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by catach 5y ago
Karma is a lottery.
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by catach 5y ago
Being able to extrapolate to numbers that were not in the training set, perhaps? At least that'd be a basic part of the requirement.
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by catach 5y ago
Have to wonder if that agreement would have survived a competitive Google Plus.
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by catach 5y ago
I suspect what may be tripping people up in this kind of discussion is that financial class and social class can be distinct from each other.
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by catach 5y ago
If Apple-level support was a decisive factor for Android customers either they wouldn't be buying Android phones, or Google would have offered it long ago. It seems reasonable for Google to offer that level of support, certainly. But a
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by catach 5y ago
> but they do understand that an old iPhone seems to work better than an old Android that cost the same at release. I suspect that the majority of Android-using techies that notice this are either on a faster new phone cycle than 3 year
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by catach 5y ago
Is nerd-gatekeeping the same thing as nerd-shaming?
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by catach 5y ago
The difference being that for typewriters there were also answers to those questions.
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by catach 5y ago
My intuition is that hardware based startup failure rates are significantly higher, still.
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by catach 5y ago
> At a certain point there is no value to cleanliness if there isn't any increased productivity to show for it. "Productivity" isn't the only value that matters.
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by catach 5y ago
Classic scifi? C. J. Cherryh and Ursula K. Le Guin come to mind.
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by catach 5y ago
Fatal car crashes happen, so seat belts and airbags are not about safety, but about control.
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by catach 5y ago
I assume frustration levels for both come down to the soft skills used to run the process.
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by catach 6y ago
> he said it he only had it for 1 hr They didn't, though? They indicated that they had a similar experience of falling in love with it quickly. That says nothing about when that experience happened.
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by catach 6y ago
Correct, but the comment you responded to ended with "And the love lasts for a long time." This suggests experience far more than a single hour, does it not?
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by catach 6y ago
The assumption that real-world use had not been tried.
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by catach 6y ago
> People give Apple shit for their QA but I think most of them have not used Wintel in the last 10 years. I assume a significant amount of long-term Mac fans give Apple shit not because they're comparing to other ecosystems, but to
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by catach 6y ago
I can agree that system case sensitivity is the wrong choice for probably the vast majority of users, but at the same time it's the right choice for me.
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by catach 6y ago
Definitely not a good solution for the local tab data problem, but for: > since you need to bookmark each tab individually + name it + sort them If you're already using Tree Style Tab on Firefox, there's a `Bookmark this tree`
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by catach 6y ago
As someone who doesn't use Safari this just sounds like a secondary Bookmark list.
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by catach 6y ago
Have you tried out: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/copy-all-tabs... > Why, Why WHY can't we just have tabs:// ? I expect that the vast majority of users would be entirely u
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by catach 6y ago
The captive bit isn't entirely true, as the language has had Objective-C for competition. I suspect that instead of an enthusiasm gap the greater negative impact on FOSS libraries comes from the Apple-platform dev community being str
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by catach 6y ago
I believe the assumption is that IDEs are dramatically superior tools for debugging.
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by catach 6y ago
Flex [0] is the open source CLI compiler. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_Flex
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by catach 6y ago
Google and Pike get you in the door. Goroutines get you to sit down. The onboarding-oriented nature of the language and ecosystem convince you to sign.
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by catach 6y ago
To my mind, "poised" in this context is roughly synonymous with "ready". If the official position of the project is "don't use it yet" then it's not ready yet. The future implied is the completion of
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by catach 6y ago
Perhaps then, for the sake of setting those expectations, the wording "the language that may be most poised to achieve this in the future is Zig" would be preferred?
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by catach 6y ago
I don't know how else you'd answer the question when it's "both".
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by catach 6y ago
Yes, but not after April.
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by catach 6y ago
The key part, from an Amazon warehouse worker perspective, is that they're not extending the unlimited unpaid time off option. Huge loss in scheduling flexibility.

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