age. Point a laser at the mylar Happy Birthday balloons and let's listen in on the singing. Take notes! Are you one, are you two, are you three..." Um, chief? "Shhh! I'm listeni
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One thing that's not obvious to me from TFA is why an incandescent bulb is called out specifically. It seems to me that a hanging LED bulb would be just as vulnerable, as might a glass chandelier of sorts. I also wonder whether Christm
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You bring to mind memories of Sean “King” Kelly aggressively descending the Poggio, overcoming a 15 second deficit to win Milan Sanremo in 1992: https://www.eurosport.com/cycling/re-cycle-when-sean-kelly-s...
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The Urban Dictionary can be amusing, but it is hardly a citable source for anything.
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This talk of “SJWs” in connection with hiding the URL is nonsense. You’re arguing with yourself, not with progressives. Social justice work definitely includes accessibility. If hiding the URL was about making the web more accessible to the
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I am also using mermaid. Like Markdown, it has a ton of shortcomings. But just like Markdown, the big win is that it forces me to keep things simple. Markdown forces me to focus on just the words, not the layout and fancy formatting. Mermai
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Reddit Ireland turns off at midnight to stop racist trolls from the US(bbc.com)
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I ended up with a different tool, but I was uncomfortable using drawing apps for diagrams, and only rarely included them in my blog until I could use text to define them. I’m all-in on Markdown + Github for writing, so working with text-dri
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I was responding to the question of “professionalism” being somehow devoid of ethics, and therefore medical professionals should not take ethics into account when making decisions. I would interpret your remark as suggesting, “Professionali
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So then, if I am a “professional” software developer, and my employer asks me to put a secret back-door in some code to be shipped to consumers... I should say nothing, because I’m a “professional?” Or what if I’m doing renovations, and som
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I don’t think that ‘terseness” is “the problem with Perl,” any more than “Too many parentheses” is the problem with Lisp. APL is a terrific language that is terse. It might not be the right tool for a job where you are constantly recruiting
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That sounds like you’re saying that it’s a waste of time to ever try to change anything because, well, “history.” Feel free to disabuse me of my misconception if I misunderstand. But it sounds an awful lot like what some people say when you
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Exploring Regular Expressions II: Regular Languages and Finite-State Automata(raganwald.com)
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This continues from "Exploring Regular Expressions and Finite-State Recognizers, Part I:" https://raganwald.com/2019/09/21/regular-expressions.html HN Discussion: https://news.ycombinator
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This is all speculative, of course, so you are entitled to your beliefs based on your views and experience. In my case, I have often seen the case that companies have certain stable modes, and many unstable modes. It could easily be that af
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> Uber, for example, could probably lay off 80% of its engineering staff and turn profitable if it was truly necessary. A lot of people say these things, but: We don’t know if that’s true. If they turn off the hype and marketing juice an
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by braythwayt 6y ago
Raganwald here. SNOBOL4 was my first real programming language, thanks to a particular set of circumstances back in 1971 or thereabouts: The University of Toronto had a High-Speed Job Stream intended mostly for undergraduates to run program
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by braythwayt 6y ago
I have taken down this same argument you made elsewhere on this topic: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23345380 And I ask that in addition to your not arguing about something that didn’t happen and how you hypothesize
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by braythwayt 6y ago
Go wild: http://braythwayt.com http://raganwald.com
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Nobody is acting as a “sole arbiter of truth.” If you and I meet in a bar, and over some drinks I tell you that I’m the CEO of Uber, and the tavern owner leans in and say, “No he’s not,” how is that being the “sole arbiter of truth?” If I d
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Executive Order on Preventing Online Censorship(whitehouse.gov)
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“Folders” is a language where programs are encoded as hierarchies of folders(danieltemkin.com)
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Separate people, yes, and we should not blame the people sending out the tweets. But we can hold the organziation they belong to responsible. It's the same as if Apple shipped me an empty box instead of my iPad Pro. Of course I can&#x2
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A lot of comments are arguing about whether the software should have been modified to accept the HEIC format. Let's go with "no" for the sake of argument. They probably can't accept an mp3 of me singing my answers, eithe
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Not whataboutism, although I credit it may look that way if you tilt your head and squint. If someone says, “Trump is a criminal,’ and I say, “Yes, but what about her emails,” that’s the canonical whataboutism. I’m trying to justify Mr. Tru
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I certainly accept that every other first-world country claims to have these to one degree or another, and that for most of my lifetime, considered exceptions to these practices to be aberrations. To the degree that we are talking about asp
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Under no circumstances am I claiming that Japan has an acceptable justice system, or that it is no worse than the US. I do claim that using “the first world” as a standard of justice is a flawed argument. I think we can argue that Japan’s j
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It’s the presumption that there is some uniform high standard for justice in the first world that I object to. Economic development and justice are not synonymous, and the US is an excellent example of the fact that a country can be conside
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Hello, have you met the US Criminal Justice System? No, not that one. I mean the system used for the poor and/or coloured and/or from a "shithole country." The one that cages children and has decided that prisoners do no
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What would we call such a regulatory framework? How ‘bout an old-timey phrase, like “Taxi Legislation?”

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