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by cmelbye 13y ago
I think the wording he used in the announcement was bad. I think it's fairly universally agreed upon that neutrality and avoidance of conflict of interest are key tenants of Wikipedia, and are certainly things that an administrator of
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by cmelbye 13y ago
I'm continually amazed at how people can't understand this. You have a right to not have your free speech stifled by the government, but that has nothing to do with what a private corporation decides to let you do with their produ
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by cmelbye 13y ago
But he didn't make a blanket statement of "target _blank is bad". He agrees with you. > I believe the former is justifiable, the latter isn’t As he said in the article, it's justifiable if the user is in the middle of
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by cmelbye 13y ago
I'd say that discrete mathematics does the best job of explaining and crossing over with Computer Science and programming. Not necessary to build a CRUD app, but perhaps necessary or at least very helpful for anything less trivial.
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by cmelbye 13y ago
I don't think you get the discounts if you sign up directly as opposed to through the exchange, but I may be entirely wrong. Just something I think I heard.
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by cmelbye 13y ago
Except he explains that it works like it does in the Messages app. If you're not familiar, the keyboard in Messages slides down/recedes when you start scrolling through past messages so that it's not in the way and you can se
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by cmelbye 13y ago
I mean come on, I'm not expecting 12 years of backwards compatibility, I'm just saying that maybe one of their hardware engineers might have said: "Gee, is it possible that we might develop a new cover next year that needs po
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by cmelbye 13y ago
Maybe they'll force manufacturers to use that hideous new USB 3.0 Micro-B standard. Personally, I'd much rather use a great connector designed by someone at Apple (such as Lightning, MagSafe, etc.) than one chosen by a bureaucrat.
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by cmelbye 13y ago
Did they seriously not have the foresight or product planning to know that they might want to create covers like this in the future? That's such a weak excuse. It's not like the Surface RT came out four years ago, it was the end o
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by cmelbye 13y ago
How is that at all like this? Apple doesn't drop support for their devices after a year, plain and simple, and that's what Microsoft has done here. If there's a genuine "hardware limitation" that prevented them from
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by cmelbye 13y ago
> The whole arguments of iOS 7 spurring planned obsolescence comes from the theory that the transitions, parallax, etc. etc. were done not only from a design standpoint but from an inferior-hardware-can't-replicate-this standpoint,
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by cmelbye 13y ago
They just redesigned the thing from scratch, don't you think they would've taken that opportunity to "fix it" if they wanted to do so?
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by cmelbye 13y ago
Do that many people install Ruby through a source code package that they manually download? Why not just hold off on posting until there's useful information?
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by cmelbye 13y ago
https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/66356
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by cmelbye 13y ago
I suppose that means 7.1 won't be released until they've fixed it. It's so unimaginably stupid that they didn't wait until 7.1 was released so that the general public could get the bug fixes and performance improvements
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by cmelbye 13y ago
No need to buy a new device if you don't want to upgrade because you don't think iOS 7 will work well on yours. iOS 6 still works, and it's possible to download an older version of an app if the latest version isn't comp
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by cmelbye 13y ago
That's the "Fork" step he mentioned. The "Edit" button on GitHub automatically forks the project and dumps you into the Markdown editor. The rest of the steps are still required to get changes merged into a file.
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by cmelbye 13y ago
Is it considered acceptable to post affiliate links on HN?
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by cmelbye 13y ago
No.
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by cmelbye 13y ago
Does the fact that it's used by large websites change the fact that it's a poorly designed language?
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by cmelbye 13y ago
Was just providing an example. Didn't find it necessary to enumerate all of their products.
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by cmelbye 13y ago
Wow, I hadn't been on the site in a few years. Kind of sad to see what it's become. Does the world really need another place to buy Big Bang Theory memorabilia?
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by cmelbye 13y ago
I've always had a feeling that it's to differentiate iPad from iPhone. If they had the exact same apps, right down to a scaled up Calculator with gigantic buttons on the 10" display, it might make it less likely for consumers
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by cmelbye 13y ago
It's incredibly common for TI calculators to be allowed on exams in the United States. Several standardized tests specifically allow only TI calculators, along with a few others. I think GP's comment makes a lot of sense. Most stu
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by cmelbye 13y ago
What? You think Scribd pays their investor to promote their product? Isn't it much more likely that their investor is promoting the product they invested in for free?
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by cmelbye 13y ago
I don't think it's very realistic to consider them doing that. The backlash would be immense, and there's no reason to do it in the first place. All they have to do is work with existing ad networks. Then, when the user hits
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by cmelbye 13y ago
It's interesting that they decided to write their own wiki. If I remember correctly, they used to use MediaWiki which has fairly straightforward built-in support for scaling used by Wikipedia and its sister sites. (Replicate your datab
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by cmelbye 13y ago
Probably true, but they're still shooting themselves in the foot. Apple is still supporting a device from 2010 with software updates.
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by cmelbye 13y ago
Your comment is being downvoted not because people disagree with you but because it violated the last two points at the end of the guidelines: http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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by cmelbye 13y ago
That scenario is only one of many possible explanations for why that happened.

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