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by chipsy 13y ago
I've developed the opinion, based in large oart on Kay's thinking, that the biggest wins of OO are better represented as a form of protocol design. The point of impedance comes in when you discover that not all protocols map clean
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by chipsy 13y ago
When pronoun is unknown, "they" is the common choice. At queer conferences it is becoming the practice to include preferred pronouns on your name tag.
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by chipsy 13y ago
Sounds like Sutherland's Wheel of Reincarnation in action. All you have to do to predict the next generation of a technology is run further along the wheel.
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by chipsy 13y ago
I have to agree with the "Linus isn't perfect" assessment. What's got him this far is in the results - much of his abuse is accompanied with "this is bad for userland" and a specific indication of where the pat
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by chipsy 13y ago
The analogy I would have is with one's relationship to body image. If you are saying to others constantly, "am I pretty?" not only is their feedback never going to be satisfying, it's not accurate because you aren't
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by chipsy 13y ago
As far as I'm concerned, the strategy of a whistleblower is their own decision. Leak quietly and you may go quietly. Do it loudly and you may be martyred without political gain. There is no risk-free formula here.
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by chipsy 13y ago
The first sign that a comment is bad is that it is a judgment.
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by chipsy 13y ago
I haven't bought a desktop in many years now, but I refreshed my laptop this past month after four years of service. The story is a little bit different but also points to a change in what drives the market. The old one was a lower end
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by chipsy 13y ago
There is no specification for the computation of filter coefficients. Audio Nodes are subject to garbage collection delays. This effectively makes the API no-go for live performance situations. (I know you can't fix it either.) Paramet
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by chipsy 13y ago
After trying to implement it, I've grown frustrated by the Web Audio spec. It has a lot of nice features, but they're ultimately justified by JS being slow. The spec itself is not very tight considering how much it covers - for ex
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by chipsy 13y ago
I've oscillated back and forth between the different entity paradigms numerous times. In my most recent try I moved towards a design that is essentially an inversion of typical component strategy to put less emphasis on components as u
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by chipsy 13y ago
Basic income works against the interests of institutional lobbies. Businesses relying on cheap, disposable workers will find them in much shorter supply if nobody is desperate. Unions are also threatened because the right to collective barg
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by chipsy 13y ago
As a customer, the thing that is most pressing and problematic is only incidentially also a security issue - it's that I have too many accounts and I don't want to have to manage all of those accounts and set them up individually
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by chipsy 13y ago
Recently I've been fascinated by the concept of individuals having a "private cloud" service - a server that they own or rent, which has all the data that an individual could hope to have centralized, contains APIs and UI for
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by chipsy 13y ago
Differences in flavor and mouth feel of lettuce wraps vs. breads poses a problem for the chains that goes beyond the material costs. If you look at the ingredients of the typical hamburger bun sold at a supermarket, you'll notice that
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by chipsy 13y ago
The language in this is awfully disturbing.
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by chipsy 13y ago
There are companies doing "Android-on-a-USB-stick" too, which I personally believe is a more straightforward option than how Ouya did it - a big part of the "microconsole" concept is that things get deverticalized, so th
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by chipsy 13y ago
Needs a discussion on "efficiency." Transit can be profitable without being socially beneficial - simply cut out everything but the sure wins from your routes. The population of low-volume regions will be under-served, but your co
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by chipsy 13y ago
Find a very boring problem that you can automate into a product that needs minimal support. By "very boring" I mean: necessary for a certain line of business and not well addressed by current competitors and not inherently interes
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by chipsy 13y ago
I really like this concept. It would make a good counterpart to Haxe.
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by chipsy 13y ago
It's become kind of a nascent movement to start writing and using these systems for new application domains. Here's one for node.js: http://noflojs.org/
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by chipsy 13y ago
Seconding the emphasis on "Internet != Web" being more true for the 90's user. It wasn't until 1998 or so that the family computer transitioned from an dial-up shell account with 5mb disk quota (crl.com, which no longer
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by chipsy 13y ago
Character questioning is valid; however, although all parties here (Snowden, NSA, Booze-Allen, Internet cos.) could be dishonest, compared with the others, Snowden's motivation to lie is smaller, his risks for doing so are higher, and
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by chipsy 13y ago
I was an unmotivated math learner, who did not want to admit it. I essentially stopped at integral calculus(failed three times), although I did try a linear algebra course at the same time and had to drop it because the effort needed to com
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by chipsy 13y ago
Cyberbullying - it's not just for Facebook.
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by chipsy 13y ago
The asexual community has put a great deal of thought into how to define various kinds of attraction. For a starting place: http://www.asexuality.org/wiki/index.php?title=Lexicon
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by chipsy 13y ago
I'm pretty sure the title would belong to something like Lynx.
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by chipsy 13y ago
Longer-term successes do occur(Minecraft, the Sims, League of Legends are some of the biggest ones from the past decade or so) but the industry tends to quietly ignore them because they don't fit well into established models and formulas. T
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by chipsy 13y ago
I have to agree. The way the article ends with the bogeyman, "What if we didn't fear nukes as much?" has a circularity to it. What "nuclear warfare" meant in 1945 was obviously different from what it became just 15 years later - a political
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by chipsy 13y ago
This is a good question, and it's one of the more challenging aspects of neoclassical macroeconomics(as taught in most U.S. schools). It's also heavily contested, and one of the reasons why I started to dislike my study of economics, becaus

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