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by cdent 11y ago
Disagree. The one UK speeding ticket I have was for being over 30mph in a 30 zone. The limit is set to 30 in those zones because of Science™ about braking distance and impact with human bodies that appear suddenly. If I'm being careles
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by cdent 11y ago
> People demand that "something must be done" while being vague about what that involves and who might suffer. Yeah, excellent point. The British need for someone, anyone, to blame and be punished for everything ever is worthy
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by cdent 11y ago
Uh... No sir, not me, not these days. When I was younger, and in the US, and frequently traveling between states I did manage to rack up a significant number of speeding tickets. There were all, to use a UK term, a fair cop: I was speeding
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by cdent 11y ago
Yeah, agreed. Having spent half my life in one and half in the other it is very interesting to compare the different ways in which attitudes to privacy and personal integrity are violated. In the UK it is normal for everything to be surveil
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by cdent 12y ago
The networking situation has improved in Juno and Kilo, but yeah: One often gets the impression with OpenStack that there's so much attention being paid to new stuff that none of the existing stuff (even recently new) is ever brought t
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by cdent 12y ago
Clearly the solution is to not call people. Synchronous communication sucks. I do like the time shifting to maximize daylight in the high latitudes.
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by cdent 12y ago
HTTP2 is yet another in a long series of developments that feel like the corporate takeover of the commons. Sure there are plenty of excellent features in it but they are primarily of benefit to systems doing huge (on lots of dimensions) st
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by cdent 12y ago
That's a future that sounds horrible to me. It's injecting yet another layer of uncertainty into the process of acquiring goods. I already feel like I'm being ripped off all the time. With this model unless I do the hard work
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by cdent 12y ago
So you think some "we" can be clever enough to manage economics but some "we" (perhaps same, perhaps different) can't be clever enough to manage cancer. Bummer.
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by cdent 12y ago
Capitalism is cancer.
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by cdent 13y ago
When someone makes a phone that separates the screen, input and processing into three physically different pieces (different in shape, volume, mass) that are connected by a micro local network I will buy it in a heartbeat. All modern smartp
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by cdent 13y ago
Isn't the result of this class of solutions a service on the web that can _only_ (easily) be accessed by the client code that was specifically written to use that service (by virtue of being built out of the same lump)? Doesn't th
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by cdent 13y ago
Setting aside the larger issues I find it's curious that Dave doesn't even take a moment to consider that perhaps "Roy" just didn't like working in the style that Dave demanded. Some people do need to think a lot be
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by cdent 13y ago
They may have been, but then they put lead in everything. Since then everyone has been dumb.
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by cdent 14y ago
I have to say I disagree with the author's value assertion. It may true that people do treat computer interfaces in a social way, but whether this is useful (for many difference definitions of useful) is clearly open to debate. I wrote a pa
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Thoughts on Ember.js(bengillies.tiddlyspace.com)
3 points by cdent 14y ago|1 comments
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by cdent 14y ago
Is it churlish of me to respond with a simple "bollocks!" here? A great deal of people care how it is done.
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by cdent 14y ago
I _hate_ web apps/sites/services created with GWT. They result in a) overcomplicated UIs b) assets which are completely opaque. Which runs contrary to the promise of the web: simple stuff that anyone can learn from. I realize this is an old
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by cdent 14y ago
> 1) Everyone knows how to use email. Most employees don't want yet another way to communicate. This simply isn't true. Most people don't know how to use email, which is why these stupid memes of "everyone hates email" and "email must b
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by cdent 14y ago
His message was a nice warning for us all to work harder to keep the web a thing for people, all people, not corporations.
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by cdent 14y ago
This really shouldn't be news. The complaint seems to be that XML is no good for anything that isn't document/text heavy (i.e. doesn't fit in with the intent of SGML). If you weren't already thinking this in 2002 then you probably weren't p
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by cdent 15y ago
Try this: http://maddox.xmission.com/
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by cdent 15y ago
I tweeted this earlier: https://twitter.com/#!/anticdent/status/159221189393383424 'Saying "If blacking out your website, return status code 503 to avoid an SEO hit" == "Bring the caviar when you come to the protest camp"' If you're not w
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by cdent 15y ago
Yeah, it's free. As you can probably tell, the copy and initial experience needs a lot of work. Maybe a show HN thing would be something to do?