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by dave2000 11y ago
I agree with all that; I just didn't notice the black bar. I surf almost exclusively on mobile though, and therefore have extremely low expectations.
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by dave2000 11y ago
It also appears to be overrepresented in the "can't comprehend basic English" category.
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by dave2000 11y ago
Arab/Asian is what I said. And I'm obviously aware there's no Arab/Asian Facebook. That's my point. "Why is your site suited to your needs?"
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by dave2000 11y ago
Eurovision is supposed to be fun though. At least, that's the UK's perspective. Everyone else takes it more seriously and submit almost exclusively tedious rock ballads. They're been a few non-boring entries though, includin
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by dave2000 11y ago
Apart from your comment, it would appear.
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by dave2000 11y ago
No, it's marketing more than innovation.
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by dave2000 11y ago
Possibly Europeans are more interested in European news, just like Arab/Asian countries are more interested in their culture's news. I admit when their culture/ethics/religion encroaches upon Europe's, such as with
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by dave2000 11y ago
I hate it when people overreact to the pointless slaughter of random people by religious fanatics.
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by dave2000 11y ago
Sure it does. Right when you're writing/updating the documentation.
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by dave2000 11y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11329939
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by dave2000 11y ago
Brands? Who cares? Are they the cheapest, fastest etc? I don't care which characters constitute their name, nor which bitmap they've chosen for their current logo.
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by dave2000 11y ago
"Would people feel better about pirating if such a thing existed?" You like an artist, you're honest and not poor. You can buy a cd for x, where some tiny percentage of x goes to the artists. Or you could download the cd an
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by dave2000 11y ago
"Google owns countless patents and Apple just might be the biggest patent troll in history and none of them seem to receive even remotely the same amount of scrutiny." Why would you face scrutiny for holding patents?
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by dave2000 11y ago
I'm still surprised bands, authors etc don't have some sort of "honesty box" where people can make payments directly to them to thank them, compensate for piracy etc. Would cost nothing but benefit them if only a little
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by dave2000 11y ago
Q. Are there actually proper studies done by and of proper developers writing proper (ie not trivial crap) code which demonstrate the pros and cons of TDD?
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by dave2000 11y ago
Yep, always a nice surprise when you're using your phone, decide to check Facebook and get a "your year in Facebook" featuring your now-dead best friend, and an ex-girlfriend. Thanks for that, Facebook.
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by dave2000 11y ago
How do you know? They might be paying more than the jobs you go for.
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by dave2000 11y ago
I stopped using it altogether; got bored of endless self-editing and reading people explain their misread truncated tweets. 140 is just retarded. Still, they'll prosper because google, ello (remember that?), app.net (remember that?)
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by dave2000 11y ago
They know what it means to make the change, but it's entirely different to change something like direct messages, which go from one person to another, and the millions of tweets sent every day.
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by dave2000 11y ago
The "sic" is fine if it really is just being used as a marketing term.
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by dave2000 11y ago
Surely the lesson from Amazon is that you can get by for a long time without making loads of money, as long as you don't make stupid decisions, and get rid of the consequences of stuff that didn't work out before it hurts you. Twi
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by dave2000 11y ago
"It's like no politician ever read about crime. Staff can't be blackmailed or bribed. " More likely they know their audience (most voters) don't know about crime, terrorism and encryption to know how bad the plans a
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by dave2000 11y ago
It's possible to over think things. Twitter exists to make money. They clearly thought this change would cost them nothing, and would perhaps save them money and effort. I don't think the "Twitter is a ..." thing has any
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by dave2000 11y ago
Depends if they want their customers to complain of horrible aftertastes. First they came for the fizzy drinks, and I did nothing because.... well, I waddled up to say something but by the time I got there they'd gone.
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by dave2000 11y ago
"HANDFUL of biologists going rouge" Rouge? They're positively crimson, darling.
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by dave2000 11y ago
Clean...in the sense that it passes lint, unit testing, continuous integration etc. Not clean in the sense that "internet user #1209828 approves of its aesthetics", which is a metric subject to fashion, opinion etc.
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by dave2000 11y ago
"I just don't like the way this fork happened." Not sure "how" a fork happens is interesting; do you mean why it happened? This has been stated before. I didn't think anyone disputed those statements (end of y
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by dave2000 11y ago
neovim doesn't have much on top of what vim has; it has async plugins and a terminal, in a lot less code than vim is constructed from, and everything else is external. It has less testing because it's been around less time and t
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by dave2000 11y ago
Why might someone need flash? (That was literally the last thing i was expecting in a discussion on HN about why someone might need a mouse!)
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by dave2000 11y ago
Yes. And no. Depends on the context. Microsoft and malware coders both think windows is great for the same reason; it's very popular.

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