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by chao- 14y ago
I agree the problem is in the definition of the phrase. But taking it a step further, it may be that this is not an apt comparison to begin with. "Moore's Law for Software" It sounds witty and fantastic, and I had this tingly "Ooh, aah, int
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by chao- 14y ago
That's the biggest draw that I currently see. I would love to reference other features that SASS and LESS still bring to the table, but the idea of JavaScript fiddling with CSS variables is mouth-watering indeed.
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by chao- 14y ago
Oh definitely. I just mean to express that I'm not as excited as I otherwise would be. I'm not fortunate enough to be working on the types of projects where that can say to our market "You can take your IE7 and hit the road!" Thus while I w
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by chao- 14y ago
I would welcome this if I hadn't finally just gotten on board the SASS train. All I see this doing (for some ill-defined span known as "the present"), is adding another layer of headache into the browser compatibility game. Furthermore, I a
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by chao- 14y ago
Another heavy hitter: famousfourmedia.com, who are responsible for the majority of the "dot [tld string] Limited" filings. They seem (I suppose "claim" is more accurate) to be registering on behalf of many companies, but from my rough count
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by chao- 14y ago
As a Linux desktop user, I want to agree with you. As a Linux desktop user, I'm not sure that I can.
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by chao- 14y ago
The gist that I'm getting from a few places seems to be: Have separate hosts/service providers, and do the load balancing yourself, or make switch yourself, when one fails. I've yet to find many detailed examples, though, as most similar ar
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by chao- 14y ago
As someone who was inconvenienced by the outage, and with no mitigation strategy in place, I DON'T blame Heroku. The weight is placed squarely on me (lone tech in our company) for not having researched how to distribute services alongside H
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by chao- 14y ago
I am intrigued. Do you have any quick links on hand, or pointers on how one would go about learning how to set up something like this? Or just learning about how to distribute services in general? That is to say, I know my way around Linux,
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by chao- 14y ago
Agreed. We are finally scaling from "small scale production" to having actual customers we want to take care of. Worse, we began a huge marketing push this week and had been seeing promising results. Now we'll probably miss a boatload of po
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by chao- 14y ago
Echoing others' sentiments in this thread: I don't see the link between video games and the man's death being all that strong here. I can understand if sharing details of his health isn't something meant for the internet, though, and I am s
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by chao- 14y ago
Agreed. Not a single person in my company (a whole five people) owns a Mac, and it leaves us with no real options on the compatibility front. I prefer to develop in Linux, but I have a Windows partition since it's easy enough to do. But non
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by chao- 15y ago
Though I don't presume to have read his mind, I feel like sirrocco is falling prey to a line of thought that I often do with regards to law. As a programmer, I often want to build some sort of deterministic decision tree regarding matters.
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by chao- 15y ago
...case law has equal weight in the US. That is what I meant to express, and I stand corrected on the details.
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by chao- 15y ago
Except when they save you money? As in the famous "Fuck you. Pay me." video: http://vimeo.com/22053820 I think it's more nuanced than simply "Lawyers are bad!" The cost of litigation, even when you are likely to win, is so high that it en
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by chao- 15y ago
Not to nitpick, because I agree, but I think it's a more accurate to say "litigation doesn't work like that" or "lawyers don't work like that". I was under the impression that it's less a specific law which spells out the liability, but rat
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by chao- 15y ago
With regards to that last bit, my first thought is that Valve could set up some guidelines, such that they will only distribute Linux versions of games that require a non-frustrating set of technologies for the sake of user experience. I wi
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by chao- 15y ago
Having learned Mandarin and Japanese as a second and third language, respectively, I've been sharing this as an opinion for years, with some examples and anecdotal evidence to back it up. My core observations have been thus: Mandarin, while
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by chao- 15y ago
Definitely going to follow this. I get a pretty steady stream of business guys who come to me wanting to be, in the words of one, 'less useless' on their projects. I try to provide them with some ways to get started and help them set some r
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by chao- 15y ago
I don't know about "feels", unless he has some serious synesthesia issues, but it's far from unheard of to be able to see it. Speaking from personal experience, I have two data points to contribute. I have been able to see a flicker quite c
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by chao- 15y ago
In what manner? I can't say I have an opinion about the way DC lighting looks, but if it made for easier work with the solar power of an already custom-beyond-reason job, why not?
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by chao- 15y ago
This seems like a freewheeling legal department trying to do its job, however poorly, with less-than-optimal oversight or communication with PR. That said I'm purely taking a stab in the dark without more details from the documents you were
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by chao- 15y ago
I am still wondering if throwing him a few pointers might have been the better move... I will agree up front that if the wording explicitly said it was a solo deal, then at minimum you made a safe choice/morally defensible choice, and you
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by chao- 15y ago
Completely agree, and it worries me. But at the same time, if I don't have more refined user education, or if we don't add feature X that customer Y wants to pay big money for, we don't survive long enough for me to one day fix our security
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by chao- 15y ago
I am not planning on being interviewed for a new job any time soon. Despite that, when the whole "Facebook disclosure during interview/hire" topic broke, I began preparing my short list of ways to act indignant/offended or to lay on some th
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by chao- 15y ago
I'm with you on the "attract traffic" point, and if the goal was actually trying to push Solaris as a desktop experience, I'm equally confused. More likely is that someone (or several someones) put a good bit of thought and time into this n
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by chao- 15y ago
I chuckled when the point dawned on me, albeit a bit later than it should have. But the comparison breaks down when you consider the different ways Desktop OSes and Mobile OSes handle the relationship between display resolution and applicat
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by chao- 15y ago
What really has my interest is not the TSA's request/threat. That part is unsurprising. Instead, my mind ran through a few ideas about what a news story on this topic would entail. From the last time I bothered to watch CNN, I recall they'v
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by chao- 15y ago
Poorly implemented solutions are security theatre at its best. Well, almost. They're second best to "The wrong solution for the problem" approaches. Take the school in Texas this week where one kid shot another [1]. The school's solution is
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by chao- 15y ago
While I entirely agree with the thrust of the article, including that his criticism is all-the-more necessary given that poll was of industry professionals, this really points out the weakness in moment-to-moment opinion polls more than any

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