davvolun

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by davvolun 7y ago
Just want to note that you specifically mentioned Microsoft working with open source hackers in this comment saying that the ship has long since sailed on Chrome/Google contributing to the open web. I don't know, never say never
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by davvolun 7y ago
I would be VERY interested to see these charts updated, as this data is a week old.
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by davvolun 7y ago
Not strictly disagreeing with you, but ChromeOS seems to be extremely healthy. Not familiar enough with Firefox OS to know why the disparity though.
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by davvolun 7y ago
This joke never adds anything to the conversation, I wish people would stop making it.
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by davvolun 7y ago
Did you READ the article? > The damage he caused was inseparable from his power. In general, Asimov chose targets who were unlikely to protest directly, such as fans and secretaries, and spared women whom he saw as professionally use
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by davvolun 7y ago
Do you have it somewhere on github? I could see hosting this on my own server for personal use, maybe trying to contribute back as well.
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by davvolun 7y ago
> Diachenko believes the trove of data is most likely the result of an illegal scraping operation or Facebook API abuse by criminals in Vietnam, according to the evidence. The only ones capable of preventing either the scraping operation
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by davvolun 7y ago
But I don't think you would disagree the following is worthwhile: "There is a hurricane, and we're hearing initial, unconfirmed reports that it's to the south. We want to stress these are unconfirmed at this time, etc et
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by davvolun 7y ago
> Would you make the same argument that software on the 737 Max should be shipped and then fixed later? No, I wouldn't, but that goes to why not ALL software should be agile, not that it's best to have some journalism be &quo
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by davvolun 7y ago
It immediately irks me that I'm defending agile here, but part of the point of agile is that the developer doesn't really know what the end user needs, so it's, in theory, better to get a minimum viable product out that meets
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by davvolun 7y ago
^https?:\/\/(www)?\.theonion\.com.*$ -> http://snopes.com/the-onion As a start, need to get more complex from there (probably exclude theonion's About page, for example, but that covers 90% with almost 0 e
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by davvolun 7y ago
If we're conducting an arms race against someone who wants to deliberately obscure the source of disinformation, we're going to lose that by attrition, flat out, following the same basic argument I made originally. Snopes, and any
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by davvolun 7y ago
Have you been on Twitter in the last three years? Have you heard of 4Chan? That statement is disturbingly incorrect.
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by davvolun 7y ago
You can fool some of the people all of the time and all of the people some of the time ... but in general, while people may be fooled by The Onion a few times, they tend to learn and do better in the future. - Abraham Lincoln - Michael S
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by davvolun 7y ago
> if the code is trying to do a single thing What is a single thing? Login? Initialize db? One line of code, 3 lines of code, ... If you have 100 lines of code and 6 nestings, even if none of that is or, as far as you can tell, should ev
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by davvolun 7y ago
> Which isn't a problem we should be avoiding I believe we're actually arguing the same thing. Anonymous functions aren't the end of the world, but self-documenting code is better. In the JS/JQuery world, breaking awa
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by davvolun 7y ago
I wasn't being sarcastic, I've seen exactly what you're talking about a lot in VB. Re-read it just now, and even I thought what I wrote kind of came off sarcastic.
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by davvolun 7y ago
Absolutely, and if your business is repeating the same mistakes in Chrome as we saw 10-20 years ago from IE....
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by davvolun 7y ago
This is generally true, but also completely irrelevant to the ""debate"" on evolution. Scientific humility is an important quality, but it's misleading to young kids; and fundamentally works against understanding th
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by davvolun 7y ago
I could be wrong, but the question is ill-stated; should be something like 'which of the following statements are true', I think, or maybe 'what is the only true statement in the following list.' It's been awhile si
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by davvolun 7y ago
Exactly, and when the workaround is "just use one of the other 3 or 4 major browsers that are probably already installed on your work computer" (and if you're using an enterprise setup as mentioned in the article, you've
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by davvolun 7y ago
Agree fully, and as mentioned in the article > I tend to stay within it, but I occasionally decide to make my code a little wider. No coding rules should be religiously held. If you're trying to re-write an 81 column line to fit the
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by davvolun 7y ago
Pretty sure VB programmer knows what they're talking about here....
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by davvolun 7y ago
The lambda approach avoids "I can't think of what I should call this, I'll call it `foo` for now" problem... Which isn't a problem we should be avoiding. Naming things in a way that other coders will understand is a
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by davvolun 7y ago
Reducing cognitive load by breaking things into digestible pieces can be hard, and at times it's hard to say if option A is better than option B, but it is not preference. If `extractId` is an eight-step process that's only used
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by davvolun 7y ago
Sure, but, like porn and art, we can tell the difference between Info Wars and The Onion. A simple landing page on The Onion or Babylon Bee is all Snopes needs to do, whereas it's clear Info Wars has an agenda of spreading disinformati
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by davvolun 7y ago
> when those who cloak themselves in hard-left rhetoric are in the crosshairs of ridicule, they tend to retaliate hard, with whatever means they have to hand. That's complete nonsense, and not a partisan or "hard-left-only&quot
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by davvolun 7y ago
And there's no reason why someone going to Snopes for an article at theonion.com or babylonbee.com can't be redirected or otherwise sent to an article covering the satire of the site. Nobody needs a separate Snopes article for eve
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by davvolun 7y ago
??? I think Apple and the FBI disagree https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FBI%E2%80%93Apple_encryption_d...
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by davvolun 7y ago
Part of the problem there is spin. There's obviously value in independent, subject-specific news sources, but you also have Alex Jones and InfoWars. It's not a new problem, Rush Limbaugh effectively used radio for the same thing,

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