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by drek 14y ago
The author forgot to mention mouse gestures. The reason I still use Opera over Chrome is because of its excellent support for mouse gestures (the various mouse gesture extensions just aren't that responsive and smooth as Opera's native ones
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by drek 14y ago
Does anyone else thing that the documentation for ember.js is really lacking? Some of the classes it has aren't even documented (ContollerMixin comes to mind) and others are lacking in the documentation depratment. Also, I don't seem to be
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by drek 14y ago
Umm yeah that's a 4k line C file?
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by drek 14y ago
Looks cool, but what's up with the source being just one 4k line C file?
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by drek 14y ago
Yeah, that's very witty, congrats. If we were in the steel industry, the right thing to do would be to see that the military doesn't get steel. But we're not, we're mostly programmers here, so I'm saying we should exercise caution and be aw
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by drek 14y ago
The second is the most sensible option. I'm not saying people should stop using Linux, I'm just saying that programmers should be more aware of the politics of their work (professional work is almost never apolitical) and strive to actually
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by drek 14y ago
No, I pay EU taxes (which also go to a lot of amoral causes) but I don't have a choice in the matter, really.
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by drek 14y ago
Sort of, but the main difference is to what extent are you supporting killing and suffering and whether you have a choice. The question of social responsibility of programmers (and other professionals) is not an easy one, and I think every
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by drek 14y ago
Yeah, military drones using Linux, what a big win. The fact that the military uses Linux is a big negative for Linux in my eyes. If you support Linux, you're indirectly supporting the U.S. military and by extension murder, aggression and te
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by drek 14y ago
Awesome! Very clear and well-written reference. I wish someone would make a reference like this for remote branches and repos, I always keep forgetting commands for setting upstream branches, checking out remote branches and having them tra
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by drek 14y ago
Is there anything in the article that leads you to believe he meant important in that sense? Cause I don't see it. He constantly puts important in quotation marks and really doesn't specify what he means by important. Take this paragraph:
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by drek 14y ago
The article is built on the distinction between unimporant and important problems and yet it goes out of its way to avoid stating his opinion on what makes a problem important. He keeps putting the words important and unimportant in quotes.