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by chc 7y ago
That seems like an even more questionable tool for deciding what to read than a best-seller list. Those guys are renowned for starting tech companies that made lots of money, not for their outstanding taste in books.
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by chc 7y ago
That's a bit of a different thing. In that case, the problem was not a lack of understanding of how asbestos works (it's not like people got sick from excessive fire resistance). We just didn't consider that particles would b
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by chc 7y ago
In my experience scraping both, APIs have tended to be more stable than the structure of HTML pages. I'd guess this is because there's an incentive to keep your API stable (a breaking change for my scraper is also a breaking chang
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by chc 7y ago
Yes, PyPy is fantastic for long-running processes that aren't primarily wrappers around C code. In my experience, the speedups you see in its benchmarks translate to the real world very well.
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by chc 7y ago
The idea that str.format produced simpler or more readable code than f-strings is contrary to the experience of most Python users I know. Similarly, the contortions we have to go through in order to work around the lack of assignment expres
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by chc 7y ago
Concise and implicit are kind of different axes. For example, Python's "x += 1" is more concise than AppleScript's "set variable x to x + 1.", but the exact behavior of the statement is just as clear from readi
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by chc 7y ago
I don't see how allowing ergonomic features like try into the language would hamper this. For example, Rust also represents errors as return values — you know exactly where and how things could fail just by looking at the code for a fu
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by chc 7y ago
> You can't buy additional credits without outright changing your overall subscription plan. Not sure when the last time you used Audible was, but nowadays (or at least as of a few months ago) they offer to sell you more credits a
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by chc 7y ago
Yes, I was disagreeing with the thing I quoted. Given that saltminer was contrasting Tim's desire to "force everyone" to use his launcher with Valve's wishes for the world, I don't think it was uncharitable to rea
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by chc 7y ago
Even if everything you're saying here is 100% true, I don't see how it would support the accusation that Tim wants to force everyone to use his launcher, which is what I quoted and took issue with. Can you explain how the lack of
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by chc 7y ago
I think it's quite possibly the only way regardless of how your product compares to Steam. Steam has huge platform lock-in as well as other inherent advantages as an incumbent monopoly. Your platform can be better in every way and peop
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by chc 7y ago
> Given that Tim wants to force everyone to use his crappy launcher This is a pretty wild accusation to make with no lead-up or follow-through.
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by chc 7y ago
How is this not a generalized objection to any strike or boycott? That isn't the goal here, and historically, similar tactics have been effective.
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by chc 7y ago
I'm trying to figure this out: What, specifically, is the duty you think he betrayed? It's pretty obviously not the case that authors have a duty to anonymize everybody they write about — I've never even heard a serious argum
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by chc 7y ago
It sounds like Sayyid knew about the story and it doesn't sound like Sayyid is trying to maintain any sort of anonymity, so what is the ethical problem you see here?
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by chc 7y ago
It's easy to talk about "not preserving the option to behave badly" in the abstract, but actually doing it requires perfect foresight (predicting every way anything could be used for evil) and often a lot of implementation di
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by chc 7y ago
The idea that people asking for donations online are deservedly poor because they spend too much money on social media is probably the oddest thing I've heard all year.
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by chc 7y ago
This thread is about what behavior we should design crawlers to have. One person said crawlers should disregard noindex directives on government sites, and you replied that they should ignore all robots.txt directives and just crawl whateve
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by chc 7y ago
Because the rules a well-functioning society runs by are more nuanced than "Is it technically possible to do this?" If you'd like a specific example of why people might seek this courtesy, someone might have a page or group o
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by chc 7y ago
Possibly also getting downvoted by people old enough to remember but who don't consider repeating an ad slogan from 25 years ago to be valuable commentary.
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by chc 7y ago
I don't know if I'm just lucky, but I've always had good results just not presenting my compliance with the law as something I have a choice in. "Oh, gosh, I really want to sign this, but I need X to fulfill the legal re
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by chc 7y ago
AFAIK anything with bioavailable calories is quickly stored as fat if not used as energy. Is that not the case?
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by chc 7y ago
Pointing out that a press release on an organization's website is PR by that organization is simply not a useful comment. The only thing that comment added beyond pointing out the obvious was a way of phrasing it that implies that ALSA
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by chc 7y ago
I don't see how you figure. There is no default place for money to go when people pour a bucket of ice water over their heads. It's not like the ALSA was selling ice. The only way it raised money was by raising awareness.
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by chc 7y ago
What you're describing is a terrible user experience. The only people who would want that are people who don't need the education. The people who need the education don't want to spend money on software just for it to lecture
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by chc 7y ago
Most words have a history of use before their current use. Führer was just German for "leader," but it still has some very specific connotations nowadays. In this particular case, the word snowflake , when used in a context sim
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by chc 7y ago
The page itself is not the scam. It's a page showing tweets where somebody is scamming people on Twitter, pretending to be Elon Musk giving out ETH.
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by chc 7y ago
Your second sentence seems to contradict the "it doesn't have to feel weird" part of the first.
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by chc 7y ago
Various services like that have come about (for example, LaterPay). They just didn't catch on because, again, micropayments are not the hard part.
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by chc 7y ago
Batching small payments is not the hard part of creating a payment system that can support the entire Web. Harder parts include problems like UX (e.g. balancing the need to make a system people will want to use against the danger of users u

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