dmorgan

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by dmorgan 14y ago
I mean that while Netscape, the company, succumbed while waiting to put out their new competitive browser, we now have the Mozilla Foundation and Firefox. We wouldn't have those if it wasn't for the rewrite. The old code was a mess even bef
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by dmorgan 14y ago
Noticed how I already wrote about that? To quote: "That's a meme started by a Joel Spolsky article, and maybe an allusion to the "second system effect" (which is about something else altogether)." That said, the "second system effect" is no
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by dmorgan 14y ago
> Can we find some other way to convey this message without using that same tired old phrase over and over and over again? As soon as I see this phrase by brain automatically shuts down because it tells me the author lacks creativity.
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by dmorgan 14y ago
> You will probably will get the same mess. There is plenty of literature about that. I.e: A complete rewrite is what killed Netscape That's a meme started by a Joel Spolsky article, and maybe an allusion to the "second system effect"
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by dmorgan 14y ago
> I disagree. When you change state management to client side, you are making a fundamental architecture shift that is significant enough to remove a lot of server-side overhead. In most cases, you're not. You're mostly making a big lo
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by dmorgan 14y ago
No hard feelings. It's just uncomfortable for people to see their _elected_ leader demonized along with Hitler and mass murderers, especially if said leaders just concern themselves with their own, sovereign country, business. Doubly so in
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by dmorgan 14y ago
> The author makes the assumption that people use Comixology for discovery of new titles, but the vast majority do not. There are many blogs and magazines for that type of discovery. I don't use any blogs or magazines for "that type of
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by dmorgan 14y ago
He's not talking about adding cropping. He is talking about optimizing the cover image for Comixology cover display. What he said, is that even with (i.e _despite_) cropping, the iD cover images still look better than the comic covers ("It’
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by dmorgan 14y ago
> I think thats very much personal preference. Yes, but as every personal preference it's also a statistical quantity. E.g liking sugary sweets or not is a personal preference, but 90% of the population likes them. I think the patterns
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by dmorgan 14y ago
How exactly Chavez, an elected leader of a sovereign country, not a dictator or a mass murderer or anything, fits in the company of people mentioned here? Or is it just a generic list of people that Americans are told "are bad persons", bec
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by dmorgan 14y ago
> I think he touched on the real key to the long term music business which is embracing streaming and getting as many fans as possible to listen to your music and care enough to go to your shows. Any money a band makes from recorded mus
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by dmorgan 14y ago
I don't see the changes from Py2 to Py3 as that big either. I mean, they broke compatibility just for THOSE? Talk about a lost chance...
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by dmorgan 14y ago
> I know absolutely nothing about Ruby, is it as useful outside of the web framework as python is? Ruby is used a lot for sysadmin, systems management stuff (more than Python, surprisingly, because of good tooling). It's also used for
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by dmorgan 14y ago
> The smartest people I know, use tools incredibly well. They make amazing things with Ruby. They make amazing things with Python. They make amazing things in other languages. I'm blessed to know all of them. None of them would share th
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by dmorgan 14y ago
A question I have is how the duck can a language like C# introduce TONS of changes from 1.0 to 5.0, including major syntactic, semantic and library features, and still be widely adopted, whereas Python has to have a "five year migration" fo
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by dmorgan 14y ago
> It is telling that he only mentions web frameworks and leaves out what is arguably the most important Python library: NumPy. That alone tells me he doesn't truly understand the whole Python ecosystem and, therefor, it's culture. "Mos
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by dmorgan 14y ago
> Pythonistas apparently don't like new stuff, change, or hacking around with things. How could anyone with any knowledge of both Ruby and Python write something like that in seriousness? Because he has seen it in the wild, and is evid
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by dmorgan 14y ago
> Unionization is the wrong response to increasing manufacturing efficiency. The correct response is finding something else to do, with the help of subsidized retraining and education, if you prefer. Only it's not "increasing manufactu
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by dmorgan 14y ago
> but your comments demonstrate a stark ignorance of history. Overbearing parents (what does that even mean?) is as bad as child labor? Sure. Perhaps it's this view that shows a "stark ignorance of history"? Who said "child labor" was
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by dmorgan 14y ago
Unpopular? In some designer circles maybe, in 90% of working web developers absolutely not. Not to mention that the flow layout techniques are sub-par and worse than tables in every area where they overlap. It's no coincidence that the w3c
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by dmorgan 14y ago
Which haven't stopped courts imposing huge fines on filesharers...
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by dmorgan 14y ago
> 100 years ago, women still couldn't vote in the US and the country was legally segregated instead of just segregated in practice. 100 years ago, child labor was at its peak in the US, food safety was non-existstant, charlatans ran ram
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by dmorgan 14y ago
> Am I alone in finding this ridiculously pretentious? No, but you must be among the few not getting the joke or not being stuck-up to see that IT IS a joke post. I mean, "it's downright insulting to put words in the mouth of someone l
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by dmorgan 14y ago
> Are you seriously asking these questions? Do you realize that you're coming across as defending deplorable behavior? Do you care? Would you say these sorts of things to the author's face? I sure would. He comes off as a judgemental,
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by dmorgan 14y ago
> Given the choice between keeping their anonymity and farmvilling with friends, most people will choose the latter. And most people WONT have a problem caused by choosing the latter. It's the few people, people who probably wouldn't c
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by dmorgan 14y ago
> On the other hand turn it around. Suppose that there was a rash of burglaries and you were the investigating officer. Wouldn't you want to be able to find all cell phones that were in proximity to a significant number of the burglarie
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by dmorgan 14y ago
> If we're innocent, why do we need to be tracked? Because governments, including the american government, are well known to also persecute the innocent. It's not about murderers, fraudsters and rapists --it's all about political cases
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by dmorgan 14y ago
> I think the word "oppression" perfectly applies to multiple unwelcome instances of strong verbal abuse coming from someone in a privileged class directed at someone in a non-privileged class. If there's a better word, I haven't found
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by dmorgan 14y ago
Wow. Didn't expect a reply from "THE Eich" itself. Honoured. > Nope, spec finalization follows shipping. Still, shipping ES6 is also scaled back at this time, and it requires special flags and hoops to be enabled. This means actual mai
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by dmorgan 14y ago
> Is there an explanation for the events in the story that aren't clear examples of oppression? I can't find one. Really? How about some guys talking BS and making irreverent jokes? You keep using this word "oppression". I don't think

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